An Atlas of World Affairs

Review of the seventh edition This is a wonderful book for those of us who habitually turn to the foreign news to realize we've forgotten who the Polisario are, or the Khmer Rouge, or what Zaire used to be before it was Zaire, or what Borneo is called now. In a remarkable tour de force which is a tour du monde, Andrew Boyd gives us the political low-down on no less than 73 regions of the globe which is more or less all there are ...A background reader to the news, this is an essential handbook for teachers of current affairs and international relations, who will appreciate, not only the lucid text, but the excellent maps as well.' - The Times Educational Supplement