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Government agencies and policy documents

www.whitehouse.gov/
Covers the White House (e.g. current news, press briefings, executive orders, speeches) and the history of the presidency, as well as offering a range of interactive and video services.

www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html
This is the official US government archive containing documents on US foreign policy.

www.defenselink.mil/
This is the official website of the Pentagon (US Department of Defense), with the official line on US military policy.

www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
The National Security Archive, an independent research institute and library at George Washington University, is an outstanding repository of declassified documents pertaining to US national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies.

Journals

www.foreignpolicy.com/
Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the journal Foreign Policy is a lively and accessible centre for the discussion of global politics, economics and ideas.  It features an array of policy issues, hot topics and special reports that provide insights into the formation of policy agendas.

www.foreignaffairs.org/
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of US foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas. This is the in-house journal.

Think tanks and foreign policy advocacy groups

ciponline.org/
The Center for International Policy: promoting a foreign policy based on human rights and demilitarization.

www.globalsecurity.org
Global Security is an independent US-based organisation that provides a range of information on military issues.

www.fpif.org/
Foreign Policy in Focus is the leading independent source of US foreign policy from a liberal perspective.

www.opendemocracy.net
Open Democracy is an independent web journal noted for its extraordinarily wide range of contributors from different political, cultural and geographical perspectives.