Current Events

• The Globe and Mail: This site offers up-to-date national and international news with a Canadian focus
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
• CNN: This site offers up-to-date national (American) and international news
  http://www.cnn.com
• The Hong Kong Standard: Check out local, national and international news with this daily on-line newspaper.
  http://online.hkstandard.com/today/
• Online Newspapers: This site offers a listing of on-line newspapers from all around the world.
  http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
• RealCom: This site offers up-to-date news information as it happens
  http://realguide.real.com/news/
• South China Morning Post: This site offers you daily news on Hong Kong, China, Asia and the international community.
  http://www.scmp.com/

General Research Sites for International Studies:

• Foreign Affairs Online: This is a website specifically designed to assist people interested in International Law, International Relations and American Foreign Policy
  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html
• University of Florida Social Science Resources: This webpage by Fred R. Riggs offers extensive links to internet sites that may be useful to international studies students
  http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fredr/sites.htm#int
• United States Institute of Peace Library: This site provides extensive links to research centers in international studies on the Web with a country by country index
  http://www.usip.org/library/rcenters.html

Trade and Development/Global Economy:

• Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
  http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/
• Canadian International Development Agency
  http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/
• Trade and Development Centre: A joint venture of the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation. This site has a section of FAQ's that deal with international trade and the global economy.
  http://www.itd.org/
• World Trade Organisation: This is the homepage for the WTO and offers a variety of information on the WTO as well as general international trade information.
  http://www.wto.org/
• World Bank: This is the homepage for the World Bank and offers information on the policies and practices of the World Bank, country specific information etc.
  http://www.worldbank.org/
• International Monetary Fund: This site offers up-to-date information on the activities of the IMF as well as new releases, publications, country information and fund rates.
  http://www.imf.org/
• International Trade Centre: This site provides information on the ITC, infobases, services, products and current news.
  http://www.intracen.org/
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: This is a very comprehensive site offering a variety of information on the OECD and OECD countries.
  http://www.oecd.org/
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: The APEC website offers a variety of information on the activities of APEC, member economies, publications etc.
  http://www.apecsec.org.sg/

Conflict and International Security:

• Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict: This site offers information on conflicts throughout the globe as well as offers many publications on conflicts/violence.
  http://wwwccpdc.org/index.html
• Center for Non-Proliferation Studies: This site provides information on weapons of mass destruction, weapons treaties and regimes and other non-proliferation sources.
  http://cns.miss.edu/
• The Henry L. Stimson Centre: This website offers information on regional security, technology and security and weapons of mass destruction.
  http://www.stimson.org/
• Stockholm International Peace and Research Institute: This site provides information and publications on international security issues including arms transfers and production, European security, military technology and chemical and biological weapons.
  http://www.sipri.se/
• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research: This site offers information on the organisation and current activities/projects as well as publications on activities.
  http://www.unog.ch/UNIDIR/