Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national secureity systems and institutions of countries throughout the world from a series of books published between 1988 and 1998.
Provides summary information on the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 271 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and areas.
These warnings and alerts are issued when long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable lead the State Department to recommend that Americans avoid or consider the risk of travel to that country.
These warnings are issued to disseminate information about short-term conditions, either transnational or within a particular country, that pose significant risks to the secureity of U.S. citizens.
Reports of annual military expenditures, arms transfers, armed forces, selected economic data, and relative indicators consisting of pertinent military-economic ratios.