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Online information sources on political conflicts, international relations, security trends, foreign policy, country profiles, think-tank organizations and others.
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Politics, Policy, and International Relations
Your Online Sources
Source: "The Invisible Web" by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.
(Now available at major bookstores.)
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
…an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of
the economic, political, social and cultural environments of countries around
the world. Free registration is required.
Search form:
See Main Page
Database KOSIMO (Political Conflicts)
KOSIMO is the name of a database containing (at this time) 693 political conflicts from 1945 to 1999. Each conflict is coded with 28 variables. The online version allows users to search 6 variables. You can also choose to download the entire database.
Search form:
http://www.hiik.de/en/kosimo/kosimo_querry.htm
FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends)
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and
the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International
Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Search form:
http://first.sipri.se
Related resource 1:
Comparing National Export Control Systems
International Boundary News Database
The database contains over 10,000 boundary-related reports from a wide range of news sources around the world dating from 1991 to approximately six months before the current date. Provided by the International Boundary Research Unit at University of Durham.
Search form:
http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/database/data.html
Political Database of the Americas
The Georgetown University Center for Latin
American Studies' Political Database of the Americas was founded to fill a
void in the electronic informational resources available to students, academics,
policy analysts and government officials on Latin American politics.
Search
form: See Main Page
Recent Lobbyist Registrations
with the United States Congress
This resource provides
registration data for individuals who recently filed with the US Secretary of the
Senate's Public Records Office wanting to lobby the United States Congress.
Note: U.S.
Search form:
http://www.tray.com/bna/bna.exe
Related resource 1:
(Canada) Lobbyist Search
Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
The database is regularly up-dated to take account of
new books and articles produced throughout the world on the subject of women in
politics. So far, it covers some 650 titles representing international, regional,
country-by-country as well as thematic perspectives of the subject.
Note:
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Search form:
http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDfsearch.asp
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