Scholarly materials on politics and international relations
Full text of working papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings and links to Web sources
Journal abstracts, book summaries, country data, and economic indicators
CIAO Focus is a monthly feature that highlights a current international issue with links to relevant documents.
A legal collection of American and international law materials.
Full-text articles from over 600 legal journals
Most cited law journals, international and non-U.S. law journals
Treaties and agreements library including Treaties in Force
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Supreme Court Library
A vast collection of all major treaty sets, including Rohn's World Treaty Index, Marten's Treaties, Wiktor's Multilateral Treaty Calender, Dumont's Corps Diplomatique de Droit des Gens, the U.S. Treaties & Agreements collection, all United Nations Treaty Publications, and more!
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.
Multilingual International Treaty Database - Viadrina International Law Project
The Treaty Database contains up to 700 international treaties. Due to the diligence necessary when editing legal materials, around 150 treaties are available to the end-user. The number is growing on a daily basis.
Status of multilateral treaties
United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS)
League of Nations Treaty Series
Handbooks and summaries of practice
This collection also includes the text and status of recently deposited multilateral treaties, memorandums of understanding, and many other documents as well as rejections, withdrawals and reservations. It is important to note that searching this collection requires constantly turning off pop-up blocker.
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