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One of the main objectives of FIV – The German
Information Network International Relations and Area Studies is
the expansion of cooperation with other European specialist
institutes. By creating a common European database for
international relations and area studies, the aim is:
- to duplicate the advantages of cooperation on a national
level at an international level
- to make the databases of individual European research
institutes universally accessible
- to document scholarly literature in a broad spectrum of
languages
- to close gaps in WAO – World Affairs
Online’s coverage.
For these reasons, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
(SWP) and the FIV were amongst the initiators of a European
network of research organisations in the field of international
relations and area studies: EINIRAS – European
Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies.
Members of the network, founded in the early 1990s, now
include three international organizations – Council of Europe (COE), United Nations
Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Institute for
Security Studies (ISS-EU) – and more than thirty research
organisations from seventeen different countries, including the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Royal
Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Polish
Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Istituto
Affari Internazionali (IAI), Fundació CIDOB
– Centro de Investigación de Relaciones
Internacionales y Desarrollo, Center
for Security Studies/ETH Zurich.
EINIRAS has so far completed two projects:
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The EDN –
EINIRAS Database Network,
which contains citations of journal articles from relevant
sources. It is currently possible to search the holdings of the
following organizations:
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The multilingual thesaurus European
Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies. The
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The European Thesaurus aids metasearching in the EDN in
two ways:
- as a reference thesaurus with concordance to the
controlled terms previously used in the EDN. Work on the
concordance lists is currently in progress.
- as a primary classification resource in the various
EDN-Databases. The European Thesaurus is used by the FIV, the
Polish Institute of International Affairs, Warsaw (PISM) and
the Institute of International Relations, Prague (IIR).
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