Research Links
International
Choose from the following :
General International Index Sites
- AdmiNet indexes informational sites all over the world.
- Alternative Resources on the U.S.-Iraq Conflict
- Aneki.com: Country Information, Regional and World Rankings provides basic statistics and answers to general questions regarding various countries of the world.
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law.
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Constitution Finder, searchable by country.
- Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to "increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy."
- Country Studies presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
- Digital Asia Library consists of a catalog of Internet resources related to Asian studies. Diplomacy Monitor at St. Thomas University School of Law tracks official policy documents, communiques, and other crucial communications from around the world.
- ECOLEX a gateway to environmental law.
- The Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) database provides links to primary documents, recommended web sites, and research guides on a variety of international law topics.
- Europe Direct offers personal assistance with general information and answers to specific questions on the European Union.
- FLARE Project offers coverage of foreign legal materials at the national level and informs the research community of work in progress.
- Foreign Information by County access created by Univ. of Colorado, Boulder.
- The fourth WTO Ministerial Conference provides summaries of the meetings, declarations, and proposed procedures. You can also watch archived Webcasts of the proceedings.
- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) process was initiated in the 1994 Summit of the Americas to integrate the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade arrangement.
- Freedominfo.org provides data on freedom of information laws from areas all across the globe.
- G8 Information Centre at the University of Toronto includes policy briefs and documents.
- GATT Documents
- Global Lawyers and Physicians project concerned with human-rights aspects of medicine, biomedical research and treatment, and patients' rights.
- Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) maintains and provides a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources.
- Global Policy Forum site is divided into the following subsections: UN Financial Crisis, Security Council, Social/ Economic Policy, NGOs, Nations and States, and UN Reform.
- GlobalLex International, Comparative and Foreign Law Research.
- Globastat: Country Rankings and World Statistics features country rankings in more than 140 categories based on the CIA World Factbook 2001.
- History in the News: Middle East History, Society, and Culture Resources focuses specifically on Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Yemen.
- Human Rights Library -- Univ. of Minnesota Provides fulltext access to over 90 of the most important international human rights treaties and declarations, along with authoritative citations.
- International Foundation for Election Systems provides access to research projects, white papers, reports, and surveys regarding the electoral process worldwide.
- International Monetary Fund Working Papers Full text of the 1997 papers.
- International Horizons from the Library of Congress.
- International Trade Law site offers full-text documents in 6 categories: GATT-WTO, FTAs, US Trade Law, Book Updates, Law Review Articles, and Commentary.
- Intellectual Property Links a collection of intellectual property resources compiled by european patent attorney Ralph Beier.
- IPU international organization of Parliaments of sovereign States.
- The Guide to Law Onine is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online provided by the Library of Congress.
- Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities (in billions of dollars)
- MapMachine by National Geographic.
- Nation Master for national statistics from countries all over the world.
- NewsCentral - Europe Index of links to 400+ European newspapers.
- Parallel History Project on the Warsaw Pact collects and analyzes documents from Hungarian archives that detail command exercises (which resemble actual war plans) describing the destruction of European cities including Vienna, Munich, and Verona.
- Portals to the World is an electronic database containing information on the various nations and other areas of the world.
- Project Diana, the international archive of human rights legal documentation.
- Researching WTO and Gatt guide, which is focused on sources from the United States, gives pointers for research using a variety of materials in electronic, print, and microfiche formats.
- The Third UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries PDF file.
- UNdata statistical database includes over 55 million records.
- UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- UN Multimedia The United Nations has its own news and media service that reports on numerous topics that fall within its broad global remit, including the HIV epidemic in Africa, military conflicts in the Middle East, and economic development.
- United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute coordinates and supports international comparative research; site includes news, publications, and searchable databases related to criminology.
- United Nations - Official Documents
- VOANews for international stories as well as the lead stories in seven regions of the world.
- War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Committee on International Security Studies Occasional Papers series. Examines the political, military, and economic consequences of war with Iraq.
- Web Sites of National Parliaments Part of the Inter-Parliamentary Union web site.
- WHO International Digest of Health Legislation (IDHL), allows users to search for the text of legislation via country, subject, volume, issue, or keyword.
- The World Factbook Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements.
- Worldwide Tax Summaries with free registration.
- The Year in Review: United Nations Peace Operations in 2001 report details efforts to defuse mass hostility and violence in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, and in the Pacific.
Courts
- Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance Judgments and opinions since June 1997 from the Court of Justice of the European Communities.
- Refugee Caselaw Site database of approximately 400 recent cases from highest national courts of Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
- International Court of Justice Decisions This site offers the text of the official judgments, advisory opinions, and orders which are received directly from the International Court of Justice.
Treaties
- Council of Europe Treaties provides public access to information about the treaties of the Council of Europe.
- FITA The International Trade / Import-Export Portal is the official Web site of the Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA).
- Free Trade Treaties searchable site includes treaties related to greater freedom of trade and/or economic unification.
- Frequently Cited Treaties and other International Instruments with links; compiled by Univ. of Minnesota.
- International Humanitarian Law Interamerican treaties and related documents.
- International Laws and Treaties Links to major historical and current international treaties, including those on the UN and League of nations, trade, human rights, the environment and peace treaties following major wars.
- Multilaterals Project has texts of international treaties, including those dealing with the environment, human rights, commerce and trade, arms control, and other topics.
- Treaties in Force, A list of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force, released by the U.S. State Department.
- Researching Treaties and Agreements is a guide published by a UC Berkeley law librarian and EISIL project manager.
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is responsible for administering 23 international treaties that deal with various aspects of intellectual property protection.