Download or read book Treaties and Alliances of the World written by Peter Calvert and published by John Harper Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and balanced reference guide to the international system, useful both for quick fact-checking on the essentials of agreements as well as for more detailed background and comparative research on particular topics. This new edition features full updating of all the book's traditional areas of coverage, including the activities of hundreds of international and regional treaty-based organizations and concise accounts of recent crises involving international and regional alliances.