Dear All
Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter which brings you a selection of new sites added to SOSIG the Social Science Information Gateway in the last week. Remember that you can consult a full list at http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
In this week's edition:
Police Reform Bill
The Home Office site includes access to the full text of the Act, it also contains links to Hansard parliamentary debates concerning its provisions; and other legislation governing police powers.
http://www.policereform.gov.uk/law_change.asp
Also available from SOSIG:
Home Office Police Research papers
Policing a New Century : White Paper
Guaridan Reports
Reaction from Police Magazine
Go to: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.govt.html for our useful set of links.
Political ReviewNet
Description: Political ReviewNet offers access to a comprehensive collection of books reviews covering all aspects of political science and international relations. It is maintained by Blackwell Publishing and contains reviews originally published in a number of its leading academic titles.These include: Political Studies, Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Nationas and Nationalism and Public Administration. Users may search the database by author, title or subject keyword. Reviews date back to January 2001 with new material being continuously added.
http://www.politicalreviewnet.com/
Rights At Risk (2002)
Amnesty International's concerns about the adverse effect on civil liberties of the increased security/anti-terrorist measures introduced worldwide in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It includes examples of US legislation which undermines human rights and the treatment and detainment of suspected terrorists
http://web.amnesty.org/aidoc/aidoc_pdf.nsf/index/ACT300012002ENGLISH/$File/ACT3000102.pdf
Also added this week:
Holy War Inc Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden - Peter Bergen.
Afghanistan and Central Asia Priorities for Reconstruction and Development - International crisis Group.
Does Us Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism - (Cato Institute 1998)
Advocacy Versus Attack: The Impact of Political Advertising in the 2001 UK General Election by David Sanders and Pippa Norris (2002)
Description: This site provides access to the text of a paper prepared for the ECPR (European Consortium For Political Research)Joint Workshops Turin 22-27 March 2002. It considers the effect of party election broadcasts by the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Parties during the 2001 general election
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/ACROBAT/peb.pdf
India/South Asia Project
Description: This is the web site of the Brookings Institute India/South Asia Project which is researching security and international relations in the region. It includes information on the purpose of the project, with access to the text of recent newspaper stories, reports, working papers and transcripts of discussion forums. Topics covered include: relations between India and Pakistan, nuclear weapons security, the political and security situation in Afghanistan and the Kashmir conflict.
http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/south_asia/south_asia.htm
If you have any comments on this newsletter please contact:
Heather Dawson
SOSIG Government and Politics editor.
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