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Asia - Pacific
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South America - Central America |
| INTERNATIONAL |
Cold
War International History Project (CWIPH)
Disseminates new
information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War. |
The
Commonwealth
Website of the Commonwealth, and the
Commonwealth Secretariat in London. |
Constitution
Finder
This index offers constitutions,
charters, amendments, and other related documents. |
Country
Studies
The Country Studies Series offers a comprehensive description
and analysis of a country or region's historical setting, geography,
society, economy, political system, foreign policy, and national
security. |
CyberJournalist.net
Focuses on the Internet and new technologies, always
looking to see how technology is affecting journalism. |
Dart
Center for Journalism & Trauma
Global network of
journalists, journalism educators and health professionals dedicated
to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict and tragedy. |
Economist Country
briefings
Each report includes forecasts,
economic and political profiles, core statistics, essential recent
articles and in-depth surveys from The Economist.
Note:
some information on this site is not freely available over the
Internet. |
Elections Around the
World
Information on every independent country
in the world. |
Chief
George Manuel Memorial Library
This website contains
over 500 documents on Fourth World nations in the Americas, Africa,
Asia, Europe, Melanesia and the Pacific. |
Human
Rights Internet
Aims to serve the
information needs of international scholars, human rights activists,
asylum lawyers, and other organizations. |
Human
Rights Watch
Organisation dedicated to protecting the
human rights of people around the world. Offers information on
campaigns, publications and news. |
IGC: PeaceNet
Covers peace, human
rights, and social and economic justice. |
Institute
for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy
Maintained by Boston University's Institute for the
Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy. Studies the political and
security developments of conflict-prone societies in crisis,
particularly Russia and other post-Soviet republics. |
IntellectualCapital.com
IntellectualCapital.com is a weekly e-zine
of public policy ideas and opinions edited by Pete du Pont and
featuring two dozen respected public policy experts representing a
spectrum of views. |
ISN:
International Relations and Security Network
ISN covers the fields of
international relations and security. |
Investigative
Reporters and Editors Inc.(IRE)
IRE is a member-supported, international
organization run by investigative journalists. |
| Nations of
the World |
UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights
This site offers an extensive collection
of United Nations human rights documents, as well as international
human rights instruments, news, and other publications. |
| University
of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
World Values Survey
Worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change,
conducted by social scientists at leading universities. |
ASIA-PACIFIC  |
| Australian Government |
Australasian
Constitutional Conventions of the 1890s
The records of the Australasian
Federation Conference of 1890 and the Australasian Federal Conventions
of 1891 and 1897/8. |
AGIP
(Australian Government Information)
AGIP contains bibliographic entries for
publications sold by the Government Info Shops, and publications
distributed through the Commonwealth Library Deposit and Free Issue
Schemes |
| Australian Policy Online |
| Australia's Prime
Ministers |
| CocoNET
Wireless: Pacific Islands news and information |
Documenting
a Democracy: Australia's Story
Contains documents which tell the story of Australia's democracy. |
| Pacific
Islands Report |
Parliament
of Australia
This includes the Australian Hansard and the Index
to Parliamentary Papers |
| Tonga Legislation Online |
EUROPE-EURASIA |
BOPCRIS
This site allows you to search and browse
information from British Official Publications over the period
1688-1995. A limited number
of these publications are available as fulltext. |
EurActiv
Portal on EU affairs
Aims to provide news monitoring, policy
positions, discussion forums and contacts on selected EU affairs
topics. |
Europa
A guide to the European Union and its
constituent bodies. |
Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Provides
authoritative background and topical information on the regional
security organization. |
| Government
of Ireland's web site |
| Parliament
of Ireland - Houses of the Oireachtas |
United
Kingdom Parliament
This site includes Hansard for the House of Commons and the House of Lords. |
MIDDLE
EAST-AFRICA |
Arabnet
News and general information on 22 Arab countries, including the
Comoros, Djibouti, and Somalia; excluded are Iran and Turkey. |
AFRICA |
AllAfrica.com
Primary news provider for the African continent. |
Africa Point:
Africa News and Media Sites
