ABSTRACT
Within an ever-expanding community of nations numerous issues of a political nature arise each year. Compiling a list of such issues for all nation states would reveal some of greatest concern to the individual state itself, some to its neighbours and others to preservation and survival of all humankind. Clearly any effort to measure and assess an individual state’s performance vis-a-vis internal and external political events is likely to become exceedingly difficult. Even if events of an internal nature are not considered, the task of compiling detailed annual inventories of how nations perceive and react to various international events and issues is staggering.
