Lehigh sites

Lehigh University library citation guide
Departmental citation standards
2003 guide to sources for IR322 compiled by Roseann Bowerman
2002 Guide to research in the political economy of development compiled for IR 322 by Roseann Bowerman

External sites

General
Colleges and Universities
The American Prospect's electronic policy network
Oxford English Dictionary
The Colombia Guide to Online Style

General International Relations
International Studies Association
Political Science journals guide
University of Michigan's guide to documents
CIA World Factbook

International Political Economy
The International Political Economy Network
Institute of Development Studies,University of Sussex
National Bureau of Economic Research
U.S. Dept. of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis
Social Indicators of Development
Elsevier's Handbooks in Economics
Fernand Braudel Center
World System archive
Journal of World System Research
Japan Economic Institute of America
Asia Crisis homepage (Thanks to Nouriel Roubini at NYU)
Pacific Exchange Rate Service
"Post-autistic economics" student movement
Center for Economic Policy Research influential policy analysis
Global Trade Negotiations (Harvard CID), including links to individuals, programs, datasets, etc.

Information and data to profile nations

The Economist's country briefings
State Dept. country background notes
IMF country pages (including Article IV reports)
World Bank country pages
WTO Trade policy reviews
Eldis (UK) gateway to country information
Transparency International (corruption index)
Bertelsmann Institute (Germany) Country reports

 

Contemporary events, issues and trends
The Asian crisis homepage from Nouriel Roubini at NYU
U.S. debt from the Left Business Observer
In Focus and The Progressive Response Two excellent series of foreign policy issue briefs from the left (Institute of Policy Studies and Interhemispheric Resource Center)
The Nation Progressive commentary

Development organizations
Focus on the Global South

Organizations critical of international financial institutions and/or globalization
50 Years Is Enough Network
Jubilee 2000
Bretton Woods Project
Group of 77
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Center for Environmental Economic Development's Tobin Tax Initiative

Governments and International Institutions
World Bank
World Bank's Policy Research Working Paper series
World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001 This page also contains commentary and references to the extensive online discussion that led to this very controversial report
International Monetary Fund
World Trade Organization excellent source of information on global trade
International Labour Organisation
NAFTA Secretariat
United Nations Development Programme Sustainable development, etc., including the Human Development Report and human development reports for individual nations (great resource)
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, including the World Investment Report
Financing for Development Conference sponsored jointly by UN, IBRD, IMF, and WTO
Free Trade Area of the Americas

 

U.S. Government Agencies
United States Trade Representative executive agency representing "hawkish" viewpoint on trade matters; best source on U.S. trade policy
United States International Trade Commission companion to above. It conducts more academic studies
The White House Hidden among the treasures of this site is the Citizen's Handbook, which contains links to all the exective branch departments and agencies you may not have found elsewhere.

Data
Freedom House data, 1972-1998 (Excel)
Polity III data and codebook
Polity IV data page
Penn World Tables 5.6
Foreign Policy's "globalization index"
UN voting data

Data Sources (in addition to those above)
WorldBank's World Development Report
Left Business Observer
World Bank's development data page
Harvard Center for International Development - World Bank Data Mart
Robinson Rojas Data Bank Sundry data and other development information with lefty orientation (dedicated to Salvatore Allende)
Replication datasets for many journal articles
Tucker's guide to available electronic data
Paul Hensel's guide to data (Thanks, Paul)

English-language international news sources
Jerusalem Post