Lewis & Clark Libraries: International Affairs : Web

International Organizations

United Nations
The official website for the UN. This site provides access to UN news and information, online databases, documents and publications, and more.
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Try the UN library's website or Yale University's UN Scholar's Workstation to learn about the bewildering world of UN Documents. The University of Washington is the closest UN Depository Library.
IMF
The International Monetary Fund is a specialized agency of the United Nations system set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy.
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Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it is governed by its almost global membership of 184 countries. The IMF is the central institution of the international monetary system – the system of international payments and exchange rates among national currencies that enables business to take place between countries.
NATO
The official home page of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Find current news, general information about the organization, an archive of publications, and more.
World Bank
The website of the World Bank. This page provides news on regions and countries, development topics, projects, the full-text of publications, and more.
iCSO (UN NGO Database)
Contact information for thousands of NGOs worldwide.
Yale Country by Country Guide to Foreign Law Research
Guide to legislation and international legal research.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Contains more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including treaties.
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The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites. This comprehensive research tool is accessed by more than a 250,000 students, scholars, educators, and human rights advocates monthly from over 150 countries around the world. Documents are available in nine languages.
United Nations Digital Library
Nearly a million documents from the UN--speeches, votes, debates and more.
GlobaLex Foreign Law Research
A collection of country guides to foreign legal materials.
Yearbook of International Organizations
Guide to NGOs worldwide. Print volumes are available in the library until 2011.

U.S. Government

Foreign Relations of the United States This link opens in a new window
The Foreign Relations of the United States series "presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity."
The series began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes." Selected volumes of the series are available.
GovInfo This link opens in a new window
A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, this site provides free electronic access to over 1,000 databases documenting the legislative, executive and judicial branches.
National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
An archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act
Combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $1.8 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding.
Public Papers of the President of the United States This link opens in a new window
The Public Papers of the Presidents is published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and is the official publication of United States Presidents' public writings, addresses, and remarks.

U.S. Department of State

Think Tanks and Reports

Brookings Institute Foreign Policy Studies
Brookings Institute is a centrist to liberal-left research institution, and is one the first, and most prominent Washington think-tanks.
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Founded in 1910, the Carnegie Endowment is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation among nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States.
Center for Security Studies
Clearinghouse for resources in security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations.
Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS is a research institution focusing on international policy and security, and the a lesser extent economic and domestic policy. CSIS tends to be hawkish and publishes Washington Quarterly.
Council on Foreign Relations
"The Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs (see below), the leading journal on global issues"
GlobalSecurity.org
GlobalSecurity.org is focused on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium.
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The organization seeks to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons and the risk of their use -- both by existing nuclear weapons states and those states seeking to acquire such capabilities. GlobalSecurity.org aims to shift American conventional military forces towards new capabilities aligned with the post-Cold War security environment, and to reduce the worldwide incidence of deadly conflict.
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Founded in 1976, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) is an independent, nonpartisan research organization that specializes in issues of national security, foreign policy, and defense planning issues. The IFPA is associated with the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.

RAND Publications This link opens in a new window
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Think Tank Search
Custom Google search of almost 600 think tank websites. Find reports, grey literature, and more from partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
United States Institute of Peace Reports
Includes timely reports in these programs: Balkans Initiative; Iraq Program; Muslim World Initiative; Philippine Facilitation Project; Religion and Peacemaking; Rule of Law; Virtual Diplomacy. Browse reports by region or by year. Some reports available in Arabic.

International Affairs Librarian

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