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Nations Online
  • Worldwide population characteristics, including race, religion, access to sanitation
  • Maps and detailed information about individual countries including links to government agencies, major newspapers, sports, city populations, time zones, flags
  • Currency converters and international airport codes
News Media
    • Links to newspapers from around the world
    • Information on Foreign Broadcast Information Service/World News Connection translations
    • United States radio broadcasts (Voice of America, Open Media)
    • U.S. media coverage of world events
    • Serves as the Documents Center's primary web page for news coverage
Newspapers
  • Includes foreign newspapers and U.S. sources, such as World News Connection and Open Media
Orders, Decorations and Medals
    • Military and civilian medals awarded by individual countries
    • This content is no longer available at its original address. The link above is to the archive version(s) at the Internet Archive and may not function as it was originally intended
Parliaments on the Web
    • List of all countries with a parliamentary system
    • Links to their web sites if available
    • PARLIN provides basic parliamentary and electoral information (e.g. constituencies, voter qualifications) for all countries as well as the latest election results (voter turnout; statistics on elected officials by party, profession, sex, and age; textual analysis
Peace Corps
    • Summary of Peace Corps activities in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
    • Summarizes the agricultural, environmental, economic, educational, and health situations in each region
    • Links to information about individual countries
Periodicals
  • List of political science journals available free on the Internet or available to campus through licensing agreements
  • Several scholarly political science periodicals provide the lead article in the current issue
Political Leaders, 1945-
    • Lists rulers of individual countries, 1945 to the present
    • Arranged by country with the name, office, dates of term, regime (civilian/military) or party membership
    • Related data bases include contemporary women leaders, African rulers, and heads of state dying under suspicious circumstances
Political Obituary
 
    • Brief death notices for major political leaders throughout the world
    • Arranged by year and month, 1990 to present
    • Index is in English; entries are in Spanish
Politics
 
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