Useful Study Links
The following sites may be of use to students and researchers. The Department is not responsible for external material.
- Political Parties
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Pressure Groups and NGO’s
- Liberty
- Amnesty
- Greenpeace
- Friends of the Earth
- Global Trade Watch
- Left Business Observer
- Multinational Monitor
- Worldwatch Institute
- United Nations Association
- Free Tibet
- Hansard Society (to improve Parliament)
- Class War Anarchists
- The Global Right Wing Conspires
- The Global Democracy Movement
- Links on 'Civic' net
- Minnesota state experiment in 'e-democracy'
- Leftish links
- Consultants who advise you on YOUR political strategy on the net (spooky)
- Alternative news for (and by) political activists
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Think Tanks
- Adam Smith Institute (UK free-marketers)
- International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (helps develop democratic structure and practice)
- RAND (Research and Development – US think-tank)
- Institute for Public Policy Research (New Labour linked organisation)
- DEMOS (Blairite blue-skies thinkers)
- Centre for Policy Studies (Conservative Party think-tank)
- Cato Institute (US free-market thinkers)
- The Communitarian Network
- Brookings Institution (US based International Politics think tank)
- edemocracy: UK Citizens Online Democracy
- True Democracy Forum
- Represent
- Citizenship Foundation
- Council for Education in World Citizenship
- Institute for Citizenship
- World Economic Forum
- European Round Table of Industrialists
- Confederation of British Industry
- Federation of German Industry
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Some Historic Documents
- 1945 Labour Party Manifesto - Let us Face the Future
- 1916 Proclamation of an Irish Republic made by the failed rebels of the Easter Rising
- The 1912 Ulster Covenant (Protestant opposition to Home Rule)
- Texts relating to Israel including the mandate, Balfour declaration, Zionist declaration and Israeli constitution
- The Scottish Declaration of Arbroath (early claim to independence)
- The story of 18th/19th Century parliamentary reform (or how we got the vote)
- Magna Carta (the origin of English Civil Rights)
- Ronald Reagan’s ‘Evil Empire’ Speech to the House of Commons in 1982
- The Erfurt Programme (1891)
- The Gotha Programe (1875)
- Churchill Speeches
- 1836 Commons speech by Daniel O’Connel on Justice for Ireland
- Chamberlains “peace in our time” speech
- The Munich Pact
- The Yalta Agreement 1945
- The Beveridge report
- The Truman Doctrine
- De Gaulle’s rejection of British entry into the EU 1967
- Essay by Italian Nationalist Mazzini on The Duties of Man
- Extracts from the British Declaration of Rights 1689
- Human Rights Act 1998
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Gateways
- Political Science Links
- General global resources
- Incore (centre for study of conflict resolution)
- An Internet Politics Tutorial
- The International Political Science Association
- The UK Political Studies Association
- The American Political Science Association
- Political Science Virtual Library
- Very Good Political Science Resources
- Links by country for comparative study
- Political Science Quarterly
- Links on elections across the world
- Different Political systems
- What is a State?
- Articles on Electoral Systems
- Electoral Campaigns
- Civil and Political Rights
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Governmental Websites
- The Whitehouse
- Parliament
- Live broadcasts of Parliament
- Parliament webcasting
- UK Government on line
- House of Commons
- Early Day Motions
- Commons Library Research papers
- Hansard
- House of Lords
- House of Lords publications
- The National Assembly for Wales
- The Northern Ireland Assembly
- EU Online
- MI5 website
- GCHQ
- International Institutions
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Political Thought and Political Ideologies
- J.S.Mill
- Locke
- Hobbes
- Adam Smith (including Wealth of nations and Theory of moral sentiments)
- Writings of Marx and Engels
- A Marxism page
- Political Ideologies
- Details on neo-fascist parties in Europe
- Left-wing ideologies
- Left-Wing politics directory
- A conservative on how important national identity is to him
- Anthony Giddens thinks that socialism is over
- Resources on Ernest Gellner (nationalism theorist)
- Lenin Internet library
- Encyclopedia of Marxism
- The Nationalism Project
- Links on race, ethnicity and multiculturalism
- The report of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry
- Undergraduate resource on Weber
- Another one on Weber
- Links to undergraduate resources on Marx, Weber and others
- Roger Griffin on Fascism
- Undergraduate resources on history of Fascism
- The Parekh Report
- Yahoo Links
- Other Useful Links
- Keele Guide to Political Thought and Ideology on the Internet
- J.S. Mill (from the Internet Encyclopaedia
- Ireland (North and South)
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International Relations
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Diplonet
- University of British Columbia Library
- International Affairs Resources
- Foreign Affairs Guide to IR on Net
- International Relations Gateway
- The United Nations
- (The Marshall Plan Collection based at the University of Leiden Historical Institute - access to a papers relating to the Marshall plan, development of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and post-war economic recovery in Europe
- The Truman library site
- On the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
- The Truman doctrine
- The Berlin Airlift
- The formation of NATO
- official record of the foreign policy and diplomatic activity of the United States
and provides access to many declassified US government and intelligence
documents - The Cold War International History Project
- US National Security Archive
- Global Beat on Nuclear Weapons and Proliferation
- Links to various resources on International Relations
- Database on the Arms Trade
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Cold War International History Project
- NATO
- Links to Historic treaties and other resources
- Links to Arms Control Treaties
- Centre for Defense and International Security Studies
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the military power of the Chinese
- Lots of security and Strategy links as recommended by the Canadian Armed
Forces - International Relations and Security Network
- Links to non-western perspectives on conflict resolution
- Institute of International Studies at Berkley, useful links
- IR Theory
- Virtual Library resources
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Media
- The Internet Movie Database site
- The Media and Communications Studies Site
- Amazingly useful resources
- Gender and Race in the Media
- Media, gender, Identity theory and stuff
- Cyber-Activism
- More Internet Protest
- For all your cinema needs
- Cineaste film journal (read up on film analysis, including the ideology of
Disney's Pocohantas) - Loadsalinks
- Images Film Journal - some good articles
- Print Media
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EU Politics
- The European Parliament
- There is a very useful European Union website
- Links to many resources on the EU
- Index of information on the history of European Integration
- European Integration Online Papers
- Papers from centre for Euro-Mediterranean studies
- European Institute for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation
- The Gothenburg summit
- Official Papers on the Euro
- Official reports on the 2000 IGC (relating to enlargement)
- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council on Europe
- Official EU site on external relations with the Western Balkans
- UK Office of the European Parliament
- Lots of things from the One Europe or Several ESRC research project
- Papers on 'The Outsiders: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the New
Europe - Archive of many papers on European integration
- A foreign office speech by Keith Vaz on the benefits of the EU for Wales
- Thatcher's famous 'Bruges' Speech
- A Blair speech on enlargement
- Blair on the case for GB in Europe
- A consideration of the effects of enlargement on Central and Eastern Europe
- The Britain in Europe Campaign
- Many EU Internet resources from Berkley
