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The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies or Institut de hautes tudes internationales et du dveloppement (IHEID) is a leading postgraduate educational and research institute situated in Geneva, Switzerland. It is active in the fields of political science, international law, international economics, international history, and development studies. IHEID is operational since 1 January 2008, following the merger of the previously existing Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI - est. 1927) with the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED - est. 1961).

IHEID is accredited as a "Haute ecole" by the Swiss University Conference. Although it is an independent academic institution, the institute is associated with the University of Geneva. IHEID does not participate in studies ranking the world's best universities, such as the Times Higher Education Supplement ranking. However, Newsweek's "Top 100 Global Universities" ranked the University of Geneva 32nd in the world in 2006. In 2008, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked University of Geneva 68th of the best universities worldwide. IHEID is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, which regroups leading universities with programs in international studies. wholesale gillette

The Graduate Institute of International Studies was among the first academic institutions to teach international relations in the world. It was the first university entirely dedicated to the study of that field, and it offered one of the first Ph.D. degrees in international relations. Originally, the Graduate Institute of International Studies mainly formed diplomats associated with the United Nations' predecessor, the League of Nations, also based in Geneva. Today, IHEID is an institution of advanced research and teaching in international and development studies. It is committed to excellence, independence and diversity, seeking to prepare international actors to respond to the challenges of tomorrow world. ear clip headphone

The Villa Barton campus on the shores of Lake Geneva. motorcycle helmet headset

Contents

1 History and Reputation

2 Teaching

2.1 Masters of Arts' Programmes

2.2 Ph.D. Programmes

2.3 Joint Diplomas

2.4 Executive Master Programmes

2.5 Summer Programmes

2.6 Training and Short Programmes

3 Research

3.1 Research Centers and Programs

4 Partnerships and Networks

4.1 Switzerland

4.2 Global Partnerships and Student Exchange Programs

4.3 Associations and Academic Networks

5 Publications

6 Organization

6.1 Legal Status

6.2 Foundation Board

6.3 Administration

6.4 Academic Organization

6.5 Campuses

6.6 Library

7 Prominent graduates

8 Prominent past and present faculty

9 References

10 External links

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History and Reputation

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The Graduate Institute of International Studies was founded in 1927. Its moving spirits were the scholariplomats William Rappard and Paul Mantoux who worked together as senior officials in the secretariat in the first headquarters of the League of Nations building, the "Palais Wilson". Their shared vision was for a graduate school for preparing statesmen and secretariat staff via impartial study of international relations as an academic field.

Rappard was influential in convincing his friend US President Woodrow Wilson to locate the League in Geneva. Indeed, the current site of the Institute in the Parc Barton on the shore of Lake Geneva, was one of the first sites considered for the organization headquarters. The original mandate of the Institute highlighted the aim of working closely with the League and the International Labour Organization (its precursor in Geneva) in a cooperative exchange through which HEI would prepare staff and delegates, while the intergovernmental organizations would provide intellectual resources and diplomatic expertise as guest lecturers. The Institute continues as an intellectual catalyst and magnet known as the "Geneve international".

The professors chosen to teach at the Institute constituted a galaxy of brilliant academic merit. As Rappard himself was to observe, ironically, the two men to whom the Institute owed a debt for so happy a selection were Mussolini and Hitler! From 1928 onwards, the faculty consisting of co-directors Professors Mantoux and Rappard, and two local teachers was reinforced by the arrival of eminent newcomers from abroad - Hans Wehberg and Georges Scelle for law, Maurice Bourquin for diplomatic history, and Pitman B. Potter for political science; and the rising young Swiss jurist, Paul Guggenheim.

These outstanding scholars were soon joined by other heavyweights, notably Hans Kelsen, the towering theorist and philosopher of law, Guglielmo Ferrero, the polymath Italian historian, and Carl Burckhardt, scholar and diplomat. Later arrivals, also seeking refuge from the dictatorships, included the apostle of the free market economy, Ludwig von Mises, and another economist, Wilhelm Ropke, who wielded much influence over German postwar liberal economic policy and the development of the theory of a social market system.

