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Research
- Lexis-Nexis
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (free access for general social survey and national election survey)
- Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
- United Nations Human Development Report Office
- Eldis Country profiles (focus on information related to development)
- Eurostat (Statistics on European Union countries)
- OECD (Economic, social, and infrastructure data on industrialized countries)
- UNICEF
- World Bank (World Development Indicators database)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF research and links to World Economic Outlook)
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) FAOSTAT International data on food production, land use, nutrition.
- UN World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) "The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization." 2
- UNDP World Income Inequality Database
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (World population data and trends)
- The Association for History and Computing "an organisation dedicated to the use of computers in historical research 3
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
- THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY World Wide Web site
- History of Economics Internet References
Sourcebooks, encyclopedias, and archives
- Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army (public domain text)
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- The CIA Factbook
- The Jürgen Habermas Web Resource
- The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom
- Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms
- A Glossary of Political Economy Terms Dr. Paul M. Johnson
- FACTS SUBJECT INDEX
- Marx/Engels Internet Archive
Academic journals and periodicals
- Foreign Policy (a leading quarterly of international affairs)
- Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations)
- Journal of Democracy (free access)
- Web page of The Economist
- Comparative Studies in Society and History "Comparative Studies in Society and History" is an international forum for new research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and the contemporary world." 3
- FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
- Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center
- World-Systems Archive
- Journal of World-Systems Research (free access)
- Monthly Review (free access)
Policy think-tanks, advocacy, other
- The Cato Institute
- Brookings Institution
- American Enterprise Institute
- Hoover Institution
- Amnesty International (human rights)
- Human Rights Watch (human rights)
- One World (sustainable development and human rights)