To some observers, Cameroon represents a "typical" modern Afreican nation: a neocolonial state struggling with economic and political development.
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau, with an estimated 842,000 inhabitants, is a physically small West African nation that harbors bountiful natural resources, receives regular rainfall and boasts an extraordinary diversity of linguistic groups.
This book have the ultimate message that policy makers should be aware of the limitations-and possible unintended consecuences-military when weighing that option against other alternative.
The issue of Nicaragua arouses political passions, those that we see expressed almost daily in the newspapers of Europe, Latin America and the United States. Few issues are more divisive within the politics of certain countries and the evolution of the Nicaraguan drama threatens to drive a wedge between countries that are friends, allies and partners.
As Mexicos inolvement in the international arena increases, so does intense scrutiny of its internal - and international - relations.
Argentina has most of the characteristics that various theories of democracy postulate as prereqquisites for achieeving liberal democracy: an urban industrial economy, key economic resources under domestic control, the absence of a peasantry, the absence of ethnic or religious cleavages, relatively high levels of education.
Als Wilhelm der Schweiger im Jahre 1584, durch die Kugeln Balthasar Gerardts todlich verwundet, in die Arme seiner Schwester zurucksank, hatte er wahrlich Grund fur seine inbrunstige.
Many significant things have happened in-and to-Tanzania since the first edition of this book was published in 1982.
It is the argumen of this book that the racial crisis in the Republic of South Africa cannot be resolved without international intervention.
This is one of first comprehensive books on the new nation of Namibia to offer detailed information onvarious aspects of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the country.
The area dealt with in this book, the Southern-Central African quadrant, is of special significance today both becouse it holds possibilities of great power confrontations and becouse more than any place else in the world it is torn by that most explosive of all issues: black-white conflict for power.
Certainly a Zambian scholar would bring particular depth and sensitivity to a study of his or her society.
At ten to six in the morning of the 21st of October 1805, off Cape Trafalgar in the south of Spain, Napoleons French and Spanish fleet was sighted against the dawn sky, and men in the British fleet who were not on watch swarmed up on deck to look
The garden at Charlottenburgh overlooks a valley. On the far side of the valley are some low hills.Behind those are the Blue Mountains, and behind them again is Blue Mountain Peak.
Events in the Carribean Basinare at a critical juncture. Rising above the tide of rhetoric are dangerous trends for the regions political security and economic viability.
Twenty-five years have passed since the nuclear standoff between Khrushchevand Kennedy in 1962.
Miguel Castellanos abandoned his leading position in the FMLN in 1985, rejecting its pursuit of the violent overthrow of the El Savadoran government.