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FIV - The German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies
and its Database WAO – World Affairs Online

FIV – The German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies is a cooperation of twelve independent German research institutes.

Together, they produce the database WAO – World Affairs Online, one of the largest bibliographic social science databases in Europe. The main subject areas covered are global and regional developments, foreign and security policy and social trends.

The FIV provides information for researchers and policy-makers as well as the general public, thus fulfilling the role of a national information resource, as outlined in the 1974 information programmes of the German federal government.

This web site offers information on

FIV – The German Information Network and its international contacts
the database WAO and individual information products
IREON – The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway and other means of access to the database WAO
the multilingual European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

New: Development aid policy focus in IREON

Inwent – Capacity Building International, the German government organisation to carry out human resource development and worldwide dialogue in the framework of development cooperation, now provides its main literature database LITDOK for research in IREON.

The LITDOK database includes 190,000 bibliographic references to journal articles, books, internet documents and grey literature.
The main focus of this collection is on development cooperation, developing countries and global economic development policy.

LITDOK uses subject terms of the "Thesaurus for economic and social development" for content description.

Thesaurus

The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies is availaible in a
seven-lingual print edition.
The Thesaurus can be accessed online at the IREON Gateway.

History of the FIV

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© 2005-2011 Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – German Institute for International and Security Affairs, 10719 Berlin for FIV – The German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies