Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945–2002

Gabriel, Jürg Martin; Fischer, Thomas B.

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“…This fact might explain why, between the two Intifadas, Israeli intelligence decided to carry out an espionage operation and violate Swiss political neutrality (on Swiss foreign policy, see Bernath et al, 2004;Gabriel and Fischer, 2003).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…According to Neville (2006: 798), 'the high proportion of resident foreigners, coupled with the large number of foreign organizations based in the country, inevitably makes Switzerland an attractive environment for terrorist groups.' This fact might explain why, between the two Intifadas, Israeli intelligence decided to carry out an espionage operation and violate Swiss political neutrality (on Swiss foreign policy, see Bernath et al, 2004;Gabriel and Fischer, 2003).…”

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Silencing the agenda? Journalism practices and intelligence events: A case study

Herfroy-Mischler

2015

Media, War & Conflict

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This article is a response to theoretical and methodological gaps witnessed in both journalism and intelligence literature. The goal of this research is to better our understanding of journalistic practices when covering intelligence-related events. National and international news agencies' coverage of the failed Mossad operation in Bern in 1998 serves as an empirical case. The article discusses the benefit of grounded theory as a bottom-up inductive qualitative coding method to address these methodological gaps, and provides an empirical study that traces the evolution of the news coverage of the Bern operation, rather than merely studying the content of the final news product. Results challenge three main theoretical areas: journalist-source relationships, agenda setting, and framing. Concerning the journalist-source relationship, the article shows that, in cases of intelligence events, newsworthiness criteria depend on what other media know about the story rather than publicizing new facts. Moreover, quantitative and qualitative analyses of sources show that, in cases of leaked information, the longer that time has passed, people, media, and officials are less willing to give sourced information. Regarding agenda setting theory, this study suggests that struggles between media, statecraft, and intelligence whilst covering leaks should be conceived as 'agenda-silencing', where the purpose of media coverage is also to communicate and legitimize silences orchestrated by security and intelligence censorship. Finally, the data suggest that the concept of framing is altered in case of intelligence-related events. In fact, the framing relies mostly on hypotheses of interpretation which media are not able to assert openly due to various types of censorship.

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confidence: 96%

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Silencing the agenda? Journalism practices and intelligence events: A case study

Herfroy-Mischler

2015

Media, War & Conflict

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“…In 2002, Switzerland decided by a popular vote to become a member of the UN. Neutrality is no longer an obstacle for participation in economic sanctions or peace-keeping operations, if decided by a universal organisation such as the UN (Kux 1994;Gabriel 1995;Gabriel and Fischer 2003). democracy-such ideas were brought to Switzerland through the French Revolution-and while finding their modern form of democratic government, Swiss and US constitutionalists were mutually influenced.…”

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Building a Multicultural Society by Political Integration

Linder¹,

Mueller²

2021

Swiss Democracy

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This chapter explains how, despite the absence of single ethnic culture, Swiss state- and nation-building was possible. Neither the Swiss nation, nor the Swiss society existed when modern Switzerland was founded in 1848, after a brief civil war. The chapter provides a reading of Swiss history since then as one of gradually achieving the participation of the most important minority groups and the different social classes through proportional representation. Beginning with the losers of the civil war, the Catholic-Conservatives, followed by Protestant farmers and the petite bourgeoise, and ending with the Social-Democrats, the Swiss thus invented the ‘magic formula’ in 1959 for proportionally sharing the seven seats in the federal government. Even the rise of right-wing populism since the 1990s has not changed this basic feature.

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“…Neither did the party political composition of Swiss government change throughout the whole period of investigation. Globalization is often cited as an explanation for general changes in Swiss foreign policy, as well as for the changed attitude toward economic sanctions in the Iraq case (Gabriel & Fischer, 2003; Goetschel et al., 2005). That cannot explain the contrasting policies or the underlying distinct beliefs, as globalization is present in both cases.…”

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Policy Change and Policy Stasis: Comparing Swiss Foreign Policy toward South Africa (1968-94) and Iraq (1990-91)

Hirschi

Widmer

2010

Policy Studies Journal

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This article investigates how concepts from the field of public policy, in particular the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) initially introduced by Sabatier and Jenkins‐Smith, can be applied to the study of foreign policy analysis. Using a most similar comparative case studies design, we examine Switzerland's foreign policy toward South Africa under apartheid for the period from 1968 to 1994 and compare it with the Swiss position toward Iraq after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when the Swiss government imposed—for the first time—comprehensive economic sanctions against another state. The application of the ACF shows that a dominant advocacy coalition in Swiss foreign policy toward South Africa prevented a major policy change in Swiss–South African relations despite external pressure from the international and national political levels. Actually, quite the opposite could be observed: Swiss foreign policy increased its persistence in not taking economic sanctions against the racist regime in South Africa during the 1980s and early 1990s. The ACF, with its analytical focus on policy subsystems and the role of external shocks as potential triggers for change, provided a useful framework for analyzing the factors for policy change and stasis in Swiss foreign relations toward the selected two countries.

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Swiss Foreign Policy, 1945–2002

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Silencing the agenda? Journalism practices and intelligence events: A case study

Silencing the agenda? Journalism practices and intelligence events: A case study

Building a Multicultural Society by Political Integration

Policy Change and Policy Stasis: Comparing Swiss Foreign Policy toward South Africa (1968-94) and Iraq (1990-91)

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