Country Guides and Handbooks
- Europa World PlusOnline version of Europa World Year Book and the nine Regional Surveys of the World: Africa South of the Sahara; Central and south-eastern Europe; Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia; The Far East and Australasia; The Middle East and North Africa; South America, Central America, and the Caribbean; South Asia; The USA and Canada; and: Western Europe, combined into a searchable database.
- Oxford Companion to Politics of the World"....a comprehensive guide to international relations and national domestic politics throughout the world. Includes biographies of leaders and intellectual figures along with twenty-three interpretive essays, and a new section comparing different perspectives on six critical issues.
The collection of Critical issues essays offer two different perspectives on Affirmative Action, Censorship, The Limits of Liberal Democracy, The Future of Entitlements, Sustainable Development, The United Nations. These essays are followed by 23 interpretive essays on a wide-range of core political science topics. - Political Handbook of the WorldAvailable in the Sage Knowledge database, Political Handbook of the World provides updated political profiles of all of the world's countries and details the history and activities of a number of intergovernmental organizations. Each country profile provides basic facts about the country, detailed background information on the country's history, government and politics, and political parties. Use the Advanced Search to search by regime type, party system, electoral system, system of government, and by region.
- World Factbook"The CIA World Factbook is produced by the Central Intelligence Agency to provide comprehensive basic intelligence for the US Government. It contains extensive information on all the countries of the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, including hundreds of maps and flags.