Political Science

Cold War Sites

National Security Archive

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Cold War Internet History Project

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

The project, which is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, states it "supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources on the other side - the former Communist bloc."

General Political Science Sites

Biographical Directory of Congress

http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

This is a govenmental web site which contains short biographies of congresspersons from 1774 to the present. The site also contains links to the history of the House and Senate.

Elections Around the World

http://www.electionworld.org/

The site provides detailed information about elections around the world.

Eurasia Research Center

http://eurasia-research.com/main.htm

The Eurasia Research Center Web Site features in depth research reports, news analysis, and links to newspaper articles and wire service reports with breaking news on the Balkans, Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus, formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Governments on the WWW

http://www.gksoft.com/govt

This is a comprehensive database of government institutions on the WWW. The site contains entries from 220 countries.

Internet Legal Resource Guide

http://www.ilrg.com/

This is a well respect catagorized index to more than 4,000 websites. It describes itself as the most comprehensive legal resource guide on the net. It's scope is primarily the USA.

Political Database of the Americas

http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/

Georgetown University produced this site with the goal of producing a reliable source of information for Latin American political information.

Political Science Resources on the Web

http://www.lib.umich.edu/grad/guide/selector.php?id=95

The site was constructed by Grace York, the Political Science Librarian at the University of Michigan. It provides subject indexed links to websites.

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Political Organizations

CAIN project: conflict archive on the Internet

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/

The web site deals with the conflict in Northern Ireland. It's development is a combined effort of the University of Ulster, Queen's University of Belfast and the Linen Hall Library in Belfast.

Center for the American Woman and Politics

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/

The site is produced by the Center for the American Woman and Politics, which is part of the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers. The stated mission of the site is "to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's relationship to politics and government.

Council of Europe

http://www.coe.int/DefaultEN.asp

The web site has been created primarily to provide information concerning the treaties of the Council of Europe.

European Union

http://europa.eu.int/

Primary web site of the European Union.

Kennedy School Online Political Information Network

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/test/ksgpress/opin/

The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has assembled this site of multiple links, which pertain to politics. The primary focus is on the United States but there are intenational links as well.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

http://www.nato.int/

NATO has provided the user a comprehensive web site. The organization module contains information pertinent to the structure of NATO. The online fact sheet contains fact sheets and a variety of news articles, several of NATO's publications are present in full text.

University of Michigan's Human Rights Library

http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

This site provides access to treaties,other international insturments, and UN documents. The site also contains asylum and refugee materials as well as US human rights documents.

United Nations

http://www.un.org/

This is the official site of the United Nations. The United Nations was established in 1945, today its membership is comprised of 185 nations. It primary objective is to preserve peace through international cooperation and collective security.

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