Core 220:  The Global Experience

Core 220 Links Page
 

Topical Links to Thursday Lecture & Event Material:

I. The Lost Boys of the Sudan
  http://www.sudanlostboys.com/
  http://www.redcross.org/news/in/africa/0108lostboyspage.html
  http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm 

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Web Sites of General Interest for Core 220 Students:

• Webboard
   Core 410 Web Discussion Board
         http://webboard.queens.edu:8080/~core220

 

• Organizations
   The United States State Department
         http://www.state.gov/countries/
   The United States Central Intelligence Agency
          http://www.cia.gov/
   The United Nations:  Homepage
          http://www.un.org/english/
          ~ The United Nations System of Organizations
             http://www.unsystem.org/
          ~ Global Issues on the UN Agenda
             http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/agenda.htm
          ~UNBIS for voting records, texts of speeches, etc.
             http://unbisnet.un.org/ 
   United States Library of Congress:  Country Studies
          http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
   The World Bank
          http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/regions.htm 
   World Resource Institute:  Earth Trends
          http://earthtrends.wri.org/
   The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
          http://www.nato.int/
   The World Health Organization
          http://www.who.int/en/
   The World Trade Organization
          http://www.wto.org/ 

• Major News Outlets

  • The New York Times:  International Section
            http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

  • The Washington Post:  World Section
            http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world

  • The London Times:  World Section
            http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,3,00.html

  • CNN:  World News
            http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/ 

  • The Economist:  World News
            http://www.economist.com/world/index.cfm  

  • British Broadcasting System World Service
            http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/       
            http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm 

  • AsiaWeek On-Line Magazine
            http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/

  • U.N. Wire:  http://www.unwire.org 
     

•   MAPS

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html 
• http://www.worldbank.org/data/maps/maps.htm (economic, environmental, demographic data)
• http://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/index.html 
• printable maps http://www.nationalgeographic.org/xpeditions/atlas/index.html 
• http://www.mapquest.com/ 
• historical maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html 
• map of country market size by GDP http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_mktsize96.jpg 
• map of GDP per capita http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/world_gdp96.jpg 
• links to more maps http://www.geographynetwork.com/ 

ART and other CULTURAL RESOURCES

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hm/02/hm02.htm  
•  detailed Ancient to Medieval Global Timeline with links to art photos and literature texts http://eawc.evansville.edu/chpage.htm
• links for arts & museums http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/linksartsatlarge.html
• Photos: http://www.nytimes.com/library/photos/index.html
• archaeology: http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/archeology-index.html
• http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
• http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html
• http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/ 
• www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/world.html
• www.musee-online.org/ 
• maps

Other REFERENCE Sources

• Links for NY Times newsroom
• LINKS to other reference sources

DEMOGRAPHICS & ECONOMIC STATS  

• ECON glossary http://www.economist.com/research/Economics/
• http://www.unece.org/ & http://rbec.undp.org/ 
• Country Human Development Reports http://www.undp.org/hdro/table.htm 
• http://socioeconomic.unep.net/ links to more data
• age pyramids predictions http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html 
• other demographics http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html 

 

Evaluating info for position papers, etc.

• Factual info: http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/inform.htm
• from advocacy web sites: http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/advoc.htm
• news http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/news.htm

• Links by Regions
  
•   The Middle East
      1. Middle East Daily
          http://www.middleeastdaily.com
      2.  Al-Ahram - Egypt
          http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly
      3.  Arab News - Saudi Arabia
          http://www.arabnews.com
  
  
• Central Europe
  • Transitions on Line http://www.tol.cz   
  •  Hungarian Government Homepage
          http://www.magyarorszag.hu/angol/orszaginfo/alapadatok 
  •  The Czech Republic Government Homepage
            http://www.czech.cz/
  • Polish Government Homepage
            http://www.poland.pl/index.htm
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina Homepage
            http://www.bhembassy.org/
         
     
• Russia, Central, & South Asia
  • http://www.eurasianet.org/ 
  • Association of South East Asian Nations
        http://www.asean.or.id
  • Asia Web Watch
        http://www.ciolek.com/asia-web-watch/main-page.html
  • Asian Arts
        http://asianart.com/
  • South Asian Resources
        http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/

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