Charles Lipson

teaches international politics at the University of Chicago. He also writes for students about academic success and honest work at the university level.

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E-mail: c-lipson@uchicago.edu

Voice: 773.702.8053

Fax:    773.702.1689

 

Charles Lipson

Professor of Political Science

University of Chicago

5828 S. University Ave.

Chicago, IL 60637


 
 


International Relations Resources Online
Useful sites for studying international politics, history, and law

Historical Maps
General Reference Sources
RefDesk best general reference source Martindale Reference Center Historical Atlas of the 20th Century Matthew White
Biographical Dictionary modern, historical Library of Congress Library of Congress Research Tools
VoS superb academic links, searchable Bartleby's terrific; searchable "great books" WWW Virtual Library of International Affairs
Internet Public Library | NY Pub Library GameTheory.Net Congressional Research Service
Acronym Finder Enders Soc Sci Research Links Book reviews on my Politics and Culture Page
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics Etymological Dictionary Online Internet Source Guides: Yahoo! | Librarians' Index
Stanford Encyc.of Philosophy Philosophical Dictionary Etymological Dictionary Online
Encyclopedia: Encarta | 1Up | Wikipedia Thesaurus: Thesaurus.com 2007 Survey of IR Faculty done at William and Mary
Atlas: Encarta  |  MapQuest  |  National Geographic | US Census Reference Maps
Dictionary:  Encarta  |  Am.Heritage  |  Dictionary.com  |  HyperDictionary  |  OneLook scans multiple dictionaries | Confusing Words
Country Data: NationMaster | CIA Fact Book | Portals to World | CountryReports | Freedom House Rankings | World Audit focus on democracy, rights
Quotations: Bartlett's | Columbia | Simpson's quotes since 1950 | ThinkExistQuotationsPage | Quoteland | Yahoo! Guide | Online SpeechBank | Wikiquote | Giga-quotes

International Relations and Foreign Policy
Docs on US Foreign Policy extensive U.Michigan Journals (scholarly and policy)
Foreign Affairs Online gateway site, UVa The Atlantic foreign policy articles
Governments of World on WWW Foreign Affairs
European Governments online portal Foreign Policy
Europa links, news about EU International Security
U. Minnesota Human Rights Library National Interest
YaleGlobal online articles, links Parameters journal of Army War College
Powerkills: R.J. Rummel site extensive data Studies in Intelligence CIA journal, declassified
The World in Numbers Foreign Policy in Focus World Policy Journal
Weatherhead (Harvard) Cntr Int Affairs papers Internationale Politik in English (from Germany)
NationMaster statistics, graphs Homeland Security Affairs Naval Postgraduate School
Security Focus
Middle East policy journals, click here
Project on Defense Alternatives great llinks   I have included only free sites. Your library may.
GlobalSecurity.Org John Pike; great llinks   also subscribe to JSTOR, CIAO or other services
National Security Archive GW University FAS: Federation of American Scientists
Military Website Links Project on Defense Alternatives Military Analysis Network FAS
IR & Security Network Swiss, excellent links General Threat Assessments FAS
Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) papers Weapons of Mass Destruction FAS
Defense-Aerospace.com Terrorist Threats FAS
StratFor Strategic Forecasting: politics, economics Ballistic Missile Defense FAS
War, Peace, Security links; Canadian Forces College Chemical & Biological Weapons FAS
US Nat Security Strategy Bush NSC doc, Sept 02 Security Reading Lists
DefenseLink US Department of Defense Joint Forces Staff College bibliographies
    Speeches, testimony by DOD officials U. Chicago Grad Exam: Security
StrategyPage.com Yale Grad Field Exams: IR
Institute for the Study of War Kimberly Kagan, esp. on Iraq SAIS: Core Readings in Security
plus Security Policy institutes, immediately below Military Reading List well-organized by topic

