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- BBC News - They also offer the BBC World Service, available 24 hours a day in over 44 languages and Country Profiles.
- Le Monde diplomatique
- NewsLink - Links to newspapers worldwide
- Africa Online
- African Studies Centre (Afrika-Studiecentrum) - University of Leiden. The Library provides access to the Online Catalog. A search (zoeken) in the catalog for AIDS Zimbabwe, for example, retrieves 15 results, all in English. Among the Library-prepared Web Dossiers is Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century.
- Amnesty International - "Worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights." In Research you can "search our extensive library of more than 50,000 items going back more than 20 years." English, French, Spanish and Arabic versions are provided. Browse human rights by country or by topic.
- Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe - Maintained by Sara Champion and Martijn van Leusen, ARGE is an "ordered collection of hypertext links pointing to current archaeological communication and information resources across Europe."
- Assemblée nationale française - Palais Bourbon, Paris.
- Association of National Tourist Offices in the United Kingdom (ANTOR UK) - With links to official sites.
- Background Notes - U.S. State Department provides information on geographic entities and international organizations which are updated periodically. Another useful resource provided by the State Department is the Country Commercial Guides Index (1996-2001). The Guides "present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis." You can search for current Country Commercial Guides in the U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library. See also Doing Business in Europe and Doing Business in West and Central Africa.
- Best Practices: Database in Improving the Living Environment - "Searchable database contains over 2150 proven solutions from more than 140 countries to the common social, economic and environmental problems of an urbanizing world."
- BritainUSA - British Information Service, New York
- British Council
- British Monarchy - Royal Family's official site offers press releases, information on accession, coronation and succession, palaces and residences, biographies of family members, and links to other resources.
- BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources
- Bureau of International Organization Affairs - "Develops and implements U.S. policy in the United Nations (UN), the UN's specialized agencies, and other international organizations."
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Other Statistical Sites on the Web - With links to international statistical agencies.
- Canadian Heritage - Government site provides information on Citizenship and Canadian Identity, Cultural Development, Arts and Heritage and Parks Canada.
- Canadian Information By Subject - Over 1000 links to information about Canada, arranged by subject from the National Library of Canada.
- Canadian Institute of International Affairs - Has a good collection of links to other resources.
- Canadian International Development Agency - Supports projects in 150 countries.
- CARE - Website of the international relief agency has special reports and Virtual Field Trips to Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, Ghana, Bolivia, Haiti, Kosovo, Madagascar, Nepal, Mali and Honduras. There are also Annual Reports.
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Publisher of Foreign Policy Magazine. Their papers and publications are listed by date, type, author, title, topic and project.
- Center for Refugee Studies - York University
- Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies - Stanford University.
- "Gorbachev Revisited" - The 2006 Alexander Dallin Lecture on Soviet and Post Soviet Affairs - Summary of the April 18, 2006 lecture by Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University.
- CREES Chronicle Summer 2006
- CREES Chronicle Winter 2006
- CREES Chronicle Summer 2005
- Center for Strategic & International Studies - Has experts in more than 25 programs. Major research areas are:
- defense and security policy
- demography and population
- energy
- global health
- technology
- trade & economics
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Among their publications are:
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
- World Factbook
- Maps & Publications.
- Chemical, Biological and Nuclear Terrorism/Warfare: A Bibliography (pbf file) - Greta E. Marlatt, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School, Revised and updatd September 2003. See also Resources & Links: Homeland Security and Terrorism.
- The Commonwealth - Voluntary association of 53 sovereign states. There is a Video Archive and a 30-minute monthly radio programme, Pick of the Commonwealth , with archives.
- Conseil de l'Europe | Council of Europe - Based in the French city of Strasbourg, its main role is to strengthen democracy, human rights and the rule of law throughout its 46 member states. There is a Guide to Researching the Council of Europe by Anne Burnett, a Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian at the University of Georgia School of Law Library.
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) - CGIAR's mission is to contribute to food security and poverty eradication in developing countries through research, partnership, capacity building, and policy support. With links to 16 international agricultural research centers.
- Constitutions of the World - Full-text (Kingwood College Library).
- Constitution Finder - Constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. John Paul Jones & Churchill Bowles, T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond.
