USEFUL LINKS

Resources on Writing in Political Science

• How to Write a Good Paper in Political Science
• The Write Stuff (APSA: Thomas Cronin's suggestions and cautions for students writing a research paper)
• The Economist Style Guide
• Guidelines for Book Reviews
• Citing Electronic Sources
• The Writing Center

Newspapers, Periodicals, and Special Topics

• Global Beat: A Resource Service for the Global Journalist (Serious news and analysis)
• STRATFOR.COM (timely global intelligence)
• IntellectualCapital.Com (Online analysis and discussion)
• Worldskip.com (information from around the world)
• New York Times Vietnam Special: "A Different War"
• Taiwan's 2000 Presidential Elections
  • CNN.com special "2000 Taiwan Decides"
  • BBC online special "Taiwan Vote 2000"
  • Asia Society: The 2000 Taiwan Presidential Elections
  • ROC Government Information Office Presidential Election Updates
• Communist China at 50
  • New York Times, "China: 50 Years of Communism"
  • CNN, "Visions of China"
  • TIME, China: The Awkward Superpower
  • Yahoo! Full Coverage: China 50th Anniversary
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• International Herald Tribune
• Washington Post
• Financial Times (Leading British economic newspaper)
• Christian Science Monitor
• Washington Times
• BBC News (BBC World Service)
• CNN Interactive
• Yahoo - Top Stories Summary (Reuters)
• The Chicago Tribune
• Chicago Sun-Times
• The Richmond Times-Dispatch
• National Public Radio
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Boston Globe
• Los Angeles Times
• USA TODAY
• Far Eastern Economic Review (Leading business magazinel on Asia-Pacific)
• The Economist (Leading British economic -- and IR -- magazine)
• Asiaweek
• The Times (Leading British newspaper)
• Asian Media Sites
• CNA Daily English News Wire
• SinaNet News Center
• China News Digest
• CIA: Foreign Broadcast Information Service
• THE OFFICE OF TIBET, New York
• India 50 Years of independence
• Hong Kong Special Report (Financial Times)
• Inside China Today
• FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• Foreign Policy
• The New Republic
• The Nation
• The Weekly Standard
• The Atlantic Monthly
• National Geographic
• Congressional Quarterly
• Political Science Quarterly
• Mediterranean Quarterly
• The World & I magazine
• TIME
• World Polilitics (Full-text online through Johns Hokpins University's Muse Project)
• Human Rights Quarterly
• Journal of Democracy
• SAIS Review
• Journal of Asian American Studies
• Jane's Defense Weekly
  

Graduate Schools of International Relations

• The Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies)
• Georgetown University (Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service)
• Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs)
• UC San Diego (Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies)
• Harvard University (John F. Kennedy School of Government)
• George Washington University (Elliott School)
• Columbia University (School of International and Public Affairs)
• University of Pittsburgh (Graduate School of Public and International Affairs)
• Tufts University (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
• Thunderbird - American Graduate School of International Management
• American University Washington Semester Program

International Organizations and U.S. Government Agencies

• United Nations
• Model United Nations
• United Nations Association of the United States of America
• United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraqi Disarmament
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The World Bank Group
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• World Economic Forum (WEF)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Bank for International Settlements
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• The European Union (EU)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)
• Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP)
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Organization of African Unity (OAU)
• Amnesty International
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• Human Rights Watch
• The White House
• United States House of Representatives
• U.S. Department of State
• Department of Defense
• Department of Treasury
• Department of Commerce
• National Security Council
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• US Agency for International Development (USAID)
  

Think Tanks

• RAND
• The Heritage Foundation
• The Brookings Institution
• Council on Foreign Relations
• The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
• United States Institute of Peace
• Cato Institute
• FREEDOM HOUSE Home Page
• American Enterprise Institute
• Hoover Institution
• Hudson Institute
• IISS - The International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Institute for International Economics
• The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• The Atlantic Council of the United States
• National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
  

IR-Related Internships or Employment Information

• Career Development Center (Information on connnecting your majors to your careers; internship opportunities; networking with people in the international career fields)
• Council of Foreign Relations
• American Enterprise Institute
• Institute for International Economics
• The Brookings Institution
• CSIS-Center for Strategic and International Studies
• The Heritage Foundation
• The Cato Institute
• The Atlantic Council of the United States
• The International Monetary Fund
• U.S. Department of State (Internships)
• U.S. Department of State (Careers)
• The Central Intelligence Agency
• Organization of American States
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• USAID-U.S. Agency for International Development
• Virginia state legislative internships
• Articles for Students:
  • As Diplomacy Loses Luster, Young Stars Flee State Dept.
    

Research Related Sites

• University of Richmond Library Government Information Website
• Political Science Resources (Prepared by University of Richmond Library)
• Comparative Democratization Project (Stanford University)
• The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (University of Michigan)
• Federation of American Scientists Country Information Site
• Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Northwestern University)
• The Phony Science of Predicting Elections: Who'll win in November? The experts' guess is as good as yours
• Federation of American Scientists (Activists providing excellent information on various countries' weapons of mass destruction programs) Chinese Air Power: Through Satellite Imagery
• ElectionGuide.Org (Election dates, information, and results from around the world) Service of International Foundation for Election Studies (IFES)
• CNN Election Watch
• Communist China at 50
  • China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998 (Jeffrey Richelson)
  • The People's Republic of China at Fifty (Robert A. Scalapino)
  • Managing U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century (David M. Lampton and Gregory C. May)
  • Will China Become Another Indonesia? (Minxin Pei)
• Jane's Information Group
• The Asian Financial Crisis
  • Asian and Global Economic Crisis
  • Tracking the Asian Economic Crisis (New York Times)
• China's Human Rights: Divergent Perspectives
  • U.S. Department of State China Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1999 (1998 1997)
  • Amnesty International Annual Country Report: China, 1999 (1998)
  • Human Rights Watch World Report 1999: China and Tibet
  • Chinese Government White Paper--The Progress of Human Rights in China
• The Cox Report (U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China) Full Text
• Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications (University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library)
• Human Development Report, 1999: Globalization with a Human Face
• American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1999
• American Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1995
• International Affairs Resources
• Resources on East Asian Studies
• Area Studies, Comparative Politics
• Human Rights in China (HRIC)
• A s i a n N e t - The Center of Asian Information on WWW.
• U.S. Department of State 2000 Human Rights Report
• Freedom House
  • Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1999-2000
  • Democracy's Century: A Survey of Global Political Change in the 20th Century
  • Press Freedom Survey 2000
• CIA, The World Factbook, 2000
• Political Science Resources on the Internet
• The Basic Law, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• CNN Interactive - World Regions: Asia-Pacific Sites
• APSA Homepage
• COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN LIBRARIES
• CNN Interactive - World Regions: Asia-Pacific Sites
• A s i a n N e t - The Center of Asian Information on WWW.
• Chinese Security Homepage
• Chinese Nuclear Forces
• Chinese Military Power
• Taiwan Security Research

The Lighter Stuff: Greetings and Humors

• Send an Electronic Greeting Card (Blue Mountain Arts)
• Electronic greeting cards (Main Quad)
• Political Cartoons (New York Times)
• New York Times Cartoons Page
• Washington Post Cartoons
• Doonesbury
• CyberToons
• The Escape Pod for Humanities PhDs
• PhDsWork
• Images of Taiwan: A Web Photo Exhibition

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