Web Pathfinder

Google: The best search engine on the web.
ask.com: Search Engine

altavista.com: Yahoo Search Engine

Amazon.com: The largest bookstore on the net.
Financial Times: The archives of the newspaper with the largest database.
 

Search Engines

Advice and Ratings

Search Engine Watch: The central source for reviews and comparisons.
Web Guide Magazine: Regular reviews of myriad sites.

Real Search Engines

Altavista: The most user-friendly of the true search engines.
Northern Light: Has huge coverage, but many articles are supplied on a for-fee basis.
Hotbot: The most colorful of the major search engines.
Excite: A reliable standard.
Google: Still the best.
37: A single page that links to thirty-seven different search engines.

Card Catalogues

Open Directory Project: Better than Yahoo.

Meta-Search Engines

Dogpile: Searches 25 engines and directories.
MetaCrawler: Searches the major web directories.
IxQuick: Claims to be the world's most powerful meta-search engine.
InvisibleWeb: A search engine of search engines, focusing on special interest sites.

Expert Sites

About: Not interactive, but provides a wealth of useful links.
Abuzz: Second only to AskMe.
AskMe: A well-organized site that puts you in touch with an impressive array of experts.
Ask Jeeves: A "natural language" query engine, that sometimes actually works.
Learn2: A collection of "how to" guides for everything from software to raising rabbits.
FindTutorials: Links and ratings of a vast array of net-based tutorials; still in its infancy.

Internet Guides

The Rough Guide to the Internet: Links to their favorite sites.
Hotlinks: A remarkable map of the best sites on the web.
 

Yellow Pages and White Pages

A Guide to Web Directories: Links to dozens of address compendia.

Bookstores

Book Lover Resources: An astounding site with links to publishers, books, you-name-it.

New Books

Borders: The best-stocked of the American book barns.
Barnes and Nobel: Another book-barn with a more populist inventory
Kaboombooks: Not much selection, but good values on recent academic bestsellers.
Publisher's Catalogues Home Page: A searchable portal that includes the major academic presses.
A Common Reader: A highly select catalogue, with facinating reviews of each volume.
The Internet Bookstore: A British company with good coverage of Islamic subjects.
Blackwell's Online: One of the world's finest academic bookstores.

E-Books

eBookNet: The most impressive page of e-books on the web.
Bookface: A good source of e-books, many of which can be read on the web.

Used Books

Alibris: The slickest network for used books.
Bibliofind: A network with ten million used books.
Bookfinder: Another network with fifteen million used books.
Dogbert: A search engine for the ABE network of independent booksellers.
Hamilton: The premier source for remaindered books.

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Libraries

Card Catalogues

Internet Public Library: Hosted by the University of Michigan, tries to locate "quality" information.
Library of Congress: The world's largest collection of books and documents.
Georgetown University: One of the finest collections in the Washington area.
The New York Public Library: Search their catalogue or (if you have a card) their databases.

E-books and online texts

Project Gutenberg: Another source for full-text "great books."
The Bartleby Project: Full text versions of some of the "great books."
Bibliomania: Hundreds of searchable texts.

Magazines

Business Week: To find out what the herd is thinking.
The National Interest: A neo-conservative effort to breathe some life into the "Foreign Affairs" formula.
Foreign Policy: The leftish Tweedle-Dum of the foreign policy establishment.
Foreign Affairs: The rightish Tweedle-Dee of the foreign policy establisment.
The Atlantic: Good reading from the "global chaos" crowd.
The Nation: The progressive masthead for 100 years.
New York Review of Books: The defining journal of the American intellectual.
The Economist: The most informative magazine on the globe.
Washington Quarterly: An exceptionally well-organized site, from CSIS.
New Perspectives Quarterly: The most successful of the journals that attempt a "global" perspective.
The International Economy: The New Yorker of the international finance set.

Newspapers

International

The Guardian: A British newspaper that includes selections from Le Monde and the Washington Post.
The Financial Times: The world's best business paper.
Le Monde diplomatique: One of the world's great newspapers, with a special internet edition.
The Times Online: That's the London and Sunday Times, taff.
Mail & Guardian: The leading progressive newspaper in South Africa.
All the World's Newsapers: Links to a remarkable array of news sources.
International Herald Tribune: The American perspective from Paris.
Christian Science Monitor: Good coverage of the Middle East and development issues.

National

The New York Times: The American paper of record.
The Washington Post: The American paper of investigation.
100 Top News Sites: A good way to tour what news is on the web.
DCRegistry: For local but timely news, weather, and events.
DCpages: Links to embassies, eateries, etc.

News Services

Northern Light Current News Search: A two-week archive coverning fifty wire services.
BBC News: The premier source for international news.
CNN Interactive: The inside-the-beltway crowd's source of international news.
One World: Thoughtful stories and background news from around the globe.
Alternative Press Index: A search engine for over 300 progressive publications.
Gallup Organization: A good source for polls.
Policy.com: A right-of-center perspective on the breaking national issues.
Global Beat: A collection of links and articles for journalists, updated weekly by the Center for War, Peace & the News Media.