- Country Commercial Guides - U.S. State Department
- Country Indicators for Foreign Policy - "On-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the economic, political, social and cultural environments of countries around the world. You must request a password (free). (Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa.)
- Country Reports on Terrorism - U.S. Department of State
- Country Studies / Area Handbooks - Library of Congress
- Crimes of War - "A unique collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars that seeks to raise awareness of the laws of war."
- Data and Program Library Service - Central repository of data collections used by the social science research community at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences contains over 650 annotated links to data-related resources.
- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Harvard University.
- Novosti Newsletter
- RRC Studies Series
- Cold War Studies at Harvard University
- Developmental Gateway Foundation - "Online resources portal for development information and knowledge-sharing worldwide. The tools in this website bring together people and organizations around the glove who are working to improve life in developing countries." See their dgCommunities Advanced Search
- Digital Freedom Network - "International nonpartisan partnership working with free speech and human rights organizations, DFN publishes censored material on its Web site."
- Diplomatic List - U.S. State Department list of missions in the U.S., is prepared quarterly by the Office of Protocol. It contains the names of members of the diplomatic staffs of all missions and their spouses. Members of the diplomatic staff are the members of the staff of the mission having diplomatic rank.
- Directory of Development Organizations - Lists 29,500 contacts of organizations ("international organizations, governments, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions and development consulting firms").
- La Documentation Française
- Collections photographiques.
- Cartothèque
- Catalogue bibliographique
- Revues sur l'Union européenne
- Documents diplomatiques suisses - This Swiss database has over 3650 online documents relating to international relations and diplomacy during and after World War II. To use the database click on Base de Données on the left sidebar, then select DoDiS - consultation. Try a search for Truman - you'll retrieve a number of full-text documents in many languages (German, French, English). There is a telegram dated Washington 11.8.45 (August 11, 1945) from Max Grässli (1902-1985), a member of the Légation de Suisse in Washington, in which he forwards the response of Secretary of State James Byrnes: "Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of August 10 and in reply to inform you that the President of the United States has directed me to send to you for transmission by your Government to the Japanese Government the following message on behalf of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Sovietsocialist Republics and China. With regard to the Japanese Government's message accepting the terms of the Potsdam proclamation...." (Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th,1945, Nagasaki three days later).
- DOSFAN Electronic Research Collection - Archived electronic documents from the US State Department website and US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Offers Site Map, Alphabetic Index, Country and Region Reports, a Country Information Pathfinder and Electronic Research Collections.
- Economist: Country Briefings
- Eldis: Gateway to Development and Environment Information - Has subject guides and country guides.
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) - University of California, Berkeley.
- Electronic Embassy
- EM-DAT : the International Disaster Database - "EMDAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies."
- Embassy of France
- Embassy Page
- Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia
- Europa: European Union On-Line - Useful sections include Researching the European Union, Development Links. European Union Law (EUR-Lex) provides Consolidated Texts of Legislation, Treaties, Recent Case-Law, and the Official Journal. Available in 11 languages.
- Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative - “International project to develop and distribute digital data on historical and archaeological resources.”
See their Iraq Cultural Atlas.
- European Internet Network - EIN publishes three award-winning daily news and information sites: Central Europe Online, Russia Today and Inside China Today.
- European Parliament
- EuroStat: Statistical Office of the European Union
- FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends - "Free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)."
- FLAG Foreign Law Guide Project - University of London
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations - The FAO Document Repository offers such useful information as Fishing boat designs and Sheep and Goat Breeds of India. Many of the documents are available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.
- Foreign Affairs Envoy - WWW Links
- Foreign Affairs - Published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Provides a selection of full-text articles from the current issue.
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web - Compiled by the University of Michigan Documents Center.
- Foreign Affairs Online - Robert J. Beck.
- Foreign Policy - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Free Trade Area of the Americas
- G8 Information Centre - University of Toronto
- GeoImages - Images (mostly photographs) that are useful in teaching geography. Conceived, constructed, and maintained by G. Donald Bain, Director of the Geography Computing Facility, University of California at Berkeley. Includes Images of Afghanistan in 1976-78.
- Global Access to Information
- "An experimental portal for tracking research literature availability, especially in the developing world." See also The Global Access2.info Portal: A Flexible Technology for Managing Journal Access Information, AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture, Electronic Information for Libraries, WHO Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative, INASP Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI) and TEEAL The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library.
