Problems of International Law:  Ethnic and Regional 
Conflicts
FOCUS ON ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST:
PRINT AND ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
April 15, 1997
Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and  International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
E-mail:  llou@midway.uchicago.edu; Phone:  773-702-9612


Background Information & Bibliographical References


The Arab-Israeli Accords:  Legal Perspective (Eugene Cotran 
& Chibli Mallat eds., Boston, MA: Kluwer Law International, 
1996)(Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) book 
series)
JX4084.J67A730 1996

“Bibliographic Essay”, in Donna E. Arzt, Refugees into 
Citizens:  Palestinians and the End of the Arab-Israeli 
Conflict  182-199 (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 
1996)
DS119.7.A68630 1996 Law


Selected  Print Document Sources


The Arab-Israel Conflict and Its Resolution:  Selected 
Documents (Ruth Lapidoth & Moshe Hirsch eds., Dordrecht, The 
Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff/Kluwer, 1992).
DS119.7.A67190 1992 Law

Arab-Israeli Conflict and Conciliation:  A Documentary 
History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995).
DS119.7.A672330 1995

International Legal Materials (Washington, D.C.: American 
Society of International Law, 1962- ; bi-monthly journal 
publishing key treaties, cases, and other international 
agreements)
JX68.A5 Law

Israel’s Foreign Relations:  Selected Documents (Jerusalem: 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahva Press; v.1-12, 1947-1992).
DS119.6.I780 1981 Law



United Nations.  General Assembly.  Official Records (1946 - 
; UN GAOR) and
Resolutions and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly
JX1977.A3 Law; fJX1977.A3 RR (Regenstein, First Floor 
Reading Room)
JX1977.A3701 Law; RR

United Nations Resolutions on Palestine and the Arab-Israeli 
Conflict (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1975- )
JX1977.2.P34U57 Gen
JX1977.2.P34U570 1987 Gen

United Nations. Security Council.  Official Records (1946- ; 
UN SCOR) and
Resolutions and Decisions
JX1977.A51 Law; fJX1977.A51 RR
JX1977.A533 RR

United Nations.  Treaty Series  (U.N.T.S.)
JX170.U5 Law; Gen

Yearbook of the United Nations (New York: UN, 1946/47- )
JX1977.A1U66 Law; LawRef; Gen; RR; RR2; Harp

Internet:  Israel and the Middle East 

Local resources:

Foreign and International Law & News (University of Chicago 
Law Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/intl.html  
(embassies, consular offices, reports)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/News/

Israel (University of Chicago Law School, D’Angelo Law 
Library page)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Law/foreign.html#israel

Middle East (University of Chicago Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleE
ast/

Political Science (University of Chicago Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/PolSci/

External resources:

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Israel
(includes the full texts of selected agreements and 
reference documents related to the Middle East Peace 
Process)
http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
(includes news, reports,  statements and releases, contact 
info in English and Arabic from the Palestine Ministry of 
Information)
http://www.pna.org/

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
(web site includes archives of the Washington biweekly on 
American Middle East Policy, the Near East Report and the 
texts of the Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty of the  Israel-
PLO Oslo II  Interim  Accord of September 28, 1995, etc.)
http://www.aipac.org/
 
Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
(includes The Middle East Multilateral Negotiations Page and 
Ethic Conflict/Regional Relations information, and related 
world links)
http://www-igcc.ucsd.edu/igcc/igccmenu.html

IRIS:  Information Regarding Israel’s Security
(includes the text of the Charter of Palestine Liberation 
Organization, and other background information about the 
PLO)
http://www.netaxs.com/people/iris/

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv, Israel)
http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/

The Jerusalem Post (Internet Edition)
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.jpost.co.il/

Lines in the Sand : The Pursuit of Peace in the Middle East
http://www.tiger.ab.ca/mideast/
(web site discontinued, but files available on CD-ROM, and 
from
Tiger Media, Inc., at www@tigermedia.com)

Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria.html

Mideast Mirror 
(“a daily reading of policies and politics of the Middle 
East”; “news digest of the Arab and Islamic world”)
http://www.mediasync.com/mirror.html

The Middle East Peace Process (ISN:  International Relations 
& Security Network)
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/

The Mideast Peace Process (Israel Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs)
http://www.israel.org/peace/index.html


Arab Net:  The Online Resource for the Arab World in the 
Middle East & North Africa
http://www.arab.net/

Mas’ood Cajee’s CYBERMUSLIM:  The Guide to Islamic Resources 
on the Internet
http://www.clearinghouse.net/inter/261.html or 
http://www.uoknor.edu/cybermuslim

Muslim Public Affairs Council - Islamic Internet Resources
http://www.mpac.org/resources/net.html

The Middle East and North Africa Internet Resource Guide 
(Joseph W. Roberts, Department of Political Science, 
University of Utah)
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html

The New “Complete Guide to Palestine’s Websites” (Birzeit 
University; covers the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East 
Jerusalem)
http://WTB’s Middle-Eastern and Arab Resources
http://www.ionet.net/~usarch/ak-arab.shtml

The Arab Internet Directory
http://www.1001sites.com/

Model League of Arab States
http://haynese.winthrop.edu/index.html

Middle East Resource Guide (University of Texas at Austin)
http://menic.utexas.edu/mes.html


Internet:  Other Resources


United Nations (for texts of resolutions, reports, 
documents, and other information related to Israel, 
Palestine, and the Middle East peace process; has the full 
texts of GA resolutions from 1981 to date, of SC resolutions 
from 1974-date)
http://www.un.org/

