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INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES SELECTED WEBSITES, rev. 2009 Steven Alan Samson General American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/ Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/ BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Belmont Club: http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/ Brussels Journal: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/ Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org/html/ Copenhagen Consensus Center (Bjørn Lomborg): http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=788 Country Watch: www.countrywatch.com Defend Democracy: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/ Demography Matters: http://demographymatters.blogspot.com/ Foreign Policy Research Institute: www.fpri.org Front Page (David Horowitz): http://www.frontpagemag.com/ Global Politician: http://www.globalpolitician.com Institute for Global Engagement: http://www.globalengage.org/ Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/div/news/ (newspaper links by country) Khanna, Parag: http://www.paragkhanna.com/ Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von: http://www.andrewrogers.net/admire/K-L_books.html Map Quizzes: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html (map quizzes) Middle East Media Research Institute: www.memri.org Middle East Newsline: www.menewsline.com Middle East Transparent: http://www.metransparent.com/english.html Newseum: Today’s Front Pages: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ Oddens’ Bookmarks (maps and mapmaking): http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php Open Democracy: http://www.opendemocracy.net/home/index.jsp Open Europe: http://www.openeurope.org.uk/ http://openeuropeblog.blogspot.com/ Pajamas Media: http://www.pajamasmedia.com/ Phares, Walid: http://www.walidphares.com/ Phillips, Melanie. http://melaniephillips.com/ Pipes, Daniel: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/ Policy Review (Hoover Institution): www.policyreview.org Reform Party of Syria: http://reformsyria.org/ La Russophobe: http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/ Secret Treaties: WWI: http://tmh.floonet.net/books/tstu/secrettreaties.html Strategic and International Studies (Johns Hopkins University): http://www.sais-jhu.edu Strategic Forecasting, Inc.: www.stratfor.com Times of London: http://www.timesonline.co.uk World Map: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/worldmap/worldmap.html Yahoo Countries: www.dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries Exhibits Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, “Jew Hatred in Contemporary Norwegian Caricatures” http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&F ID=624&PID=0&IID=1256&TTL=Jew-Hatred_in_Contemporary_Norwegian_Caricatures Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages: http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/ A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/ARTPROP.HTM SELECTED REPORTS Afghanistan Center for American Progress, “Sustainable Security in Afghanistan,” March 2009 http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/pdf/sustainable_afghanistan.pdf Center for International Policy Studies, “Time to Get Afghanistan Right,” July 12, 2009 http://www.caps.af/Doc/Karzai%20(3).pdf Center for Strategic and International Studies, “The Afghanistan Campaign: Can We Win?” July 22, 2009 . http://csis.org/files/publication/090722_CanWeAchieveMission.pdf SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY *especially recommended +outlines and tests Afghanistan and Central Asia: Pre-1973 Byron, Robert. 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