INTERNET RESOURCES FOR INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL SECURITY STUDIES
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GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS
Council of Foreign Relations -- their issues page is strong in at least 10 different areas
Crisis Group -- reports and briefing papers on conflicts worldwide
Human Rights Watch -- they monitor 20 global issues and have excellent news reports
East-West Institute publications -- excellent papers from this "think-and-do" organization
Federation of American Scientists -- research and information on strategic security issues
Geneva Centre for Security Policy -- premiere international foundation in global security
Global Issues.net -- provides 60-second tours and in-depth reports of various issues
Global Issues.org -- over 700+ pages of full-length information on various world problems
Global Issues on the U.N. Agenda -- their index page to lead programmes and subtopics
Global Security.org -- news, topical discussions, and reliable background information
Le Monde Diplomatique -- English version of popular international relations newspaper
One World -- global news and perspective from a global justice orientation
The Millennium Project -- early warnings and analysis of emerging global challenges
Third World Network -- briefings, papers, and reports on a variety of issues
U.S. Embassies and Consulates -- the complete list, including diplomatic missions
U.N. Foundation Global Security Initiative -- high-level panel recommendations and papers
World Economic Forum - an influential group of impartial thought leaders on globalization
World Revolution Global Issues Webguide -- links to online articles and organization websites

SPECIFIC LINKS USED IN ONLINE LECTURES
Lecture #1: The Academic Field of Global Security Studies
Net Assessment: A Practical Guide
Wikipedia entry on Human Security

Wikiversity School of Strategic Studies
Austin Peay Institute for Global Security Studies
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Kyoto Protocol

Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Beyond Intractability
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Disciplinary IPE and Its "Others" (pdf)
Ghoukassian's article on The Evolution of Security Studies
Globalist
Human Security: Relevance and Implications
International Institute for Strategic Studies
International Strategic Studies Association
John Pike's GlobalSecurity.org
Lecture on Humanitarian Intervention
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)
SSRC Global Security and Cooperation Forum
UN Foundation Global Security Initiative
Wikipedia Entry on International Security
online doc version of The Constructivist Turn in International Relations
Free Google Book version of Security, Strategy, and Critical Theory
Lecture #1a: Securitization: What Makes Something a Security Threat
an excerpt of Wendt's article: Anarchy is What States Make of It
IMF Report on The Elusive Peace Dividend

United Nations Development Program
opinion polls of Europeans by the EU
Human Security Network
A Lecture Note on the Medicalization of Deviance

Complex Systems Studies and the Securitization of Terrorism (pdf)
Immigrants as a Convenient Security Threat
Is Global Poverty a Security Threat? (doc)
USAID Article on New Definitions of Security Threats
Wikipedia Entry on Securitization
sample excerpt of Keohane & Nye's Power and Interdependence
sample preview of Handbook of Intercultural Training

Lecture 1b: A Synopsis of Three Primers on International Relations
A Primer on Peace Studies and Humanitarianism (full primer)
A Primer on International Relations Theory (full primer)
A Primer on National Security Theory (full primer)

Notre Dame's Peace Studies Program
The Philanthropist Joan Kroc
PRIO (the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo)
Johan Galtung
PRIO (the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo)
Transcend Method
Desmond Tutu
Center for Global Development
Overseas Development Institute
International Center for Transitional Justice
CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Presidential Directive 71
National Security Strategy of the United States
About USAID & The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961

Amazon Guide to International Relations Theory
American Grand Strategy after 9/11 (pdf)
Clinton Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention
Foreign Policy Focus Brief on Humanitarian Military Intervention
International Relations: Theory and Practice
IR Theory Knowledge Base
Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution
USAID Democracy and Governance Bureau
U.S. Institute of Peace