Around the constellation of permanent professors orbited a galaxy of visiting professors teaching for a semester or two, or giving cours temporaires. The list of their names reads like an Almanac de Gotha of prominent intellectuals of the 1930s. Between 1928 and 1957, in addition to the 40 professors who had taught for a minimum of one semester, over 260 lecturers from Switzerland or abroad, contributed through their weeklong cours temporaires to enriching considerably the curriculum of the Institute.

In a sense the cours temporaires were the intellectual showcase of the Institute, attracting such names as Raymond Aron, Ren Cassin, Luigi Einaudi, John Kenneth Galbraith, G. P. Gooch, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich von Hayek, Hersch Lauterpacht, Lord McNair, Gunnar Myrdal, Harold Nicolson, Philip Noel Baker, Pierre Renouvin, Lionel Robbins, Jean de Salis, Count Sforza, Jacob Viner, and the Montagu Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, Sir Alfred Zimmern.

The last-named deserves separate mention for his own pioneering role in the systematic study and teaching of international relations. As early as 1924, while serving on the staff of the International Council for intellectual Cooperation in Paris, he began organising summer schools in international affairs under the auspices of the University of Geneva - the "Zimmern schools" as they were known. That initiative was taken in parallel with the early planning for the launch of the Graduate Institute and the experience acquired by the former helped to shape the latter. Zimmern retained friendly connections with the Geneva institute when he moved to Oxford to take up the first specialized chair in international relations at the University of Oxford.

Despite its small size (the faculty never exceeded 25 members before the 1980s), four of those who have taught for more than one semester (i.e. excluding guest lecturers for shorter periods) have won Nobel Prizes for economics - Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek, Maurice Allais, and Robert Mundell.

From 1927 until 1954 HEI obtained most of its funds from a generous subvention provided by the Rockefeller Foundation. Since then the Canton of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Council have borne most of the costs. The change in financial sponsorship coincided with a change of Directorship in 1955, when the Lausanne historian Jacques Freymond took over from William Rappard. Freymond inaugurated a period of rapid expansion in the range of subjects taught, in the size of the faculty and in student numbers, which continued after his retirement in 1978. During that period HEI was host to many international colloquia dealing with subjects as diverse as preconditions for east-west negotiations, relations with China and the rising influence of that country in world affairs, European integration, techniques and results of politico-socioeconomic forecasting (the famous early Club of Rome reports, and the Futuribles project led by Bertrand de Jouvenel), the causes and possible antidotes to terrorism, Pugwash concerns and many more. Landmark publications of these years included the celebrated Treatise on international law by Professor Paul Guggenheim and the path-breaking six-volume compilation of historical documents relating to the various forms taken by the Communist International.

Despite many changes over its seven and a half decades, such as its merger with the Graduate Institute of Development Studies in 2007, IHEID has remained faithful to its original vocation, and retains much of its original character.

Teaching

The Graduate Institute offers a broad range of disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary degree programmes. Courses are taught by first-rate professors from all over the world. Based on a rigorous requirement for academic quality, teaching at the Institute has the following distinctive characteristics: high priority on interaction between students and faculty; importance of personal academic work; policy of bilingualism in the two official languages of the Institute, English and French; concern for the career opportunities of students. Admission to the Graduate Institute's study programmes is competitive. On average, 21% of applicants are admitted to one of the Graduate Institute's study programs.

Masters of Arts' Programmes

The Graduate Institute offers three masters of Arts programmes:

Master or Arts in International Affairs (MIA): Two-year degree programme offering an interdisciplinary approach to international issues, combining theoretical preparation in economics, history, law, political science with the practical development of the technical skills.

Master of Arts in International Studies (MIS): Two-year programme preparing students for doctoral studies, research, and careers requiring strong analytical skills. Students earn their degree with a specialisation in Economics, Law, Political Science, History and Politics.

Master of Arts in Development Studies (MDEV): Two-year programme training students from different scientific backgrounds (Human and social sciences, disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, etc) to deal with development issues in an interdisciplinary perspective.

Ph.D. Programmes

The Institute offers two PhD programmes:

PhD in International Studies: Programme offering a high-level specialisation in one of the Institute's disciplines (Economics, Law, Political Science, History and Politics) and preparing graduates for an academic career, as well as executive and research positions in the public or private sector.

