Between 1968 and 1974 a drought ravaged the people, animals, and land of the six countries that make up West Africas sahelian region.
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.