Jean-Christophe Graz
Prof International Relations, Université de Lausanne, Fac SSP
Global political economy | Power of Standards
... cycling & skiing
- Grand honneur de pouvoir accueillir @unil.bsky.social la représentante permanente de la Suisse auprès de l’ONU Pascale Baeryswil pour une rencontre sur l’importance de l’ONU et son expérience durant le mandat de la Suisse au Conseil de Sécurité - intro par Fondation unil & @flaviakeller.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazNew report out now with @granthamlse.bsky.social CETEx: "A framework for central banks navigating political uncertainty in the transition" cetex.org/publications...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazAlso, disgusting billionairs sailing their private yachts easily camouflage under maritime shipping statute to escape any fuel tax (they just need to buy a candy bar at the marina shop of any other country they departed from during their trip)
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazWhere to file: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... Where to search for your books/articles: annas-archive.org/search (PiLiMi); libgen.ad
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz[Média] 'Qui peut encore faire capoter l'accord sur les droits de douane?' Une interview de Ramona Coman, Professeure à SciencePo ULB (Centre d'étude de la vie politique de l'ULB - Cevipol), à L'Echo. www.lecho.be/dossiers/gue...
- So great to be back to the Regulating for Decent Work Conference #RDW2025 @ilo.org - such a great line-up of papers, particularly on digital labour platform & (lack of) decent work, and empowering workers in global supply chains
- 🙏🙏🙏 to all of you @ @tuda.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @dfg.de Research Training Group 'Standards of Governance' for your challenging questions after my input talk ‘Conceptualising Standards’ yesterday. A great opportunity to refresh my mind on The Power of standards (@cambridgeup.bsky.social)
- The powerful countermove to Trump’s bullying 👉 repealing the so-called anticircumvention laws forced by US to prohibit tampering with or bypassing software locks that control access to copyrighted works from which US monopolist giants extract huge rents. on.ft.com/3RLctIg
- Trump’s tariff policy has nothing to do with trade 'If you understand Trump’s actions as the use of executive power to bully into complicity the institutions that would otherwise stop a slide towards autocracy, then it is easy to see how tariffs fit into the plan’ US Sen Murphy 1/3 on.ft.com/3G9vcKU
- 2/3 Key institutions: knowledge (Ivy League universities cut from federal funding), information (censored media ), law (law firms bullied).
- 3/3 'Once Trump has most law firms, universities, news organisations and private companies under his thumb, it will become almost impossible for any form of opposition to gain traction’ US Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut) @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazBreaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
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- And the good news is… 🙏 @snsf-ch.bsky.social for funding the 4-year project ‘Grounding uncertainty: standards & agency in digital labour platforms’. 👉 1 PhD & 1 PD researcher on how those platforms control a remote workforce & how this workforce cope & organise in the following countries: 🇧🇩 🇷🇸 🇩🇪
- Looking forward to having it soon in my hands!
- Excited to share that The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, is on its way! Expected publication date is May 2025. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
- Bravissimo Anne! Amplement mérité🤩
- [Prix] Félicitations à Anne Dang-Xuân Nguyen, lauréate du 🏆 Prix Xavier Mabille 2023-2024🏆 de l'ABSP pour sa thèse "The Poison of War: Mapping out scientific and lay knowledge on the consequences of Agent Orange use in Vietnam and the US" ! 🎓 👏 Bravo pour cette contribution scientifique remarquable!
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazLe maccarthysme est de retour dans les universités américaines.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazTribute to Michael Burawoy, one of the most inspiring sociologists of our times and a wonderful human being. Former president of @isa-sociology.bsky.social and @asanews.bsky.social In ISA Global Dialogue, the public sociology journal he founded. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/mic...