U.N. Dept. of Humanitarian Relief
U.N. Dept. of Peacekeeping Operations
U.N. Resources on Peace and Security
US Institute of Peace Press
virtual book tour of Nye's Soft Power
Ocran's article on Robust Peacekeeping
Lecture #2: Post-Cold War Military Threats (secure)
Operation Enduring Freedom Tactics, Techniques and Procedures Handbook No. 02-8
Kargil War
2001-2002 India-Pakistan Standoff
leaked classified DIA Report of May, 2002
The Legacy of A.Q. Khan
CDI and WSI Concerns over Russian Proliferation
20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War
Taiwan's military buildup
1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
The Need For NATO
How Nuclear War Might Begin in the Middle East
Underground Facility Analysis Center
Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
Cuba executes its last General
House Intelligence Report of 2006 on Iranian Missile Threat
Possible Consequences of a Preemptive Attack on Iran's Nuclear Facilities
Council on Foreign Relations Report on the Iranian Threat
Korean War
the DPRK

North Korea's Biochemical Threat
NTI Issue Brief on Role of Security Assurances
Joseph Pilat's 2005 pdf article on Reassessing Security Assurances
Security Assistance Command (USASAC)
Security Assistance Today
USASAC's Foreign Operations
DISAM Journal home page
CDI Topical Page on Nuclear Proliferation
Cuba in Transition (pdf)
Does China Pose a Military Threat?
Global Security.org Essay on the Kashmir Crisis
Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction
MSNBC Guide to How Renegade Nations can Build a Bomb
Mutual Defense Treaty between the USA and ROC (Taiwan)
North Korea's Military Threat
Pakistan's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism
Rogue State Portal (ISRG proliferation Dossier)
Tilting at Windmills: Post-Cold War Threats to US Security
Whither Corps? (pdf)
World Security Institute (WSI)
online copy of Security Plans for Post-Transition Cuba
online copy of Political Study of Military Threats
excerpt of China's Quest for Security
Lecture #2a: International Arms Restraint
Wikipedia List of Countries with Nuclear Weapons

United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Manu Law of War
Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
MAD (mutually assured destruction)
SALT I & SALT II
ABM Treaty of 1972
INF Treaty of 1988
START I & START II
Helsinki Summit in 1997
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Wikipedia Entry on NPT
Nunn-Lugar Program
State Dept. Munitions List
Nuclear Suppliers Group
Wassenaar Agreement
Confidence-building measures
The Open Skies Treaty
NTI Brief on Role of Security Assurances
Joseph Pilat's 2005 pdf article on Reassessing Security Assurances
Chapter Six of the NATO Handbook
Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 8 July 1996
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Arms Control Association
Beyond Intractability
Beyond Militarism: Arms Races and Arms Control
British American Security Information Council

Brookings Institution Nuclear Weapons Cost Study
Carnegie Foundation Proliferation Resources
Center for Defense Information
Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Monterey
Chemical & Biological Arms Control Institute
Confidence Building Measures in the Asia-Pacific Region
Control Arms.org
Council for a Livable World to Eliminate Weapons of Mass Destruction
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
FAS Arms Sale Monitoring Project
Georgetown Univ. Links for Arms Control & Disarmament
Human Rights Watch Arms Project
Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Campaign to Ban Landmines & US Campaign to Ban Landmines
Kirsch Foundation Nuclear Disarmament Webpage
Landmine Monitor
MILNET's List of Nuclear Weapon Accidents
Monterey Institute Nonproliferation Databases
Nuclear Files.org
Peace Action: Practical, Positive Alternatives For Peace
Ploughshares Fund & Project Ploughshares (CA)
Saferworld
Small Arms, Terrorism & the OAS Firearms Convention (pdf)
Stemming the Control of Small Arms (pdf)
The Legal Status of US Negative Security Assurances (pdf)
UN Department of Disarmament
US Department of State Bureau of Arms Control
Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Dual-Use Technologies
Wikipedia Entry on Arms Control
Wikipedia Entry on Disarmament
Wikipedia Entry on Proliferation
Worldwide Production and Export of Cluster Munitions
pdf Chapter 1: An Introduction to Arms Control available online
pdf of Reincarnation of CoCom available online
pdf of New Approaches to Nonproliferation available online

