Research Guides: United States Institute of Peace (USIP): Finding Articles

Recommended Article Databases

Use these recommended databases to find scholarly articles, reports, and working papers relevant to international affairs.

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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Access to scholarly materials related to international affairs, including working papers, conference proceedings, journal articles, case studies, and other resources.
Global Think Tanks (Policy Commons) This link opens in a new window
Global Think Tanks is a growing digital repository providing access to more than 3 million reports, working papers, policy briefs, and data sources drawn from over 21,000 IGOs, NGOs, internationally-based think tanks and research organizations, along with document histories of 450 defunct organizations. Content is harvested (and indexed) on trending research topics across a wide range of disciplines and includes hard-to-find local and regional collections and at-risk content.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Current indexing and abstracting of the world's leading journals in political science. Simultaneous users: 8
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Full-text periodicals, news, reports, books, and proprietary background information summaries relating to terrorism and security. Combines deep background from scholarly sources with expert commentary from a range of organizations, agencies, and publishers and reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social, and technical spectrum.
JSTOR Security Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Security Studies collection gathers academic and policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues, encompassing perspectives from around the world.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other literature on the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Also included is information about websites, publications and organizations.
Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 267,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to the international periodical literature in political science and its complementary fields.

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