• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
  Primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  Publishes a wide range of books, reports, policy briefs, and working papers on a range of international affairs issues, many available full text on their Web site.
• Center for Defense Information
  An independent organization that provides insights, in-depth analysis, and facts on military, security and foreign policy challenges.
• Council on Foreign Relations
  The Council is a nonpartisan national membership organization, think tank, and publisher of information on key international issues.
• Diplomacy Monitor
  Online repository of diplomatic and international official statements, press briefings, communiques, etc. (St. Thomas University School of Law).
• Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
  Information covering armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
• Foreign Policy Association
  FPA provides impartial publications, programs and forums to increase awareness of international public policy issues.
• International Crisis Group (ICG)
  An independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Analytical reports, briefing papers, and a monthly bulletin providing an update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world are available via the organisation's Internet site.
• International Governmental Organizations Directory
  (Northwestern University)
• International Law - Guide to Electronic Resources
  Detailed research guides created by experts (American Society of International Law).
• International Relations and Security Network
  A free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide.
• National Security Archive
  Online access to an archive of declassified U.S. documents on international affairs obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (George Washington University).
• NATO
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization official homepage.
• Treaties and Agreements
  Links to treaty collections online and guides to treaty research (Law Library of Congress). Selected treaty resources include:
  • The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
    Primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.
  • Council of Europe: Treaty Office
    The text of the Statute of the Council of Europe and all other COE treaties.
  • Digital Library in International Conflict Management
    The Peace Agreements Digital Collection and the Truth Commissions Digital Collection (United States Institute of Peace).
  • Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI)
    Status data for environmental treaties, treaty text, and other related information.
  • EUR-Lex - The Portal to European Union Law
    Treaties, legislation, case law, and documents of public interest.
  • Geneva Conventions Reference Guide
    (Society of Professional Journalists)
  • Organization of American States - Documents
    Official documents, resolutions, treaties and conventions.
  • Peace Agreements
    Full text collection via INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity).
  • Selected International Treaties and Agreements
    InfoUSA (U.S. Department of State).
  • United Nations Core Treaties
    Brief overviews of the treaties most central to the spirit and goals of the UN Charter. See Also Treaty Reference Guide for definitions of key terms used in the treaties.
  • Treaties in Force
    Full text (PDF format) of the annual U.S. State Department publication, A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force.
• United Nations
  • Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations
    Directory for the United Nations system of organizations.
  • UN Documentation Centre
    Full text documents. Click on "Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)" for full-text searching.
  • The UNESCO Library
    Access to the bibliographic database and the online document collection.
  • United Nations Core Treaties
    Brief overviews of the treaties most central to the spirit and goals of the UN Charter.
  • United Nations Multimedia
    United Nations' news and media service
  • United Nations Scholars' Workstation
    A collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information which supports research in United Nations studies (Yale University).
  • United States Mission to the United Nations (USUN)
• U.S. Department of State
  • Congressional Testimony
    Testimony related to foreign affairs.
  • Public Diplomacy Calendar
    Schedule of international programs and events.
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  A nonpartisan institute for advanced study on topics throughout the humanities and social sciences, with the greatest concentrations of topics in history, political science, and international relations.
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  Thousands of annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics (Professor Wayne A.Selcher, Elizabethtown College).

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