GLO 299 - Weiss

Using the CSN Library website to complete your research assignment

Assignment Criteria-Citations and Sources

The majority of the sources that you use for your paper should be scholarly resources, such as peer-reviewed journal articles, books, reports by think tanks and policy institutes, etc. Newspaper articles and newsmagazines should be used sparingly and almost exclusively for background information. Any source you use should provide in-depth and objective (unbiased) coverage of international relations issues and world events.The following are recommended sources:

  1. Newspaper/Media sources
    New York Times                                   Los Angeles Times 
    Wall Street Journal                             British Broadcasting Corporation 
    PBS
  2. Newsmagazines (for background information only) on foreign policy and international relations (non-peer-reviewed) can be found in the CSN Libraries EBSCO Complete and ProQuest Central databases. Use the filters for "Full Text" and "Magazines".
    Foreign Policy                                    The Atlantic 
    The Economist                                   Newsweek 
  3. Peer-reviewed academic journals on foreign policy and international relations can be found in the EBSCO Complete and ProQuest Central databases. Use the filters for "Full Text" and "Peer-reviewed."
    Foreign Affairs                                   International Organization 
    International Studies Quarterly          World Politics 
    Orbis                                                  International Studies Review 
    International Studies Perspectives 
  4. Foreign policy and international relations think tanks and policy institutes

      Center for Strategic and International Studies 
      The Brookings Institution 
       Carnegie Endowment for International Peace   
            Human Rights Watch

Read the professor's assignment carefully for more information. Ask questions if you don't understand.