- Global Legal Information Network - Library of Congress "database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN." There is also a Thesaurus for the Global Legal Information Network.
- Government of Canada - Canada Gazette is the official newspaper of the Government of Canada. Provides archives back to 1998. There is also a What's New page. The Depository Services Program supplies "materials to a network of more than 790 libraries in Canada and to another 147 institutions around the world holding collections of Canadian government publications."
- Government and the Government Offices of Sweden - See also Sveriges Riksdag - The Swedish Parliament
- Government of Ireland
- Governments on the WWW - Gunnar Anzinger's excellent collection of links to government web sites worldwide also includes a good list of links to other sources.
- Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World - Law Library of Congress.
- Handbook of International Economic Statistics - 1998 - Central Intelligence Agency site provides comparative statistics for major countries and regions.
- Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) - "Set up by WHO together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Over 3503 journal titles are now available to health institutions in 113 countries." See Eligibility and Registered Universities and Professional Schools By Country.
- Hitchhiking Vietnam: Letters from the trail - Karin Muller and her journey into the heart of Vietnam (PBS Online)
- Houses of Parliament - Information about the United Kingdom Parliament, the House of Commons and the House of Lords; includes searchable database of parliamentary speeches. See also Hansard (House of Commons Daily Debates) and House of Commons Publications on the Internet.
- Human Development Reports - Global, regional and national reports with statistics on a wide variety of quality of life issues: life expectancy, adult literacy, underweight children, health expenditure, low birth-weight, sanitation facilities, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cigarette consumption, telephone mainlines, Carbon dioxide emissions etc. For an example or a recent report, see Egypt.
- Human Rights on the Internet: Sites that encourage activism - September 1999, Association of College & Research Libraries News
- IFES - "International, nonprofit organization that supports the building of democratic societies."
- Index on Censorship - Bimonthly magazine for free speech. The Index has a country-by-country update of free speech abuses.
- Infonation - United Nations site is an "easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations."
- Information Research: Country Profiles - Part of David Novak's Spire Project.
- Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs provides special reports, specific news items, daily updates, weekly digests for regions in crisis. The Weekly Reports, which are archived, are good resources for current news about Africa.
- Intelligence Agencies
- Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) - France
- SISMI - Italy
- Inter-Parliamentary Union - Provides links to Web Sites of National Parliaments.
- International Center for Not-for-Profit Law - "Mission is to facilitate and support the development of civil society on a global basis by assisting the creation and improvement of laws and regulatory systems that permit, encourage, and regulate the not-for-profit sector in countries around the world." The Library is a "searchable directory of legal documents, court cases, reports, and other civil society resources from countries around the world."
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture - "Not-for-profit organization that conducts socially and environmentally progressive research aimed at reducing hunger and poverty and preserving natural resources in developing countries."
- International Chamber of Commerce - See also the ICC International Court of Arbitration
- International Committee of the Red Cross - Provides news and Operations by Country.
- International Constitutional Law - University of Wuerzburg
- International Crisis Group - Brussels-based "private, multinational organisation with over 80 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and contain conflict." They have a number of useful publications, for example, on Indonesia, including Aceh: Why The Military Option Still Won't Work (9 May 2003) and Al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia: The Case of the 'Ngruki Network' in Indonesia (8 August 2002) (in pdf format).
- International Cultural Property Protection - United States Department of State collects Recent Reports of Looting, Theft, Prosecution and Recovery on the World Wide Web. There is a Site Index and an Image Database of Restricted Objects which includes Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Mali and Cyprus.
- International Data Base (IDB) - U.S. Census Bureau site is "a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world." Their Population Pyramids "allows you to obtain population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for one country."
- International Development Research Centre - "Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies." Offers Free online books. Examples of titles: Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa (2000) edited by Eglal Rached and Dina Craissati; Blue Genes: Sharing and Conserving the World's Aquatic Biodiversity (2004) by David Greer and Brian Harvey; and In_Focus: Fixing Health Systems (2004) by Don de Savigny, Harun Kasale, Conrad Mbuya, and Graham Reid.
- International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) - "Worldwide, independent organization created to provide librarians around the world with a forum for exchanging ideas, promoting international cooperation, research and development in all fields of library activity."
