United States and Russia
High School National Debate Topic 1998
Resolved: That the United States should substantially change its foreign policy toward Russia
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- Constitution and civil code in Russian text
- Russian National
Tourist Office
- History of Russia and travel tips
- Transportation and visa information
- Russian State
Committee for Statistics
- Links to statistical agencies of other countries
- Most data bases require registration but there is a Free Public
Section
- Text in Russian
- Russian State
Library
- Description of collection
- Links to other Russian libraries
- News and conference announcements
- State Land
Committee
- Projects and agency structure
- See Contents for maps of Russian
administrative regions
- Russian with some text in English
- State
Institute of Information Technologies and
Telecommunications
- Directories of secondary schools, institutions of higher education,
and distance education
- Grants and services
- English or Russian
- Supreme Arbitration
Court
- Supreme
Court
- Tax Ministry of the Russian
Federation
- Tax news, advice on filling in tax declaration
- Text in Russian
- Taxation
(Conseco)
- Private firm describes Russian taxes and tax rates in English
- Includes corporate and personal income taxes, value-added, highway,
and sales tax
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP
and labor force
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities of the World focuses on population and
environment
- Progress of Nations (UNICEF)
- Annual report with country statistics on social indicators for women
and children
- Each issue has slightly different focus
- Progress of Nations,
1997
- Primary emphasis on water and sanitation
- Country data on access to sanitation, fertility and mortality,
nutrition, AIDS, and per capita GNP
- Progress of Nations,
1996
- Emphasis on the condition of women
- Country statistics on children include age, mortality rate,
nutrition, immunization, and education
- Maternal mortality rates and female mutilation cases by
country
- World Health
Organization
- Catalog of WHO data bases on morbidity, mortality, epidemiology
- Some files include eye-legible or downloadable data
- Amnesty
International [Web]
- Annual country reports on human rights practices
- Country
Human Rights Reports (State Department) [Web]
- Lengthy annual assessment of each country's human rights policy
- Paper copy issued as Congressional publication; use the Documents
Center's Congressional Masterfile CD-ROM to identify call number
- United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
- "Contents" section includes "Reference" publications with
statistical
reports on refugees by country
- "Contents" section also provides "Country" reports with
descriptive
text on the status of refugees by country as well as statistics
- International law on refugees
- Information about the UNCHR and its publications
- Foreign
Laws (FINDLAW)
- Texts of foreign constitutions and selected other laws
- Russian
Legal Server
- Declaration of Independence, 1990
- Constitution, 1993
- Civil Code, 1994
- World
Constitutions [Web]
- Constitutions of selected countries
- Includes 1993 Russian Constitution in English
- Constitutions of the Countries of the
World [Library]
- Current constitutions of all countries
- Ref. Room JF 11 .B65
- Avalon Project
(Yale)
- Full text of historic legal and political documents for the U.S.,
Western Europe, and the Middle East
- Includes numerous treaties beginning with the 18th Century
with focus on treaties ending individual wars
- Environmental
Treaties (CIESIN)
- Full text of international environmental treaties
- Searchable by keyword, date entered into force, signatories, and
socioeconomic indicators of signatories
- International
Humanitarian Law (Intl Red Cross)
- Text of 89 treaties since 1856
- Ranges from maritime law and hospital ships to prisoners of war and
landmines
- Searchable by subject or keyword
- International Maritime
Organization
- Summarizes the text of maritime conventions promulgated since the end
of World War II
- International
Trade Law Project (UC-Irvine)
- International trade treaties by subject and date
- Includes GATT, NAFTA, World Trade Organization
- International
Treaties (Law Research)
- Miscellaneous collection of international treaties arranged by title
- International
Treaties (NATO)
- Text of numerous treaties; focus on disarmament and Geneva conventions
- Multilateral
Treaties (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)
- Historical and current international conventions on arms control, environment, human rights
and trade
- Approach by topic or date with keyword index
- Refugees (UNHCR)
- Text of international treaties and conventions on refugees beginning
1951
- University of
Minnesota Human Rights Library
- International human rights treaties arranged by subject and
searchable by keyword
- United States human rights laws, speeches, reports, and historical
materials
- International refugee and asylum information
- Map-Related
Web Sites (Univ.Texas)
- Extensive links to city, state, and national maps from around the world
- Historical and weather maps
- Reference section includes gazetteers, distance tables, zip code, and
time zone maps
- Mining
Company
- CIA, National Geographic, and University of Texas maps arranged by
country
- Latitude and longitude lookup for major world cities
- Center for Defense
Information
- Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of
news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
- Weekly Defense Monitor includes position papers
- U.S. military spending clock
- SIPRI
Yearbook [Web and Library]
- Lengthy annual summaries of international military affairs,
conflicts, and disarments
- Includes statistics and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- UN Peace-Keeping
Operations
- World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions
since 1948
- Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military
strength, and the name of the primary military observer
- Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and
mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country, lessons
learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
- Defense and Foreign Affairs Handbook [Library}
- Army, navy and air force personnel and equipment
- Brief historical, political and economic information for each country
- Doc.Cen. Ref. and UGL Ref. UA 10 .D32)
- Military Balance [Library]
- Annual publication with data on each country's army, navy, air force
personnel and weapons
- Includes contributions to international peacekeeping forces
- UA 15 .L847 with current in Doc.Cen.--Stat.Ref.