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Think Tanks

The Brookings Institution: The biggest and, until recently, the best.
Royal Institute of International Affairs: AKA Chatham House; England's effort to match the CFR.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: The world's premier peace studies center.
World Policy Institute: The left-liberal answer to the CFR.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Now focuses on globalization.
Center for Strategic and International Studies: The center-right answer to CFR.
Electronic Policy Network: A consortium of liberal think tanks.
World Resources Institute: Lester Brown's attempt to save nature from capitalism.
Harvard Institute for International Development: Jerry Sach's attempt to save capitalism from nature.
Council on Foreign Relations: The heart of the beast, Kissinger's lair.
Center for Defense Information: Good for progressive critiques of American military policy.
Union of Concerned Scientists: Esp. good on nuclear issues, but also follows missile defense, global warming, etc.

Reference Works

General

Calendar Home: The Mother of Universal Calendars.
Harper's Interactive Index: The most useful (and unusual) statistics anywhere.
Metric Converter: A quick way to convert lengths, weights, religions (?)
Beaucoup: Links to 2000 reference cites in all categories.
Biography: A moderately useful database from the people who publish the magazine.

Maps

Mapquest: Good for driving directions.  Not bad even for obscure areas of Europe.
National Geographic: Colorful but politically incorrect.
Terraserver: Primarily useful for USGS topographic maps of the US, but does include a selection of other areas.

Dictionaries & Almanacs

Acronym Finder: Covers 65,000 abbreviations.
Infoplease: Draws on a half dozen almanacs and the Columbia Encyclopediac Dictionary.
OneLook Dictionaries: A search engine accessing 449 different dictionaries.
Reference Desk: Links to specialized dictionaries for scientific disciplines.
Encyclopedia Brittanica: The definitive source.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: In searchable format.
Roget's Thesaurus: A good source for Monty Python skits.
Biographical Dictionary: For looking up you-know-who.
The American Heritage Dictionary: The most useful dictionary of English.
Concordance of Great Books and Literary Classics: Let's you search for the authors of memorable phrases, or vice-versa.

Writing Aids

Citation Guides for Electronic Documents: Links to a dozen different approaches, from the Int Fed Library Assoc & Inst.
Hypergrammar: A great collection of exercizes and models from the University of Ottowa.

Translators

Altavista Translator: You give it a foreign webpage address, it spews back the English-language translation!

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Islam

Islamic Guru Pages

Muslims Online: Links to many Islamic resources on the web.
IslamiCity: Links to resources, shopping, and more.
Islamic Society of North America: The major emigre Islamic organization in America.
Muslim American Society: The major indigenous Islamic organization in America.
Al-Islam: Good for basics, like prayer times or zakat criteria.
Islamic Awareness: An excellent collection of documents explaining the integrity of Islamic source materials.
SoundVision: Dedicated to providing Islamic media products for Muslim youth.

Islamic Bibliography

Young Muslims Canada: Has a decent online library of Islamist texts in HTML format.
 

Islamic Bookstores

Kazi Publications: The largest publishers of Islamic books in the US.
Islamic Bookstore: A very professional webpage.
Sharaaz Online Islamic Bookstore: Another elegant page.
Amana Publications: A lovely selection.
Islamic Texts Society: Publishes a small but elite collection of beautiful books.
Islamic Bookstores: An extensive list from the MSA.
Halalco: A great source of Islamic books and supplies of every kind.

Islamic Calligraphy

Sakkal Design: The miraculous art of one of the great modern Islamic calligraphers.
Way of the Prophet: A good source of electronic Bismallahs.

Islamic Finance

Islamic Management Net: What Islam teaches us about running things.
TakafulUSA: An attempt to set up an Islamic insurance program.

Islamic Movements

Muslimedia International: News about Islamic movements and issues globally.
CAIR: The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Iviews: An Islamic perspective on the news.
Muslim Observer: An elegant Islamic newspage.
Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America: One of the most prominent madrasas in America.
Islamic Banking and Finance Network: Dedicated to the propaedeutics of Islamic finance.

Progressive Muslims

The Muslim Peace Fellowship: A nice idea.
Progressive Muslim Network: Note much here yet.
Center for the Study of Democracy & Islam: New and promising.

Non-Muslim Sites Relevant to Islamic Movements

Best Practices Tool Kit: Great ideas on using the new electronic media in advocacy, from the Benton Foundation.
Diversity Central: A intriguing collection of news, articles, discussions and links about how businesses handle cultural diversity.

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Qur'an

Qur'an on the Internet : 100's of Islam Related Websites are added. Unique Telawat. The Best source to access the Quran.

Qur'an Resources on the Internet: A thorough listing of links.
Quran: A collection of related documents with a Muwahhidi orientation.

Women in Islam

Association for Middle East Women's Studies: The major American academic organization.
Zan: A website devoted to Iranian women.

