Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Trade and environment governance at the World Trade Organization Committee on Trade and Environment

This PHD reviews the work of the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment and the work outputs that have been generated throughout its 21 years of its existence, and utilizes three theoretical frameworks to aid the analysis and appreciation of the processes and seeming paucity of n...

Essays in law and economics of enforcement

This dissertation studies how criminal law affects decision-making and behaviour in the world's second largest jurisdiction, Russia. The information on judicial decision-making comes from a novel data set on the universe criminal defendants processed in the country in 2009–2013....

Three essays in economic inequality

This dissertation examines three dimensions of economic inequality. In the first chapter, I examine the associations between the gender earnings gap and male employment in nursing occupations in the U.S., with the approach that these two dimensions of gender equality – equality o...

Bargaining over maritime boundaries in times of legal uncertainty

This thesis examines the patterns and processes of conflict and cooperation between neighboring states as they draw their maritime boundaries in the aftermath of the Second World War. I identify, in particular, legal uncertainty as an important driver of conflicting maritime boun...

Political responses and electoral behaviour at times of socioeconomic risk inequalities and immigration

This dissertation examines the economic basis of political opposition to immigration in Europe in the twenty-first century. The aim of the project is to go beyond analyses of the economic effects of immigration, cultural differences, ethnic and national identity, and partisanship...

What is in a word? Discourse and practice of international security in a new world

Abstract The world order is undergoing significant changes, marked by growing contestation of the liberal international order (LIO). This article examines how these shifts are reflected in the way international security is conceptualised. It analyses changes in security conceptua...

Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia

ABSTRACT Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio‐ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban...