Valbona Muzaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 938411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valbona Muzaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valbona |
| FAMILY NAME | Muzaka |
| SIGNATURE | MUZAKA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3268-9506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Of time, whales, and other assets
This Perspective offers some reflections on how multiple times are entangled in the current moment of living on a planet pushed beyond its limits and the way in which the present instability provides the basis not for radical action but for continued speculation and value creation. Promising to turn living whales into assets, the whale bond – an idea towards which various some private actors have quietly been working for some years – is one of th…
Peripheral voices
We ask how women are faring in the field of international trade both as knowledge producers and as policy-makers, with a focus on the former. This is an important question in light of the increased, if belated, attention paid to the gendered impact of international trade rules and of the gendered nature of academia. Using article publishing as a proxy for international trade scholarship, we create a unique dataset consisting of trade-related arti…
Trademarks as an indicator of innovation
Stealing the common from the goose
The emergence of Farmers' Rights in international law is closely related to the “seed wars” at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) during the 1980s. Recognizing the plant innovations of farmers everywhere, these rights represented a countervailing measure against increasing pressures to protect commercial plant breeders' rights around the world. Nearly three decades later, the intellectual property rights of plant breeders, internation…
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
India and Brazil in pursuit of the competitive knowledge economy
The aim of this article is twofold: first, it seeks to address the question of why the competitive knowledge economy orientation that emerged in certain economically advanced states as a response to the crisis of Fordism came to be embraced by the Indian and the Brazilian states from the late 1980s onwards. Second, it aims to elucidate the manner in which the goal of becoming competitive knowledge economies has been articulated and implemented lo…
Interrupted Constructions
Officially launched in 2007, Brazil's health-industrial complex can be seen as an institutional innovation that seeks to overcome social inequality in health care, dependency on foreign technology, and weaknesses in the national innovation and productive structures. An analysis adopting a historical perspective and deploying Celso Furtado's concept of the marginalization-modernization polarity shows how misarticulated social and economic policies…
Lessons from Brazil
A number of developing countries that are often referred to as emerging economies have turned their attention to addressing their public health issues in more comprehensive and systematic ways. One of the most notable recent additions to the ranks of these countries is India, where consultations about building a universal health care system have been going on since 2015. While the trajectory of this particular initiative and similar ones elsewher…
A dialogic approach to understanding regime conflicts
Despite the fact that early work on international regimes conceptualised them as dialogic in nature, this fundamental regime property has remained relatively underdeveloped. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle, this article proposes a dialogic framework for understanding regimes and the political struggles that constitute them. Focusing on the contextual and relational properties of signification processes within a regime, one o…
The state as facilitator and legitimator of ‘new’ capital accumulation
Doha stalemate
This article challenges conventional narratives that suggest that the travails in the Doha Round, the shift to bilateral free trade agreements, and the broader unfolding of the global crisis collectively presage the decline of either the WTO or the broader institution of multilateral trade. We question the extent to which recent trends can indeed be said to constitute a genuine crisis of trade multilateralism by reflecting upon the contradictory …
Prizes for Pharmaceuticals? Mitigating the social ineffectiveness of the current pharmaceutical patent arrangement
We routinely refer to pharmaceutical patents as intellectual property rights. The argument in this article is that pharmaceutical patents represent a ‘bargain’ between government, business and society. The pharmaceutical patent system constitutes a social institution with social goals that go well beyond solely providing incentives to proprietary pharmaceutical companies to develop innovative drugs. Therefore we need to assess this institution in…
Intellectual property protection and European ‘competitiveness
Compared to the US, the European Union is often depicted as having adopted a ‘soft' approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs), despite the substantial role it has played in the ratcheting up of IPR standards. This article counters this view by showing how ‘competitiveness' discourses from the late 1970s onwards have legitimised a ‘more = better' IP strategy both within and without Europe. By revisiting how earlier concerns about European co…
Contradictions, frames and reproductions
This article takes as its starting point the emergence of the so-called Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2004. It seeks to provide a diachronic view of the origins of the Agenda that goes beyond understanding it simply as an effort by some developing countries and civil society actors to bring about organisational change at WIPO. Building upon insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that …
Linkages, contests and overlaps in the global intellectual property rights regime
