Political Science: A Research Guide

Encyclopedic entries on countries compiled by the CIA

These expert reports are created as briefings for Congress and include country profile briefs.

Annual reports filed by country. Compiled by the Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information for international countries.

Information from the State Dept on US relations with foreign countries. Links at the bottom of each entry point to other useful US government pages detailing aspects of the country.

The U.S. government's official web portal. Use this search engine to find more official US government pages on foreign countries.

Homepage of the UN

The UN's Dag Hammarskjöld Library provides research and information services to support the participation of Member States at the United Nations.

A database of materials from the UN including documents, votes, speeches, public domain publications and more.

Guides created by the UN library to help you find materials in their collections.

This guide has helpful pages on researching UN activities related to individual issues.

This guide has helpful pages to get you started researching the UN.