Middle East

Mideast Guru Pages

U.S. State Dept. Commercial Guides: to the countries of the Middle East.
Current Contents of Periodicals on the Middle East: The Dayan Center's ongoing bibliography.
Encyclopedia of the Orient: Good articles on medieval and Islamic topics.
Washington Report Back Issues: These contain a chronology of Middle Eastern affairs.

Middle East Experts

Mideast Law: Short guides by country, firm, and area, from the law firm of Ali & Partners.
AME Info Online: A searchable directory of 200,000 Middle East companies.
Info-Prod: Business research on the Middle East.
100 Portes du Proche-Orient: A hundred key terms defined, by the experts at Le Monde diplomatique.

Mideast Internet Gurus

Middle East Political Resources: A collection of links to the countries of the Middle East.
Arab Net: A massive collection of links to the Arab World.
Middle East Financial Links: From MEES, the main journal tracking oil in the region.
Arab Gateway: from al-Bab, a series of handy links organized by country.
1001 Sites: An Arab internet directory, with decent news coverage.
RaitNet: Links from an organization devoted to pooling IT resources in the Arab World.

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Mideast Maps

Le Monde Diplomatique: Some fascinating world maps, but unusually good on the Middle East.

Mideast Bookstores

Saqi Books: An excellent line of titles in English, they also stock Arabic books.
Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi: A decent site in English, with lots of childrens' books.
AWAIR:  Arabic and Islamic materials, primarily in English.
American Educational Trust: A good source of English materials at a discount.
Islamic Booksellers List: From the University of Pennsylvania, again unlinked.
Pandora's Book: The best bookstore in Istanbul.
Iran Books: The richest source of books about Iran.
Boustany's: Not as rich as Madbouli's, but the first Egyptian bookstore to have a webpage.  Specializes in antiquities.

Mideast Magazines

Middle East Report: The major leftist journal on the Middle East, and the best of any ilk.
Jerusalem Report: Israel's best English-language news magazine.

Academic Journals

Middle Eastern Studies: Cranky and right-wing.
Arab Studies Quarterly: An index of the journal from the Arab American University Graduates Assoc.
Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East: A good source of information about conferences.
 

Middle Eastern Newspapers

NISCIRAQ: Contains links to all the major Iraqi newspapers.
Arabic2000: More links to  Arabic newspapers.
Arabic News Stand: A shorter list of the major Arabic newspapers.
al-Safir: My personal favorite; easier to read in .PDF format.

Middle Eastern Newspapers in English

Al-Ahram Weekly: A better paper than the Arabic original.
Cairo Times: A promising avenue for viewing Egyptian affairs.
Middle East Times: A fine paper despite its Moonie ownership.
Turkish Daily News: The major English-language daily and one of the better papers in the country.
Iran News: Government controlled English-language paper.
Palestine Times: Seems to have an Islamist slant.

News Services

CNN Interactive-Middle East: The regional news from Ted Turner.
Arabic News: A superb selection of stories from around the region.
Middle East Business News: A collection of breaking stories.
Middle East Realities: A collection of iconoclastic articles.
Middle East News Line: Useful selections from the day's news.
Arab Media Review: In German, but sometimes useful.
Arabia: Princed Walid bin Talal's Arab news megasite.
Middle East Wire: A very handy selection of news stories from a wide variety of sources, esp. good on business angles.
 

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Shopping

Sakhr: An excellect source of Arabic software.
CafeArabica: A collection of Arab-American links, many of them commercial.

Theorists

Shariati: The official website devoted to the thinking of Ali Shariati.
Seraj: A webpage dedicated to the ideas of Abdol Karim Soroush

Mideast Think Tanks (also see under specific countries)

Al-Ahram Center: Egypt's major strategic think tank and the largest in the region.
Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies: AKA Saad Ibrahim Inc.
Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research: New but well-endowed.
Institute for Political and International Studies: Iran's emerging national security think tank.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy: The organization that really makes America's ME policy.
Arab Social Science Research: Ford Foundation put together this clearinghouse for Arab think tanks.
CSIS Mideast Reports: Mostly Cordesman's products.
MENAS Associates: Publish excellent bulletins on Egypt, Iran, and Turkey.
Al-Hewar: A DC-based Arabic-language talk shop.

Country Studies

Country Studies Guru Pages

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: By the CIA.
Public Info Research: A site that tracks the activities of spooks worldwide.
The Political Science Reference Almanac: Key data on each country in the world.
Governments on the Web: A huge collection of links.
 

Country Data Series

World Income Inequality Database: One of the most useful products to come out of WIDER.
Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties: From Freedom House.
Economic Freedom in the World: From the Fraser Institute, not Heritage.
Polity III Database: An effort by political scientists to track political instability.
Human Rights Watch World Report: Quantifying torture.
FIRST: Facts on International relations and security trends from SIPRI.
UNESCO Education: A great source of education statistics.
World Audit: Focuses on Freedom House's data, but includes original measures of corruption and other variables.
 

