Anatolia College Libraries: IBDP: Global Politics

Databases

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs and publications (updated monthly).
Academic Search Elite (EbscoHost) This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database providing access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines.
Covering All Major Academic Disciplines
Academic Search Elite is a rich resource spanning a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.

Topical Video Content
Academic Search Elite offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. Videos relevant to the search terms will appear in a carousel in the result list. With footage from 1930 to the present and updated monthly, this collection of more than 77,000 videos covers a wide variety of topics.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Online Academic delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information.
Use this database for general reference or when you need to
Ebook Central (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Ebook Central delivers, with breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including University Presses and other top publishers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A research database providing access to complete archives of digitized core scholarly journals, many dating from the 1800s
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
A full text database providing essays presenting multiple sides of a current controversial issue. Includes more than 270 topics, each with an overview, objective background/description, point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content. MUSE books and journals, from leading university presses and scholarly societies, are fully integrated for search and discovery
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is one of the world’s largest statistics and market data platforms with access to more than 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, dossiers, reports and infographics on 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.
Issues Online This link opens in a new window
Issues Online is a full web-based resource enhancing and supplementing the subject areas and topics used in the Issues and Issues Today publications.

Periodicals

The Economist This link opens in a new window
The Economist, weekly magazine of news and opinion published in London and generally regarded as one of the world’s preeminent journals of its kind. It provides wide-ranging coverage of general news and particularly of international and political developments and prospects bearing on the world’s economy. The publication is known for its social-libertarian slant and maintains that free markets provide the best method of running economies and governments. All articles except special reports are published without bylines (there is also no masthead), thereby presenting to readers a unified face.(Encyclopedia Britannica)
New York Times Newspaper This link opens in a new window
Our subscription offers you complimentary access to the NYT award-winning website and the NYT apps. You can read articles either on your smartphone or tablet — or both.
Once you create your account you get your pass which lasts for a year. You need to visit the campus to udate your pass once it's expired, so that you continue having uninterrupted access to NYT.
Access Instructions can be found at:
http://act.beta.libguides.com/bissell/periodicals#s-lg-box-wrapper-16922830

The Nation
The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and the country's preeminent political journal. The Nation is produced with the highest journalistic standards, speaking with an authority that reflects the editorial vetting, fact-checking and deliberative characteristics increasingly rare in today's news and opinion reporting.
New Internationalist
The New Internationalist multi-stakeholder co-operative exists to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring the life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice.
The Week
Are you ready to experience the best of U.S. and international media? THE WEEK is the first news magazine created for the complex, chaotic, connected world you actually live in. We gather and distill the issues and ideas, people and events making news now. Then we deliver it straight to you in a clear and concise, colorful and entertaining package.
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. Our mission is to explain how the world works -- in particular, how the process of global integration is reshaping nations, institutions, cultures, and, more fundamentally, our daily lives.
Foreign Affairs
Reviews current events as they affect US relations worldwide, focusing on international, political, commercial and cultural relations.
Harvard International Review
Analyses on global developments in business, science, technology, & politics. Features scholars & policymakers from around the world.

The Economist [in-print]
The Economist offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them.
The Atlantic monthly
Features articles for the general reader, reports & comments on recent events in history, humour, fiction, poetry, arts & leisure, & book reviews.
Time
National and international news, behavior, books, business, cinema, law, education, environment, modern living, music, nation, press, religion, theater, video and world.

Al Jazeera
English- and Arabic-language satellite media network, which centres the Muslim world more than Western media.
BBC
CNN
A private media corporation representing the political ‘centre’.It provides rolling news coverage from an American standpoint.
E-International Relations
The world’s leading international relations website with daily publications of unique content aimed at academics, general interest readers, and students.
euronews
Europe’s leading international news channel. It provides unfiltered, unbiased, fact-based journalism that empowers rather than unsettles.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
Harvard International Review
The Harvard International Review is a quarterly magazine offering insight on international affairs from the perspectives of scholars, leaders, and policymakers.
Le Monde diplomatique
Le Monde diplomatique is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs.
The New Humanitarian
An independent, non-profit news agency focusing on humanitarian stories in regions that are often forgotten, under-reported, misunderstood or ignored.
Political Violence at a Glance
An award-winning online magazine that answers questions on the most pressing problems related to violence and protest in the world's conflict zones, supported by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
Politico
A global nonpartisan politics and policy news organization. It connects the dots between global power centers.
Project Syndicate
a current affairs blogosphere by influential academics and policy-makers
UN News
The official United Nations News Service, a one-stop shop for all info related to the UN and its agencies. Breaking news, features, human stories.

