The Dictionary of World Politics: A Reference Guide to Concepts, Ideas and Institutions - Softcover

Evans, Graham; Newnham, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074501223X ISBN 13: 9780745012230

Publisher: Pearson Higher Education, 1992

Synopsis

A Reference Guide to Concepts, Ideas and Institutions .

About this title

From Library Journal

How do neutralism and neutrality differ? Who can possibly pick a MIRV from an MRBM or an SLBM? What was the Kennedy (or, for that matter the Nixon or Carter) Doctrine? This new addition to a surprisingly uncrowded field has more than 600 entries, including the above. Most of the content consists of nuts and bolts political science terminology as well as names linked with ideas or concepts, e.g., Marxism/Leninism. As always with this kind of work, it is amusing to see what is in and what is not: the foreign terms ost politik and detente are included, but not casus belli ; the Organization of American States but not its African equivalent (Organization of African Unity); hegemony makes it while imperialism is left out. Compiled by two Welsh academics and written in an engaging style, this dictionary is right up to date regarding events in Central and Eastern Europe. An essential purchase for most libraries.-- Ian Wallace, Agriculture Canada Lib., St.
Jean- sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074501223X
• ISBN 13: 9780745012230
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2