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Military and Intelligence Forces Information

FAS Intelligence: Detailed analyses of the world's spook agencies and special forces, from the Federation of American Scientists.
Specwarnet: Great materials about counter-terrorism and special operations, including studies of Israel and Turkey's capabilities.
Jane's: The industry standard for information about weapons systems, with some gems about military organization and some dubious political analysis.
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: A good source of data on military spending.
 

Algeria

North Africa Journal: An e-zine that is particularly good on contracts and policy announcements.

Asia in General

Far East Economic Review: The MEED of southeast Asia.
Asia Inc.: The Asian spin-off of the American businessman's vanity magazine.
AsiaMoney: From the folks who produce EuroMoney.
 

Bahrain

Bahrain Briefing: A handy collection of historical factoids from the Voice of Bahrain.

Egypt

Egypt Today: A monthly magazine, good on daily life and the cultural scene.
ARCE: A way to survey what Americans are doing research in Egypt.
Social Fund for Development: "Adjustment with a human face."
Ibn Khaldun Center: A good source of English-language research.
PCSU: An AID funded project that monitors the progress of privatization in Egypt.

Indonesia

Van Zorge Report: The premier business consulting firm in Indonesia.
Suratkabar: A daily news service with links to all of the major media sites.
Kompas: A major newsmagazine that has an English translation.
Tempo: A major newsmagazine that has an English translation.
Indonesian State Statistics: A handsome collection from Badan Pusat Statistik.
Antara News Service: A great source for the headlines.
Indonesia Business News: Good for the stock quotes, but also has a good selection of headlines.
Jakarta Post: Daily news in English.
Inside Indonesia: Excellent academic analyses, a real must read.
Australian Financial Review: A news daily with excellent political coverage of Indonesia.
 

Iran

Salam Iran: The official international face of Khatami's supporters.
Iranmania: A fantastic collection of news and articles and links on Iran.
Iran Press Service: Safa Haeri's excellent analysis of Iranian politics.
Ankaboot: A guru page for emigre Iranians, useful for shopping.
Iran Watch: The source of Who's-Who in Iran.
Iran Weekly Press Digest: Independent but fee-based.
Independent Iran News: A good source of articles by and about emigres.
RFE Iran Report: A good digest of news in Iran.
The Iran Brief: Investment risk analysis from Bethesda.
Iranonline Newsroom: A great collection of links to newspapers, websites, parties, etc.
Meria's Guide to Iran Weblinks: Another in their fantastic series.
Statistical Center of Iran: A government agency with limited data but good links.
U.S. Engage: A site focused on Cuba, but with ocassional materials about Iran and Libya.
Who's Who in Iran: from Net-Iran.  Has not been updated since August 1999, but still very useful.

Iraq

Muntada Net: One single page with all the Iraq links on it.

Jordan

New Jordan Research Center: A think tank focusing on sustainable development.

Kashmir

Jammu & Kashmir Insight: A well-organized and informative, if rather pro-Indian, site.
Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies: A site in New Delhi that covers other regional competitions too.
Vinnie's Kashmir Page: A decent collection of links.
Kashmir Today: A Pakistan-based magazine put out by the Kashmir Liberation Cell.
Kashmir Links: Including hypertext for the major insurgent groups and their supporters.

Kurdistan

Kurdish Library and Documentation Center: Great bibliographies and links.

Kuwait

Kuwait Online: A nice collection of links, including a magazine or two.
Kuwait Times: The only English-language daily available online.
National Bank of Kuwait: The biggest in town.
Kuwait Information Office: The lobbying wing of their embassy in Washington, DC.
Kuwait National Assembly: The official site of the Majlis.
al-Qabas: One of the major Arabic dailies.
 

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Lebanon

Rafik Hariri: The website of the former prime minister and Lebanon's busiest businessman.
Hizbollah: The official site.
US Committee for a Free Lebanon: Fascinating, if unreliable, intelligence on Syria and Lebanon.
Libanis: A good bulletin board for Lebanese affairs.
Voter Statistics: A detailed breakdown of the Lebanese elections.
Biographies: Detailed biographies of all the major figures in Lebanon, and some of its neighbors.
Lebanon.com: A collection of on-line resources.
Lebanese Center for Policy Studies: Publishers of Beirut Review and much academic research.

Libya

Libya News: The archive of the Libya News List.
al-Bab: A handy collection of links about Libya.

Morocco

Morocco Today: An English-language paper, good on commercial and social information.

Nigeria

One World: A good world news source that is unusually good on Nigeria.
Mbendi: The best source for business information about Africa on the net.
Africa Intelligence: A massive collection of links; the home page does a decent news service.

Oman

Oman Studies Center: Also has links to the wider Gulf.

Pakistan

South Asia Analysis Group: Timely analytical pieces.
Business Recorder: Pakistan's main business daily.
Economic Times: India's Mainstream business paper.
Economic and Political Weekly: One of the most literate newsmagazines in the world, based in India but good for all South Asia.

