Core Resources

Political Science Abstracts

America: History & Life (Not just history-- American politics as well) and Historical Abstracts

IBSS: International Bibliography of Social Sciences Multilingual, interdisciplinary.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Great fulltext resource on international relations.

Left Index Leftist analysis of politics and culture.

Index Islamicus Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.

Expanded Academic ASAP and Academic Search Premier (interdisciplinary databases, a lot of fulltext journal articles).

Political and Social Science Dictionaries, via Oxford Reference Online and the CIA Worldfactbook (maps, country info, more)

News Sources:

New York Times current, and the historic (back to the mid-Nineteenth Century). Washington Post current only (backfile through Lexis Nexis), the Wall Street Journal,Le Monde Diplomatique (English version), and the Guardian (current, archive through Lexis Nexis).

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Online access to full-texts of newspaper articles going back to around 1980.

Great list of newsmagazines from a range of political perspectives at world-newspapers.com including online journals with foreign policy focus Foreign Affairs , Foreign Policy , Orbis . To get the fulltext of articles from these titles, you can search in Academic Search Premier and limit the search to just the source (name of the journal) that you are interested in. Also try the new resource American Interest .

World News Connection provides fulltext news from radio, television, newspapers from around the world in translation. World Press Review gives a summary of the news from papers around the world.

Websites recommended by Professor Machala

Middle East Report Online

“Shaking Hands with Saddam”

Middle East Research and Information Project

Middle East

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Selected U.S. Government Documents

Congressional Universe An online service with access to indexing and some full-texts of Congressional hearings, documents, prints, reports, and legislation, back to 1970. Indexes for prior years in paper at Ref KF49 .C62.

National Security Archive Declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Great resource, some of which is freely available fulltext.

Foreign Relations of the United States. 1932-- (JX 233 A3) Increasingly this material is available on the web. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon Administrations from 1961-1972 are available online.

U.S. Government Publications

Annual Report of the Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) to President and Congress, 2005. 1995--2004 are also online. Earlier years in paper or microfiche.

United States Department of State , including all speeches, briefings, and testimony.

The Whitehouse contains the speeches and policy documents of President George W. Bush. Public Papers of the President. 1929-- (J 80 A283) includes material for this president and earlier presidents in paper. Increasingly available online through GPO Access, or the Presidential Libraries.