Video site containing interviews with public intellectuals, etc. Covered in NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07summers.html?ex=1357362000&en=0f556b96e0357865&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Includes transcripts and audio files of lectures in international affairs.
"OpenCongress brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill."
ECLAC's (CEPAL) Information Society Program (for Latin America)
A great example of how Web technology can help in humanities scholarship.
Projects include negotiation simulation software, In Holland, MI
Eurasia Group is the world's leading global political risk advisory and consulting firm. We cover political, social, security and economic developments worldwide. Our coverage is organized into four geographic practices — Asia, Europe & Eurasia, Latin A
The Adelphi Charter - Criteria for copyright, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property in the 21st Century
Thu 27 Apr 2006 at 3:39 PM
Thu 27 Apr 2006 at 3:39 PM
Responding to the challenge of "how to ensure that everyone has access to ideas and knowledge, and that intellectual property laws do not become too restrictive. The Charter sets out new principles for copyrights and patents, and calls on governments to
Some four or five years after starting to read Graham Greene’s Getting To Know the General, I found the leisure to finish it on a trip to Brazil. Previously, I had brought a copy with me on a trip to Panama (the General of the book’s title is General Omar Torrijos, Panama’s military ruler [...]
"The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, FPA provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and f
On "The End of History"
In his article "The End of History," written on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama declares an "unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism" and that the "total exhaustion of viable systematic alternatives to Western liberalism" spell the "end of history." That is, we have arrived [...]
"The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics."
Project Vote Smart - American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting
Thu 15 Dec 2005 at 9:38 AM
Thu 15 Dec 2005 at 9:38 AM
Covers candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.
Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74.
One of the most pressing questions in contemporary international relations is how the world’s lone superpower, the United States of America, allowed its foreign policy (to say nothing of its record at home) to be hijacked by the ideological extremists of the Bush administration, and whether there’s any possibility of recovery from this situation in [...]
While filing away some readings from the first trimester of my graduate program in international studies–a period that included courses in international relations theory and international trade–I came across two items that concisely present powerful challenges to prevailing orthodoxies in economics and politics. They are, respectively, a summary of Norwegian economist Erik Reinert’s project [...]
"Politics, economics, globalization, academia, pop culture... all from an untenured perspective"
The off-the-cuff political commentary of David Adesnik, a graduate student in international relations at Oxford and fellow of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and Patrick Belton, a graduate student in international relati