International Law (especially treaties)

• International Law Dictionary
• Bob Beck's Foreign Affairs and International Law Pages
• Globelaw Home Page (also environmental and transnational law)
• AALS Section on International Law
• American Society of Int'l Law
• International Court of Justice
• Hieros Gamos (int'l law, including the law of war and peace)
• International and Foreign Legal Materials
• Lockerbie Trial (Glasgow School of Law)
• CICC Rome Signature & Ratification Chart (Int'l Criminal Court) 

Treaties Generally

• Merged EU Treaties
• UN Treaty Database (statuses only) (CITES, ICRW not here)
• International and Comparative Law Sources (at Cornell)
• Multilateral Treaties Project (Fletcher)
• Historical Treaties

International Environment

• Ozone
  • The Ozone Secretariat

  CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species)

  • CITES Home Page
  • Analysis of CITES Issues

  Climate Change

  • Bookmarks relating to Climate Change are maintained here.

  Other Environmental

  • International Whaling Commission
  • Dolphin Protection and Tuna Seining (CRS)

Arms Control

• Chemical Weapons Convention
• US Bureau of Arms Control (nee ACDA) {See esp. "Treaties" link}

International Relations Theory
General | IR Journals

General

• Kinsella (IR Prof with Syllabi, Well-Done Links)
• IR Resources Aimed at Role-Playing Sims
• Syllabus, IR Theory, David Kinsella, American University

IR Journals

• Int'l Studies Quarterly
• International Organization
• International Security
• World Politics
• Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy
• JSTOR (scans of AJIL, IO, APSR, World Polis, AER, JEP, JPE, QJE) {tends to stop a few years ago}

Reference
Countries | Foreign Governmental Officials | Flags and Currencies | Nobel Prize

• Michigan Site

  Countries

  • Info Summaries and Maps of Countries
  • CIA World Factbook
  • Maps from Theodora
  • List of Independent States per US Dep't of State (as of 1/00)
  • Members of the United Nations over time

  Foreign Governmental Officials

  • Political Leaders of the World
  • CIA List of Chiefs of State/Cabinets
  • Gallery of TIME Magazine Cover Portraits
  • Governments of the World (Britain, France, Japan only as of 2/23/99)

  Flags and Currencies

  • Flags of the World (incl. non-nat'l)
  • Flags of All Countries (seems like US site)

  Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
  • The Nobel Foundation
  • CNN - The 1998 Nobel Peace Prize (links to other Prizes)

Security Studies (General)
RAND Studies | Leftist | National Defense University Strategic Assessments

• World at War 2000 (CDI)
• ISIS (non-proliferation) (Institute for Science and International Security)
• McNair Papers (Full Index, Many Papers Online in Full Text)
• International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• War, Peace and Security Guide (Canadian Forces College)
• Centre for Defence & International Security Studies (UK)
• The Henry L. Stimson Center
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's Publications

  RAND Studies

  • Enlarging NATO: The Russia Factor
  • US Casualties and Consensus

  Leftist

  • Center for Defense Information (CDI)
  • Winston Foundation (leftist, head published Spoils of War)
  • British-based CDI-ish org

  National Defense University (NDU) Strategic Assessments

  • 1995 NDU Strategic Assessment
  • 1996 NDU Strategic Assessment
  • 1997 NDU Strategic Assessment

Foreign Policy -- Generally
[Back to Top]

• Global Issues Experts Database
• Cato Foreign Policy Briefing Series (list of CATO Papers On-Line)
• Woodrow Wilson Center
• International Relations and Security Network (ISN) (links by crisis and by region)
• Institute of International Studies (Berkeley) (contains various Centers' sites)
• WWW Virtual Library: Int'l Affairs (lots of links)
• The UN Wire (independent, more than just UN news)
• NATO, the UN, and the Use of Force--Legal Aspects

Foreign Policy -- Specific Topics
Peacekeeping | The Balkans | | Nuclear Weapons | Area Studies | The European Union | Other

Peacekeeping

• Peacekeeping Biblio (War College)
• Program on Peacekeeping Policy at George Mason University
• Oakley on Peacekeeping

The Balkans

          Kosovo

• Jane's Defence Weekly
• UNHCR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Kosovo (Feb 97)
• Kosovo Special Report from BBC News
• Kosovo Crisis Information via Stratford

Bosnia

• Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia
• Bosnia (from Time, with extensive background)
• The Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip
• CIA's Ethnic Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (other FY available)
• Bosnia HomePage at Caltech
• Information on Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Yugoslavia : 1989-1996 (RAND)
• A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans from ABC News.com

