U.S. Foreign Relations: Basic Resources

Findling, John F. Dictionary of American Diplomatic History. 2d edition. New York, Greenwood Press, 1989.
"Basic information about nearly six hundred persons associated with U.S. foreign policy from the Revolution through 1988, as well as descriptions or definitions of about six hundred nonbiographical items connected with American diplomacy, ranging from crises to catchwords." All entries include bibliographic citations.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .F5 1989

Chronological History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Lester H. Brune. 2d edition. New York : Routledge, 2003. 3 vols.
Chronology of events relevant to U.S. relations with other nations as well as events in other countries that influenced American decisions. v. 1. 1607-1932 -- v. 2. 1933-1988 -- v. 3. 1989-2000. Vol. 3 includes an analytical index. For example
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7.B745 2003

Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Editors, Alexander DeConde et. al. 2d edition. New York, Scribner, 2002. 3 vols.
121 in-depth scholarly essays on the concepts, themes, movements, and distinctive policies found in the history of American foreign relations. List of Articles
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7.E52 2002

Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. 4 vols.
1,024 scholarly entries relating to the political, economic, military, and cultural interactions of the U.S. government and the American people with other nations and peoples. Most entries include bibliography.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7.E53 1997

American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature. 2nd edition. Robert L. Beisner, editor. Santa Barbara, CA., ABC-CLIO, 2003. 2 vols.
The basic resource for identifying materials (primary documents, books, essays, articles, dissertations, reference sources) on American foreign relations. Based on Burns (below) but without the lengthy historiographic essays and maps. Chronological arrangement with each chapter preceded by a detailed table of contents. Annotated entries.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .A44 2003

Burns, Richard Dean. Guide to American Foreign Relations Since 1700. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-Clio, 1983.
The classic bibliographic guide to American foreign relations. Arranged by historical period; annotated entries, extensive historiographic essays, maps, and biographies of key figures.
Dana Call Number: Ref. E183.7 .G83 1983

Foreign Relations of the United States. U.S. Department of State. Washington, D.C., 1861- .
The 'official' documentary record of U.S. foreign policy. Correspondance, reports, and documents relating to U.S. diplomatic history, published with a delay of approximately 25 years. The most recent volumes (Truman - Nixon/Ford) are available online. The State Department maintains a list of all volumes that have been published.
Dana Call Number: JX233 .A3
Index to 1939-1945 volumes: Ref. JX233 .A3 Suppl.

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Extensive collection of digitized documents from the ancient world to the 21st century. From the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School.

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Other Countries

Country Studies
Online versions of the Country Studies/Area Handbooks series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. A basic resource for an overview of a particular country. Note: The Handbooks found here are electronic versions of studies published between 1988 and 1998, when Congress withdrew funding for this program. Funding was restored for 2004 and work continues on several new editions as well as updated Country Profiles. However, no funding was allocated in 2005 or 2006.

Background Notes
U.S. Department of State information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. Each report includes a brief U.S. Relations section summarizing the current state of U.S. relations with that country.

CountryWatch
Includes reports on 191 countries worldwide with up-to-date political, economic, cultural, business, and environmental information, as well as current and archived country-specific news.
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Portals to the World
The Library of Congress's excellent collection of selected links to in-depth information about the nations and areas of the world. Arranged by country or area, then by categories such as "Business, Commerce, and Economy;" "Government, Politics, and Law;" "Science and Technology;" "Society," etc.

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Finding Books: Library Catalogs

IRIS The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries. Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:

United States Foreign Relations 1989-

United States Foreign Relations [country or region name] Show Me

United States Foreign Economic Relations

Globalization

United States Politics and Government

Newark Law
Camden Law
Rutgers Law library materials are not listed in IRIS. Use the above subject headings to find relevant publications in the law collections.

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Finding Articles plus: Indexes

History Indexes

America: History and Life
1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.
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Historical Abstracts
1955- . The most comprehensive index to world history (excluding that of the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexes over 2,000 history and history-related journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations.
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Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
1975- Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.
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Public Affairs Information Service
1915- Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues.
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International and Regional Affairs

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
1991- Database of full-text working papers, research reports, conference proceedings, policy briefs, and journal articles relating to international affairs.
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Asia Studies Full-Text
Index to a database of full-text reports covering 53 countries including all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim, and the Pacific Islands. Reports cover a wide range of topics including business, economics, the environment, politics, education, and women's studies.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
1935- . Selective, annotated bibliography of books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage alternates between social sciences and the humanities on a biennial basis.

Hispanic-American Periodical Index [HAPI]
1970- . The major multidisciplinary periodical index for Latin American Studies. Indexes over 400 scholarly journals published in the U.S. and Latin America.
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Newspapers and Media

For links to many newspaper sites with online searchable archives, as well as to physical collections of newspapers see the Newspapers Research Guide.

Historical New York Times
Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included, use Access World News.
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Access World News
Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
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World News Connection
Translated and English-language news and information from Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty News, news transcripts, special reports and analyses, and radio broadcasts to and about Russia, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Central and Southwestern Asia, and the Middle East.

Voice of America Regional and international news, editorials, reports, radio broadcasts and webcasts in English and other languages. An international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government.

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Public Policy and Public Opinion

CQ Researcher
Extensive collection of weekly reports from Congressional Quarterly. Each report offers data, a variety of opinion, and a bibliography on a specific 'hot' issue.
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Public Agenda Online
A nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization, Public Agenda offers background information, in-depth analyses and opinion studies on a variety of public policy issues.

Polling the Nations
A compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 14,000 national, state and local surveys conducted since 1986 by some 700 polling organizations in the United States and eighty other countries.
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Maps

Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
Online maps of current and general interest. From the Univesity of Texas in Austin.

International Affairs Resources: Maps
Links to map resources from the WWW Virtual Library.

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Questions?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
John Cotton Dana Library
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
October 21, 2003
Revised June 9, 2006