- International political sociology (IPS) panels kicks off at @unige annual conventional of the Swiss political science association. We are all set for a fantastic line up. For further detail, see www.svpw-assp.ch/fileadmin/ab... @annaleander.bsky.social @lucreziac.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz#DiPLab est à l'honneur dans Le Temps. Dans le nouveau podcast 'IA qu'à m'expliquer', écoutez Paola Tubaro (CNRS) présenter nos recherches sur les travail du clic qui se cache derrière les solutions de machine learning. www.letemps.ch/podcasts/ia-...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazVery excited to announce the publication of 10(3). The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and some cracking review articles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Grazexcellent new paper on green economic planning from excellent CBS colleagues @jhasselbalch.bsky.social & Cornel Ban, drawing on lessons from post-war indicative planning, contemporary industrial policy & corporate planning 🌻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazDespite the hype, past research found no clear link between AI adoption and long-term productivity gains. Now a new report from @torontomet.bsky.social confirms it: no solid evidence that AI drives short-term productivity growth either. dais.ca/reports/wait...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazThis is big news for watchers of the academic research-attention economy complex
- 150 ans de conflit en 90 min + 1 message fort: 1) la question palestinienne ne meurt pas 2) elle mute 3) ... a une énorme charge symbolique 4) … qui aliment une attractivité sur les puissances en quête d’affirmation ds le système international 5) … et préfigure son évolution ds son ensemble MERCI
- La question de Palestine dans le système mondial. Avec Ghassan Salamé, universitaire et diplomate libanais. Modération par Serge Michel (Heidi News). Ma 3 décembre, 18h30. UNIL, bâtiment Amphimax. Infos et inscription obligatoire: events.unil.ch/register/387
- Can’t wait for reading this. We are just brainstorming on this very issue with my colleagues @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & Victor Cannilla from @unil.bsky.social
- In this episode, @remiedwards.bsky.social speaks to @benclift.bsky.social and @cisk.bsky.social about their new paper in New Political Economy 'The social construction of sustainable futures: how models and scenarios limit climate mitigation possibilities' Read here: shorturl.at/sxJSp
- Looking forward to reading this important piece 😁
- Excited to share my new paper “Governing on par with states” published #openaccess in RIS @risjnl.bsky.social. I examine how private actors have shifted from entities to be regulated to being viewed as necessary part of solutions to global problems. 1/5 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S026...
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- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazInsurtech is now increasingly jeopardising the solidarity principle on which microinsurance was initially conceived. It is high time to re-think the agenda that reinscribes the state as the primary risk holder and provider of universal social measures. 7/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazThe larger picture: a debate between private & social insurance. Microinsurance was originally conceived as an alternative form of social insurance. 6/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz(i) a dysfunctional ecosystem constrains platforms’ interoperability; (ii) sites of valuation collide as a result of unsuccessful attempts to collect both traditional and alternative data; (iii) and price personalisation runs counter scaling up by aggregation and instead tends to unpool risk. 5/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazContradictions occur between the principles of platform scalability and insurance risk pooling. We analyse how the qualification and expansion of Insurtech depends on three processes: interoperability, valuation, and aggregation. Yet… 4/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazIn brief, we argue that Insurtech’s promises fall short of expectations because… 3/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazThe paper engages current debates on digital financial inclusion and platform capitalism. It offers insights into the contradictory principles driving Insurtech in the inclusive insurance market and the limits to the ongoing global expansion of platform capitalism. 2/8
- You didn’t see micro-insurers? Watch out for Insurtech in inclusive finance and development...
- Are Insurtechs fulfilling their promises towards the vulnerable populations of the world? @jcgraz.bsky.social and myself provide an answer in our new @finandsoc.bsky.social article out! Open access: bit.ly/3YPJmGO. A short 🧵 1/8
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazLes enfants, moteur des changements de comportement proenvironnementaux ? Plus un sujet est jeune, plus les initiatives visant à modifier ses actions en faveur de l’environnement sont efficaces. 👉 À lire dans l'uniscope: bit.ly/4crARqT
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz♟️Organisée par le vice-doyen Jean-Christophe Graz et la consultante recherche Ellina Mourtazina, la Journée annuelle de la recherche de la Faculté des SSP s’est penchée sur la notion d’échec, rarement mise en perspective. À lire dans le rapport annuel de l'UNIL - wp.unil.ch/rapport-annu...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz‼️ Save the date ‼️ On 🗓️June 13 at 🕕6pm, Prof. Dr. Grégoire Mallard will give a lecture on "Viral governance - How unilateral US sanctions changed the rules of financial capitalism" 📍Location: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Ludwigstr. 23, Room 151
- Un tout grand merci à l’ensemble des participant·es pour ces partages d’expériences et réflexions critiques sur la notion d'échec. Une fois encore, ce rendez-vous annuel a mis en lumière la pluralité des activités et expériences de recherche au sein de la Faculté !
