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Africa
- http://www.scu.edu/library/research/political_science/africa.html
You will find: General Guides to Information on Africa that are especially good for current news and some excellent sources on special topics databases for scholarly research.
Asia
- Asian Studies
WWW Virtual Library
This site is a very comprehensive guide to useful Internet resources worldwide on Asian countries, politics, economics, history, culture. It is supported by the Australian National Library. The arrangement focuses on access to information resources for regions and countries, but there are listings for things like e-journals, a current awareness bulletin, online bookshops and study abroad. This is a very successful multinational collaborative effort! - PAIR
(Portal to Asian Innternet Resources)
"The Portal to Asian Internet Resources, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a cooperative project of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The project provides a user-friendly, searchable catalog through which scholars, students and the general public have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia identified, evaluated, selected and cataloged by area library specialists." (from About PAIR) This is a very sophisticated academic effort... the web at its best!
- Digital South Asia Library
This site includes links to electronic resources in the following categories: Reference Resources; Images; Maps; Statistics; Bibliographies & Union Lists; Indexes; Books & Journals; Other Internet Resources for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Maldives. - East
Asia and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
This site opens to a Hot Topics page that provides an annotated list of web resources on the most current issues. Further down the page, you can select a country and get a very nice list of annotated websites. This fine directory comes from University of Redlands History Department Chair Robert Eng. - Asia Source
The highly respected, scholarly Asia Society has a webpage, AsiaSource, which attempts to meet needs for a current and reliable source of information on Asian countries. Besides a wide variety of newsy features, though, there is a database of scholars/specialists, current comparative data on countries, directory and language resources, even a bookstore! And, of course, links to other useful web resources on Asia.
Middle East
- MENIC
University of Texas' Middle East network Information Center is about
as comprehensive a site as you could dream of for Middle Eastern studies.
Resources are arranged into ten topical categories: Ancient History
Arts & Humanities Business & Finance Cultures & Groups Energy Government
& Politics Maps & Travel News & Media Regional Information Religion
Within these 10, you can then select a country. In addition, you can
navigate to resources in useful non-topical areas like Academia, Conferences,
Computing, K-12 Educational Resources, Organizations, Libraries &
Electronic Publishing. You can also jump to resources by country right
off or within a category, like Energy.
- Middle
East Internet Resources
This site is a Columbia University project, a collection of important
electronic research resources on the Middle East and North Africa.
It is not limited to political information and including also cultural
and social subjects, like music, literature, language, even food.
In addition to the topical choices, you will find categories of information
sources, such as electronic journals, and newspapers, directories
of scholars and bookstores/publishers, maps, images, and more! This
is quite a treasure trove.
- Middle East Media Research
Institute (MEMRI)
"The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle
East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which
exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations
of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of
political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious
trends in the Middle East." (from their "About Us" page). Translations
are listed by broad subject, by country of the original article, and
by series (Special Dispatch, which is translation of media; Inquiry
and Analysis, which is MEMRI produced analysis of events; and Special
Reports, which are in-depth MEMRI produced reports on Middle East
affairs).
- Arab Net
Arab Net is "... owned by ArabNet Technology (ANT), part of the
Saudi Research and Marketing Group, publisher of the leading newspapers
and magazines in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including Asharq Al-Awsat."
(from About Arab
Net). It's goal is to be a comprehensive web resource for
information about 22 nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
It has received a lengthy list of content awards from web-based rating
services like Point. The opening page lists recent news headlines
and articles and has a pulldown listing of opinion pieces called ArabView.
Country data is under ArabContents. Information for each country is
arranged in these categories:
Overview
Culture
History
Government
Geography
Transport
Business
Tour Guide
University of Texas' Middle East network Information Center is about as comprehensive a site as you could dream of for Middle Eastern studies. Resources are arranged into ten topical categories: Ancient History Arts & Humanities Business & Finance Cultures & Groups Energy Government & Politics Maps & Travel News & Media Regional Information Religion Within these 10, you can then select a country. In addition, you can navigate to resources in useful non-topical areas like Academia, Conferences, Computing, K-12 Educational Resources, Organizations, Libraries & Electronic Publishing. You can also jump to resources by country right off or within a category, like Energy.
This site is a Columbia University project, a collection of important electronic research resources on the Middle East and North Africa. It is not limited to political information and including also cultural and social subjects, like music, literature, language, even food. In addition to the topical choices, you will find categories of information sources, such as electronic journals, and newspapers, directories of scholars and bookstores/publishers, maps, images, and more! This is quite a treasure trove.
"The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East." (from their "About Us" page). Translations are listed by broad subject, by country of the original article, and by series (Special Dispatch, which is translation of media; Inquiry and Analysis, which is MEMRI produced analysis of events; and Special Reports, which are in-depth MEMRI produced reports on Middle East affairs).