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) ultimately delineate the way in which knowledge is created, owned, controlled and diffused, domestically and now globally. They have always been contested because knowledge is both a form of capital and a public good, but these contests have become more acute since the WTO TRIPs Agreement came into force in 1995. As a result of new frames and linkages propelled by various actors between IPRs and other issue-are…
Shaping Global Rules
Developing Countries and the Struggle on the Access to Medicines Front
This paper seeks to put the spotlight on the ongoing contestations in the area of trade negotiations, global intellectual property rights and access to medicines. It aims to shows that these contests are real and have important consequences on how global public health needs are met and on the form and shape of the emerging global IPRs regime. More specifically, it shows how the coalition of some developing countries and international health NGOs …
Linkages, contests and overlaps in the global intellectual property rights regime
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) ultimately delineate the way in which knowledge is created, owned, controlled and diffused, domestically and now globally. They have always been contested because knowledge is both a form of capital and a public good, but these contests have become more acute since the WTO TRIPs Agreement came into force in 1995. As a result of new frames and linkages propelled by various actors between IPRs and other issue-are…
Intellectual property protection and European ‘competitiveness
Compared to the US, the European Union is often depicted as having adopted a ‘soft' approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs), despite the substantial role it has played in the ratcheting up of IPR standards. This article counters this view by showing how ‘competitiveness' discourses from the late 1970s onwards have legitimised a ‘more = better' IP strategy both within and without Europe. By revisiting how earlier concerns about European co…
Contradictions, frames and reproductions
This article takes as its starting point the emergence of the so-called Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2004. It seeks to provide a diachronic view of the origins of the Agenda that goes beyond understanding it simply as an effort by some developing countries and civil society actors to bring about organisational change at WIPO. Building upon insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that …
Doha stalemate
This article challenges conventional narratives that suggest that the travails in the Doha Round, the shift to bilateral free trade agreements, and the broader unfolding of the global crisis collectively presage the decline of either the WTO or the broader institution of multilateral trade. We question the extent to which recent trends can indeed be said to constitute a genuine crisis of trade multilateralism by reflecting upon the contradictory …
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
Shaping Global Rules
Developing Countries and the Struggle on the Access to Medicines Front
This paper seeks to put the spotlight on the ongoing contestations in the area of trade negotiations, global intellectual property rights and access to medicines. It aims to shows that these contests are real and have important consequences on how global public health needs are met and on the form and shape of the emerging global IPRs regime. More specifically, it shows how the coalition of some developing countries and international health NGOs …
India and Brazil in pursuit of the competitive knowledge economy
The aim of this article is twofold: first, it seeks to address the question of why the competitive knowledge economy orientation that emerged in certain economically advanced states as a response to the crisis of Fordism came to be embraced by the Indian and the Brazilian states from the late 1980s onwards. Second, it aims to elucidate the manner in which the goal of becoming competitive knowledge economies has been articulated and implemented lo…
Interrupted Constructions
Officially launched in 2007, Brazil's health-industrial complex can be seen as an institutional innovation that seeks to overcome social inequality in health care, dependency on foreign technology, and weaknesses in the national innovation and productive structures. An analysis adopting a historical perspective and deploying Celso Furtado's concept of the marginalization-modernization polarity shows how misarticulated social and economic policies…
Shaping Global Rules
Developing Countries and the Struggle on the Access to Medicines Front
This paper seeks to put the spotlight on the ongoing contestations in the area of trade negotiations, global intellectual property rights and access to medicines. It aims to shows that these contests are real and have important consequences on how global public health needs are met and on the form and shape of the emerging global IPRs regime. More specifically, it shows how the coalition of some developing countries and international health NGOs …
Linkages, contests and overlaps in the global intellectual property rights regime
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) ultimately delineate the way in which knowledge is created, owned, controlled and diffused, domestically and now globally. They have always been contested because knowledge is both a form of capital and a public good, but these contests have become more acute since the WTO TRIPs Agreement came into force in 1995. As a result of new frames and linkages propelled by various actors between IPRs and other issue-are…
Intellectual property protection and European ‘competitiveness
Compared to the US, the European Union is often depicted as having adopted a ‘soft' approach to intellectual property rights (IPRs), despite the substantial role it has played in the ratcheting up of IPR standards. This article counters this view by showing how ‘competitiveness' discourses from the late 1970s onwards have legitimised a ‘more = better' IP strategy both within and without Europe. By revisiting how earlier concerns about European co…
