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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
IHEID Logo
TypeSemi-private postgraduate institute
Established1927 (as Graduate Institute of International Studies)
2008 (merged institute)
Budget64 millions CHF
DirectorPhilippe Burrin
Academic staff
52 full-time professors and 10 lecturers
Students821 (70% foreign)
Location
Geneva
,
Switzerland
CampusUrban
Working languagesEnglish and French
NicknameThe Graduate Institute, IHEID or HEI
AffiliationsEuropaeum, APSIA, EUA, EADI, AUF
Websitehttp://www.graduateinstitute.ch
IHEID is located in Switzerland
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Location: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies [1] (Template:Lang-fr, abrreviated to IHEID) is a highly selective postgraduate educational and research institute situated in Geneva, Switzerland. It is active in the fields of political science, international law, international economics, international history, anthropology and development studies. It is an independent academic institution, but has a partnership with the University of Geneva.

The Graduate Institute of International Studies (Template:Lang-fr, abbreviated to IUHEI or HEI) was established in 1927 as an offshoot of the League of Nations. It is thus continental Europe's oldest school of international relations (after Aberystwyth University in Wales, which is not on the European mainland but was founded in 1919). It was the first university entirely dedicated to the study of that field, and it offered one of the first doctoral programs in international relations in the world. Originally, the Institute mainly formed diplomats associated with the then Geneva-based League of Nations, the United Nations' predecessor. Today, it is an institution of advanced research and teaching committed to excellence, independence and diversity, seeking to prepare international actors to respond to the challenges of tomorrow’s world.[2]

In 2008, the Graduate Institute of International Studies absorbed the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), a smaller separate post-graduate institution also based in Geneva. The merger resulted in the renaming of the Institute, which became the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. IUED, for its part, ceased to exist.

The Graduate Institute is accredited as a "Haute école" by the Swiss University Conference and is a full member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, which regroups leading universities with programs in international studies.

It is not ranked as a standalone institution in major university rankings, being rather considered as part of the University of Geneva. The University of Geneva was ranked 32nd by Newsweek's "Top 100 Global Universities" survey, while in 2008, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked it 68th among best universities worldwide.[3]

The Graduate Institute counts seven Nobel prize recipients and a Pulitzer prize winner among its alumnae or past faculty members.

Teaching at the Institute is mostly done in English.

History and Reputation

The Villa Barton campus on the shores of Lake Geneva.

The Graduate Institute of International Studies was founded in 1927. Its moving spirits were the scholar–diplomats 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.

William 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’s 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 the Institute would prepare staff and delegates, while the intergovernmental organizations would provide intellectual resources and diplomatic expertise as guest lecturers.

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Logo of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI)

According to ist statutes, HEI was "an institution intended to provide to students of all nations the means of undertaking and pursuing international studies, most notably of a historic, judicial, economic, political and social nature."

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, René 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

Faculties

The Graduate Institute comprises 6 academic departments: Political Science, International History, International Law, International Economics, Development Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology of Development. It 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, 19% of applicants are admitted to one of the Graduate Institute's study programs.

Masters of Arts Programmes

The Graduate Institute offers several interdisciplinary and disciplinary masters of Arts programmes:

Interdisciplinary programs:

  • Master of 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 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.

Disciplinary programs:

Ph.D. Programmes

The Institute offers six PhD programmes:

Joint Diplomas

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

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

Executive Master Programmes

Summer and Winter Programmes

The Graduate Institute offers three summer and winter programmes:

  • Summer Programme on International Affairs and Multilateral Governance
  • Summer Programme on the WTO, International Trade and Development
  • Winter Programme on the United Nations and Global Challenges

Training and Short Programmes

The Executive Education division offers a number of training programmes for professionals. The institute's Global Issues and NGOs Programme also organises an array of activities for professionals from the public and the private sector.

Campuses

The Villa Barton's main gate.
The Villa Moynier campus.

IHEID is distributed in eight different buildings between Geneva's UN square (known as Place des Nations) and Lake Geneva. The main building, Villa Barton, is located in Parc Barton, a private park on the shores of Lake Geneva, while newer constructions are 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. It was subsequently used by the League of Nations and was the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross between 1933 and 1946.

The construction of a new campus, the Maison de la Paix (House of peace), and of a new residence hall are scheduled to be finished in 2014. 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).[4]

The library of the "Maison de la paix" will be named after two Institute alumni - Ambassador Shelby Cullom Davis and his wife Kathryn Davis - after Ms. Davis made a $10 million donation to the Institute to help it develop its campus.[5]

IHEID is also planning to build the "Portail des Nations" (or Nations' Portal) near the Palace of Nations. The new building will count a series conference rooms for students and host exhibitions on the role of Geneva in international politics.[6]

Library

The libraries of IUED and HEI were merged in August 2007. The new library is now one of the richest libraries in the fields of development and international relations in Europe. It "houses" 300,000 books about social sciences, journals and annual publications. The Library also manages, since 2003, the "Gender and development" SDC mandate, which collects documents on the subject.

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, the André Hoffmann Chair in Environmental Economics, the Pictet Chair in Environmental International Law, the Yves Oltramare Chair on Politics and Religion, and the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law.

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.

In addition, the Institute is planning to open a center dedicated to trade and development in 2011.[7]

Partnerships and Networks

The Institute’s 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 a 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.

The Institute also manages the Academic Platform Switzerland UN, which promotes the study of the United Nations in Switzerland.

