Swiss Air Traffic Policy: Noise Between Berne and Berlin

Elsig, Manfred (2006). Swiss Air Traffic Policy: Noise Between Berne and Berlin. Swiss political science review / Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 12(3), pp. 35-62. Wiley

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This article looks at the negotiations between Switzerland and Germany on air traffic regulation with the help of negotiation analysis tools. A number of factors pre-eminent in the literature on negotiation processes and outcomes are presented and critically assessed. In particular arguments of “power”, which are often insufficiently explored in analysing interstate cooperation, are brought back into the picture. The article argues that structural power best explains the negotiation results while domestic politics and information asymmetries both account for non-ratification of the treaty. Institutionalist arguments on the constraining effects of international norms and institutions as well as explanations focusing on negotiation skills are of minor importance. Moreover, the nature of the Swiss intra-governmental setting at the federal level did not encourage the Swiss negotiators to exploit all means during the different stages of the bargaining process. The article concludes by illuminating a number of policy observations in the broader context of Swiss foreign relations and indicating avenues for further research

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute
10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > NCCR International Trade Regulation

UniBE Contributor:

Elsig, Manfred

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation

ISSN:

1424-7755

Publisher:

Wiley

Language:

English

Submitter:

Manfred Elsig

Date Deposited:

09 Sep 2014 15:46

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:32

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.49422

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/49422

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