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz"All this is leading to the emergence of new economic divides between those who control the means of summarization, and those whose properties or livelihood risks being summarized into effective non-existence." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazLa Journée des Masters du 5 mars est faite pour vous! Elle vous permet d’assister aux présentations des différents Masters de l’UNIL et des Masters conjoints avec la HES-SO et la HEP Vaud. Ouverte à toutes et tous, sur inscription wp.unil.ch/journee-mast... (@fdca-unil.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazAs we explain, “decisions and actions in times of ecological crisis must be taken, but given the situation of true uncertainty, they must be taken through the exercise of judgement, as well as with ‘prudence and humility’ (Knight, 1921: 375).” 9/9
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazWe consider crises as critical moments when international actors must act while facing the problem of uncertainty & we show that IR studies struggle to sort out the processes underpinning decisions and actions taken in such crisis moments. 2/9
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz3) Finally, new developments in green central banking, particularly the “Green Swan” report by BIS are illustrations of Knight’s exercise of judgment in acknowledging the true uncertainty of future states of the world. 7/9
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz2) Recent financial sustainability reporting standards of the IFRS Foundation bring the ecological crisis into the realm of Knightian statistical probabilities. 6/9
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz1) The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting of the UN which provides biophysical statistics for environmental dimensions of economic activities is close to what Knight calls “estimates of probability”. 5/9
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- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazFantastic to see this out! In our O/A article with @jcgraz.bsky.social in @ejir.bsky.social, we draw on Frank Knight’s analysis to explain how international actors claim reliable knowledge for shaping future states of the world in times of crisis. A short 🧵 1/9
- While the term ‘polycrisis' has gained currency to define the world we live in, how do international actors face uncertainty in times of crisis? Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
- Getting this paper out was a hard nut to crack! Great indeed to to see it out! 🙏 @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & @ejir.bsky.social
- While the term ‘polycrisis' has gained currency to define the world we live in, how do international actors face uncertainty in times of crisis? Read about it in @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social and @jcgraz.bsky.social ‘s new EJIR article: t1p.de/yvt6w
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz12/ As the article concludes: “we hope that professors and researchers elsewhere can build upon Atlantic Diagonals to eventually produce and diffuse new, pluralist, and decentred knowledge beyond the anglosphere and spark interest in further collaborative teaching avenues.”
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz11/ Not only the toolkit is described in the article, but we also make the syllabi and evaluation grids in French and Spanish available in appendices. Above all, do not hesitate to contact us if you want to reproduce the experiment, and maybe collaborate in the future!
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz10/ Obviously, we encountered many challenges, most of them related to communication and logistical issues, not only with students, but also between the teaching team. But at the end, none was unsurmountable!
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz9/ Does it globalize IPE teaching? While it offers IPE resources beyond the anglosphere, the class provides a pluralist, participative, and globally-oriented introduction to the field and potentially foster a more inclusive discipline in the future.
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- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz6/ So, what is the Diagonal? A one-semester IPE course taught in 2019 and 2022 at Universidad de los Andes & Université de Lausanne, leading to French & Spanish entries for an IPE glossary published online. Interested in reproducing? The article gives you the toolkit.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz5/ Our proposition echoes efforts to promote a global perspective in education, beyond just knowledge, originating in the 1970 @unesconow.bsky.social Faure report that denounced “dangerously provincial” national curricula. We develop six competences required for globalizing IPE teaching.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz4/ Students engage actively in the production of multi-situated knowledge; experiment with group work in a multilingual environment; and bring their own experiences and perspectives to a field dominated by worldviews from the anglosphere.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz3/ Atlantic Diagonal is a classroom activity for drafting an online multilingual glossary of IPE by groups of students based in different universities & geographical, political, economic and cultural contexts.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe Graz2/ Despite calls for globalizing IPE and its teaching, so far few concrete examples apart from proposals to include more diversified readings in the syllabi. Globalizing the syllabi is not enough! Teaching practices also count.
- Reposted by Jean-Christophe GrazVery happy to see our article in RIPE pedagogical section published with @jcgraz.bsky.social JM Chenou & C Urrego-Sandoval! We propose concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom through student-led activities. 🧵 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
