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Skidmore College
Political Science Department

USEFUL / RELATED WEBSITES FOR GOV 103 : CRITICAL ISSUES IN WORLD POLITICS

**GENERAL INTEREST: CURRENT INTERNATIONAL NEWS

BBC NEWS : http://news.bbc.co.uk

**UNIT ONE : POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

LIBERALISM

BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN LOCKE :

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Locke.htm

CONSERVATISM

BIOGRAPHY OF EDMUND BURKE:

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Burke.htm

CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF BRITAIN:

http://www.tory.org /

SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM

"The MarX Files" : http://www.appstate.edu/~stanovskydj/marxfiles.html

FEMINISM:

BITCH MAGAZINE: FEMINIST RESPONSES TO POPULAR CULTURE:

http://www.bitchmagazine.com

AN ON-LINE FEMINIST COMMUNITY :
http://www.feminist.com/

**UNIT TWO: COMPARATIVE POLITICS (DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY)

DEMOCRATIZATION :

FREEDOM HOUSE (AN ORGANIZATION DEVOTED TO TRACING THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIZATION AROUND THE WORLD AND OFFERING A YEARLY RANKING OF THE LEVEL OF DEMOCRACY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES) : http://www.freedomhouse.org/

TOTALITARIANISM:

GEORGE ORWELL AND THE POLITICS OF ANIMAL FARM:
http://www.his.com/~phe/farm.html

STALIN LIBRARY ON THE INTERNET:
http://www.marx2mao.org//Stalin/Index.html

JOSEF STALIN REFERENCE ARCHIVE ON THE INTERNET:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/

CONTEMPORARY MAOISM CONTROVERSIES AND QUESTIONS PAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5973/

UNIT THREE: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (WAR AND PEACE)

THE "COW" PROJECT (CORRELATES OF WAR):

http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/

THE CENTER FOR DEFENSE INFORMATION:

http://www.cdi.org

THE CARNEIGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE:

http://www.ceip.org