Nuclear Weapons

• Todd's Atomic Homepage
• Federation of American Scientists

  From the NRDC

  • Some Pubs from NRDC on Nuclear Weapons (select "nuclear arms" as the topic)
  • Nuclear Program at NRDC Pro
  • NRDC Pro: The NRDC Nuclear Program's Index of Nuclear Data

Area Studies

• Yahoo! Regional Conflicts (list of links)
• Far East Timeline Project
• Southern Asia
• Asian Studies (not just Pacific Rim)
• Southeast Asia

  Tibet

  • Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site

  China

  • China and the US -- An Electronic Briefing Book (Richelson)
  • China's Air Force Enters the 21st Century (RAND)
  • W3C/ANU/Vienna Univ. - Internet Guide for China Studies
  • CHINA: Concise Political History
  • Chinese Political Negotiating Behavior (RAND)
  • History of Taiwan

  Former Soviet Union (Commonwealth of Independent States)

  • RAND Report on CIS Migration
  • CIS & East Euro incl. index by type of resource

  Middle East

  • Kurds

The European Union

• The Euro

Other

• Gibraltar History & Politics -- Introduction
• The British Monarchy
• Roman Laws of War
• IPSA Biology and Political Science

Inter-Governmental and US Governmental Organizations
International Organizations' Home Pages | US Governmental Organizations

International Organizations' Home Pages

• United Nations
• NATO
• World Trade Organization
• World Bank Group
• European Union (Europa)
• European Free Trade Association
• ASEAN

US Governmental Organizations

• Foreign Policy
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of State
  • The White House
  • CIA (technically DCI)

  Trade Agencies

  • Int'l Trade Comm'n (Commerce)
  • United States Trade Representative (USTR)
  • International Trade Administration
  • U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights 1996 (avail. in Excel)

International Environmental Policy
Whaling (& Marine Mammals Generally) | Climate Change | Tragedy of the Commons | Conservation 

• UN Environment Programme (& World Health Org) Online Bookstore
• UVA's Global Environmental Change Program (GECP)
• Shrimp-Tuna WTO Case (Appellate Body)
• Timeline of the Environment Since 1970 (NRDC)
• Sea Turtle Migration Tracking and Education Program
• Year of the Ocean 1998
• CNN - U.S. arrests 3 for smuggling endangered reptiles - September 15, 1998

  Whaling (& Marine Mammals gen'lly)

  • Office of Protected Resources Cetaceans Home Page
  • Whales on the Net - Home Page
  • Whales (Greenpeace)
  • CNN - Humpback breeding ground discovered - December 14, 1998
  • Keiko (aka Willy) is home in Iceland after 2-decade absence

  Climate Change

  • Global-warming warnings are more than hot air - February 1, 2000
  • ENN News - Global warming could trigger ocean current collapse
  • CNN - Sahara turned to desert in abrupt climate change - July 15, 1999
  • Global warming means more bugs, U.S. study shows - June 24, 1999
  • Greenhouse gases spur warm, wet winters - June 3, 1999
  • Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  • Global Warming and the Economy (360-page PhD dissertation in a PDF file)
  • Bookmarks relating to Climate Change are maintained here.

  Tragedy of the Commons

  • The Tragedy of the Commons
  • The Management of Greed- Selected Extracts
  • A Modest, Short-Term Proposal To Get Started

  Conservation

  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Conservation Databases
  • World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
  • The Earth Times
  • Home Page of The Nature Conservancy
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service World Wide Web Site
  • enviro_gophs
  • Yahoo - Environment and Nature
  • WWW Virtual Library: Environment
  • Trade & Environment

