Abstract

This article focuses on the establishment in the 1970s of a new international private governance forum, the so-called ‘Interlaken Conferences’, which gathered together the leading figures of the Industrial Federations of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. It therefore contributes to the literature dealing with business interest associations’ (BIAs) international alliances, and to the growing corpus analysing BIAs’ political strategies in tackling the 1970s social unrest and economic crisis. Thanks to archival sources from the Swiss Federation of Commerce and Industry, this article examines the calculated efforts by Interlaken participants to secure a ‘liberal bastion’ of European industrial federations that could impose its views within other official international BIAs. By improving coordination, the participants sought to defend common liberal economic principles and to fight against adverse economic policies such as protectionism and state intervention in the economy.

摘要

本文着重于 1970 年代新的国际私人治理论坛的建立，即所谓的“因特拉肯会议”，该论坛聚集了德意志联邦共和国、奥地利、丹麦、荷兰、和瑞士。因此，它有助于处理商业利益协会 (BIA) 国际联盟的文献，以及不断增长的分析 BIA 应对 1970 年代社会动荡和经济危机的政治策略的语料库。得益于瑞士工商联合会的档案资源，本文研究了因特拉肯参与者为确保欧洲工业联合会的“自由堡垒”而做出的有计划的努力，该堡垒可以将其观点强加于其他官方国际 BIA。通过提高协调性，