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11 July 2022

Need a Summer Read? Check Out 15 of our faculty's latest books

Summer is a great time to catch up on some reading...and knowledge building! Have you ever wondered whether "white-collar robots" will replace service sector workers; how international law works; if there's an ideal balance between work and life; or what happened in East Central Europe after the fall of communism? Spanning the five disciplines taught at the Geneva Graduate Institute, our faculty examine the answers to these and other questions in some of their latest publications. 

globotics upheaval richard baldwin
 

The Globotics Upheaval: globalization, robotics, and the future of work (chinese edition)

Richard Baldwin

Richard Baldwin’s 2019 book The Globotics Upheaval has been translated into Chinese. It argues that “globots” will build a better future, but will create explosive social challenges along the way. Digital technology is allowing “white-collar robots” to displace many service-sector workers and professionals while at the same time enabling “telemigration”, where talented, low-cost workers sitting abroad displace domestic office workers. If displaced office workers join with already displaced factory workers, the result could be a destabilising upheaval. To avoid this, Richard Baldwin asserts that governments must use the tools they have to slow the pace and make the competition from globots seem fairer.

l'energie de l'etat jean-francois bayart
 

L’énergie de l’État 
Pour une sociologie historique et comparée du politique

Jean-François Bayart

Comment penser l’ébranlement qu’a suscité le passage, aux XIXe et XXe siècles, d’un monde d’empires, gouvernant par la différence ethnique et religieuse, à un système d’États-nations, imposant une uniformisation culturelle et une conception exclusive de la citoyenneté ? Ce livre apporte une réponse originale, en montrant qu’un tel processus a nourri des logiques souvent présentées comme contradictoires, mais en réalité synergiques : la mondialisation, l’universalisation de l’État-nation et la généralisation de consciences identitaristes.

L’Énergie de l’État propose une critique novatrice de la domination contemporaine et de sa bêtise identitaire, alors que le monde travestit son passé et doute de son avenir.
 

Invisible frames international law andrea bianchi
 

International Law’s Invisible Frames
Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes

Edited by Andrea Bianchi and Moshe Hirsch

What is international law, and how does it work? This book argues that our answers to these questions are shaped by a variety of social cognition and knowledge production processes that act as invisible frames, through which we understand international law. To better conceive these frames, we must understand how psychological and socio-cultural factors affect decision-making in an international legal process, including identifying the groups that shape and alter the prevailing discourse in international law, and unearthing the hidden meaning of the various mythologies that populate and influence our normative world.

 

derechos humanos andrew clapham
 

Derechos humanos: Una breve introducción (spanish edition)

Andrew Clapham

This new Spanish translation of Andrew Clapham’s second edition of Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction covers the history and philosophy of human rights and details developments concerning rights related to torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, freedom of expression and discrimination. Issues related to lethal force through the use of drones and the so-called “right to be forgotten” are discussed, and there are sections on the rights of persons with disabilities. According to the author, “there is sometimes a tendency among those working in international organisations or in international relations to consider human rights merely as ‘aspirations’ or ‘desires’. Human rights today belong to all individuals and not to some future utopia".

 

la petite entreprise yvon droz
 

La petite entreprise au péril de la famille

Laurent Amiotte-Suchet, Yvon Droz et Fenneke Reysoo

Travail, famille, patrimoine : ce triptyque souligne l’idéologie qui prévaut dans les très petites entreprises familiales. Chacun·e participe par son travail et selon ses possibilités au développement d’un patrimoine commun, sans toujours bénéficier d’un statut ou d’une protection sociale. Mais quand la famille est ébranlée par une rupture de trajectoire (divorce, accident, décès), les personnes se trouvent exposées à des risques qui ont rarement été anticipés. Basé sur une enquête menée auprès des entrepreneurs de l’Arc jurassien, cet ouvrage lève le voile sur un monde où l’équilibre entre les impératifs du travail et ceux de la vie de famille est constamment mis à l’épreuve. Publié en 2017 aux Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, le livre est désormais aussi disponible en ligne.

 

entangled legalities nico krisch
 

Entangled Legalities beyond the State

Edited by Nico Krisch

Law is usually understood as an orderly, coherent system, but this volume shows that it is often better understood as an entangled web. Bringing together eminent contributors from law, political science, sociology, anthropology, history and political theory, it also suggests that entanglement has been characteristic of law for much of its history. The book shifts the focus to the ways in which actors create connections and distance between different legalities in domestic, transnational and international law. It examines a wide range of issue areas, from the relationship of state and indigenous orders to the regulation of global financial markets, from corporate social responsibility to struggles over human rights. 

 

disillusioned europe andre liebich
 

The Politics of a Disillusioned Europe
East Central Europe after the Fall of Communism

Andre Liebich

Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the Soviet Union (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) that have joined the European Union. It seeks in particular to explain these countries’ disenchantment with the “return to Europe” in spite of their significant advances. The book proceeds country by country and then devotes chapters to some contemporary issues, such as minorities, migration, and the relations of these “new” members with the European Union as a whole. 

