International Relations Webliography
The Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to increasing America’s understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on global issues.
Goals:
- Add value to the public debate on international affairs.
- Energize foreign policy discussions nationwide by making the Council a truly national organization with membership across the country.
- Identify and nurture the next generation of foreign policy leaders.
- Become “the source” for ideas and clear, reliable information on key international issues for the interested public at home and abroad.
Peace and Conflict
This site links to full text of transcripts and videos, op-eds, articles and videos, as well as excerpts from other publications.
Studies Program: Center for Preventive Action
The Center for Preventive Action, a conflict prevention initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, develops and promotes strategies to pre-empt or mitigate deadly conflicts. The Center’s methodology is to identify the outside “stakeholders” - governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the business community - in conflict situations, and to develop an inventory of their interests and capabilities to promote peaceful and sustainable solutions. The Center then fashions strategies with specific, tangible recommendations that use incentives - “carrots and sticks” - to unite the anti-conflict stakeholders and to modify the behavior of key local leaders.
The Peace Research Institute - Dundas (PRI-D)
The Peace Research Institute - Dundas (PRI-D) was established in 1976. It is a private non- profit organization devoted to international peace advocacy and research. The Institute has several ongoing initiatives, from collecting abstracts of peace literature, to research, education, and publishing books and journals.
The institute's founding directors, Alan and Hanna Newcombe, began publishing the monthly Peace Research Abstracts Journal in the early 1960s. Their aim was to bring together peace-related research from the sciences, humanities and social sciences to provide a means by which scholars could refer to, and build upon, peace-related work in all disciplines from around the world.
Recently, research has centered mainly on UN reform, but other projects such as research on the Oka Crisis and other projects have been carried out by students and volunteers under the direction of Dr. Hanna Newcombe.
Peace Research Institute-Dundas compiles and edits the abstracts for the Peace Research Abstracts Journal. This journal contains abstracts from peace-war literature selected from journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other materials from around the world on conflict resolution, peace studies and international relations. About 600-700 abstracts are published bi- monthly, by Sage Periodicals Press in California.
The Stanley Foundation
US Strategies for National Security
The US Strategies for National Security (SNS) program explores a range of foreign policy and defense approaches open to the United States in the post-Cold War world by engaging US officials in dialogue with independent US experts and officials/ experts from other countries.
The major working assumption of SNS is that the evolving security environment is increasingly defined by realities that transcend traditional notions of rogue states, Great Power politics, and security based upon alliance structures. Instead, the evolving environment is defined by economic and political globalization, rising regional powers, failing states, trans- border resource conflicts, transnational terrorism, and ethno-religious divisions that cross borders.
All of these trends are making traditional policies of dividing the world into friends, allies, and enemies increasingly untenable, because the "threat environment" includes not only state actors but also destabilizing socio-economic trends that cross boundaries. Therefore, SNS assumes that the national security debate can no longer be defined solely in terms of the best defense strategy. Military superiority is assumed to be just one ingredient in a larger security pie.
Global Security Regimes: A Future or a Failure?
The 34th United Nations Issues Conference February 28 - March 2, 2003
This project is the beginning of a series of Strategies for National Security (SNS) activities that will address the future of global security regimes. It will involve discussions among US officials, representatives from IGOs and other countries, and independent experts. The central focus will be the increasing loss of faith in bilateral arms control and disarmament between Great Powers (such as that between the United States and Russia) as well as multilateral forms of disarmament and nonproliferation such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC).
Task Force: Winning the Peace in the 21st Century
(Includes reading lists for meetings with links, agenda, and meeting notes.)
The task force will examine the purpose and role of US power in ensuring its own national security while creating a stable, just, and sustainable global system in the 21st century. Led by former assistant secretary of defense Lawrence Kolb of the US Council on Foreign Relations, the task force consists of about 25 members who will convene for five half-day sessions from September 2002 through May 2003. A full-length report will follow.
The task force will consider the moral, economic, political, and military role of the United States in shaping the new global security environment in special light of two recent events: the successful US military operation in Afghanistan and the Bush administration's recent release of its US National Security Strategy, which emphasizes the use of US power and includes the possibility of preemptive military strikes.
United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international programs, including research grants, fellowships, professional training, education programs from high school through graduate school, conferences and workshops, library services, and publications. The Institute's Board of Directors is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.
The Jeannette Rankin Library Program
This library supports the research needs of the Institute's programs, outside practitioners, researchers, libraries, and a worldwide virtual audience, in the field of international conflict management. Services are available to the public at large, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm. Individuals may also submit reference queries via postal mail, phone, fax, or e-mail.
The Peace Agreements collection
Contains the full text of agreements signed by the major contending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts worldwide since 1989.
The Truth Commissions collection
Contains descriptions of truth commissions and related bodies and a growing collection of full text documents of establishing decrees and final reports.
Annotated Links pages for Regional Resources and Topical Resources usually include: (a) general resources, (b) government agencies and international organizations, (c) maps and guides, (d) media and news sources, and (e) selected documents containing information pertaining to particular geographical areas or topics. These pages often support the Institute's Special Reports on specific issues. We have also added pages for online journals and online research papers in the field of conflict resolution.
Lists of Links provide access to the homepages of more than: 120 foreign ministries, 90 international organizations, 250 research centers in international relations, and 70 Internet search engines.
The Religion and Peacemaking Initiative
Helping faith communities be forces for peace. The Religion and Peacemaking Initiative helps facilitate the resolution of international disputes through aiding the efforts of faith-based organizations. The program also expands knowledge about the actual and potential roles of religious organizations in international peacemaking. The principal goal is to aid American faith-based organizations in their international peacemaking work, which they usually undertake in partnership with communities of faith abroad. Links to publications and the work of the previous Special Initiative on Religion, Ethics and Human Rights (REHR).
