Graduate Institute In Conversation With
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -In Conversation With is a podcast series from the Graduate Institute, Geneva in which we ask renowned experts and thought-leaders to address pressing global issues with a Graduate Institute faculty member.
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A Life in International Law
November 05, 2023 23:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBIn this episode of In Conversation With, we explore Professor Abi Saab's unique approach to the study and practice of international law and how he seamlessly merged his roles as both a scholar and a practitioner. He also imparts invaluable lessons he has passed on to his students during his distinguished academic career.
Not a target! How to protect humanitarian organisations in the digital space?
December 08, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBThis episode features a conversation between Stuart Campo, Team Lead for Data Responsibility at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’s Centre for Humanitarian Data, Charlotte Lindsey, Chief Public Policy Officer at the CyberPeace Institute, Balthasar Staehelin, Special Envoy for Foresight and Techplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross, and Achim Wennmann, Director for Strategic Partnerships at the Geneva Graduate Institute. This discussion sh...
Climate Emergency: What Role for International Geneva?
November 29, 2022 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThis episode features a conversation between Michel Jarraud, Secretary General Emeritus at the World Meteorological Organization, Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization, Marek Harsdorff, Economist in the Green Jobs Programme at the International Labour Organization, and Joëlle Noailly, Head of Research of the Centre for International Environmental Studies and Lecturer in the Department of International Economics at th...
Europe’s democratic project challenged ?
November 17, 2022 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThis episode features a conversation between Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute and former Prime Minister of Italy, and Christine Lutringer, Executive Director and Senior Researcher of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Geneva Graduate Institute. This discussion focuses on the challenges European democracies are currently facing and highlights concrete proposals towards building more effective ways for citizens to participate.
Economic Power: Arsenal of Democracy or Feeble Weapon?
October 28, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThis episode features a conversation between Barry Eichengreen, the George C. and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and Rui Esteves, Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The dramatic economic and financial measures taken by the United States and its allies in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine point up the potency but also the limits of economic power. The International Mon...
Relating Philosophy to the World: Michael Sandel's Vision
September 28, 2022 09:15 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThis episode features a conversation between Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University, and Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute. In his latest book, The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?, Michael Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Through the...
Mexico's feminist foreign policy
August 08, 2022 14:05 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat characterizes Mexico's feminist foreign policy and why was it proposed? How can a feminist foreign policy influence domestic policy regarding the gender perspective and equity? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this episode of In Conversation With. Our guest is Ms Martha Delgado Peralta, Mexican Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights. She is interviewed by Clara Schöpfel and Jessica Espinosa Azcárraga, students at the Geneva Graduate Institute, on Me...
The impact of COVID-19 on contemporary conflict dynamics
December 17, 2020 15:35 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis episode features a discussion between Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group, and Professor Keith Krause, Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the escalation of conflicts in some parts of the world and led to severe fiscal impacts on aid budgets. Lord Malloch-Brown hopes however that this crisis may trigge...
COVID-19 and the future of food systems
December 15, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis episode features a discussion between David Nabarro, Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19 and Ilona Kickbusch, founding Director and Chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that our food systems are not working properly; food supplies are damaged, strong challenges face both consumers and producers, and food systems are simply no...
Drug Policy and Societal Transformation
October 27, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis episode features a discussion with Helen Clark, Former Minister of New Zealand and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou, Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The so-called War on Drugs has led to devastating consequences. According to Helen Clark, it is time to rethink the drug policies rationale and anchor it in science and evidence. In this sense, the Global Commission on Drug Policy believes po...
International law as story-telling: on writing and litigating
October 16, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis episode features a discussion with Philippe Sands, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, and Zachary Douglas, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Philippe Sands explains the challenges he faced while writing his new book "The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive". The investigation into the life of Otto von Wächter, a senior Nazi indicted for 'mass murder', ...
Africa and COVID-19
August 12, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBThis episode features a discussion with Carlos Lopes, Professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, former executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and alumni of the Graduate Institute, and Gilles Carbonnier, Professor of Development Economics at the Graduate Institute and Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. This discussion focuses on the impacts of COVID-19 in Africa, more specifically o...
Can the EU be a positive force for change in the global fight against COVID-19?
July 29, 2020 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThis episode features a discussion with José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, former Prime Minister of Portugal, and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute, and Erica Moret, Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute. This discussion focuses on the European Union’s policy response, and geopolitical challenges and opportunities presented by the crisis.
German Constitutional Court dropped a bomb: what are the consequences for the EU?
July 09, 2020 14:02 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBOn 5 May 2020, the German Constitutional Court declared that the bond-buying programme of the European Central Bank was ultra vires (exceeding its competences) and therefore, explicitly challenged the authority of the European Court of Justice. Joseph Weiler, University Professor at NYU School of Law and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute, discus...
The Paradoxes of a Post-Covid-19 World
June 25, 2020 12:32 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThis episode features a discussion with Ivan Krastev, Director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna, and Shalini Randeria, Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy at the Graduate Institute. This discussion focuses on the paradoxical world and new power dynamics emerging from the Covid-19 crisis.