Chip’s links
General International Relations Links
- Links to international organizations
- Online international media (newspapers, magazines, television, radio, etc.)
- Chip’s European politics links
- Political Resources.net Links to political parties, governments, elections around the world
- Online Constitutions from around the world
- More online constitutions from around the world
- Stratfor.com Geostrategy, geopolitics, geomilitary analyses and intelligence.
- Power and Interest News Report Global organization that provides analyses of conflicts and other international events
- International Crisis Group Reports and analyses from crisis areas around the world
- Relief Web: Serving the information needs of the international humanitarian relief community
- Share the World’s Resources Non-politically affiliated network campaigning for justice and peace through the fair and equitable distribution of world resources
- Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
- International Links from Michigan Electronic Library
- International Alert: Standing International Forum on Ethnic Conflict, Genocide and Human Rights
- Info on the situation in Iraq from Z Magazine
- Info on Iraq
- Oil Reserves Map
War, terrorism, and nuclear weapons stuff
- 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review
- Bush Administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review, Jan.2002
- New (2006) National Security Strategy of the United States, March 2006, Bush admin. document
- National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002 Bush administration document
- Revolution in Military Affairs resources from the Project on Defense Alternatives
- National Intelligence Council, “Mapping the Global Future: Report of t he NIC’s 2020 Project”
- Good summary of the report from American Future weblog
- Geneva Conventions: Set of international humanitarian laws that govern armed conflict
- Nuclear Information Project Includes texts of US nuclear doctrine, debates and other documents.
- Nuclear Blast map: effects of various sized nukes on your city, at PBS
- Center for Defense Information (Check out the nuclear weapons databases)
- Defense and the National Interest Former and active US military set up this website “to help create a more effective national defense against the types of threats we will likely face during the first decades of the new millennium.”
- Digital Library of Nuclear Issues
- Defense Watch Magazine
- IDDS World Arms Database 2000 World Arms Holdings, Production, & Trade 1972-1999, with Projections to 2010
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Centre for Defence and International Security Studies
- Project on Defense Alternatives
- Global Security.org “Focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium.”
- Future Studies and Future Conflict Studies, US Air Force’s Air University Center for Strategy and Technology
- The War on Terrorism, from the Project on Defense Alternatives
- “Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting Al-Qa’ida’s Organizational Vulnerabilities,” Report from the Combatting Terrorism Center, West Point (US Military Academy)
- US Space Command Doctrine, from the Federation of American Scientists
- NRDC Nuclear Weapons Site
- The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: Waging Peace Worldwide
- Outer Space: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
- The War and Peace Foundation, the elimination of all war and weapons.
- Henry Stimson Center: Project on Eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Article on the US nuclear weapons debate by Brian Hall
- Official web site of the US Dept. of Defense
- Defense News
- Arms Control Reporter The world’s most comprehensive arms control and non-proliferation journal, presents all the nuclear and other weapon negotiations and treaties in easy to understand form, with added detail for expert users.
- Speech by Pentagon official on why the US needs to keep nuclear weapons
- NATO nuclear policy
- US Dept of State Arms Control site
- Links to texts of arms control treaties
- Heritage Foundation on US nuclear doctrine
- Debate on abolishing nuclear weapons, pro and con, from PBS Newshour
- Russian views on nuclear weapons and deterrence (from Russian journal Nuclear Control)
- Strana Russian newspaper, on-line English language version; click “Foreign Affairs” for news on military issues
- An Indian view: the Draft Report of National Security Advisory Board of India on Indian Nuclear Doctrine (8/17/99)
- Other nuclear weapons links
- Other nonproliferation links
- Chemical and biological weapons links
- Nuclear weapons in popular culture
- Beyond Presicion: Issues of Morality and Decision Making in Minimizing Collateral Casualties, article on civilian casualties in war by US Lt. Col. Dwight A. Roblyer
- Iraq:
- National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, November 2005 document of Pres. Bush and his National Security Council
- Reports From the Future of Iraq Project, Over 1,200 Pages of Previously Unavailable Reports From State Dept Planning for Post-Saddam Iraq; Warnings and Recommendations by Experts and Iraqi Exiles Ignored by Administration
- Critique of “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq”, by Think Progress
Links on migration and immigration
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- US Committee on Refugees (lots of great links on refugees)
- The Refugee Council (UK)
- Migration Policy Institute
- Migra Matters, Progressive Immigration Reform
- Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Law Foundation
- Pew Hispanic Center
- European Council on Refugees and Exiles
- Refugees Study Centre (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
- Forced Migration Review
- International Organization for Migration
- U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on U.S. immigration
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- UK Border Agency (government agency responsible for immigration)
- History of International Migration, University of Leiden (Netherlands)
- Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
- Information and links on asylum and refugees in the US
- Research on Migrant Workers in SE Asia from South East Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum
- Federation for American Immigration Reform (anti-immigration group)
- Numbers USA (immigration-reduction organization)
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Links to legal issues on immigration
- Institute of Race Relations (UK/Europe)
- International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship, The New School, NY
- A short list of immigration publications
- Migration News
- Rural Migration News (immigration and integration developments affecting rural America)
- South Africa Migration Project
- Washington Post series on migration: “The Global Mosaic”
Links on the Global Economy
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- The World Bank
- The World Trade Organization (WTO)
- The text of the WTO Agreement
- The Economist on the World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress — group of economists and others coming up with alternative to GDP for measuring economic performance
- Multinational Corporations links
- Forum on Debt and Development policy-oriented research on North-South issues in a globalising world, in particular international financial issues for developing countries
- Corporate Watch
- Global Trade Watch
- Reclaim Democracy!.org
- Global Trade Watch: Problems with WTO
- Ending Corporate Governance web site
- Links from Ending Corporate Governance
- Z Magazine‘s Global Economy WTO Site
- Lots of other links to global economy issues
- Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site
East Asia / Pacific Rim Links
Zapatistas / Chiapas, Mexico
- Chiapas Links, including EZLN communiqués, etc.
- Zapatistas in Cyberspace (lots of Zapatista links)
- Chiapas Zapatista Section of Znet, Z Magazine on-line
Peace studies programs
- Peace Studies Association
- Peace Studies Program, Cornell Univ.
- Peace Studies Program, Colgate Univ.
- Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii
- Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Syracuse Univ.
- Peace Studies Program, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland
This page last revised 3/8/2010