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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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Extractive States: War and Resistance in Turkey’s Kurdish Heartland

By Umut Yıldırım (Stanford University Press, October 2026).

The Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party engaged in a counterinsurgency war for nearly four decades. Over this period, Diyarbakır, the de facto capital of Greater Kurdistan, was a site of sieges and ceasefires, welfare and humanitarian relief, NGO interventions and decolonial resistance — the complementary, intertwined processes of low-intensity war. War turned urban slums into high-security frontiers and transactional hubs for policy design, and settled deep into embodied knowledges and environments. Through committed and engaged ethnography, Umut Yıldırım reveals how destruction and displacement became structures of extraction, by which the Turkish state subjugated the Kurdish population into an object to be intervened in, traded, and contained. She also tracks Kurdish efforts to reassert their own stories of war through fact-building, welfare and compensation, women’s wellbeing, acts of solidarity, and environmental politics. What we see is a constant dance between war and peace, movement building and its containment, forced displacement and its rehabilitation, memory and its transmutations, environmental damage and its reconstruction. Extractive States offers compelling example of how low-intensity war transforms everyday needs, embodied knowledges, and uprooted populations into securitised knowledge—and how everyday sites of perseverance can reveal such extraction, and thus help conceive of novel modes of resistance.

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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 Aditya Bharadwaj 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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