 

temps, espaces et histoires mohamed mahmoud mohamedou et davide rodogno
 

Temps, espaces et histoires – Monuments et héritage raciste et colonial dans l’espace public genevois : état des lieux historique

Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou et Davide Rodogno

Cette publication présente un état des lieux comparatif et historique des monuments et de l’héritage raciste, colonial et esclavagiste dans l’espace public de Genève. L’étude offre un socle d’analyse, une source d’information et une base de réflexion à propos des symboles qui auraient une connotation à caractère raciste ou seraient liés, d’une façon ou d’une autre, au colonialisme et à l’esclavage. Le texte synthétise conceptuellement la connaissance sur la question du mémoriel public, de la discrimination raciale et du legs colonial, et enrichit de manière factuelle le champ d’information, de réflexion, d’éducation et d’action. 

 

migrazioni e educazione alessandro monsutti
 

Migrazioni e educazione
La circolazione delle competenze: una sfida per lo sviluppo

Edited by Stefania Gandolfi and Alessandro Monsutti

This book presents the results of a research conducted on the asylum regime in Bergamo, Italy. Relying on the importance of recognising cultural rights, it starts from the premise that there is a need to build an inclusive society, promoting the ability to live together. Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees but also representatives of various public bodies have been interviewed with special attention given to observing public spaces and offices. The competences of migrants as well as the attitudes of civil servants have been documented. Professor Monsutti has accompanied the various authors, who are social workers and refugee rights activists.

 

night on earth davide rodogno
 

Night on Earth
A History of International Humanitarianism, 1918–1930

Davide Rodogno

Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programmes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international “relief” and “development” were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations, with humanitarians operating in a region devastated by war and famine and in which state sovereignty was deficient. Influenced by colonial motivations and ideologies, these humanitarians attempted to reshape entire communities and nations through reconstruction and rehabilitation programmes. 

 

orphaned landscapes patricia spyer
 

Orphaned Landscapes
Violence, Visuality, and Appearance In Indonesia

Patricia Spyer

Orphaned Landscapes theorises the production of visual media as part of a wider work on appearance in which ordinary people refigure urban aesthetic forms and their sensory. The book offers a rich account of a place in crisis, while also showing how the work on appearance is inherent to sociopolitical change. Whether considering the emergence and disappearance of street art or the atmospherics and fog of war, Professor Spyer demonstrates the importance of an attunement to elusive, ephemeral phenomena for their palpable and varying effects in the world.

 

law of energy jorge vinuales
 

The International Law of Energy

Jorge E. Viñuales

The world’s energy structure underpins the global environmental crisis and changing it will require regulatory change on a massive level. Energy is highly regulated in international law, but the field has never been comprehensively mapped. The legal sources on which the governance of energy is based are plentiful, but they are scattered across a vast legal expanse. This book is the first single-authored study of the international law of energy as a whole. Written by a world-leading expert, it provides a comprehensive account of the international law of energy and analyses the implications of the ongoing energy transformation for international law. 

 

international environmental law jorge vinuales
 

International Environmental Law (Chinese edition)

Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Viñuales

International Environmental Law offers a concise, conceptually clear, and legally rigorous introduction to contemporary international environmental law and practice. Currently in its second edition, International Environmental Law has rapidly become a leading textbook used for undergraduate and graduate courses in dozens of institutions around the world in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. Translated by a team of researchers coordinated by Dr Hu Bin, deputy-director of Wuhan University’s Research Institute of Environmental Law, in partnership with Cambridge University Press China, this new edition makes this textbook available for a wider audience in Chinese-speaking institutions.

 

meaning of investment jorge vinuales
 

The Meaning of Investment
Vol. 19 of ICSID Reports

Edited by Jorge E. Viñuales and Michael Waibel

The ICSID Reports provide summaries, excerpts and analysis of the main investor-State arbitral awards rendered on a given topic or area selected by the editors. They are an invaluable tool for practitioners, scholars and government lawyers working in the field of public international law, investment treaty arbitration and international commercial arbitration, whether advising foreign investors or States.

Volume 19 of the ICSID Reports focuses on “The Meaning of Investment”, including an opening piece on the unity of investment by leading scholar and arbitrator Professor Christoph Schreuer, and an overview of subject-matter jurisdiction by Professor Michael Waibel. The volume also includes summaries, digests and excerpts of decisions rendered between 2004 and 2016 in 21 cases, which, together, represent the state-of-the-art on this topic.


 

combatting climage change beatrice weder di mauro
 

Combatting Climate Change: A CEPR Collection

Edited by Beatrice Weder Di Mauro

Published during the 2021 COP26 summit in Glasgow, this eBook provides a selection of solution-oriented research studies and a fascinating insight into the evolution of economic research on climate change over the last decade, starkly highlighting the shift in urgency and appreciation of this daunting threat to humanity. The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and economics more generally, has devoted more and more attention to understanding the effects of climate change on global economies, in addition to migration and inequality. A greater research focus is now being applied to understanding the costs, benefits, and trade-offs of climate policies. However, a comprehensive solution to combating climate change across sectors remains elusive.