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Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International campaigns for human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organization undertakes research and action focused on ending grave abuses of human rights. The website contains news and reports on abuses around the world.
Carnegie Council
http://www.cceia.org/index.html
The Carnegie Council focuses on promoting ethics in the areas of war, peace, and global social justice. The website provides access to the Worldview archive 1958-1985, transcripts of speakers, details of events and event reports as well as film and book listings and reviews. The e-library resources allow you to access resources under the themes of ethics, war and peace, and global social justice as well as by region.
Center for the Study of Developing Societies
http://csdccu.tripod.com/csdc.html/
The center seeks to offer alternative critical viewpoints. It provides several links to important works regarding critical global studies, as well as audios and videos.
Chatham House
www.chathamhouse.org.uk
Founded in 1920, Chatham House aims to inspire debate on key issues in the international arena such as political business and security. The website provides access to papers on a range of issue areas under the heading ‘Research’. It also gives details of upcoming conferences and membership.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO):
http://classics.mit.edu/Thucydides/pelopwar.html
This particular link will take you to the text of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. More generally, the website is considered one of the best up-to-date sources for articles and documents on foreign affairs and international relations.
Correlates of War project
http://www.correlatesofwar.org/
On the relationship of conflict, national power, alliances, etc.
Council of Women World Leaders
http://www.councilwomenworldleaders.org/
The Council of Women World Leaders is a network of current and former women Prime Ministers and Presidents. It is the only organization in the world of its kind and is affiliated with the United Nations Foundation.
Democratic Peace Bibliography Version 3.0 by R.J.Rummel.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/BIBLIO.HTML
Provides a bibliographic overview of the democratic peace theory, put together by R.J. Rummel.
Democratic Peace Theory
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0014.xml
Extended bibliography on the Democratic Peace Theory by Dan Reiter.
Dialectical Marxism
www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/index.php
The writings of political philosopher Bertell Ollman, one of the world’s leading scholars of dialectical theory. Check out ‘Class Struggle’, Ollman’s Marxist board game.
Disorder of Things, The
http://thedisorderofthings.com/
A blog that includes recurrent conversations by established and upcoming postcolonial IR scholars on a variety of topics related to the discipline.
‘Doctrine of International Community’
Features Prime Minister Tony Blair’s speech to the Economic Club of Chicago on 28 April 1999. Readers will find this speech engaging as it sets up a tension between Westphalian conceptions of rules and institutions with late-twentieth-century ideas about the primacy of inalienable human rights. For all its flaws, the speech illustrates the clear connections between how leaders and practitioners view the world.
E-International Relations
http://www.e-ir.info/
A new source for students interested in various aspects of the study of international relations, including short articles by academics and practitioners.
English School website, The
http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/international-relations-security/english-school
This website was pioneered by Barry Buzan and has subsequently been taken on by Jason Ralph. The site is a documentation centre, and includes an excellent bibliography and a collection of reading lists written by leading figures in the English School. It also has information on English School papers presented at national and international conferences.
Europa – Gateway to the European Union
www.europa.eu
Provides information on what the EU does by subject as well as access to documentation and legal texts.
Foreign Affairs
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/features/collections/international-institutions
Offers an archival collection on international economic, legal, and security institutions
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
www.fco.gov.uk
Provides information of foreign policy and priorities as well as general information about the Foreign Office.
Global Fund for Women
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
An organization to fund grass-roots women-led movements founded in 1987, under the premise that women’s human rights were essential to social, economic, and political change around the world.
Global Issues
An online platform for international news and analysis with particular focus on social, political, economic and environmental issues.
Global Transformations
www.polity.co.uk/global/
Contains information on globalization.
Globalization 101
http://www.globalization101.org
An interdisciplinary resource for debates and issues on globalization.
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
Provides information on environmental issues as well as related press releases and reports.
Human Rights Watch
www.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch is based in the US and investigates human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Information can be accessed for issue or by region.
Human Security Report Project, Human Security Report 2013.
Imaging Famine Project, The
https://www.david-campbell.org/photography/imaging-famine/
Examines media coverage of famine from the nineteenth century to the present day. Focusing on photographic images, it contains background documents, reports as well as historic and contemporary photo essays.
Institute for Critical Theory at the University of California at Irvine
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/
Features several latest books on critical theory and offers several fellowships.
Institute for Environmental Security
An international nonprofit nongovernmental organization established in 2002 in The Hague to increase political attention to environmental security as a means to help safeguard essential conditions for peace and sustainable development.
Intergovernmental Organizations
International documents on intergovernmental organization collection, with links to organization websites, maintained by Northwestern University Library.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Provides access to the latest Assessment Reports, including synthesis reports and summary reports for policy-makers; the reports are based on a synthesis of peer-reviewed research on climate change.
International Affairs Contact Network
www.ucis.pitt.edu
Provides a database of organizations and experts in international affairs. You can search the database by organization name, location, subject and type of resource offering. Click on the link to Programs and Centers, then scroll down to the link for Global Information Access NeT (GIANT) under the heading Programs & Recurring Events, on the GIANT page click on the link to The International Affairs Contact Network.
International Biosphere Geosphere Program (IGBP): The Great Acceleration.
The Global Change tab of the IGBP site provides scientific knowledge on changes in Earth Systems to guide societies in environmental policy making, including on the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration.
