Primary Sources: speeches
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings. For speeches, choose spoken word speeches. Presidential Speech Archive Maintained by the Scripps Library, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. Offers free access to transcripts, and for more recent examples, audio and videofiles of important […]
Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers. Also useful on this AFP e-diplomacy hub Maintained by French news agency Agence France-Presse. Find out about twitter and foreign policy. Aims to offer a window on […]
News clips archives
University of Virginia Library WSLS-TV. Archive online: http://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-library-launches-online-archive-historical-tv-news-footage Access historic news clips and news transcripts, currently 3,600 news clips items covering 1951-1971. These years cover the civil rights movement and desegregation as well as feminism and Vietnam. An online exhibit page has a collection of themed items including news clips and scripts related to the […]
Social Media – recent findings
Eurobarometer survey – e communications households What do households in EU nations think of their broadband speed, quality of service and tariffs for internet use. Latest public opinion poll from Eurobarometer. The role of social media in the Arab uprising The latest issue of free online journals Westminster papers in communication and culture Vol 9 […]
Global corruption data
Find information on the extent of government and political corruption worldwide using the latest annual report from Transparency International: http://www.transparency.org/gcb2013 Transparency International also publish an annual corruption perceptions list which charts opinion on levels of corruption. On a related theme the World Bank has The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project The reports have governance indicators […]
SIPRI
SIPRI Yearbook 2013 – from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This is a leading resource for annual round ups of information and facts and facts on all aspects of international security, peace and disarmament worldwide. The full text is for subscribers only, however there is a free summary Sipri does offer free access to a […]
UN and other peacekeeping sites
Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a timeline of past missions. A page on women in peacekeeping – which has statements and statistics Other resources Center on International cooperation publishes an annual global review of peacekeeping. Limited news stories are free on the website. Spiri has a multilateral […]
Human Rights reports
Amnesty international global annual report on human rights released. Read the whole report or look at reports for individual nations. Also on the theme of rights recently published is the annual US Department of State International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 This also has country reports and a global overview with regard to abuses and […]
US Armed Forces: Overseas activity
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2013 Useful reference report from Congressional research services, 23 pages long. Provides a list of deployments and missions chronologically. Information on later military missions is more detailed in terms of aims and type of mission.
Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology. View the online map for reported instances.
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