Links to web-based news resources probided by local newspapers and
magazines. |
BBC
News Online: World Africa
Presents news reports from the BBC regarding African current events. |
MIDDLE EAST |
| ABC
News: International |
| Arab
News Media and Database |
| BBC
News: Middle East |
NORTH
AMERICA |
CANADA |
| Government
of Canada |
Parliament of Canada
Including Senate debates and House of Commons debates. |
Government
of Canada (GoC) Core Subject Thesaurus
A bilingual standardized
vocabulary designed to facilitate the indexing and retrieval of
resources available on Government of Canada Web sites. |
| CIIA
(Canadian Institute of International Affairs |
| UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA |
Government websites and websites about government information |
US
House of Representatives
Links to the membership directory, committee and subcommittee list, information on chamber
organization and operation, an overview of the legislative process,
daily updates of legislative action, schedules, and Internet law
library, and access to links from the other branches of government. |
CongressLInk
Information about how the U.S. Congress works, its members and
leaders, and the public policies it produces. |
GAO US Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. |
Rollcall
Online
This site has a more specialized coverage
of Congress than many others. |
Dept. of State's International
Information Programs
Consists of press releases, texts of speeches, transcripts of radio
broadcasts. This site presents the US government position and
perspective on major international relations issues. |
United
States Senate
This site provides links to the current
membership directory, a list of committees and subcommittees, current
legislative activities, and Senate procedures. |
White
House
Includes links to biographical
information on the President and Vice-President, various federal
programs, and a citizen's handbook. |
Fedstats
A useful starting
point for anyone who wants to find federal statistics on a particular
topic on the Web, but is unsure which federal agency gathers or
publishes them. |
Foreign
Relations of the United States
This site offers a permanent archive of material released prior to January 20, 2001. For material
released since George W. Bush took office see the Department
of State's web site. |
GovFresh: Government 2.0
Live feeds of offical U.S. Government news on social networking sites Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr |
THOMAS: Legislative
Information on the Internet
Provides the full text of bills (103rd Congress and after), laws,
Congressional Record (103rd and after), and most committee reports. |
| Social issues |
Center
for the American Woman and Politics - CAWP
Specialized research unit devoted to
researching, evaluating, and promoting the changing role of women in
positions of political leadership. |
American Civil Rights Review
American Civil Rights Review is an
extensive library of materials dealing with the good and bad
sides of the civil rights movement worldwide. |
| Foreign Policy Association |
National
Security Archive
Research institute on international
affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act. It is the world's largest non
governmental library of declassified documents. |
Political
Advocacy Groups
An online directory of United States
political pressure groups, special interest groups and lobbyists. |
Terrorism
Project
This site looks at all aspects of
fighting terrorism. |
Welfare
Reform and the General Welfare
This
site includes the text of US welfare legislation, speeches by public
officials, articles from professional journals, and reports from
conservative and liberal think tanks. |
Elections |
Living Room Candidate
Presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2008. |
Presidential
Elections :
1789-2000
This page features the printable maps for the Presidential
Elections 1789-2000. |
Presidential
Elections, 1860-1912
Features political cartoons and
prints from Harper's Weekly, Vanity Fair, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Puck,
and the Library of Congress political print collection. Each cartoon
or print is accompanied by a note explaining the historical context,
identifying the people and events caricatured, and interpreting the
symbols and artistic perspective. |
| Think Tanks |
| Brookings Institution |
| Cato Institute |
| U.S. Institute of Peace |
SOUTH
AMERICA-CENTRAL AMERICA |
HLAS
Online
Handbook of Latin American Studies indexes books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers.
Disciplines covered include anthropology, economics, government and
politics, international relations, philosophy and sociology. |
Latin American Public Opinion
Project (LAPOP)
Contains over 60 surveys analysing public opinion on topics in the
political and social sciences. |
Political Database of the Americas
A comprehensive resource of current
primary source documents and political information about Western
Hemisphere politics. This site focuses on Latin American politics. |
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