International Relations - Research Guide  

Syracuse University Library purchases and provides access to a wide variety of information sources (e.g., books, journals, DVDs, electronic resources) in all areas of international relations.

To find out more about all these great sources, please explore the links in this guide's menu bar.

World News Connection {Dialog} - An online news service offering extensive translated and English-language news and information, compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources. Sources WNC draws upon include full text and summaries of newspaper articles, websites, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals and non-classified technical reports.  This information is generally available within 24-72 hours from the time of original publication or broadcast. For additional historical perspective on the World News Connection service, see NTIS Program Manager, John Hounsell's - White Paper on World News Connection (2011) and Barry Newman's Wall Street Journal background article on World News Connection (Feb 28, 2011).

Global Foresight Books project offers a unique profiling service, describing new and forthcoming book titles published in various areas of current affairs.  Subject categories for the book titles profiled are highly interdisciplinary and include topics such as world futures, climate change, development, security, water, energy, cities, health, communication and more.  Special features also offer sections on paradigm breaking books, appropriate economics, recommended books and a book of the month. The project was launched in 2009 by Michael Marien, founder and editor of Future Survey, published by the World Future Society between 1979-2008.  Marien earned his PhD in social science and national planning studies from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. 

Faculty or students are welcome to recommend Library purchase for titles of particular interest by emailing Political Science Librarian, Michael Pasqualoni, at mjpasqua@syr.edu   

Source:  Hans Rosling's The Joy of Stats - BBC 4 (posted to YouTube Nov 26, 2010)

SU International Relations Program

SCOLA [SCOLA]
A nonprofit educational consortium based in McClelland, Iowa, that receives and re-transmits television news and entertainment programming from more than one-hundred different countries in the original languages.