PS205: Intro to International Relations

• PS205 Home Page
• Course CANVAS Site
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
• Case Study Materials (in syllabus)

Useful Links for Course

Basic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Links

• News briefs from the UN
• Member states of the United Nations
• Directory of Embassies in Washington, DC
• Permanent Missions, Consulates and Embassies in Geneva

Security related links

• List of Current Conflicts in the World from Globalsecurity.org
• List of nuclear weapons states and the weapons they have from The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Chemical and biological weapons background information
• List of terrorist acts

International Political Economy Links

• US Trade Balances by Country
• The European Union – official website
• World income (GDP per capita) by country
• Harvesting Poverty: An excellent set of articles from the NY Times in 2003 on the impact of farm subsidies in developed countries on people who live in developing countries

Human Rights links

• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) program to Eliminate Violence against Women

Environment links

• Glaciers receding, most likely due to climate change, look around the Glacier Archive (in German but “a picture is worth a thousand words”).
• Interested in the environmental impact YOU have – try this site.
• RealClimate.org — a top website for climate news
• UK Guardian article on Pentagon report arguing climate change is quite likely possible and may cause serious conflict