COUNTRY STUDIES

Atlapedia Online Full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on the countries of the world.

Flags of the World More than 1600 pages and view more than 2700 images about flags; handy and complete.

NUPI Centre for Russian Studies Database Created and maintained by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, this site is a major resource for researchers and students studying contemporary Russia. The site is a collection of several useful searchable databases, including the 89 Administrative units of the Russian Federation, more than 1,000 public figures, 50 recognized political parties, over 150 key institutions, 100 ethnic groups in Russia, and a searchable chronology with more than 2,000 entries. Users may search by keyword or list all entries.

World Development Report 1999/2000 Released on September 15, 1999, the 22nd edition of this annual report from the World Bank Organization examines the effects of globalization and localization on the world economy in the coming millennium. This site includes overviews of the World Development Report in general and the 1999/2000 report in particular.

 The Library of Congress Country Studies Area Handbook Series: Contains studies of over 90 countries that may be searched or browsed.

CURRENT AFFAIRS

OCLC NetFirst Hot Topics on the Internet provides a monthly selection of links to high-quality Web resources on current events in the news from around the world.  

 Hot Paper Topics

Policy.com Issues Library

The Issue Paper is a very brief guide to organizing a pro/con paper.

Documents in the News identifies political issues making news headlines and web sources with additional information on these issues

Pro and Con explores the hottest current issues.

International Affairs Resources  This section of the WWW Virtual Library presents about 1100 annotated links to topics related to international relations.

 NEWS RESOURCES

American Journalism Review NewsLink This site lists national and international newspapers.

Ecola Newsstand This site is a guide to English-Language media online including a list of searchable newspaper archives.

Newspaper Archives on the Web This site offers links to archives of U.S. Newspapers.

San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner Index (The Gate) This offers links to over 150,000 periodicals.