Political Handbook Of The World

by Banks, Arthur S.; Muller, Thomas C.; Overstreet, William R.

• ISBN13: 9781568029528
• ISBN10: 1568029527
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-15
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

For almost eighty years, researchers seeking governmental and political information on countries around the globe have turned to Political Handbook of the World for the most authoritative and complete presentation of facts and analysis. CQ Press welcomes this renowned publication to its list of acclaimed reference sources, bringing its many current devotees - and future users - a new edition for 2005 - 2006, with a commitment to continuing the editorial integrity that has become the hallmark of this resource since its initial publication in 1928.

Table of Contents

Intergovernmental Organization Abbreviations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Governments
Afghanistan	p. 1
Albania	p. 11
Algeria	p. 19
Andorra	p. 29
Angola	p. 32
Antarctica	p. 41
Antigua and Barbuda	p. 43
Argentina	p. 46
Contested Territory	p. 54
Armenia	p. 55
Australia	p. 62
Related Territories	p. 69
Austria	p. 70
Azerbaijan	p. 75
Bahamas	p. 81
Bahrain	p. 83
Bangladesh	p. 87
Barbados	p. 96
Belarus	p. 98
Belgium	p. 105
Belize	p. 111
Benin	p. 114
Bhutan	p. 119
Bolivia	p. 122
Bosnia and Herzegovina	p. 129
Botswana	p. 143
Brazil	p. 147
Brunei	p. 153
Bulgaria	p. 155
Burkina Faso	p. 164
Burundi	p. 171
Cambodia	p. 180
Cameroon	p. 187
Canada	p. 194
Cape Verde	p. 202
Central African Republic	p. 205
Chad	p. 212
Chile	p. 222
China	p. 227
People's Republic of China	p. 228
Taiwan	p. 237
Colombia	p. 243
Comoro Islands	p. 250
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	p. 258
Congo, Republic of the	p. 269
Costa Rica	p. 277
Cote d'Ivoire	p. 281
Croatia	p. 287
Cuba	p. 295
Cyprus	p. 300
Turkish Sector	p. 306
Czech Republic	p. 309
Denmark	p. 317
Related Territories	p. 321
Djibouti	p. 323
Dominica	p. 329
Dominican Republic	p. 332
Ecuador	p. 336
Egypt	p. 342
El Salvador	p. 351
Equatorial Guinea	p. 357
Eritrea	p. 364
Estonia	p. 368
Ethiopia	p. 374
Fiji	p. 383
Finland	p. 390
France	p. 395
Related Territories	p. 406
Gabon	p. 413
Gambia	p. 419
Georgia	p. 423
Germany	p. 432
Ghana	p. 441
Greece	p. 447
Grenada	p. 454
Guatemala	p. 458
Guinea	p. 465
Guinea-Bissau	p. 471
Guyana	p. 477
Haiti	p. 482
Honduras	p. 489
Hungary	p. 494
Iceland	p. 501
India	p. 504
Indonesia	p. 520
Annexed Territory	p. 531
Iran	p. 531
Iraq	p. 542
Ireland	p. 554
Israel	p. 560
Occupied and Previously Occupied Territories	p. 573
Italy	p. 577
Jamaica	p. 587
Japan	p. 591
Jordan	p. 600
Kazakhstan	p. 608
Kenya	p. 615
Kiribati	p. 627
Korea	p. 629
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	p. 631
Republic of Korea	p. 636
Kuwait	p. 644
Kyrgyzstan	p. 648
Laos	p. 654
Latvia	p. 658
Lebanon	p. 664
Lesotho	p. 672
Liberia	p. 677
Libya	p. 686
Liechtenstein	p. 691
Lithuania	p. 694
Luxembourg	p. 700
Macedonia	p. 704
Madagascar	p. 711
Malawi	p. 718
Malaysia	p. 724
Maldives	p. 732
Mali	p. 735
Malta	p. 742
Marshall Islands	p. 745
Mauritania	p. 747
Mauritius	p. 754
Mexico	p. 760
Micronesia, Federated States of	p. 769
Moldova	p. 770
Monaco	p. 776
Mongolia	p. 778
Morocco	p. 784
Disputed Territory	p. 791
Mozambique	p. 793
Myanmar (Burma)	p. 800
Namibia	p. 806
Nauru	p. 813
Nepal	p. 816
Netherlands	p. 823
Aruba	p. 829
Netherlands Antilles	p. 831
New Zealand	p. 834
Related Territories	p. 840
Nicaragua	p. 842
Niger	p. 850
Nigeria	p. 859
Norway	p. 869
Related Territories	p. 874
Oman	p. 875
Pakistan	p. 877
Related Territories	p. 889
Palau	p. 890
Panama	p. 892
Recovered Territory	p. 898
Papua New Guinea	p. 899
Paraguay	p. 904
Peru	p. 909
Philippines	p. 918
Poland	p. 928
Portugal	p. 939
Related Territories	p. 945
Qatar	p. 946
Romania	p. 949
Russia	p. 959
Rwanda	p. 974
St. Kitts and Nevis	p. 981
St. Lucia	p. 983