Palestine

The Palestine Economic Forum: A source of much groundbreaking research.
Birzeit's Guide: Links to Palestinian websites.
Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine: Attempts, weakly, to balance the Washington Institute.
Institute for Palestine Studies: One of the oldest in the area--now in Washington.

Russian Federation

Corruption.Ru: An elegant but undocumented collection of news and papers, in Russian.

Saudi Arabia

Arabia Link: A good source of news on the Gulf generally.
William E. Mulligan Papers: A collection of internal Aramco documents at Georgetown
The Saudi Network: A collection of links to Saudi sites, including good business information
Saudi Aramco on the Web: Information on the NOC
Saudi Arabia Net: Another collection of links, with an obnoxious soundtrack
Saudi Ministry of Information: Surprisingly useful
Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights: The most famous opposition group.
Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia: The most serious opposition group
SaudiRoyals: An online database of the Royal Family.
Almanach: Another family tree for the Saudi royals.
U.S. Saudi Business Council: Gives a useful page of "key contacts" in the Kingdom.
Saudi American Bank: Provides regular updates on the Saudi economy
National Commercial Bank: Monthly reporting on the Saudi market.
International Center for Commercial Law: Lists law firms who specialize in the Kingdom.
Saudia Online: A decent source of business news.
Kevin Taecker: A macroeconomist who knows the Kingdom inside out.

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Singapore

Channel News Asia: Also a good way of keeping track of Indonesia.

Syria

US Committee for a Free Lebanon: Fascinating, if unreliable, intelligence on Syria and Lebanon.
Cafe Syria: A good collection of weblinks to Syrian firms and government agencies.
Syria Online: A nice collection of news headlines.
Syria Daily: Headlines with links to all of the main Syrian papers.
Made-In-Syria: Weblinks to the major businesses.
Thank You President Assad: The fan club's home page.
Syrian Consulting Bureau: Nabil Sukkar's economics service.
Niceonline: A collection of the speeches of Hafiz al-Assad.
Assad's Official Biography: From the Syrian Ministry of Information.
Syrian Human Rights Committee: One of the few remaining voices of opposition.

Turkey

Turkish State Statistics: The government clearinghouse.
Turkish Daily News: The major English-language daily and one of the better papers in the country.
Turkey Update: Excellent analysis from Nicole Pope.
Turkish Embassy: USA: Surprisingly useful, includes the constitution, statistics, etc.
Tusiad: Reports and statistics from the major Turkish businessman's association.
Ozgurluk: A pro-Kurdish news service, good for opposition gossip.
Ataturk: The cult of personality in all its pagan glory.

United Arab Emirates

Dolphin: A major regional development project.
American Business Council: Works in all the Gulf countries.
Dubai City Guide: From the entertainment capital of the Gulf.
Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Has a monthly magazine with useful analysis.

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan Resources: A fine collection of links from George Soros, including "Doing Business in Uzbekistan."
UzReport: Probably the best English-language source for news on Uzbekistan.
Uzbek State Ministry of Macroeconomy & Statistics: An effort to manipulate numbers into heroic fiction.

Venezuela

Political Database of the Americas: A large collection of data and documents at Georgetown.
The Miami Herald Americas: Latin America starts at Orlando.
Venezuela Online News: Headlines in English.
Orientation-Latin America: A searchable newsbase.
Vheadline: Venezuela's premier electronic news service.
Latinoil: Provides access to recent articles.
Latin America 2000: A good collection of links from CFR.
Latin Finance: A magazine covering investment in the Americas.

Yemen

Yemen Times: Sanaa's English-language daily.
Panorama from Soqotra: The most interesting web cam site of them all.

Oil

National Oil Companies: Contact information for all the major firms, courtesy of the Institute of Petroleum.
Upstream Oil and Gas: Country by country reports from British Trade International.
Brasil Energia: A wonderful way of keeping tabs on the Brazilian energy sector.
E Petroleum: An online journal about the Egyptian petroleum business.
MEEC: Middle East Energy Consultants makes them sound like potential competitors.
Baker Hughes Rig Counts: Lets you know how much drilling is going on where.

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Global Institutions

International Financial Institutions

International Monetary Fund: The agency responsible for preserving the Third World debt crisis.
World Bank: Financing dams and ring roads for the elites of the late developers.
Whirled Bank: An amusing parody site.
OECD: The source for information on the already developed countries.
World Trade Organization: A growing source of data and controversy.
International Labor Organization: The weak link in the chain of cooptation.
UN Web Site Locator: A directory to all the diverse branches of the world government bureaucracy.
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency: Insures the IFIs preferred projects.
International Finance Corporation: IFI support for the private sector.
Institute of International Finance: The 'rating' wing of the IMF.
Jubilee 2000: Leading the campaign to forgive the debts of the poorest nations.
World Tax: A good page of links about tax systems around the globe.
Bank for International Settlements: Good information about debt.

