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A DICTIONARY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION aims to give a comprehensiveoverview of the development and current status of the European Union. Thejourney from European Communities to European Union has been a long one;there have been many arguments and difficulties, but also co-operation andenlargement....

FOREWORD TO THE 52nd EDITIONThis is the 52nd edition of the international who's who. Since the appearance of the first edition in 1935 the book has grown to encompass almost every field of human activity, and now contains over 18,000 biographies. Until the 1960s few personal details were given, but...

FOREWORD TO THE 2yth EDITION Each new edition of The International Who's Who is the result of a complete and thorough revision of its predecessor. Not only are daily records of changes to existing entries maintained, but there is alsó continuous research directed towards the selection of new names...

FOREWORD The election of a new Israeli Prime Minister in May 1999 and the unexpected reactivation of the Wye River Memorandum (through September's 'Wye Two' agreement) contributed to a mood of cautious optimism towards the end of a year which had begun so uncertainly for the region, with the...

Foreword The Middle East and North Africa was first published in 1948 under the title The Middle East, in which form it continued for ten editions. The eleventh edition included for the first time chapters on eleven countries of the northern half of Africa, and Afghanistan was added for the...