Other Online Resources
The Internet can be an excellent source for basic
background information, for contemporary news, and for government documents &
quantitative data relevant to the study of the politics of international
economic relations. That said, there is also
a lot of bad information available on the Internet; please be careful out there...! Use
the same rigorous standards that should be applied to printed materials in your evaluation
of online information.
On this page, you will find links relevant to
cross-national research listed in five major groupings: international political
economy, government documents & statistics (both national &
international), country & regional background information, contemporary
online news,
and Latin American affairs.
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interest to you right now:
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
 | Global Macroeconomic and
Financial Policy Site
 | http://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/
 | This interesting website is maintained by Nouriel Roubini at New
York University. The left-hand frame
provides a clickable list to navigate the page. The site provides a
diverse mix of news reporting, academic analysis, governmental
analysis (and data), and non-governmental sources. |
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| The International Political
Economy Network
| http://csf.colorado.edu/ipe/
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This website is sponsored by the international political
economy section of the International Studies Association. It contains a wide variety of links organized by issue and by
geographic region. |
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| World
Economy
| http://specials.ft.com/worldeconomy2001/FT3TOR6STUC.html
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This December 2001 special report from the Financial Times contains
stories on a variety of contemporary issues during 2001 and on the
politics of these issues in and out of the halls of government. |
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| Virtual Library: International
Development Cooperation
| http://www.alcazar.com/vl_idc/
| This clearinghouse site is maintained by Boris Kestler. It contains
links to governmental and non-governmental organizations active in
international economic issues. The links are organized by type of
organization, by issue, by region, and alphabetically. |
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS and STATISTICS
| Here are a few links to official sites of intergovernmental
organizations:
| INTERNATIONAL
AGENCIES and INFORMATION on the WEB
| http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html
This site is maintained by the library at the University of Michigan. It is a
searchable site with a detailed, annotated list of web sites for IGOs. This is a very
useful links page. |
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| INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
| http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
This links page is maintained by the library at Northwestern University. It is (large)
single page organized alphabetically by organization. It is similar to the Michigan site,
but each contains quite a few different links. This site is not annotated, but does
provide a series of distinct URLs for many organizations. |
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| United Nations
| http://www.unsystem.org/
This is the site locator for all web sites maintained by the United Nations and the
multitude of organizations in the U.N. system. The site also contains a links page for
other international organizations. |
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| International Monetary Fund
| http://www.imf.org/
The International Monetary Fund posts online financial data for countries around the
world. |
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| World Bank
| http://www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank posts online economic and social data for countries around the
world. |
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| World Intellectual Property
Organization
| http://www.wipo.int/
The World Intellectual Property Organization hosts an online library
with information on intellectual property rights for countries around the
world. |
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| World Trade Organization
| http://www.wto.org/
The World Trade Organization posts online trade data for countries around the
world. |
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| Here are a few starter links to official sites of national governments:
| The Great American Web Site
| http://www.uncle-sam.com/
This Internet guide to U.S. government web sites is maintained by Inside Information, a
U.S.-based research firm. The full site is organized by government branch but also
contains several topically oriented links pages. |
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| FOREIGN
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES on the WEB
| http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
This links page is maintained by the library at the University of Michigan. It is
organized first by regions and then by national governments. For each nation-state listed
there is a brief discussion of official government web sites. |
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| FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS
| http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html
This links page is maintained by the library at Northwestern University. It is (large)
single page organized alphabetically by nation. It is perhaps more exhaustive for many
countries than the above Michigan site, but the links are not annotated and the site is
not searchable. |
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COUNTRY and REGIONAL BACKGROUND
| CIA
Publications Page
| http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html
| This page contains links to online access of public domain CIA reporting. The CIA Factbook
provides thumbnail physical, economic, & political geographies of every nation-state
in the world. This page also contains links to CIA publications providing international
economic statistics, lists of current political leaders, high quality maps, and a variety
of historical information on the CIA itself. This site is very useful as a preliminary
introduction to countries but not very useful beyond that purpose. |
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| U.S.