Primary sources

United Nations Charter
The founding document of the United Nations.
European Union
A political and economic union of European states [A Short Guide | What it is and what it does | EU: History]
Union for the Mediterranean
The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together 43 countries to strengthen regional cooperation and dialogue through specific projects and initiatives that address inclusive and sustainable development, stability and integration in the Euro-Mediterranean area. [Publications]
Commonwealth
An international association of 56 member stated, mainly former British territories with shared goals like development, democracy and peace. [Charter | Declarations | iLibrary]
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world. It endeavors to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.
Charter | Conventions
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
A political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia

Publications

UN: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A milestone document in the history of human rights proclaimed by the United Nations
UNICEF: Convention on the Rights of the Child
The CRC is the first global set of legally binding rights to apply to all children.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for people forced to flee their homes because of conflict and persecution. [Publications | Handbooks and toolkits]
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.[ Annual Reports ]
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world.

Global Footprint Network
a resource accounting tool that compares the resource demand of individuals, governments, and businesses against Earth's capacity for biological regeneration.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, aiming to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity"
IMF: eLibrary
The IMF is a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation, which are essential to increase productivity, job creation, and economic well-being. [eLibrary | Data]
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
An international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. OECD's goal is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all. [iLibrary | Data]
Oxfam International
Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice. Across regions, from the local to the global, we work with people to bring change that lasts.
Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.
UNECE
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's major aim is to promote pan-European economic integration.As a multilateral platform, UNECE facilitates greater economic integration and cooperation among its member countries and promotes sustainable development and economic prosperity.
UNESCO
UNESCO uses education, science, culture, communication and information to foster mutual understanding and respect for our planet. Its' goal is to strengthen the intellectual and moral solidarity of humankind. [ Publications | Data center]
World Bank
One of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. Its five institutions share a commitment to reducing poverty, increasing shared prosperity, and promoting sustainable development. [Publications]
World Trade Organization
The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. WTO's goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. [Statistical Review | Report | Annual Report]

International Court of Justice
The principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies. [Publications]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
A political and military alliance. NATO’s purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The largest regional security organization that works for stability, peace and democracy through political dialogue about shared values and through practical work that aims to make a lasting difference.[Key documents | Publications]
Fragile States Index
An annual report published by the Fund for Peace that aims to assess states' vulnerability to conflict or collapse, ranking all sovereign UN states.
International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent organisation working to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world.

Web Resources

UN - Global Issues
an overview of some of the global issues, and links to other resources, where you can get additional information.
Council on Foreign Relations
An independent organization and think tank dedicated to helping people understand global foreign policy.
Chatham House
Chatham House is a world-leading policy institute with a mission to help governments and societies build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.
The global power shift [TED playlist]
Big-picture talks about global politics and the shifting weight of the world.
The World Factbook
The World Factbook by CIA provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities,

Maps

Worldometer
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy, health
MapChart
Make your own custom map of the World, United States, Europe, and 50+ different maps.

Internet Freedom Status [Freedom House]
Footprint Explorer Open Data Platform [Global Footprint Network]
Food Footprint Platform [Global Footprint Network]
Real GDP growth [IMF]
OECD Going Digital Toolkit
Compare your country [OECD]
OECD Countries
International Migration
ATLAS of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 [World Bank]
NATO on the Map
Fragile States Index Heat Map
CrisisWatch: December Alerts and November Trends 2023 | Crisis Group

Podcasts

The World Next Week
previews upcoming world events. In each episode, Robert McMahon, CFR’s managing editor of digital content, and Carla Anne Robbins, CFR senior fellow and faculty director of the Master of International Affairs program at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, discuss what’s making headlines and lay out newsworthy international developments.
The Foreign Affairs Interview
Foreign Affairs invites you to join its editor, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, as he talks with influential thinkers and policymakers about the forces shaping the world. Whether the topic is the war in Ukraine, the United States’ competition with China, or the future of globalization, Foreign Affairs' biweekly podcast offers the kind of authoritative commentary and analysis that you can find in the magazine and on the website.
Overwatch
Overwatch, a podcast series from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), goes beyond the news headlines to give listeners analysis and commentary on issues related to U.S. national security and American foreign policy. The episodes feature discussions with experts and practitioners to explore what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the U.S. Episodes are released on a biweekly basis.
Global News Podcast
The latest from Israel and Gaza and all the top stories from BBC News. Twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends and special episodes. Reports and analysis from around the world.

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