Comparative Politics
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Gateways
Background Notes
U. S. State Department publication which contains brief facts about the land,
people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations
of all countries of the world.
CIA
World Factbook
Main Ref Atlases G122 .U56a
Contains country profiles of the history, climate, government, economy, communications,
defense forces, and people. Produced by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
using CIA and other intelligence data gathered by federal agencies.
Countries, Regions
Another U. S. State Department site containing links to the Department's
Bureaus of African, East Asian and Pacific, European and Eurasian, Near Eastern,
South Asian, and Western Hemisphere Affairs. Also contains Foreign Embassy,
Consulates, Missions, and Embassy Personnel information.
Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices
Main Ref JC571 .C68
U. S. State Department reports submitted to Congress annually that summarize
the individual, civil, political, female, and worker rights in all countries
of the world.
Country Studies
- Library of Congress
Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic,
political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout
the world.
Documents
From PolitInfo, contains international treaties, conventions, constitutions,
documents from international organizations, statistics and data archives,
and biographical information on heads of state worldwide.
Elections Around the
World
Wilfried Derksen's Elections.org site is an up-to-date searchable database
on elections, parties and parliaments worldwide.
Foreign
Countries & International Organizations
BU Libraries collection of web sites gathered by our Government Documents
Librarian.
Foreign
Governments Sources on the Web - Documents Center (U. Michigan)
Another comprehensive collection of links from the Documents Center.
Political Resources
on the Net
Links to governments, parties, organizations, and news by continent and
country.
Area Studies Gateways
African
Studies Internet Resources
WWW Virtual Library site from Columbia University
Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library
Collection of networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems
concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies broadly defined, including the
Middle East. Maintained by T. Matthew Ciolek
Europa: Gateway
to the European Union
Official portal to the European Union
European Union
WWW Virtual Library
Government, political, economic, foreign policy links including listservs
and newsgroups.
Government
and Politics of South Asia
WWW Virtual Library site from Columbia University
Guide to
European Legal Databases
Guide to Foreign and
International Legal Databases
Both maintained by Mirela Roznovschi, librarian at NYU School of Law.
Handbook of Latin American
Studies (HLAS)
Annotated bibliography of works selected and maintained by scholars, selected
by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.
Index on Africa
- Norwegian Council for Africa
Gateway organized by country, subject, and news.
Latin American Information
Network (LANIC)
Directory of sources from University of Texas at Austin
Middle East Network
Information Center (MENIC)
WWW Virtual Library site from the Univesity of Texas at Austin
Political Database
of the Americas - Center for Latin American Studies (Georgetown University)
Searchable database of resources including the national constitutions, legislation,
institutions and political actors, political-constitutional studies and electoral
data for all the countries of the region. Searchable in English, Spanish,
French, Portuguese.
REESWeb: Russian
and East European Studies WWW Virtual Library - Center for International
Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
Major gateway to searchable links or browse by subject, country, time period,
culture
Western
European Studies
WWW Virtual Library site from the Center for Western European Studies
at the University of Pittsburgh
