Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

The research group chooses the documents to be published according to independently defined criteria and is only bound to scientific principles.

Through their choice of published documents, the researchers aim to show the main features of the international relations of Switzerland while maintaining its diversity.

The basic research done by Dodis provides historians with primary sources allowing them to work on specific aspects of Swiss foreign policy or to contextualise more complex developments.

The funding and the administration of the project were taken over by the academy in January 2000 from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), which had until then been the major financial contributor to Dodis.

The director is accountable to the Dodis-Committee, which consists of representatives of the contributing organisations and of professors from all of the History departments in Switzerland.

In 1972 a group of historians took the initiative to publish documents for the study of Swiss foreign policy and of the international relations of Switzerland.