Zaire
Subtitle: a country study
By: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Sandra W. Meditz and Tim Merrill.
Contributors: Meditz, Sandra W., 1950-; Merrill, Tim, 1949-; Library of Congress. Federal Research Division.; American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area Studies.
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: Area handbook series,; DA pam ;; 550-67
Publisher: The Division; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Congo (Democratic Republic)
Description: Research completed December 1993.

Describes and analyses the economic, military, political and social systems and institutions of Zaire. The interrelationships of those systems and institutions and the ways that they are shaped by cultural factors are examined.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-363) and index.
"Research completed December 1993."
Rev. ed. of: Zaïre, a country study / Foreign Area Studies, The American University. 3rd ed. 1979.
Also available on the Library of Congress Web site.
Table of contents: title: Contents:  Historical setting / [René Lemarchand]; title: The society and its environment / [Alden Almquist]; title: The economy / [Hampton Smith, Tim Merrill, and Sandra W. Meditz]; title: Government and politics / [Thomas Turner]; title: National security / [Roger C. Glickson and Joshua Sinai].