International Committee of the Red Cross
www.icrc.org
The ICRC works to ensure humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed conflict. The website provides information on humanitarian law and information on the organization's activities worldwide.
International Crisis Group
www.crisisgroup.org
International crisis group provides reports and briefing papers based on information and assessments from in the field. They provide practical recommendations aimed at decision-makers. The website allows you to search for reports or briefing papers by region or issue and also contains a database of crisis as well as conflict histories.
International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association
http://www.isanet.org/ISA/Sections/IETHICS
The largest scholarly association for the study of international relations, provides information on the activities of scholars working in normative IR theory/international political theory/international ethics. This site includes summaries of recently published books that engage with international ethics.
International Monetary Fund
www.imf.org
Information on the IMF and its activities, as well as access to publications and surveys, data and statistics.
International Relations and Security Network
www.isn.ethz.ch
Provides security related news stories and analyses as well as access to many publications listed under publication series, region and issue. Information is from academic, government and non-governmental organizations.
Interviews with Robert Jervis, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, and Kenneth Waltz
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/alpha.html
Platform offering an archive of interviews. Among them you can find interviews with some of the leading realist thinkers of IR, named above.
Intute: Social sciences
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/
Provides a range of web links for various areas of International Relations. Sources are listed by type. These can be searched under sub-sections. Click on Politics and then International Relations.
IR Theory Website
www.irtheory.com
Contains definitions of IR terms as well as useful links to other websites on topics such as, international organizations, intelligence and research institutes.
Library of Congress’s Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/io.html
Website on international organizations.
MADRE
An international women’s human rights organization.
Marxists.org
A massive electronic resource including extensive selections of texts (in a variety of languages) from many major Marxist theorists, articles on the history of Marxism, and an encyclopaedia of Marxism.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
www.nato.int
Provides information on NATO, its operations, missions and structure, as well as access to on-line documentation and publications such as NATO Review.
Peace Palace Library, The
Archive of the Peace Palace International Law Library based at The Hague.
Polity IV Project: Global Report 2014
http://www.systempeace.org/inscrdata.html
On Conflict, Governance and State Fragility.
Polity IV Project: Global Report 2017
https://www.systemicpeace.org/globalreport.html
Conflict, Governance and State Fragility.
Project Q: Peace and Security in a Quantum Age, University of Sydney.
This is a multimedia project that critically examines questions of security in global politics. It offers academic articles, blogs and videos about the issues at stake.
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
http://www.r2pasiapacific.org/
The principle that informs diplomatic debates about prevention and response to an actual, or potential, atrocity crime being committed. All the key documents, and many briefings, appear on the Asia-Pacific Centre for R2P website.
Constructivism. Oxford Bibliographies
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0061.xml
Introduction to constructivist theory of international relations by Jonathan Cristol.
Socialist Register, The
Web page of a leading socialist annually published journal containing Marxian analyses of globalizing capitalism, US imperialism, and a variety of other topics. Specifically, it reflects on movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The
An outstanding online source of refereed articles, which offers accessible and comprehensive accounts of a range of concepts relevant to normative IR theory. See, for example, the entries on ‘war’, ‘international justice’, and ‘deontological ethics’.
Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. The Green Economy
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org
Offers information on ideas and practices of sustainable development as embodied through the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Third World Network
An independent nonprofit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World, and North–South issues, with a comprehensive environment link.
United Nations
www.un.org
Provides information on the work of the UN as well as access to the UN News Centre, online publications, UN Resolutions and information on various aspects of international law.
United Nations Children’s Fund
www.unicef.org
Provides information on the work of UNICEF, information by country and access to press releases.
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
UN Women focuses on gendered dimensions of human development and human rights issues. Its analytical and practical approach to such matters thus prioritizes areas that are fundamental to women’s equality.
United Nations Environment Program
www.unep.org
Provides information on the work of UNEP, issues concerning the environment and development, as well as access to policies and annual reports.
United Nations Refugee Agency
www.unhcr.org
Provides information on the work of UNHCR as well as access to the Refugee Convention and UN research papers focusing on these issues.
United States Institute of Peace
www.usip.org
The library page contains resources on Peace Agreements and Truth Commissions. You can also access links to research centres on the web listed by country. Click on the link to the Library and then Research Centers under the heading List of Links.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
www.pcr.uu.se
Provides a database of warring parties, negotiations and peace agreements. It allows you to search by region on a map or list. Follow the links from the home page to Research, the Uppsala Conflict Database, Program Overview then Search the database.
Visual Politics Program, University of Queensland. this chapter.
https://hass.uq.edu.au/visual-politics
This is a multidisciplinary research program that engages the political role of images and visual artefacts. Supplements the case study in.
WomanStats Project
Led by a group of undergraduate and graduate research assistants, the WomanStats Project aims to investigate the link between the security and behavior of states and the situation and security of the women within them.
Women in International Security
http://wiisglobal.org
Women In International Security (WIIS) is an organization dedicated to advancing the leadership and professional development of women in the field of international peace and security.
Word Press
https://cpdbisa.wordpress.com/
A website that includes resources and opportunities to network with scholars interested in questions of colonialism and IR.
World Trade Organization
www.wto.org
Provides information on the WTO and its agreements as well as access to various online resources and documents concerning trade.
Wuppertal Institute
An independent research institute that conducts research on the social and ecological effects of globalization and develops strategies for sustainable globalization.