by proximity1
Mon Jun 19th, 2006 at 04:06:25 PM EST
To supplement the recommended reading list now residing in the ET Wiki, this "Part 2 recommeded reading list" is a selection of internet sites for useful reference reading on a variety of topics of interest.
(the intra-document hyperlinkage may not work here yet, as I'm not sure how this is done. But the website hyperlinks ought to work. Please report any errors below. Thanks.)
Note to the user:
New entries may now be incorporated into existing topical headings. These are indicated by a note
"added on dd/mm/yyyy" where m=month, d=date, etc.
Use the CTRL+"f" combination and search for new entries by date or by key-terms "added". (09/07/2006)
Additions to the list were last made on:
09 July, 2006 at 19:30 UTC
Corrections to the existing entries were last made:
24 June, 2006 at 15:00 UTC
Internet references
drawn from
Le Monde diplomatique
[ special issue: « Atlas » feb./mar. 2006 ]
Contents / Summary of entires found below:
Climate change
Water resources
Oceanic resources
#Civil and military nuclear power use
Renewable Energy
Military conflicts and arms proliferation
Environmental Defense and Industrial injuries to the natural environment
Waste treatment and Recyclage
« North-South » Hemispheric Issues
Trade in primary ressources
Hunger
Genetically-modified organisms
Urbanisation / Population growth
Medical treatment - access
Geopolitical Issues
European Union
Africa
Latin America
Military Spending
United Nations
On News media conglomerates
Migrations
Economic growth
Direct foreign captial investment, money transfers, aide and debt
Pension funds and investments
Myths of the neo "Laissez-faire" economy
Service-sector economy
Industrial flight to avoid employee rights
Money-laundering, Organised Crime and Off-shore Tax havens
Linguistics and cognitive sciences
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Climate change:
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
International Arctic Science Committee
Arctic Council
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo
Laboratoire d'océanographie dynamique et de climatologie
Organisation Météorologique Mondiale
International Conference on Arctic Research Planning
Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC)
Groupe intergouvernemental d'experts sur l'évolution du climat (GIEC)
Worldwatch Institute
Centre d'information sur les ressources environmentales (GRID-Arendal)
#Water resources:
International Rivers Network (IRN)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Planète bleue
Union mondiale pour la nature (IUCN)
H²O
The Water Barons
#Oceanic resources:
Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
International Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Conseil international pour l'exploration de la mer (CIEM)
Institut français de recherche pour l'exploration de la mer (ifremer)
Onefish
International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
#Civil and military nuclear power use#:
Centre de documentation et de recherche sur la paix et les conflits (CDRPC)
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Arms Control Association (ACA)
Investigation Plutonium (WISE-Paris)
Renewable Energy:
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Conseil mondial de l'énergie (CME)
Les cahiers de Global Chance
Observatoire des énergies renouvelables
Débat national sur les énergies
Military conflicts and arms proliferation:
Organisation pour l'interdiction des armes chimiques (OIAC)
International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
United Nations Institute for Research and Disarmament (UNIRD)
Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
Environmental Defense and Industrial injuries to the natural environment:
Greenpeace
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal ICJB
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
BioGems
Centre de documentation, de recherche et d'expérimentations sur les pollutions accidentelles des eaux (Cedre)
Waste treatment and Recyclage:
Secrétariat de la convention de Bâle sur les mouvements transfrontaliers de déchets dangereux
Basel Action Network (BAN)
«Exporting Harm: the high-tech trashing in Asia »(Basel Action Network/Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition)
Electronic-Waste Guide
« North-South » Hemispheric Issues:
Trade in primary resources:
Unitied Nations Conference on trade and development, primary resources section (UNCTAD)
Third World Network added on 09/07/2006
"The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues."
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Enda Third-world
Comité pour l'annulation de la dette du tiers-monde (CADTM)
Hunger:
United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO)
World Food Program
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Action contre la faim
Comité catholique contre la faim et pour la développement (CCFD)
Genetically-modified organisms:
Inf 'OGM
GeneWatch
Organic Consumers
Comité de recherche et d'information indépendantes sur le génie génétique (CRRI-GEN)
French government Inter-ministerial website on genetic engineering
Urbanisation / Population growth:
World Urbanisation Prospects (United Nations)
Population Data, Cities
DEWA-GRID-Europe, Cities seen from space
Centre population et développement (CEPED)
Medical treatment - access:
Treatment Action Campaign
Médecins sans frontières [Doctors Without Borders] (MSF)
Medact, Global Health Watch
Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech)
Réseau Médicaments et développement (ReMeD)
World Health Organisation (WHO)
Geopolitical Issues:
International Forum on Globalisation (IFG)added 09/07/2006
"The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of sixty leading activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization."