News Stories (from CNN On-Line)
Environmental | Human Rights | Weapons | Other

Environmental

• Clinton to request funding increase for 'bioenergy' product research - January 14, 2000
• World's wealthiest 16 percent uses 80 percent of natural resources ­ October 12, 1999
• (GTW ­ Entergy) Honda Insight ranked most fuel-efficient car ­ October 8, 1999
• Brazil starts campaign against Amazon deforestation - August 4, 1999
• CNN - Flexible thin-film solar cells touted - July 26, 1999
• Serbian town will be polluted for years following NATO strikes - July 23, 1999
• Japan imports ivory for first time in a decade - July 16, 1999
• CNN - Sales tax urged on agricultural chemicals - July 13, 1999
• Model eco-tourism effort in Thailand swamped with greed, violence - July 10, 1999
• Southeast Asia unveils campaign to stamp out fires - July 6, 1999
• Biologist says it's not too late for world's coral reefs - July 6, 1999
• Low-frequency sonar raises whale advocates' hackles - June 30, 1999
• Cities may be key to saving environment - June 28, 1999
• Gray whales may be starving, expert says - May 20, 1999
• Kill revives Makah whaling tradition (from The Oregonian) - May 18, 1999
• Whale sanctuary a step closer to existence - October 15, 1998
• Anti-whaling activists, Indians confront each other at sea - October 9, 1998
• Scientists setting sail on whale odyssey - September 29, 1998
• See also my global-warming page for CNN stories relating to global warming (scroll down)

  Antarctic Summit

  • 24-nation summit convenes in icy wastes of Antarctica - January 25, 1999

Human Rights

• Rwandan factory boss jailed for life for genocide - January 27, 2000
• European leaders urge more action to stop genocide - January 27, 2000
• Judge considers ruling to keep Pinochet medical records private - January 27, 2000
• Australia discussing extradition of war crimes suspect to Latvia - January 27, 2000
• International court convicts 5 in Bosnian massacre - January 14, 2000
• Nazi war crimes suspect faces deportation to Australia - January 3, 2000
• U.N. prosecutor investigating NATO's conduct in bombing campaign - December 28, 1999
• Army defers investigation of additional charges of civilian deaths by U.S. pilots during Korean War - December 28, 1999
• SFOR swoops on Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect - December 24, 1999
• Agreement reached to compensate Nazi-era forced laborers - December 14, 1999
• Panel identifies 45,000 Swiss Holocaust accounts - Dec. 06 , 1999
• U.N. Takes Partial Blame for Bosnia Killings
• NATO peacekeepers arrest war crimes suspect - August 2, 1999
• U.S. offers $5 million for war crimes suspects - June 24, 1999
• Paraguay grants immunity to former leaders - March 29, 1999
• Iran and Iraq exchange prisoners - March 16, 1999
• China, U.S. clash over rights issues - January 14, 1999
• Chile allowed to participate in Pinochet hearing - January 13, 1999
• Global human rights report sharply criticizes U.S. - December 3, 1998
• Bosnian Serb general taken to The Hague to await trial - December 3, 1998
• Dalai Lama says Tibetan people 'fed up' with Chinese rule - November 7, 1998

Weapons

• North Korea meets with U.S., to meet with South Korea - June 24, 1999
• U.S. says North Korea agrees to nuclear inspections - March 16, 1999
• U.S. says N. Korea brought constructive approach to nuclear talks - January 25, 1999
• Suspect nuclear site the focus of Korean peace talks - January 14, 1999
• Cohen rejects N.Korea $300 million 'peek' offer - January 12, 1999
• Chief weapons inspector vows to return to Iraq - January 11, 1999
• U.S. softens claims of North Korean nuclear site - November 21, 1998
• Fresh round of Korea talks under way in Geneva - October 21, 1998

Other

• North Korea's "Great Leader" holds court from the grave ­ September 13, 1999
• AISIANOW ­ North Korea rejects sea border between two Koreas - September 3, 1999
• Papua New Guinea abandons Taiwan recognition, backs 'One China' policy - July 21, 1999
• NATO committee proposes troop cut in Bosnia - July 13, 1999
• India, Pakistan agree on plan to stop fighting in Kashmir - July 12, 1999
• Russian bombers fly within striking distance of U.S. - July 1, 1999
• Tiananmen Square reopens with tank-proof paving - June 28, 1999
• Senate OKs nearly $1 billion in U.N. back payments - June 22, 1999
• Tiananmen anniversary passes with little public notice - June 4, 1999
• U.S. Coast Guard denies entry to Yugoslavian captain's ship - April 10, 1999
• Pentagon investigating Iraqi claims of civilian casualties - January 25, 1999
• United Nations plans to condemn downing of planes in Angola - January 12, 1999
• United Nations set to tackle Y2K issue Friday - December 11, 1998
• United Nations rebuffs Taliban attempt to gain seat - October 21, 1998
• Arafat urged to delay declaration of Palestinian statehood - January 11, 1999
• Balloonists sprint through China air space - December 22, 1998
• Peru, Ecuador sign historic peace treaty - October 26, 1998
• Books on war, suppression recall decade's bloodshed - November 4, 1998

 

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