Introducing Comparative Politics: The Essentials
Video and Multimedia
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Audio
Mexico’s Crisis of Disappearance: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/21/172539957/mexicos-crisis-of-disappearance-...
The Iranian Revolution: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audioslideshow/2009/feb/03/iran-iranian-...
Video
Video: Western Sahara: The Forgotten Struggle: http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/video/thefold/in-western-sahara-a-f...
Video: Somalia: Failed State: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GdWh_eEA4
Video: Reporting on the Fall of the Berlin Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aolm54bY4pM
Video: The Glorious Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWyVzsbKgl4
Video: The Emancipation Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVkXthLz4w
Video Resource: The New Deal: http://www.history.com/topics/new-deal/videos#the-new-deal
Video: The Man Behind Brazil’s Economic Boom: http://video.pbs.org/video/2262214581
Video: Putin and Russian Nationalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRLX5tHdyQ
Video: BBC, India and Pakistan Partition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF7Akfgn0e0
Video: Gapminder/TED India Talk “Asia’s Rise: How and When”: http://www.gapminder.org/videos/hans-rosling-asias-rise-ted-india
Web Resources
Brookings Institution Index of State Weakness: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2008/02/weak-states-index
Comparative Constitutions Project: http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org
The Fund for Peace, Fragile States Index 2016: fsi.fundforpeace.org
The Heritage Foundation, 2016 Index of Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
International Crisis Group: http://www.crisisgroup.org
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Better Life Index: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Country Statistical Profiles: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/country-statistical-profiles-key-...
Transformation Index BTI: http://www.bti-project.org/home
Transparency International, Corruption Perception Index: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi
United Nations: http://www.un.org/en
The World Bank, Worldwide Governance Indicators:
http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.aspx#home