International Studies Resources

The profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.

Provides information on history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities

With offices in New York City and Washington, DC, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is considered by some to be the most influential foreign-policy think tank in the United States.

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a think tank associated with Stanford University. Since its founding by pre-presidential Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Institution has been a leader in Domestic Economic Policy, Security, and International Affairs.

Founded in 1981 by C. Fred Bergsten, the Peterson Institute for International Economics devotes itself to the study of international economic policy.

Established in 1968, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is a DC-based think tank dealing primarily in issues of international development, science and technology, and security and international affairs.