INST Subject Gateway

Provides overviews of issues such as AIDS, ethnic conflict & genocide, global warming, health, human rights, literacy & educational access, peacemaking, refugees, terrorism, and women. Includes status of issues in each region of the world.  Bibliographies accompany each article.

Located in Cook Library's Reference collection: Ref JZ1242 W67 2010.

Lengthy articles on IR topics, countries, and politically influential individuals, representing a range of significant interpretations.

Located in Cook Library's Reference collection: Ref JA61 O95

Definitions, including significance,  arranged in sections including topics such as Nationalism, Environment, Ideology, Military, Diplomacy, US Foreign Policy and Patterns of Political Organization.

Located in Cook Library's Reference collection: Ref JX1226 P55

 Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine Regional Surveys of the World series. Provides political and economic information (narrative and statististical)  for over 250 countries and territories.  Detailed overview of the political situation in a country for the current three years. Regional volumes include survey articles pertinent to an area on topics such as globalization, corruption, ethnic conflict, development, gender, migration,  human rights, security, and China.  Special features include extensive profiles, indicating member states, of major international and regional organizations and a comparative statistics generator.

Click on the menu bar for a list of international issues and topics covered on the site, including climate change, diplomatic history, drug & human trafficking, human rights, international security & terrorism, narcotics control, and refugees.

Check http://www.state.gov/countries/ for reports, press releases, speeches regarding countries around the world. Provides links to State Department publications on countries such as Background Notes, Reports on Terrorism, Investment Climate Statements, Human Rights Reports , Religious Freedom Reports, and Trafficking in Persons .

Indexes journals in a variety of subjects, and is an excellent resource for finding relevant articles for course assignments in international relations.  Many articles from scholarly, popular news magazines, and the New York Times are available in full text either through this database or by clicking on the FIND IT button.  For a more comprehensive search, click on the CHOOSE DATABASES link and select Social Sciences Abstracts, as well. 

Combines expert commentary on topics in the news and full text of all books from Praeger Security publishers most of which are not indexed in the library catalog.   Weekly updates on terrorism, security and other topics in IR including ethnic conflict, immigration/migration/refugees, nuclear arms and drug/human trafficking.  Great source of scholarly research on foreign relations and policy.

Offers an extensive collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. Besides terrorism and security, includes coverage of topics such as drug & human trafficking, ethnic conflict & genocide, immigration & refugees, natural disasters, nuclear arms control, sea piracy, and suicide bombers.

Provides  access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. 

• Custom search engine that searches through intergovernmental (e.g. UN, EU, WB) organization sites, providing background and commentary on international issues
• Useful for topics such as human rights, women's rights, drug trafficking, human trafficking, child labor, ethnic conflict, genocide, nuclear nonproliferation, weapons & arms control, environment

• Custom search engine that searches through non-governmental organization sites, providing backgound and commentary on international issues
• Useful for topics such as human rights, women's rights, drug trafficking, human trafficking, child labor, ethnic conflict, genocide, nuclear nonproliferation, weapons & arms control, environment