TOWSON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SOURCES:
This link sends you to the TU Librarian for political science and international studies. Under Class Resources, Ms. Nixon has many, many useful sites. www.towson.edu/~sara/
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
United Nations main web page — www.un.org
– links to everything involving the UN, such as General Assembly Resolutions, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council
- State’s UN missions — http://www.un.int/index-en/webs.html
- International Atomic Energy Agency — www.iaea.org
- International Court of Justice — www.icj-cij.org
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) — www.imf.org
- Organization of the Oil Producing Countries (OPEC) — www.opec.org
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD)– www.oecd.org
- World Bank — www.worldbank.org
- World Health Organization: — www.who.int
REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Africa:
- African Union — www.africa-union.org
Americas:
- NATO home page — www.nato.org
- Organization of American States — http://oas.org
Asia:
- Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) — www.apec.org
Europe:
- European Union — www.europa.eu.int
- European Environmental Agency — www.eea.eu.int
- NATO home page — www.nato.int
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — www.osce.org
INTERNATIONAL NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs), THINK TANKS AND RESEARCH GROUPS:
- Amnesty International — www.amnesty.org
- Brookings Institution– www.brook.edu
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: www.ceip.org
- Center for International Environmental Law — www.ciel.org
- Center for Strategic and International Studies — www.csis.org
- Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute — www.cbaci.org
- Federation of American Scientists Chemical and Biological Arms Control
- Program — www.fas.org/bwc/index.html
- Greenpeace — www.greenpeace.org
- Harvard Sussex Program on Chemical and Biological Weapons Armamentand Arms Limitation — www.fas.harvard.edu~hsp/
- Institute for Security Studies (Africa info!): www.iss.co.za/
- Miller Center of Public Affairs (Univ. of Virginia): www.millercenter.virginia.edu
- Natural Resources Defense Council — www.nrdc.org
- Project on Strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention – www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc
- RAND Corporation (non-profit research) — www.rand.org
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute — www.sipri.org
- Union of Concerned Scientists — www.ucsusa.org
- United States Institute of Peace — www.usip.org
MEDIA SOURCES (all in English):
- Africa Online – www.africaonline.com
- Associated Press — www.ap.org
- Christian Science Monitor — www.csmonitor.com
- Economist (political and economic news) — www.economist.com
- Los Angeles Times — www.latimes.com
- New York Times — www.nytimes.com
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (worldwide info, but especially good on central and eastern Europe, Russia, and former Soviet Union) – www.rferl.org
- Reuters News Service — www.reuters.com
- Time news magazine — www.time.com
- Times of India — www.indiatimes.com
- U.S. News and World Report — www.usnews.com
- Wall Street Journal – www.wsj.com
- Washington Post — www.washingtonpost.com
OTHER USEFUL SOURCES:
- World Factbook — www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- U.S. State Department — www.state.gov – the State Department has updated information on the background of each country
TOWSON UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS:
Feel free to email or call any of these professors for advice, research help, and suggestions for your work as part of the Model UN. All are aware that you may be contacting them about this project, and all have some experience and research help that they can provide. Their regional specialties are listed along with email addresses and office phone numbers.
POLITICAL ECONOMY:
- Dr. James Roberts – Dept. of Political Science — jroberts@towson.edu 410-704-2958
– international economic issues across the world; Economic and Social Committee
INTERNATIONAL LAW:
- Dr. Paul McCartney – Dept. of Political Science — pmccartney@towson.edu 410-704-5218
– international legal issues; Law Committee
SECURITY/NATO:
- Dr. William Lahneman – Dept. of Political Science — wlahneman@towson.edu 410-704-2581
ENVIRONMENT:
- Dr. Jane Wolfson – Environmental Studies – jwolfson@towson.edu 410-704-4920
AFRICA:
- Dr. Matthew Durington -Dept. of Sociology &Anthropology –mdurington@towson.edu
410-704-2852
ASIA:
- Dr. Matthew Hoddie – mhoddie@towson.edu 410-704-2953
– Asia, China, international economic issues
- Dr. Steven Phillips – Dept. of History – sphillips@towson.edu 410-704-2912
– east Asia, China
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA:
- Dr. Ronn Pineo – Dept. of History – rpineo@towson.edu 410-704-2918
– modern Latin American history
EUROPE:
- Dr. Nicole Dombrowski-Risser – Dept. History – ndombrowski@towson.edu 410-704-2907
– France, modern European history
- Dr. Alison McCartney – Dept. of Political Science — amccartney@towson.edu 410-704-5284
– specialty in European foreign policy, European Union, Russia, Germany, Eastern Europe
- Dr. Frank Mullen – Dept. of Political Science — fmullen@towson.edu 410-704-3327
– Russia, former Soviet states
- Dr. Joseph Rudolph – Dept. of Political Science — jrudolph@towson.edu 410-704-3303
– specialty in Southeastern Europe, ethnic groups
MIDDLE EAST:
- Dr. Charles Schmitz – Dept. of Geography – cschmitz@towson.edu 410-704-2966
- Dr. Kimberly Katz – Dept of History – kkatz@towson.edu 410-704-2906
For Model UN Training day in November, the following professors did your regional presentations:
- Asia – Dr. Hoddie
- Africa – Dr. Durington
- Europe: Dr. Rudolph
- Latin America – Dr. Pineo
- Middle East – Dr. Katz
