TY  - BOOK
AU  - KRIEGER Joel (ed.)
AU  - JOSEPH William A (ed.)
TI  - The Oxford companion to politics of the world
SN  - 0195059344 (hbk.)
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - BIOGRAPHIES
KW  - POLITICS
KW  - DICTIONARIES
KW  - INTERNATIONAL LAW
KW  - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
KW  - POLITICAL PARTIES
KW  - POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY
KW  - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
KW  - TREATIES
KW  - WARS
N2  - COVERAGE AND ARRANGEMENT:A comprehensive guide to international relations and domestic politics throughout the world. Comprises an alphabetical arrangement of 650 articles about national intitutions and organizations, political leaders, political parties, political economy, the social bases of politics and political divisions, such as class and race, patterns of internal conflict and prospects for change, and foreign affairs. Also included are brief articles about individual countries, biographies, and essays on specific themes such as development and underdevelopment. Other categories covered include: concepts - e.g. sovreignty, citizenship; conventions, treaties and developments in international law; forms of government and government institutions; historical events e.g. holocaust; international issues - e.g. AIDS, security; International organizations; and domestic political, economic and social issues - e.g. elections, taxes and taxation.Entries include brief bibliographies and cross-references to related entries. The index provides access to entries by subject, country names, individual names, organization names, and acronyms
ER  -