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Zurcher Beitrage zur Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktforschung.(Brief Article)

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From: Foreign Policy
Date: 20000622
Author:Schweigler, Gebhard

Fall 1999, Zurich

Switzerland, as many a survey shows, is the envy of the world. Oh, to be like Switzerland--a small, beautiful, and prosperous country that practices nearly absolute neutrality and lives in peace with everyone. Like the heroine in Johanna Spyri's 1880 novel Heidi (eagerly read and tearfully watched in cinematic and TV versions by generations of children worldwide), the Swiss appear a simple, honest people grappling with the evil forces of modernization pressing in from the outside.

That image survived quite nicely during some very turbulent years, even as ...

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