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Global Affairs Databases

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Full text of more than 400 working papers, 40 conference proceedings, and books from leading international relations research journals.
Digital Library for International Research This link opens in a new window
Foreign archives and special collections that hold unique and rare research materials.
Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers more than 450 social work and human services journals, spanning 1965 to the present, on all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service, and social issues and problems. Topics include homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, substance abuse and more.
World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps. Each country profile tracks demographic, ethnicity, literacy, political, and economic data.
World News Connection This link opens in a new window
Database that monitors non-U.S. media sources.

UNData This link opens in a new window
More than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and demographic topics
Yearbook of the United Nations This link opens in a new window
Principal reference work of the United Nations; provides a detailed overview of the organization's activities.

Aqualine This link opens in a new window
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Subjects of coverage include water resources and supplies management, water legislation, water quality, potable water distribution, wastewater collection, water treatment technologies, wastewater and sewage treatment and ecological and environmental effects of water pollution.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Focused on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with topics including global warming, recycling, alternate fuel sources, and more.
Environmental Performance Index This link opens in a new window
Ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change.

Center for Security Sources - Resources This link opens in a new window
Open access information services for international relations (IR) and security professionals.

International Country Risk Guide This link opens in a new window
Produces political, economic, and financial risk ratings for 140 countries, in the form of a Global Maps of Political Risk.
International Monetary Fund eLibrary This link opens in a new window
Produces political, economic, and financial risk ratings for 140 countries, in the form of a Global Maps of Political Risk.
World Databank This link opens in a new window
A collection of databases maintained by the World Bank Group.

International Statistical Agencies
A collection of databases with information about nations’ economies and populations (maintained by the US Census Bureau)

Alternatives
Focuses on the changing relationships between local political practices and identities and emerging forms of global economy, culture and polity.
Current History
The oldest US publication devoted exclusively to world affairs. Each month's issue focuses on a single region or topic.
Global Governance
Focuses on pressing transnational challenges: peace and security, development, human rights, the environment, and health.
Global social policy
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy and Social Development
Human Rights Quarterly
Presents current work on important developments within the United Nations and regional human rights organizations.
The Journal of Human Rights
Public discussion and scholarly analysis of human rights, broadly conceived.
The Journal of International Political Theory
Innovative theoretical engagement with human rights, global social justice, world order, armed conflict, peace, neocolonialism, climate change, international history, and globalization.