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Introduction to Library Research
Basic Research Tools for researching United Nations documents
Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict
The encyclopedia of violence: origins, attitudes, consequences
An encyclopedic dictionary of conflict and conflict resolution, 1945-1996
Major peace treaties of modern history
Biographical dictionary of modern peace leaders
The state of war and peace atlas
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Catalog
Example of an academic book (at least the catalog record for one)
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Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade & general publications, & references for The NY Times.
Academic OneFile
Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields, such as public administration and policy, law, and international relations.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. PAIS International indexes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world.
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The Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management
There are three main collections in this digital library from the US Institute for Peace, the Peace Agreements Digital Collection, the Truth Commissions Digital Collection and the Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations. The library hopes that the primary sources provided in the first two collections will become research and learning tools on peaceful means to end international conflict. The last collection contains the full-text of interviews with individuals involved in stability operations.
PolicyFile (Public Policy Research and Analysis)
PolicyFile indexes research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range of public policy research. PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, tables of contents of selected journals, and proceedings from conferences.
CIA World Factbook
Data is provided in the following categories: Geography; People; Government; Economy; Communications; Transportation; Military and Transnational Issues.
Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
FIRST draws upon the factual database maintained by its project partners to create country profiles, including: Membership, agreements and events, conflicts and peace keeping activities, arms production and trade, military expenditure, weapons of mass destruction, armed forces and conventional weapon holdings, political system and country indicators, and other reference data.
To use database: First select the databases you are interested in (they are sorted by category, including "Conflicts and peace keeping activities") and then scroll down to select the country.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
United Nations Development Program - Governance
LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information,
and other topics such as biographical information.
Global Newsbank
Provides full text of news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from hundreds of international sources
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.