Global Studies: Web Resources

This website provides a guide to the history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and the background of key institutions. Also included are audio and video clips from BBC archives.

Search by country for links to its central bank.

The World Factbook is one of the US Government's most accessed publications.The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, presents the basic realities about the world in which we live.

Provides information on every country in the world and the locations of the United States embassies and consular offices, if you need a visa, crime and security information, health and medical conditions, drug penalties and localized hot spots.

The website contains country overviews and links to websites from individual countries.

This website provides online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army.

An objective of Culturelink Network is the development of a world-wide information system for the study of cultural development and cooperation.

This guide to global information is based in the United Kingdom and focuses on environmental issues.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics compiled a database of foreign labor statistics.

The site offers statistics about the human population.

This website from Michigan State University provides information, insights and learning resources on global business activities. Search by country.

This website contains links to government websites throughout the world.

The Institute of Global Cultural Studies is located at the State University of New York's Binghamton campus. The Institute develops multi-disciplinary approaches to the study of culture and cultural influences across societies in the contemporary world.

IMF reports and publications arranged by country.

Provides general information, legal guides and legislative, executive, judicial and constitutional information about nations.

The mission of this site is to improve cross-cultural understanding and international awareness through global information.

The Population Reference Bureau has been informing people about the population dimensions of important social, economic and political issues for more than 70 years.

This page provides links to the Foreign Embassies of Washington D.C. Select a country and find information on conducting business locally, in addition to data about government, trade, unemployment, imports, exports, economic indicators, travel and more.

The website of the United Nations contains links to global statistics and information pertinent to its mission.

The WHO provides country specific information on diseases and health promotion, including mortality, morbidity and risk factors.