2.6. Libraries, Documentation Centres, Data Archives

Audiovisual Library of the European Commission

http://europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/index_en.html

ADPSS-Sociodata

http://www.sociologia.unimib.it/dipartimento/sociodata/Primapagina.htm

Bookshop On-line, European Council

http://ue.eu.int/en/lib/lib.htm

Banque de Données Socio-Politiques, Grenoble

http://solcidsp.upmf-grenoble.fr/contenfr.htm

Belgian Archives for the Social Sciences

http://130.104.15.33/bass/

Bertelsmann Stiftung Publikationen

http://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/publisher_index.cfm?lan=de&nId=16

Bonn International Centre for Conversion (of military resources for civilian purposes)

http://www.bicc.de/

CrossRef, a collaborative reference linking service

http://www.crossref.org/

Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center

http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/eebic/ceebic.html

Centre de Documentacio Europea, University of Valencia

http://www.uv.es/cde/

Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid

http://www.cis.es/

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (Cessda)

http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/

Danish Data Archives

http://gate1.dda.dk/dda.html

ECONbase (Access point to 67 journals 20,000 abstracts  15,000 online papers)

http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econbase/menu.sht

Estonian Social Science Data Archive

http://sys130.psych.ut.ee/esta/

European Books

http://www.europeanbooks.org/

European Union Documentation Centre, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

http://cwis.kub.nl/~dbi/english/edc/?lang=en

European Documentation Centre and Library, Mannheim University

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/ddz/edz/eedz.html

http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/bib2_D.html

Europe-Info-Point

http://www.bik-halle.mda.de/

German Council on Foreign Relations, Books

http://www.dgap.org/english/summary.htm

Harvard Jean Monnet Table of Contents Service

http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/TOC/

International Security Information Service, Europe

http://www.isis-europe.org/

Lehman Social Science Library

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/westoid.html

Lower Saxony European Information Centre (also in German and French)

http://www.eiz-niedersachsen.de/

Max Planck Institut für Gesellshaftsforschung (Institute for the Studies of Societies), Books

http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/books_en.html

Norwegian Social Science Data Services

http://www.uib.no/nsd/

Otto Wolff-Datenbank, Osteuropaforschung

http://www.osteuropa.rwth-aachen.de/owdaten.html

Political and IR Arena Bookshop

http://www.politicsarena.com/politicsarena/books/books.htm 

Russian and East European Studies, Virtual Library

http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/

Resource Center for Access to Data on Europe

http://www-rcade.dur.ac.uk/

Social Science Informatics Center (TARKI)

http://www.tarki.hu/index-e.html 

Steinmetz Archive, The Netherlands

http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/

Swedish Social Science Data Service

http://www.ssd.gu.se/enghome.html 

UK Data Archive

http://www.data-archives.ac.uk/

WEU Institute (see also Publications)

http://www.weu.int/institute/index2.html

Western European Studies,. Indiana University, Library

http://www.indiana.edu/~weur/Library.html

Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries

www.lib.virginia.edu/wess

Zentralarchiv Köln

http://www.za.uni-koeln.de/

 

2.7. Select Bibliography on European Studies (see also 2.6.)

European Commission Libraries Catalogue

http://europa.eu.int/eclas

Bookshop Online

http://ue.eu.int/en/lib/lib.htm

http://www.amazon.com/

http://www.mun.ca/ceuep/EU-bib.html

http://www.swan.ac.uk/poli/texts/index.html

http://www.bl.uk/resources

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/tools.html

http://www.etown.edu/vl/

The following very brief list is meant to give some initial orientation only; in the opinion of the authors, these are the books which should not miss in any library dealing with European questions:

Reference Works:

Desmond Dinan (ed.): Encyclopedia of the European Union. London/Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000

Werner Weidenfeld/Wolfgang Wessels (eds.): Europa von A – Z. Taschenbuch der europäischen Integration. 7th ed. Bonn: Europa Union Verlag 2000, or Bertelsmann Stiftung, Dezember 2001

 

Text books and general outlines of EU policy

Desmond Dinan: Ever closer Union. An Introduction to European Integration. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999

