Faculty


Gopalan Balachandran
Professeur, Histoire et Politique Internationales
- gopalan.balachandran@graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 22 908 58 74
Domaines d'expertise
- Central banks
- Emerging countries
- Globalisation
- Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
- North-South relations
- Asia, South
- Indian Ocean
Languages spoken:
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu

Carolyn Biltoft
Professeur assistant, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Globalisation
- History of international relations
- International organisations
- Europe, Western and Central
Languages spoken:
English, French

Nicole Bourbonnais
Professeur assistant, Histoire internationale
- nicole.bourbonnais@graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 22 908 59 14
Domaines d'expertise
- Civil society, social movements, Trade Unions, NGOs
- Development, cooperation and aid policies
- Gender, women and public policies
- Global health, global health diplomacy, global health governance, medical anthropology
- Human Rights
- International Organisations
- Redistribution policies, social inequalities, poverty
- Religion and politics
- Latin America and the Caribbean
Languages spoken:
English, French, Spanish

Mohammad-Reza Djalili
Professeur honoraire, Histoire et Politique Internationales
Domaines d'expertise
- Histoire de l'Iran contemporain, conflits du Moyen-Orient, géopolitique de l'Asie centrale, de l’espace caspien et du Caucase. Enseignements donnés ces dernières années: Moyen-Orient, Caucase et Asie centrale : enjeux politiques régionaux et internationaux
- Sociologie politique du développement
- L'Europe et le Sud : dialogue, coopération et divergences
- L'Europe et la Méditerranée

Rui Pedro Ferreira Da Costa Esteves
Professeur adjoint, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Monnaies et marchés des changes
- Finance, marchés financiers, investissement international
- Globalisation
- Corruption et recherche de rente
- Europe occidentale et centrale
- Amérique latine
Langues parlées :
portugais, anglais, italien, français

Michael Goebel
Professeur adjoint, Histoire internationale
Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World
Domaines d'expertise
- Histoire globale
- Histoire européenne
- Immigrants, réfugiés, diasporas
- Questions urbaines
- Renforcement de l’État, souveraineté
- Amérique latine et Caraïbes
- Europe occidentale et centrale
Langues parlées:
anglais, français, allemand, espagnol

Jussi Hanhimäki
Professeur, Histoire internationale
- Jussi.Hanhimaki@graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 22 908 58 67
Professional website
Domaines d'expertise
- Cold War (Cold War and European Security; The Cultural Cold War; International organisations and the Cold War)
- Foreign policies (American Foreign Policy)
- History of international relations
- Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
- International organisations, UN
- NATO and alliance relations
- Transatlantic relations
- US Foreign Policy
- America, North
- Europe, Western and Central
Languages spoken:
English, Finnish, French

Susanna Hecht
Professeur, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Political ecologies of land use change, especially tropical forest
- Environmental history and the history of environmentalisms
- Indigenous and comparative knowledge systems in history and development
- Rural development and resource governance
- Climate change and forest politics
- Gender and natural resources
- Central America, South America


Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Professeur, Histoire internationale
- mahmoud.mohamedou@graduateinstitute.ch
+41 22 908 58 48
Wikipedia page
Domaines d'expertise
- Armed conflicts
- Foreign policies
- Multilateral diplomacy and negotiation
- Political violence, terrorism
- Religion and politics
- State-building
- Africa (Sahel)
- Middle East and North Africa
Languages spoken:
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Amalia Ribi Forclaz
Professeur adjoint, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Agriculture, land and rural development
- Civil society, social movements, trade unions, NGOs
- Development, co-operation, aid policies
- History of international relations
- International organisations, UN
- Labour and employment
Languages spoken:
English, French, German, Italian

Davide Rodogno
Professeur, Histoire internationale
- davide.rodogno@graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: + 41 22 908 62 15
Personnal website
Domaines d'expertise
- History and politics of international organisations
- Humanity, humanitarianism, humanitarian intervention
- History of conflicts and conflict resolution, history of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes
- Transnational movements, NGOs and philanthropic organisations
- Europe
- Middle East
Languages spoken:
English, French, Italian

Aidan Russell
Professeur assistant, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Armed conflicts, violence
- Boundary and territorial disputes
- Immigrants, refugees, diasporas
- Regional integration
- Africa, Subsaharan
Languages spoken:
Dutch, English, French, Kirundi

Cyrus Schayegh
Professeur, Histoire internationale
Domaines d'expertise
- Modern Middle East
- Global history
- Decolonization
- Cold War
- History of development
- Historiography
Languages spoken:
Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Persian, Spanish

Lanxin Xiang
Professeur, Histoire et Politique Internationales
- lanxin.xiang@graduateinstitute.ch
Phone: +41 22 908 58 69
Domaines d'expertise
Languages spoken:
Chinese, English