PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
Provides indexing for periodicals,
books, hearings,
reports, gray literature, government
publications, Internet resources, and other publications from
120 countries. No full text.
World Wide Political Science Abstracts
Comparative politics, developing nations,
disarmament, and military policy are some of the international topics covered by
this resource. It is not full text.
Columbia International Affairs Online
“Scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university
research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded
research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy
briefs.” This is a full-text database.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies: CSIS
A public policy
research institution that covers every major geographic region in the world--generates strategic analysis, brings together important policymakers, and develops policy action commissions.
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council
on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens
in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices
facing the United States and other governments.
World Bank Group
"World Bank Group" incorporates the IBRD,
IDA and three other agencies, the International Finance Corporation, the
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and the International Centre for
Settlement of Investment Disputes. All five specialize in different aspects of
development, but use their comparative advantages to work collaboratively toward
the same overarching goal---poverty reduction.
World Policy Institute
Concerned with promoting and engaging the public debate and scholarship
surrounding international diplomacy and world politics. As such, the
Institute seeks to "offer innovative policy proposals for public debate with the
goal of developing an internationalist consensus on the measures needed for the
management of a world market economy" and "to nurture a new generation of
writers and public intellectuals committed to internationalist thinking."
International
Politics and Foreign Policy Directory
A site maintained by the West Virginia University Political Science department
with a variety of interesting Web links.
WWW
Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
Part of the WWW Virtual Library; maintained by a Professor of
International Studies, Elizabethtown College.
Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks
Online
versions of 101 Country Studies/Area Handbooks with searchable database.
