User:172

Contributions

I've been a Wikipedia user since December 2002 and a sysop since May 2003 [1]. I was ranked #60 in the most recent ranking of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits (all namespaces) [2].

The following is an alphabetized list of articles/series have been substantially written by/rewritten by me over the past ~20 months. I've written many others, but these are the ones I'm able to recall at the moment. I'm not listing articles of which I'm not a main author, as I'll have a hard time remembering all of them. Countless others have made invaluable contributions to each of these articles, though. Many of them are unfinished; I take full responsibility for those shortcomings and I'll hopefully fill the gaps sooner or later. 172 23:03, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

1973 energy crisis, Berlin Blockade, Bretton Woods system, British Empire, Centrally planned economy, Consumer goods in the Soviet Union, Jacques Chirac, Cold War series (Cold War (1947-1953) and its origins, Cold War (1953-1962), Cold War (1962-1991)), Dollar Diplomacy, Economy of the Soviet Union, Franco-U.S. relations, Gold standard, Great Depression, Che Guevara, History of Brazil series (Empire of Brazil, History of Brazil (1889-1930), History of Brazil (1930-1945), History of Brazil (1945-1964), History of Brazil (1964-present)), History of Chile (1973-1978 section), History of Germany series (German Confederation, German Empire), History of the People's Republic of China, History of post-Soviet Russia, History of the Soviet Union, History of the United States series ((History of the United States (1789-1849), History of the United States (1849-1865), History of the United States (1865-1918), History of the United States (1918-1945), History of the United States (1945-1964), History of the United States (1980-1988)), Hongwu Emperor of China, Hu Jintao, Imperialism in Asia, Jiang Zemin, Kim Jong-il, Li Peng, Li Ruihuan, Ming Dynasty, Neoconservatism (United States), New Deal, New Imperialism, Origins of the American Civil War, Robert Mugabe, Efraín Ríos Montt, Saddam Hussein, Roosevelt Corollary, Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, Scramble for Africa, Soviet Union, Wang An-shih, Wen Jiabao, Zeng Qinghong, Zhu Rongji, Zimbabwe, Gennady Zyuganov

Resources

Some of the links below are helpful for finding references online.

News agencies

• Reuters
• BBC
• People's Daily
• Xinhua
• CNN
• Fox News
• Haaretz
• Asia Times Online
• Guardian UK
• Aljazeera
• Teharan Times

Online research, journals, academic periodicals, and sourcebooks

I'm also listing some journals found in JSTOR in particular that come with the benefit of free access.

Research

• JSTOR online archives "Established in August 1995, JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization created with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technology. In pursuing this mission, JSTOR has adopted a system-wide perspective, taking into account the sometimes conflicting needs of scholars, libraries and publishers." 1
• Lexis-Nexis
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (free access for general social survey and national election survey)
• Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
• United Nations Human Development Report Office
• World Values Survey ("The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It has carried out representative national surveys of the basic values and beliefs of publics in more than 65 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing almost 80 percent of the world's population." 1)
• Eldis Country profiles (focus on information related to development)
• Eurostat (Statistics on European Union countries)
• OECD (Economic, social, and infrastructure data on industrialized countries)
• UNICEF
• World Bank (World Development Indicators database)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF research and links to World Economic Outlook)
• UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) FAOSTAT International data on food production, land use, nutrition.
• UN World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) "The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization." 2
• UNDP World Income Inequality Database
• UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (World population data and trends)
• The Association for History and Computing "an organisation dedicated to the use of computers in historical research 3
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
• THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY World Wide Web site
• History of Economics Internet References
• NON-WESTERN SOURCES ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ISSUES from the Political Science Department and the Bartle Library Collaboratory at Binghamton University "The purpose of this continuously developing web page is to allow Americans to see how people who live in non -Western, or less industrialized societies view a variety of contemporary political issues. It was constructed to meet the teaching and research needs of political science. We believe that it will also be useful for students and teachers in other disciplines." 4
• Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies

Sourcebooks, encyclopedias, and archives

• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The CIA Factbook
• The Jürgen Habermas Web Resource
• The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom
• Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms
• A Glossary of Political Economy Terms Dr. Paul M. Johnson
• FACTS SUBJECT INDEX
• Marx/Engels Internet Archive
• Read Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations online

