Foreign Policy & International Relations

Matters concerning legal relations between and among nations.

Resources in this category:

In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR880/index.html

New modes of war, terrorism, crime, and even radical activism are all these emerging from similar information-age dynamics? If so, what is the best preparation for responding to such modes?

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN

This site is especially useful for those seeking a range of comprehensive statistical information on Latin American and Caribbean countries. The "Press Centre" also contains interviews, editorials and more from ECLAC staff highlighting the most pressing social issues in the region. Coverage of economic and development issues is especially thorough.

Foreign Media Reaction
http://www.america.gov/

"Each business day, the U.S. Department of State's Office of Research produces an Issue Focus of foreign media commentary on a major foreign policy issue or related event. These reports provide a global round-up of editorials and op-ed commentary from major newspapers, magazines and broadcast media around the world."

Global Policy Forum
http://www.globalpolicy.org/

"We monitor global policy making at the United Nations." Searchable, browsable.

House Committee on International Relations
http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/

This is the House Committee with jurisdiction over matters including relations with foreign nations, embassies, national border lines, exports, foreign loans, international conferences, international education, declarations of war, the American National Red Cross, and the United Nations.

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
http://foreign.senate.gov/

Areas of jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations include acquisition of land and buildings for embassies, the international activities of the American National Red Cross, international aspects of nuclear energy, the International Monetary Fund, intervention abroad and declarations of war, the protection of United States citizens abroad and expatriation, the United Nations and its affiliated organizations, and the World Bank group.

The World Online
http://www.tufts.edu/~reichenb/ir_web/ir_index.html

"The World Online" is a portal that collects and links to international studies websites created by scholars, libraries, and government organizations. Links to scholarly journals, news sources, and statistical information in the field are also provided.

World Systems Archive
http://wsarch.ucr.edu/

"The purpose of this electronic archive is to promote the free exchange of information relevant to the study and understanding of the modern world-system and earlier intersocietal networks. The archive contains announcements, documents, books, data, biographical information, bibliographies, newletters, and the archives of conversations that have taken place on WSN. The archive is also the main repository of the Journal of World-Systems Research." The main page is a Web document, but all the subsections are links to gopher resources.