Browse links of Government / Politics glossaries

Zip-file Definitions and explanations of terms used by the GTZ. GTZ is a development agency owned by the German government. All the terms they use are standard in the world of development cooperation.

glossary of governmental, parliamentary and politial science terms.

in Danish.

Has glossaries or links to useful sites on topics such as environmental issues, immigration, women's rights, AIDS, war, refugees etc. The languages I've listed are just the ones I noticed, there may be more.

United Nations terms in six dictionaires. Very rich dictionary in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Russians and Chinese

A very useful dictionary Arabic English and English Arabic dictionary for United Nations and other political terms

This link contains multilingual and monolingual glossaries in a variety of scientific areas. A real treasure trove!

Lexicon of terms relating to parliamentary procedure

Comprehensive glossary containing many terms connected with the European Union, public administration,law and finance

Just to let them speak for themselves: "The aim of this site is to ultimately provide additional resources and information to people interested in the various countries of Europe. As most of these countries were once a small part of much larger Empires, borders and town names have undergone enormous changes over the past couple of centuries."... ... View more

Elections Canada has compiled a glossary of electoral terms and pictures.

The best source on election terms. Prepared by some renowned international organizations. It is also available in French and in Spanish.

Glossary and dictionary with special focus on political institutions. Would be useful for all who translate newspaper articles on a regular basis

Siyaset, sosyal bilimler ve hukuk alanında birçok Osmanlıca-Türkçe terimin açıklaması, artı İngilizce ve Almanca karşılıkları

This Dictionary provides a comprehensive guide to military and political terminology, and is ideal for all military personnel, those learning English and Russian for military purposes or anyone in related industries dealing with the military and politics. It is especially useful for newcomers to the field, students, journalists and those withou... View more

Glossary - Parliament of Victoria

Terms discussed here include people, places, agencies, technology, jargon and clichés used in the aftermath of the attack on the United States. The glossary is organized by topics: terrorism, war, geopolitics, religion, homeland security, disaster recovery and miscellaneous. In some cases, the glossary notes alternative spellings of Arabic and othe... View more

General and specific French dictionnaries and encyclopedia of different time periods: from 1400 to 1930. Fields include : law, history, science, philosophy,history, economics, aesthetic,languages, latin, vieux françois … Online browsing via pdf microfiches. From the welcome page, select "découverte" then "dictionnaires". Also contains classical ... View more

Collection of official documents concerning Polish foreign policy and their translations. Large corpus with easy-to-handle HTML structure.

Spanish governmental institutions (etc) and how they are called in English. Quite useful! (with links)

Handy links to the complete text of all of the different Hague Conventions in the French and English originals.

FR-ENG-DE glossary of legal terms/ human rights commission

An official source of all information about practically any country in the world. Demographic info, flags, maps, governments, religion, industries, anything you can think of.

Mainly literature: dictionaries (quotations, synonyms, literary sources), thesauri, literary texts, study guides, biographies... and more. Indispensable for literary translators working from or into English.

Glossary of terms used by the European Court of Human Rights and in the European Convention on Human Rights

The Evroterm dictionary is being built during the translation of European Union legislation into Slovenian language. Currently it contains about 40,000 terms. It is linked with a corpus of translations so you can see examples of use.

This is the online edition of "A Glossary of Political Economy Terms" by Dr. Paul M. Johnson of Auburn University. Very usefull !

Another useful bidirectional source

Links to online dictionaries for Turkish and German; subjects vary from computer to EU (esp.good for abbreviations of organizations and treaties) and forensics, botanics to sufism and automotive. Most of the links on the Turkish page are monolingual, but some between Tur-Eng and Tur-Ger as well, and the botanics dictionary includes Latin taxono... View more

OCDE glossaries available for download in .PDF format. The descriptions do not list all the languages contained in the glossaries, so open the documents to see what languages are included.