Chapter 1: Theories of Global PoliticsChapter 2: The Historical SettingChapter 3: The Modern EraChapter 4: The Power of StatesChapter 5: Inside States: The Making of Foreign PolicyChapter 6: International ConflictChapter 7: State Efforts to Avoid Conflict: Alliances, Arms, and BargainingChapter 8: Global Security Efforts: International Organizations,
Law, and EthicsChapter 9: Interdependence Among Rich States: International Political Economy in the NorthChapter 10: The Developing States in the International Political EconomyChapter 11: Regional Economic Integration in the Global Political EconomyChapter 12: The Global Environment and Its InhabitantsChapter 13: Transnational Actors: The Wave of the Future?Chapter 14: Globalization: Contemporary Dynamics and the Future of World PoliticsChapter 1: Theories of Global Politicswww.nytimes.com
One of the best sources of international news available in the United States is The New York Times. This site offers "all the news that's fit to print" and is online free of charge (after taking a moment to register).
www.sas.upenn.edu/~pgrose/mach/
The writings of Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) are part of the foundation of realism in international relations. This web site archive offers a complete informational resource on Machiavelli's life and times, and there is also a link to his fa-mous book, The Prince, which you can read online.
www.polisci.com
Political Science.com offers a comprehensive overview of politics in the United States and the world. It features an archive in the Political Reference Desk, as well as links to useful web sites on national and international political organiza-tions.
www.terra.es/personal2/monligh/100women.htm
Interesting information on contemporary female political leaders.
For information on political science as a career, see APSANet: The American Political Science Association online, and the International Studies Association Network.
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Chapter 2: The Historical Settingwww.fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/historical/westphalia.txt
The full text of the Peace Treaty of Westphalia can be found at the Tufts University web site.
www.napoleon.series.org
The Napoleon Series is an electronic magazine that provides discussions, pictures, information, and links to other sites covering the life of Napoleon.
www.worldwar1.com
For a wide variety of additional information on the First World War, including pictures, biographies, and maps.
www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
For original texts, facsimiles, and translations of a wide variety of documents per-taining to the events covered in this and the next chapter-including the full text of the Versailles treaty, the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the Yalta Agreement-see the web site "EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe," maintained by Brigham Young University.
www.ushmm.org/
For access to recent information on the Holocaust, see the web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Chapter 3: The Modern Erawww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/
The National Security Archive is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who sought a centralized home for formerly secret U.S. government documentation obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Watch interviews with major players from the period and explore the document collection on-line.
www.bullatomsci.org/
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists site contains the latest information concerning nuclear energy and weapons. Read about new discoveries in the current (or past) issue(s) of the Bulletin and check out the official Doomsday Clock that became a symbol of Cold War tensions.
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
The Cable News Network series on the Cold War (2001) explored important as-pects of international politics, culture, technology, and espionage from the period. The web site also houses an archive of film clips, interviews, and historical materials.
www.library.upenn.edu/resources/websitest.html
For more research on the Cold War, consider this excellent web site holding at the University of Pennsylvania library.
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Chapter 4: The Power of Stateswww.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
For up-to-date information on the economic, political, and military resources of countries throughout the world, see the web version of the Central Intelligence Agency's The World Factbook.
www.worldbank.org/
A different approach to "power" measures can be found at the World Bank site. The World Bank offers both regional and specific country reports on a variety of economic and environmental issues.
www.economist.com
The Economist provides a variety of articles, economic data, and financial indicators free at its web site.
www.isn.ethz.ch
The ISN International Relations and Security Network web site, maintained by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, is a clearinghouse for extensive information on international relations, power measures, and security policy. Topics are listed by category, including traditional dimensions of security and new dimensions and by world regions.
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Chapter 5: Inside States: The Making of Foreign Policywww.afsa.org/
The American Foreign Service Association's website offers a debate forum on U.S. diplomatic efforts, information on internships and careers in the foreign service, and links to related sites concerned with diplomacy. It also provides "Diplomats Online," a service through which teachers and students can e-mail questions to regional specialists from the association.
Two important sources of information on public opinion and politics are the website of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, and a series of continuous polls on public opinion maintained by the European Union.
www.people-press.org/europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg10/infcom/epo/polls.htmlwww.freedomhouse.org/
Freedom House is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting democracy around the world. Its web site, provides a series of survey data on economic, press, and political freedoms around the world.
gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm
To learn more about what different world leaders are saying about contemporary foreign policy challenges, check out the Speech and Transcript Center web site sponsored by George Washington University. This site provides access to a special collection of speech transcripts from world leaders on a variety of subjects.
www.newslink.org/news.html
The American Journalism Review News Link provides a great resource for the study of foreign policy in comparative perspective. This site provides links to electronic newspapers from anywhere in the world (in foreign languages, or with English translations).
www.foreignrelations.org
The Council on Foreign Relations web site provides archives of Foreign Affairs magazine at this site and access to publications, papers, and transcripts held by the Council on Foreign Relations. It also provides a list of research projects, research staff, foreign affairs links, and career opportunities.
