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Swiss [swis] 1. Condition of a global player with exceptional status. 2. Attribute
of a state suspended between sovereignty and interconnectedness. 3. Term for
a territorial model that is applied to e.g. Special Economic Zones.
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introduction:

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Swiss etc. is being published in connection with So wie die Dinge liegen (As matters stand) - an exhibition of
Swiss art being shown within the framework of the 37 th International Culture Days of Dortmund. The starting
point of the now 4 th reader from etc. publications is Switzerland as a global brand.

In the last 200 years the alpine state has spread out wide beyond its physical boundaries - and thereby its
logo. In the farthest corners of the earth the white cross on the red background establishes an identity - from
the Brasilian city Nova Friburgo to the settlement New Glarus in Wisconson to the oversea branches of global
players, such as Swissôtel.

Detached from its logo, the brand Switzerland circulates also as a condition. Until well into the 1950s Uruguay
enjoyed a special economic status in its region and was as a result greeted as the Switzerland of South Ame-
rica, while in the 1990s Singapore and Malaysia competed over the position of Asia's Switerland.

Swiss etc. places this many-leveled phenomenon in the discourse over the post-nation state . Firstly, the glo-
bal status of the Swiss state is being examined. Then, in the theoretical section of the reader, it is abstracted
as a model, whose pattern is finally traced across the entire globe - from satellite states to special economic
zones.

Co-publisher Krystian Woznicki, summing up: To define a state model with the predicate Swiss engendered
astounding views over the contemporary relation between the state and world economy.

Editors: Nicolas Bourquin, Sven Ehmann, Krystian Woznicki

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with contributions from :

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Leo Fabrizio
Bunkers

Peter Spillmann
A Nation to Keep Up With

Gabi Vogt
The Longest Ride…

Roland Müller
The Sandwich-Girl

Maria Tackmann
Talstraße

Anton Moos
Shadows of Poverty

75B
Holiday

Angelus Eisinger
The Swiss State of Spatial Affairs

Katja Gretzinger
Jumper

Laura Horelli
Current Female Presidents (3/2001)

Michael Hardt
Altered States

Immanuel Wallerstein
States in an Age of Transition

Lordy Rodriguez
States

Andrew Ross
A Fundamental Compact between the State and Foreign Capital

Michael Hermann and Heiri Leuthold
Political Landscape

Arthur Kroeber
Creatures of the Centre

Joël Tettamanti
Qaqortoq

Alexander Missal
Paradise Frozen

Clarissa Tossin
Birth of a Nation

Carlos Iglesias
The Merging Frontier

Fulguro
Referee, Territories

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