Primary International Relations Government Information

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
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    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Foreign Governments
Northwestern University, Government Publications & Maps...   [more]

Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]

University of Michigan Documents Center
Also Known as: Foreign Government Resources on the Web
University of Michigan Documents Center...   [more]
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WEB Site Locator for the United Nations System
Alphabetic Index of Websites of the United Nations System of Organizations . "This site serves as a portal to web sites of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, and specialized agencies. It al...   [more]
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
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Worldwide Governments on the WWW
Exceptionally detailed listing of foreign government web sites, often including regional and local government and political parties....   [more]
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Important International Relations Government Information

Afghanistan and the U.S. 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- from Archives Unbound
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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

Archive of European Integration
An electronic repository and archive for research materials on European integration and unification. The AEI collects two types of materials: freely-available independently-produced research materials...   [more]
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Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
Also Known as: APEC Secretariat
Web site, with publications and working group documents, for APEC, the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC has 21 member ...   [more]
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    APEC publications (free downloads, PDF and MS Word)

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Digital versions of documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government....   [more]
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BDEEP - British Documents on the End of Empire
An annotated selection of official documents from the UK National Archives, charting British withdrawal from its colonial territories, with editorial apparatus....   [more]
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CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers
Also Known as: CIA FOIA Reading Room
Subtitled, Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis of Soviet and Chinese Policy and Decision Making, 1953-1973. Declassified Central Intelligence Agency research papers on Soviet and Chinese internal politi...   [more]
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Catalogue of British parliamentary papers in the Irish University Press 1000-volume series
Website providing title lists for the Irish University Press 1000-volume collection of 19th-century British parliamentary papers. Search Franklin for individual subseries titles in this collection....   [more]
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    IUP 1000-volume set: Colonies: Africa

CIA FOIA Reading Room
Fulltext Central Intelligence Agency declassified documents on many topics, including the Family Jewels (illegal activities from 1959 through 1973), the CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers on Soviet and Chi...   [more]
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Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
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Congressional Research Service Reports
Also Known as: CRS
This is not a complete collection of CRS Reports: "The Congressional Research Service, a congressional support agency, does not make its publications directly available to the public online. The FAS [...   [more]
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Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
CRS Reports via the U. S. Department of State. 1999-present....   [more]
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Country Reports on Terrorism
Country Reports on Terrorism, 2004-present. Formerly, Patterns of Global Terrorism 1995-2003. ...   [more]
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Current Treaty Index
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Semiannual companion service to United States Treaty Index: 1776-1990 (with supplements), listing current actions by the U.S. on treaties and agreements. Edited by Igor I. Kavass....   [more]
Holdings: v. 1 (1982)-v. 25 (1999)

DATA - Debt AIDS Trade Africa
Advocacy organization dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty and AIDS in Africa. Publishes DATA Report, biennial report on G-8 progress toward Gleneagles foreign aid commitments....   [more]
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Democracy in Turkey 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- from Archives Unbound
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Department of State Bulletin
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1939-1989

Development Experience Clearinghouse
Also Known as: USAID DEC
USAID technical and program documents on international development projects funded by USAID. Topics covered include democracy and governance, conflict resolution, economic growth and agricultural deve...   [more]
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Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Documents Online - World Trade Organization
Fulltext official documentation of the WTO, 1995-present, including Trade Policy Reviews and legal texts of WTO agreements. Includes selected Uruguay Round documents and GATT documents....   [more]
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Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
"Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922 involves the cataloguing and full-text digitisation of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University of Southampton's uniq...   [more]
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EUR-Lex
Also Known as: Access to European Union Law
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Fulltext European Union / European Community legislation, case law, and preparatory documents. Includes treaties between EU member states, international agreements, seconda...   [more]
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    Alternative access via LexisNexis Academic

Eurobarometer Survey Series
Also Known as: Central and Eastern Eurobarometer
Semiannual public opinion surveys for European countries conducted for the European Commission, 1974 to present. CEEB subset covers "candidate" countries, 1990 to 1997....   [more]
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    European Commission public opinion sector
    Eurobarometer Survey Series data (via ICPSR)
    Central and Eastern Eurobarometer data (via ICPSR)
    Eurobarometer Interactive Search System
    Mannheim Eurobarometer Trend File, 1970-2002 (via ICPSR)

