Product Description

How many democracies are there in the world? What is "theocratic rule"? How do NATO and the UN ensure fair play on a global scale? And who really rules the roost in the West Wing? In these times of intense political debate this comprehensible illustrative guide to the halls of power in every nation of the world today should answer all of the above questions and many more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1005750 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

A Useful Book
This book provides an excellent summary to the countries of the world: capital city, flag, currency, language, government... A good snapshot and very useful for homework. It's a great resource for a school library. Unfortunately it's out of date and DK don't seem to have any plans to re-issue it.

Two Hoots for Democracy
Though I bought this book with great expectations, I was utterly disappointed. My main complaint is the rather step- motherly treatment accorded to the World's largest democracy India. It was shocking to see 10 pages dedicated to countries like China, Japan & Canada whereas the second most populous nation on earth gets hardly three pages! A reward of sorts perhaps for maintaining democratic traditions agst all odds. You will also find pictures of former chinese communist dictators & Japanese emperors but absolutely nothing about India's former elected prime ministers or it's many general elections. Another glaring mistake appears on page 37 where under the piture of UAE defence minister Sheikh Mohammed, the caption reads "UAE PM Sheikh Maktoum" who actually is nowhere in the photograph. I hope that DK will try to correct the imbalances in their next addition though very few publishers actually do so.