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	p. 986
Samoa	p. 988
San Marino	p. 992
Sao Tome and Principe	p. 995
Saudi Arabia	p. 998
Senegal	p. 1003
Serbia and Montenegro	p. 1012
Seychelles	p. 1028
Sierra Leone	p. 1032
Singapore	p. 1039
Slovakia	p. 1044
Slovenia	p. 1052
Solomon Islands	p. 1058
Somalia	p. 1062
Somaliland	p. 1069
South Africa	p. 1072
Spain	p. 1086
Related Territories	p. 1095
Sri Lanka	p. 1096
Sudan	p. 1108
Suriname	p. 1119
Swaziland	p. 1124
Sweden	p. 1128
Switzerland	p. 1133
Syria	p. 1139
Tajikistan	p. 1144
Tanzania	p. 1151
Thailand	p. 1158
Timor-Leste (East Timor)	p. 1165
Togo	p. 1170
Tonga	p. 1178
Trinidad and Tobago	p. 1180
Tunisia	p. 1184
Turkey	p. 1191
Turkmenistan	p. 1201
Tuvalu	p. 1205
Uganda	p. 1207
Ukraine	p. 1213
United Arab Emirates	p. 1227
United Kingdom	p. 1230
Related Territories	p. 1240
Northern Ireland	p. 1247
United States	p. 1258
Related Territories	p. 1270
Uruguay	p. 1275
Uzbekistan	p. 1281
Vanuatu	p. 1286
Vatican City State	p. 1291
Venezuela	p. 1294
Vietnam	p. 1301
Yemen	p. 1306
Zambia	p. 1314
Zimbabwe	p. 1320
Palestine Liberation Organization	p. 1329
Intergovernmental Organizations
African Union (AU)	p. 1341
Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America (OPANAL)	p. 1343
Andean Community of Nations	p. 1345
ANZUS	p. 1347
Arab League	p. 1348
Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)	p. 1350
Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)	p. 1352
Arctic Council (AC)	p. 1352
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	p. 1353
Association of Caribbean States (ACS)	p. 1355
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)	p. 1356
Bank for International Settlements (BIS/BIZ)	p. 1359
Benelux Economic Union	p. 1360
Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom)	p. 1362
Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC)	p. 1364
Central American Common Market (CACM/MCCA)	p. 1366
Central American Integration System (SICA)	p. 1368
Central European Initiative (CEI)	p. 1369
Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific	p. 1370
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa)	p. 1371
Commonwealth	p. 1373
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)	p. 1375
Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP)	p. 1378
Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU)	p. 1379
Council of Europe	p. 1379
Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)	p. 1381
Council of the Entente	p. 1383
Customs Co-operation Council (CCC)/World Customs Organization (WCO)	p. 1384
East African Community (EAC)	p. 1385
Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC)	p. 1386
Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL)	p. 1387
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS/CEDEAO)	p. 1388
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)	p. 1390
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)	p. 1391
European Organization for Nuclear Research	p. 1393
European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol)	p. 1394
European Space Agency (ESA)	p. 1395
European Union (EU)	p. 1396
European Community (EC/CE)	p. 1407
European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/CEEA)	p. 1410
Group of Seven/Group of Eight	p. 1411
Group of Ten	p. 1413
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)	p. 1414
Indian Ocean Commission (IOC)	p. 1415
Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)	p. 1416
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)	p. 1417
International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO/Interpol)	p. 1417
International Energy Agency (IEA)	p. 1419
International Organization for Migration (IOM/OIM)	p. 1420
International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)	p. 1421
Latin American Economic System (LAES/SELA)	p. 1423
Latin American Integration Association (LAIA/ALADI)	p. 1424