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Chapter 6: International Conflictwww.sipri.se
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is a nongovernmental organization that monitors trends in international conflict resolution, with par-ticular attention to concerns such as proliferation and military expenditures. Their website houses a rich archive of information on defense spending, military strategy, and international security.
www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity presents a web guide that allows you to examine the most recent international conflicts and nationalist movements in detail. Read about the Iraqi Kurds' quest for their own state or the latest developments in Kosovo. There are links here to prime sources, newsgroups, news sources, maps, and nongovernmental organizations.
www.isn.ethz.ch
ISN International Relations and Security Network. This web site, maintained by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, is a clearinghouse for extensive information on international relations and security policy. Topics are listed by category, including traditional dimensions of security and new dimensions, and by world regions.
For information on some of the countries that may determine the balance of power in the future, see the following web sites:
www.fco.gov.uk/
"FCO On-Line," the Internet service of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office
www.france.diplomatie.fr
French Foreign Ministry
www.state.gov/
U.S. State Department
www.china-embassy.org/eng/
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
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Chapter 7: State Efforts to Avoid Conflict: Alliances, Arms, and Bargainingwww.opcw.nl/
The Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons provides information on the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, including a list of the signatories, the text of the agreement, and official arguments in support of it.
www.dosfan.lib.uic.edu/acda
Texts and other information on a wide variety of arms control treaties are available at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's web site.
www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/WEAPONS.HTM
The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project Web site is sponsored by the Brookings Institute and supplies both information on the U.S. nuclear program and links to a wide variety of sources on strategy, nuclear weapons, and arms control.
www.unog.ch/disarm/disarm.htm
The U.N. Conference on Disarmament web site provides links to all major international disarmament documents starting with the Geneva Convention and end-ing with the recent Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
www.iaea.int
The International Atomic Energy Agency is dedicated to monitoring nuclear energy programs around the world. The web site presents in-formation on different activities including work to stop nuclear proliferation, health and safety issues, and terrorism.
www.sipri.se/projects/Milex/Introduction.html
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) monitors trends in military expenditures throughout the world. See their extensive collection of data at.
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Chapter 8: Global Security Efforts: International Organizations,
Law, and Ethicswww.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/hague.html
Texts of the agreements reached at The Hague in 1899 and 1907 are available online.
www.fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html
The text of the League of Nations Charter, along with a variety of other international agreements, is available from the "Multilaterals Project" page at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.
www.un.org
The United Nations is the most important international governmental organization that addresses global issues. This site includes historical information, details of UN institutions and practices, and information about member countries of the UN system.
www.usip.org
The United States Institute of Peace was created by the U.S. Congress to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts. It seeks to educate people and to disseminate information on how to achieve peace. Go to "www.usip.org" and click on Highlights, Publications, Events, Research Areas, and Library and Links.
www.icj-cij.org
The International Court of Justice is the foremost judicial authority for international law in the world today. This website details how the ICJ rules on interpretation of international law on issues ranging from boundary disputes to genocide.
www.care.org/
The CARE web site offers information on its overall mission, a special report on land mines, notes from missions in a wide variety of countries, articles, a gallery of photos, and a data set on global poverty.
www.savethechildren.org.uk
The Save the Children web site offers information on this charity's work and many of the issues facing children around the world (hunger and malnutrition, refugee camps, sexual exploitation, land mines, etc.).
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Chapter 9: Interdependence Among Rich States: International Political Economy in the Northwww.wto.org/
The World Trade Organization maintains a web site that includes trade data and analyses, legal texts, and coverage of trade disputes.
www.oecd.org/
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development offers statistics, free documents, and news concerning its members' trade, investment, jobs, and environmental activities at its web site.
www.imf.org
The International Monetary Fund was created in 1946 to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange and trade stability, and to foster economic development. Its web site holds a useful archive.
www.worldbank.org
The World Bank web site offers both regional and specific country reports on a variety of economic and environmental issues.
www.csf.colorado.edu/ipe/
The International Political Economy Network, presents recent scholarship on international political economy and includes electronic archives.
www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/welcome.htm
The web site of the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Economics (LTSN Economics) provides a range of resources and innovative ideas for teaching international political economy. See website for simulation guides, news sources, information on workshops, and case studies.
www.opec.org/
See "www.opec.org/" to learn more about the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC), a major actor in the global economy.
www.economist.comThe Economist is one of the best sources available on economic trends in the Western industrialized world. The magazine archive provides a variety of articles, economic data, and financial indicators free at its web site. Additional information is available by subscription.
