What are the effects of the financialisation of the commodity trading on local lives and what are the policy recommendations to be drawn for Swiss and international regulatory actors?
To what extent does the concept of gridlock apply to the global health governance and account for its deficiencies? What is the potential for reform?
Which types of international environmental cooperation are likely to have long-term prospects in democracies and which will not?
How efficient are the current global health architecture and the variants of private-public partnerships on global health policies and targeted achievements?
How can a neurological look at the dynamics of emotions in general and fear in particular help finding better strategies in conflict prevention and / or resolution?
What are the challenges of the gig economy in terms of social dialogue and workers’ protection?
How have public policies evolved to stabilize or destabilize the current meat production and consumption systems in China, the EU and the US?
How effective is the metabarcoding approach as a tool for measuring the status of marine biodiversity?
What are the effects of different types of trade policy measures on global food price volatility and what local, alternative measures can be adopted to foster food security in volatile global markets?
Why, when and how do refugees engage in transactional sex across genders and what are the sexual and reproductive health and mental health consequences of refugees involved in transactional sex?
What are the effects of cross-border refugee flows and the possible spread of conflicts in host countries taking into account ethnical linkages?
What are the design, evolution, and effects of the international investment agreements currently in practice?
What does impunity mean to local communities in areas of protracted conflict and how do local and regional forms of informal justice contribute to re-establishing law and order?
What is the role of large-scale extractive investments in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and their contradictory dynamics?
How can livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Colombia and Bolivia be improved through the scaling-up to high-quality coffee products?
What are the effectiveness and the impact of public-private partnerships for advancing the Sustainable Development Goals?
What are the causes and the consequences of labour provisions in preferential trade agreements?
What are the barriers and opportunities for compost-based urban farming and gardening in Dschang, Cameroon and Lausanne, Switzerland?
Why was no multilateral regulation against capital flight and international tax evasion implemented between 1945 and 1970?
What are the environmental, health and regulatory dimensions of pesticide use in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries?
What can the EU’s Hotspot approach to migration tell us about the impact of infrastructure on migration management?
How do transnational corporate social responsibility standards influence and shape labor conditions in the electronics manufacturing industry in China and Taiwan?
How can raising awareness, better prevention and treatment help individuals suffering from Noma, the “neglected disease”?
What are relevant policy instruments for air pollution reduction in developing urban contexts and how do they vary in effectiveness?
To what extent can regional governance architectures of mountainous areas contribute to achieving the Millenium Development Goals in terms of integration of sustainable development principles and of reduction of biodiversity loss?
What are the regulatory frameworks for goods, labor, and financial markets that can create an economy that operates within planetary limits and principles of social equity?
What are the strategies employed by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) and other international funding agencies to enhance local capacity in the Andean region?