- The CIA World Fact Book
Information about the geography, demographics, economics, politics, and military power of every country around the globe.
- United States Department of State Background Notes
The publications listed below include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
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Governments, Parties, and Elections
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- World Leaders
From the CIA, here's the list of state and government leaders from every country in world.
- Constitutions of the World
Links to constitutions (in several languages) from all over the world.
- Elections
This Yahoo! page contains a collection of links to all kinds of information about elections.
- ElectionWorld
There are links at this site to elections, parties, parliaments, and a political database for the globe. It's hosted by Wikipedia, but it's not subject to the open editing allowed in most of Wikipedia.
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- Heads of Governments
"This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders who don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories."
- Legislatures Online
C-SPAN's list of links to world legislatures, some of which broadcast video of their sessions.
- Parliaments
Links gathered here by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University, St. Louis, will connect you to sites of national parliaments and multinational legislatures like the European Parliament.
- Political Parties
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources inlcudes links to parties and political groups around the world from Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources at Keele Univerisity in the UK.
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Topical and Issue-Oriented Sites
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- Center for World Indigenous Studies
The CWIS' purpose is to offer the greatest possible access to documents and resources about the poorest and least industrialized people and nations.
- Foreign Affairs Magazine
One of the USA's most respected journals about foreign policy is now online and maintains a large file of links to sites related to international relations.
- INCORE, The Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
This is a joint venture of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University to act as a central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict.
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- Intelligence Research Program
The Federation of American Scientists has collected links to governmental intelligence programs world wide.
- Journal of Comparative Politics
Reports of academic research and theoretical ideas.
- Marxism Page
Someone at the Australian National University at Canberra maintains this page of links to the Communist Manifesto and other Marxist works by many authors.
- World Population
An estimate of the world population that is updated regularly.
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Collections of Web Links
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