The International Directory of Government 2010 (7th edition)

This directory, last reviewed in these columns in 1999 (RR 1999/137), comes from the same stable as the Europa Yearbook (available electronically as Europa World Plus (RR 2011/052)) and might be described as a filleted version of that work, or rather as its backbone, for the material left out of the Directory, but included in the Yearbook, comprises the latter's extensive coverage of recent history, its economic and statistical information, and its lists of non‐governmental organizations. What remains is the material related to the governments of 199 independent states and 48 dependent territories. Entries for the states...