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  • 1 - The Blueprint

  • Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
  • Book:
    Europe's Burden
    Published online:
    18 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 1-11

  • Summary

    In the late eighteenth century, Swiss Cantons had been ruled by privilege, inequality, and conflicts; yet thirty years later a modern political nation was born that quickly caught up with developed England. Was this an internally-driven miracle or the most successful improvement in governance known in history following an external intervention? Chapter 1 deconstructs the transformation of Switzerland during the French Revolution and Empire, to inquire why a similar Napoleonic ambition seems to have met with less success in our own times.