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- Armed Conflict Database
- Europa World and/or Europa World Plus (including Regional Surveys of the World)
- World (International) Who’s Who
- World of Learning
- Routledge Reference Resources
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1) Armed Conflict Database
In order to provide up-to-date and objective information on conflict-related matters from around the world, the IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) has developed the Armed Conflict Database (ACD). Compiled by the IISS Transnational Threats and Political Risk Programme, the ACD provides an interactive and user-friendly source of information on 70 armed conflicts.
The ACD covers international and internal armed conflicts, as well as terrorism. It offers year-on-year analysis of conflicts, their political status, number of fatalities and weapons used. It also covers current events, conflict backgrounds and timelines. Each conflict is analysed in detail under the following headings:
• Political Review: analyses the latest noteworthy political trends and developments within the conflict.
• Military and Security Review: offers the latest military and security developments, information on parties involved in the conflict, including non-state armed groups, as well as procurements, arms acquisitions, major offensives, changes in tactics and other security concerns.
• Human Security Review: maintains a check on the human cost of the conflict. This feature informs the user of both the total number of fatalities in the conflict, and the number of fatalities in a specific year, and information about refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). This review also provides information on other humanitarian indicators of conflict such as unemployment, lack of access to natural resources, ethnic and religious strife, and basic infrastructure.
• Annual Update: offers a comprehensive review of the main events during the year, including military and human security developments. A fact box covers the type of conflict, its parties, current status, the number of its fatalities and the weapons used. With the fact box comes an update of the year’s trends and incidents relating to all features of the conflict, including the status and type of conflict.
• Historical Background: provides a researched historical background paper to the conflict, placing recent developments into perspective by explaining the underlying causes and tension behind the fighting.
• Timeline: presents a constantly updated timeline relating to the conflict. When accessed, the user is automatically transferred to the current date, but by scrolling the user can quickly gain an insight into recent and historic incidents and developments.
• Links: provides a direct route to other IISS publications, external sources and useful official documents, peace accords and agreements, as well as relevant Security Council resolutions.
When searching for specific information the user can either browse through the different year-on-year reports and fact sheets online or generate reports. The ACD has a built-in-function which can generate targeted reports on conflict data back to 1997 and correlates reports from various years, conflicts, regions and topics. Variables can be isolated or combined and the results are easily presented, either on-screen in a table or when downloaded.
Timelines are updated on a weekly basis, reports on a quarterly basis, and the annual analysis is published each February.
Click here to view powerpoint highlighting main features and functionality including screen shots of the Armed Conflict Database (PPT 3.08MB).
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2) Europa World and/or Europa World Plus (including Regional Surveys of the World)
a) Europa World (Europa World Year Book Online)
The premier source of information on international affairs combines all the invaluable content of the print edition with the benefits of a fully searchable online resource. Europa World delivers authoritative world-wide coverage, up-to-date and impartial economic, political and geographic information, and the latest available political, economic and geographic statistics by country. It also includes thousands of directory contact details with click-through web links and comprehensive listings of some 1,900 international and regional organisations.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Regularly updated information providing all the background to the world’s major political events and economic developments
- A full range of sophisticated search and browse functions, allowing full accessibility to the data-rich content
- The ability directly to compare multinational statistics in graph and tabular form
- A variety of interactive visual features, including maps, flags and downloadable graphs
b) Europa World Plus (Europa World and The Europa Regional Surveys of the World Online)
Europa World Plus enables you to subscribe to The Europa World Year Book online together with as many of the nine Europa Regional Surveys of the World online as you choose, in one simple annual subscription. The Europa Regional Surveys of the World complement and expand upon the information in The Europa World Year Book with in-depth, expert analysis at regional, sub-regional and country level.
Providing:
- An interactive online library for all the countries and territories of each of the world regions
- Impartial coverage of issues of regional importance from acknowledged experts
- A vast range of up-to-date economic, political and statistical data
- Book and periodical bibliographies – direct you to further research
- Extensive directory of research institutes specialising in the region
- Ability to search by content type across regions
- Thousands of click-through web links to external sites
Nine titles that make up Europa Regional Surveys of the World series are as follows:
- Africa South of the Sahara
- Central and South-Eastern Europe
- Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
- The Far East and Australasia
- The Middle East and North Africa
- South America, Central America and the Caribbean
- South Asia
- The USA and Canada
- Western Europe
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3) World (International) Who’s Who
The comprehensive, newly-expanded World Who's Who brings together current and hard-to-find biographical information on almost 60,000 of the most gifted, famous and influential men and women in all fields.
Using a full range of sophisticated search and browse functions in World Who's Who, researchers can quickly find the current career, contact and other biographical details that they need on their most eminent contemporaries. Heads of state, key ministers, politicians, diplomats and religious leaders, the famous and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, literature, fashion, sport and a host of other professions have been carefully selected by the Europa Biographical Reference team of editors. World Who's Who is regularly updated..
Key features include:
- Quick and easy access to current biographical details for the most prominent and influential individuals around the world
- Provides hard-to-find contact details and informs on career moves
- A newly enlarged section on royal families provides at-a-glance information on reigning monarchs
- Researched thoroughly and updated on a regular basis to provide current information
- Advanced search functions enable users to search by name, nationality, place and date of birth and by profession
- Click through web links and email addresses.