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Chapter 10: The Developing States in the International Political Economywww.nsi-ins.ca/info.html
The North-South Institute works to strengthen international development cooperation and enhance gender and social equity. This site will help you find information and debates on a variety of global issues.
www.feer.com/
More business-oriented information on Asia is available at the Far Eastern Economic Review web site. It provides topical information on events in the region as well as access to a wide variety of Asian web sites.
www.aseansec.org
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) web site offers information on the association, trade statistics, and links to individual country sites.
www.undp.org/
The United Nations Development Programme maintains a web site that offers a poverty clock (the number of people living on less than a dollar a day) and infor-mation on its various activities (including UNIFEM, the United Nations Devel-opment Fund for Women).
www.interaction.org/advocacy/advocacy.html
Nongovernmental organizations such as global charities are very active in addressing the causes and consequences of global poverty. The InterAction web site provides information about efforts by grassroots and nongovernmental organizations to bring about change in international politics.
worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/prspbroc.pdf
International governmental organizations that are actively engaged in development issues include the World Bank.
www.fao.org
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization
www.unicefusa.org
The United Nations Children's Fund
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Chapter 11: Regional Economic Integration in the Global Political Economyeuropa.eu.int/
The Europe web server, is an excellent site that provides access to the news, institutions, policies, and background of the European Union.
www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/eu.html
For an overview of academic, official, and unofficial websites focusing on the EU, see the web page maintained by the University of California at Berkeley.
www.mac.doc.gov/nafta/nafta3.htm
The text of the NAFTA agreement and analyses of it.
www.citizen.org/pctrade/nafta/naftapg.html
For a critical perspective on the effects of NAFTA, see the Global Trade Watch web site at.
www.ecowas.int/
See "www.ecowas.int/" for information about the Economic Community of West African States, a regional group of 16 countries that was founded in 1975.
Different perspectives on the advantages and disadvantages of global trade re-gimes can be found at the following web sites:
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Chapter 12: The Global Environment and Its Inhabitantswww.unep.ch
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) web site covers many important environmental issues, including biodiversity, desertification, and the impact of trade on the environment.
woudc.ec.gc.ca/cgi-bin/selectMap
A web site that provides the latest ozone map of the earth, an introduction to the issues of ozone depletion, a calculator to determine the ozone levels over your town, and links to related sites.
www.thp.org
The Hunger Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to confront world hunger.
www.puc.state.oh.us/consumer/gcc/index.html
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) presents an archive of materials on global climate change.
www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH906.txt
To see an example of international cooperation on the environment, see the complete text of the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion.
www.unep.ch/ozone/welcome.htm
The UN Secretariat also maintains a web site on the accord.
www.wri.org
The World Resources Institute provides information on renewable energy resources as well as environmental problems.
www.oilonline.com/
For a different take, see the oil industry's point of view.
www.fuelcells.org
Alternative energy technologies, such as fuel cells offer promise for a sustainable future. See information on these and other technologies.
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Chapter 13: Transnational Actors: The Wave of the Future?www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International's web site, contains information on the organization and its activities, a library, and links to other sites. It can also be used to order a CD-ROM history and atlas of human rights.
www.icrc.ch
The International Red Cross
www.pccip.gov/
The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure has a website that gives some insight into the American response to possible "physical and cyber threats" to elements of the U.S. information network.
For excellent web sites on the causes and consequences of terrorism, see:
web.nps.navy.mil/~library/tgp/tgpndx.htm
The U.S. State Department surveys on patterns of global terrorism, archived by the Naval Postgraduate School.
www.terrorism.com
The Terrorism Research Center is another nonprofit organization dedicated to col-lecting important perspectives on contemporary terrorist threats.
www.greenpeaceusa.org
Information on active nongovernmental organizations can be found at "www.greenpeaceusa.org"(Greenpeace/Environmental Issues).
www.oxfam.org
OxFam International/Hunger and Economic and Social Justice
www.wwf.org
World Wildlife Federation/Biodiversity and Natural Resources
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Chapter 14: Globalization: Contemporary Dynamics and the Future of World Politicswww.sovereignty.net/p/gov/gganalysis.htm
The Commission on Global Governance website provides access to The Report of the Commission on Global Governance. This report was authored by international leaders who sought to find ways in which the global community could better manage its affairs.
The World Trade Organization has been one of the major targets of anti-globalization protests. For more information on the pros and cons of the WTO and its role in globalization, see:
www.citizen.orgwww.wto.orgwww.corp-watch.orgwww.foreignpoicy-infocus.orgwww.eff.org/govt.html
See "www.eff.org/govt.html" for the Government Servers and Information web site. This site provides addresses for hundreds of different, government web sites. Explore official economic data for foreign countries. Linked web sites pro-vide information on international organizations such as the United Nations as well as many multinational corporations.
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