News Sources
Below is a list of news sources that I use to prepare lessons and to inform myself of events and issues in global politics. This is not a complete list of all news sources in the world, but I consider them relatively fair and accurate. You are encouraged to consider this list when completing weekly news briefings and research for your IA.
- BBC News (international news – funded by UK government)
- Reuters (international news)
- Associated Press (international news)
- Vox (international news with American perspective)
- Vice News (international news)
- United Nations News (good source of political issues and might help you identify topics of interest for the IAs)
- The Atlantic (analysis and opinion, no breaking news)
- The Economist (analysis and opinion)
- Foreign Policy (the school has paid for a subscription to this source and you may freely read articles here while you are connected to the school wifi)
- Politico (focused primarily on American domestic politics)
- Washington Post (good source of breaking news and investigative journalism. primarily focused on US issues)
- New York Times (good source of breaking news and investigative journalism. primarily focused on US issues)
- The Intercept (source of investigative and provocative journalism)
- Bellingcat (investigative and open source journalism – good place to find HL case study topics)
- South China Morning Post (Hong Kong newspaper focusing on east Asia)
- Al Jazeera (news agency based in Qatar)
- Russia Today (Russian state media)
- China Daily (Chinese state media)
- The Guardian (UK newspaper)
- NPR (American publicly funded news)
- CBC (Canadian publicly funded news)
- Foreign Affairs (there is a paywall after three stories read. if there is a story you want to read send me the link and I can download it for you)
- Forbes (mostly economic/business news)
- Quartz (technology magazine)
Research Sources
For more academic sources please consult the following;
- Gale Databases (online database of newspapers, scholarly journals, and some full text books)
- PDF Drive (database of books in PDF form)
- E-International Relations (publishes several creative commons books and texts on International Relations topics)
- Our World in Data (great resource for getting data and statistics related to a variety of political issues – check the menu)
- Google Scholar (some stuff might be behind a paywall but you can find some information for free)
- Council on Foreign Relations (more academic and targeted to people studying international relations)
- Brookings Institution (academic source)
- Project Syndicate (semi-academic source)
- International Institute for Strategic Studies (academic source)
- World Politics Review (academic source)
- Chatham House (academic source – thinktank)
- United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (academic source)
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (academic source)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (academic source)
- Human Rights Watch (partially academic source)
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN human rights watchdog)
- Dissent (left-leaning intellectual magazine, often with scholarly contributors)
- Democracy (left-wing/progressive magazine – seems to have an American bias)
Podcasts
If you enjoy listening to podcasts you may find some of the sources below useful. They can be used for your own knowledge but also as sources for research.
- Council on Foreign Relations podcasts (they have several different ones)
- BBC Global News Podcast
- Brookings Cafeteria Podcast
- The Truth of the Matter (published by Center for Strategic and International Studies)
- Global Dispatches (global affairs podcast hosted by Mark Leon Goldberg)
- The World in Thirty Minutes (hosted by the European Council on Foreign Relations)
- Nine Questions for the World (Podcast hosted by Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations – each episode deals with a particular world issue and features experts in different fields).
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