Put a place on the map, check the text of a treaty, or find evidence that could change your explanation.
WORLD REGIONS LAB
Find a place, compare countries, or test your map knowledge. World Regions Lab is available in English, Spanish and German.
A café queue, a navigation app and a confident claim. Choose evidence that separates rival explanations and build an investigation.
Write down what you would expect to observe under each explanation before you open the evidence.
Comparative politics simulations on elections, power, belonging and collective action.
Compare a case about incentives within a state with a Trouble in Common case about bargaining across borders.
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OpenStax
Read introductory sections on sovereignty, actors, levels of analysis, and realist, liberal, constructivist and critical approaches.
Choose one move from The Cities Are Moving. State what a realist and a constructivist would each expect to observe.
The linked textbook chapter is publicly readable.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Compare military expenditure across countries and years using SIPRI’s data and definitions.
Compare total expenditure and the share of GDP for two countries. Explain why the rankings may tell different stories about capabilities and priorities.
Use the same unit and period for each comparison. Spending is one indicator of military capability.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Read the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the UN Secretary-General, including treaty actions, reservations and objections.
Open a treaty connected to an activity. Record a signature, a ratification and a reservation if present. What separate evidence would tell you whether a state implemented it?
Public treaty records. The collection explains what the depositary covers and how its status records are maintained.
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Find the climate commitments governments submit under the Paris Agreement and inspect each document’s version and date.
Compare two governments’ targets. Mark any commitment that depends on outside finance or another condition.
Publicly posted submissions. Compare base years, coverage and conditions before interpreting different percentages.
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Follow the Universal Periodic Review to find country records, stakeholder submissions and recommendations.
Choose one recommendation. Identify who made it, who was meant to respond and what later evidence could show implementation.
Public review documents. Record the review cycle and distinguish a government response from an observed change.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
Explore datasets on organized violence, with definitions and codebooks for each release.
Pick one conflict and look up how the dataset defines an actor and an event. Explain which kinds of harm or bargaining the record would miss.
Datasets are freely downloadable. Cite the version and record the definition you used.