Academic journals and periodicals

• Foreign Policy (a leading quarterly of international affairs)
• Foreign Affairs (published by the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Journal of Democracy (free access)
• Web page of The Economist
• Social Forces "Social Forces is a journal of social research highlighting sociological inquiry but also exploring realms shared with social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. The journal's intended academic readers include sociologists, social psychologists, criminologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and students of urban studies, race/ethnic relations, and religious studies." 2
• Comparative Studies in Society and History "Comparative Studies in Society and History" is an international forum for new research and interpretation concerning problems of recurrent patterning and change in human societies through time and the contemporary world." 3
• FERNAND BRAUDEL CENTER for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
• Review, A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center
• World-Systems Archive
• Journal of World-Systems Research (free access)
• New Left Review (see "A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEW LEFT REVIEW")
• Monthly Review (free access)
• American Sociological Association Marxist Section
• The Socialist Register
• Review ofRadical Political Economics "The Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) publishes articles onradical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of theoreticaltraditions: Marxist, institutionalist, post Keynesian, and feminist. RRPE is published by Sage Publications." 4

Policy think-tanks, advocacy, other

• The Cato Institute
• Brookings Institution
• American Enterprise Institute
• Hoover Institution
• The Jamestown Foundation "The Jamestown Foundation's mission is to contribute to U.S. understanding of its strategic adversaries that pose a threat to democracy and freedom" 4
• Johnson's Russia List "Johnson's Russia List is a daily e-mail newsletter with information and analysis about contemporary Russia from a wide range of sources." 5
• The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF")
• Amnesty International (human rights)
• Human Rights Watch (human rights)
• One World (sustainable development and human rights)
• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Multinational Monitor

Other external Links:

Disclaimer: As you can see, I was going for variety. Linking these sites to my user page in no way implies support.

United States

• "The Underpinnings of the Bush Doctrine" By Thomas Donnelly (From the American Enterprise Institute)
• "Pax Americana is over" (by Immanuel Wallerstein)
• Whitehouse.org (anti-Bush parody of Whitehouse.gov)
• "U.S. Hegemony: Continuing Decline, Enduring Danger" by Richard B. Du Boff
• "The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century" by Robert Gilpin
• Fareed Zakaria "No Way to make friends" "Bush could surely have arranged to meet in Baghdad with troops from allied countries who are also fighting and dying in Iraq" 1
• "The American Creed: Does It Matter? Should It Change?" "Summary: Seymour Martin Lipset explains why the United States is exceptional. Michael J. Sandel blames its individualistic tradition for the country's ills and says America should return to the New England town square. But it isn't exceptional, and it shouldn't return." 2
• "George Kennan speaks out about Iraq" (Yes, George Kennan, 98, is still alive.)
• Sample excepts from David Harvey's The New Imperialism "The New Imperialism mounts a stunning indictment of our present institutions of power, while offering hopeful insights about how these institutions could be changed.' -Richard Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics" 3
• THE 'NEW' IMPERIALISM: ON SPATIO-TEMPORAL FIXES AND ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION David Harvey
• GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND AMERICAN EMPIRE Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy The Reagan Administration
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Vietnam
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy Cold War
• Documents Relating to International Relations Theory
• Documents Relating to Iraq-US Relations, 1904-present
• Documents Relating to Global Economic Issues
• Documents Relating to the Middle East
• Documents of the Interwar Period
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--1898-1914
• Documents on the International Energy System
• Vincent Ferraro, "Another Motive For Iraq War: Stabilizing Oil Market," Hartford Courant, 12 August 2003
• Is Iraq Another 'Vietnam'?, Monthly Review, June 2004.

Economic development and international affairs

• Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West? (Erich Weede, Journal of World-Systems Research (1995), Volume 1, Number 14)
• "Economic Development: An Analysis of Malaysia"
• United Nations Human Development Indicators 2001
• "WHAT I LEARNED AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS." by Joseph Stiglitz (from The Insider)
• Joseph Stiglitz "Lessons and Challenges in Transition" (Transition in Russia, Eastern Europe)
• "Commanding Heights" with Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
• Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith
• "THE CASE FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE LIBERALISM" An interesting look at the East Asian economies.
• "Malaysia's economy" (from the BBC)
• Patrick Bond. 1999 "Global Economic Crisis: a view from South Africa," Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol V, 2, 1999, 413-455.
• "The Resilience of Dependency Effects in Explaining Income Inequality in the Global Economy: A Cross- National Analysis, 1975–1995"
• "Globalization and the Future of Democracy"
• "Globalization:A World-Systems Perspective"
• Dependency Theory: An Introduction (Vincent Ferraro, Mount Holyoke College)
• Global Debt and Third World Development By Vincent Ferraro and Melissa Rosser From: World Security: Challenges for a New Century, edited by Michael Klare and Daniel Thomas (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), pp. 332-355

