Jean‐christophe Graz
Biographic Data
| ID | 846162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean‐christophe Graz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean‐christophe |
| FAMILY NAME | Graz |
| SIGNATURE | GRAZ J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5583-8332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Globalize IPE, not just the syllabi! Virtual classrooms interactions and the making of the Atlantic Diagonals glossary
How do we as scholars and instructors globalize International Political Economy (IPE) teaching beyond the syllabi? This pedagogical intervention proposes a concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom and through student-led activities based on courses taught during two semesters at the Universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). We present the making of a multilingual glossary of IPE drafted by groups of s…
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: A Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world
How do we face uncertainty in times of crisis? Debates in International Relations often struggle to disentangle the processes involved in turning the uncertainty of a crisis into decisions and actions. Drawing on the analysis of Frank H. Knight, we argue that decisions and actions taken by international actors in times of crisis are underpinned by the way that information is accessed, interpreted, and evaluated in order to claim reliable knowledg…
Pooling and repooling risk: The limits of Insurtech platforms in inclusive insurance
This article investigates the promise of Insurtech to expand the frontier of the insurance market to include vulnerable populations around the world. It contributes to current debates on the proliferation of new technologies for financial inclusion as embedded in contemporary forms of platform-based capitalism. We argue that Insurtech's promises fall short of expectations because of the contradiction between the principles of platform scalability…
Do Labour Standards Improve Employment Relationships in Global Production Networks? A Cross-sector Study in Brazil
Research on private regulation of labour standards in global production networks often highlights their continuing failure despite the fact that lead firms no longer consider them as mere window dressing. Fewer analyses delve into their on-the-ground effectiveness to benefit workers. This article joins a context-specific approach with quantitative analysis to examine whether labour standards used in private regulation improve employment relations…
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers' Capacity to Act
Despite decades of growing engagement, there are still questions about the effectiveness of transnational private regulation in labour standards to improve employee welfare in global production networks. The literature shows that some improvement may be expected in outcome standards, such as benefits, working time, health and safety issues, but not necessarily in process rights, such as freedom of association, collective bargaining and employment…
Grounding the Politics of Transnational Private Governance: Introduction to the Special Section
With a focus on the concept of grounding, this special section argues that the politics of transnational private governance should be understood in the double meaning of, on the one hand, its local implementation and, on the other hand, practices of political contestation and translation. The concept of grounding thus allows for a localised focus on practices used by actors in transnational private governance. By doing so, we hope to make three c…
Is the sky or the earth the limit? Risk, uncertainty and nature
Dealing with uncertainty has become a matter of great concern for policy makers and scientific research in a world facing global, epochal and complex changes. But in essence, you cannot entirely predict the future. This article aims at conceptualizing the limits to anticipate the future – or what is often referred as the substitution of risk for uncertainty. In contrast to most theories examining risk and uncertainty, we start from the assumption…
Translating Technical Diplomacy: The Participation of Civil Society Organisations in International Standardisation
This article examines the participation of civil society organisations (CSO) in the various arenas of global governance with focus on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). While diverse studies recognise the difficulty of CSOs’ participation despite the growing importance of standards in the organisation of markets, little attention has been paid to how such involvement is likely to be reinforced in what we call “technical dip…
Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arguments, compelling research and surprising evidence o…
International Political Economy (IPE) meets International Political Sociology (IPS)
This forum opens a debate that is long overdue: for far too long, the fields of international political sociology (IPS) and international political economy (IPE) have been standing apart. Discussions take place in different conference sections, in different networks that publish in different journals. Yet, this divide is surprising given that the two fields share similar trajectories, theoretical concerns, problématiques, and conceptual challenge…
Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development
Transnational Authority in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Who Sets the Standards of ICT Training and Certification
This article examines the extent and limits of nonstate forms of authority in international relations. It analyzes how the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for the tradability of services in a global knowledge-based economy relies on informal regulatory practices for the adjustment of ICT-related skills. By focusing on the challenge that highly volatile and short-lived cycles of demands for this type of knowledge pose…
Informal Institutions and Global Inequalities in the Service Industry
The extent to which the era of globalization differs from growing political and economic convergence has prompted contentious debates over the last two decades. From a global and long-term perspect
Gare aux hybrides: Mythes et réalités de la gouvernance de la mondialisation