As well as including all the entries listed in ‘The International Who’s Who’, World Who’s Who contains details of individuals contained in the following titles, bringing an extra depth of information in the arts and in international affairs, as well as expanding coverage of prominent women worldwide:
- Who’s Who in International Affairs
- International Who’s Who of Women
- International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers
- International Who’s Who in Poetry
- International Who’s Who in Classical Music
- International Who’s Who in Popular Music
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4) World of Learning
At information services desks and on desktops around the globe, this classic directory and guide is widely acknowledged to be the definitive reference to the world’s organizations and institutions of higher education and learning. Featuring substantial updates, this ‘Outstanding’ resource already features over 30,000 institutions and more than 200,000 individuals in the academic sphere. Considered essential by libraries of every stripe around the world, this valuable research tool provides data and contact details on:
• universities and colleges
• research institutes
• museums and art galleries
• learned societies
• libraries and archives
• scholarly publications
• over 500 international organizations concerned with higher education and scholarship.
The Europa World of Learning provides:
• truly international coverage, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
• data revised and updated throughout the year
• sophisticated search options and refinements
• nearly 50,000 click-through email addresses and institutional websites
• hard-to-locate information, such as size of holdings, principal collections, year founded, key administrative staff, enrolment and much more
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5) Routledge Reference Resources
a) Religion Resource
Gain online access to the best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource.
This unique site comprises:
- Over 14,000 pages of content from the very best multi- and single-volume works including classics such as The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom
- Many areas within Religion, from the history, philosophy and sociology of religion, to new religious movements, indigenous religions and Islam
- Thousands of authoritative, signed articles on topics including: paganism, magic and alchemy; the origins and spread of Islam; Protestant and Catholic missionaries; the history of the papacy and environmental and medical ethics.
- Subject matter that benefits students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, history, Asian studies and sociology
- Articles from a distinguished team of over 3000 editors, contributors and authors.
The Resource will continually expand with the addition of new articles and the inclusion of entire new works. Our team of editors and subject specialists evaluate the material on a regular basis and recommend both new content and updates as needed.
Launching now:
- A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
- Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
- Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, Devils and Demons
- Encyclopedia of African American Religions
- Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
- Encyclopedia of Early Christianity
- Encyclopedia of Ethics
- Encyclopedia of Monasticism
- The Encyclopedia of Protestantism
- Encyclopedia of Religion and War
- Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom
- Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals
- Fifty Eastern Thinkers
- Fifty Key Christian Thinkers
- Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
- The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition
- The North American Muslim Resource Guide
- A Popular Dictionary of Paganism
- Reader's Guide to Judaism
- The Reformation World
- Religion and American Law
- RoutledgeCurzon Encyclopedia of Confucianism
- Who's Who in Christianity
- Who's Who in the New Testament
- Who's Who in the Old Testament
- The World's Religions
b) Politics and International Relations Resources
Gain online access to the best reference titles on Politics and International Relations in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource.
This unique site comprises:
- Over 16,000 pages of content from the very best multi- and single-volume works, including classics such as the Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements, Encyclopedia of Human Rights, Encyclopedia of Political Economy and the Dictionary of Modern Politics series
- Many areas within Politics and International Relations, from comparative, environmental and gender politics to security studies and political ideologies such as anarchism, fascism, liberalism and socialism
- Thousands of authoritative, signed articles on topics including: government, political parties and diplomacy; chemical weapons and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC); terrorism, freedom fighting and terrorist funding; immigration policy and immunity; and agreements and organizations such as NAFTA and OPEC
- Subject matter that benefits students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, history, Asian studies and sociology
- Articles from a distinguished team of over 2000 editors, contributors and authors
Launching now:
- The China Handbook
- Democracy and Democratization
- A Dictionary of the European Union
- A Dictionary of Human Rights
- A Dictionary of Modern Politics
- Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan
- Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia
- Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China
- Dictionary of Terrorism
- Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought
- Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe
- Encyclopedia of Government and Politics
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Encyclopedia of Political Economy
- Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements
- Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia
- The European Union Handbook
- Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations
- Fifty Major Political Thinkers
- The India Handbook
- International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
- International Relations: The Key Concepts
- The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century
- A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe
- Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders
- Reader's Guide to The Social Sciences
- The Routledge Companion to Fascism and the Far Right
- The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers
- Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
- The Terrorism Reader
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6) Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Featuring the same distinguished editorial and contributor list and unparalleled breadth of coverage that made the 1998 print set a classic, the online version grows each year with a diverse range of new material, providing impeccable scholarship in articles covering the latest developments in philosophical enquiry. With its easy, intuitive user environment and special resources for users at all levels, REP Online is a living, truly authoritative work that enriches the studies of academics, students and general readers world-wide.
REP Online includes:
• Powerful Search and Refine Search options
• ‘signpost’ overview articles introducing the full breadth of key philosophical themes, plus an interactive Subject Guide, allowing users to scan a full list of entries concerned with a particular area, era or school of philosophy
• extensive cross-references and suggestions for further reading, comprehensive critical bibliographies (revised since publication of the print version) and web links to useful free content available online
• fresh content and updates from our team of editors and subject specialists.
New entries for 2007 include:
• Global Justice, Recent Work
• Historical Redress
• Human Rights
• Humanitarian Intervention
• Immigration and Refugees
• International Law
• Confucian Political Philosophy
• Jewish Political Philosophy
• Sen, Amartya
• Terrorism
• Okin, Susan M.
• Secession
• and more ...
Many bibliographies are updated with recent publications.
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