{"id":5054,"date":"2026-02-12T02:05:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/?p=5054"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:01:11","slug":"prof-ralph-weber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/prof-ralph-weber\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Ralph Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5000 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ralph-Weber-e1770832764564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"170\" \/>Prof. Ralph Weber<\/strong> <\/em>holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of St. Gallen and currently is a professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the Vice-Director of the Institute for European Global Studies and serves as a research councilor with the Swiss National Science Foundation. He specializes on transgressive political activities of the Chinese Party-State abroad, particularly united front work, propaganda, and intelligence. He was given a mandate by the Swiss Government in 2022 to write a research report on the transnational repression of the Tibetan and Uyghur communities in Switzerland. The report (co-authored with Shrey Kapoor, Selina Morell, and Barbara von R\u00fctte) was published by the Federal Council in February 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Ralph Weber holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of St. Gallen and currently is a professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the Vice-Director of the Institute for European Global Studies and serves as a research councilor with the Swiss National Science Foundation. He specializes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker_2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5054\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tibetoffice.ch\/genevaforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}