Subject Guides: Political Science and International Relations: Home

Political Science and International Relations: Home

Quick access to databases, articles, books and web resources for research in political science and international relations.

Wondering where to start your research? Here are a couple places to start. For more options, check the specialized tabs at the top of this guide.

PAIS International
One of the library's top international relations and foreign affairs databases. This database covers scholarly and trade journals, books and publications from governments and NGOs.

Public affairs publications from over 120 countries.
International Political Science Abstracts
The library's main political science database. An excellent source for finding scholarly political science and international relations articles.

"International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA),produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains over 110,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year."
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
International affairs database with working papers, journal articles, books, policy papers and more from a wide variety of sources. Most of the resources in this database are available full text.