World Trade Organisation
Public Citizen's 'Background' pages concerning the World Trade Organisation
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri)
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS)
Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI)
« The Clash of Civilisations » by Samuel P. Huntington
Bernard Lewis
Edward Said Archive
« Confluences Méditerranée »
World Atlas of Inequality(University of California, Santa Cruz)
World Income Inequality Database (World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University)
Observatoire français des inégalités
PovertyNet (World Bank)
United Nations Program for Development (UNPD)
Inequality
Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF)
ZNet
Council on Foreign Relations
Brookings Institution
Project for the New American Century
Center for Security Policy
Multinationals Observatory
Transparency International
[note: « an organisation which, officially, works in favor of the transparency of public institutions and which in fact is a vehicle for the advancement of the [neo-liberal] minimal state... »--Raoul Marc Jennar, Europe, la trahison des élites, Fayard, Paris, 2005]
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Groupe d'action financière (GAFI)
OECD Working Group on Corruption
Réseau Migreurop
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (Picum)
Statewatch
No Border Network
Asylum Law
Réseau d'information sur les migrations internationales et les relations interethniques (Rémisis)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs, RIIA)
Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques de l'université du Québec à Montréal
Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Global Security
Fondation pour la recherche stratégique(FRS)
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Corporate Watch
U.S. Agency for International Development
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network
McSpotlight
World Vision
Liberty Institute
International Policy Network (IPN)
European Union :
European Union English portal.
Revue « Elargissement de l'Union »
l'Unité de recherche, de formation et d'information sur la globalisation (URFIG, France)
Corporate Europe Observer
Transatlantic Business Dialogue (TABD)
[U.S.-European multinational corporate lobbying group]
Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederation of Europe
[association of industrial corporations lobbying group ]
European Round Table
[ corporate policy and lobbying group ]
European Services Foundation (ESF)
[association of fifty transnational firms and thirty-six European federations of businesses in the service sector of the economy; a policy and lobbying organisation.]
Centre d'information sur l'Europe
Europa - Activities of the European Union
Hidden Europe
RIA Novosti (Russian News and Information agency / french-language)
Russian Observer
[Russian] Institute of Globalisation Studies (IGS)
GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Ouzbekistan, Azerbaïdjan, Moldavia)
Chechnya News
Russia-CEI Program of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI)
Note to the user: the entries which follow were
added on 22 June, 2006 at 13:55 UTC
Revenue Watch
Eurasia
mer Caspienne
Africa
Diploweb
Diploweb USA Africa
Global Witness
Institut Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (IPAO)
Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (Codesria)
Africa Economic Analysis
Latin America
Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (spanish language)
Agence latino-américaine d'information (ALAI)
Réseau d'information et de solidarité avec l'Amérique latine (Risal)
Institut interaméricain des droits humains (IIDH)
Centre d'études économiques et politiques d'action communitaire (Ciepac)
Rebelión (spanish)
Military spending
Sipri data on military expenditure
Global Security: World-wide military expenditures
Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité
Campaign « Control Arms! »
see also www.obsarm.org
United Nations
United Nations Organisation
L'Observateur des Nations unis
United Nations electronic document diffusion system (ODS)
United Nations News Centre
United Nations Reform
Reform Watch
Université Laval (Québec) UN legal references
Center for UN Reform Education
Association pour la taxation des transactions financières pour l'aide aux citoyens (ATTAC)
Forum Social Mondial
Forum Mondial des Alternatives (FMA)
Coordination SUD
International Committee of the Red Cross
Centre for Civil Society
On News-media conglomerates
News Corporation – Rupert Murdoch media empire
Caslon Analyses on media resources
Action Critique médias
Observatoire français des médias
Media Channel [corrected 24 June 2006]
Migrations
Revue Européenne des migrations internantionales (REMI)
Comité contre l'esclavage moderne (CCEM)
Groupe d'information et de soutien des immigrés (Gisti)
United for Intercultural Action
Note to the user: the entries which follow were
added on 24 June, 2006 at 15:00 UTC
Economic growth
World ecocnomy (Angus Maddison)
Centre d'information et de recherche pour le développement (CRID)
Réseau des objecteurs de croissance pour l'après-développement (Rocade)
Institut d'études économiques et sociales pour la décroissance soutenable (IEESDS)
Redefining Progress
Direct foreign captial investment, money transfers, aide and debt
Coordination SUD-L'aide publique au développement (APD)
Cnuced, investissements, technologie et développement des entreprises
Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
Haut Conseil de la cooperation internationale (HCCI)
Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales (CEPII)
Observatoire international de la dette (OID)
Dette et développement
Réseau pour la réforme des institutions financières internationales
Jubilee Research
Pension funds and investments
(Flash03-3-imp.pdf file) Fondation Copernic
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
Union syndicale Solidaires
Pension search information
American Benefits Council (ABC)
Myths of the Neo-« laissez-faire » economy
Perry Anderson, Histoire et leçons du néolibéralisme (Page deux)
Là-bas si j'y suis, « Le chômage a une histoire »
Collectif Raisons d'agir
Service-sector Economy
Réseau national des élus et collectivities HORS-AGCS
(URFIG) AGCS (Accord Général sur le commerce des services)-Campaign
Industrial flight to avoid employee rights
Dossier d'économie critique « Mondialisation et délocalisations »
International Labor Organisation
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
Public Citizen's « Multinational Observer »
Les Mains bleues, associations des ex-ouvrières de l'usine Levi's délocalisée de la Bassée (Pas-de-Calais)
Money-laundering, Organised Crime and Off-shore Tax havens
Observatoire des multinationales
Money-Laundering
Strategic Road
United States Senate: (search under : Senate reports: «A Gateway for money laundering »)
Report: « Global Trends 2015: A dialogue about the future with non-government experts » (Office of the Directorate of Central Intelligence -C.I.A.)
Linguistics and other cognitive science [added 03 July 2006]
Edward Bernays (Wikipedia)
"PRWatch" by the Center for Media and Democracy
George Lakoff et al at Rockridge Institute