Political Science 13: World Politics
Professor Machala
Spring 2008
Finding Articles -- Indexes and Databases
- Academic Search Premier and Expanded Academic Lots of fulltext articles from thousands of journals in the social sciences.
- CSA Political Science Abstracts
- IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) -- all fulltext.
- America History and Life -- not just history, American life and politics as well.
- Left Index Leftist analysis of politics and culture.
- Index Islamicus Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world.
Reference Sources
- Oxford Reference Online: Politics and Social Sciences
- CIA Worldfactbook -- maps, country info and more.
Citation - Giving Credit Where Due
Professor Machala states that "plagiarism, multiple submissions, or any other serious violations will result in failure for the course." It's fine to use other people's ideas and research (in fact that's what scholars do), but it must be properly cited. The Duke Libraries Citing Sources Within Your Paper has an easy to use compilation of how to cite works in a variety of formats (web, journals, books, etc.) and following different style guides.
Useful Websites from Professor Machala
- Asia Times Online http://www.atimes.com/
- China Leadership Monitor http://www.hoover.org/publications/clm
- Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp
- Global Security Website http://www.globalsecurity.org/
- Pacific Council of International Policy http://www.pacificcouncil.org/index.aspx
- The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) http://www.pinr.com/
- Taiwan Security Research (TSR) http://www.taiwansecurity.org/
- Carnegie Endowment for International peace http://www.carnegieendowment.org/
- Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ Annual Report http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/Foreign_Policy/fp.htm
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. New online journal: American Interest. Journals that Amherst owns, electronically or in paper, on world politics.
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
AllAfrica.com -- news and commentary from the continent, broken out by country and/or topic.
Finding books in the Five College Catalog -- and beyond
It's always good to start in the Library Catalog . If you don't find enough books in the Five Colleges, you can search thousands of library catalogs in World Cat You can then request books through Interlibrary Loan... but the books come through the mail so it takes TIME!
Selected Government Documents
- Cold War International History Project
- National Archives and Records Adminstration NARA also provides a link to Presidential Libraries covering presidents Roosevelt through Bush.
- National Security Archive -- research institute on international affairs, and an archive of declassified U.S. documents.
Questions? Comments? Please contact Susan Edwards, (413) 542-2676 or email seedwards.