Abbreviations
ACC Allied Control Commission
ANC African National Congress
ANZUS Australian-New Zealand-United States Pact
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam
ASA Association of South-East Asia
ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CENTO Central Treaty Organization
CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CoCom Co-ordinating Committee
COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
Cominform Communist Information Bureau
Comintern Communist International
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe
DFLP Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
DOP Declaration of Principles
DPRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
DRV Democratic Republic of Vietnam
EC European Community
ECOMOG Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECSC European Coal and Steel Community
ECU European Currency Unit
EDC European Defence Community
EEC European Economic Community
EFTA European Free Trade Association
EMS European Monetary System
EP European Parliament
EPC European Political Co-operation
ERP European Recovery Programme
EU European Union
EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
FIDES Fonds d’Investissement et de Developpement Economique et
Social des Territoires d’Outre-Mer
FLN Front de Liberation National
FMLN Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front
FNLA National Front of Liberation of Angola
FRELIMO Liberation Front of Mozambique
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
G-7 Group of Seven
G-8 Group of Eight
G-77 Group of Seventy-Seven
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDR German Democratic Republic
GMD Guomindang
GNP gross national product
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM inter-continental ballistic missile
IDF Israel Defence Forces
IMF International Monetary Fund
INF Intermediate Nuclear Forces
ISI Inter-Services Intelligence
ITT International Telephone and Telegraph
JCA Jewish Colonial Association
JI Jemaah Islamiyya
JNF Jewish National Fund
JSP Japanese Socialist Party
KWP Korean Workers Party
LDP Liberal Democratic Party
MAD mutually assured destruction
MFN most favoured nation
MIRV multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NEPAD New Partnership for African Development
NIEO New International Economic Order
NLF National Liberation Front
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSC National Security Council
OAS Organization of American States
OAU Organization of African Unity
ODA overseas development aid
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PA Palestinian Authority
PDPA People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
PfP Partnership for Peace
PKI Communist Party of Indonesia
PLA People's Liberation Army
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
PPS Polish Peasants Party
PRC People's Republic of China
PRI Institutional Revolutionary Party
ROC Republic of China
ROK Republic of Korea
RPF Rwandese Patriotic Front
RVN Republic of Vietnam
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SCAP Supreme Commander Allied Powers
SDF Self-Defence Force
SEA Single European Act
SEATO South-East Asia Treaty Organization
SED Socialist Unity Party
SEZ Special Economic Zone
SHP Smallholders Party
SLA South Lebanese Army
SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile
SMR South Manchurian Railway
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
TEU Treaty on European Union
UFCO United Fruit Company
UGCC United Gold Coast Convention
UN United Nations
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNEF United Nations Emergency Force
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNGA United Nations General Assembly
UNITA National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UNPROFOR UN Protection Force
UNSCOP United Nations Special Commission on Palestine
VNQDD Vietnamese Nationalist Party
WHFTA Western Hemisphere Free Trade Area
WMD weapons of mass destruction
ZANU Zimbabwe African National Union
ZAPU Zimbabwe African People's Union
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