PROFILE
PhD, Princeton University
Grégoire Mallard is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Director of Research at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva). He is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea (Cambridge University Press 2019). He is also the co-editor of Contractual Knowledge: One Hundred Years of Legal Experimentation in Global Markets (Cambridge University Press 2016), and Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science (Routledge 2008). His other publications focus on prediction, the role of knowledge and ignorance in diplomacy and the study of harmonization of legal regimes as a social process (see gregoire-mallard.com). In 2017, he has been the recipient of an ERC starting grant for a project titled Bombs, Banks and Sanctions, out of which grew the Sanction and Sustainable Peace Hub.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Author:
- "Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture" (University of Chicago Press 2014)
- "Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea" (Cambridge University Press 2019)
- Co-editor:
- "Global Science and National Sovereignty: Studies in Historical Sociology of Science" (Routledge 2008)
- “Strategic Ignorance and Global Governance” (British Journal of Sociology, dec. 2018)
- “Contractual Knowledge” (Cambridge University Press, 2016)