Policy Institutes, sources for policy papers
Brookings | Brookings Foreign Policy Studies AEI: American Enterprise Institute
RAND Heritage Foundation
Council on Foreign Relations NYC Policy Review (Hoover) | Rbt Kagan, "Power & Weakness" US-Europe
Chicago Council on Global Affairs | Global Chicago Asia Society
Carnegie Endowment AsiaSource news, links, experts
Cato Foreign Policy in Focus
Japan Institute of Internat'l Affairs Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Chatham House Royal Institute for Int Affairs Center for Immigration Studies
Netherlands Institute for IR (Clingendael) New America Foundation
Stockholm Network market-oriented think tanks in Europe Transatlantic Institute Brussels
Security Policy
 
CSIS  Center for International & Strategic Studies SIPRI Stockholm
Center for Defense Information Center for Non-Proliferation Studies Monterey
Stimson Center Center for Advanced Study of Info Warfare
Wisc. Project on Nuclear Arms Control Aerospace Power Chronicle USAF journal
Nixon Center Center for Security Policy
Institute for Science & Int Security Lexington Institute
Cntr for Strategic & Bugetary Assessments Nuclear Control Institute proliferation issues
Gyre.org military & tech revolution Naval War College Review | Newport Papers
George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies IDA:Institute for Defense Analyses | Research Summaries
Center for New American Security  
Joint Center for International & Security Studies
     material on information warfare, RMA
Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies New Delhi
     
focus on S.Asia
 
Terrorism, Bio-terrorism, Counter-terrorism
 
Terrorism resources: Extensive listings on my Middle East Page
Middle East Issues
 
BESA Center Israel + MERIA Journal Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Jaffee Center: Strategic Assessment Israel Middle East Insight journal
For more, click on my Middle East Page Middle East Forum
    M.E.Quarterly  |  audio of recent talks
International Political Economy
 
Institute for International Economics Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum weekly
Global Trade Negotiations Harvard WTO Watch anti-globalization
FreeTrade.org op-eds and research papers Global Economics.Net commentaries by David Bartlett

International Economics, Economic History, and Business
International Business links
     Michigan State University
Bureau of Labor Statistics
     US Dept of Labor, includes international data
Finance and Development journal Federal Reserve Board research and data
Global Econ Data Sources links, non-US EH.Net economic history
Library of Econ & Liberty Encyc. of Econ; searchable books GATT Digital Library 1947-1994 docs digitized

Modern History, Recent History
Today in history: Library of Congress | NY Times | BBC | History Channel | Rotten History | Archive: Library of Congress 
Best History Websites Encyclopedia of World History Searchable
History News Network | History E-book Project Modern History Sourcebook online docs | Ancient | Medieval
Historical Text Archive by Don Mabry EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents BYU
Global History Sourcebook at Fordham  
Country Studies Library of Congress, history & current data Military History
Reviews in History online from Instit of Hist Research, London Military History Resources Richard Jensen
Greatest Engineering Achievements of 20th c. WWI: Trenches on the Web
British History | Victorian Web | British Empire World War II primary sources
Online SpeechBank War Maps US Military Academy
Lectures on Democracy Yale, text, audio, or video US History
Encyclopedia of the Orient Middle East Digital History
Jewish Virtual Library esp. Israel, Holocaust US Diplomatic History Resources Index
HyperHistory | HistoryWorld US Historical Documents U Okla Law
Journal for Multimedia History US Civil War at a Glance
History Out Loud speeches since 1930, text & audio US Historical Documents U Kansas
Ellis Island Immigration search engine to find families Cold War History
Historically Speaking Historical Society journal Cold War International History Project
Nationalism Project U. Wisconsin, extensive links, biblio. CIA Analyses of USSR, 1947-1991
Diplomatic History syllabi, Ohio State Post-1945 documents, speeches
Maps: Historical and Military Vietnam War Declassification Project U. Texas
Comprehensive map links at UTexas Library "Best History Sites" with rated links
Comprehensive map links at Oddens (Utrecht Univ) General Early Modern Europe  
Historical map links at UTexas Library 20th century US History Maps Blog
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century Matthew White 20th century: selected docs, speeches (RealAudio)
Categorized Links to Historical Maps superb, M. White pre-1945 post-1945    
Europe, 1914-1949 Gerhard Rempel World History & Western Civ--fine links
War Maps US Military Academy References Renaissance Exploration Baroque
Perry-Castañeda Map Collection U. Texas Enlightenment Revolutions Industry Modern
Modern maps on Lipson's World News Page Recent History ..A-Z    