Les approches en termes de gouvernance ne donnent pas une explication cohérente du pouvoir consacré par l’émergence d’acteurs non étatiques sur la scène mondiale. Or, le terme d’ hybride peut contribuer de façon spécifique au débat sur la mondialisation du capitalisme. Dans la mythologie, les créatures hybrides se caractérisent par une ambiguïté ontologique et une ambivalence émotionnelle. En associant ces enseignements avec les approches hétérod…
Les hybrides de la mondialisation: Acteurs, objets et espaces de l'économie politique internationale
La notion d’hybride est souvent utilisée dans les analyses consacrées au rôle croissant des acteurs non étatiques et des mécanismes informels de transformation du pouvoir dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Mais elle n’est jamais conceptualisée en tant que telle. Dans le prolongement des approches hétérodoxes en économie politique internationale, cet article pose une réflexion théorique sur le concept d’hybrides de la mondialisation. Le cadre …
Transnational mercantilism and the emergent global trading order
It is often argued that the problems currently facing the World Trade Organization stem from an important shift in the trade agenda from tariff reduction to the harmonisation of domestic regulations considered as non tariff barriers. From this perspective, the lack of harmonisation of domestic regulations severely impairs the capacity of the WTO to fulfil its mission. This article argues, in contrast, that the underlying problems facing the conte…
How Powerful are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum
This article analyses the extent and nature of private authority in global political economy by examining one of its most publicised instances, the World Economic Forum (WEF). In Davos, Switzerland, the annual meetings of the WEF have attracted the world economic and political e ́lite for more than 30 years. Appraisals of the WEF diverge widely. For many years, Le Monde Diplomatique, the French monthly close to the anti-neoliberal globalisation m…
Beyond States and Markets: Comparative and Global Political Economy in the Age of Hybrids
(2001). BEYOND STATES AND MARKETS: COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF HYBRIDS. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 739-748
The World Trade Organization, the Environment, and the Ecological Critique
The article examines the way in which environmental issues are testing the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analysis refers to global political economy, and to ecological economics. The first section deals with the handling of the environment. The second is devoted to the ecological critique, and appraises its main proposals. Three particular points are made: (1) The environment did not appear on the agenda of the Uruguay Round. Today, however…
The Future of Seattle and Back
The failure of the WTO Ministerial conference last December to launch a new round of negotiations in trade liberalization has been widely commented upon. While WTO Director-General Mike Moore tries to heal the wounds opened by the battle of Seattle with a line of defense based on problems with communication, major differences among developed countries as well as between them and developing countries remain as substantial as ever
How Powerful are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum
This article analyses the extent and nature of private authority in global political economy by examining one of its most publicised instances, the World Economic Forum (WEF). In Davos, Switzerland, the annual meetings of the WEF have attracted the world economic and political e ́lite for more than 30 years. Appraisals of the WEF diverge widely. For many years, Le Monde Diplomatique, the French monthly close to the anti-neoliberal globalisation m…
Grounding the Politics of Transnational Private Governance: Introduction to the Special Section
With a focus on the concept of grounding, this special section argues that the politics of transnational private governance should be understood in the double meaning of, on the one hand, its local implementation and, on the other hand, practices of political contestation and translation. The concept of grounding thus allows for a localised focus on practices used by actors in transnational private governance. By doing so, we hope to make three c…
Is the sky or the earth the limit? Risk, uncertainty and nature
Dealing with uncertainty has become a matter of great concern for policy makers and scientific research in a world facing global, epochal and complex changes. But in essence, you cannot entirely predict the future. This article aims at conceptualizing the limits to anticipate the future – or what is often referred as the substitution of risk for uncertainty. In contrast to most theories examining risk and uncertainty, we start from the assumption…
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: A Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world
How do we face uncertainty in times of crisis? Debates in International Relations often struggle to disentangle the processes involved in turning the uncertainty of a crisis into decisions and actions. Drawing on the analysis of Frank H. Knight, we argue that decisions and actions taken by international actors in times of crisis are underpinned by the way that information is accessed, interpreted, and evaluated in order to claim reliable knowledg…
International Political Economy (IPE) meets International Political Sociology (IPS)
This forum opens a debate that is long overdue: for far too long, the fields of international political sociology (IPS) and international political economy (IPE) have been standing apart. Discussions take place in different conference sections, in different networks that publish in different journals. Yet, this divide is surprising given that the two fields share similar trajectories, theoretical concerns, problématiques, and conceptual challenge…
Les hybrides de la mondialisation: Acteurs, objets et espaces de l'économie politique internationale
La notion d’hybride est souvent utilisée dans les analyses consacrées au rôle croissant des acteurs non étatiques et des mécanismes informels de transformation du pouvoir dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Mais elle n’est jamais conceptualisée en tant que telle. Dans le prolongement des approches hétérodoxes en économie politique internationale, cet article pose une réflexion théorique sur le concept d’hybrides de la mondialisation. Le cadre …
Transnational mercantilism and the emergent global trading order
