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 https://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: https://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

  https://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:� www.opcw.org

  or the�Arms Control Today archives:� 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
    https://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/topics/topics_debt/topics_debt_index.cfm
    
    

  • Funding to fight poverty:� who gives what:� www.nepad.org
    
    

  • For a thoughtful and realistic study of American successes and failures in nation-building, see this RAND Corporation study: https://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:�
    
    
  
  

  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:�
    
    

  • 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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