02 September 2008

GPPi associate contributes to Fischer Weltalmanach 2009

GPPi Research Associate Philipp Rotmann contributed a chapter on the United Nations and other international organizations to the 2009 edition of the Fischer Weltalmanach, Germany's premier yearbook on global affairs for the last 50 years. The chapter extensively covers the United Nations system as well as 18 other intergovernmental and nongovernmental agencies such as the Asian and African Development Banks, the African Union, the Bretton Woods institutions, the Group of 8, Greenpeace, NATO, OSCE and the World Trade Organization. For the first time, the new edition includes a comprehensive map of all current international peace operations, covering UN peacekeepers as well as operations run by NATO, the European Union, the OSCE and the African Union.

Each year, the handbook presents updated facts and figures as well as a chronicle of events in politics, the economy, the environment, culture and sports over the past year with regard to the world's 195 states (now including Kosovo) and major international bodies. In a separate CD-ROM edition, the Fischer Weltalmanach provides access to the handbook's content in a digital format which allows the comparative analysis of country data in charts and spreadsheets (including time series data since 1960) as well as the easy export of all maps, figures, flags and pictures.  

The 2009 edition is being published on September 4 and includes a series of feature articles on climate change and climate change policy.  

The Fischer Weltalmanach 2009 is available here (standard edition, in German) and here (CD-ROM edition, in German).  

For more information, please contact Philipp Rotmann.

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