It is often argued that the problems currently facing the World Trade Organization stem from an important shift in the trade agenda from tariff reduction to the harmonisation of domestic regulations considered as non tariff barriers. From this perspective, the lack of harmonisation of domestic regulations severely impairs the capacity of the WTO to fulfil its mission. This article argues, in contrast, that the underlying problems facing the conte…
Beyond States and Markets: Comparative and Global Political Economy in the Age of Hybrids
(2001). BEYOND STATES AND MARKETS: COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF HYBRIDS. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 739-748
Globalize IPE, not just the syllabi! Virtual classrooms interactions and the making of the Atlantic Diagonals glossary
How do we as scholars and instructors globalize International Political Economy (IPE) teaching beyond the syllabi? This pedagogical intervention proposes a concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom and through student-led activities based on courses taught during two semesters at the Universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). We present the making of a multilingual glossary of IPE drafted by groups of s…
Pooling and repooling risk: The limits of Insurtech platforms in inclusive insurance
This article investigates the promise of Insurtech to expand the frontier of the insurance market to include vulnerable populations around the world. It contributes to current debates on the proliferation of new technologies for financial inclusion as embedded in contemporary forms of platform-based capitalism. We argue that Insurtech's promises fall short of expectations because of the contradiction between the principles of platform scalability…
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers' Capacity to Act
Despite decades of growing engagement, there are still questions about the effectiveness of transnational private regulation in labour standards to improve employee welfare in global production networks. The literature shows that some improvement may be expected in outcome standards, such as benefits, working time, health and safety issues, but not necessarily in process rights, such as freedom of association, collective bargaining and employment…
Transnational Authority in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Who Sets the Standards of ICT Training and Certification
This article examines the extent and limits of nonstate forms of authority in international relations. It analyzes how the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for the tradability of services in a global knowledge-based economy relies on informal regulatory practices for the adjustment of ICT-related skills. By focusing on the challenge that highly volatile and short-lived cycles of demands for this type of knowledge pose…
The World Trade Organization, the Environment, and the Ecological Critique
The article examines the way in which environmental issues are testing the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analysis refers to global political economy, and to ecological economics. The first section deals with the handling of the environment. The second is devoted to the ecological critique, and appraises its main proposals. Three particular points are made: (1) The environment did not appear on the agenda of the Uruguay Round. Today, however…
The Future of Seattle and Back
The failure of the WTO Ministerial conference last December to launch a new round of negotiations in trade liberalization has been widely commented upon. While WTO Director-General Mike Moore tries to heal the wounds opened by the battle of Seattle with a line of defense based on problems with communication, major differences among developed countries as well as between them and developing countries remain as substantial as ever
Beyond States and Markets: Comparative and Global Political Economy in the Age of Hybrids
(2001). BEYOND STATES AND MARKETS: COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF HYBRIDS. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 739-748
The World Trade Organization, the Environment, and the Ecological Critique
The article examines the way in which environmental issues are testing the World Trade Organization (WTO). The analysis refers to global political economy, and to ecological economics. The first section deals with the handling of the environment. The second is devoted to the ecological critique, and appraises its main proposals. Three particular points are made: (1) The environment did not appear on the agenda of the Uruguay Round. Today, however…
How Powerful are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum
This article analyses the extent and nature of private authority in global political economy by examining one of its most publicised instances, the World Economic Forum (WEF). In Davos, Switzerland, the annual meetings of the WEF have attracted the world economic and political e ́lite for more than 30 years. Appraisals of the WEF diverge widely. For many years, Le Monde Diplomatique, the French monthly close to the anti-neoliberal globalisation m…
Transnational mercantilism and the emergent global trading order
It is often argued that the problems currently facing the World Trade Organization stem from an important shift in the trade agenda from tariff reduction to the harmonisation of domestic regulations considered as non tariff barriers. From this perspective, the lack of harmonisation of domestic regulations severely impairs the capacity of the WTO to fulfil its mission. This article argues, in contrast, that the underlying problems facing the conte…
Les hybrides de la mondialisation: Acteurs, objets et espaces de l'économie politique internationale
La notion d’hybride est souvent utilisée dans les analyses consacrées au rôle croissant des acteurs non étatiques et des mécanismes informels de transformation du pouvoir dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Mais elle n’est jamais conceptualisée en tant que telle. Dans le prolongement des approches hétérodoxes en économie politique internationale, cet article pose une réflexion théorique sur le concept d’hybrides de la mondialisation. Le cadre …
Gare aux hybrides: Mythes et réalités de la gouvernance de la mondialisation
