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JSIS 495: Task Force - Winter 2018: JSIS 495: Task Force - Winter 2018: Task Force F - New Cold War in the Baltic Sea Region
The Baltic Region
Key Scholarly and Policy Journals
- Europe-Asia StudiesTen issues/year. Covers post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe with focus on current affairs, economics and history.
- Journal of Baltic StudiesQuarterly. Articles on all aspects of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- International Affairs (Moscow, Russia)Six per year, in English. Policy journal sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Moscow Institute of International Relations.
- Journal of Eurasian StudiesTwo issues per year. Interdisciplinary social sciences in the post-Soviet and Asian continuum.
- Nationalities PapersSix issues/year. Ethnic and minority affairs in post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe.
- Osteuropa = Eastern EuropeOne of the most prominent German scholarly journals on East European current affairs. In German.
- Post-Soviet AffairsQuarterly. Politics and economics, mostly of post-Soviet Russia.
- Problems of Post-CommunismSix issues/year. Politics, economics and history of post-Communist Eastern and Central Europe.
- Slavic ReviewQuarterly. Leading journal of politics, history and culture of Russia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Ready Reference
- Estonian Human Development Reports Annual reports, in English, spanning 1995-2017.
- Latvian Human Development Reports Annual reports in English, spanning 2004-2016.
- NATO Library Guide Starting points for locating material on security issues in Europe.
Think Tanks on Baltic Regional Issues
- German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Use the sitewide search option to enter keywords, such as "Baltic security."
- CSIS - Russia and Eurasia The post-Soviet section of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' website. See also their section on Europe.
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation Top-ranked German think tank with regional offices throughout Europe (Poland, Estonia, Finland, etc.) Note language options for their web pages.
- Praxis (Estonia) Estonian think tank focused primarily on domestic affairs.
- NATO Cooperative Cyber-Defence Center Based in Tallinn, Estonia
- NATO Strategic Communications Center Based in Riga, Latvia.
Journal Article Search
- EconLit (Index to Education) Finds scholarly articles in economics published in journals worldwide.
- ERIC Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education, a combined database on education from pre-school through university levels, with broad international scope.
- Historical Abstracts Despite its name, over the past 10-15 years this database includes an increasing amount of coverage of current affairs internationally.
- PAIS Article Index Public Affairs Information Service, includes indexing of published research on international relations
- Science Direct Full text of over 3,000 scholarly journals in the sciences and engineering, including some social science journals.
- Sociological Abstracts Finds articles on contemporary societies and sociology in journals published worldwide.
- JSTOR Full-text aggregator of many hundreds of mostly North American periodicals, with emphasis on the social sciences, 1980s-present, with the most recent 3-5 years generally excluded.
- Google Scholar Finds articles in open-access scholarly repositories and published journals across all disciplines.
News Aggregators
- Nexis Uni Finds full text of articles published in English-language newspapers worldwide, 1980 to present.
- Access World News Finds full text, primarily of BBC wire and news articles for countries in the REECA region.
- U.S. Newsstream U.S. and British newspapers, 1985 to present.
- Current Digest of the Russian Press Finds English translations of selected news items from the Russian press, 1949 to present. Weekly.
- Lursoft Latvian News The sole point of access to most Latvian newspapers online. Password-protected: contact UW's Slavic and Baltic studies librarian at mbiggins@uw.edu to arrange an appointment for access..
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty U.S. federally funded news service with particular focus on news from countries with limited press freedom (e.g., Russia and many other post-Soviet states).
- Integrum Russian News Search Full-text access to over 2,000 Russian daily and weekly newspapers, including a handful published in English.
- Transitions Online In-depth regional news coverage by independent journalists based throughout the Eastern Europe. Established in 1990s by the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).