March 29

American President : An Online Reference

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American President : an online reference
An online reference source maintained by the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, which provides free access to indepth information on all US presidents from 1789 to the present day. It is possible to browse the site by president's name, timeline or theme. Entries for individual presidents include biographies, photographs and online recordings of key speeches. There are also many academic essays from Miller Center and other scholars discussing the role, style and importance of each president. These also include some webcasts of discussion events. There are links to information on the private and public papers of each of the presidents and presidential bibliographies. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. From Intute.ac.uk
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

March 29

Sustainable Security In The Middle East And North Africa

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From within and without: sustainable security in the Middle East and North Africa
This site provides free access to the full text of a paper by Chris Abbott and Sophie Marsden which was published by the Oxford Research Group in March 2009. The 10 page paper summarises the outcomes of a consultation that the Oxford Research Group (ORG) and the Institute for Peace Studies (IPS) held in Egypt in October 2008. This brought together security experts, academics, government officials and civil society leaders from across the Middle East and North Africa, and explored the main causes of regional insecurity and East and the problems blocking change. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications/briefing_papers/withinandwith

March 29

Public Disaffection And Electoral Reform: Pressure From Below?

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Public disaffection and electoral reform: pressure from below?
This site provides free access to the full text of a paper by Pippa Norris of Harvard University which was delivered at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Lisbon, 14‐19 April 2009. The 15 page paper considers the proposition that when the public accept a political / electoral system as legitimate there is little incentive to change the status quo. Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS),collected from around 50 nations worldwide in the early to mid‐1990s and mapping them with actual changes to national electoral systems, it discusses the influence of public disaffection on changes to electoral systems. From Intute.ac.uk
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Acrobat/ECPR%202009%20Electoral%20Reform%20N
March 29

Nuclear Renaissance: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation And Terrorism

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Nuclear renaissance: nuclear weapons proliferation and terrorism
This site provides free access to a report by Frank Barnaby published by the Institute for Public Policy Research in March 2009. The 12 page report discusses the security risks that might ensue if increasing dependence on nuclear energy led to a more widespread availability of access to plutonium that could potentially be used to fabricate nuclear weapons, both by countries and by terrorists. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.ippr.org.uk/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=650
March 29

Death Sentences And Executions In 2008. Amnesty International

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Death sentences and executions in 2008
This site provides free access to Amnesty International's 2008 annual report on death sentences and executions which was published as Index: ACT 50/003/2009 in March 2009. The 30 page report provides statistics, plus analysis of global and regional trends in capital punishment worldwide during 2008. It also considers longer historical trends towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT50/003/2009/en