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, including Georgetown Law School, Boston University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, UCLA School of Law, Sciences Po Paris - Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, the Graduate School of Arts and Science at Yale University, the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, Tsinghua University in China, Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, El Colegio de México in Mexico, the University of Ghana, the University of St. Gallen and the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, both in Switzerland.

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’s main academic institutions specialising in international relations and international public policy are represented among APSIA’s thirty-odd members.
  • European University Association: Represents and supports more than 850 institutions of higher education in 46 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies.
  • Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie: The AUF supports the build-up a French-language research area between French-speaking universities. The Institute is one of 536 members belonging to the AUF and takes part in its exchange programmes in the fields of teaching and research.
  • 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.
  • National Centre of Competence and Research North-South: A research programme in the fields of global change and sustainable development based partly at IHEID. The programme is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Publications

Most of the Institute's professors' work is published in outside periodicals or with foreign editors. [2] For instance, the IHEID has established publishing partnerships to publish IHEID series with the Presses universitaires de France, with Éditions Khartala (establishing the DéveloppementS series), and with the Dutch publisher Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

The Graduate Institute's Publications Office has for mission to ensure the publishing of the International Development Policy Series, published in cooperation with Palgrave Macmillan, and to support the publication and distribution of the best Ph.D. theses and of monographs.

IHEID is also a partner in the publication of the Refugee Survey Quarterly, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Relations Internationales, and the European Journal of Development Research. The Journal of International Criminal Justice, meanwhile, is hosted at the Graduate Institute based Geneva Academy of International humanitarian law and human rights.

Organization

IHEID is constituted as a Swiss private law foundation (Fondation pour les hautes études internationales et du développement), sharing a convention with the University of Geneva.[8] This is a particular organization form, because IHEID is constituted as a foundation of private law fulfilling a public purpose.[9] 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.[10]

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 [11](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), Joëlle Kuntz (journalist), Yves Mény (president of the European University Institute in Florence).[12]

Administration

The Institute is headed by Philippe Burrin and his deputy Elisabeth Prügl.

Nobel Prize recipients

Former head of IAEA and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei.
Nobel Prize in Economics Leonid Hurwicz.

Other prominent graduates of the Graduate Institute of International Studies

International relations theorist Hans Morgenthau.
Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa.
Long-time European Parliament president Hans-Gert Poettering.
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto.

Government, diplomacy and international organizations

Academia

Private sector

Writers and journalists

Civil society

Miscellaneous

Prominent former faculty of the Graduate Institute of International Studies

Noteworthy faculty

  • Thomas J. Biersteker - Curt Gasteyger Professor of International Security, Council on Foreign Relations scholar
  • Andrew Clapham - Professor of International Law, former Representative of Amnesty International at the United Nations in New York, and former Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq.
  • Pierre-Marie Dupuy - Professor of International Law, his Droit international public is "one of the best known French international law textbooks" according to the European Society of International Law
  • Keith Krause - Professor of International Relations, director of the Small Arms Survey
  • Emmanuel Gaillard - Professor of International Law, leading authority on international commercial arbitration
  • Jussi Hanhimaki - Professor of International History and Politics, recipient of the 2002 Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his book The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
  • Ilona Kickbusch - Director of the Global Health Programme, leading thinker in the fields of health promotion and global health
  • Marcelo Kohen - Professor of International Law, scholar with experience practicing before the International Court of Justice
  • Xiang Lanxin - Professor of International History and Politics, former Kissinger Chair of Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress
  • Patrick Low - Professor of International Economics, head of Economic Research and Statistics at the World Trade Organisation
  • Nicolas Michel - Professor of International Law, former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel at the United Nations
  • Timothy Swanson - André Hoffmann Professor of Environmental Economics
  • Jorge E. Viñuales - Pictet Chair in International Environmental Law
  • Charles Wyplosz - Professor of International Economics, regular columnist in the Financial Times, Le Monde, Libération, Le Temps, Finanz und Wirtschaft, and Handelsblatt

References

  1. ^ The Graduate Institute, Geneva
  2. ^ Message of the Director of IHEID
  3. ^ Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2008
  4. ^ Template:Fr icon IHEID dévoile son campus et la future Maison de la paix: http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/iheid-devoile-campus-future-maison-paix-2008-12-02
  5. ^ US$ 10 Million Grant from Mrs Kathryn Davis: http://graduateinstitute.ch/corporate/Kathryn_Davis_Grant.html
  6. ^ Template:Fr icon La Fondation Pictet pour le développement donne 25 millions à la Genève internationale: [1]
  7. ^ La Fondation Pictet offre 25 millions a l'IHEID
  8. ^ About the Foundation Board of HEI: http://www.hei.unige.ch/pres/fond.html
  9. ^ Template:Fr icon Horizons IUED, No 51, Mars 2007, p.1: http://www.iued.unige.ch/information/horizons/h51.pdf
  10. ^ Template:De icon NZZ, May 28th, 2007 http://www.nzz.ch/2006/05/28/il/articleE5QID.html
  11. ^ Roger de Weck
  12. ^ Template:Fr icon Official press release: http://www.news-service.admin.ch/NSBSubscriber/message/fr/12617
  13. ^ Oloyede, Dokun (2002-01-06). "Bolaji Akinyemi, the Seagull, at 60". Thisday online. Leaders & Company. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
  14. ^ Template:De icon Das Magazin, 2007/41 Die ganze Geschichte

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