Europa
Gateway to the European Union...   [more]
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European Research Papers Archive
Working papers on all aspects on European integration from several European research centers, including ...   [more]
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European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Formerly the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). "The FRA helps to ensure that fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. It does this by collecting evidence ...   [more]
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Evaluation Resource Center - UN Development Programme
Fulltext database for UNDP project documents, 1990s-present. In part, a successor to AccessUNDP....   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States
The HeinOnline version of the complete and current FRUS....   [more]

Foreign Relations of the United States - Research Guide
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French Government Documents
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G8 Information Centre (University of Toronto)
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Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
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Guide to the United States Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Kavass's enhanced finding aid for using TIF, Treaties in Force, providing merged bilateral and multilateral subject indexing, chronological indexing, and updates subsequent to TIF's latest edition....   [more]
Holdings: 1982-present (currently 2003)

HOLIS 14 Points application
Reports on humanitarian aid from EU country donors and ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office). Provides dollar values and brief descriptions of individual relief programs....   [more]
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Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

IMF Data Mapper
Choropleth mapping and data graphing for IMF time series, including variables from World Economic Outlook, Balance of Payments Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, AFR Regional Economic Outlook,...   [more]
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IMF Policy Papers
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Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
- from Archives Unbound
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International Conciliation
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1907-1972

International Documents Collections (Northwestern University)
The Northwestern University library guide to international resources includes links to IGO and foreign government web sites....   [more]
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International Legal Materials
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Reproduces selected recent treaties and agreements, judicial decisions, executive orders, and other government documents on international and legal issues from local, national, and international gover...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present.

International Monetary Fund Publications
Also Known as: IMF Publications
Fulltext of official IMF publications, documenting and supporting the activities of the IMF in promoting international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, forst...   [more]
Holdings: 1981-present.
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Jumbo Report
Also Known as: Jumbo Rapport de conjoncture et Previsions des pays de la Zone Franc
Semiannual evaluation of 2-year economic and financial forecasts for the CFA area, including WAEMU, West African Economic and Monetary Union, and CAEMC, Central African Economic and Monetary Community...   [more]
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KAV Agreements
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements since 1950 not published in UST or TIAS. Documents are assigned KAV numbers. Most KAV documents will eventually be published in UST or TIAS....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present.

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
PDF-format document collection produced by Northwestern University Library. Contains 260 League of Nations documents, 1926-1946. Includes Statistical Yearbook of the League of Nations....   [more]
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Multilaterals Project
Fulltext of international multilateral conventions, treaties, and other instruments. Topics include environmental agreements, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other ...   [more]
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National and International Data Sources and Links - United Nations Statistics Division
The UN provides links to the statistical agencies of member countries, as well as the names and links (where available) for statistical yearbooks for each country....   [more]
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PARLINE
Also Known as: Parliaments On-Line
Facts about national legislatures: general information on each parliament chamber and its presidency, description of the electoral system, results of the most recent election, and information on the m...   [more]
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Paul Robeson: FBI Report
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Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan 1930-1939
- from Archives Unbound
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ProQuest Congressional Statutes at Large
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, Proquest Congressional
Searchable fulltext for U.S. laws, 1789-present (currently, 1997). Includes U.S. treaties and international agreements, 1778-1949, and treaties with Indian tribes, 1778-1874....   [more]
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    Search Statutes at Large by citation or Public Law number

Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

Records of the Persian Gulf War
- from Archives Unbound
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Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
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Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the IMF
A compilation of significant actions of the International Monetary Fund since its formation....   [more]
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September 11th Source Books
"National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War." Fulltext declassified document collection, with editorial content....   [more]
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SOLO: FBI Report
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, a...   [more]
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Terrorism Information Center - National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Nonprofit clearinghouse dedicated to "doing everything possible to add value to the nation's war on terrorism."...   [more]
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    MIPT Terrorism Bibliography
    MIPT Mental Health Bibliography
    Terrorism Incidents and Significant Dates

The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
Also Known as: Hindu Conspiracy Cases
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Trade Policy Reviews - World Trade Organization
Fulltext of recent WTO Trade Policy Reviews, providing surveillance of national trade policies for individual WTO members. Hyperlinks to earlier editions from 1995 to present....   [more]
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Treaties and Other International Act Series (TIAS)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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U.S. treaties and executive agreements in slip-form, considered the first authoritative publication of the document....   [more]
Holdings: early 1980s-present (currently mid-1990s)

