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Chiefs
of State of Foreign Governments: "The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments regularly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States.Governments are listed
in alphabetical order according to the most commonly used version
of each country's name."
Cornell
Law Library - Foreign and International Law Sources: "A
selective guide to web sites providing links to texts of laws
and court decisions, research guides and commentary on laws,
international documents, directories, trade information, and/or
statistics."
Foreign Affairs Online: This site "has been specifically designed to assist students and other individuals interested in International Relations, International Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy."
Foreign
Government Resources: Links to foreign websites
and information provided by the Unversity of Michigan Documents Center.
Industrial
and Labor Relations Research Portal: "Key
links that provide a quick overview of issues, data,
and developments in U.S. industrial relations."
International
Energy Agency:
"The International Energy Agency (IEA) acts as
energy policy advisor to 26
Member countries in their effort to ensure
reliable, affordable and clean energy for
their citizens."
International
Relations Resources:
A webliography by David Ettinger covers international affairs via gateways and other major global sites on the world wide web. This site has been very carefully researched for the best virtual resources available throughout the academic community.
Nations
of the World: Legal information on foreign
nations, provided by the law department of
the Library of Congress.
The
National Trade Data Bank - GLOBUS: "Global
Business Opportunities offers daily trade
leads from the Trade Opportunities Program
(TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture.
GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity
from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United
Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily
leads."
New Zealand Digital Library:
This portal provides access to a large collection of documents in the Humanity Development Library; Medical and Health Library; World Environment Library; Food Nutrition, and Agricultural Library; plus Global UN collections.
Portals to the World: "Provided by the Library of Congress, Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria."
United
Nations System of Organizations: Comprehensive index of websites
to international organizations and agencies offering economic
and statistical information.
USAID Policy
Links: "Links organized by topical categories and sub-themes
oriented towards professionals, researchers and students that
are interested in the Agency's mission. These online resources
are in English and provide useful statistical and analytical
information on the changing development and foreign assistance
environment."
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Agency for International
Development Experience Clearinghouse: The Development Experience
Clearinghouse (DEC) acquires USAID-funded publications for dissemination
to the international development community within the following
subject areas: Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, Global Health,
Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance.
Bureau of Economic Analysis: U.S.
economic statistics including gross domestic product, personal income
outlays, gross state product, trade in goods and services, and annual
industry accounts.
Council on Foreign Relations: "The CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries."
Department of Commerce: This
U.S. official website promotes and develops U.S. national policy
in foreign and domestic trade.
Diplomacy and the Global
Coalition Against Terrorism: "The global war on terrorism
is being fought by many means -- through diplomatic, military,
financial, intelligence, investigative, and law enforcement actions
-- at home and abroad. The Department of State has the lead role
on the diplomatic front abroad to advance the cause of the coalition
against terrorism. The Department also works closely with other
agencies and organizations to shut down terrorist financial networks,
provide humanitarian aid, and to investigate terrorist organizations
and activities and bring terrorists to justice, as further explained
in the Department publication, United Against Terrorism."
Eurostat:
"Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities
situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union
with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between
countries and regions."
First:
"Facts on International Relations and Security Trends(FIRST), has provided an integrated database system that contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. The database covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data."
Foreign Relations of the United States:
"This web site presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies."
International
Labor Organization: Up to the minute world labor news.
International Peace Movement, Linus Pauling:
"Incorporating over 500 scanned documents, photographs, audio clips and video excerpts, this web resource features a number of rare and important items, most of which are held within Oregon State University Libraries' Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers."
International Reform Monitor:
"A wide range of well-selected information on social policy
(health care, pensions provision, family policy, state welfare),
labour market policy and industrial relations in 15 OECD-countries:
Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and
United States of America. It is part of the "International Reform
Monitor" project by the Bertelsmann Foundation. "
International Trade Administration:
Reports on U.S. trade policy, import/export information, and foreign
trade agreements.
Office of the Historian: More Publications:
This State Department web site is a permanent electronic archive of information released prior to January 20, 2001. Please see www.state.gov for material released since President George W. Bush took office on that date. This site is not updated so external links may no longer function.
U.S. Agency for International Development: "USAID
is an independent federal government agency that receives overall
foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Their work supports
long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign
policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture, trade,
global health, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance."
World Bank Group: The World
Bank's "primary focus is on helping the poorest people and the
poorest countries. This site provides an overview of how the Bank
uses its financial resources, its highly trained staff, and its extensive
knowledge base to help developing countries onto paths of stable,
sustainable, and equitable growth."
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