The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World

If a week is a long time in politics, as Harold Wilson once famously remarked, then the eight years that have elapsed since the first edition of this Companion appeared in 1993 constitutes nothing less than a political era. And the Labour Party leader was talking only in terms of internal politics, not of the even muddier waters of international affairs.

Building on the strengths of the earlier publication, the broad theme of this major new edition is an examination of the likely direction of the driving forces of political and economic globalisation and what they will bring in their...