Wednesday, July 25, 2007
New Location
My blog has been moved to a new host. Please go to http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/blogs/ettinger.cfm
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Country Insight http://www.euromonitor.com/country_insight.aspx
An online information database providing in-depth analysis of economic, political, social and demographic trends affecting 71 countries and 8 regions worldwide
Labels: country and area studies
Institute of Development Studies http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/aboutids/index.html
The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.
Labels: international development
Friday, April 27, 2007
GeoHive http://www.geohive.com/
Compilation of international statistics
Labels: statistics
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Ratings of Schools in International Affairs http://snipurl.com/1i8og
From Foreign Policy
Labels: ratings
National Counterintelligence Strategy http://www.ncix.gov/publications/policy/CI
Sets forth the government's strategic objectives for counterintelligence
Labels: intelligence
Building a Better World http://devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/large.html
Online atlas of World Bank millennial development goals
Labels: international development
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Foreign Relations of the United States http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
Browsable and searchable covering 1861-1960.
Labels: diplomatic history, United States Foreign Relations
Friday, March 09, 2007
Peace Agreements Digital Collection http://www.usip.org/library/pa.html
Digitized collection of the full text of agreements signed by the major contending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts worldwide since 1989.
Labels: International Relations, Peace Agreements
Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG557/
RAND publication available full text online.
Labels: Nation-building
Monday, March 05, 2007
UN Counter-Terrorism Online Handbook http://www.un.org/terrorism/cthandbook/
Threshold site to UN efforts related to counter-terrorism
Labels: Terrorism
Global Integrity http://www.globalintegrity.org/
Assessments of global corruption
Labels: International Relations
Global Incident Map http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
Displays incidents of global terrorism
Labels: Terrorism
Friday, February 23, 2007
Frontline Diplomacy http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy/
Transcripts of oral interviews with U.S. diplomats.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20070202
Summary of major conclusions
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Human Security Brief 2006 http://www.humansecuritybrief.info/
Updates the 2005 Human Security Report's conflict trend data and analyzes the findings of two recently released datasets that track trends in war terminations and organized violence against civilians.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Iraq Study Group Report http://snipurl.com/14jpy
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
MidEast News Source http://themedialine.org/
Multimedia news source on the Middle East.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/
Cross-national data drawn from a variety of open sources providing at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives, and country performance measures including statistical data in the form of over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries spanning fifteen years (1985 to 2000) for most indicators.
Constitution Finder http://confinder.richmond.edu/
Links to countries' constitutions.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
World Legal Information Institute http://www.worldlii.org/
Gateway to country legal resources
Buzztracker http://www.buzztracker.org/
Maps "hot" global news spots with links to stories
Pew Global Attitudes Project http://pewglobal.org/
The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Future of Transatlantic Security Relations http://snipurl.com/xhwz
Report prepared by the U.S. Army War College
Economic Freedom of the World http://www.cato.org/pubs/efw/
Latest edition of annual report by the CATO Institute.
SIPRI Yearbooks http://snipurl.com/xhvi
The pocket-size editions of this internationally-recognized source of armament, disarmament, and international security information are available for free download.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Watching America http://www.watchingamerica.com
Monitors foreign public opinion about the U.S. as reflected in the overseas press.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Atlas of Global Inequality http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/
Includes time series maps of the world showing changes in global patterns of inequality and country pages providing information, graphs and comparative rankings for each country
Friday, June 30, 2006
Worldmapper http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/
Collection of world maps where territories are re-sized according to various categories
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Terrorism Index http://web0.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_200
Assessments of the U.S. war on terrorism as tabulated by Foreign Policy magazine
Multilateral Peace Missions http://conflict.sipri.org/SIPRI_Internet/
Searchable database by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Archive of European Integration http://aei.pitt.edu/
An electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
World Bank Documents http://snipurl.com/qwf7
Searchable gateway to thousands of reports and documents published by the World Bank
World Development Indicators http://snipurl.com/qwea
Downloadable full text of the 2006 report and tables
Country Terrorism Reports http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/
Annual reports issued by the Department of State
Uniting Against Terrorism http://www.un.org/unitingagainstterrorism/
Report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan containing recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy
Homeland Security Digital Library https://www.hsdl.org
Department of Homeland Security's digital collection of policy and strategy related documents. Registration required.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Foreign Policy Passport http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/?fpsrc=ealert060411_08
Blog by the editors of Foreign Policy
EDiplomat http://www.ediplomat.com/
Information on diplomacy, diplomats, and diplomatic relations
World-Countries.net http://www.world-countries.net/
Links to country information.
Friday, March 10, 2006
UN Secretary General's Report on UN Reform http://www.un.org/reform/reformbook.pdf
A New Strategy for America in Iraq http://snipurl.com/newy
Brookings Institution study
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Eurobarometer http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm
Gateway to European public opinion resources
Thursday, February 23, 2006
World Public Opinion http://worldpublicopinion.org/
Provides in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
World Political Leaders http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00index.htm
Lists world leaders since 1945 with selected accompanying biographies.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.htm
Gateway to holdings of major European libraries.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Middle East Chronology http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/mideast.htm
Documentary record of major developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict with links to primary documents.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Public Diplomacy Blog http://snipurl.com/jdal
Public diplomacy perspectives on international news developments
Monday, October 31, 2005
Human Development Report 2005 http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/
Annual report of the United Nations Development Program
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Human Security Report http://www.humansecurityreport.info/
Full text of the report documenting "a dramatic . . . decline in the number of wars, genocides and human rights abuse over the past decade."