- United States Foreign Policy
(UMich)
- Extensive annotated guide to current and historical sources
- Listing below is a selection from that web page
- Federal
Agency Web Sites
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Includes search engine
- Google Search
Engine
- Web search engine devoted exclusively to sites with .gov and .mil
extensions
- Excellent for federal policy papers
- Academic
Universe/LEXIS Web (UMich Only)
- Biographical Information interprets
lastname/firstname as two separate words rather than a phrase and may
retrieve some incorrect information
- General News Topics permits searching the
name as a phrase
- Biographical Indexes [Library]
- Biography Index
- Indexes biographies in periodical articles
- GL Index Room and UGL Index Table: Z 5301 .W75 .A1
- Biography and Genealogy Master
Index
- Indexes numerous Who's Who publications
- GL Information Center and UGL Index Table: Z 5305 .U5 B62
- Biographical Dictionaries [Library]
- Federal Staff Directory
- Standard biographies of Executive Branch officials
- Doc.Cen. JK 723 .E9 F29-Ref. Desk
- Politics in America
- Political biograpies of Congressional Members
- Doc.Cen. JK 1010.P76-Ref.)
- Who's Who in the World
- GL Information Center and UGL Ref. CT 120 .W66
- American Foreign Policy Index [Library]
- Detailed subject index to documents, articles, and press releases
on foreign affairs from the Executive and Legislative Branches
- Quarterly and annual issues located in the Documents Center:
Z 6465 .U5 A44--Docs.Ref.
- Corresponding microfiche also located in the Documents Center
- Agency
for International Development Budget Request
- Arranged by country with country economic information included in
rationale for development funding request
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Speeches and press releases
- Several CIA publications, including World FactBook and Chiefs of
State
- DefenseLINK
(Dept. of Defense)
- Defense Department speeches and press releases searchable by
date or keyword
- Links to Defense Department agencies
- Department of State
Foreign Affairs Network
- State Department speeches and foreign policy
- Arranged by region and subject
- Most information begins 1993/94
- Search engine accessible through toolbar at top of page
- New
Independent States of the Former Soviet Union include speeches,
testimony, and country information
- Intelligence Community
(Federation of American Scientists)
- Presidential Executive Orders and Directories, Defense Department
Directories, laws and regulations affecting American intelligence
- Links to official intelligence community web sites with
FAS model web pages
- International Trade Administration
- United States export policy and export leads
- International Trade Commission
- Reports and press releases on U.S. imports
- Agency directs U.S. actions on what it considers unfair foreign trade policies
- National Security Agency
- Brief information about the agency
- President
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "affirmative action" AND "college admissions")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- White
House Electronic Publications
- Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 2001 and
updated daily
- Clinton era publications available through the National
Archives
- United Nations
Mission
- Statements and speeches before the United
Nations since January
1996
- United States Information
Agency
- Texts of statements and press releases by U.S. officials on foreign policy
- Substantial policy documents on regions, countries, and topics (e.g.
NATO enlargement, Bosnia)
- Congressional
Quarterly
(UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Bills
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- THOMAS
- Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and status
- Committee Publications
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee prints (research reports), reports (recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive Branch communiques)
- Hearings of House International Relations and Senate Foreign Relations Committees provide
Executive Branch policy as well as expert opinions
- Debate Hearings on Reserve
- List of printed Congressional hearings placed on reserve for the
debate institutes
- Arranged by SUDOCS number and identifies title
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes published hearings (1970+), committee prints (1993+), and reports (1989+) by subject,
keyword, committee, and date
- Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents Center in paper and/or
microfiche format
- Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988
- Congressional Universe Quick Guide and Congressional Universe Research Guide
- Non-University of Michigan Users
- Congressional Record [Web]
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker, and date
- Provides the full text
- THOMAS
- Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of
Congress, and date since 1993
- Congressional
Research for UMich Class Assignments [Web]
- Extensive guide to legislative histories, committee and member information, and public
opinion
- Compiled Laws in Force
- United States Code (via
Congressional Universe - UMich Only) [Web]
- Search existing laws in force by keyword or U.S. Code citation
- Updated within days of the passage of a new law
- Provides U.S. Code text as well as references to bill and public
law text
- Locate under Bills, Laws, and Regulations
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of January 1996
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Currently the best interface
- Public Laws
- Thomas
- Public Laws beginning 1973
- Search by law number or bill number
- Public Laws, 100th
Congress, 1988+ (via Congressional Universe - UMich Only)
- Search for full text of laws by keyword, bill number, Public Law
Number, and Statutes-at-Large number
- Provides full text and bill tracking report
- Regulations
- Code of Federal
Regulations via Congressional Universe
(UMich only)
- Full text of existing regulations in force
- Searchable by keyword and agency
- Updated every two weeks
- Code of Federal Regulations (National Archives)
- Searchable by title and keyword
- Updated annually
- Federal Register via
Congressional
Universe (UMich only)
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency
hearings
since 1980
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword and CFR citation
- Paper copy in Documents Center for past two years as J 83 .A2
- Federal
Register (via GPO Access)
- Search full text via keyword since 1994
- Check off Federal Register box on initial screen; see search instructions on
the bottom of the screen
- Links to demographic, economic, health, and trade data
- Focus is United States but includes international and foreign
material
TERM PAPER GUIDES
- Citation Guides
- Guides to various printed citation guides in the Graduate Library
- Web guides to citing various formats, including electronic
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Quotations and writing guides
- A+ Research and
Writing (Internet Public Library)
- Step-by-step guide to writing a term paper
- Includes tips such as setting deadlines, number of words per page,
role of brainstorming
- Instructions on researching both in the library and on the Internet
- Library
Research Guide (UMich)
- Guide to analyzing class assignment, research, evaluating materials,
writing the paper, and citing sources
- Description with links to web sources and printed materials in the
University of Michigan Undergraduate Library
- AltaVista
- Keyword index to the TEXT of individual web pages
- Largest and most popular of search engines as of July 1996
- Excite
- Extremely fast index to the contents of web pages
- Google
- Rated the best search engine internationally due to its relevancy
rankings
- Yahoo [Web]
- Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web sites
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Send suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu
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