Publications Gateway

This page presents the publications of the Geneva Graduate Institute. It highlights the portals (catalogue and repository) that give access to the roughly 500 academic publications produced at the Institute each year, as well as to specific collections managed by centres, departments and the Institute. The page also provides infographics on the Institute’s academic outputs, a list of professors and researchers serving as editors or members of review committees of scientific journals or book series, a list of doctoral theses defended at the Institute, as well as the opportunity to purchase books from the Institute’s former collections (via our partner Maison des Sciences de l’Homme).

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Change in International Law: Paths, Processes, Power

By Nico Krisch, Ezgi Yildiz, and Pedro Martínez Esponda (Oxford University Press, published: 8 May 2026 in open access; available in print: 4 June 2026).

How does international law change? How does it adapt to new contexts and meet new challenges? The typical answer to these questions makes international law appear rather static, due to high hurdles for change and formal rules that require widespread agreement among states. In reality, however, change is far more common: new legal norms and understandings are generated constantly through the practices of legal actors. This book explores these actual, often gradual processes of international legal change. Combining qualitative analysis and statistical examination of data derived from 25 cases across 8 subfields, the book offers the most systematic study to date of international legal change in practice beyond treaty-making. It approaches international law as a discursive process characterised by distinctive, socially constructed communities and authorities, and identifies five distinct paths through which legal change occurs. These paths shape who can act, how change is framed, and whether and under what conditions it gains traction, and they—and their relative weight—vary heavily across the different areas of international law. On these paths, change comes about in ways which defy common expectations of a state-centric international law: the analysis presented in the book shows that the success of change attempts depends less on broad state support or even the support of major powers, but to a greater extent on support from authorities and institutions in the respective fields. The result is an international law that may not be dynamic enough to cope with the speed of change in today’s accelerated world, but one that is significantly more dynamic than is usually assumed.

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LIBRARY REPOSITORY

LIST OF PHD THESES

Graduate Institute Series

  • The Graduate Institute’s eBooks features a selection of works by professors and young researchers. Published in English and French, the texts have been peer-reviewed and edited by experts and professional editors. eBooks also include research results from the Institute’s centres.
     
  • The Graduate Institute’s ePapers present a selection of the best works of young researchers of the Institute, in particular those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations. They also include writings of more experienced researchers, notably Opening Lectures of the Academic Year.

  • International Development Policy is a critical source of analysis of development policy and international cooperation trends and is aimed at scholars, policymakers, development professionals, and journalists. The book series benefits from wide dissemination, particularly in the Global South. It is published both in paperback with Brill and in open access on OpenEdition.

These series are supervised by the Institute’s Publications Committee, chaired by Grégoire Mallard and also comprising Sara Anna Hellmüller (Department of International Relations/Political Science), Alessandro Monsutti (Department of Anthropology and Sociology), Alice Pirlot (Department of International Law ), Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Department of International History and Politics), and Cédric Tille (Department of international Economics).
Managing Editor: Marie Thorndahl.
Faculty members interested in publishing books or edited volumes in the Institute's series may contact Marie Thorndahl.

  • The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy produces various Policy Briefs and Working Papers.
     
  • NORRAG – Global Education Centre produces NORRAG Special Issues (NSI), an open-source periodical giving prominence to authors from different countries and with diverse perspectives.

  • The Department of International Economics manages a series of Working Papers collected on RePEc.

Discontinued series (previously run by IUED or HEI) available on OpenEdition:

  • The Cahiers (1975–1993) and Nouveaux Cahiers (1994–2004), published by the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), reflected research and debates on development issues in which the Institute had participated alongside other academic institutions.
     
  • The International series (1983–2013) presented works in French on major contemporary world issues. Based on research undertaken at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI) and then at the Geneva Graduate Institute in the fields of law, history and political science, it was intended both for academics and professionals.
     
  • The Cahiers genre et développement was a collection of thematic issues, each bringing together reference documents and articles on the concept of gender and related development issues.  
     
  • Genre et développement. Rencontres provided a space where ideas could be exchanged, debated and enriched without losing sight of the places where initiatives, struggles and actions were taking place. 

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