The Swiss National Science Foundation has recently awarded funding to three teams led by Graduate Institute faculty for new innovative research projects.

Associate Professor of International Law, Zachary Douglas, and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Shalini Randeria have recently begun their interdisciplinary project on the impact of international investment agreements and arbitration on governance in Argentina, the Czech Republic, India and Mexico, thanks to the Foundation’s grant.  

Their project aims to explain the increasing embrace of investment treaties by both capital-importing and capital-exporting states over the past two decades.
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), Stephanie Hofmann, and CCDP Researcher, Susanna Campbell have begun a two-year research project financed by the Foundation entitled “Bad Behaviour? Explaining Performance in International Peacebuilding Organisations”.  

The premise of this project is that international and non-governmental organisations, and bilateral donors, can make important contributions to the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements, not just by providing money but also by implementing targeted, nuanced and highly adaptable interventions. The analysis will shed light on the effectiveness of current peacebuilding policies and tools and present a framework that international peacebuilding actors can use to assess and improve their performance.
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Professor of International History, Jussi Hanhimäki, also received funding for a project entitled “Reassessing the End of the Cold War: Western Interventionism in the 'Arc of Crisis' and Africa, from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s”.

This project aims to reassess major Western interventionist policies during the second half of the 1970s; unveil continuities in Western interventionism in key strategic areas of the Third World; and evaluate the extent to which Western interventions in the 'arc of crisis' and Africa shaped the international system and set the stage for the post-Cold War era. It will draw on recently declassified documents from the US, France and Great Britain.
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