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Stephen Nemeth
University of Iowa

Union College - My alma mater

            

Hamilton College - My sister’s alma mater and Union’s basketball rival.  Another of New York’s great liberal arts colleges

 

University of Iowa - My graduate institution.  Or you can click on my specific department - Political Science

 

 

Silo Tour - These guys walk through an abandoned missile silo so you don’t have to.

 

GDP Map - The name for each state in the US is replaced with the country whose GDP the state is close to.  Iowa = Venezuela, New York = Brazil

 

Medieval Soldier Database - Fascinating database of medieval soldiers developed at the University of Reading.

 

Transitive Property football calculator - Win every argument about your particular football team.

 

Iowa Song - Traveling on I-80, it’s generally true. 

General:

ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.  A great place to get data. 

 

International Relations Data:

COW Project - Correlates of War Project at Penn State University; a classic IR data source

 

ICOW Project - Issue Correlates of War Project; run by Paul Hensel and Sara Mitchell.  Data on territorial, maritime, and river claims and disputes. 

 

ICB Project - International Crisis Behavior Project at the Center for International Development and Crisis Management at the University of Maryland

 

Polity IV - General regime type measure

 

Paul Hensel’s site - Link to nearly every political science resource you need

 

Terrorism:

GTD - Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland’s (START) Center; currently the most comprehensive dataset on terrorist incidents

 

TOPs - Terrorist Organization Profiles Data at Maryland’s START Center

 

Terrorist Group Profiles -  Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has a list of past and current terrorist groups and some relevant information.

 

MILNET Group Profiles -  Profiles from State Department and NPS

 

Country Reports on Terrorism - Threat information and group profiles from the US State Department

 

 

 

 

Adjusted Winner - Steven Brams and Alan Taylor (amongst others) have devised this way of allocating issues between two conflicting parties.  This is a potentially revolutionary idea that can be applied to nearly any political conflict.  The website here has an interactive element to it so that you can see how it works.

Globalsecurity.org - good all-around foreign policy/military site.

 

Russianforces.org - blog covering issues related to Russian strategic nuclear forces.