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Somalia
Index
The five chapters that follow represent preliminary drafts of
Somalia: A Country Study, to be published by the Federal
Research Division of the Library of Congress. The revised edition
of this publication is now in the editorial process and will
appear in the first half of 1993. The finished work will contain
an introduction that highlights major trends detailed in the
individual chapters and brings Somalia's situation up to date.
The book also will include maps, photographs, a glossary, and a
bibliography.
Most books in the area handbook series deal with a particular
foreign country, describing and analyzing its political,
economic, social, and national security systems and institutions,
and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the
ways they are shaped by cultural factors. The authors seek to
provide a basic understanding of the observed society, striving
for a dynamic rather than a static portrayal. Particular
attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their
origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and
the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of
their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes
toward each other and toward their social system and political
order.
Louis R. Mortimer
Chief
Federal Research Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. 20540
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