World Affairs

The Centre at the University of Sussex was set up with the aim of transcending institutional barriers and to provide a venue and environment where students and researchers can share ideas, develop research and inform themselves of the evolving nature of contemporary Global Political Economy.

Social survey research in 15 post-Communist countries plus South Korea. Abstracts of studies, access to data online, research activities.

The work deals with the social and psychological causes of terrorism and banditism and of civil wars. Emphasis is placed on the role of the leader.

The European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations.

Globalization, development and civil society in Latin America. Online resources, publications, and an e-newsletter.

9,500 pages of CIA and State Department files covering Israel and conflicts in the Middle East.

Part of the WWW Virtual Library.

A unique section of the ASA that directly addresses issues under the heading of development studies, yet considers them in their world-historical context.

National news media has been faulted for oversimplifying, sensationalizing and emotionalizing human events and for focussing on dramatic crises ("if it bleeds it leads") rather than on more basic societal needs, trends and conditions. Similarly, controversy-oriented public affairs programming (e.g. crossfire) has been criticized for creating more heat than light and for feeding ever more political polarization in society.

The purpose of this website is to provide news about public affairs and public policy solutions to pressing social concerns. In the tradition of civic journalism, this nonpartisan site seeks to help improve the quality of people's lives by providing useful information and education that help may foster dialogue, policy innovation, and greater dispersion of compelling policy solutions to national and international problems.

Russian and East European Studies.

Monitoring the public opinion in the European Union is the mission of the Standard Eurobarometer surveys conducted on behalf of the European Commission at least two times a year in all member states of the European Union.

World Area resources from the Department of Social Sciences at Western Connecticut State University.

Reports describing world demographic, social and political changes