International Studies: Journal Articles

Journals

International Studies Quarterly
The official journal of the International Studies Association.
Third World Quarterly
Third World Quarterly ( TWQ ) is a journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. TWQ is at the forefront of analysis and commentary on fundamental issues of global concern.
International Affairs
International Affairs is Britain's leading journal of international relations. Founded by and edited at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, it has become renowned for its coverage of global policy issues.
Journal of International Affairs
The Journal of International Affairs is a leading foreign affairs periodical published by students at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

General Information

Policy

Policy File Index
Online access to abstracts and full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. 1990- present.
Digital National Security Archive
Declassified documents covering U.S. policy decisions from 1945 to present.

Includes supporting materials from the National Security Archive, including bibliographies, chronologies, glossaries and scholarly overviews.
Public Affairs Index
A database that covers all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict. This database draws from a diverse array of scholarly journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents. Limited full-text.
Risk Management Reference Center
Offers information on risk management, and combines background from scholarly writings with commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies, and publishers.

This database also contains timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, economic, social and technical spectrum. RMRC is designed to inform the risk analysis process, and provide information on all aspects of risk management.

Research Databases

Border and Migration Studies
A collection that explores and provides historical background on select border areas in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe in text, video, and images.

Border areas include: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
EconLit
Essential database for economics research.

EconLit indexes scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and working papers throughout the field of Economics. Topics covered include economic development, forecasting, history, fiscal and monetary theory, business and public finance, healthcare economics, and international, regional, and urban economics.
Environment Complete
Environment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals and monographs covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. It also includes millions of records and an environmental thesaurus.

Subjects include: agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, and environmental technology. This is also a useful database for searching for "architecture sustainability" and "design sustainability".
Geobase (Engineering Village)
Geobase is a database, within Engineering Village, of indexed research literature unequalled in its coverage of the international geoscience literature. Topics include: earth sciences, ecology, geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.
Historical Abstracts
Index with abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, media reviews, and dissertations on all aspects of world history from prehistory to the present. See America: History and Life for American and Canadian history. 1450 C.E. to the present.
Human Rights Studies Online
Provides documents, interpretations, and analysis of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. Includes: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and others. 1900 - 2010. Users may encounter content in this database the library has not purchased.

The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.
Peace Research Abstracts
Provides citations to individual papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Limited full-text.

The index contains more than 267,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, including Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and International Journal of Refugee Law.
Political Handbook of the World
Current information and data by country including government system and structure (legislature, cabinet, etc.), active political parties (coalitions, opposition, etc.), and connections to international organizations. Categorizes each country's government by type. Also includes profiles non-UN intergovernmental organizations, such as OPEC, NATO, the WTO, regional banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations. Published every 2 years.
Political Science Complete
Subjects covered include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.

PSC provides a subject-specific thesaurus with over 17,500 terms to provide subject searching guidance to researchers. Subjects covered include comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory.

Area Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Oxford campus users only. Oxford campus users only. Contains citations on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.

Includes citations to Western-language books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and chapters in edited volumes. There is a five-year lag in the publication of this bibliography.
Central & Eastern European Academic Source
Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS) is a multidisciplinary, multilingual database providing full-text coverage pertaining to all facets of central and eastern European countries.

The collection contains more than 400 full-text publications covering many academic areas including business and economics, medical sciences, political science, law, library and information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology relating to this geographic region.
Caribbean Search
A full-text multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region including scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, and reference books.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
A systematic bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Includes Middle East Bibliography (1946-2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, Theses and Dissertations, MECAS Citations Database, and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900-present). Limited full-text.