Spotlights provide detail on the 17 state case studies from which examples are most often quoted in the body of the text. They include a brief pro~le of each state (or regional organization, in the case of the European Union), brief descriptions of their political features, some key demographic and economic data (some of which is presented alongside icons which illustrate di˚erent countries’ data relative to the other countries featured in the spotlights), and a short case study of each state in the context of the topic of the chapter in which the Spotlight appears.