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Published on: Mar 22, 2003

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General Research Sites

Galileo Internet Resources Social Science, an excellent, all purpose Web links inventory

Council of European Social Science Data Archives Includes on-line archives drawn from several (mainly European) organizations

Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) a U.K.-based effort to catalogue the Web’s resources for social science research

International Relations: Web Gateway, from the University of British Columbia Library

Academic Info, a useful if sometimes frustrating resource of archived materials and links

Africa

An Annotated Resource List on African Studies University of Pennsylvania, comprehensive gateway to many scholarly and news resources

Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) information and gateway from U.S. NGO

Research Resources On-Line, a variegated gateway from the University of Wisconsin

Africa Studies On-Line, an excellent gateway from Harvard’s African Studies Center

African Studies Internet Sources E-journals, lists of scholars, and more from Columbia University

Africa News Online daily news service from 80 sources

Africa Confidential a newsletter produced by U.K. analysts

African Studies Association (U.S.) has a few useful resources on line

Southern Africa Poverty Network, conference papers, June 2001 (PDF)

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) UN agency

Organization for African Unity

Asia

Asia Foundation A fairly large number of on-line working papers, etc., from this U.S.-funded organization

Asia-Pacific Policy Program at Harvard some useful links and resources

South Asia and Southeast Asia

Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) journal abstracts and research project descriptions

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Indian organization, with on-line articles

Regional Centre for Strategic Studies NGO in Colombo with on-line policy papers

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) New Delhi think tank with a range of short pieces on region-wide security issues

Security and Political Risk Analysis, New Delhi, not easy to navigate but has some interesting pieces on regional security

Southeast Asia Studies University of Michigan, especially good for links to regional institutes

Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University newsletter on-line and description of projects

East Asia

East Asian Studies library resources from the University of Pennsylvania, has many features

East Asian Studies, Research Libraries’ Collections annotated, from American Library Association

Research on East Asia from the WWW Virtual Library

Internet Guide for Chinese Studies from the WWW Virtual Library

Nautilus Institute, California-based NGO with emphasis on Koreas, U.S. relations

Singapore institute of International Affairs (SIIA) has some useful papers and speeches

The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) a minor utility as on-line source

Japan Center for International Exchange has regional and broad topical interests

Scalabrini Migration Center (SMC) data on Asian migration

Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum (APEC)

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

South Pacific Forum

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Europe

European Documentation Centre very extensive labyrinth of on-line resources, archives, journals, etc., on Europe

Russia and Eastern Europe

Council for European Studies, Columbia University, has a mega-link list for Eastern European on-line resources

Russia and East European Studies Virtual Library, University of Pittsburgh, searchable database and extensive annotated links

Russian Studies - Internet Resources a compendium with links to a broad range of resources, including many in Russian language, from College & Research Libraries

Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy Boston University, several resources on former USSR; may require registration for full access

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), Moscow on-line information service discussing Russia’s arms exports

Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, has several features, including large inventory of policy papers

Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center, in Washington DC, has several on-line publications

News Line the Radio Free Europe site, now a fairly reliable source of daily news and analysis of the region

Institute for War and Peace Reporting, in London, covers the Balkans to Central Asia with in-depth reports by journalists from those regions; has archives

Carnegie Endowment, Moscow, has many on-line documents on a range of security, foreign policy, and Russian political topics

Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) contains commentary and analysis, with news sources from the region

Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (CSSCR) Swiss think tank; focuses mainly on Russia-Europe and former WTO countries and military strategy

Russia and Central Asia

Black Sea Economic Cooperation Pact

Carnegie Moscow Center

Center for Political and Strategic Studies

Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (AVSAM)

Center for Peace and International Relations Studies (CPIRS)

Interactive Central Asia Resource Project

Russian and Eastern European Network Information Center (REENIC)

Insitute for Contemporary International Studies (ICIS)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russia NewsLine

Russia Resource Site

Russia Today

U.S. State Department, Russia and New Independent States

European-wide

European Institute for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP) Action research on European issues, including Euro defense and arms trade; French

Eurostat: Statistical Office of the European Communities contains abstracts and some on-line data on a wide variety of sectors

Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) leading think tank (Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt), with PDF reports and other features

Center for International Studies (CIS) Swiss think tank; useful on-line newsletter

Center for International Studies and Research (CERI) Small site but with some interesting sections; in French

Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) on-line working papers with a European focus.

Danish Institute of International Affairs focuses on Denmark and EU issues; abstracts of working papers and other publications on-line

Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Geneva-based, on-line papers on a variety of arms and collective-security issues

Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in SE Europe new NGO based in Salonika with several papers on-line; historiography, pedagogy, etc

Institute for Security and International Studies (ISIS) Bulgarian institute, with on-line papers mainly regarding Balkans issues

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWF), in German, analysis mainly on SE Europe

Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union defense issues centered on Europe; on-line papers

Europe and the world

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) London; abstracts of Survival and a small number of other services

International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) ; has a few on-line papaers and abstracts of other research projects of this far-ranging action-research outfit

Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Rome; abstracts and some full-text articles from International Spectator, plus a few other features; global and European themes

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) variety of resources, including an eclectic collection of on-line papers; global scope topically

Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Chatham House, with quite varied interests concentrating on energy and environmental policy, Mideast, C Asia, Europe

The David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies University of Wales Aberystwyth; occasional papers, International Relations journal abstracts, reviews

European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA) its on-line Bulletin is informative

NATO Official Homepage

NATO Review

Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)

Western European Union (WEU)

Council of Europe

Europa: Official Server of the EU

Europarl (European Parliament)

European Space Agency (ESA)

Latin America & Caribbean

Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) standard features for this prominent think tank; some papers in English, mostly Spanish

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) , Chile, has a small number of papers on-line, with guides to on-going research and library holdings

Fundacion Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano, Costa Rica, a small site with a few resources, many related to peacemaking and civil society

Institute of the Americas, Univ of California, San Diego, has papers mainly on economic sectors

Interhemispheric Resource Center, New Mexico; this activist group produces many reports; Latin America is a principal focus

Latin American Council of the Social Sciences

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)

Programa FLACSO (Costa Rica)

Research Center for International Relations, University of Sao Paulo

Sistema Economico Latinamericano

UN Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean

Central American Bank for Economic Integration

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Inter-American Development Bank