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• Mexico - Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

  Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) The PRI, Mexico's "official" party, was the country's preeminent political organization from 1929 until the early 1990s. In terms of power, it w...

• Country Studies

  Country Studies This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Ha...

• Pakistan - Independence

  Independence Pakistan, in its comparatively short history, has tried various forms of parliamentary, military, and presidential governments in its efforts to achieve political stabilit...

• Singapore - Constitutional Framework

  Constitutional Framework Singapore became an autonomous state within Malaysia, with its own constitution, on September 16, 1963. It separated from Malaysia on August 9, 1965. On Decemb...

• Ethiopia - Foreign Policy of the Derg

  Foreign Policy of the Derg The foreign policy of Ethiopia did not change immediately upon the demise of the imperial regime. Initially, the country's new leaders maintained the general...

• Peru - History of the Economy

  History of the Economy Through the nineteenth century and into the mid-twentieth century, the great majority of the Peruvian population depended on agriculture and lived in the country...