Contracts, Pacts, Agreements

This encyclopaedic handbook presents, in alphabetical order, all significant diplomatic negotiations and their outcomes in the form of treaties, agreements, pacts, alliances, declarations, and other documents from the dawn of human civilisation, through the Middle Ages, to the present day. It provides quick, essential information for the study of history, political science, and especially international relations and Czech foreign policy. Readers will find information about real-world events they regularly encounter in newspapers, literature, or on the radio and television, without necessarily recalling the exact nature of the act, what it concerns, or its context. From over a thousand entries, notable examples include the Atlantic Charter, the UN Charter, the Ems Dispatch, the Compacts of Basel, the Maastricht Treaty, the Little Entente, the Holy Alliance, the Tehran Conference, and the Golden Bull of Sicily. To facilitate searching, the dictionary is equipped with an index of entries.