Eastern Europe

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• Baltics Worldwide-- News, features, trends, perspectives, and guides on the Baltic states, from the region's oldest and most highly acclaimed news magazine.

• Central Europe Online-- Provides local press articles, original content, extensive travel and culture information, trade fair listings, political background, and basic information about each of the countries in Central Europe.

• Centre for European Policy Studies-- From Brussels, one of Europe's leading think tanks, with the motto of "Thinking ahead for Europe." Excellent and numerous online publications, full-text and abstracts, and commentary index, largely on the European Union.

• Council for European Studies-- "The leading academic organization for the study of Europe... promotes and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European Studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, and awards." Posts professional items and resources for European studies, including articles, working papers, newsletter, and links to the chief research centers for the study of Europe. From Columbia University.

• Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe-- A site on this topic from the World Bank and the European Commission.

• Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia-- Directory of sites with useful information in English and the local languages, "to facilitate research on the politics and economics of transition states in the post-communist world," from the University of Kansas Center for Russian and East European Studies.

• Europages-- Searchable European business directory that provides over 1.5 million company addresses from over 35 European countries,  key business information, links to yellow pages throughout Europe and to world business sites.

• European Archive-- "Digital library of [European] cultural artifacts in digital form. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." Posts culturally significant documents, videos, audio, images of a wide variety.

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development-- Information on the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

• European Centre for Minority Issues-- NGO that "advances majority-minority relations in the wider Europe through action, research and documentation... supports the stabilization of areas of ethno-political tension and conflict, contributes to the strengthening of relevant legislation and best practices in governance, and enhances the capacity of civil society actors and governments to engage with one another in a constructive way." All reports, working papers, and issue briefs are available online in full-text. Note the Ethnopolitical Map of Europe and the Enriched Links Database.

• European Institute-- From the London School of Economics and Political Science, an outstanding "primary focus for the inter-disciplinary study of processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe." Posts many papers in its priority areas of research: governance of the European Union, European ideas and identities, and European political economy. The "Europe in Question" series explores "the future development and governance of Europe... new lines of reflection and analysis, and... research across cognate disciplines." Note the Research Resources on Europe page.

• European Political Science Network-- "Dedicated to the promotion of political science in Europe and to catering for the interests of individual political scientists, academic institutions and other bodies concerned with teaching and working in the discipline across Europe." Posts news, conference proceedings, and other publications.

• European Values Study-- "Large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values [in Europe], [carried on by] the European Values Study group...  aimed at exploring the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct." Site posts surveys and results, newsletters, link to data, and more.

• European Yellow Pages-- "Intended as Europe's largest professional directory of businesses." Listings for Eastern and Western Europe, by country or city, plus country factsheets, events calendars, stock exchange results, and more.

• EuroStudies Gateway-- From Intute, a service created by a network of UK universities and partners, a fine searchable directory for access to high quality Internet resources about European studies in the social sciences.

• FORNET-- The European Foreign Policy Research Network, "the first formal attempt to structure and co-ordinate a network of researchers across Europe focusing on foreign policy governance... a forum for informed discussion and scholarly debate on all aspects of European foreign policy among academics and practitioners." Posts information on the work of FORNET and its members, newsletter, working papers, teaching guides, and more.

• Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy-- At Boston University, this Institute "focuses on conflict-prone societies in crisis, particularly Russia and other post-Soviet republics, with special attention to destabilizing factors of a political, ethnic, and/or international nature." A database and publications are online.

• Prague Daily Monitor-- "Most comprehensive free source of Czech news in English available on the internet," with samples from the local and international media, weather forecasts, latest news and business, exchange rates and financial markets, Czech and international art, local dining, current cinema, and a wide range of local and world opinions. Free subscription service.

•  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty-- "Daily report of developments in Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, based on news gathered by the correspondents, services and regional specialists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," whose mission is "to provide uncensored news and information to countries where a free press is either banned by the government or not fully established."

• REESWeb-- At the  University of Pittsburgh, this is the WWW Virtual Library for the Balkans, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS, Eastern Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union.

• Russian and East European Network Information Center-- From the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas,a good links directory for the region.

• Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center-- "The first center in the United States devoted to understanding the links among terrorism, transnational crime and corruption, and to teach, research, train and help formulate policy on these critical issues," from the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Emphasis on the CIS, with many studies posted online, including the Russian Regional Report.

• Transitions Online-- Useful and searchable resources about the evolving societies and emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, with links and files to connect the region's media, NGOs, universities, and other resources.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe-- News, information, many statistics, and many online reports are available free in full-text from this United Nations regional organization. Great source for authoritative online economic information about Europe.  Note the Statistical Database, with a wide range of data covering Europe, North America, and Central Asia.

• University Association for Contemporary European Studies-- Based in the UK, "one of the world’s premier European Studies associations [which] has brought together academics involved in researching and teaching on Europe with practitioners active in European affairs. It encourages the involvement of people from a variety of disciplines which have a European emphasis." Posts mainly UACES materials and maintains the Expert on Europe website, a database of experts on European matters.

• World Bank Europe and Central Asia Information-- Papers, discussion notes, and reports dealing with the full range of economic, environmental, and social issues facing Eastern Europe and Central Asia today.

• ZACAT-- "Social science data portal allowing you to search for, browse, analyse and download [European] social science survey data, provided by the GESIS department 'Data Archive and Data Analysis'...  Beside documentation on study level (e.g. abstract, related publications), all studies come along with documentation of full question and answer texts on variable level."