POLT 328: Pirates, Priests & Protestors

Background Information

• Europa World Online - for current information on countries and international organizations
  • Europa World Year Books - for historical information on countries and international organizations
    Main Library JN1.E85, 1975 - last year (314 Eu742. for 1959-1974)
• International Studies Encyclopedia - produced by the International Studies Association
  • Specially-commissioned, peer reviewed essays of up to 10,000 words focusing on the most important topics and issues by leading scholars of international relations

Organizations, Think Tanks & Advocacy Groups

• Amnesty International
• Brookings Institution
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Greenpeace
• Human Rights Watch
• International Crisis Group
• IISS: International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Transparency International
• SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  
  
  Think Tank Search - search the web sites of more than 600 research centers, NGOs, and other organizations
  
  2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report - downloadable PDF from the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania
  
  NGO Guide (Duke Univ. Library)

Databases for Scholarly Articles

• Academic Search Complete
• Business Source Complete
• EconLit
• Environment Complete
• Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies
  
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
  
• Peace Research Abstracts
• SocIndex
  
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

News Sources

Aggregators:

• Factiva
  • Provides full text access to selected U.S. and international news sources – includes Wall Street Journal
    • - particularly strong on business & international sources
  • only 3 Oberlin users at a time
• LexisNexis Academic

Translations:

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service - FBIS Daily Reports (1941-1996)
  • Full text translations of news reports and summaries from foreign newspapers and television and radio broadcasts, interviews, speeches, editorial commentary and other materials; compiled by the U.S. Intelligence community
• World News Connection (1996-2013)

  • Provides translated and English-language news and information from local media sources around the world (includes e.g. newspapers, periodicals, TV and radio broadcasts).  Produced by the Open Source Center, a U.S. Government agency

Single Source:

• New York Times (1851-2012)
• Times of London (1785-2010)