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Globalization is the watchword of the 21st century. Global studies concerns itself with the cultures of nations and regions beyond one's own country as well as the study of the larger issues facing the world today from a global perspective. While the latter is the focus of this guide, the Peterson Library has a wide array of resources for global studies from both perspectives. These resources include print materials, electronic journals, periodical indexes, and research databases.
This guide is a selective bibliography of resources, both ours and the Internet sources we list. Use the library catalog to find more resources here and search the Internet, carefully and critically, for more websites. Additional library guides, notably Effective Communication and Cultural/Diversity, Foreign Language and Literature Resources, History and Historical Resources, International Business, and others may be useful for a particular focus on global studies with resources that are not duplicated in this guide.
We are here to help with your research. During library hours, visit us at the Information Desk, which is diagonally across from the library entrance on the main level or call us there at 203-932-7189. Contact us anytime by email at LibraryHelp@newhaven.edu and we will respond as quickly as possible during regular library hours. For an overview of research methods and resources, try our interactive online Virtual Reference Tour.
Note: This online guide contains direct links to websites. To locate any of the sites listed, if you have printed out this guide, simply type the name of the organization in Google or another search engine to find a link to the site.
Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the library home page. If you start at the UNH website, click on "Library" down on the left side of the home page, where you will find several important links, including the following:
Use the library catalog to find circulating and reference materials, including books, audiovisual holdings, government documents, and periodical titles. For periodical articles, see the Journal Articles section.
Our catalog uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification system and subject headings. LC assigns call numbers (letters and numerals) according to the book's primary subject. This puts similar materials together on the shelves and allows you to find them using the call number.
Quick search tips:
- Truncate with ‘?': globa? will get global, globally, globalization, etc.
- Put phrases in " ": "international relations" or "multinational corporation" or "global
warming"
- Sort results by Publish date descending to get newest items at the top of the results
list.
- Click on the Bibliographic tab to determine the LC subject headings for an
item and then click on those headings as links to additional material with the same
subject.
- Always click on the Linked Resources tab to check for electronic access for single
items. In multiple-result searches, the URL box at the right of the screen is a
reminder to look for a web link on the next page or click on "Linked Resources."
Look for search tips at the bottom of the catalog search page. For more detailed search advice, consult our guide on Using the UNH Library Catalog and sharpen your skills with our interactive Online Library Catalog Tutorial.
UNH students, faculty and staff can use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service for materials we do not own. ILL request forms for books and articles are available at the library Information Desk, and online from the library's website. A separate ILL request form is needed for each item. Bibliographic citations should be as accurate and complete as possible. Incorrect or incomplete information, e.g. abbreviations, lack of a publication date, etc., will slow down receipt of material. It is the Peterson Library's policy not to order course textbooks. Read more about Interlibrary Loan.
As a federal documents depository, we currently get about a third of U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) publications. These include periodicals, federal agency reports, Congressional hearings, federal census information, and much more. Our recently received documents will be found in library catalog searches and may be here in physical formats like paper, microfiche, CD-ROM, etc. or, increasingly, in online formats via the catalog. Be sure to click on Linked Resources to check for electronic availability. For those [GovDocs] items that are not online, and for assistance of any kind with documents, come to the Information Desk. Read more about Government Documents in our library guide.
Reference and Circulating Materials
♦COUNTRIES, REGIONS AND CULTURES
Worldwide Reference
The Dictionary of Global Culture.Ref. CB9 .D53 1999
The Europa World Year Book. [Info Desk] Ref. JN1 .E85; older eds. in circ. stacks
Global Development: A Reference Handbook. Ref. HC59.7 .S283 1995
Global Monitoring Report. Ref. HD72 .G56; also online.
The Statesman's Yearbook. [Info Desk] Ref. JA51 .S7; older eds. in circ. stacks;
also online in library at workstation 1.