Lecture #2b:
The Laws of War & Just War
King's College, NDU, West Point, History of War Schools, List of Military Academies
Sorokin the Sociologist on Cyclics of War
Coser on Functions of Conflict
Sociological Writings of Max Weber
The Role of Islam as Bad in Neomodernization Theory
Aquinas on the Morality of War
About Hugo Grotius
The Legal Case for Attacking Iraq

Treaty of Westphalia, League of Nations, Geneva Conventions, & Kellogg-Briand Pact
Council of Foreign Relations article on Assassinating Terrorist Leaders
Article 51 of the UN Charter & Article 24
Analysis of Article 24 (pdf)
Military History: Declassified Intelligence Reports on Trieste
US Army doc Bibliography of Resources on Trieste
Treaty of Versailles, Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
UN Convention on Genocide
Protocol I and Protocol II
Hague Conventions
Geneva Conventions
First Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Convention
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia),
Iraqi Special Tribunal
Special Court for Sierra Leone
Article 2 of the UN Charter, Article 33 & Article 51
Kosovo intervention
War Crimes Research Portal
Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention III
Article 5 of Geneva Convention IV
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (pdf)
Avalon Project at Yale Law School
A Brief History of the Laws of War
An Observation on the Legal Theory of Hans Kelson (pdf)
Commentary on Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
Correlates of War website
Counterterrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War
Crimes of War Project
Full Text of Hugo Grotius' On the Law of War and Peace
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on War
JustWarTheory.com
LaborLawTalk Encyclopedia Entry on War
Law of War Home Page
Mobilization: An International Journal
Pew Forum Section on Just War Tradition
Security Council Reform Page at Global Policy Forum
Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women & Children (pdf)

The Bush Doctrine, the UN Charter and Just War Theory
The Legal Case for Attacking Iraq (pdf)
The Legality of the Threat or Use of Force Against Iraq
UN Document on Protocol I
Univ. San Diego Resources on Just War Theory
US Military Commissions and Tribunals: A Quick Guide
War Crimes Trials in Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia & Montenegro
Wikipedia Article on Laws of War
Wikipedia Article on War
Excerpt of Dinstein's War, Aggression & Self Defense
Pdf Version of Orend's Justice After War
Lecture #3: Terrorism as Anti-globalization
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Wikipedia Entry on Globalization
Wikipedia Entry on Anti-Globalization
Wikipedia Entry on New World Order
Answers.com Entry on Globalization
G8 (Group of Eight) 
online pdf of Naim's Five Wars of Globalization
Jeffrey Sachs
The Battle of Seattle
The Race to the bottom
New Economics Foundation
A.T. Kearney Index
Energy Country Analysis Briefs
World Energy Hotspots
Office of Foreign Assets Control
American University Transnational Crime Center
Answers.com Entry on Globalization
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Endowment for Peace: Global Policy Program
CSIS Energy Geopolitics Publications
eJournal Global Issues: The Challenges of Globalization
Emory Univ. Globalization Website
Global Scenario Group for Alternative Futures
Globalism/Antiglobalism: A Critical Essay
Globalization: Threat or Opportunity?
GW Center for the Study of Globalization
International Forum on Globalization
International Labor Organization
International Monetary Fund
Martin Frost Article on Globalization
Miskel's Naval War College Article on the New, New World Order
Morgan's Army War College Article on The New Terrorism
National Academies Press

Univ. of Denver Inst. on Globalization and Security
U.S. Agency for International Development
World Bank
World Economic Forum
World Health Organization
World Trade Organization
www.freetrade.org
sample chapter of In Defense of Globalization
Online pdf of Global Defense in Depth
The Globalization of Crime and Terrorism 
Lecture #3a: Comparative Homeland Security
2007 Europol report on Annual Cases of Terrorism

UK Terrorism Act of 2000
July 7, 2005 London bombing

July 21, 2005 London bombing
Home Office CT Strategy page
Wikipedia Entry on Home Office
Crime Prevention Effects of CCTV
October and November 2005 French Civil Unrest
Wikipedia Entry on Vigipirate

