Resources

The Thomas R. Pickering Information Resource Center is a research and reference service of the U.S. Department of State, specializing in current U.S. Policy, Democratization, Rule of Law and Human Rights, Trade Liberalization, and Media. It promotes understanding between Tanzanians and Americans by providing information on topics important to our bilateral relationship.

The IRC has a collection of reference and lending books which are regularly updated, periodicals, pamphlets, government documents, and a variety of electronic resources, including full Internet access and a collection of online and CD ROM databases, DVDs and video cassettes. The electronic resources provide full-text access to almost all major American newspapers, periodicals and journals.

The Center is intended to meet the needs of professionals, including government policy makers and other public sector officials, political leaders, business people, academics and graduate students conducting research, journalists, and those whose work require them to have in-depth information about the United States. Our IRC staff welcomes serious inquiries concerning the United States. Queries can be made by telephone, fax, email, post or personal visit.

• Electronic Journals

This series of journals, prepared by the Department of State, International Information Programs focus on a specific policy issues related to one of the following subject areas: Economic Perspectives, U.S. foreign Policy Agenda, Issues of Democracy, Global Issues, and U.S. society and Values. Although varied in subject matter and treatment, the journals are structured along similar lines. Each of them contains a main core or focus section that addresses a key policy issue or theme in an authoritative and comprehensive manner. The focus sections, depending upon subject, may consist of in-depth interviews, by-lined articles from officials or experts, commissioned or reprint articles, staff-written articles, reports, documents, commentary and analyses.

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