Sources Consulted

Below are sources for specific facts and figures cited in this Guide. These resources—in addition to those in “Keeping Current” section—may help you or your audience learn more about the facts and stories presented in this guide, and serve as a resource for finding more such data. 

TAB 1: GETTING STARTED (“WHERE THE PUBLIC IS COMING FROM”)

• See the annotated version of “The Voice of the Public” by Steven Kull, with actual poll questions and responses.

TAB 3: AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD

• Farsighted policy:

              -stopping terrorists before they attack

              -closing the ozone hole

  
  

• What kind of impact we have on others, for better and worse:

              -cotton subsidies and Mali

              -fighting disease, hunger, illiteracy and despair

TAB 4: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• For US and global contributions to international peacekeeping operations, see the Stimson Center's Future of Peacekeeeping Operations project chart, updated March 2004, available on-line at http://www.stimson.org/fopo/?SN=FO20040420673
  
  

• For statistics on progress in literacy, life expectancy:  Making Aid Work, The World Bank
  
  

• Read more about UN reform in the UN Reform reporting of the United Nations Association,www.unausa.org
  
  

• Costs of UN and other international cooperation: http://www.globalpolicy.org/finance/index.htm
  
  

• For data on global public opinion about America, see The Pew Global Attitudes Project surveys at www.people-press.org
  
  

• DeGaulle story retold by former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, see

  http://www.newamericanstrategies.org/transcripts/Brzezinski.asp

  
  

TAB 5: TERRORISM, SPREAD OF DEADLY WEAPONS, USE OF FORCE [L1]

• For more about terrorists' global networks, and the global efforts to shut them down, see the Council on Foreign Relations' “Terrorism: Questions and Answers”:

  www.cfr.org

  
  

• On the shortage of Arabic linguists in the intelligence community, see press coverage such as “Potomac Watch,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 27, 2003.
  
  

• For more on the successes of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program with Russia and other states, see the archives of Arms Control Today:  http://www.armscontrol.org/subject/tr/
  
  

• To learn about the Chemical Weapons Convention and its results, see the website of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, www.opcw.org

  or the Arms Control Today archives:  http://www.armscontrol.org/subject/cw/

  
  

TAB 6: POVERTY, DEVELOPMENT, NATION BUILDING, TRADE

• Success stories in fighting poverty and promoting open, transparent, functional government are products of the Center for Global Development's “What Works?” working group.  www.cgdev.org/globalhealth
  
  

• For a summary of what has been achieved in fighting poverty, see UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's 2000 Report to the Millennium Assembly.
  
  

• Links between health and economic growth:  Gallup and Sachs, July 2000, The Economic Burden of Malaria, CID Working Paper No. 52, Harvard University.
  
  

• Links between education, health and economic growth and more success stories:  www.BasicEd.org
  
  

• To learn more about debt relief:  www.jubileechannel.org and
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/topics/topics_debt/topics_debt_index.cfm
  
  

• Funding to fight poverty:  who gives what:  http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/43/56/2507734.pdf
  
  

• To learn more about African countries policing themselves to improve economic policy and fight corruption, look at the work of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD):  www.nepad.org
  
  

• For a thoughtful and realistic study of American successes and failures in nation-building, see this RAND Corporation study: http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1753/
  
  

• To learn more about the international trade in illicit narcotics, and the crisis-prone countries which are the principal sources of cocaine and heroin, see the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime:  www.unodc.org
  
  

• Estimates of what has caused US job losses over the last decade:  The Economic Policy Institute puts the trade-related figure at 34 percent for 2000-2003 and 58 percent for 1998-2003 (EPI Briefing Paper 149); the Progressive Policy Institute puts it at 30 percent for 2001-2004 (“Job Killer,” by Robert Atkinson, Blueprint Magazine, November 20, 2003.)
  
  

• For a view on the possibilities and the inequities of global trade policy:  http://www.maketradefair.org/en/index.php?file=03042002121618.htm&cat=2&subcat=6&select=1
  
  

TAB 7: ENERGY, GLOBAL WARMING

• On US oil dependence, its foreign policy consequences, energy's role in poor-country economies, and alternatives, see John Podesta and C. Boyd Grey,  “The Future of Energy Policy” in Foreign Affairs, July/August 2003.
  
  

• Energy efficiency successes in Toronto:  http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/energy/
  
  

• On US energy use, and how alternative energy investments could spark job creation and economic growth, see www.apolloalliance.org
  
  

• On energy choices and global warming, and how energy choices relate to global poverty, see:  www.energyfuturecoalition.org
  
  

PUBLIC OPINION AND COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH

Some of the original research reports consulted for the guide are available via the links below:

• The Better World Fund

• By the People

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