The following are books, websites, and databases on topics relating to international relations and foreign policy.
Security and threat analysis intelligence database for analysts, risk management professionals, and students.
Contains current U.S. government and military information including full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for 400 journals.
The following resources provide overviews of countries, including history, culture, economic, trade data, and more.
“The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.”
The following is a short list of some of the top journals the library has access to. We have thousands of journals in our databases, you can search by journal title or a topic using our Journals by Title search. *Note, you may need to login using your CSUM credentials in order to access these journals. You can browse by issue or search within the publication.
Think Tanks are a great place to look for information on various political and economic issues. They can provide non-partisan perspectives, and solutions to big issues, and hold other organizations accountable. They are often non-profit research organizations, or NGO (non-governmental organizations), providing public policy analysis and research. Writing about think tanks and using their research: A cautionary tip sheet, provides a great overview of what think tanks are and how to evaluate them.
There is still a strong need to evaluate these resources and be aware of fake organizations or conflicts of interests for funding or donations. Consider the following when you looking at Think Tanks and Watchdog organizations:
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