Master / Licentiates / Dissertations

Here you will find an overview of current and completed PhD and Master's theses in the field of history at Swiss universities. Compiled in collaboration with the Swiss Historical Society (SSH)

You will find copies of the competed works in the library of the university where they were drafted.

Status: 2025/2026

Souveränität durch Kooperation. Die Schweiz und die multilaterale Zusammenarbeit im Zuge der Ölkrise 1973 – 1975

AutorIn Name
Sean
Drechsel
Academic writing genre
Master thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Sacha
Zala
Institution
Historisches Institut
Place
Bern
Year
2022/2023
Abstract

Im Herbst 1973 beschlossen die Länder der OPEC und der OAPEC eine unilaterale Erhöhung des Erdölpreises und Produktionskürzungen. Die Auswirkungen dieser Massnahmen führten more...

Sovereign Debt Defaults and Debt Restructurings, 1930-1960: Private Creditors and Official Intervention

AutorIn Name
Laura
De la Villa Aleman
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Juan
Flores
Institution
Institut d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch
Place
Genève
Year
2021/2022
Abstract
This dissertation analyses the resolution of sovereign debt defaults from the outbreak of the international debt crisis in the early 1930s to its final settlement well after WWII. The central more...

Soviet foreign policy in the UN

AutorIn Name
Ekaterina
Tarasova
Academic writing genre
Master thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Jussi
Hanhimaki
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2024/2025

Soviet public diplomacy in India during the Cold War, 1959-1965

AutorIn Name
Severyan
Dyakonov
Academic writing genre
PhD thesis
Status
abgeschlossen/terminé
DozentIn Name
Prof.
Jussi
Hanihimäki
Institution
Geneva Graduate Institute
Place
Genève
Year
2022/2023
Abstract
After independence India led non-aligned foreign policy in the Cold War that opened the country for influence from both Moscow and Washington. The USSR designed a special development model for the more...