International Relations
CountryWatch.com

Subjects: Business, Economics, International Relations

CountryWatch provides up-to-date news and information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world. Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information; the CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers; and the CountryWatch Forecast, a five-year macroeconomic forecast for each country.

Europa World

Subjects: Directories, International Relations, Reference

Online version of the Europa World Year Book (in print in the library 1989-2007) is a leading source of information on world-wide affairs. It covers basic political, geographic, and economic information for over 250 countries and territories.

Foreignaffairs.com

Subjects: International relations, World politics

Access Note: Current Georgetown Law students, faculty and staff may retrieve a username and password to access the Foreign Affairs website.Foreign Affairs covers American foreign policy and global affairs with a print magazine and a website. Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Georgetown Law users may retrieve a username and password to access the Foreign Affairs website.

Mideastwire.com

Subjects: International Relations, Middle East Countries

MideastWire.com provides concise summaries in English of news stories and opinion pieces published in the media of the 22 Arab countries and the Arab diaspora and in the media of Iran. Coverage extends to key political, cultural, and economic developments in the region and in individual countries. Links to stories in their original language are provided. Georgetown faculty and students may subscribe to a daily email digest by contacting MideastWire using your Georgetown email account.

Official Document System of the United Nations

Subjects: International Law, International Organizations, International Relations

The Official Document System (ODS) is a searchable database that includes the full texts of born-digital United Nations documents from 1993-present. The database also includes digitized scans of the following types of paper documents created between 1945 and 1992: all resolutions adopted by the UN's principle organs, all Security Council documents, and official records of the General Assembly's plenary meetings. Digitized scans of other documents dating from 1945-1992 are gradually being added to the database. The ODS does not include the following types of documents: press releases, UN publications (yearbooks, statistical compilations, the UN Treaty Series, etc.), working papers and other internal documents not released for public distribution.

PAIS Index

Subjects: International Relations, Journals and Journal Indexes, Political Science and Government

PAIS Index covers issues in the public debate through a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976

ProQuest International Newsstand

Subjects: International Relations, Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes

"World News Connection contains the fulltext summaries of non-U.S. newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports. (It is the successor to the Daily Reports from the FBIS and the JPRS Reports provided through the NTIS.) See also the FBIS Daily Reports Digital Collection, which covers 1974-1996."

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Subjects: International Relations, Journals and Journal Indexes, Political Science and Government

"Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Since 2000, development of the serials list has focused on expanding international coverage. As of November 2005 approximately 1,500+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States."