Here are some suggested resources for the various topics undertaken by Capitol Forum students each year.

Genocide:
Websites

• Genocide Watch
• Yale University Genocide Project
• The History Place: Genocide in the 20th Century
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota)
• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
• NIU Genocide and Human Rights Institute

Books (Click on title to purchase from Amazon.com)

• Gellately, Robert and Ben Kiernan, eds. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Goldhagen, Daniel. Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity. New York: Public Affairs, 2009.
• Hatzfeld, Jean. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. New York: Picador, 2003.
• Kiernan, Ben. Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001.

Global Economy:
Websites

• The World Trade Organization
• The World Bank, Prospects for the Global Economy Site
• US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
• US Dept of Commerce, International Trade Administration
• The Economist
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Financial Times
• The Center for Strategic and International Studies
• The CATO Institute (US Views from the Right)
• The Center for American Progress (US Views from the Left)

Books (Click on title to purchase from Amazon.com)

• Jagdish Bhagwati, In Defense of Globalization, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles, New York: Anchor, 2003.
• Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York: Anchor/Random, 2000.
• Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, New York: Three Rivers Press, 1979.
• Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
• Patrick O’Meara, ed. et al, Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
• Kenichi Ohmae, The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies, New York: Free Press, 1995.
• Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Nuclear Proliferation:
Websites

• Arms Control Association
• Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
• Council for a Livable World
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Federation of American Scientists
• Henry L. Stimson Center
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
• Missile Defense Agency
• Monterey Institute for International Studies, Center for Proliferation Studies
• Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
• "Nuclear Policy," The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Project on the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control

• Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal. 2008. "The Logic of Zero." Foreign Affairs 87 (6):80-95.
• Nader Elhefnawy. 2008. "The Next Wave of Nuclear Proliferation." Parameters 38 (3):36-47.
• Christopher Hemmer. 2007. "Responding to Nuclear Iran." Parameters 37(3): 42-53.
• Christopher M. Jones. 2005. "Rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: The Politics of Ratification." In Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, Ralph G. Carter. 2nd Ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 181-216.
• Michael Krepon and Dan Caldwell. 1991. The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification. New York: St. Martin’s Press and the Henry L. Stimson Center.
• Peter R. Lavoy. 2006. "Nuclear Proliferation over the Next Decade: Causes, Warning Signs, and Policy Responses." Nonproliferation Review 13 (3):433-454.
• Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 
• Scott D. Sagan. 1996-97. "Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb." International Security 21 (3):54-86.

Nuclear Proliferation and National Missile Defense 

• Jason D. Ellis. 2003. "The Best Defense: Counterproliferation and U.S. National Security." The Washington Quarterly 26 (2):115-133.
• Executive Summary of the Report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States (a.k.a. "Rumsfeld Report"), July 15, 1998.
• Steven A. Hildreth. 2007. "Ballistic Missile Defense: Historical Overview." CRS Report for Congress, 9 July.
• Jeff Sessions. 2008. "Ballistic Missile Defense: A National Priority." Strategic Studies Quarterly (Summer):22-30.

Dirty Bombs & Nuclear Terrorism

• Graham Allison. 2004. "How to Stop Nuclear Terror." Foreign Affairs 83 (1):64-74.
• Matthew Bunn. 2008. Securing the Bomb 2008 (Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC: Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative).
• Peter D. Zimmerman with Cheryl Loeb. 2004. "Dirty Bombs: The Threat Revisited." Defense Horizons 38 (January):1-11.
• Film: Dirty War (2004), HBO Movies

Immigration:
Websites

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• U.S. Department of State
• American Immigration Council
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Amnesty International
• Heartland Alliance
• Legal Action Center
• Migrant Rights International
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Books

• Immigration Law Sourcebook 12th Edition by Ira J. Kurzbaum

Environment:
Websites

• Lodge Lab at the University of Notre Dame (freshwater ecology)   
• Center for Aquatic Conservation, University of Notre Dame
• White House's draft framework for Asian Carp Control Strategy