Wikipedia Entry on Separation Barriers
Israeli Defense Emergency Regulations of 1945
Russian criminal code on Terrorism
A Comparative Analysis of Domestic Intelligence Agencies
Amos Guiora's Paper on Framing Homeland Security
Counterterrorism Practices in 10 Western Democracies (pdf)
European Approaches to Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (pdf)
Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads (pdf)
GAO Report on How Five Countries are Organized to Combat Terrorism (pdf)
GlobalSecurity.org
Homeland Security and the Russian Approach (pdf)
How the French Fight Terror
Israel's Hard-Learned Lessons Fighting Terrorism
RAND Report on Confronting the Enemy Within
Russian Views on National Security (pdf)
Terrorisme.net

World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems
World Intelligence and Security Agencies
Prof. Matt Deflem's website
online version of How MI-5 Would Apply to the U.S.  
Lecture #4: Economic Security and Political Economy (secure)
The Growth fetish

Poverty and 90% of the world's disease burden
Poverty and Loss of Life Expectancy
Poverty as number one killer of children

Make Poverty History
Global Call to Action against Poverty

solidarity lending and microcredit
ACCION International MicroBank (Venezuela)
FINCA International MicroBank (USA)
Grameen MicroBank (Bangladesh)
NABARD MicroBank (India)
Bono of U2
The ONE Campaign
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

El Nino
1985 Live Aid Concerts
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Wikipedia List of Famines
Thoughts on a Famine Early Warning System
Cool War: Economic Sanctions as Weapons of Mass Destruction
Wikipedia Entry on Iraq Sanctions
U.N. Oil-for-Food Programme
Finishing Off Serbia
IPE section of ISA website
1973 world oil crisis
Bretton Woods system

forex
hedge funds
bonds
Sovereign Wealth Funds
CFR backgrounder on Sovereign Wealth Funds
House of Saud
A Users Guide to Economic Sanctions
CSIS Backgrounder on Economic Espionage
Ethical Aspects of Sanctions Under International Law
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) of the United Nations
Forty Year U.S. Embargo Against Cuba
Freedom From Hunger
Full and Productive Employment and Decent Work (pdf)
Global Political Economy of Oil and U.S. Policy (pdf ppt)
Global Socio-Economic Security Database
ILO Composite Economic Security Index
The Hunger Project
The Promise of Microfinance for Poverty Relief
The Threat of Global Poverty
UN Millennium Development Goals
USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network
World Bank Group
The Politics of Hunger
Lecture #4a: Ethno-National Identity Conflicts and Terrorism

This is Baader-Meinhof
Police Arrest Shigenobu Fusako
Map of Basque Region
Michael Parenti's website

East Timor's website

Carlos the Jackal

A Case Study of the PKK in Turkey

American State Terrorism

Amnesty International's Pinochet Page

Argentina's Dapper-State Terrorism

BBC Special on ETA's Bloody Record

Brigate Rosse: Politics of Protracted War in the Imperialist Metropolis 
CNN Special on Basque Conflict in Spain

CNN Special on the Ocalan Trial (PKK)

East Timor Action Network

ICT Profile of the Red Brigades

NarcoTerror.org

Spanish Government Intelligence Report on ETA

The Nationalism Project

Turkish Government Intelligence Report on PKK

U.S. Weapons Sales & Military Training in Indonesia

Sample chapters of Rogue State

Sample pages of Ethnopolitical Warfare
Sample chapter of Against Empire

Lecture #4b: Introduction to Development Studies
Lecture on Postcolonialism Studies

Marshall Plan
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps

The White Man's Burden
G8 summits
Harrod-Domar growth model

Solow growth model
80% of all disabled people live in developing countries

Structural adjustment loans
Millennium Goals
Washington Consensus

New institutionalism
USAID
PDD 56 for Complex Contingency Operations

U.S. State Department's blog, Dipnote
Defense is from Mars, State is from Venus
www.worldbank.org
www.imf.org
UNDP
UNDG

