The New Media Diva

That’s CSS Researcher Daniel Möckli and me preparing to record the podcast on Switzerland’s Middle East policy and the controversy surrounding it:

A Swiss company’s recent signing of a gas deal with Iran – a move supported by the Swiss Foreign Ministry – is just the latest in a number of measures that have irked an international community intent on isolating the Islamic Republic. The deal, along with Switzerland’s record of diplomacy concerning militant Islamic organizations, highlights the gap between its Middle East policy and that of the EU and the US.

Even though Switzerland’s reasons for its approach are noble, some believe that its willingness to engage controversial actors in the Middle East has led to an incoherent policy.

In the latest edition of CSS Analyses, Daniel Möckli examines Switzerland’s Middle East policy, the issues surrounding it and whether its method of bridge-building does more harm than good, as the critics would have us believe.

Check it out here. The first podcast, Superdelegates explained, is here.