- International Monetary Fund - Provides Country Assessments.
- International Resources - Government Publications - Northwestern University Library
- International Relations and Security Network (ISN) - "Daily updated, searchable clearinghouse for resources in the field of security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations." Has a Think Tank Directory
- INTERPOL - International Criminal Police Organization
- Irish in America: the Long Journey Home - Companion to the PBS special airing in January 1998.
- Irish World-Wide Web Server Maps
- Italian NIR Resources
- Japan Home Page - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Kiriyama Prize - "Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize has been awarded every year since 1996. It promotes books that will contribute to greater understanding and cooperation among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia." Provides lists of current and previous winners and finalists. 2002 winners are Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry (fiction) and From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Padaung-Burmese Pascal Khoo Thwe (nonfiction).
- Korea Window - Korean Overseas Information Service
- Library Catalogs Around the World - University of Virginia Library. See also Thomas Dowling's Libweb: Library Servers via WWW, John W. East's National Library Catalogues Worldwide, Gabriel's National Libraries of Europe, IFLA's WWW Accessible National Libraries of the World and webCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web by Peter Scott and Doug Macdonald.
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) - Comprehensive resource from the University of Texas at Austin.
- LegiFrance - "La service public de la diffusion du droit."
- Library of Congress Country Studies - Area Handbooks - Provides extensive information on over 91 countries, describing and analyzing political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. and includes photographs, maps, and charts.
- Lijphart Election Archive - Research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries housed at the University of California, San Diego.
- List of Russian Web Servers
- Local Ireland - Guide to all things Irish.
- Mario's Cyberspace Station - Croatian journalist Mario Profaca has collected links to sites dealing with terrorism, war crimes, and military operations worldwide.
- Masks.org - With Links to images of masks throughout the world.
- Middle East Network Information Center - Comprehensive collection of resources from the University of Texas, Austin
- Middle East Studies - Frank Unlandherm, Middle East Studies Librarian, Columbia University.
- Ministère des Affaires étrangères (France) - Provides access to France Magazine, in English or in French.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Tribune - (7 February 2000: "403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected.")
- Minorities at Risk Project: Tracking Ethnopolitical Conflict Worldwide - Monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of 275 politically-active communal groups.
- Library of Congress Global Gateway
- Moscow Channel - English-language journal about Russian culture, politics and art edited by Vladimir Druk and Alex Halberstadt.
- Multilaterals Project - Texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments made available by the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University. Texts are organized by subject and are also listed chronologically.
- Multilingual Web at the ACF - New York University's Academic Computing Facility "provides links to worldwide multilingual computing resources on the Internet, gives an overview of the technical issues, offers tools for browsing and publishing on the Web in dozens of languages."
- National Anthems - MP3 collection of anthems for all continents
- National Archives - There are several resources for locating national archives throughout the world (UNESCO Archives Portal, European Archival Network, Historical Archives of the European Communities, Africa Research Central, H-Net: Latin American Archives). Some of the principal archives include Public Record Office (Great Britain), Bundesarchiv (Germany), Österreichische Staatsarchiv (Austria) and Archives Nationales (France), National Archives of Canada and the National Archives of Ireland.
- National Defense Council World Conflict List
- National Geographic Online
- NATO - There is an on-line library with texts of documents and treaties, press releases, fact sheets, the NATO Handbook, and transcripts of speeches dating as far back as 1947. Full-text access to the NATO Review is provided from 1990 to the present.
- No. 10 Downing St. - Provides biographies of prime ministers and cabinet ministers, speeches, transcripts, interviews, press releases, information on government departments and a tour of the residence.
- Nordic Pages - Nikos Markovits
- Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry - Michael Dartnell of the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal has gathered an impressive collection of links to political inquiry resources worldwide. There are 31 categories including:
- The Troubles (in Northern Ireland)
- Terrorism
- Feminism and Women's Issues
- French Politics
- 164 Currency Converter - OANDA/Olsen & Associates's converter can work with 164 different currencies. Other currency sites include the Universal Currency Converter and
Currencies and Currency-Exchange.