The World Factbook. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [Info Desk] Ref. JA51 .N3;
also online; older eds. [GovDocs] PREX 3.15;
Nations and Regions
Global Studies: Africa. Ref. DT30.5 .R35 1993
Global Studies: China. Ref. DS735 .O32 1993; also in circ. stacks
Global Studies: Commonwealth of Independent States and Central/Eastern Europe.
Ref. DK17 .G64 1992
Global Studies: India and South Asia. Ref. DS341.3 .N67 1993
Global Studies: Japan and the Pacific Rim. Ref. DS885 .C64 1993; also in circ. stacks
Global Studies: Latin America. Ref. F1414.2 .G66 1992
Global Studies: The Middle East. Ref. DS62.4 .S63 1992
Global studies: Western Europe. Ref. 424 .W37 1993
Economics and Statistics
OECD Economic Surveys: [Titled as various countries]. Organisation for Economic Co-
operation and Development. Ref. HC240 .O7+; online access via catalog links or click here.
World Development Indicators. The World Bank. Ref. HC59.15 .W656; also online.
World Economic Outlook. International Monetary Fund. Ref. HC10 .W7979; also online.
World Investment Report. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
Ref. HG4538 .W673; also online.
The World Trade Report. World Trade Organization. Ref. HF1385 .W675; also online.
♦GLOBAL ISSUES
Multidisciplinary
The Future of the Past. CC135 .S76 2002
Globalization and Its Discontents. HF1418.5 .S75 2003
Global Survival: The Challenge and Its Implications for Thinking and Acting.
HC79.E5 G59 2006
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. HM846 .F74 2006
Mountains Beyond Mountains. R154.F36 K53 2004
One World: The Ethics of Globalization. JZ1318 .S583 2002
Economic
Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.13148; also online via catalog.
The Globalization of the Chinese Economy.
HF1604 .G56 2002
Globalizing Activities and the Rate of Survival: Panel Data Analysis on Japanese Firms.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.10067; also online via catalog.
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.13139; also online via catalog.
Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.10603; also online via catalog.
Putting the Corporation in Its Place.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.13109; also online via catalog.
Environmental
Economics and the Global Environment. HD75.6 .P438 2000
International Green Politics. JA75.8 .I59 2002
The Economics of Climate Change: A Primer. [Gov Docs] Y 10.2:EC 7/10; also online.
Global Warming and the American Economy: A Regional Assessment
of Climate Change Impacts. HC106.8 .G594 2001
Greenhouse Gas Reductions Under Low Carbon Fuel Standards?
HB1 .A2 N3 no.13266; also online via catalog.
Life After Kyoto: Alternative Approaches to Global Warming Policies.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.11889; also online via catalog.
Cultural
Comparative Literature & Global Studies. PN870.5 .C66 2005
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies.
HD57.7 .L4323 2004
International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. HD58.7 .A33 2002
Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization. BP163 .A3535 2007
The Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of Islam.
Ref. BP40 .M83 1996
Working Across Cultures. HM1211 .H66 2004
Human Rights
The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World. JC337 .F56 2005
Developing Global Leaders: Enhancing Competencies and Accelerating the Expatriate
Experience. HD57.7 .K727 2005x
Genocide and the Rule of Law: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights...
[Gov Docs] Y 4.J 89/2:S.HRG.110-46; also online.
Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement. HV640 .C614 1998
Human Rights: A Reference Handbook. Ref. K3240.4 .W46 1998
Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations. JC571 .W8893 2007
Social
Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy. HF1359 .G566 2002
Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from Within China.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.8611; also online via catalog.
Importing Equality?: The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.9110; also online via catalog.
Reducing Global Poverty: The Case for Asset Accumulation. HC59.72 .P6 R427 2007
The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization.
HB1 .A2 N3 no.12946; also online via catalog.
World Hunger: A Reference Handbook. Ref. HD9000.5 .K883 1991
Security
Countering Global Terrorism: Developing the Antiterrorist Capabilities of the Central Asian Militaries. UA832.2 .M38 2004; also online.
Country Reports on Terrorism and Patterns of Global Terrorism.
