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Technical: What is a Yellow Book?
Yellow
books in print: Fenizic Politics - Fenizic Diplomacy
I translated this term freely from German "Buntbuch"
or "Farbbuch". Books with official publications of
governmental policy are generally called colourbooks, according
to their usual cover colour. In the emantime, I learned that they
are more often called Colour Papers today.
- In Germany, we have whitebooks (Weißbücher, White
Papers). Today, German Weißbücher which officially
carry this name are mostly about security and defense
policy, but other government publications use a similar
colour and layout.
Other countries use different colours:
- Redbooks: Austria, Spain, USA
- Yellowbooks: China, France
- Greenbooks: Italy, Romania, Mexico
- Greybooks: Denmark, Japan (and, IIRC, the German Empire)
- Orangebooks: Netherlands (who also published a
"Defence White Paper" in 2000)
- Bluebooks: UK. The first ever colourbook was the Bluebook
of 1624, a collection of documents justifying the British
foreign policy.
- EU Commission: Greenbooks and whitebooks with defined,
different contents. Also called Green or White Papers.
- Blackbooks are not official. Usually, they criticize
something (politics, economic systems, religion,
institutions, etc.)
Feniz therefore publishes Yellow Books, according to the most
prominent colour of its flag.
I'm not sure whether there "book style" layout is
really better than presenting the contents on a web page but it
is somewhat different, at least.
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© by Winfried Schroedter - last update of this page on 24. September 2004 18:08 Westeuropäische Normalzeit
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