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and other international agreements : the role of the United States Senate
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Summarizes international and U.S. law on treaty-making. Outlines the treaty-making process, especially focusing on the U.S. Senate. Useful glossary of diplomatic terms. Latest version of a U.S. Senate...   [more]

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements (Malloy)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A predecessor to Bevans, being a compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1937. Originally published in 4 volumes, with volumes 3 and 4 also known as Redmond and Trenwith....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1937

Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Annually published by the U.S. State Department, lists and abstracts all treaties and agreements considered to be in force for the U.S. as of 1 January for the respective year. TIF separately lists bi...   [more]
Holdings: 1955-present (currently one year delay) 1941 added 1932 added
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    Current year (via GPO permanent archive)

Treaties their making and enforcement / Samuel B. Crandall
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A historical survey of treaty-making procedures in the U.S. and foreign nations, including France and Britain. Originally published in 1904....   [more]

U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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    Old URL, as DDRS

U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide
Also Known as: U.S. Government Publications - Research Guide
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations
Also Known as: USAID Greenbook
US AID's Greenbook shows a complete historical record of United States (U.S.) foreign aid to the rest of the world. The Greenbook reports all loans and grants authorized by the U.S. Government for eac...   [more]
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U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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U.S. State Department. Central Foreign Policy Files, 1973-1976
Telegrams, airgrams, memoranda, correspondence, reports, diplomatic notes, and related material, created 7/1/1973 - 12/31/1976. The materials relate to all aspects of American bilateral and multilater...   [more]
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UN High Commission for Refugees
Also Known as: UNHCR
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UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System
Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjvld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the coll...   [more]
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UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics
UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of world trade, investment and development, for individual countries and for economic and...   [more]
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UNCTAD-TRAINS (TRade Analysis and INformation System)
A comprehensive information system at the HS-based tariff line level covering tariff, para-tariff and non-tariff measures as well as import flows by origin for more than 140 countries ...   [more]
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UNISPAL
Also Known as: United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine
Texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace, 1915-present....   [more]
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United Nations Digital Library
Integrated search platform for three UNBISnet databases, providing bibliographic information for thousands of United Nations documents, with downloadable fulltext for many documents....   [more]
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United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements published in chronological order....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present (currently 1984)

University of Michigan Documents Center
The University of Michigan library site is a "reference tool" for, not only U.S. information, but also foreign and international government information and statistical data....   [more]
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Web Sites of National Parliaments
Maintained by Inter-Parliamentary Union...   [more]
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World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

World Bank Research Datasets
Datasets compiled for World Bank research in agriculture, domestic and household finance, education, environment, globalization, governance, health, population and demography, industry, infrastructure...   [more]
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Related International Relations Government Information

Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
The Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between ...   [more]
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FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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International Documentation Network on the Great African Lakes Region
Also Known as: Reseau Documentaire International sur la Region des Grands Lacs Africains
Grey literature on social, political, and economic current history of the African Great Lakes Region (Burundi, Rwanda and the surrounding countries -- Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Democratic Republique...   [more]
Holdings: 1990 to 2009.
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International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Also Known as: IDEA
IDEA, an intergovernmental organization with member states across all continents, seeks to support sustainable democracy in both new and long-established democracies. Includes information on; politica...   [more]
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Supplemental URLs
    International IDEA Unified Database

Labordoc: Catalog of the ILO Library
Contains over 350,000 records of books, articles, documents, and reports providing international coverage of labor related topics, including employment, labor relations, labor law, working conditions,...   [more]
Holdings: Late 19th century-present
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Palestinian National Authority
Palestine National Authority. Office of the Prime Minister....   [more]
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Political Database of the Americas
The Political Database of the Americas is a non-governmental Internet-based project that provides reference materials, primary documents, comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the ...   [more]
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UNdata
The central statistical information service for the United Nations and its affiliates and international partners. Replaces UNSTATS....   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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UNSTATS
Also Known as: United Nations Common Database, UNCDB
Time series statistical information for countries collected from UN and related international governmental organizations. Topics covered include population composition and change; human settlements, h...   [more]
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