[Gov Docs] S 1.138:; also online.
Encyclopedia of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Ref. JF1525 .I6 E64 2005
The Global Century: Globalization and National Security.
[Gov Docs] D 5.402:G 51/4/V.1-2; also online.
"In the Same Light as Slavery": Building a Global Antiterrorist Consensus.
[Gov Docs] D 5.402:AN 8/4; also online.
Too Poor for Peace?: Global Poverty, Conflict, and Security in the 21st Century.
HC59.72 .P6 T66 2007
Periodical articles from scholarly journals, as well as from newspapers and magazines, can be a valuable source of information in all research fields. Journals at the MKP Library on our home page is a listing of most of the periodical titles, current and historical, to which you have access through the library, including print, and microform materials in the library, as well as periodicals available electronically. To find:
♦Single journals or articles by citation: Type the title of the journal in the top search box. Results will show which databases contain the journal electronically and give you a list of available issues to search through. Available UNH library holdings are also given to enable you to find and/or copy the article in the library. Periodicals are on the lower level. Current newspapers are at the Circulation Desk on the entry level.
♦Lists of journals by keyword or subject: Use the top search option, with the drop-down box set to Title contains all words and search with title keywords, e.g. internat* or global [*= truncation here]. You can also use the lower drop-down search box and select subjects like Law, Politics & Government and the listed subcategories, with International Relations and Human Rights some useful ones here. These methods allow you to identify periodicals in a field and browse current issues of these periodicals, either online or in the library.
If you need a list of articles on a subject, use the periodical indexes found in this guide in the Databases section.
♦SELECTED JOURNALS
Global Issues and Perspectives
Arms Control Today; Ethics & International Affairs; Foreign Affairs; Foreign Policy; Global Environmental Politics; Global Governance; Global Warming Today; Globalization and Health; International Journal; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Global Optimization;Middle East Policy; New Internationalist; Pacific Affairs; Social Justice; UN Chronicle; World Affairs; World Policy Journal; World Watch.
Regional Issues and Perspectives
African Studies Quarterly; Asia Europe Journal; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Contemporary Southeast Asia; European Journal of Social Quality; European Report; European Social Policy; Journal of African History; Journal of Contemporary Asia; Journal of Latin American Studies; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; Official Journal of the European Union.
Use the links on the library's home page for access. Use the Alphabetical List to select databases by title or provider, the Subject List for topical access, or the Annotated List for search tips, publications included, user's guides, tutorials, and links to each database. Entering your 16-digit UNH ID number once, when instructed, will open all library resources until you close the search window.
For help in formulating search strategies, consult our Finding Articles guide and try our interactive online Database Searching Tutorial.
♦ELECTRONIC JOURNAL INDEXES - FINDING ARTICLES:
ABI/INFORM Global. Mostly full-text articles for nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals. [iCONN]
Academic OneFile. Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML formats. [iCONN]
Alternative Press Index. International, interdisciplinary journal coverage of cultural, economic, political and social change from nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Available in library only. Ask at Information Desk. [FirstSearch]
Berkeley Electronic Press. Peer-reviewed journals, working papers and other scholarly information offered for free downloading by the authors themselves. Major subject areas include economics, business, marketing, and law.
Contemporary Women's Issues (and Archive). Focuses on global health and human rights issues affecting women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets. Available in library only. Ask at Information Desk. [FirstSearch]
Emerald Fulltext Journals Online. Over 100 journals published by Emerald Insight Publishers, with articles on various global issues.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). Freely available U.S. government database, useful for articles examining global studies programs, as well as global approaches to educational issues, and comparative international education studies.
HighWire Press. Over 4 million (1.5 million free) articles from more than 1,000 journals.
