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Cover the developments in Mexico. This title includes: Mexico's pre-Columbian civilizations as well as contemporary indigenous cultures; The environment; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); and, The war on the drug cartels.

In the course of a few years, Pakistan assumed strategic importance on the world stage, acting as both a linchpin in the global war on terrorism and a 'swing' state in the ideological conflict between democracy and dictatorship, and between Islamic and secular rule. How did this poor country come to occupy such a position?