International Relations
UN Databank of Treaties
http://treaties.un.org/Pages/DB.aspx?path=DB/MTDSG/page1_en.xml
Rise and Fall of Empires
http://www.teachinghearts.org/dre04histempires.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarity_in_international_relations
War on Terror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=war+on+drugs+and+war+on+terror&aq=f
http://hubpages.com/hub/War-on-Terror
http://www.infowars.com/rendition-where-the-war-on-terror-meets-the-war-on-drugs/
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=war+on+terror+war+on+drugs
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=war+on+terror+war+on+drugs
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=war+on+terror+war+on+drugs
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2607
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/14/politics/main321433.shtml
http://www.counterpunch.org/paul1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/weekinreview/the-world-a-war-on-terror-meets-a-war-on-drugs.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102ap_lt_drug_war_mexico_president.html?source=rss
War on Drugs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=war+on+drugs
Israel-Iran Nuclear Issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZe-x1eZkY&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJbTStkbqQc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk_eXtCu03E&feature=related
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/11/the-unthinkable-consequences-of-an-iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnaQ5s7hbg&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYeJ7uIPEbE&feature=related
http://antiwar.com/hirsch/?articleid=7649
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxim7cx39bc&feature=fvw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Iran+and+israel+nuclear&aq
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2007/11/the-unthinkable-consequences-of-an-iran
Palestine-Israel; Israel-Palestine:
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel.palestine/
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/player.html?pkg=201_israel&seg=1&mod=0
http://www.masada2000.org/historical.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_exist
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p09s02-coop.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8394
http://www.i-p-o.org/nr-massacres-palestine-april02.htm
www.Youtube.com videos
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/PubEd/research/IRtheory.html
Why War? - Generally
http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=why+nations+go+to+war
Kashmir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDYeM4LM_RU&p=5B518E227C9D79AD&index=10&playnext=1
US-Iran Relations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTlNyC_W5Tg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-3aSy8AXY
Who are the Kurds (Iraq)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URfGs5TlqLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsCC_Xhw7Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXAiGPs_oh0
The Surge in Iraq: Critques: Successful/Unsuccessful?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=surge+is+working+in+Iraq&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CmZD85mgP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9GcOEPQbe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOGafAlbbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNRuzrUaO5g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kuRmwJNLt0&feature=related
Insurgency in Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeb0lik4c5E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O4z-Z6bAHY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O4z-Z6bAHY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oZehIRsPt8&feature=related
War in Iraq
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/us-economy-iraq-war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-Jb37cubU&feature=related
http://www.alternet.org/world/79988/
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-04-09-iraq-war-economy-cost-obama_n.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846.html
http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-07-17/news/17383398_1_normal-budget-process-war-spending-korean-war
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/weekinreview/01glanz.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020402043.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2004-06-08-iraq-effect_x.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iraq
http://www.everyonesarticles.com/Article/The-Iraq-War-and-the-US-Economy/420
Writings on Reducing Oil Dependency
http://www.stwr.org/global-conflicts-militarization/why-we-fight.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/view/
http://www.livestream.com/theglobalforum
Here are a few links to articles and videos on key topics of international relations.
http://www.unhistory.org/links/io_ir.htm
http://www.acuns.org/?search=international+organizations
http://www.unhistory.org/links/io_ir.htm
Key Thinkers: http://internationalrelationstheory.googlepages.com/articles_by_ir_theorists.htm
Unipolarity:
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/362/unipolar_moment_revisited.html
http://johnnyryan.wordpress.com/2005/02/05/unipolar-moment-or-unipolar-era/
There are many organizations and institutions with websites containing useful information.
Examples:
Foreign Policy Association
http://www.fpa.org/info-url_nocat4705/info-url_nocat.htm
International Studies Association (papers, articles, membership, conferences)
Latin American Studies Association
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/
International Studies Schools Association
American Political Science Association
Turkish International Studies Association
http://www.turkishisa.org/index.htm
International Astronautical Federation
Be creative and locate organizations and institutions that may host information useful for your topic. Based search engines can be useful (Yahoo.com, Wikipedia.com, Youtube.com) for this step. For example searching yahoo.com “international relations” produces many useful scholarly databases for journal articles and other online resources/references.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=international+relations&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
University of Michigan political science international relations resources
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psintl.html
Comprehensive listing
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psintl.html#comp
Databanks for example e-international relations
University Organization
International Affairs Council-Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/iac/mainternational.htm
University of Chicago, Committee on International Relations
New Articles About International Relations
U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/
International Relations and Security Network
Wikipedia has this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations
Useful site on “globalization” (leftist bent) which includes many topics concerning international relations today (colonization and modernization)
Hot Topics:
Al Quaeda
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/al-queda%20evolve.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
Globalization
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUN20051120&articleId=1291
Failed States:
http://www.henryckliu.com/page40.html
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Failed_state
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/commentaries_povsec_12-27.pdf
Videos
Children of the Taliban: Frontline Video
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/pakistan802/video/video_index.html
Council on Foreign Relations