Product Description: The Netherlands and Switzerland are among the world's most economically successful societies. Their inhabitants enjoy high standards of living and express great satisfaction with their lives according to surveys. This despite serious natural handicaps, such as a lack of raw materials and an abundance of water and rock respectively...read more

Product Description: Thamas Maissen examines the shift from the imperial model and imperial rights to western constitutional and international law, using Switzerland as his example. He presents the elements of society involved in the process that resulted in the sovereign state. German text.