LegalTrac. Indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals, plus law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest publications. [iCONN]
LexisNexis Academic. Especially valuable for coverage of major world newspapers, but News also searches U.S. publications. Use Legal to for international law topics. Includes domestic and international legal materials (European Union law, Commonwealth and foreign nations case law, GATT and other international agreements). Click on the Sources tab to get to ‘Country and Region Reports' [iCONN]
ProQuest Newspapers and Historical Newspapers. Indexing and full-text content of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other major U.S. newspapers. Historical Newspapers provide full article and page images in PDF format. [ProQuest] or [iCONN]
PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection. Coverage of topics like ethics, organizational dynamics, and cross-cultural issues in the global environment, with full-text articles interlinked between these three databases. [EBSCO]
PubMed. Freely available, National Library of Medicine database, which indexes over 5,000 sources from the world's medical literature.
♦OTHER RESEARCH DATABASES
CountryWatch. Demographic, political, economic, cultural, and environmental information. Daily news coverage from several regional news services for every country, plus maps, weekly global news updates, and five year forecasts of key macroeconomic variables for world countries.
CQ Global Researcher. Focuses on global affairs and aims to expose students to a variety of international viewpoints on a selected topic in a pro-and-con format. Also suggests articles from current periodicals, and includes maps, graphs, and bibliographies.
FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE. An online collection of 168 reference handbooks dealing with forensics and crime at all levels, including international drug smuggling, money laundering, bioterrorism, and other national security issues.
Homeland Security Digital Library. This freely available database provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national security documents, as well as theses and reports from academic institutions and local and state organizations.
LexisNexis Statistical searches American Statistical Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and International Statistics Index (ISI), for tabular data from federal, state, and international government publications. [iCONN]
The National Academies Press. A free online collection of 3700 books covering all subject area from the National Academy of Sciences and affiliated institutions. The term global in their search box brings up 800 online publications. [iCONN]
NBER Working Papers. This link takes you directly to the National Bureau of Economic Research publications database. These same NBER publications will come up with online access through searches in the library catalog.
The Internet resources given in the various guides the library publishes are all either produced professionally or recommended by knowledgeable reviewers. While there is much good information freely available on the Internet, caution must always be exercised when using online resources. Generally, it is best to stay with .edu or .gov domains. These are educational institutions and government agencies. The .com web sites are primarily commercial in nature. A site with the .org domain may be a respected professional organization, like the American Psychological Association, or it could also be a biased opinion group with skewed data and an axe to grind on a subject.
Always examine websites carefully. Who are these people? What are their professional credentials (the "About Us" material)? Where is their information coming from? Check their sources, and if necessary, check their sources' sources. Are they being objective or are they manipulating data? How current is the data? When was the last time the website itself was updated -- this is often found at the bottom of the home page. Be critical! Be sure to note the web address and part (page, chapter, section, etc.) you are referring to, and cite the references correctly. Websites need to be documented as sources just like books and journal articles.
♦INTERNET DIRECTORIES
Google Directory - Area Studies. Links to websites for major world regions and additional ones to selected sites with international coverage.
Google Directory - Global Issues. Topics like climate change, energy, sustainable development, terrorism.
International Affairs Resources - WWW Virtual Library. From Elizabethtown (PA) College, 2600 annotated links to carefully selected websites on all kinds of international relations topics. Search by organization, region and country, or subject.
Librarian's Internet Index. This distinguished site has provided librarian-selected, annotated websites since the early 1990s. Typing the term global in their search box brings up nearly 400 "websites you can trust."
The World Online. From the Bush Memorial Library at Hamline University, an excellent set of annotated links to nations, intergovernmental agencies, think tanks, humanitarian organizations, and other useful websites.
Yahoo! Directory - Social Science. Many good links, especially in ethnic, gender, migration and women's studies. Extensive links under 'Area Studies' for nations, regions, and linguistic groups.
♦COUNTRY INFORMATION
BBC News World Edition: Country Profiles. From the respected British news organization, profiles provide guides to history, politics and economic life of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. Search by country, territory, or international organization.
Department of State. Background Notes are frequently updated reports about most world nations; Countries and Regions supplies additional information; Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are done annually by the department and submitted to Congress.