US Government (foreign policy issues)
FirstGov Portal to US Government sites US State Department
  International Issues FirstGov Portal FRUS: Foreign Relations of the US archives online
Washington File   Statistics: US Government agency statistics
   all statements by US Gov officials on international matters   gateway, links
White House US Gov. Electronic Journals on Int. Affairs
  Policy Initiatives, Issues Library of Congress
  National Security page   LoC Research Tools
  US National Security Strategy Sept 2002   Country Studies history, data on all countries
  Homeland Security page DefenseLink US Department of Defense
  Presidential Libraries, all   Foreign Military Studies Office US Army
Public Papers of the Presidents   Speeches, testimony by DOD officials
Congressional Research Service reports    

International Law
International Law links, Cornell Law Foreign & International Law links, Washburn Law
Internet Law Library: Treaties & Int. Law
     US House of Representatives
Documents in Law, History, & Diplomacy
     Yale Law School Avalon Project
UN sites on International Law Multilateral Treaties & Conventions
Links to all human rights treaties U. Minnesota  
International Organizations
NATO World Economy UN
IAEA nuclear energy IMF UN  |  UN WomenWatch
WHO health World Bank country data UN system links extensive, alphabetized
ICC criminal court WTO trade UN on Israel/Palestine
ICJ international court NAFTA secretariat      Israeli Mission to UN
European Union magazine OECD  |  ILO labor      UN Docs on Palestine UNISPAL

Non-Governmental Organizations (other NGOs listed above)
Amnesty International World Organization Against Torture
Freedom House
     data on countries' freedom
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
      coverage of Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia
American Political Science Association
      includes convention papers online

OneWorld.Net
      daily news about environment, human rights

Personal Websites of Special Interest
 
Individual Sites: International Relations
 
Vincent Ferraro Richard Kimber Richard Eichenberg Richard Tucker data
Jay Williams defense Michael O'Hanlon Ivo Daalder Paul Hensel data
Eliot Cohen Paul Diehl rivalry data R.J. Rummel: Powerkills extensive data | democratic peace literature
 
Individual Sites: Economics, Econ. History:
 
Brad DeLong Paul Krugman Jagdish Bhagwati  

News Sources on this website 
Headlines       World News       Middle East      Politics & Culture (for political and cultural interviews)
Audio News for online radio news and interviews.
These links are updated continuously to include useful sites. Many thanks to Sandy Enders, Jeffrey Hayes, Shawn Moore, and Víctor Muñiz-Fraticelli for suggesting excellent reference sites. Your suggestions are most welcome.
Please send them to c-lipson@uchicago.edu
     
Pages on this Web site
Lipson Courses
Lipson talks
Home List of my courses
Vita
International Politics
Talks on Education & Honesty
Books by Charles Lipson
Why Honesty Matters for Your Education
           (for university students)
Talks by Charles Lipson
Courses offered
Helping Your Students Do Honest Work
          (for faculty and advisers)
PIPES Workshop
International Relations Resources
World History
Why Honesty Matters in High School
          (for high-school students)
Reading, Writing, Plagiarism 15th-18th c. World Politics
How to Write a Thesis 19th c World Politics
Succeeding as an International Student in the U.S. and Canada      (customized for students, faculty, or advisers)
Politics and Culture 20th c World Politics to 1945
Fun 20th c World Politics 1945-91
Talks on Global Issues
News Pages
Social Science Core
What's New about the New Economy?
World News Power, Identity, Resistance The World America Made
Middle East News   Political Threats to Global Prosperity
Headline News   Turning Points of the 20th Century
World News-Web Audio   Democracies in World Politics
Advice for students
  Israel's Challenges
How to Write a Thesis   China in World Politics
Getting a Recommendation   The Cold War
  Why We Fought WW2
 
© Charles Lipson, 2008