Foreign Policy/Diplomacy
Links to the Secretary of State and Department of State, as well as other sites related to foreign policy issues. See Bibliography of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations Resources for a selection of related materials in ALIC.
Secretary of State
Current events and issues concerning the Secretary of State.
Department of State
Linked with the Secretary of State’s page, this site offers links to information about and issues concerning the Department.
Diplomacy & Foreign Policy
The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress has an extensive collection of diplomatic correspondence.
The Electronic Embassy
Information on all of the embassies of Washington, D.C., as well as an events calendar, press releases, and an international business center.
Foreign Affairs Oral History Project
A special collection at Georgetown University, it includes transcripts of interviews with retired senior American foreign affairs officials.
Foreign Relations of the U.S. (FRUS)
State Department page that describes FRUS, gives information about accessing the material, and some related links. Volumes published since 1945 are available online from the State Department. Full-text volumes of FRUS from 1900-1901 and 1903-1918 are offered by the University of Wisconsin Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School also offers selected material from the Foreign Relations of the United States.
Funding Foreign Policy
NARA’s publication, The Record, of May 1998 includes this article on the general records of the Department of the Treasury pertaining to American foreign policy.
The National Security Archive: Chile Documentation Project
This National Security Archive site leads to a selection of their declassified records on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.
State Department Electronic Reading Room
This site provides reference points for State Department records and information access programs, frequently requested documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), special collections, and links to other sites of interest.
