Political, economic, social, and environmental data on 192 countries
Key country data; country flags; boundaries, and ethnic divisions
Thematic/political/physical maps; currency converter tools
International hotspots; daily news coverage and forecasts from regional sources/li>
Country rankings from the United Nation’s Human Development Index and Freedom House’s Freedom in the World
Primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945
Diverse collections organized by country, event, or topic:
Afghanistan/ Argentina/ Berlin Crisis/ Chile & the U.S./ China and the U.S./
CIA Covert Ops/ CIA Family Jewels/ Columbia & the U.S./ Cuban Missile Crisis/
Guatemala and the U.S./ El Salvador 1977-1994/ Electronic Surveillance and the NSA/
Iran Revolution/ Iran-Contra Affair/ Iraqgate/
Japan and the U.S., 1960-2000/ Kissinger Telephone Conversations/
Kissinger Transcripts/ Mexico-U.S. Counternarcotics Policy/ National Security Agency/
Nicaragua/ Peru/ Philippines & U.S. Policy/
Presidential Directives/ South Africa/ Soviet Estimate/
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002/ The United States and the Two Koreas/
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence/ U.S. Intelligence & China/
Intelligence Community 1947-1989 & After 9-11/ Weapons of Mass Destruction/
Military Uses of Space/ U.S. Nuclear History/
Nuclear Non-Proliferation/ U.S. Policy in Vietnam War, 1954-1975
Chronologies; glossaries; subject bibliographies
Click Collections Guide for a list and description of the various collections.
**Access only to the following countries: China and Russia**
Current economic, political, and business news around the globe
ViewsWire: Highlights and analyses of more than 250 economic, political, and market developments around the world; navigatable by country; updated daily
Executive Briefing: Management analysis and advice
Risk Briefing: Analyses, forecasts, alerts, and background data covering a wide range of risk factors in 60 major markets/countries; updated daily
Industry Briefing: 5-year forecasts and news analysis for 8 key industries
Politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment
Translated into English from foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents
Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East
Content: 1996 to present
An archive of scholarly journal literature in the humanities.
Academic disciplines that include history, political science, and law, as well as Middle Eastern, Latin American, Asian, African, and Slavic studies
Content includes the first issuance of each journal title included in the database
Current to within the last 2-5 years
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is the bibliographic index to the social sciences
References to journal articles and books
Governmental documents and reports
Reports from public and private organizations
Statistics and directories
Some of the references are in languages other than English. An associated database grouped with PAIS is the Periodical/Publisher Information Database that provides periodical and publisher information for documents found in the PAIS database.
ProQuest Political Science offers hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
The Social Science Journals collection offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. TRAC provides researchers in the fields of terrorism studies, political science, international relations, sociology, criminal justice, philosophy and history with content that enables intellectual clarity on a highly complex topic.
-- Core analyses of 3,800 groups that have been known to aid and abet political violence or terrorist organizations.
-- Original, commissioned analyses of seminal terrorism topics.
-- Profiles of vulnerable regions and cities mostly likely to attract terrorist incidents.
-- Live intelligence repository: TRAC provides a publishing center for research of any length produced by its members.
-- TRAC continuously monitors important news and analysis sources and posts feeds to the site as events unfold.
-- Hot links that quickly navigate between concepts within articles, news feeds, and outside resources.
-- Access to political violence experts worldwide.
-- Hundreds of internet links to think tanks; government agencies; universities, community colleges and police academies offering courses in terrorism, criminal justice, and homeland security; government and private research centers.
World Politics Review (WPR) is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs.
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