PhD in Development Studies: Programme intended for students having shown their capacity via their thesis project to conduct interdisciplinary research, at the theoretical as well as at the empirical level.

Joint Diplomas

The Institute and the University of Geneva offer the following joint programmes:

Master of Arts in Asian Studies

Master of Advances Studies in International Humanitarian Law

Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action

Master of Advanced Studies in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS)

The Institute has also entered into partnerships with international academic institutions for the delivery of joint diplomas:

LLM in Global Health and International Institutions, Georgetown University Law Center

MBA in Global Management, with the Thunderbird School of Global Management

Executive Master Programmes

Executive Master International Negotiation and Policy-Making (INP): 9-month degree programme, focusing on global governance and multinational challenges as well as the development of technical skills.

International Executive Master in Development Studies (IMAS): 9-month programme, intended to strengthen the decision-making capacity of development professionals working in the public and private sectors.

Summer Programmes

The Graduate Institute offers two summer programmes:

Summer Programme on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance

Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development

Training and Short Programmes

The Executive Education division offers a number of training programmes for professionals. The institute's Centre for International Governance also organises an array of activities for professionals from the public and the private sector.

Research

The Institute's research activities are conducted both at fundamental and applied levels with the objective of bringing to international actors, private or public, an analysis helpful to the solution to main contemporary issues.

These research activities are conducted by the faculty of the Institute, as part of their individual work, or by interdisciplinary teams within centres and programmes whose activity focus on five main fields:

International trade and global integration;

Conflict and peace-building;

Migration and refugees;

International environmental issues;

International Health Policy.

Furthermore, IHEID is home to the Swiss Chair of Human Rights, the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Security and Conflict Studies, and the Andr Hoffmann Chair in Environmental Economics.

Research Centers and Programs

The centres and programmes of the Institute contribute to the analysis of the main contemporary issues relying on intellectual resources of the "International Geneva", especially the local international organisations, and dissemination of research results in a useful way to all international actors.

Center on Conflict, Development and Peacekeeping

Center for Trade and Economic Integration

Global Health Program

Program for the Study of Global Migration

Small Arms Survey

Center for Asian Studies

Ple de comptence en genre et dveloppement

Centre for International Governance

International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies

Groupe de recherche sur l'environnement et la gouvernance

Geneva Forum

Transnational and Non-State Armed Groups Database

Partnerships and Networks

The Institute teaching, training and research activities rely on a network of partners in Switzerland and in the world.

Switzerland

The Institute and the University of Geneva co-manage research centres and joint programmes which offer the number of diplomas. In 2002, the Graduate Institute co-founded the Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights in collaboration with the Faculty of Law at University of Geneva, which teaches those specialized areas of public international law.

The Institute has created, together with the University of Geneva and other Swiss academic partners, the Swiss Network of International Studies in Geneva which aims at strengthening the field of international studies in Switzerland and stimulating cooperation between academic institutions and international organisations.

Global Partnerships and Student Exchange Programs

The Institute has entered into a partnership for the delivery of joint diplomas with the Georgetown University Law Center.

Student exchange agreements have been signed with a number of institutions worldwide, e.g. Sciences Po Paris - Institut d'tudes Politiques de Paris, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, University of St. Gallen, Georgetown Law School, Boston University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies and Waseda University.

The Executive Education division of the Institute has entered into a partnership with Thunderbird School of Global Management, and has additional partnership agreements with a number of institutions around the world.

Associations and Academic Networks

The Institute is an active member of the following associations and academic networks:

APSIA - Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs: The world main academic institutions specialising in international relations and international public policy are represented among APSIA thirty-odd members.

FUA French Speaking University Agency: The FUA supports the build-up a French-language research area between French-speaking universities. The Institute is one of 536 members belonging to the FUA and takes part in its exchange programmes in the fields of teaching and research.

EADI European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes: The EADI is the largest existing network of research and training institutes active in the field of development studies. It publishes the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR) as well as monographs (Amsterdam University Press). It also organises a General Conference every three years.

