| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 635 pages) : portraits |
| Contents |
Afghanistan / Hamid Karzai -- Albania / Alfred Moisiu and Fatos Nano -- Algeria / Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Ali Benflis -- Andorra / Joan Marti Alanis and Marc Forne Molne -- Angola / Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Fernando da Piedade -- Antigua and Barbuda / James B. Carlisle and Lester Bird -- Argentina / Eduardo Duhalde and Alfredo Atanasof -- Armenia / Robert Kocharian and Andranik Markarian -- Australia / Peter Hollingworth and John Howard -- Austria / Thomas Klestil and Wolfgang Schussel -- Azerbaijan / Heydar Aliyev and Artur Rasizade -- Bahamas / Dame Ivy Dumont and Perry Christie -- Bahrain / Sheikh Hamad and Sheikh Khalifa -- Bangladesh / Iajuddin Ahmed and Khaleda Zia -- Barbados / Clifford Husbands and Owen Arthur -- Belarus / Aleksandr Lukashenka and Gennady Novitsky -- Belgium / Albert II and Guy Verhofstadt -- Belize / Colville Young and Said Musa -- Benin / Mathieu Kerekou -- Bhutan / Jigme Singye Wangchuk and Kinzang Dorji -- Bolivia / Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada -- Bosnia and Herzegovina / Mirko Sarovic, Adnan Terzic and Paddy Ashdown -- Botswana / Festus Mogae -- Brazil / Luiz 'Lula' da Silva and Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Brunei / Hassanal Bolkiah -- Bulgaria / Georgi Purvanov and Simeon Saxecoburggotski -- Burkina Faso / Blaise Compaore and Paramanga Ernest Yonli -- Burundi / Pierre Buyoya -- Cambodia / Sihanouk and Hun Sen -- Cameroon / Paul Biya and Peter Manfany Musonge -- Canada / Adrienne Clarkson and Jean Chretien -- Cape Verde / Pedro Pires and Jose Maria Neves -- Central African Republic / Ange-Felix Patasse and Martin Ziguele -- Chad / Idriss Deby and Haroun Kabadi -- Chile / Ricardo Lagos Escobar -- China, People's Rep / Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji and Hu Jintao -- Colombia / Alvaro Uribe Velez -- Comoros / Assoumani Azali -- Congo, Dem. Rep / Joseph Kabila -- Congo, Rep / Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Isidore Mvouba -- Costa Rica / Abel Pacheco de la Espriella -- Cote d'Ivoire / Laurent Gbagbo and Pascal Affi N'Guessan -- Croatia / Stipe Mesic and Ivica Racan -- Cuba / Fidel Castro Ruz -- Cyprus / Glafcos Clerides, Rauf Denktas and Dervis Eroglu -- Czech Republic / Vaclav Havel and Vladimir Spidla -- Denmark / Margrethe II and Anders Fogh Rasmussen -- Djibouti / Ismail Omar Guelleh and Dileita Mohamed Dileita -- Dominica / Vernon Shaw and Pierre Charles -- Dominican Republic / Hipolito Mejia Dominguez -- East Timor / Xanana Gusmao and Mari Alkatiri -- Ecuador / Gustavo Noboa Bejarano and Lucio Gutierrez Borbua -- Egypt / Mohammed Hosni Mubarak and Atif Mohammad Obeid -- El Salvador / Francisco Flores Perez -- Equatorial Guinea / Teodoro Obiang, Nguema Mbasogo and Candido Muatetema Rivas -- Eritrea / Issaias Afewerki -- Estonia / Arnold Ruutel and Siim Kallas -- Ethiopia / Girma Wolde Giorgis and Meles Zenawi -- Fiji / Ratu Josefa Iloilo and Laisenia Qarase -- Finland / Tarja Halonen and Paavo Lipponen -- France / Jacques Chirac and Jean-Pierre Raffarin -- Gabon / Omar Bongo and Jean-Francois Ntoutoume-Emane -- Gambia / Yahya Jammeh -- Georgia / Eduard Shevardnadze and Avtandil Jorbenadze -- Germany / Johannes Rau and Gerhard Schroder -- Ghana / John Kufuor -- Greece / Costas Stephanopoulos and Costas Simitis -- Grenada / Daniel Williams and Keith Mitchell -- Guatemala / Alfonso Portillo Cabrera -- Guinea / Lansana Conte and Lamine Sidime -- Guinea-Bissau / Kumba Yalla and Mario Pires -- Guyana / Bharrat Jagdeo and Sam Hinds -- Haiti / Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Yvon Neptune -- Honduras / Ricardo Maduro -- Hungary / Ferenc Madl and Peter Medgyessy -- Iceland / Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and David Oddsson -- India / A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Atal Bihari Vajpayee -- Indonesia / Megawati Sukarnoputri -- Iran / Ayatollah Ali-Khamenei and Mohammad Khatami -- Iraq / Saddam Hussein -- Ireland / Mary McAleese and Bertie Ahern -- Israel / Moshe Katsav and Ariel Sharon -- Italy / Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Silvio Berlusconi -- Jamaica / Howard Cooke and Percival J. Patterson -- Japan / Akihito and Junichiro Koizumi -- Jordan / Abdullah II and Ali Abu al-Ragheb -- Kazakhstan / Nursultan Nazarbayev and Imangali Tasmagambetov -- Kenya / Mwai Kibaki and Daniel arap Moi -- Kiribati / Teburoro Tiito -- Korea, North / Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam, Kim Jong II and Hong Song Nam -- Korea, South / Kim Dae Jung, Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Suk Soo -- Kuwait / Sheikh Jaber and Sheikh Saad -- Kyrgyzstan / Askar Akayev and Nikolay Tanayev -- Laos / Khamtay Siphandone and Bounnyang Vorachit -- Latvia / Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Einars Repse -- Lebanon / Emile Lahoud and Rafiq al-Hariri -- Lesotho / Letsie III and Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili -- Liberia / Charles Taylor -- Libya / Moamer al-Kadhafi and Mubarak al-Shamikh -- Liechtenstein / Hans-Adam II and Otmar Hasler -- Lithuania / Valdas Adamkus, Rolandas Paksas and Algirdas Brazauskas -- Luxembourg / Henri and Jean-Claude Juncker -- Macedonia / Boris Trajkovski and Branko Crvenkovski -- Madagascar / Marc Ravalomanana and Jacques Sylla -- Malawi / Bakili Muluzi -- Malaysia / Syed Sirajuddin and Mahathir Mohamed -- Maldives / Maumoon Abdul Gayoom -- Mali / Amadou Toumani Toure and Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani -- Malta / Guido de Marco and Eddie Fenech Adami -- Marshall Islands / Kessai Note -- Mauritania / Maaouya ould Sid' Ahmed Taya and Cheikh el-Avia ould Mohamed Khouna -- Mauritius / Karl Offmann and Anerood Jugnauth -- Mexico / Vicente Fox -- Micronesia / Leo Falcam -- Moldova / Vladimir Voronin and Vasile Tarlev -- Monaco / Rainier III and Patrick Leclercq -- Mongolia / Natsagyn Bagabandi and Nambariyn Enkhbayar -- Morocco / Mohammed VI and Driss Jettou -- Mozambique / Joaquim Alberto Chissano and Pascoal Mocumbi -- Myanmar / Than Shwe -- Namibia / Sam Nujoma and Theo-Ben Gurirab -- Nauru / Rene Harris and Bernard Dowiyogo -- Nepal / Gyanendra and Lokendra Bahadur Chand -- Netherlands / Beatrix and Jan Peter-Balkenende -- New Zealand / Dame Silvia Cartwright and Helen Clark -- Nicaragua / Enrique Bolanos -- Niger / Mamadou Tandja and Hama Amadou -- Nigeria / Olusegun Obasanjo -- Norway / Harald V. and Kjell Magne Bondevik -- Oman / Qaboos -- Pakistan / Pervez Musharraf and Mir Zafarullah Jamali -- Palau / Tommy Remengesau -- Palestine / Yassir Arafat -- Panama / Mireya Moscoso -- Papua New Guinea / Silas Atopare and Michael Somare -- Paraguay / Luis Gonzalez Macchi -- Peru / Alejandro Toledo and Luis Solari -- Philippines / Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -- Poland / Aleksander Kwasniewski and Leszek Miller -- Portugal / Jorge Sampaio and Jose Manuel Durao Barroso -- Qatar / Sheikh Hamad and Sheikh Abdullah -- Romania / Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase -- Russian Federation / Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Kasyanov -- Rwanda / Paul Kagame and Bernard Makuza -- St. Kitts and Nevis / Cuthbert Sebastian and Denzil Douglas -- St. Lucia / Dame Pearlette Louisy and Kenny D. Anthony -- St. Vincent and the Grenadines / Frederick Ballantyne and Ralph Gonsalves -- Samoa / Malietoa Tanumafili II and Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi -- San Marino / Giuseppe Maria Morganti and Mauro Chiaruzzi -- Sao Tome and Principe / Fradique de Menezes and Maria das Neves -- Saudi Arabia / Fahd -- Senegal / Abdoulaye Wade and Idrissa Seck -- Seychelles / France Albert Rene -- Sierra Leone / Ahmed Tejan Kabbah -- Singapore / Sellapan Rama Nathan and Goh Chok Tong -- Slovakia / Rudolf Schuster and Mikulas Dzurinda -- Slovenia / Janez Dmovsek and Anton Rop -- Solomon Islands / John Lapli and Allan Kemakeza -- Somalia / Abdulkassim Salat Hassan and Hassan Abshir Farah -- South Africa / Thabo Mbeki -- Spain / Juan Carlos I. and Jose Maria Aznar Lopez -- Sri Lanka / Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Ranil Wickremasinghe -- Sudan / Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir -- Suriname / Ronald Venetiaan and Jules Ajodhia -- Swaziland / Mswati III and Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini -- Sweden / Carl XVI Gustaf and Goran Persson -- Switzerland / Pascal Couchepin -- Syria / Bashar al-Assad and Mohammad Mustafa Miro -- Taiwan / Chen Shui-bian and Yu Shyi-kun -- Tajikistan / Imomali Rakhmanov and Akil Akilov -- Tanzania / Benjamin Mkapa and Frederick Tluway Sumaye -- Thailand / Bhumibol Adulyadej and Thaksin Shinawatra -- Togo / Gnassingbe Eyadema and Koffi Sama |
| Summary |
Succint narrative biographies of every serving head of state or head of government, covering some 200 countries and territories. Each country section contains a brief explanation of its type of government and the respective roles of the head of state, the head of government and the legislature; a listing of the most recent heads of state and head of government, with dates of office; biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders; and a photographic section with pictures of many of the world's political leaders. Fully indexed by name, date of taking office, and source of authority |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heads of state -- Biography
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Prime ministers -- Biography
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World politics -- 1989-
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
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Heads of state
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Prime ministers
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World politics
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Regierungschef
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Staatsoberhaupt
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| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Biographie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomas, Richard, 1977-
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| LC no. |
2004297732 |
| ISBN |
9781317639404 |
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1317639405 |
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1317639391 |
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9781317639398 |
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1315759519 |
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9781315759517 |
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