Switzerland

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This paper discusses the physical and human geography of Switzerland as well as the economy of one of the world's most conspicuously wealthy nations. The author argues that Switzerland is a complex land with a complex past and a complex future ahead of it. The paper stress that Switzerland has the infrastructure and human resources to meet capably challenges of modernity.

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"Flanked on its western border by France and on its northern border by Germany, Switzerland is a tiny nation that knows a little bit about the power struggles and Byzantine intrigues that have characterized Modern European history; indeed, one might add that being uncomfortably sandwiched between two traditional European powers with historic predilections for expansionist zeal is nothing if not a study in reality. This paper will review Switzerland's reality. Specifically, this paper will explore the history of Switzerland from the emergence of the "Old Confederacy" in 1291; the human geography of one of the world's most affluent nations; the physical geography of that self-same nation; and, not least of all, the economy that has often been the envy of bordering states with considerably greater human and natural resources but not, it appears, with greater business savvy and financial wherewithal."

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