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Gale in Context: Global Issues (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, and statistics.
Political Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Journals, dissertations and working papers on comparative politics, international relations & development, economy, environmental policy.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Large digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources from all over the world.

World Digital Library
Explore by place, time, or topic. Nearly 20,000 photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

These databases are great places to start. For information specific to a particular geographic region, select Country & Region Sources.

The Oxford Companion to International Relations by Joel Krieger (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
Entries such as the International Criminal Court, the governance of the Internet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and advances in IR scholarship.
Introduction to International and Global Studies by Smallman & Brown
Publication Date: 2011
Core themes include the history of globalization; economic, political, and cultural globalization; security; energy; labor, human rights, and multinational corporations; health and disease; global citizenry; and the environment.
World History Encyclopedia by Alfred J. Andrea
Publication Date: 2011
Covers the breadth of human history, in nine eras: Beginnings of Human Society; Early Civilizations, 4000-1000 BCE; Classical Traditions, 1000 BCE-300 CE; Expanding Regional Civilizations, 300--1000; Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500; The First Global Age, 1450-1770; The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914; Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945; Promises and Paradoxes, 1945-Present.