- open.gov.uk - U.K.'s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) provides links to government resources of all kinds. Has Topic Index and Organisation Index.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - “For more than 40 years, OECD has been one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts of economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.” Reports include:
- National Accounts of OECD Countries, Volume I, Main Aggregates
- Korea: Green growth strategy: mitigating climate change and developing new growth engines - by Randall S. Jones and Byungseo Yoo, Economics Department Working Papers No. 79830, July 2010. “Korea's greenhouse gas emissions almost doubled between 1990 and 2005...”
- Orientation - Regional Search Directory
- Organization of American States
- Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
- Parlamento Italiano - Procedures of both the Camera and the Senate. Listen to RealAudio debates.
- Parliament of Canada - "Managed jointly by the parliamentary institutions - that is, the Senate and the House of Commons - working together with the Library of Parliament." LEGISINFO, a "collaborative effort of the Parliamentary Information and Research Service and the Information and Document Resource Service of the Library of Parliament" is "an essential research tool for finding information on legislation currently before Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about individual bills, such as: the text of the bill at various stages; government press releases and backgrounders (for government bills); legislative summaries from the Parliamentary Information and Research Service; important speeches at second reading; votes; and coming into force data." There is a good collection of Library of Parliament Research Publications created by the Parliamentary Information and Research Service (PIRS). Titles include:
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: International Experiences - By Marlisa Tiedemann and Dominique Valiquet, Law and Government Division, Revised 17 July 2008.
- Extraordinary Rendition: International Law and the Prohibition of Torture - By Laura Barnett, Law and Government Division, Revised 17 July 2008.
- Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York - United Nations Development Program
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas, Austin. Has a large collection of online maps.
- PlaceNames.com - Gazetteers, place name lists, town and city indexes from around the world.
- Political Database of the Americas - Georgetown University. "Comprehensive database of political information concerning all 35 independent nations of the Western Hemisphere."
- Politician Government Address Directory - Donald Vermithrax's worldwide directory of politicians.
- Portals to the World - Library of Congress sites provides links to Web resources for 49 countries.
- Prince of Wales - Official Internet Website of HRH The Prince of Wales. Provides searchable access to the complete texts of speeches and articles (including organic farming) information on The Prince's Trust, a schedule of forthcoming engagements, an online forum and a picture gallery.
- Progress of Nations 1999 - UNICEF provides reports and statistics on worldwide health, education, and economics.
- Radio Canada International - Multilingual
- Radio Free Europe - With a good collection of links.
- Refugee Studies Centre - University of Oxford. You can search the Library Catalogue which is making its grey literature collection (c. 25,000 items) available in digital form. There are research reports (in pdf format) on such issues as displacement, resettlement and forced migration. Among the reports available is Children and Adolescents in Palestinian Households: Living with the Effects of Prolonged Conflict and Forced Migration A Regional Study (in English and Arabic). Forced Migration Online is a digital library which "contains approximately 3,000 full-text documents in electronic format which can be searched, read online and printed as required." A full-text search, for Iraq, for examples, retrieves 253 results.
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - "The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources." There are over 1400 areas on the Ramsar Listand there is a searchable Ramsar Sites Database.
- REESWeb - The World Wide Web Virtual Library Russian & East European Studies - Center for Russian & East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
- Reuters AlertNet - Alerts journalists to worldwide humanitarian crises with links to reports and photos from previous emergencies
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Royal Court of Sweden - Official site provides information on the Royal Family, their palace, and the history of the Swedish monarchy.
- Russian Chronicles
- Russian and East European Network Information Center (UT-REENIC) - Collection of links to websites with information about East and Central Europe, Russia, and the newly independent countries of the former Soviet Union provided by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Russian Studies - From College and Research Libary News.
- Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network (ACRAN) - "Networked multimedia resource base for the study, teaching and appreciation of history and material culture in Scotland."
- Scottish Government
- Sénat Français
- Siberia Diary - Reporter Robert G. Kaiser and photographer Lucian Perkins report on the people and natural resources of Siberia in this month-long Washington Post series.
- Sinn Fein Home Page - Official site
- Slavic, East European, and Former USSR Resources - Virginia Tech University Libraries
- Social Indicators of Development Database Search - World Bank
- South Asia Terrorism Portal - With reports on such countries as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- St Petersburg Web
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) - Research and data on global and regional security and conflicts, weapons and technology proliferation, military expenditures, arms productions and trade, and arms control and disarmament. Provides information on their Projects. The Military Expenditure and Arms Production Project provides data on Recent trends in military expenditure. (See The fifteen major spenders (1995-2000.)
