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The Relevance of Switzerland for Modern Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ghi̧ta Ionescu
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THIS IS A SPECIAL ISSUE OF OUR JOURNAL AND IT IS THE outcome of a conference held at the Centre Européen de la Culture in Geneva. The Centre was founded in 1947 by Denis de Rougemont, the great Swiss writer, philosopher and European federalist, and directed by him until his death in 1985. Now it has been revived under the presidency of Professor Jacques Freymond, the best-known Swiss political scientist in the world of academia, and himself the author of many classic works on international politics. We want once more to thank the Centre, its present physically and intellectually indefatigable President and its expert staff.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Winter 1988 , pp. 3 - 12
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1988

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1 The conference on the subject ‘Can the Confederatia Helvetica be Imitated?’ was held at the Centre Européen de la Culture, Villa Moynier, 122 rue de Lausanne, Geneva, 2–4 July 1987. The participants were: Professor Jacques Freymond (Geneva) — Chairman, Professor Ghiţa Ionescu (Manchester) — Chairman, Professor Benjamin Barber (Rutgers), Mr Vernon Bogdanor (Oxford), Divisionnaire Gustav Däniker (Berne), Mr Jean Freymond (Geneva), Mr Yves Fricker (Geneva), Mr Eric Gabus (Geneva), Professor Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (Geneva), Professor Christopher Hughes (Leicester), Minister Jakob Kellenberger (Berne), Professor Ulrich Klöti (Zurich), Professor Georg Kreis (Basle), Mr H.B. Kunz (London), Professor Isabel de Madariaga (London), Professor Roland Ruffìeux (Fribourg), Professor Dusan Sidjanski (Geneva), Dr Jonathan Steinberg (Cambridge).

2 Kellenberger, J., ‘Switzerland and European Integration: the Challenges of the Future’, Proceedings of the conference held at the Centre Européen de la Culture, Geneva, 2–4 07 1987 (henceforward Proceedings)Google Scholar.

3 Sidjanski, D., ‘La Suisse face à la Communauté Européenne’, CADMOS, no. 38, 1987, Geneva, pp. 58–76 Google Scholar.

4 Kunz, H.B., ‘From Outlaw to Outsider’, p. 11, Proceedings Google Scholar.

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9 Frei, Daniel, ‘Die internationale Umwelt als Rahmbedingung der Schweizerischen Politik und die Gestellung der Schweizerischen Aussenbeziehungen’, Handbuch Politisches System der Schweiz, vol. I., pp. 465–527 Google Scholar.

10 G. Däniker,‘External Challenges. How to defend a small state? To what extent can the system act as a deterrent?’, Proceedings.

11 Steinberg, op. cit., pp. 49–50.