Problems of neutrality: Swiss diplomatic documents, 1939–45

Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.13 (1939–1940), edited by Jean‐François Bergier and André Jäggi (with the collaboration of Marc Perrenoud). Berne: Benteli Verlag, 1991. cvii + 1098 pp. 6 annexes. Sw.Fr.150. ISBN 3–7165–0725–3.

Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.14 (1941–1943), edited by Antoine Fleury, Mauro Cerutti and Marc Perrenoud. Berne: Benteli Verlag, 1997. cxxxi + 1400 pp., 3 annexes. Sw.Fr.165. ISBN 3–7165–0849–7.

Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.15 (1943–1945), edited by Philippe Marguerat and Louis‐Edouard Roulet with Roland Blättler, Catherine Krüttli‐Tüscher, Marc Perrenoud and Maurice Peretti and Marie‐Jeanne Steiner. Berne: Benteli Verlag, 1992. cv + 1200 pp. 3 annexes. Sw.Fr.160. ISBN 3–7165–0843–8.

Das Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und seine Bestände, edited by Klaus Urner, Marie‐Claire Däniker, Thomas Ehrsam and Claudia Hoerschelmann. Zurich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung Verlag, 1999. 360 pp. Sw.Fr. 40. DM52. ISBN 3–85823–763–9.     

Dimock's naturalistic ethics

Between 1937 and 1958 Marshall Dimock developed a naturalistic account of the administrative function. This account emphasized an organic and instrumentalist account of ethics which was akin to American pragmatism in its ontological assumptions, vocabulary, and conceptualization. His theory was self-consciously aimed at identifying and responding to the problems of an administrative theory and practice plagued by dichotomies. Through an organizational leadership comprised of a moral elite, Dimock hoped to integrate the processes of administration and value creation.