| WAO - World Affairs Online |
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is one of the
largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing
about 806.000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters
and grey literature. |
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offers a comprehensive range of references on
international relations and area studies, with a focus on foreign and
security policy and European politics. |
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has a unique cooperative structure, coordinated by the
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP), with input from twelve German
research institutes. |
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WAO’s speciality is its use of a highly
differentiated subject
and regional classification and the multilingual European
Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies, a joint
product of European
research institutes working in this field. |
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evolved from the German federal government’s
information programmes, which have existed since 1974, and is
government financed. |
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