From TED Hans Rosling's Statistics Lessons

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html?utm_expid=166907-16&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Fsearch%3Fcat%3Dss_all%26q%3DHans%2BRosling
 

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_good_news_of_the_decade.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_at_state.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html

 

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_religions_and_babies.html

Quizzes for the preselezione

If you have found any good sites with quizzes (in English or Italian) relevant to the preselezione for the concorso diplomatico, I would be grateful if you could send the addresses to me on:
 cphr_young@yahoo.co.uk

Dizionario di Diplomazia

Dizionario di diplomazia e relazioni internazionali-

Dictionary of diplomacy and international relations. 

Inglese-italiano, english-italian di

Buri M. Rosaria

Editore:  Argo  (collana Quaderni Isufi) http://www.ibs.it/ser/serfat.asp?site=libri&xy=buri  also: Via Nazionale 254 9.00-20.00 tel: 06 4885405 http://www.ibs.it/editore/Argo/argo.html

Reading GDP growth rates

http://www.economist.com/node/10852462

address for UN Daily

http://www.un.org/News/dh/arc/archive.asp

West Wing

This was a very good series about the US Presidency. Here are some clips. You can find some in Italian too. Really you should just buy all 7 series!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TblMETUE8yw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCgmjqDA7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKlq9Z5XNi4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=RH3rLvzfizU&feature=endscreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k9IlR3-_-A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxX-woxYZ84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQsvcs9IB8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UELSDw3_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW7CNba_dFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x99OUHr1Akk

Some good background articles

 China and the US

http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~soumya/Courses/News/FA-Hale-Reconsidering%20Revaluation.pdf

Humanitarian Intervention

http://people.umass.edu/charli/docs/WesternFA.pdf

Russia

http://home.comcast.net/~lionelingram/555_Why%20Moscow%20Says%20No.PDF

Renewable Energy

http://irps.ucsd.edu/dgvictor/publications/Faculty_Victor_Article_2011_The%20Crisis%20in%20Clean%20Energy_Foreign%20Affairs.pdf