Beyond
the Water's Edge
Resources
DATA SOURCES AND NEWS SOURCES
RESOURCES
The International Studies Association (ISA) is the umbrella association for IR scholars around the world. The papers presented at their conferences can be accessed on their web page at: https://www.isanet.org/ISA/About-ISA
The WWW Virtual Library of International Affairs Sources
Center for Security Studies (Zurich)
SIPRI provides comprehensive analysis of military spending and weapons transfer, at: https://www.sipri.org/databases
Data on International Crises (ICB) at: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/
Data on Militarized Interstate Disputes:
http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/MIDs
Data on alliances can be found at COW and/or ATOP
Data and research on ethnic groups and conflict from ETH are here: https://icr.ethz.ch/data/
The Correlates of War (COW) project has a great deal of data on a variety of different dimensions at: http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets
Data on Regime Types and Democratization: Polity IV: http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
Gleditsch modifications: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/polity.html
Freedom House: freedomhouse.org
Polyarchy data base: http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Governance/Vanhanens-index-of-democracy/
V-Dem produces a variety of indicators of democracy
IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) provides global state of democracy indices.
Historical information and data on GDP from the World Bank at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD and from Maddison at: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/data.htm
Quality of Governance indicators (World Bank): http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/EXTWBIGOVANTCOR/0,,contentMDK:20771165~menuPK:1866365~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:1740530,00.html
Transparency International provides data on corruption and in summary here
Information on international organizations can be found in the Yearbook of International Organizations
Information and data on terrorism can be found at TRAC (https://www.trackingterrorism.org/ideology) and the Global Terrorism database (GTD) at: https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
Globalization measures: http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/
WTO Dispute Cases: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e.htm and by country: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_by_country_e.htm
Forecasting and analysis at the Pardee Center for International Futures
Carnegie Middle East Center here
The National Security Strategy Document of the U.S. (2017) is here
News sources:
New York Times at: https://www.nytimes.com/
Los Angeles Times at: http://www.latimes.com/hp-2/
Christian Science Monitor at https://www.csmonitor.com/
Washington Post at https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Financial Times here
Wall Street Journal here
The Guardian at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/world-news-guide
World Politics Review here
BBC World News at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world
Der Spiegel International at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/
Associated Press at: https://www.ap.org/en-us/
Japan Times at: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Le Monde diplomatique at: http://mondediplo.com
The Hindu (India) at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/
Egypt Daily News at: https://www.egyptdailynews.com
On Intelligence at: https://intelnews.org/
Monkey Cage, a good blog by political scientists at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/?utm_term=.938ff77cb41e
Foreign Affairs at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Foreign Policy at: http://foreignpolicy.com/
National Public Radio (NPR) at: http://www.npr.org/
Reuters at: https://www.reuters.com/
Foreign Policy Research Institute here
Modern Diplomacy here
Reuters Africa at: http://af.reuters.com.
For news sources on other regions of the world, browse here
NBR (National Bureau of Asian Research) here
Johnson's Russia List here and here
PONARS on Central Asia
News with another perspective:
Pravda (Russian govt) at: http://www.pravdareport.com/
Moscow Times here
South China Morning Post at: http://www.scmp.com/frontpage/international
Xinhua News Agency (Chinese govt)at: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/
Asia Times here
Aljazeera at: http://www.aljazeera.com/
The Jerusalem Post at: http://www.jpost.com/
Some Global and Regional Governance Issues:
Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict
Nuclear proliferation: regime and threats
Human Rights and data by countries
International trade: WTO and disputes
TCFR Videos, 2020-2021 Season
Frank Figliuzzi on the 2020 Elections here