Resources for Teaching

• APEC Education Network (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Singapore)
  Links scholars, students, scientists, business leaders, and policy makers who are concerned with economic, political, and resource-management issues in the Pacific Rim. Provides information about conferences, courses, library resources (including news services), directories, and technology. Participating institutions from U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand.
• CaseNet: Active Learning in International Affairs (Univ. of Colorado, Harvard Univ. and Pew Charitable Trust)
  For teachers interested in the case method and other active learning approaches in International Affairs.
• International Political Economy Network: Electronic Archive of Course Syllabi
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)
  Links to relevant Courses, E-conferences, Publications, and Events.
• Case Studies (Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown Univ.)
  Online ISD Book Catalog, selected full-text ISD Occasional Papers and ISD Reports; Pew Case Studies in International Affairs Indexes.
• Program in International Education Resources (PIER)

• Oxford Analytica's International Affairs.Com
• CIA World Factbook Indexed alphabetically by country/region. Includes Appendices and Reference Maps.
• Country Studies/Area Handbook Program (Library of Congress) Continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This series presently contains studies of 71 countries.
• Exchange rate data from Olsen & Associates
• The iLove Languages; your guide to languages on the web Access to multilingual resources, books/literature archives, linguistics labs and institutions on the internet, linguistics resources, and commercial resources.
• International Financial Encyclopedia (Information Innovation) purports to be the world's only interactive financial encyclopedia.
• International Statistical Yearbooks (New York Public Library) A list of foreign statistical annuals based on the holding of the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) of the New York Public Library that can be searched by country or region. Equivalent Yale Library holdings may be found in the Sterling Library Reference Collection and the Economic Growth Center Collection at the Social Science Library.
• Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
  Links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts
• The State of the World Population 1995 (UNDP, New York) Full text of this annual publication from the United Nations Population Fund. Includes chapters on "Progress in Population and Development," "The Empowerment of Women," "Reproductive and Family Planning," and "After Cairo."
• Third World Democratization: (Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark) A partly annotated bibliography of recent literature by Svend Erik Lindberg-Hansen
• UNICEF Publications include The State of the World's Children 2002, The Progress of Nations 2000, and UNICEF Annual Report 2002, as well as back issues and other features.
• World Demographic Trends (UNDP, New York) Texts and charts from the United Nations covering world population estimates and projects, and historical world population growth as well as fertility, child mortality, impact of AIDS and migration flows in particular regions.
  Political Economy & Development

• Handbook of International Economic Statistics, 1997 (Central Intelligence Agency) provides basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions.
• International Financial Encyclopedia (Information Innovation) claims to be the world's only interactive financial encyclopedia.
• G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto) Provides background information, news articles, documentation from summit meetings, and scholarly publications about the G7. The original G7 membership included France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, and Italy; subsequently augmented by Canada, and the European Community
• Trade Information Center (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) Information about all federal export assistance programs, as well country and regional market information.

Internet Guides

• International Relations Research Resources on the Web An Internet guide developed Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto, and published in International Organization vol 52, no 1.
• LaborNet: Online Communications for a Democratic Labor Movement
• Progressive Directory (Institute for Global Communications) The gateway to ICG's networks: PeaceNet, EcoNet, and WomensNet.
• World Systems Network (International Studies Association - ISA) Access to the World Systems Archive, which contains book reviews, data sets, dissertation abstracts, journals, newsletters, working papers, and the WSN mail discussion archives.
  Political Economy & Development

• Communications for a Sustainable Future Archives of listservs on topics including Peace and Conflict, Conservation Biology, Economics, Ecological Economics, Foreign Policy ISA, and International Political Economy.
• International Business Resource Desk (Michigan State Univ.) A links index to News/Periodicals, Domestic or International, Journals, Various International Business Resources, Regional or Country Specific Information, Company Information, International Trade, Government Resources, Various Utilities, and Other Indexes.
• International Political Economy Network (International Studies Association - ISA) IPENet electronic archives, bookstore and review of books, and electronic directory of recent IPE dissertations.

Directories

• Editor & Publisher allows you to search for media by country or type.
• Foreign Newspapers (Center for Research Libraries, Chicago) Search for a specific paper from CRL's database of over 6,200 holdings. Yale Library is a member of CRL and Yale affiliates have borrowing privileges. Inquire at Sterling Library's Interlibrary Loan Office.
• Latin America News Sources (Yale University Library)
• Newslink Provides extensive online access to regional and local newspapers, broadcast networks, and magazines.
• Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room: Newspapers (Library of Congress) Library of Congress newspaper resources, current newspapers available in the Library, and others on microfilm. Outside links include foreign language news sources, journalism resources, and other indexes and online news sources.
• Selected Western European News Sources (WESSWeb at the Univ. of Virginia)
• Sterling Memorial Library Newspaper and Microform Reading Room. Yale University Library's online Newspaper and Microform Reading Room, featuring links to news resources on the Internet.
  International Organizations & Research Institutes

• The Contact Directory to Nonprofits on the Web. (Contact Center Network)
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College) Links to United Nations and International Development Agencies, European Supranational Organizations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and International Financial Agencies and Trade Regimes
• International Organizations (Northwestern University)
• International Organization Web Sites (Union of International Associations, Brussels)

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