Political Science

• Political Risk Yearbook for...
  Regional guides that provide analysis, data (for a 10 year span), political and economic information and social indicators that are used to judge political and economic stability.   Search for Political Risk Yearbook in Journal Title search for exact regions and dates. 
   
• CIA World Factbook 
  Contains country profiles of the history, climate, government, economy, communications, defense forces, and people.
  (For earlier editions, see record for details) 

• Country Profiles (Library of Congress)
  Summarizes the historical background of a country, and gives a variety of current economic and social statistics. 
   
• Background Notes  - (U. S. State Department) 
  Brief facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of all countries.
   
• U.S. Department of State: Countries, Regions: Brings a variety of reports, advisories, and fact sheets about regions, countries, and embassies together in one place.
   
• Member States: On the Record (U.N. Dag Hammarskold Library)
  Links to resources and documents by state.
   
• DES Database (Cater Center)
  Explore international rules and laws by a variety of criteria such as part of election (media rules, campaigning rules, candidate rules, etc), obligation type (freedom of association, citizen voting rights, secret ballot, etc), country, ruling organization and more

Collection of sources for scholarly researcher, arranged by region or area of studies.

• Political Resources on the Net  - Links to governments, parties, organizations, and news by continent and country.  
   
• African Studies Internet Resources (Columbia University Libraries)
   
• Index on Africa - (Norwegian Council for Africa) 
   
• Government and Politics of South Asia (Columbia University Libraries)

• Europa: Gateway to the European Union

• European Union WWW Virtual Library

• Guide to European Legal Databases (NYU School of Law Library)

• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases(NYU School of Law Library)

• Handbook of Latin American Studies  (Library of Congress)

• Latin American Information Network (LANIC)
   
• Inter-American Development Bank - research reports, statistics and publications relating to development, sustainability and growth across Latin and Central America

• Political Database of the Americas - Center for Latin American Studies (Georgetown University)

• REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies WWW Virtual Library - Center for International Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
   
• US Relations with the Muslim World  - selection of links and sources that explore the shifting relationship between the US and Middle East since 2001.