Brundtland Report
ISO standards
Wikipedia Entry on Sustainability
Asian Tigers
A Syllabus for a Course in Development Studies (pdf)
Appropedia Wiki on Sustainable Development
Center for Global Development
Development Studies Association
Development Studies Network
Institute of Development Studies
Progress in Development (online journal)
Queen's Univ. Dept. of Global Development Studies
Norwegian Univ. Dept. of Environment/Development Studies
The Nature of Development Studies (pdf)
The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development
Triple Bottom Line: A Business Metaphor for a Social Construct (pdf)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID Center for Democracy and Good Governance
U.S. State Department Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization
Univ. of Birmingham's International Development Dept.
Univ. of Cambridge Dept. of Development Studies
Univ. of E. Anglia Dept. of Development Studies
Univ. of Ghana School of Development Studies
Univ. of London's Dept. of Development Studies
Univ. of Oxford's Dept. of Development Studies
Wikipedia Entry on International Development
World Bank Report on the Wealth of Nations (pdf)
World Institute for Development Economics Research

author's website for Ecological Economics
sample chapter of Modernization as Ideology
Lecture #5: Environmental and Ecological Security
U.N.'s Millennium Project

Institute for Environmental Security
NATO's Security through Science initiative
OECD
U.N.'s UNEP
Rio Conference of 1992
Kyoto Protocol

Thomas Homer-Dixon's website
climatology as a profession
Montreal Protocol
JunkScience.com
Wikipedia list of Scientific Opinions on Global Warming
rising sea levels
Tuvalu Islands Home Page
Greenland ice sheet melting
American Meteorological Society
NASA Earth Observatory
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Potsdam Institute

acid rain and smog
Superfund Sites in the USA
The Holocene Extinction Event
Japanese Kudzu plant

zoonotic diseases
The Arab-Israeli Six-Day War
The Ongoing Jordan River Dispute
The Football War of 1969
The Cod Wars of 1972
The Senegal River dispute
The Nile River Dispute

The Niger Delta guerrilla conflict
Wikipedia List of Environmental Treaties and Conventions
planetary engineering
iron fertilization
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth Website
A Syllabus for Environmental Politics
AC/UNU Millenium Project Library Database
Climate Change and National Security (pdf)
Environmental Security Library Database
Journal of Environmental Politics
Journal of Global Environmental Politics
Pacific Institute
Photographic Evidence of Global Warming
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol
Wikipedia Entries for Pollution and Types of Pollution
Woodrow Wilson Center for Environmental Change and Security

Lecture #5a: Food Insecurities and Water Conflicts
UNDP's 2006 Human Development Report
Aboutcom: Agroterrorism

FBI data on hoaxes
Ron Purver's Article on the Actual Threats from Bioterrorism
RAND's Research Brief on Agroterrorism
CATO Report on Food Insecurities
Monterey Database
CountryLabeling.org
Tylenol Terrorist who hit Chicago during 1982
Food & Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Food Safety and Inspection Service
Environmental Protection Agency
Center for Disease Control
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
APHIS Q&A on Fruit Fly Eradication Efforts
Ohio's DNR website on Asian beetle
Giant Snail page

pdf ID card on soybean rust
FMD home page
BSE home page
Organic Consumers Association
Superfund
Public Integrity
Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office
National Response Center
National Response Team
Sandia's Center for SCADA Security
Office of Energy Assurance
Bioterrorism Act of 2002
Office of Wastewater Management
Baltimore City Primer on Water Treatment
CDC's bioterrorism site

Trust for America's Health
1998 CDC Strategic Plan
CDC Notification Procedures for Suspected Bioterrorism Events
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Surgeon General's Commissioned Corps

Medical Reserve of Citizen Corps
Freedom Corps
Community Emergency Response Teams
Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

MedLaw.com
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Agroterrorism Information Page
Agroterrorism Resources from Humanitarian Institute
Agroterrorism: Why We're Not Ready (pdf brochure)
Association for Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
CDC Agriculture Page