- Stortingets - Norwegian Parliament's official web site. Has iinformation about the site in English.
- Stratfor.com - Intelligence consulting firm in Austin, Texas provides military analysis and news of world affairs.
- Terrorism: Near Eastern Groups and State Sponsors (PDF format) - Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service, September 10, 2001. Provided by the Federation of American Scientists on their Hot Documents page.
- Tibetan Government in Exile - Maintained by The Office of Tibet (official agency of the Dalai Lama in London).
- Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory - Over 1,500 entries that contain "contact information for official government tourism offices and similar agencies."
- Travel Warnings & Consular Info Sheets - U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs. Other sites with travel advisories include:
- U.S. Transportation Security Administration
- U.S. Department of State Passport Services and Information
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Travelers' Health
- U.S. Customs
- Canada Department of Foreign Affairs
- Travel Information and Advisory Reports
- U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- World Travel Watch
- Robert Young Pelton's Dangerous Places
- Travel Document Systems
- Corporate Travel Safety
- iJet Travel Intelligence
- Lonely Planet Travel Ticker
- CNN Travel Advisor
- Google Groups
- UC Atlas of Global Inequality - “Explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California.”
- U.K. Official Publications on the Internet - Full text or summary of selected documents prepared for the Internet by the Stationery Office. Includes official documents, arranged by category, from the UK Parliament, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, The Stationery Office Ltd and other authoritative sites.
- UNESCO Archives Portal
- UNESCO Web - Provides access to the UNESDOC Catalog which lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides the full text of many of these.
- UNESCO Memory of the World Programme: Preserving Documentary Heritage - Goal is the "preservation of the valuable archive holdings and library collections all over the world ensuring their wide dissemination." Offers a Directory of Digitized Collections.
- UNESCO Photobank - Currently contains over 10,000 digitalized images.covering a wide range of subjects related to the Organization's fields of competence: education, science, culture and communication.
- UNICEF Home Page
- Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision
- United Nations
- Security Council, with list of
Members
- General Assembly
- Alphabetic Index of Websites of the United Nations System of Organizations
- UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS
- Bookshop
- United Nations Multimedia - Has Radio News in six languages, and
Television & Video News.
- UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Has a Country Index.
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Integrated Relief Information Network - News of Africa & Asia
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN) - World population statistics, trends and forecasts.
- United Nations Treaty Collection - Offers access to over 40,000 treaties and international agreements.
- United Nations Scholars' Workstation - Joint project of Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, it consists of collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations,international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography.
- United States Institute of Peace - "Independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict." Site highlights include Peace Agreements Digital Collection, with full texts of peace agreements related to worldwide inter- and intra-state conflicts since 1989, a webcast on Managing Information Chaos, and access to the archives of their newsletter, Peace Watch. The USIP Library has assembled various collections of links including Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, International Organizations, Research Centers in International Relations by Country, Foreign Ministries and Regional Resources.
- U.S. Gazetteer - U.S. Census Service
- USINFO: The United States Department of State - U.S. Department of State. Has a Site Index and a Publications Page. There are links to U.S. Embassies and Other Diplomatic Missions.
- U.S. Trade and Development Agency - Offers Trade & Export News, a Region and Sector Index and a searchable Library.
- U.S. Agency for International Development - "Independent federalgovernment agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States."
- U.S. Commercial Service - Has links to International Offices
- U. S. Department of State Magazine - With Archive
- U.S. Diplomatic History Resources Index - Index of resources available to historians of U.S. foreign policy on the Internet edited by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes.
- Universities Worldwide - Links to 5065 Universities in 147 countries compiled by Klaus Förster, Department of Geography, University of Innsbruck.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - They also have a Human Rights Meta Search Engine which allows users to search 18 different human rights sites simultaneously.
- Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) - "Implemented and hosted by OCLC, is joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies. The project's goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web."
- War, Peace and Security WWW Server - Presented by the Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College, Toronto, Canada. Their War, Peace & Security Guide is described as "the world's most comprehensive guide to military and defence-related resources on the Internet."