Department of State Background Notes
| http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
| The State Department background notes contain some of the basic geographical information
provided in the CIA Factbook but also provide short histories of a few
international organizations as well as reports on most nation-states. This links page hold
links to regions and to IGOs but the regional links take you to links pages for the
country notes for each region. If you click on the publications link on the
image map at the top of the background notes page, you can access a wide variety of
additional State Department reports including such topics as anti-narcotic policy,
counterterrorism, economic policy, and human rights. |
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| Library of Congress
Country Studies
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
| This page provides access to the online version of the country studies series conducted
by the U.S. Library of Congress. Just under 100 countries are currently treated in the
site. Each country study has a detailed, hyperlinked table of contents; most of the study
is organized chronologically. This is a good site for finding a fairly comprehensive
online history of many different countries but is cumbersome to read an entire history
and even more burdensome (not to mention wasteful) to print one out. If you want to read
the entire country study, go to the library and check it out! |
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| Virtual Library: The International
Affairs Network
| http://www.etown.edu/vl/
| This site maintained by Elizabethtown College contains links pages organized by a variety
of subject headings as well as an incomplete list of country headings. The area studies
and subject links are generally more useful than the country links provided. |
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NEWS
| Yahoo!
online newspapers list
| http://www.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/
| Back in the hazy past of, say, 1992, people interested in reading foreign newspapers
waited 1 to 2 weeks to read foreign daily newspapers -- that is, if the newspapers were
available at all either in a nearby library or via a (costly) personal subscription. Now,
literally hundreds of daily newspapers around the world are available online
before they
hit the streets in newsprint. Increasing numbers of online papers provide 24-hour
updating of major stories. This site, maintained by Yahoo!, provides a comprehensive list
of foreign & domestic newspapers available online. Please take advantage of this
resource in following contemporary events in the countries of special interest to you.
Many newspapers have internal search engines and/or archives with past online
editions. |
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| The Economist
| http://www.economist.com/
| This is the online site for what many people consider the best international weekly news
magazine in the world, the London-based The Economist. Right now, this site
provides very limited services to those who are not subscribers but it does have a very
useful full-text search engine for issues published in the last few years. You can use
this search engine to identify issues to read in printed copies available in the library.
If you have a keen interest in world affairs, you should consider going to current
periodicals every week and spending some time with The Economist. |
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| CNN's World News Section
| http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/
| This site maintained by CNN provides coverage of major news stories from around the world. CNN will occasionally publish background reports on major stories. |
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| New York Times
| http://www.nytimes.com/
| This site is listed here mainly to encourage you to use the printed version rather than
the online version. The 365-day, full-text search engine is dynamic, but you need to
establish one (free) account to use the site at all and, in turn, a second account to use
the search engine. All past editions of the newspaper, a printed index, and a
searchable database are all available in Carrier Library. |
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| The Washington Post
| http://www.washingtonpost.com/
| In contrast to the New York Times site, this one provides free full-text searches
of the past 14 days' editions. The online version of the newspaper is also a little
easier to use and much quicker to download. The politics and world online
sections
provide a host of information on major continuing stories (listed as special reports) as
well as links to other online sources of political news. |
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| Latin American Network Information Center
| http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/
| This comprehensive site is maintained by the Latin American studies program at the
University of Texas at Austin. It is considered by many to be the best
online resource for Latin American studies. The material is organized by subject & there is also a search
engine. |
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| Organization of American States
| http://www.oas.org/
| This site for the Western Hemisphere's primary international organization contains
information and analysis on a variety of major regional issues. Perhaps the most
impressive section is the treatment of trade agreements and trade
statistics provided by its Foreign
Trade Information System. |
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| Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
| http://www.ftaa-alca.org/
| This site contains official documents and reports related to ongoing
negotiations aimed at the creation of the Free Trade Agreement of the
Americas. |
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| North American
Free Trade Agreement
| http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm
| This site contains official documents and reports provided by the
Secretariat of the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada,
Mexico, and the United States.. |
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| Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean
| http://www.eclac.org/default.asp?idioma=IN
| This site contains a host of economic data and
analysis from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean. |
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| Inter-American Development Bank
| http://www.iadb.org/
| This site for the region's intergovernmental financial institution also contains a wide
variety of economic data and analysis. |
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| Latin American Studies Association
| http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/links.htm
| This brief links page is maintained by the Latin American Studies Association, the international professional association for the
study of Latin America. This site itself is not nearly as useful as LANIC but it provides a list of links to major Latin American studies
centers as well as a short list of data sources on the region. |
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| Political Database of the Americas
| http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/
| This site maintained by the Latin American Studies program at Georgetown University
contains a wide variety of political data and information. Topics covered include
constitutions, electoral procedures and results, and political parties. A keyword
search engine is available on a separate page. |
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| Handbook of Latin American Studies
| http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/
| This online version of the multi-volume handbook (maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress) is a fully searchable, multi-year
bibliography of many books and articles published on the region. You can browse by subject or conducted more complex searches
as you would in an online library catalog. |
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