Center for Biosecurity at Penn State
Center for Biosecurity at Pittsburgh
Center for Infectious Disease at Minnesota
Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Monterey
Center for Study of Bioterrorism at St. Louis
CEPPO'S Role in Homeland Security
Countering Bioterrorism & Other Threats to Food Supply
Environmental Expert Business News
EPA Counter Terrorism Publications
EPA Drinking Water Contaminant List
EPA Water Security Main Website
FDA Bioterrorism Main Website
Food as a Weapon (by Dr. Richard Lee, pdf)
Georgia Water & Pollution Control Association
Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism: An Empirical Analysis
Human Illnesses, Diseases and Conditions
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Law Enforcement's Role in Protection from Agroterrorism (pdf)
National Grain & Feed Association BioSecurity Handbook (pdf)
Online Water Security Information Sharing & Analysis Center
RAND Report on Agroterrorism (pdf)
Risk Assessment for Food Terrorism
Ron Purver's Article on the Threat from Bioterrorism
Rural Water News Blog
Stimson Center CBW Chronicle
Tennessee Division of Water Supply Security Webpage
The Bioterrorism Act of 2002
The Bugs of War (article in Nature Magazine)
USDA Homeland Security Council
USGS Subsurface Microbiology Page
Water Conflict Chronology
Water Environment Federation
WaterSecurity.org
Lecture #6: World Health Problems and Global Health Security
West Nile epidemic of 1999
Uganda Ebola outbreak of 2000
SARS epidemic of 2003
Avian (Bird) Flu epidemic of 2006

2007 WHO Report (pdf)
Nanotechnology
Staph infections
SARS: An Open Scar
TSEs (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies)

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - Mad Cow Disease)
The Origin of HIV and the First Cases of AIDS
UNAIDS
PEPFAR
Global Fund
GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization)
WHO
Doha Agreement of 2001
Doctors Without Borders
BBC Health Security News
Brundtland Report: Our Common Future
BSE (Mad Cow Disease) in Canada
CFR Issue Page for Global Health
CIA Report on Global Infectious Disease Threats (NIE 99-17D)
Drug-Resistant TB in Russia
Economic Costs of Malaria
European Strategy for Noncommunicable Diseases (pdf)
Global Council to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
Global Health Council-The Voice for Global Health
GlobalizationandHealth.com
GlobalHealthReporting.org
Global Issues: Health Overview
Harvard Initiative for Global Health
HIVInsite Gateway
International Conference for Emerging Infectious Diseases
International Society for Infectious Diseases
ObesityinAmerica.org
PandemicFlu.gov
The Threat of Sick Livestock
UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic
U.N. World Health Organization (WHO)
U.S. National Institutes of Health
World Bank Health, Nutrition & Population Division
World Health Organization Epidemic and Pandemic Alert System
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)

website of global Health Advocates
Lecture #6a: Population Growth, Urbanization, and Migration
Malthusian catastrophe

The Concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind in International Law
International Seabed Authority
Antarctic Treaty System

Demography
United Nations Human Settlements Program
World Bank Urban Development Projects
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

UNHCR
2007 World Population Data Sheet (pdf)
Center for Refugee Studies at York University Toronto
Forced Migration Online
Institute for the Study of International Migration
MegaCities Lectures
MegaCity Taskforce
Migration Policy Institute
Population Reference Bureau
Population Reference Bureau's Population Handbook
Refugees International
UN Population Division
UN Population Information Network
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
Wikipedia Entry for Refugee
World Refugee Survey

Lecture #7: Overview of Natural and Man-made Disasters
Titanic disaster
Chernobyl meltdown
Bhopal disaster

ISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction)
EADRCC (Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre)

Windstorms
tornado

1974 Super Outbreak
Great Hurricane of 1780
Hurricane Mitch of 1998

Floods
2007 South Asian floods

Earthquakes
1976 Tangshan earthquake
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

