III. GOVERNMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND RESEARCH CENTERS OUTSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST

A. Europe and Asia

Governmental Institutions

United Nations: Question of Palestine

The European Union and the Peace Process

British Foreign Office
Includes speeches and position papers on Middle East

European Commission's page on Euro-Med partnership
Mediterranean issues

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Japan's Middle East policy

Research Centers

European Association of Middle Eastern Studies
List of many affiliated groups

Institut du Monde Arabe
Arab World Institute, Paris, French cultural-oriented site

*International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
Swiss, excellent, well-organized links

*Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Bergen, monthly bulletin, best conference list on the web

Observatory of European Foreign Policy now has an online dossier on EU-Turkish relations.  This includes a bibliography, links to useful websites, and an analysis section with articles written by several scholars. 

The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

*Research Institute for European and American Studies - RIES (Athens)
Innovative young scholars group, paper series, Mediterranean issues

Royal Institute of International Affairs
List of meetings, publications list, briefing papers texts

Center for Defense & International Security Studies
Lancaster University, studies on region; Missile News

Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
SOAS, London, materials on net, books and lectures

Centre for Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
Australian National University

Durham University Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
Publication list; online library catalog; well-annotated links

French Centre for Yemeni Studies

American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) 

Bulgarian Center for Middle East Studies

CERI - (French) Centre for International Research & Studies

Institut de Recherche sur le maghreb Contemporain

International Eurasian Institute for Economic and Political Research
Research on Central Asian States of the former Soviet Union  

The London- and Gulf-based Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies (GCSS)

Statistical Centre of Iran

The International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM)

B. North America

Governmental Institutions

MERIA's comprehensive Research Guide "Internet Resources on U.S. Foreign Policy" lists websites for all US government agencies that deal with foreign policy in the Middle East.

Central Intelligence Agency
Maps, factbook, heads of state and cabinet members, Persian Gulf war task force

Government INFOMINE
University of Southern California index of U.S. government publications

I.C.R.J 
L’Institut canadien de recherches sur le judaïsme (I.C.R.J.), situé à Montréal, est un groupe indépendant formé d’universitaires dédiés à la recherche et à la diffusion d’informations sur Israël, le Judaïsme et le Moyen-Orient.   

Middle East Peace Process
State Department official positions

*U.S. State Department: Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
Speeches, policy statements, background notes

US State Department Reports on Human Rights, Patterns of Global Terrorism 

The U.S. Department of Energy, Country Analysis Briefs for the Middle East 

The World Bank site, MENA division

Department of Commerce's Middle East Business Page

Research Centers

*Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Includes publications and the PeaceWatch / PolicyWatch Series

Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
Publishes several studies on Middle East issues

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard

Council on Middle East Studies, Yale Graduate School

UCLA Centre for Near East Studies

The Institute of Turkish Studies 
Georgetown University

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Georgetown University

Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies
Group on comparative studies

Inter-university Consortium for Arab Studies (Canada)
Palestinian refugees, NGO, development and UNSCO, and publications

Middle East Institute

United Nations Documents
Includes research guide with UN documents

University of Texas - Middle East Studies website

Washington Kurdish Institute
Links, history, Kurdistan Observer newsletter

The Central Asia-Cacusus Institute
Johns Hopkins University

The Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies

The Near East - South Asia Center for Strategic Studies 
National Defense University, Washington, D.C.

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies 

Free Media 
Reports on press freedom in all Middle East countries

The National Democratic Institute's section on the Middle East and North Africa 

The Institute of Druze Studies (IDS)
San Diego State University (SDSU)

Middle East Policy Council

Federation of American Scientists 
includes information on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), The Iraq Crisis, Iraq's WMD program