Globalisation websites

Pro-globalisation

The leading American think-tank, the Brookings Institution, provides a wealth of generally pro-globalisation resources. Its includes discussions about 'Globalization in the Aftermath'.
http://www.brook.edu/globalization/

The Heritage Foundation is another leading U.S. conservative think tank and that provides resources strongly supportive of free markets.
http://www.heritage.org/

The Global Public Policy project explores the role of trisectoral networks in strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of the United Nations.
http://www.globalpublicpolicy.net/

Another portal on globalisation and governance designed by UNESCO that surveys policy responses to the effects of global change.
hkn http://www.unesco.org/most/most3.htm

The United Nations Commission on Trade and Development has some useful resources on its publications page.
http://www.unctad.org/en/pub/pubframe.htm

The US Alliance for Trade Expansion is a lobby group designed to counter the anti-globalisation and anti-free trade lobby groups in the United States.
http://www.us-trade.org

A US free trade web-site — well maintained.
http://www.freetrade.org/

The World Trade Organisation site contains comprehensive resources on issues such as environment and trade-liberalisation.
http://www.wto.org

The World Bank research currently focuses on trade liberalization and its impact on developing countries.
http://econ.worldbank.org/topic.php?topic=2231

The World Economic Forum maintains summaries of presentations from its conferences on its website.
http://www.weforum.org

Opening doors around the world is the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs Trade’s page explaining the benefits of trade liberalisation.
http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/opening_doors/index.html

The OECD’s trade and globalisation web-site
http://www.oecd.org/subject/growth/in_tr_gl.htm

The United Nations Global Compact website.
http://www.unglobalcompact.com/

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development provides a big business perspective on global environment protection.
http://www.wbcsd.ch/

Anti-globalisation

The Whirled Bank. A spoof site on the World Bank.
www.whirledbank.org

The South Centre is an organisation representing the ‘South’ countries of the world. Contains speeches from third world leaders and articles on issues related to globalisation.
http://www.southcentre.org

Focus on the Global South contains many research papers on globalisation and Third World issues.
http://www.focusweb.org

The Transnational Institute is an Amsterdam based organisation with an international membership. Many good articles linked to its web site.
http://www.tni.org

Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations and includes some useful pages on globalisation.
http://www.globalpolicy.org

Global Exchange is a Californian human rights organisation campaigning on environmental, political and social justice issues. Has some good globalisation resources.
http://www.globalexchange.org/

Corporate Watch is a radical British group established to support activism against multinational corporations. Has a section on globalisation.
http://www.corporatewatch.org

International Forum on Globalization is a US based radical group dedicated to the overthrow of corporate rule. Has some good pages on the key international organisations.
http://www.ifg.org/corprule.html

Trade Watch is the organisation headed by Lori Wallach and affiliated with the Ralph Nader organisation, focusing on world trade issues.
http://www.citizen.org/trade/

The Economic Policy Institute in Washington is a left economics organisation.
http://www.epinet.org/

The Heinrich Boll Foundation in Germany supports Asia-Europe Dialogue on alternate political strategies.
http://www.ased.org/index.htm

The Third World Network is a rare, and well maintained, anti-globalisation site actually based in Asia (Singapore).
http://www.twnside.org.sg/

Corporate Europe Observatory is a radical Dutch organisation focusing on big business.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/

WTO Watch is a well maintained critical site on the trade and globalissation matters.
http://www.wtowatch.org

The International Council for Free Trade Unions keeps a page on globalisation.
http://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=globalisation&Language=EN

The International Labor Organisation has put a CD Rom it compiled on globalisation in 1997 online.
http://www.itcilo.it/english/actrav/telearn/global/ilo/default.htm

United for a Fair Economy is a US union activist organisation.
http://www.ufenet.org/

The Friends of the Earth’s international program focusses on globalisation issues.
http://www.foe.org/international/

Academic

The Nautilus Institute's focus is also on global governance. Its Globalization & Governance Program promotes innovative policies and business practices to enhance social and environmental ethics in global markets.
http://www.nautilus.org/

The Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research runs a project entitled, 'Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization: An Inter-Civilizational Dialogue and Research Project'. See papers on globalisation's complexities -
http://www.toda.org/

The Transnational Communities Programme undertakes research into aspects of emerging transnationalism. If you are interested in people and globalisation go to
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/

The Globalization Research Center of Hawaii conducts research on the dynamics and effects of globalization, with an emphasis on impacts within the Asia and Pacific region.
http://www.globalhawaii.org/

The Center for Globalization and Policy Research acts as a focal point in the School of Public Policy and Social Research and in the UCLA. The Center - at http://www.sppsr.ucla.edu/cgpr/ - and includes a paper by 'Borderless World' advocate Kenichi Ohmae.

Perspectives from the social sciences on globalization after September 11 from the Social Science Research Council. Current essays by Barry Eichengreen, David Held, Riva Kastoryano, Robert Keohane, Timur Kuran, and Saskia Sassen.
http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/globalization.htm

The London School of Economics Centre for the Study of Global Governance focuses on civil society and also includes articles on globalisation after September 11.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global

Global Dimensions is a research programme for developing policy responses to issues raised by globalisation. A rich series of debates featuring such greats as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens is available. Note http://www.globaldimensions.net/

The Institute of National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University has a study on the impact of globalization on the international security environment. Leading theorist James Rosenau contributes a paper on Stability and Stasis: Relections on Dynamics and Intertia of a Global World at
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/spa/global.html

The Institute of International Economics globalization resource features the most influential U.S. economists debating issues such as labour standards, competition policy, and multinationals.
http://www.iie.com/Publications/category.cfm'category_id=9

Another useful set of economic resources from the National Bureau of Economic Research has made proceedings from a May 2001 conference - Globalization in Historical Perspective available at
http://www.nber.org/books/global

Research from the Centre for Economic Policy Research is widely disseminated and globalisation is one of its hot topics. Discussion papers represent a broad range of economic mainstream economic thinking.
http://www.cepr.org/Hot_Topics/default.htm#GRT1

The World Institute for Development Economics' new publication series - WIDER Discussion Papers - are published on this website -
http://www.wider.unu.edu/

Harvard Business School's 'working knowledge' e-newsletter provides thorough coverage of globalisation from the perspective of business.
http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/topic.jhtml't=globalization

The University of California, Irvine, Critical Theory Institute project into the 'Forces of Globalization' gives a brief introduction to radical thinking on globalisation.
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/html/Projects%20+%20Events/Forces.html

The Institute of Development Studies is an internationally renowned center for research and teaching on development.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/global/index.html

The Centre for Research on Globalisation is an independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of 'globalisation' and 'disarming' the New World Order. Michel Chossudovsky, author of The Globalization of Poverty, Impacts of IMF and World Bank Reforms, is editor of the portal at
http://globalresearch.ca/

The Global Trade Negotiations Home Page founded by Harvard Professor Dani Rodrik is probably the best site for academic papers on the WTO. It provides also numerous position papers of the business and the non-profit sector.
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/

McMasters University has a small set of working papers on different aspects of globalisation.
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/workpapers/wp.htm

Ruud Lubbers teaches globalisation at Tilberg and Harvard and maintains a globalisation web-site with a lot of resources and links.
http://globalize.kub.nl/

A set of links to articles from diverse sources on globalisation.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/globaliz.htm

Nouriel Roubini, from Stern Business School in New York keeps a good set of links on globalisation.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/globalization.htm

A set of about 20 papers on trade and globalisation topics from Nottingham University.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/leverhulme/research_papers/

The New School University in New York has a large collection of globalisation and trade related papers.
http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/papers/