Core Resources

Political Science Abstracts Find scholarly articles...

Historical Abstracts -- includes recent European history, and American History and Life for contemporary and historic U.S./Europe relations.

IBSS: International Bibliography of Social Sciences Indexes multilingual, interdisciplinary research journals.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) Great fulltext resource -- wide ranging topics.

Left Index Leftist analysis of politics and culture.

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)

European News Sources:

Le Monde Diplomatique (English version), and the Guardian (current, archive through Lexis Nexis).
European National Newspapers

World Newspapers - Europe (In English)

World News Connection Fulltext news from radio, television, newspapers from around the world in translation.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe Online access to full-text of newspaper articles (including some from Europe) going back to around 1980.

World Press Review gives a summary of the news from papers around the world.

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

Useful Websites

Gateway to the European Union

European Union Resources (compiled by U.C. Berkeley)

Cold War International History Project

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Newsmagazines and Journals:

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.

Journals that Amherst owns, electronically or in paper, on European Politics.

JSTOR Large backfile of fulltext journals in political science. Current titles through Project Muse, including these in political science.