Consulting Firms

Stratfor: Free advice from spooks.
Economist Intelligence Unit: Expensive advice from people only vaguely affiliated with the Economist.
Oxford Analytica: Expensive advice of varying quality.
International Security Information Service: A European firm focusing on WMDs.
A.T. Kearny: Business consultants with some unusually good information about globalization.
KPMG: Particularly good links for Latin America.
CountryWatch: Reports on every country with decent facts and elementary analysis.
Doing Business In: Country guides with a focus on taxation from Ernst & Young.
Global Financial Data: Some remarkably long time series (beginning in 1260).

Political Risk Analysis

Political and Economic Risk Consultancy: Specializing in Asia, they publish a massive annual report rating 140-odd countries.
Political Risk Services: Publish weekly reports and one of the major guides on how to evaluate political risk.
Control Risks Group: A Virginia firm that supplies estimates and bodyguards.
Euromoney: Useful information on international finance, and their annual country risk evaluations.
Country or Political Risk: Web links from Cal Poly to the major political risk consultants.
GRA Research Hotlinks: 100 links to political risk resources from Global Risk Assessments.
Political Risk Analysis Resources: Some good concrete examples, plus a short list of handy links.
Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum: Stories about trends in emerging markets.
The Estimate: Michael Dunn's political and security analysis of the Islamic world.

U.S. Government Sources

FedStats: A gateway to the entire array of US government statistics.
U.S. Census Bureau (domestic): A good source for U.S. foreign trade statistics.
U.S. Census Bureau (international): Demographic information on 227 countries.
NTIS: The main source for internal and subcontracted US govt documents.
GPO: The main source for printed government material.
USIA International Information Programs: Has, inter alia, the results of international opinion surveys.
Office of Foreign Assets Control: The branch of Treasury that enforces the embargoes against Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.

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Corruption

Transparency International: The band that put the subject on the map.
Internet Center for Corruption Research: Combines TI materials with more academic articles.
International Crime Statistics Link Guide: Organized by country but mostly ties to the UN Crime & Justice Profile.
Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption: Focused more on organized crime.
Financial Action Task Force: Keeps an eye on money-laundering for the OECD.
Intelligence Online: News items for spooks, including good materials about money laundering and international crime.
The Smoking Gun: A scandalous collection of declassified public documents, often scurrilous.
Financial Scandals: A collection of links dealing with derivatives, money laundering, etc.
Governance and Anti-Corruption Resource Center: A nice collection of articles & mini-courses at the World Bank
Fraud Consultant: Links to various investigative, accounting, and legal sites.
AnCorrWeb: The OECD's anti-corruption webring.

Economics

The Dismal Scientist: Elaborate and educational, one of the best popular economics sites.
FinWeb: A collection of links to sites on economics and finance.
Journal of Finance Links: A massive collection of finance links.
Econolink: Links to the best and the worst economics sites on the web, from the Economic Justice Network.
EDIRC: A list of economics departments around the world (190 states), arranged by country.
National Bureau of Economic Research: A massive archive of research papers.
 

 

Education

Blackboard: Provides services to teachers who want to put their courses on the web.
Kennedy School Case Method: A fine collection of cases.
CaseNet: A web site supplying teaching tools for the case method.
How to Write a Fellowship Proposal:
Education World: Great materials for kids.  Check out their finance materials.

Documentaries

Factual Video: A good commercial outlet for documentaries in England.

Teaching

Teaching with Excellence: An online book based on interviews with Berkeley professors.
Good Teaching: Nuts and bolts advice on lecturing, grading, class participation, etc.
 

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Methodology

History of Game Theory: Not a bad introduction.

Cognitive Science

CogWeb Bibliography: A fine collection of citations and links, focused on the cultural dimension.

Post-Structuralism

Foucault: Documents and links on discipline and bondage.

Political Economy of Development

World Links for Development: The newsletter of the World Bank on the subject.
Alternative Information & Development Center: Radical perspectives on debt and development.
World Bank Development Forum: With materials on corruption and other topical matters.
International Development Network: A massive collection of links.
Institute of Development Studies: A fine collection of British resources.
Meghbarta: A Bengali economics webzine that provide a wonderful correction to NGO know-nothings.
Population Action International: A good progressive organization with a lot of wonderful data.
Sustainable Development Gateway: 1200 documents and several hundred links.
Overseas Development Council: A US think tank with some useful publications.

Journals

Third World Quarterly: Available on-line; this link is to the table of contents.
World Development: One of the most thoughtful journals on development economics; this link is to their table of contents.
World Link: The publication of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Statistics

Eldis Guide to Development Indicators: A nice collection of critical statistics.
Social Development Indicators: A searchable database of stats on communications, health, environment, etc.
OECD Development Indicators: A diverse set of data and links.

Women in Development

International Development Research Center: Good on biodiversity and gender issues.
Widnet: The major internet database on women in development.
Briefings on Development and Gender: The gender web of the Institute of Development Studies.
GenderNet: The gender web of the World Bank.
Gender in Development: From the UNDP.
 

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Political Science

Comparative Politics

Lijphart Election Archive: A massive database about all the world's elections.
Minorities at Risk Project: The major database about ethnic violence.
 

