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IREON – The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway

IREON provides a central point of access for scholarly literature in the field of international relations and area studies.
In the multilingual European Online Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies you will find relevant search terms for your search in IREON.

Currently the following databases can be searched there:

WAO – World Affairs Online
WAO – Treaties
WPSA – Worldwide Political Science Abstract
Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
LITDOK of Inwent - Capacity Building International
PAIS International
Online Contents-Service International Relations and Area Studies

We are continously adding further databases.

The German Information Network has developed IREON in cooperation with GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Bonn.

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.

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