Development and Globalization 

The sources below lead primarily to published texts in journals, magazines and books. Most are full-text on the Web and are generally a little more reliable than results you get from just searching the entire Web.

CQ Researcher and CQ Global Researcher provide great, balanced overviews of both domestic and international issues and serves as an excellent springboard to more resources, articls and books.

Europa World is useful for overviews of specific countries worldwide from both an economic and a political history standpoint. It gives fairly current statistics for each country.

Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries.  Updated country reports and political and economic risk assessments. Find them under "Select Service / Country Intelligence" in the upper left corner of the start page.  Use Internet Explorer for best results.

ABI/INFORM Complete is a business periodicals database that ranges from newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and Financial times to scholarly economic journals.

Academic Search Premier is a database that indexes all kinds of publications across all academic fields, in additon to magazines and newspapers. 

Access World News is a database of newspapers from around the world. This is the database to go to to find newspapers and articles targeted on a country.

Business Source Premier is similar to ABI/Inform as database directing you to business and economic journals. It's coverage of academic journals seems to be a little better than ABI/Inform.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) has all kinds of resources related to international affairs.

LexisNexis Academic covers all kinds of publications, but favors mass publications rather than scholarly except in the fields of law and medicine. Use the "News" tab and then "Select Sources" about half-way down the search form to narrow the range of sources you are searching.

Web of Science is a database that indexes scholarly journals that get cited a lot, meaning that they are usually the most important journals to a field. This is a good database if you want to limit your searches to journals you can be sure are academically acceptable.

World News Connection translates the text of speeches, broadcasts, and articles from countries outside of the United States.