Avalanches
heat waves & cold waves

2007 European heat wave
Tsunamis
Volcanic eruptions

Decade Volcanoes
Mount Pelée eruption
Forest fires
2007 Greek forest fires
1977 Tenerife airline collision
1987 MV Doña Paz ferry incident
Salang Tunnel Fire of 1982
Incidents during the Hajj
Masjid al-Haram
Jamarat Bridge
Asbestos Around the World
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill of 1989
Oil Spill
1976 Seveso Incident
Grey Goo
strange matter
Higgs Boson
International Labor Organization
21st Century Structural Collapse Timeline
Climate Change and National Security (pdf)
Disaster Pages of Dr. G. Pararas-Carayannis
IFRC World Disaster Reports
International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societie (IFRC)
The Disaster Center Home Page
Wikipedia Master List of Disasters
online copy of The Causes and Deterrents of Transportation Accidents

Lecture #7a: Planetary Defense
Impact events
End of civilization
Smith's Cloud
comet Genondahwayanung
Eta Carinae
Exopolitics
Spaceguard Central Node
NEAT
LINEAR Project
Sagittarius constellation
Hercules constellation
Aries and Pisces
Gliese 581 planet and 55 Cancri
SETI@Home grid computing project
Drake Equation
Meteoroids and meteorites
Geographos
Toutatis
Castalia
Vesta
Golevka
WT24
Apophis
1950 DA
2007 WD5

National Geographic special on Killer Asteroids
Astronomical Odds: A Policy Framework for the Cosmic Impact Hazard
Picture of a solar sail
European Space Agency's Don Quijote Project
Asteroid Deflection Strategies
Alien Exposure Law of 1991
An Essay on Communication with Alien Intelligence
B612 Foundation
Big Ear "Wow" Signal 30-Year Anniversary Report
Future Asteroid Interception Research
Google Earth Impact Crater Database
Lifeboat Foundation
NASA Near-Earth Object Program
Planetary Defense Blog
Solar System Radar Research & Interstellar Radio Messages
SolarViews.com
The Sky is Falling
Top Ten Ways to Destroy Earth
Wikipedia Entry on Impact Event
Wikipedia Entry on Planetary Defense
Lecture #8: Transnational Crime and Comparative Justice
Histori
ography

Holism
ASC Division of International Criminology
BJS International Justice Statistics

Comparative Criminal Justice chapter of Handbook of CJ Administration

International Center for Criminal Law Reform

International Center for the Prevention of Crime

Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization

Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law

Michigan State's List of International Criminal Justice Sites

NCJRS International Resources

Office of International Criminal Justice

Prof. Dreveskracht's Comparative Criminal Justice Resources

Prof. Greek's Comparative Criminal Justice Resources

Prof. Reichel's Textbook Supplement Site

Prof. Round's Textbook Companion Website

Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

United Nations Crime and Justice Network

United Nations Interregional Crime Institute

United Nations Surveys of Criminal Justice Operations

World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network

World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems

Lecture #8a: International Human Rights Violations
Magna Carta of 1215

English Bill of Rights (1689)
John Locke's 1689 Two Treatises of Government
U.S. Declaration of Independence
Definition of pacta sunt servanda
George Washington's Farewell Address
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR)
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)
UN High Commissioner's List of Human Rights Instruments
Bayefsky.com
Optional Protocol to the CCPR & Second Optional Protocol
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) Databases
Special Rapporteur for Indigenous Rights, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Special Rapporteur on Children, Special Rapporteur on Food, Special Rapporteur on Disability, & Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
List of All UNHCHR General Comments
About South Africa's Apartheid
Definition of political prisoner
Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989
Definition of secret police
Definition of death squad
Amnesty International's 2005 Report on Guantanamo Bay
UNESCO
UN Commission on Human Rights
Country Mechanisms or Mandates & Thematic Mandates
Human Rights Committee & State Reports
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Wikipedia Entry on the European Court of Human Rights
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
OAS (Organization of American States)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Plan de Sánchez massacre of 1982 & Barrios Altos massacre of 1991
Organization of African Unity
African Union
Wikipedia Entry on African Union

League of Arab States
Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam
International Labor Organization
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Committee on the Elimination of Racism & State reports
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