User:172
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My work

I am a historian focusing on international political economy. Since joining Wikipedia in 2002 I have written on a broad range of topics in modern history. Some of the articles that I have written have featured, such as Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Origins of the American Civil War, History of Russia, History of post-Soviet Russia, and George F. Kennan. In recent weeks, I have focused on rewriting important entries suffering quality problems for years, including socialism, capitalism, state, and Cold War.

Resources

Online research, journals, academic periodicals, and sourcebooks

Some of the links below are helpful for finding references online. I'm also listing some journals found in JSTOR in particular that come with the benefit of free access.

Research

• JSTOR online archives "Established in August 1995, JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization created with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technology. In pursuing this mission, JSTOR has adopted a system-wide perspective, taking into account the sometimes conflicting needs of scholars, libraries and publishers." 1
• Lexis-Nexis
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (free access for general social survey and national election survey)
• Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
• United Nations Human Development Report Office
• World Values Survey ("The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It has carried out representative national surveys of the basic values and beliefs of publics in more than 65 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing almost 80 percent of the world's population." 1)
• Eldis Country profiles (focus on information related to development)
• Eurostat (Statistics on European Union countries)
• OECD (Economic, social, and infrastructure data on industrialized countries)
• UNICEF
• World Bank (World Development Indicators database)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF research and links to World Economic Outlook)
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) FAOSTAT International data on food production, land use, nutrition.
• UN World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) "The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization." 2
• UNDP World Income Inequality Database
• UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (World population data and trends)
• The Association for History and Computing "an organisation dedicated to the use of computers in historical research 3
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
• THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY World Wide Web site
• History of Economics Internet References
• NON-WESTERN SOURCES ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ISSUES from the Political Science Department and the Bartle Library Collaboratory at Binghamton University "The purpose of this continuously developing web page is to allow Americans to see how people who live in non -Western, or less industrialized societies view a variety of contemporary political issues. It was constructed to meet the teaching and research needs of political science. We believe that it will also be useful for students and teachers in other disciplines." 4
• Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies

Sourcebooks, encyclopedias, and archives

• Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army (public domain text)
• 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.
• The CIA Factbook
• The Jürgen Habermas Web Resource
• The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom
• Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms
• A Glossary of Political Economy Terms Dr. Paul M. Johnson
• FACTS SUBJECT INDEX
• Marx/Engels Internet Archive

Academic journals and periodicals

• Foreign Policy (a leading quarterly of international affairs)
• Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Journal of Democracy (free access)
• Web page of The Economist
• Social Forces "Social Forces is a journal of social research highlighting sociological inquiry but also exploring realms shared with social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. The journal's intended academic readers include sociologists, social psychologists, criminologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and students of urban studies, race/ethnic relations, and religious studies." 2
• Comparative Studies in Society and History "Comparative Studies in Society and History" is an international forum for new research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and the contemporary world." 3
• FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
• Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center
• World-Systems Archive
• Journal of World-Systems Research (free access)
• New Left Review (see "A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEW LEFT REVIEW")
• Monthly Review (free access)
• American Sociological Association Marxist Section
• The Socialist Register
• Review ofRadical Political Economics "The Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) publishes articles onradical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of theoreticaltraditions: Marxist, institutionalist, post Keynesian, and feminist. RRPE is published by Sage Publications." 4

Policy think-tanks, advocacy, other

• The Cato Institute
• Brookings Institution
• American Enterprise Institute
• Hoover Institution
• The Jamestown Foundation "The Jamestown Foundation's mission is to contribute to U.S. understanding of its strategic adversaries that pose a threat to democracy and freedom" 4
• Johnson's Russia List "Johnson's Russia List is a daily e-mail newsletter with information and analysis about contemporary Russia from a wide range of sources." 5
• The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF")
• Amnesty International (human rights)
• Human Rights Watch (human rights)
• One World (sustainable development and human rights)
• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center

News agencies

• Reuters
• BBC
• Associated Press (AP)
• Scripps Howard News Service
• People's Daily
• Cox News Service
• Xinhua
• CNN
• Fox News
• Haaretz
• Asia Times Online
• Guardian UK
• Aljazeera
• New York Times
• Teharan Times

Roladex

For your extensive work on articles on Brazilian History , I, Redux, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit. Congratulations! Redux 23:13, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

After extensively probing your history, I hereby award you the Barnstar of Diligence. It is duly awarded for your precision contributions to Cold War-related articles, your dedication to methodological rigor, and your exceptional professionalism and level-headedness in the face of acrimonious disputes. Saravask 14:14, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Tireless Contributor Barnstar Award

		Tireless Contributor Barnstar Award
		I Hpfan9374, hereby award you with the Tireless Contributor Barnstar Award, for contributing an especially large body of work without sacrificing quality. Hpfan9374 08:40, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Resilient Barnstar
		For all your good work, taking the arrows of trolls, fanatics, raving lunatics, and all the usual suspects, and above all your perseverance Torturous Devastating Cudgel 18:02, 16 February 2007 (UTC)