Arab Net is "... owned by ArabNet Technology (ANT), part of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group, publisher of the leading newspapers and magazines in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia including Asharq Al-Awsat." (from About Arab Net). It's goal is to be a comprehensive web resource for information about 22 nations in the Middle East and North Africa. It has received a lengthy list of content awards from web-based rating services like Point. The opening page lists recent news headlines and articles and has a pulldown listing of opinion pieces called ArabView. Country data is under ArabContents. Information for each country is arranged in these categories:
Overview
Culture
History
Government
Geography
Transport
Business
Tour Guide
Europe & the former Soviet Union
- Intute: EuroStudies
This is a subset of the giant web subject catalog called Intute. It is a fabulous set of links to high quality web resources on European Studies. You can keyword search the entire European Studies database, or you can click on the country you are interested in and see what is available. You will find things in here that you wouldn't find in a Google search! - Parties
and Elections in Europe
This site is a quick way to get to detailed information on parties and elections in Europe (just like the name says!) from 1945 to date. Includes available facts about voter turnout levels, the name of the head of state and party composition in parliament. It is the work of a German law student, and he seems to keep it very current. Although you can get to it from the Elections Around the World page, if it is Europe you want, this is quicker! - Eurobarometer
This site has surveys from the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission, some back to 1974. Includes surveys and studies on major topics related to European citizenship, including enlargement of the EU, social & cultural hot topics, health issues, information technology, environment, the Euro, defense, and so on. They are freely available on the WWW. - Europarl
This site is the "Citizens Portal" intended to be THE single gateway to official European Union publications for citizens of the EU, so, among other things, you get petitions, complaints, correspondence, from citizens. Nice way to see what the "common folk" are thinking about the goings on of the EU. See the list of subjects in the frame on the left to get a better idea of the coverage. - REENIC, Russian and East
European Network Information Center
This project, sponsored by the University of Texas, is a collection of links to web resources on the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet republics. The main organization is by country, although you can keyword search as well. - REESWeb: Russian and East
European Studies Internet Resources
This project is sponsored by Center for Russian & East European Studies of the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, is an extensive collection of well-indexed and well-annotated web resources. You can browse or search. Browsing options list categories are very interesting and include a large array of subjects along with geographic regions/countries as well as "culture" (includes ethnic and religious groups) and time period. - Eurasianet
This is a project of the Open Society Institute, aiming to provide current information and analysis of events and conditions in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. You can click on a country name and browse everything on that country or scan content in 5 areas: Content is divided into 8 main departments: Eurasia Insight (Analysis of current affairs); Business & Economics; Civil Society; Recaps/ Q & A (Expert and Observer Interviews); Cartoon Dispatch; Photo Essays. There are also discussion Forums, daily news, a datebook, and a variety of special features. Quite a little goldmine. - Transitions Online
This is the successor to various Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty print publications. It began, too, as a print journal in 1995. It went online in 2000. This site is headquartered in Prague, is a very comprehensive and authoritative source of information on Central & Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It is the high tech successor to the paper periodcial of the same name. In addition to the massive amounts of information published on its page, Transitions has a wealth of valuable links to other web resources. The Newsstand, in particular, is a great resource, providing links to newspapers/magazines from this region available over the web.The library has an online subscription. - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
(RFE/RL)
This website is an invaluable source about what's happening in Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia (e.g. Iraq and Iran) and the former Soviet Union. In addition to print reports, in English and local languages, you can listen to live broadcasts as well on some canned programs on demand. You can subscribe, for free, to an email news service for specific region/country. The newsline archive is keyword searchable or browsable by date back to April, 1997. For historical research, you will need to use the following print publication series(dates we have enclosed in parentheses):- Radio Free Europe Research (October, 1987 - December, 1989)
- Report on the USSR (1989-1991)
- Report on Eastern Europe (1990-1991)
- RFE/RL Research Report (1992-1994)
- The Week in Europe
This is a weekly summary of news in the EU published every Thursday by United Kingdom Office of the European Commission. Online archive goes back to January 11, 1996.
Americas
- Latin American Network Information
Center (LANIC)
This site is managed by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. This is a massive web directory/guide to resources in the field of Latin American studies. All of the sites are evaluated and indexed by LANIC staff. You can begin in the directory by Country or by Subject or you can use the internal search engine. The former is recommended. This is an invaluable resource! - Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC/CEPAL)
This website is, in essence, the public record of its work, including speeches, press releases, and the fulltext (generally as large pdf files) of all kinds of reports and other documents, generally in both Spanish and English. - Georgetown University's
Political Database of the Americas
This database offers to speak to you in four different languages. I'll let you guess the four! "The main objective of the Database project is the development of a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information accessible throughout the Hemisphere and world via the World Wide Web." (from About the Database on the homepage) It is a collaborative effort of Georgetown University and the Organization of American States, the ultimate mission of which is to promote democracy throughout the region by providing such access to reliable information for researchers and policy makers. Many of the primary source documents are only available in the original language, a difficulty for many students. Even so, it would be nice if we had a site like this for every part of the world.
Developing Countries
- eldis Country
Profiles
According to the Scout Report, this site is a "powerful one-stop tool for researchers and professionals in development studies and political science" The heart of this material is multiple documents providing country by country sectoral profiles of agriculture, environment, economics, gender, politics, education, and health. It also includes links to current news, maps, statistics, CIA and IMF country profiles, industrial and trade profiles, and human rights records. Eldis (Electronic Development and Environment Information System) is a European initiative hosted and supported by the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, England, with financial support from DANIDA, the Danish International Development Agency.