Main Components

CASE MATERIALS (Climate Case)

• Climate Case Study - NOW Available
  • Climate Change case description [includes Assignment again at top (written assignment requirements are the same as for Iran case)]
  • Links for Climate Change case
• Country groups -- Here is the list of people in your Country Group for the Case Assignment
• How to format citations for group and individual assignments

• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
• New York Times Online
• Class NEWS & Announcements: see Blackboard
• Bad Weather Notification : In case of bad weather that prevents me from making it to campus, I will send emails to email addresses listed with the University. I will also post a notice HERE. In case of snow or ice, please check this page and your email.

Old Links

• ** Mdterm Study Guide **
• FIRST Case Study assignment
  • Iran Nuclear Case
  • Links for Iran nuclear case -- let me know of dead links
    

General Links for the Course

• News briefs from the UN
• Basic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Links
• 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 Center for Defense Information
• Chemical and biological weapons background information -- from Center for Defense Information
• List of terrorist acts
• International Political Economy Links
• US Trade Balances by Country
• The European Union - official website
• World Per Capita GDP by country
• World Inequality report from the BBC
• Harvesting Poverty: NY Times series of op-eds on 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) Promoting Women's Human Rights and Eliminating 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.
  • Climate Change - great website by Professor Steve Schneider, Stanford University, Biology Department.(Schneider died in the summer of 2010 but his website remains useful).
  • RealClimate.org -- a top website for climate news
  • London Observer article on Pentagon report arguing climate change is quite likely possible and may cause serious conflict