Stephen George/Ian Bache: Politics in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford U.P. 2001

Governing Europe. Governing the European Union, ed. Simon Bromley. London: Sage Publications 2001

Governing Europe. Governing the European Economy, ed. Grahame Thompson. London: Sage Publications 2001

Governing Europe: Governing European Diversity, ed. Montserrat Guibernau. London: Sage Publications 2001

Simon Hix: The Political System of  the European Union. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999

John McCormick: Understanding the European Union. A Concise Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999

Neill Nugent: The Government and Politics of the European Union. 4th ed., Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999

Ben Rosamund: Theories of European Integration. Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000

Alex Warleigh (ed.): Understanding European Union Institutions. London: Routledge 2002

Werner Weidenfeld (ed.): Europa-Handbuch. 2nd ed. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann-Stiftung 2002

 

The European Union as a Multi-Level Governance System

Svein S.Andersen/Kjell A.Eliassen (eds.): Making Policy in Europe. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications 2001

Adrienne Héritier et al.: Differential Europe. The European Union Impact on National Policy-Making. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2001

Liesbet Hooghe/Gary marks: Multi-Level Governance and European Integration. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2001

Hussein Kassim/B.Guy Peters/Vincent Wright (eds.): The National Coordination of EU Policy. The Domestic Level. Oxford: Oxford U.P.2000

John Peterson/Elizabeth Bomberg: Decision-Making in the European Union. Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999

Jeremy Richardson (ed.): European Union. Power and policy-making. 2nd ed. London: Routledge 2001

Helen Wallace (ed.): Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001

Helen Wallace/William Wallace (eds.): Policy-Making in the European Union. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford U.P. 2000

Martin Zbinden: Die Institutionen und die Entscheidungsverfahren der Europäischen Union nach Amsterdam. Bern: Stämpfli Verlag 1999

 

 

2.8. Other Scientific/Educational Institutions

http://www.politicalresources.net/int2b.htm

http://www.slavweb.com/eng/instts-e.html#association

Adam Smith Institute (market economy)

http://www.adamsmith.org.uk/

Center for Political Studies in Russia

http://www.pircenter.org/

Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University

http://www.temple.edu/federalism/

Center for Political and International Studies, Russia

http://isn.rsuh.ru/cpis/english/index.htm

Centre for International Studies and Research, (CERI, France)

http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/indexang.htm

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la Paix et d'Etudes Stratégiques

http://www.ehess.fr/cirpes/

Centre for International Relations, Poland

http://www.icegec.org/

Clingendael Institute, International Relations, Netherlands

http://www.clingendael.nl/

Danish Institute of International Affairs

http://www.dupi.dk/

European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU), Vienna

http://fgr.wu-wien.ac.at/nentwich/euroint2.htm

EU Thematic Network Political Science

http://www.epsnet.org/

FATHOM, the source for on-line learning

http://www.fathom.com/

Freeman Center for Stategic Studies

http://freeman.io.com/

French Institute for International Relations, (IFRI)

http://www.ifri.org/

Institute for International Economics, Washington

http://www.iie.com/

Institute for Security and International Studies, Bulgaria

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isis/

Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade

http://www.diplomacy.bg.ac.yu/

International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG)

http://www.iceg.org/

International Relations and Security Studies, Switzerland

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/ 

The National Centre for Sociological Research, London

http://www.scpr.ac.uk/natcen/natcen_about.htm

The Society for Comparative Research

http://www.yale.edu/scr/

Société québécoise de science politique

http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sqsp/

South African Political Studies Association

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~sapsa/

Southern Political Science Association

http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/spsa/

Spanish Political Science Association

http://www.aecpa.es/

Specialist Group on Ethnic Politics of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mlssaw/ethnic_politics/home.htm

The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australia

http://sdsc.anu.edu.au/

Swiss Association of Political Science

http://www-sagw.unine.ch/members/SVPW/f-index.htm

Tamiu Political Science Association

http://www.tamiu.edu/student/polsci/index.htm

Tennessee Political Science Association

http://www.mtsu.edu/~polsci/tpsa/tennesse.htm

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

http://www.wiiw.ac.at/