POLI 302
Library Services for Undergraduate Students
Borrowing from Other Libraries
BCI Card - borrow books in person, from other university libraries
COLOMBO - Interlibrary loans, borrow books and request articles, through Concordia from other university libraries
Databases
Annual Reviews - One of the main tasks of the articles in these journals is to review the literature related to a particular research topic. Finding a ready-made review on a topic similar to yours can get you an important head start. Theoretical source.
Political Science Complete - good poli sci journal coverage, plenty of full-text, excellent thesaurus
HeinOnline Law Journal Library - secondary peer reviewed literature about law and legal topics, Canadian content
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Closed Collection - dissertations and theses include literature reviews and long bibliographies, and they cover topics that are new or emerging.
e-Journals
Journal of Conflict Resolution
American Political Science Review
International Studies Quarterly
British Journal of Political Science
Books
Use http://clues.concordia.ca/ to look for ebooks and print books in our collection.
Use the Subject Heading search: http://clues.concordia.ca/search/d to find books on a particular, focussed subject area.
Useful Subject Headings:
- Arms control
- [subject] case studies
- Civil war
- Cold war
- Democratization
- Deterrence Strategy
- Disarmament
- Ethnic conflict
- Feminism
- Guerrilla war
- Insurgency
- Liberalism
- Mass media and war
- Militarism
- Neoliberalism
- Peace building
- Peace building case studies
- Peace building [country name]
- Peace movements
- Peace research
- Peaceful change international relations
- Peacekeeping forces
- Political stability
- Realism
- Revolutions
- War and civilization
- War and society
- War causes
- War cost of
- War economic aspects
- War environmental aspects
- War international law
- War moral and ethical aspects
- War on terrorism
- War philosophy
- War prevention
- War psychological aspects
- War religious aspects
- Weapons of mass destruction
- Women and war
Primary Sources: Governmet, NGO and IGO documents
Digital National Security Archive
US Dept of State: Country Reports on Terrorism
Council on Foreign Relations: Peace, conflict and human rights
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
RAND Corporation - nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
Human Security Report Project (SFU)
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)