- Washington Post - Use their "Search the World" database to find information on 220 countries. They also provide access to their International Special Reports.
- WESSWEB: Western European Studies Section - "Western European Studies Section (WESS) is part of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. WESS is professionally involved in the acquisition, organization, and use of information sources originating in or related to Western European countries. Our aim is to promote the improvement of library services supporting study and research in Western European affairs from ancient times to the present."
- World Anthem Database - Lyrics of the national anthems of over 85 countries.
- World Bank
- Key Development Data & Statistics
- Countries and Regions
- Global Monitoring Report 2007 - "Assesses the contributions of developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions toward meeting universally agreed development commitments."
- World Development Sources - Text search and retrieval
system to over 14,000 citations for World Bank reports.
- World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency publication is searchable and includes country profiles, maps and flags.
- World Health Organization - Useful sections Include:
Disease Outbreak News,
Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response,
Disease Information,
Tropical Diseases and the
WHO Statistical Information System. The
Library provides access to the online catalog, a directory of
Online Journals and a Virtual Reference Desk.
- World Civilizations - Richard Hooker's Internet classroom and anthology which represents the "culmination of over two years of web-based teaching and learning" at Washington State University. There is a Table of Contents and a collection of Internet Resources.
- World Heritage List - UNESCO's list of cultural and natural heritage World properties recognized as exhibiting "outstanding universal value", arranged alphabetically by country. Included are cities, structures, parks, archaeological sites, monuments, canals, historic routes, landscapes, and fortifications.
- World Heritage Tour - "World Heritage sites in panography - 360 degree imaging."
- World Law - World-wide law index from the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
- World Leaders & Governments
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments - Central Intelligence Agency. Updated weekly.
- Diplomatic List - U.S. State Department list "covers foreign missions (embassies, interest sections) in the United States."
- Dirigentes en ejercicio - Fundación CIDOB. See also their Biografías Líderes Políticos.
- Electronic Embassy (Washington D.C.) - “Provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available.” Similar resources:
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan.
- Governments on the WWW - Gunnar Anzinger. Last updated June 2002.
- Permanent Missionsof to the United Nations
- Zárate's Political Collections - Roberto Ortiz de Zarate.
- World Link Online - Online magazine of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland.
- World Monuments Fund - "Private, nonprofit organization founded in 1965 by individuals concerned about the accelerating destruction of important artistic and architectural treasures throughout the world". Provides list of 100 Most Endangered Sites.
- World Paper Money - Ron Wise's collection of scanned images of over 2,000 notes.
- World Policy Institute - "Located at the New School for Social Research in New York, the World Policy Institute is an educational and public policy institute engaged in policy research and public education on critical world problems and U.S. international policy."
- World Radio Network - Live audio newscast streams in RealAudio, WindowsMedia and StreamWorks 24 hours a day from 25 of the world's leading public and international broadcasters.
- World Trade Organization - Established in 1995 in Geneva, the WTO currently [23 July 2008] has 153 member countries.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio - Jonathan Bowen maintains these "pointers to information on computer-based audio sound and associated software available around the world." Has a good list of Broadcasters from around the world.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: German Resources - Virtual Library
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources - Over 1750 annotated links in many areas of international affairs, edited and maintained by Wayne A.Selcher, Professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies - "Comprehensive index of electronic resources on the Balkans, the Baltic states, the Caucusus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS, Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union...sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies and the University of Pittsburgh."
- Worlds of Difference - Documentary series on global cultural change:
- Connecting the Hebrides - Scotland, July 5, 2004.
- Andean Harvest - Peru, January 11, 2004.
- A Map of the Sea - Newfoundland fishery, January 28, 2005.
- Kinvara: A Spirit of Place - Ireland, December 4, 2004.
- Saints and Indians - Indian Student Placement Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), January 23, 2005.
- Roma Love Story - August 28, 2004.
- Yale Center for the Study of Globalization - Offers documents, papers and publications on such issues as climate change and global trade reform. YaleGlobal Online "offers a selection of audio-visual presentations by speakers hosted at Yale by the Center for the Study of Globalization." Among the videos are interviews with Mohamed ElBaradei (1 November 2006), N.R. Narayana Murthy and Thomas L. Friedman (22 February 2006 and 15 April 2005).