Les approches en termes de gouvernance ne donnent pas une explication cohérente du pouvoir consacré par l’émergence d’acteurs non étatiques sur la scène mondiale. Or, le terme d’ hybride peut contribuer de façon spécifique au débat sur la mondialisation du capitalisme. Dans la mythologie, les créatures hybrides se caractérisent par une ambiguïté ontologique et une ambivalence émotionnelle. En associant ces enseignements avec les approches hétérod…
Informal Institutions and Global Inequalities in the Service Industry
The extent to which the era of globalization differs from growing political and economic convergence has prompted contentious debates over the last two decades. From a global and long-term perspect
Transnational Authority in the Knowledge-Based Economy: Who Sets the Standards of ICT Training and Certification
This article examines the extent and limits of nonstate forms of authority in international relations. It analyzes how the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for the tradability of services in a global knowledge-based economy relies on informal regulatory practices for the adjustment of ICT-related skills. By focusing on the challenge that highly volatile and short-lived cycles of demands for this type of knowledge pose…
Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development
Translating Technical Diplomacy: The Participation of Civil Society Organisations in International Standardisation
This article examines the participation of civil society organisations (CSO) in the various arenas of global governance with focus on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). While diverse studies recognise the difficulty of CSOs’ participation despite the growing importance of standards in the organisation of markets, little attention has been paid to how such involvement is likely to be reinforced in what we call “technical dip…
Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services
Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arguments, compelling research and surprising evidence o…
International Political Economy (IPE) meets International Political Sociology (IPS)
This forum opens a debate that is long overdue: for far too long, the fields of international political sociology (IPS) and international political economy (IPE) have been standing apart. Discussions take place in different conference sections, in different networks that publish in different journals. Yet, this divide is surprising given that the two fields share similar trajectories, theoretical concerns, problématiques, and conceptual challenge…
Is the sky or the earth the limit? Risk, uncertainty and nature
Dealing with uncertainty has become a matter of great concern for policy makers and scientific research in a world facing global, epochal and complex changes. But in essence, you cannot entirely predict the future. This article aims at conceptualizing the limits to anticipate the future – or what is often referred as the substitution of risk for uncertainty. In contrast to most theories examining risk and uncertainty, we start from the assumption…
Grounding the Politics of Transnational Private Governance: Introduction to the Special Section
With a focus on the concept of grounding, this special section argues that the politics of transnational private governance should be understood in the double meaning of, on the one hand, its local implementation and, on the other hand, practices of political contestation and translation. The concept of grounding thus allows for a localised focus on practices used by actors in transnational private governance. By doing so, we hope to make three c…
Labour Standards in Global Production Networks: Assessing Transnational Private Regulation and Workers' Capacity to Act
Despite decades of growing engagement, there are still questions about the effectiveness of transnational private regulation in labour standards to improve employee welfare in global production networks. The literature shows that some improvement may be expected in outcome standards, such as benefits, working time, health and safety issues, but not necessarily in process rights, such as freedom of association, collective bargaining and employment…
Do Labour Standards Improve Employment Relationships in Global Production Networks? A Cross-sector Study in Brazil
Research on private regulation of labour standards in global production networks often highlights their continuing failure despite the fact that lead firms no longer consider them as mere window dressing. Fewer analyses delve into their on-the-ground effectiveness to benefit workers. This article joins a context-specific approach with quantitative analysis to examine whether labour standards used in private regulation improve employment relations…
Globalize IPE, not just the syllabi! Virtual classrooms interactions and the making of the Atlantic Diagonals glossary
How do we as scholars and instructors globalize International Political Economy (IPE) teaching beyond the syllabi? This pedagogical intervention proposes a concrete way to globalize IPE teaching in the classroom and through student-led activities based on courses taught during two semesters at the Universities of Lausanne (Switzerland) and Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia). We present the making of a multilingual glossary of IPE drafted by groups of s…
Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: A Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world
How do we face uncertainty in times of crisis? Debates in International Relations often struggle to disentangle the processes involved in turning the uncertainty of a crisis into decisions and actions. Drawing on the analysis of Frank H. Knight, we argue that decisions and actions taken by international actors in times of crisis are underpinned by the way that information is accessed, interpreted, and evaluated in order to claim reliable knowledg…
Pooling and repooling risk: The limits of Insurtech platforms in inclusive insurance
This article investigates the promise of Insurtech to expand the frontier of the insurance market to include vulnerable populations around the world. It contributes to current debates on the proliferation of new technologies for financial inclusion as embedded in contemporary forms of platform-based capitalism. We argue that Insurtech's promises fall short of expectations because of the contradiction between the principles of platform scalability…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Business (5 works)