International Relations and Security Issues

This page contains links to useful online sources of information relating to international affairs and defense/security issues.

Reference Sites

Center for Strategic and International Studies. (CSIS)
Electronic Research Collection- Dept. of State Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN) (Site maintained at the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago.)
Essential Documents. Council on Foreign Relations.
FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Issues. FIRST is a free of charge service sponsored by the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Constitutions, Treaties and Official Declarations (worldwide; from politicsresources.net/)

International Organizations

African Union is the successor organization to the Organization of African Unity (OAU), established in 2002.
Commonwealth Secretariat is a voluntary association of independent states which evolved out of the British Commonwealth.
Europa: The European Union web site.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
League of Arab States (commonly known as the Arab League)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Organization of American States
Official United Nations Home Page
World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)

Treaties

The American Society for International Law treaties guide is an excellent collection of links to online sources of treaty documents.
International Environmental Treaties. Site created by Professor Ron Mitchell at the UO. Provides a database of information about treaties, with links to some treaty texts and associated data for selected environmental treaties.
Investment Instruments Online. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Searchable database of the texts of bilateral investment treaties.
Treaties Search Page on Thomas, the Library of Congress' online service.
United Nations Treaty Data Base (Multilateral Treaties Deposited With the U.N.)
United States Senate Treaty Documents have the texts of treaties that have been sent to the Senate for advice and consent. Documents from the 104th Congress to the current Congress are available online through GPO Access.

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United States

Foreign Policy

U.S. Department of State
- Bureau of International Information Programs
  (This agency has taken over the functions of the former United States Information Agency (USIA). The agency's Washington File is a particularly good source of foreign policy information.)
U.S. Congress, House Committee on International Relations
U.S. Congress, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
The U.S. Agency for International Development
United States Institute of Peace

Defense & Security Issues

United States Defense Department

Defense Intelligence Agency
DefenseLINK, the Department of Defense's home page. This provides links to home pages for the various armed services and other Defense Department sites.
Defense Technical Information Center
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces.

National Defense University. Institute for National Strategic Studies.

Strategic Forum.

Other U.S. Agencies

Central Intelligence Agency
Homeland Security Digital Library. The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.
National Security Agency
Office of Homeland Security
State Department: Bureau of Arms Control

Non-Governmental

Center for Defense Information. Non-governmental. An independent research institute dedicated to defense and security issues.
Digital National Security Archive. Reproductions of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Includes over 61,000 declassified documents.
Uppsala Conflict Data Project. Database of armed conflicts around the world.

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Foreign Ministries of Other Nations

We are no longer maintaining links to the web sites of individual foreign ministries. See Foreign Affairs Ministries on the Web by the United States Institute of Peace.

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Maintained by: Ted D. Smith, tedsmith@.uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 10/15/2009