Mano River Union	p. 1426
Nonaligned Movement (NAM)	p. 1427
Nordic Council	p. 1429
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO/OTAN)	p. 1430
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD/OCDE)	p. 1436
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)	p. 1438
Organization of American States (OAS/OEA)	p. 1441
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC)	p. 1444
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)	p. 1445
Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)	p. 1447
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)	p. 1448
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)	p. 1450
Pacific Community	p. 1452
Pacific Islands Forum	p. 1453
Permanent Court of Arbitration	p. 1455
Permanent Inter-State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)	p. 1457
Regional and Subregional Development Banks	p. 1458
African Development Bank (AfDB/BAD)	p. 1458
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)	p. 1459
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (AFESD)	p. 1460
Asian Development Bank (ADB)	p. 1460
Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)	p. 1461
Central African States Development Bank (BDEAC)	p. 1462
Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE)	p. 1462
East African Development Bank (EADB)	p. 1463
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)	p. 1464
European Investment Bank (EIB)	p. 1465
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)	p. 1466
Islamic Development Bank (IDB)	p. 1467
Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)	p. 1468
West African Development Bank (BOAD)	p. 1469
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)	p. 1469
Southern African Development Community (SADC)	p. 1471
Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur)	p. 1473
United Nations (UN)	p. 1475
General Assembly	p. 1476
General Assembly: Special Bodies	p. 1482
Security Council	p. 1492
Security Council: Peacekeeping Forces	p. 1497
Security Council: International Criminal Tribunals	p. 1500
Economic and Social Council	p. 1501
Economic and Social Council: Functional Commissions	p. 1502
Economic and Social Council: Regional Commissions	p. 1503
Trusteeship Council	p. 1507
International Court of Justice (ICJ)	p. 1508
Secretariat	p. 1511
United Nations: Specialized Agencies	p. 1514
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)	p. 1514
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)	p. 1516
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)	p. 1519
International Development Association (IDA)	p. 1520
International Finance Corporation (IFC)	p. 1521
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)	p. 1522
International Labour Organisation (ILO)	p. 1524
International Maritime Organization (IMO)	p. 1525
International Monetary Fund (IMF)	p. 1527
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)	p. 1531
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)	p. 1532
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)	p. 1534
Universal Postal Union (UPU)	p. 1536
World Health Organization (WHO)	p. 1537
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	p. 1539
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)	p. 1540
United Nations: Related Organization	p. 1541
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)	p. 1541
West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA)	p. 1544
Western European Union (WEU)	p. 1545
World Trade Organization (WTO)	p. 1547
Appendixes
Chronology of Major International Events, 1945-2005	p. 1553
Chronology of Major United Nations Conferences, 1946-2005	p. 1559
Membership of the United Nations and Its Specialized and Related Agencies	p. 1565
Serials List	p. 1569
Indexes
Geographical and Organizational Names	p. 1571
Personal Names	p. 1575
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