Library of Congress. Country Studies are online versions of books previously published under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army. The Portals to the World link takes you to country information selected by LOC specialists.
National Geographic Online. The famed magazine with maps and much more. Use the 'Peoples and Places' link for searching on continents, regions, countries and cities. Free searchable 'Archives' of last ten years of the magazine.
♦INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES
International Monetary Fund. Member countries work together to foster economic growth and employment levels by facilitating monetary exchange and balance of payments adjustments. The IMF publishes World Economic Outlook and statistical database, surveys, country and regional reports and data.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Brings countries together to foster democracy and open markets. Browse by country, topic. OECD department, and find statistics, publications and documents and OECD Economic Surveys by country.
United Nations. The preeminent organization for world governance and cooperation with many important sub-agencies and publications. Homepage has links for Peace & Security, Economic & Social Development, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, and International Law, as well as for the Main Bodies and Member States. 'Publications' link takes you to many free online offerings and statistical databases..
The World Bank. Publishes World Development Indicators and many other annual reports available online. Their Doing Business database gives regulation and enforcement indicators for nations, allowing comparison of business conditions and environments.
World Trade Organization. Facilitates global trade via agreements between world nations. WTO and predecessor GATT documents are available under the 'Documents' tab. The 'Resources' tab leads to International Trade Statistics back to 1998 and other annual publications like the World Trade Report and WTO Annual Reports.
♦ORGANIZATIONS AND ISSUES
Amnesty International. One of the world's preeminent organizations for addressing human rights issues, it has succeeded in freeing thousands of political prisoners and led the campaign to outlaw torture. It won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for its humanitarian efforts.
Carolina Population Center. Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the center's scholars train researchers work on projects around the world. The ‘Publications' tab leads to hundreds of published works, many linked to free full text online.
Federation of American Scientists. The FAS was formed in 1945 by Manhattan Project scientists concerned about the technology unleashed in the atomic bomb. The group's mission is to promote humanitarian uses of science and technology based on rational arguments.
Food and Agriculture Organization. The United Nations agency which leads the international effort to defeat hunger. Acts as a forum where nations negotiate agreements and debate policy and helps countries improve agriculture, forestry, and fisheries practices. Links for statistical databases, country information, a virtual library, and publications and douments.
Global Environment Outlook. UN program charged with keeping the global environment under continuing review. Analyzes environmental change, causes, impacts, and policy responses and provides information for decision-making. The GEO Year Book 2007 is now available.
Greenpeace International. The often-controversial conservation group that works to protect world's marine resources, forests, animals, plants and people and promotes socially responsible uses of the environment in manufacturing and agriculture.
Human Rights Watch. HRW's fact-finding investigations and media exposure of human rights abuses in all regions of the world have helped to bring about constructive change and earned them a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for the banning of landmines in warfare.
International Labour Organization. The ILO is the UN agency that endeavors to promote decent wages and working conditions throughout the world by bringing governments, employers and workers together. The Economic and Labour Market Analysis has global employment data. Use the 'Statistics and databases' link to get other data sources as well.
Migration Policy Institute. A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank which analyzes global migration data and profiles of migration in countries throughout the world, and monitors the status of women, refugees, and ethnic groups at the local, national, and international levels.
OneWorld.net. A global information network with a mission of empowering people "to speak, connect, and make a difference" - by providing access to information through regional centers around the world.
World Health Organization. WHO is the health-coordinating arm of the United Nations. It supports research, provides leadership on global health matters, offers policy options, provides technical assistance to countries for monitoring health needs. Click on 'Publications' for World Health Statistics and Global Health Atlas as well as other data sources.
Worldwatch Institute. From the first Worldwatch Paper in 1975, the institute has used an interdisciplinary approach with a global focus to analyze environmental, social, and economic issues to work toward an "environmentally sustainable and socially just society."
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Their flagship publication, YaleGlobal Online has articles on topics like environment, gender, labor, and health, and has geographic coverage of regions as well as globalization and its history.
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