Guides: INTS 455 Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (Rizkallah): Resources for This Class

Some of Professor Rizkallah's Recommended Academic Journals (check Pepperdine Libraries Catalog for more)

Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics is an international journal that publishes scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and behavior.
Comparative Political Studies
For more than 40 years, Comparative Political Studies has been the place to turn for the most timely information on methodology, theory, and research in the field of comparative politics.
Middle East Law and Governance
Middle East Law and Governance (MELG) is a peer-reviewed social science journal that offers contributors an opportunity to reflect upon and engage issues pertaining to governance and social, economic, and ideological transformations in the modern Middle East and North Africa region.
International Security
International Security publishes lucid, well-documented essays on all aspects of the control and use of force. Its articles cover contemporary policy issues, and probe historical and theoretical questions behind them.
International Journal of Middle East Studies
IJMES focuses on the area encompassing the Middle East and adjacent geo-cultural regions from the seventh century to the present.

Recommended Library Databases

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Coverage is international and includes literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.
In addition, the MLA Directory of Periodicals and their proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors within the Bibliography are included.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text coverage to peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Access to peer reviewed journals covering Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations; Sociology; Sport, Leisure & Tourism.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Materials related to international affairs, starting from 1991, including working papers from universities and NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering the Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Research articles in all areas related to economics.

Online MENA Resources

Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
This project began as a consequence of a series of conversations in 2010 between Charles Jones and Peter Magierski at NYU about the need for a tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material relating to the Middle East.
Columbia University Middle East Virtual Library
Columbia University's collection of Middle East Studies Internet Resources Middle East resources by country and by subject.
Yale University Near East Collection
In this guide, you'll find important databases for finding articles, books, and more. A guide to archival resources supporting Near & Middle East studies at Yale. A guide to visual resources supporting Near & Middle East studies at Yale. Links to additional resources for social sciences and the humanities related to Near & Middle East studies at Yale.
Jadaliyya
Jadaliyya provides a unique source of insight and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship, and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States, the Middle East, and beyond. The site currently publishes posts in Arabic, French, English, and Turkish. Other languages may also appear on Jadaliyya.
Middle East Policy
Middle East Policy provides an influential forum for a wide range of views on United States interests in the region and the value of the policies that are supposed to promote them. The most frequently cited journal on the Middle East region in the field of international affairs,
Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971.
Project on Middle East Political Science Reports (POMEPS)
The Project on Middle East Political Science, POMEPS, is a collaborative network designed to enhance the broader Middle East’s political science field and its engagement with the broader academic discipline, public policy, and the public sphere.

Specific Databases

GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Academic journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets, and reports focused on women and gender issues. Some archival material as far back as 1974.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Articles on the environment and its connection to a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
United Nations Treaty Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text as well as status of treaties filed with the U.N. Secretary-General.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository This link opens in a new window
Open access repository for international development research articles, reports and books.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945, compiled by top scholars and experts.

UN Human Development Reports
Global, regional, and country/territory-level data on key dimensions of human development, with interactive insights and publications. The human development data are globally comparable, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and sourced from international data agencies with the mandate, resources, and expertise to collect national data on specific indicators unless otherwise noted.
World Resources Institute Data Sets
Using research-based approaches and unique coalitions, we work globally and in focus countries and regions to meet people’s essential needs, to protect and restore nature, and to stabilize the climate.

Databases for Statistics/Business

Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources, includes access to the Global Consumer Survey .
Passport (formerly Global Market Information Database) This link opens in a new window
Market research reports on countries, consumers and industries from Euromonitor International. Historic data from 1997 plus up-to-date forecast models including industry reports and market share data. This database is only available to current Pepperdine students, faculty, and staff.
International Monetary Fund Data This link opens in a new window
Economic statistics for 269 countries from the International Monetary Fund.
World DataBank This link opens in a new window
Analysis and visualization tool for data regarding economic policy and debt, education, environment, financial sector, health, infrastructure, labor, poverty, and trade.
NBER Working Papers This link opens in a new window
Pre-print (not yet peer-reviewed) research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit engaged in quantitative analysis of the American economy.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics, including SWOT analyses and articles from Harvard Business Review.

Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
3784 charts across 297 topics
All free: open access and open source
National Statistical Offices
The United Nations Statistics Division, in its mission to promote the development of national statistical systems, has developed a central repository of country profiles of statistical systems. The country profiles include, among others, a brief history of the country's statistical system, legal basis, the statistical programme and much more.
Tradeport
A collection of links to demographic and trade information, sources of financing, and overview of hundreds of countries. Funded by U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Includes market research reports.
UN Trade Statistics
Includes country totals for merchandise trade, services trades, and others.
UN Data
UNdata is a web-based data service for the global user community. It brings international statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies.

Policies

Policy Commons
Policy Commons is a one-stop community platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.

Policy Research Working Papers (Open Knowledge Repository) This link opens in a new window
Policy research working papers and pre-prints (not yet peer-reviewed).

UN Policy Briefs
In recent years, major global shocks and setbacks to progress on the Sustainable Development Goals have increasingly underscored our shared vulnerabilities. International cooperation is needed more than ever, yet our collective problem-solving mechanisms do not match the pace or scale of the challenges we face. Today’s complex, interconnected, and rapidly changing world requires a more effective multilateral system – with the United Nations at its core.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Journal of Policy History
Journal of Policy History offers a new approach to policy analysis that is both historical and innovative. The Journal encourages interdisciplinary research into the origins and development of public policy in the United States and in other countries as well.