Main Components

• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes
• New York Times Online
• Case Study Information:
  • Case Study assignment -- PDF with all instructions of what you will need to do
  • Country groups -- list of what country you are assigned to
  • Links for Iran nuclear case
  • Links for Climate Change case
  • How to format citations for group and individual assignments
• 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.

In the News

• Climate change meeting at the UN -- see US and Chinese positions

General Links for the Course

• News briefs from the UN
• Basic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Links
• Missions of various countries to 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.
  • London Observer article on Pentagon report arguing climate change is quite likely possible and may cause serious conflict