Third World

• Dependency Theory: An Introduction (Vincent Ferraro, Mount Holyoke College)
• "Land Reform and Poverty Eradication in Africa Towards a New Agricultural Paradigm"
• "Capitalist Development and Democracy in South America" by Evelyne Huber Stephens
• "Neoliberalism and the creation of 'virtual democracy' in the Global South" Stefan Andréasson March, 2002
• Kurt Weyland, "THE POLITICS OF NEOLIBERAL REFORM IN LATIN AMERICAN DEMOCRACIES: ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PERU, AND VENEZUELA." Paper for panel on Democracy and the New Market Model in Latin America XXI International Conference Latin American Studies Association Chicago, September 24-26, 1998
• William Blum page Third World Traveler

China

• People's Daily
• Xinhua
• The Overseas Young Chinese Forum ("OYCF")
• Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West? (Erich Weede, Journal of World-Systems Research (1995), Volume 1, Number 14)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
• Chinese Communist Party 16th Party Congress (Leadership profiles from the BBC)
• "Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping"
• Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001 (Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China)
• Socialism.org (pro-China)
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? - Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part I)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part II)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)

Russia

• Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
• Johnson's Russia List
• "UNDER BREZHNEV, IT WAS BETTER" (from Business Week)
• "Russia in NATO?" Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
• "Lessons and Challenges in Transition" Seminar (analysis from Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz)
• Up for Debate: Shock Therapy: Bolivia, Poland, Russia. Same Policies-Different Results From the PBS series "Commanding Heights"
• Joseph Stiglitz (Stiglitz interview with The Progressive)
• "Whence Reform? a Critique of the Stiglitz Perspective."
• "What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis" (The New Republic, April 17, 2000)
• "Capitalist Collapse. How can Russia Recover?" by David M. Kotz (Dollars and Sense, November/December 1998)
• "THAT SUBSIDING RUSSIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH" (Natalia RAISKAYA, Yakov SERGIYENKO and Alexander FRENKEL, Economics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, from Johnson's Russia List, December 2002)
• Excerpts from Globalization and Its Discontents By Joseph Stiglitz (from the World Bank Transition Newsletter)
• "Russian people paid the price for shock therapy" by Joseph Stiglitz (Times Online June 22, 2002)
• "Up for Debate: Privatization: Who Wins? Russia's Reform Compromise"
• "The Emperor Exposed: Neoliberal Theory and De-modernization in Postcommunist Society"
• "TRANSITION WITHOUT TRANSFORMATION: RUSSIA'S INVOLUTIONARY ROAD TO CAPITALISM" (Michael Burawoy University of California, Berkeley)
• "Reagan and the Russians"
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? - Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part I)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)
• "Russia's Fall, China's Rise? Comparing Transitions of Russia and China (Part II)" (Published by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum)

Imperialism

• Empire? What Empire? Imperialism and British national identity c. 1815-1914 by Professor Bernard Porter
• J.A. Hobson's Imperialism: A Study: A Centennial Retrospective by Professor Peter Cain
• Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I. Lenin
• The Empire Strikes Out: The "New Imperialism" and Its Fatal Flaws by Ivan Eland, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute. (an article comparing contemporary defense policy with those of New Imperialism (1870-1914)
• Marxism and The New Imperialism by Alex Callinicos, John Rees, Chris Harman, and Mike Haynes
• The New Imperialism
• Modern History Sourcebook

Miscellaneous

• Bush & Cheney 2004 official site for the 2004 Presidential campaign.
• AN OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF GAME THEORY by Paul Walker
• Karl Marx Quotations
• Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory
• "When Cultures Collide" Samuel P. Huntington
• PROTESTANTISM AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM Max Weber
• Modern History Sourcebook Benito Mussolini's "What is Fascism?" (1932)
• Samuel P. Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations
• "The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis" by Immanuel Wallerstein
• leftist parties of the world
• The Burning Spear Newspaper (newspaper of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement)
• Ido Oren, "The Subjectivity of the 'Democratic' Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany," International Security, Vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 1995)
• The End of Slavery and Serfdom Good chronicle of key dates and events in modern history.