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The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is international affairs. |
· The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources. Presents over 2000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Sites are carefully selected for long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online. http://www2.etown.edu/vl/
· The International Studies Association Network. Posts ISA conference papers, conference information, employment opportunities and resources, the ISA Newsletter, and International Studies Notes, with full-text articles online. http://www.isanet.org/
· Foreign Affairs Magazine. From the Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
· International Relations. A news site maintained by Oxford Analytica. http://www.oxan.com/Topics.aspx?TopicGroup=International+Relations
· Foreign Affairs Online. From the University of Virginia, provides many annotated links for those interested in international law, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. http://people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html
· Global Information Access NeT (GIANT). From the University of Pittsburgh, a comprehensive database of organizations and experts in international affairs, searchable by organizational name, location, subject, type, and resource offerings, plus a limited-area, full-text search of the sites maintained by the organizations listed in GIANT. http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/giant/
· The World Online: International and Comparative Studies from Tufts University. A site with both annotated links of major resources and tips on how to do international affairs research online. http://www.tufts.edu/~reichenb/ir_web/ir_index.html
· International Simulations. From the University of Michigan Documents Center, one of the largest collections of international affairs linkages on the Net, including ones on international organizations (IGOs and NGOs) and international simulation models. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intsim.html
· Union of International Associations. A large master index of links to intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and to information about them, by the Brussels group responsible for tracking them. http://www.uia.be/
· United Nations. This huge system of sites has a tremendous amount of information online, including thousands of full-text publications on hundreds of international affairs topics. http://www.un.org/
· Europa--The European Union On-Line. The massive and multilingual official European Union site, covering the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, and other bodies of the European Union. There is a truly huge amount of information on this site. http://europa.eu/
· International Monetary Fund. A large number of publications on world economic and financial issues, including selected staff country reports and the annual World Economic Outlook, are available and searchable online. http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
· World Bank Group. Includes the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Agency, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Guarantee Agency, and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Hundreds of online publications on world economic, financial, and development issues are available from each of them. http://www.worldbank.org/
· Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The international organization of the industrialized, market-economy countries, to exchange information and harmonize policy to maximize economic growth within member countries and assist non-member countries to develop more rapidly. Searchable, with numerous online free documents, many OECD statistics, online Working Papers in Economics, and technical papers. http://www.oecd.org/home/
· Eldis. Major directory and gateway to electronic information resources on development and the environment, with a searchable database of thousands of papers online at its site or linked, and annotated links to thousands of organizations and web pages, from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, England. http://www.eldis.org
· Institute of International Education. The best source in the world on study abroad, IIE conducts statistical and policy research and provides information on international study and work opportunities. A large, searchable site, with numerous publications online, and IEE Passport, a well-refined search engine for thousands of IIE study abroad program listings. http://www.iie.org/
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