International Political Economy

Political Economy Working Papers Archive: At the University of Michigan.
Resources on International Political Economy: A good collection of links from Ianweb.

Journals

The American Prospect: A useful liberal policy magazine.
The Baffler: Leftist cultural criticism.
CounterPunch: Alexander Cockburn's attempt to revive muckracking.
 

Progressive Sites

Human Rights Links: This links page leads to organizations in dozens of countries.
Peace Net: Links to dozens of progressive NGOs.
Open Secrets: Tracing the way money controls the American political process.
Jay's Links: The hub of the universe for progressive links.
Human Rights Internet: A searchable database of human rights organizations around the globe.
Council for a Liveable World: An excellent collection of documents on arms control issues.

Science

Nature: The online edition is good for more than just biology
Helping Your Child to Learn Science: An excellent collection of links.
ScienceNow: Breakings stories from the AAAS.
Scitech News: A daily round-up of science news.

Mathematics

World of Mathematics: One of the best organized and most interesting sites on the web.

Statistics

Hyperstat: A great source for introductory information on statistical methods.
Chance Web: The most creative approaches to statistics.
UCLA Statistics Textbook: An entire online course.
Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms: A friendly place for beginners to start.

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Banking, Business, and Finance

Finance Sites

Charles Schwab: One of the best-supported online trading sites.
MSN MoneyCentral: Subsections devoted to every facet of financial life.
TD Waterhouse: One of the online trading sites with the lowest fees.
TheStreet: Excellent financial journalism, but fee-based.
InvesTools MarketGuide: Solid information for fundamental analysis.
CNNfn: Financial news in realtime.
Smartmoney's Market Map: The most beautiful display of share information anywhere.
ForbesBest: An index of the best financial sites in a dizzying array of categories.

Company Information

Hoovers Online: Information on 14,000 public and private companies.
Kompass International: Information on 1.5 million companies in 70 countries.
Corporate Information: A good starting point for international firms.
Annual Report Service: Includes reports and links to homepages for 1500 firms.
Edgar: The search engine of the SEC.

Investing Advice

The Motley Fool: The classic beginner's guide to investment
Meta-site: Money's Picks: A collection of useful personal finance sites assembled by Money magazine.
SmartMoney University: A series of good interactive courses about personal finance.
Yardeni's Economic Network: Investment advice from Deutsche Bank.
Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum: Global economic trends with news updates.
Investor Words: A searchable guide to the financial vocabulary.
 

Progressive Sites

Pulse of Capitalism: A quarterly report on trends from the Commonwealth Institute.
Economic Policy Institute: The major American progressive think tank.
Corporate Watch: Tracking the majors and their machinations.
Financial Markets Center: Progressive analysis of the Federal Reserve and its effects.
Grassroots Economic Organizing: A good place to look for ideas about community economics.
 

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College

College Edge: An index of 4000 schools.
Gocollege: A mediocre college-matching engine.
Princeton Review: Expert advice on getting in to college.
Peterson's: A self-proclaimed education supersite.

Computers

Computer Gurus

ZDnet: The Mecca of websites for computer issues.
PC Magazine: A subdivision of ZD, but authoritative in its own.
Webopedia: An excellent source of definitions for internet argot.

Desktop Publishing

Desktop Publishing Do's and Don'ts: Excellent general advice.

E-commerce

Ebusinessforum: A wealth of articles about markets and media from the Economist folks.

Intranets

Build Your Own Intranet: A fine article from Windows Magazine.
Building Intranets: Good advice oriented toward newsroom intranets.
About Building Intranets: A fine collection of educational links.

Palm Pilot

Palmcentral: Top 50 downloads and newest software.
Palmspot: A well organized site with freeware and shareware.
The Pilot Zone: Rates the products for you.

Web Design

NetMechanic: A good source of free web page maintenance tools.
Webmonkey: An excellent how-to guide for web developers.
DevEdge Online: Specifically focused for Netscape developers.
HTML for Beginners: A great introduction to basic web programming.
Dmitry's Design Lab: A fine collection of articles about design in general and on the web.
Yale Web Style Manual: The definitive source.
Webreference: An outstanding collection of tutorials, articles, tips, links, and contacts.
Killersites: Examples of web site excellence from the famous textbook.
Web Pages That Suck: Learning how to do good by studying the bad.
Developer.com Training Center: A wonderful assembly of tutorials.
Elements of Hypermedia Design: The full text of Peter Gloor's excellent book.

Entertainment

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Literature

Professor Brians Course Materials: Wonderful notes on the major works of world literature, and an entire online course.
SF Site: Probably the best collection of science fiction links on the web, including the ISFDB.
Maghrebi Literature: Links to materials and interpretations.
Internet Poetry Archive: Especially good on the Americans.

Arabic Poetry

al-Mubarak: An elaborate repository of qasa'id and other forms.
Arabic Poetry: A nice collection of modern poets, translated into English.
Iraq4u: Links to recordings from several modern Iraqi non-Communist (i.e., second-rate) poets.
Arabic Poems: An Egyptian collection, organized by period.
Jihat al-Shi`r: A nice, if small site, that can also be accessed in English or French.

