Political Science

These profiles include information on a country's geography, maps, flag, history, current ruler, area, population, capital, largest cities, languages spoken, ethnicity/race composition, religions, literacy rate, economy, and government.

View country profiles written from a non-U.S. perspective.

The Joint African Statistical Yearbook is a result of these concerted and coordinated efforts among the three main continental institutions (AfDB, AUC, and UNECA) in their quest to provide users with quality statistical information to inform Africa's development initiatives. You can find editions online to 2009 (when the compilation started).

The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The U.S. Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to the U.S. Congress in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974.

The official site of the European Union, it provides information on the goals, institutions, and policies of the European community.

Provides authoritative information, critical assessment, and careful objective analyses of world events and to anticipate those developments that are most likely to have significant effects on U.S. foreign policy over the next several years.

A private, non-governmental, research organization that monitors the military and defense expenditures.

A comprehensive, well organized list of sites and links that deal with the European Union.

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.Eurostat offers a whole range of important and interesting data that governments, businesses, the education sector, journalists and the public can use for their work and daily life.

A leading academic think tank in the field of international relations. Includes a list of their current projects and publications.

A resource with information on the association as well as links to sites that concern their areas of interest.

Embassies, consulates, and other links.