GP Linkfarm 2: Backgrounders
October 27, 2007
Here are a bunch of sites for some topics you might be interested in reading up on just before the GP paper if you really have no idea what’s going on in the world today. These are all pretty readable and more or less comprehensive – without a trace of Wikipedia, at that.
As usual, suggestions for more topics and sites are more than welcome in the comments.
The sites after the jump.
Environment
Global Warming - Overview (NYT)
Kyoto Protocol – Essential Backgrounder (UNFCCC)
Ethics
Ethical Issues - Ethical Issues Page (BBC), mentioned previously
Human Rights - Backgrounders (Human Rights Watch)
Terrorism – Terrorism Guide (OneWorld UK)
Globalization
Globalization – Globalization Articles (YaleGlobal Online Magazine)
WTO - Profiles: WTO (BBC)
WTO – Special Reports on the WTO (Guardian Unlimited)
UN – eLearning Network (University of Innsbruck, 2006)
Politics
China – Country Profile (BBC)
China - Country Brief (Economist)
China – China Guide (OneWorld UK)
Darfur Conflict - Q&A: Sudan’s Darfur Conflict (BBC)
Iraq Conflict – The Struggle for Iraq (BBC)
Social Issues
Gender – Gender Guide (OneWorld UK)
See GP Linkfarm 1
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Bill Gunyon | October 28, 2007 at 4:37 pm
thanks for including a couple of OneWorld’s Topic Guides in your suggested links.
for the Terrorism Guide, you have duplicated the Yale link which follows – it should be http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/terrorism
and for China, you might consider our Country Guide which focuses more on social issues than the BBC profile http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/china/development
many thanks
Editor – OneWorld Guides
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fiveless | October 28, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Hey,
Thanks for informing me! I’ve update the link and included a link to the China guide as well!
Thanks again!
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Wilson | April 22, 2008 at 9:41 pm
The useful resources you have provided is very comprehensive., especially so for the geography. It would be wonderful if you could continue to post more of such notes. Greatly appreciated.