Europaeum: Created at the initiative of the University of Oxford, the Europaeum is composed of ten leading European institutions of higher education and research.

PolicyNet: A community enabling academic institutions, researchers, practitioners and students to advance global scholarship in public policy.

Publications

Most of the Institute's professors' work is published in outside periodicals or with foreign editors. For instance, the IHEID has established publishing partnerships to publish IHEID series with the Presses universitaires de France, with Karthala Editions (establishing the DveloppementS series), and with the Dutch publisher Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

The Graduate Institute's Publications Office has for mission to ensure the publishing of the Revue annuelle de politique de dveloppement and to support the publication and distribution of the best Ph.D. theses and of monographs.

IHEID is a partner in the publication of the and of the European Journal of Development Research.

Organization

Legal Status

As the two predecessor institutions, IHEID is constituted as a Swiss private law foundation (Fondation pour les hautes tudes internationales et du dveloppement), sharing a convention with the University of Geneva. This is a particular organization form, because IHEID is constituted as a foundation of private law fulfilling a public purpose. In addition, the political responsibility is shared between the Swiss Confederation and the Canton of Geneva. Usually in Switzerland, it is the responsibility of the Cantons to run public universities, except for the Federal Institutes of Technology (ETHZ and EPFL). IHEID is therefore something like a hybrid institution, in-between the two standard categories.

Foundation Board

The Foundation Board is the administrative body of the Institute. It assembles academics, politicians, people of public live and practitioners. Roger de Weck(publicist and journalist) assumes the presidency of the Board as he did for HEI before. The vice-president is Jacques Forster (vice-president of the ICRC). The Board includes among others: Iris Bohnet (professor at the Kennedy School of Government), Peter Gomez (president of the supervisory board of SWX), Jolle Kuntz (journalist), Yves Mny (president of the European University Institute in Florence).

Administration

The Institute is headed by Philippe Burrin, the former director of HEI and his deputy is Michel Carton, the former director of IUED.

Academic Organization

The Graduate Institute comprises 5 academic units: Political Science, International History and Politics, International Law, International Economics, and Development Studies.

Campuses

IHEID is distributed in eight different buildings between the Palace of Nations and Lake Geneva. The main building, Villa Barton, is situated in a private park on the shores of Lake Geneva, while newer constructions are situated in the district regrouping international organizations with offices in Geneva, such as the United Nations. The Villa Moynier campus opened in October 2009 to house the Graduate Institute-based Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights. The building holds a symbolic significance, as it was originally owned by Gustave Moynier, co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

In 2012, the construction of a new campus, the Maison de la Paix (House of peace), will be completed. The new campus will bring together the different departments of the institute and the library under one roof. The "Maison de la paix" will also house three international centres supported by the Swiss government: the Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD). The Global Humanitarian Forum, an NGO closely associated to former UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan, will also have its headquarters in the Maison de la paix. Furthermore, IHEID is building a new student residence which will be across the Campus de la Paix. In 2009, Graduate Institute alumni Kathryn Davis made a $10 million donation to the institute to help it develop its campus. As a sign of gratitude, the library of the "Maison de la paix" will be named after her and her late husband, Ambassador Shelby Cullom Davis, who was also an alumnus.

Library

The libraries of IUED and HEI have been merged in August 2007. The new library is now one of the richest libraries in the fields of development and international relations in Switzerland and in Europe. It "houses" 300,000 books about social sciences, journals and annual publications. The Library is also the deposit library of the United Nations, since 1947, of the OSCE, of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) documents. The Library also manages, since 2003, the "Gender and development" SDC mandate, which collects documents on the subject.

Prominent graduates

Shara L. Aranoff, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission

Hdi Annabi, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Haiti

Kofi Annan, former-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Mohamed ElBaradei, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005

Marcel Andr Boisard, Under-Secretary General to the United Nations and former Executive Director of United Nations Institute for Training and Research.

Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

Shelby Cullom Davis, US Ambassador to Switzerland between 1969 and 1975 and philanthropist

Rdiger Dornbusch, longtime professor at the MIT Economics Department

Arthur Dunkel, director-general of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) between 1980 and 1993

Patricia Espinosa, diplomat and designated Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico

Saul Friedlnder, historian, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, (see below)

Philipp Hildebrand, President of the Swiss National Bank

Imran Nazar Hosein, Islamic scholar

Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007

Leonid Hurwicz, 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

Nobuyuki Idei, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Corporation between 1999 and 2005

Kamil Idris, director-general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) between 1997 and 2008

Sandra Kalniete, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia between 2002 and 2004, member of the European Parliament

Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC

Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research and Assistant-Secretary General to the United Nations.

Giorgio Malinverni, Swiss law professor and Swiss judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Paul Joseph James Martin, Foreign Minister of Canada between 1963 and 1968

Jacques Moreillon, former Director General of the ICRC

Robert McFarlane, United States National Security Advisor between 1983 and 1985

Kamel Morjane, Defence Minister of Tunisia since 2005

Francois Nordmann, Swiss Ambassador to France and Monaco

Hans-Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament

Michael Reiterer, ambassador of the European Commission to Switzerland

Jean-Pierre Roth, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank

Brad Smith, Microsoft Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Hernando de Soto, Economist and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD)

Lyal S. Sunga, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University

Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist

Abdulqawi Yusuf, judge at the International Court of Justice

Prominent past and present faculty

Georges Abi-Saab - Honorary Professor, taught at the Graduate Institute , former ad hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, former Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR), currently Chairman, Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization

Bolaji Akinyemi - visiting professor in 1977

Lucius Caflisch - judge at the European Court of Human Rights, member of the UN International Law Commission

Guglielmo Ferrero - Italian historian

Saul Friedlnder - after his PhD at HEI he taught there in summer semesters from 1963 to 1988

Hans Kelsen - taught international law between 1934 and 1940

Paul Mantoux - co-founder of the Institute.

Theodor Meron - taught international law between 1991 and 1995

Ludwig von Mises - professor for international economic relations between 1934 and 1940

Bertrand Ramcharan - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and first holder of the IHEID Swiss Chair of Human Rights (2006)

William Rappard - co-founder and director of the Institute (1928) and director of the Mandate Department of the League of Nations.

Wilhelm Rpke - professor for international economics between 1937 and 1966.

References

^ Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2008

^ Message of the Director of IHEID

^ About the Foundation Board of HEI: http://www.hei.unige.ch/pres/fond.html

^ (French) Horizons IUED, No 51, Mars 2007, p.1: http://www.iued.unige.ch/information/horizons/h51.pdf

^ (German) NZZ, May 28th, 2007 http://www.nzz.ch/2006/05/28/il/articleE5QID.html

^ (French) Official press release: http://www.news-service.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/fr/12617

^ (French) IHEID dvoile son campus et la future Maison de la paix: http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/iheid-devoile-campus-future-maison-paix-2008-12-02

^ US$ 10 Million Grant from Mrs Kathryn Davis: http://graduateinstitute.ch/corporate/Kathryn_Davis_Grant.html

^ Oloyede, Dokun (2002-01-06). "Bolaji Akinyemi, the Seagull, at 60". Thisday online (Leaders & Company). http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2002/01/06/20020106tri01.html. Retrieved 2007-10-27. 

^ (German) Das Magazin, 2007/41 Die ganze Geschichte

External links

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies website

Study programs offered at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Globe - the magazine of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

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Member Schools

School of International Service Norman Paterson School of International Affairs School of International and Public Affairs Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Elliott School of International Affairs Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Graduate Institute of International Studies John F. Kennedy School of Government Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Korea University Sam Nunn School of International Affairs London School of Economics Moscow State University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Ritsumeikan University Seoul National University St. Petersburg State University

Stockholm School of Economics Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies University of Denver University of Maryland, College Park Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Southern California School of International Relations University of St. Gallen Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale

Affiliate Member Schools

National Foreign Affairs Training Center DePaul University Florida International University Fordham University George Mason University Hertie School of Governance Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center International University of Japan Monterey Institute North Carolina State University Center for Global Change and Governance John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations Thunderbird School of Global Management Universidad Externado de Colombia Committee On International Relations University of Miami University of Oregon Munk Centre for International Studies Utsunomiya University

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