Switzerland: International Studies and Multilateral Diplomacy -- Summer

Faculty and Staff

Gyula Csurgai, Ph.D., Academic Director
Gyula Csurgai was born in Hungary and holds Swiss and Canadian citizenship. He is married and has two children. He holds university degrees in political science from Concordia University, Canada and the University of Toulouse, France. He obtained two master’s degrees from the University of Geneva and a diploma in French language and civilization. He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Geneva, completing his thesis in geopolitics.

Dr. Csurgai was a scientific collaborator at the Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI) and has taught international relations, geopolitics, and geo-economics in undergraduate, master’s, and doctorate programs at several universities. Dr. Csurgai has organized six international symposiums and directed the publications of its proceedings. He has participated in several international research projects and has provided expertise to a number of international organizations. He has been collaborating with the SIT Study Abroad program in Geneva since 1997 and became the program’s academic director in January 2002.

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Recent publications include:

“Identity Conflicts, Nationalism and Geopolitics in Central and South-East Europe”, in Webster Security Forum, Webster University, Geneva, 2010
“Geo-Economic Rivalries of States”, in Nigel Young (editor in chief), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace: Oxford, 2010.
“Constant and Variable Factors of Geopolitical Analysis”, in Geopolitics: Schools of Thought, Method of Analysis and Case Studies, Gyula Csurgai (ed.), Edition de Penthes, Geneva, 2009
“Sovereign Wealth Funds: Strategies of Geo-Economic Power Projections”, in Otto Hieronymi (ed.), Globalization and the Reform of the International and Banking and Monetary System, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
“Geopolitics, Geo-Economics and Competitive Intelligence in Power Projection Strategies of the State in the 21st Century”, in Conferência Nacional de Política Externa e Política Internacional - o Brasil no mundo que vem aí, Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Brasilia 2008
"The Use of Geopolitical Approach in Analyzing Contemporary Conflicts”, in Globalization of Security Trends and Perspectives, Webster University, Geneva, 2008
L’idée républicaine en Europe Centrale (Republican ideology in Central Europe) in L’idée républicaine dans le monde, (Ed. Emmanuel Dupuy et Paul Baquiast, Harmattan, Paris 2007)
Composantes et caractéristiques de la stratégie de désinformation, (Constituents and characteristics of disinformation strategies) in RMS, Revue Militaire Suisse, Lausanne, March-April 2007
Quelques considérations sur les facteurs géopolitiques de la Suisse (Some Considerations on the Geopolitical Factors of Switzerland) RMS, Lausanne, 2006
Les zones grises des Balkans, (Grey Zones in the Balkans) in Les zones grises dans le monde d’aujourd’hui L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006.
Les enjeux géopolitiques des ressources naturelles (Geopolitical stakes of natural resources), L’Age d’Homme, Lausanne, 2006
La nation et ses territoires en Europe centrale Une approche géopolitique, (The Nation and its territories in Central Europe, A geopolitical Approach) Peter LANG, Bern, 2005

Dr. Alexandre Lambert, Academic Director

Alexandre Lambert, Ph.D., Academic Director
Alexandre Lambert is Swiss and holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Graduate Institute). He has been an academic director and professor with the SIT Geneva program since 2007. Mr. Lambert has been the lead researcher with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, project officer at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and civil servant at the Swiss Federal Department of Defense. He belongs to a number of nonprofit civil society organizations, such as the Swiss Foreign Policy Association, the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), and the European Research Group on Armed Forces and Society (ERGOAS). He is also a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS) based in Chicago and is frequently providing independent policy advice to the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC), including in the context of its regional operations in the Western Balkans, South Caucasus, and Central Asia. Dr. Lambert has published mainly in the field of international politics and history, international security, and security sector governance.

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Books:

Democratic Civilian Control of Armed Forces in the Post-Cold War Era, Berlin/London/Wien/Münster/Zürich (LIT: DCAF), 2009
Jacques -Alexis Lambert: Professeur de Lénine, Témoignage de la Révolution Russe, Serie: Suisses dans le Monde (no. 4), Edition de Penthes/Infolio, Geneva 2009.
Democratic Governance of the Security Sector Beyond the OSCE Area: Regional Approaches in Africa and the Americas, Berlin/London/Wien/Münster/Zürich (LIT: DCAF), 2007 (co-editor)
The OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security: Anatomy and Implementation, Leiden/Boston (Martinus Nijhoff), 2005, (co-author)
OSZE-Verhaltenskodex zu Politisch-Militärischen Aspekten der Sicherheit: Zur Rolle der Streitkräfte in Demokratischen Gesellschaften, Center for Security Studies (CSS), Zürcher Beiträge (No. 71), Zurich, 200; free download
Menschenrechte und Ihre Philosophische Begründung: Ein Vergleich Zwischen Otfried Höffe und Jürgen Habermas, ISBN 2-8399-0070-X, Zürich/Genf, 1997/2005.

Main Articles:

International Security, in: Nigel Young (editor in chief), The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace: Oxford, January 2010.
Democracy by Force, in: James Forest & Isaiah Wilson (eds.), Handbook of Defense Politics: International and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge 2008, 46-63
Comprehensive Security in Response to New Threats, in: Alexandre Vautravers (ed.): Globalization of Security Trends and Perspectives (Security Forum 2007), Geneva (Webster University), 2008, 214-239.
Democratic Security Governance and Multilateral Cooperation: The European Approach, in: Vincent Chetail (ed.): Conflicts, Security and Cooperation (Liber Amicorum Victor-Yves Ghébali), Brussels: Bruylant, 2007, 429-446.
Implementation of Democratic Control of Armed Forces in the OSCE Region: Lessons from the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security, DCAF, Occasional Papers, No. 11, Geneva, Geneva, 2006; free download
Les interventions militaires de l’Union Européenne dans les Balkans, in : Revue Relations Internationales, No. 125 (2006), 59-72 ;Categorization of Democratic Civilian Control, DCAF, Working Papers, No. 164 (2005); free download.
Categorization of Democratic Civilian Control, DCAF, Working Papers, No. 164 (2005); free download at: http://www.dcaf.ch/_docs/WP164.pdf.
The Contribution of the OSCE to the International Fight Against Terrorism, Graduate Institute, Program for the Study of International Organizations, Occasional Paper 1 (2003), 111-124.