Contradictions, frames and reproductions
This article takes as its starting point the emergence of the so-called Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2004. It seeks to provide a diachronic view of the origins of the Agenda that goes beyond understanding it simply as an effort by some developing countries and civil society actors to bring about organisational change at WIPO. Building upon insights from sociological institutionalism, it argues that …
Prizes for Pharmaceuticals? Mitigating the social ineffectiveness of the current pharmaceutical patent arrangement
We routinely refer to pharmaceutical patents as intellectual property rights. The argument in this article is that pharmaceutical patents represent a ‘bargain’ between government, business and society. The pharmaceutical patent system constitutes a social institution with social goals that go well beyond solely providing incentives to proprietary pharmaceutical companies to develop innovative drugs. Therefore we need to assess this institution in…
The state as facilitator and legitimator of ‘new’ capital accumulation
Doha stalemate
This article challenges conventional narratives that suggest that the travails in the Doha Round, the shift to bilateral free trade agreements, and the broader unfolding of the global crisis collectively presage the decline of either the WTO or the broader institution of multilateral trade. We question the extent to which recent trends can indeed be said to constitute a genuine crisis of trade multilateralism by reflecting upon the contradictory …
Lessons from Brazil
A number of developing countries that are often referred to as emerging economies have turned their attention to addressing their public health issues in more comprehensive and systematic ways. One of the most notable recent additions to the ranks of these countries is India, where consultations about building a universal health care system have been going on since 2015. While the trajectory of this particular initiative and similar ones elsewher…
A dialogic approach to understanding regime conflicts
Despite the fact that early work on international regimes conceptualised them as dialogic in nature, this fundamental regime property has remained relatively underdeveloped. Drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle, this article proposes a dialogic framework for understanding regimes and the political struggles that constitute them. Focusing on the contextual and relational properties of signification processes within a regime, one o…
Teaming Up? China, India and Brazil and the Issue of Benefit-Sharing from Genetic Resource Use
This article focuses on an area that has not been systematically addressed but is of crucial importance to China, India and Brazil: the global governance of genetic resources. All three are biodiversity-rich and, ever since biotechnology promised to turn DNA into gold, have been significant players in the genetic-resources regime complex. Shortcomings notwithstanding, the establishment of a new access and benefit-sharing regime constitutes a rare…
India and Brazil in pursuit of the competitive knowledge economy
The aim of this article is twofold: first, it seeks to address the question of why the competitive knowledge economy orientation that emerged in certain economically advanced states as a response to the crisis of Fordism came to be embraced by the Indian and the Brazilian states from the late 1980s onwards. Second, it aims to elucidate the manner in which the goal of becoming competitive knowledge economies has been articulated and implemented lo…
Interrupted Constructions
Officially launched in 2007, Brazil's health-industrial complex can be seen as an institutional innovation that seeks to overcome social inequality in health care, dependency on foreign technology, and weaknesses in the national innovation and productive structures. An analysis adopting a historical perspective and deploying Celso Furtado's concept of the marginalization-modernization polarity shows how misarticulated social and economic policies…
Stealing the common from the goose
The emergence of Farmers' Rights in international law is closely related to the “seed wars” at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) during the 1980s. Recognizing the plant innovations of farmers everywhere, these rights represented a countervailing measure against increasing pressures to protect commercial plant breeders' rights around the world. Nearly three decades later, the intellectual property rights of plant breeders, internation…
Trademarks as an indicator of innovation
Peripheral voices
We ask how women are faring in the field of international trade both as knowledge producers and as policy-makers, with a focus on the former. This is an important question in light of the increased, if belated, attention paid to the gendered impact of international trade rules and of the gendered nature of academia. Using article publishing as a proxy for international trade scholarship, we create a unique dataset consisting of trade-related arti…
Of time, whales, and other assets
This Perspective offers some reflections on how multiple times are entangled in the current moment of living on a planet pushed beyond its limits and the way in which the present instability provides the basis not for radical action but for continued speculation and value creation. Promising to turn living whales into assets, the whale bond – an idea towards which various some private actors have quietly been working for some years – is one of th…
Political science (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · Intellectual Property and Patents (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Intellectual property (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biotechnology and Related Fields (4 works)