Contact

Discipline: Law

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Electronics Manufacturing Industry: the Implications of ‘Soft Governance’ for Labor Standards

How do transnational corporate social responsibility standards influence and shape labor conditions in the electronics manufacturing industry in China and Taiwan?
read more

International Law and Migration Detention: Coding State Adherence to Norms

What are the key norms in the treatment of migrant detainees and how can academics and practitioners measure the construction and adherence to these norms?
read more

Development Myths in Practice: the ”Femininisation” of Anti-poverty Policies and International Organisations. The Cases of Brazil, the Philippines and Mozambique

What are the effects of gender-based international development programs in Brazil, the Philippines and Mozambique?
read more

Climate Change, Economic Growth, and Conflict

What are the linkages between climate change, economic growth and conflict?
read more

Negotiating Climate Change

How can developing countries compensate for their limited power resources by deploying successful strategies in the context of climate change compensation negotiations?
read more

Refugee Flows and Transnational Ethnic Linkages

What are the effects of cross-border refugee flows and the possible spread of conflicts in host countries taking into account ethnical linkages?
read more

Beyond Economics: Estimating the Political Gains from Trade Agreements

What are the political gains from trade agreements and what is their economic value in turn?
read more

Death in Custody – towards an International Framework for Investigation and Prevention

What are the conditions under which deaths in custody should be investigated and how can they be prevented?
read more

Migration Partnerships: A Step towards the Global Governance of International Migration?

What are the factors that shape the institutional design of recently adopted migration partnerships at a international, national and regional level?
read more

Bilateral Talks Switzerland – European Union: Agenda-setting and Framework Agreement

What are the opportunities and limits of bilateral talks between Switzerland and Europe? Could a single framework agreement bring together the existing treaties?
read more

Browse

by Disciplines

Sociology
Political Economy
Law
History
Psychology
Social Medicine
University of Lucerne
Political Science
Anthropology
Ethnography
Environmental Science
Economics
Human Geography
Statistics