Continuing Studies

Here are some selected websites that might provide useful information if you have questions about specific content areas during the NSSE. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all available, useful websites. If you come across sites on your own that you think are particularly useful for the NSSE please send them to the NSSE exercise director, Alan Whittaker at whittakera@ndu.edu

so they may be included in updates to this list.

Many other useful websites are contained in the EIS course’s virtual National Strategic Security Tour website at: http://keg.ndu.edu/natsec/index.html

http://ceoexpress.com/

GENERAL

Congressional Research Service

http://www.crs-usa.com/index.html

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

National Security Council at The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/NSC/html/nschome.html

ECONOMIC RELATED

The Conference Board

http://www.conference-board.org/

Japan Center for Economic Research

http://www.jcer.or.jp/eng/eco-for/eco-for.htm

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization

http://www.apecsec.org.sg/

Worldwatch Institute

http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html

World Trade Organization

http://www.wto.org/

International Monetary Fund

http://www.imf.org/

The World Bank

http://www.worldbank.org/

The World Bank: Trends in Developing Economies

http://www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html

Inter-American Development Bank

http://www.iadb.org/

Asian Development Bank

http://www.asiandevbank.org/

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

http://www.ebrd.com/

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

http://www.oecd.org/

U.S. Dept of Commerce: International Trade Administration

http://www.ita.doc.gov/

International Financial Encyclopedia

http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html

United Nations site on global trends in population, health, food,
women, agriculture/food, economic development, climate, social
factors:

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/globo/glotrend/index.html

U.S. Census Bureau Foreign Trade Statistics

http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/

Council of Economic Advisors: White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/CEA.html

ENVIRONMENT RELATED

National Library for the Environment

http://www.cnie.org/nle/

NOAA Site on global warming

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarm.html

Center for Global Warming

http://www.law.pace.edu/env/energy/globalwarming.html

Center for International Earth Science

http://www.ciesin.org/

U.S. Department of Energy Pollution Prevention Information
Clearinghouse

http://epic.er.doe.gov/epic/

Natural Resources Defense Council

http://www.nrdc.org/nrdc/index.html

World Resources Institute

http://www.wri.org/

United Nations site on global trends in population, health, food,
women, agriculture/food, economic development, climate, social
factors:

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/globo/glotrend/index.html

Worldwatch Institute

http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html

Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org/

EPA Ozone Depletion Site

http://www.epa.gov/ozone/

DEMOGRAPHICS/POPULATION

United Nations site on global trends in population, health, food,
women, agriculture/food, economic development, climate, social
factors:

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/globo/glotrend/index.html

Population Reference Bureau

http://www.prb.org/prb/

International Organization for Migration

http://www.iom.int/

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Demography & Population Studies

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html

Center for International Earth Science

http://www.ciesin.org/

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/

U.N High Commissioner for Refugees

http://www.unhcr.ch/

Zero Population Growth

http://www.zpg.org/

SECURITY/MILITARY RELATED (PROLIFERATION, WMD, TECHNOLOGY)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute site on trends in
military technology, arms transfers, BW/CW proliferation.

http://www.sipri.se/

Chemical and Biological Defense Information Analysis Center

http://www.cbiac.apgea.army.mil./

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Global Trends in
NON-PROLIFERATION

http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/global.htm

U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

http://www.acda.gov/

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism

http://www.ict.org.il/

The Terrorism Research Center

http://www.terrorism.com/

U.S. Department of State: Patterns of Global Terrorism

http://www.usis.usemb.se/terror/index.html

U.S. DOD DefenseLink

http://www.defenselink.mil/

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

CIA World Factbook

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources on Conflict Resolution, Development, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Int'l Economy, Int'l Law,

Int'l Trade, Int'l Security, Peacekeeping, Proliferation, Science &
Technology

http://www.pitt.edu/~ian/ianres.html

United Nations Homepage

http://www.un.org/

U.S. Dept of State

http://www.state.gov/index.html

U.N High Commissioner for Refugees

http://www.unhcr.ch/

Freedom House

http://www.freedomhouse.org/

Interaction: Consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

http://www.interaction.org/ia/

World Federalist Movement

http://www.wfa.org/intl.htm

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL ISSUES

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/

U.N. Human Rights

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/about/understanding.htm

Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/hrw/worldreport99/index.html

U.S. Dept of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for
1997

http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1997_hrp_report/

97hrp_report_toc.html

Global information community

http://www.infohabitat.org

Global Issues

http://www.interaction.org/ia/globalconnections/gchome.html

One World Online

http://www.oneworld.org/

State of the World Forum

http://www.worldforum.org/

Global HIV/AIDS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/aids/aids1.htm

TECHNOLOGY

Information Infrastructure Task Force

http://www.iitf.nist.gov/index.html

NASA: National Space Science Data Center

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Biotechnology Industry Organization

http://www.bio.org/welcome.html

SOCIETY, CYBERSPACE AND THE FUTURE

http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~rich/aspen.html

Westinghouse Science & Technology

http://www.westinghouse.com/sandt/sandt.htm

Westinghouse Science & Technology Center

http://www.stc.westinghouse.com/

Defense Information Systems Agency

http://disa11.disa.atd.net/index.html

National Science Foundation Science and Technology Centers

http://www.cs.brown.edu/stc/allstc.html

U.S. DOMESTIC ISSUES

Information Infrastructure Task Force

http://www.iitf.nist.gov/index.html

U.S. Critical Infrastructure

http://www.ciao.gov/resources.html

Office of National Drug Control Policy

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/

Office of Management and Budget

http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OMB/html/ombhome.html