Magazines

Utne Reader: A great way to keep track of what is happening in America.

Mythology

Encyclopedia Mythica: A great reference work.
The Perseus Project: Access to Greek and Latin literature on the web.

Health

Alternative Traditions

Ask Dr. Weil: Homely homilies from the Homer of homeopathy.
Wellness Web: An attempt to combine conventional and alternative health care practices.

Modern Medicine

Mayo Health Oasis: A great collection of documents from the clinic's physicians.
Meta-Site: Healthfinder: A federal government list of responsible health care sites.
WebMD: An easy way to find articles and information.

Jobs

Execsearches: A megasite for headhunters and hunted.
4Executivesearch: Another excellent job search site.
Monster: Probably the biggest job listing service on the web.
FlipDog: The next biggest job listing service on the web.

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Languages

All Languages

Yamada Language Center: From the University of Oregon, the gateway to language study sites.
Foreign Languages for Travelers: Quick but handy.

Arabic

Arabic2000: Includes some Arabic language instruction.
Software Development House: Online Arabic instruction.
Arabic Lanugage Learning Resources: A good collection of websites.
International Book Center: Specializes in Arabic dictionaries, an excellent collection-still under construction.

Turkish

Tomer: The best source of Turkish language instruction in Turkey.
 

Leisure

Backpacking

GORP: Great Outdoor Recreation Pages: An outdoor megasite, Includes an excellect page on hiking.
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club: A great source of information on local (MD-DC-VA) hikes.
Outside Magazine Online: A good archive, without those great pictures.

Charity

Community Foundation: A database of 650,000 organizations that need help.

Cooking

Turkish food: A list of stores supplying Turkish goods in the US.
 

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Museums

NY Metropolitan Museum of Art: View more than 3500 works.
The Louvre: Mostly information rather than images.
London Natural History Museum: Great kids programs.
Art Museum: Tracks exhibits at art museums around the US.

Outdoor Gear

gear.com : The first internet firm to specialize in outdoor gear.
Gregory: The best packs.
Marmot: Fantastic for sleeping bags and down jackets.
Nikon: Lovely binoculars.
The North Face: The best tents.
Patagonia: Fashionable rather than utilitarian, but still very phat.
Sierra Designs: Still an interesting label.

Local Information

CitySearch: Good for whatever city you happen to be in.

Movies

Washington Post Entertainment Guide:

Shopping

Megasites

eBay: The major auction site on the web.
Netmarket: The best net superstore.
ValueAmerica: Netmarket's closest competitor.
Buy: A new megastore.
MySimon: The best of the shopping bots.

Cars

CarsDirect: A great place to see all the features.
Kelly's Blue Book: A quick list of the prices of used cars.

CDs

CDNow: The major online source for CDs.
Tower Records: Not great prices, but a good spot to check what is available.

Consumer Electronics

Hifi: A decent source for stereos.
Crutchfield: Excellent consumer information.

Hardware

Dell: The premier source for computers online.
Outpost: A good source for peripherals.
NECX: Another good source for peripherals and custom PCs.
PC Connection: A new and rising entrant.

Software

Chumbo: The major source for both software and DVDs.

Videos

Video Finders: Particularly good on PBS productions.
Reel: The largest selection of commercial videos on the web.
Zeitgeist: A good source for international films.

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Travel

Travel Advice

Lonely Planet: The place to begin research on travel to any country, but particularly exotic ones.
Travel Notes: Good snapshots of countries with a hotel search engine.
Center for Disease Control: Tips on health conditions and immunizations.
Rough Guide to Travel: Pages on most countries and cities.
Maptown: A fine source of maps and travel books, particularly for obscure locations.

Tickets & Agents

Expedia: A very thorough site, controlled by the evil Microsoft.
Travelocity: Owned by the same folks who control the world's major reservation system.
Priceline: Let airlines bid for your business.
Cheaptickets: Works directly with consolidators, but domestic tickets are non-refundable.
Bestfares: Easy to use.
Trip: Provides a good low-fare notification service.

Weather

CNN Weather: Allows you to search by city internationally.
The Weather Channel: The standard reference.

Exchange Rates

Currency Converter: From CNN.com
Universal Currency Converter: For really obscure script.

Italy

Iran

Iran Travel: A good sources of low price tickets
Iranian Cultural Information Center: At Stanford, good travel background materials.
Sogol Tour and Travel: One of the biggest travel agencies in Iran.

Morocco

Maroc Net: A very busy page but it has some excellent links.
Hamiza Mountain Guide: If you need somone on belay as you scale Mt. Toubkal.
Morocco Bound: An excellent collection of useful links for independent travellers.
Ana's Moroccan Websites: A curious but large collection of links on all aspects of Morocco.

Turkey

Travel Turkey: A site that includes, among other things, an unusually good bookstore.

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