U.S. Congress
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/

U.S. Department of State (country reports, Middle East Peace 
Process, news, etc.)
http://www.state.org/
http://www.state.org/www/current/middle_east/


U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library (foreign 
country information)
http://law.house.gov/

The White House (press releases, briefings, speeches, e-mail 
lists, etc.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

World News Connection (“a foreign news alert service from 
the U.S. government”)
http://wnc.fedworld.gov/


Internet Listservs (electronic discussion groups and 
distribution lists):


ISRAEL-MIDEAST (Israel-Mideast - Israel Information Service; 
news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel)
To subscribe, send the following message to 
listserv@pankow.inter.net.il:
 subscribe israel-mideast Your Name
(related page at http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il)


MID-EAST REALITIES
To subscribe, send the following message to MER@middleeast.org:
SEND MER
(http://www.middleeast.org/)

MSANEWS (news distribution, not discussion list)
To subscribe, send the following message to
listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu:
subscribe msanews Your Name
(related page at http://www.mynet.net/~msanews/)

The Political Science List of Lists 
http://www.ilstu.edu/depts/polisci/psrt-l/listof.htm

Lyo’s “Law Lists”
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html

Liszt
http://www.liszt.com/


Usenet newsgroups:


clari.news.conflict.peace
clari.world.mideast.*
clari.world.mideast.israel
clari.world.mideast.palestine
soc.culture.israel
soc.culture.jordan
soc.culture.palestine
talk.politics.mideast

DejaNews (searchable archives of Usenet newsgroup messages 
worldwide)
http://www.dejanews.com/




LEXIS & WESTLAW  (Online Legal Databases)


BBC (Summary of World Broadcasts and Monitoring 
Reports)(from 1/79 to date)
LEXIS:  NEWS library; BBCSWB file

General News & Articles
LEXIS:  NEWS library; MAGS, CURNWS, ARCNWS files

International documents (agreements, treaties, accords, 
communiques, resolutions, etc.)
LEXIS:  INTLAW library; ILM file
WESTLAW:  ILM database (see also USTREATIES database)

Jerusalem Post (1/89 to date)
LEXIS:  MDEAFR  & NEWS libraries; JPOST file
WESTLAW:  JERUSP database

Legal periodical indexes
LEXIS:  LAWREV library; LGLIND files
WESTLAW:  LRI database

Legal periodicals - full text of articles
LEXIS:  LAWREV library; ALLREV file
WESTLAW:  TP-ALL database

Middle East/Africa Library
(includes news, business, and country information)
LEXIS:  MDEAFR library

Middle East News (1/84 to date)
WESTLAW:  MIDNEWS database

Public Affairs Information Service (multilingual 
international affairs index)
WESTLAW:  PAIS database

U.S. Department of State Dispatch (foreign policy news, 
statements and other documents; developments in the Middle 
East)
LEXIS:  INTLAW library; DSTATE file
WESTLAW:  USDPTSTDIS database

CARL UnCover (table of contents of about 17,000 periodicals)
WESTLAW:  UNCOVER database
(also available for free on the Internet at 
http://www.carl.org/uncover/)


Online Library Catalogs


Horizon (University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library Catalog)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Catalogs/Chicago/

WorldCat (catalogs of holdings of libraries in the U.S. and 
elsewhere; also includes links to FirstSearch databases on 
the World Wide Web - indexes such as Article1st, 
Contents1st,  Dissertation Abstracts Online, EBSCO, GPO, 
PapersFirst, etc.)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Catalogs/WorldCat/

RLIN (bibliographic file for holdings of academic research 
libraries in the U.S. and selected other libraries 
worldwide)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/Catalogs/RLIN/

Hytelnet (links to catalogs of libraries worldwide via 
Telnet)
http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/


Selected Library of Congress Subject Headings


ARAB COUNTRIES--FOREIGN RELATIONS
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT (subheadings can include --MIDDLE EAST, 
--ISRAEL, 	etc.)
ISRAEL--ETHNIC RELATIONS
ISRAEL--FOREIGN RELATIONS
ISRAEL-ARAB CONFLICTS
ISRAEL-ARAB RELATIONS
JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS
MIDDLE EAST--FOREIGN RELATIONS
PALESTINIAN ARABS (subheadings can include --GAZA STRIP, --
CIVIL RIGHTS, --	ISRAEL, --POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, etc.)
UNITED NATIONS--PALESTINE


Microform & CD-ROM  Sources


Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Daily Report.  Middle East & Africa
microfc DS24 Mic
(Regenstein Library, 2d floor, Microform Room)

Index to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily 
Reports 
[computer file]
CDRom JA1.I53 RR
(Regenstein Library, First Floor, Reading Room)

LegalTrac (CD-ROM index to about 900 legal periodicals and 
newspapers)
(Located in the Law Library Reading Room, and on LEXIS and 
WESTLAW
as LGLIND and LRI respectively)

PAIS International (index to international relations 
articles)
[computer file]
CDRom Z7163.P93
(Regenstein Library, First Floor, Reading Room)
(also on the WESTLAW legal database as PAIS)


Contact Persons


Craig Bruce
Bibliographer for the Middle East
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 560

Frank Conaway
Bibliographer for the Social Sciences (including 
International Affairs)
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 261

Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Bibliographer for Foreign, Comparative, and International 
Law
D’Angelo Law Library, Room 207 (ask at the Reference Desk)