A guide to the many multidisciplinary resources for Balkan Studies.
Reference Materials:
Define and get an overview of your topic or find definitions of key terms and concepts
Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts REF GN496.E56 2003
Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts 2016 (online)
South Slavic folk culture REF GR250 BIBL. R67
Between East and West : the Balkan and Mediterranean worlds DR23.S76
Armies of the Balkan States, 1914-1918 : the military forces of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Rumania, and Servia UA822.A75 1996
Conflict in the former Yugoslavia : an encyclopedia DR1232 .F67
Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe : a biographical encyclopedia of more than 12,600 leading personalities in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia CT1195.W46
Additional resources
- EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit)
- Oxford Reference Online Premium
- Routledge Politics and International Relations Online
- Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
- CIA World Factbook
- Constitutions, Treaties and Declarations
- Country Studies Library of Congress. Federal Research Division.
- Rulers
Explore your topic
Introducing Summon - which makes it possible to search across many of the library's collections simultaneously. Including books, ebooks, journal titles, games, music, videos, government information, maps, and more.
However, Summon doesn't search everything that the library owns or subscribes to so you will still need to search other resources to find everything that you need. Summon also doesn't let you do sophisticated searches that you may be used to doing in specific databases or the library catalogue.
When to use Summon
- When starting research on a topic
- If you are not sure which databases to use
For assistance using Summon please contact the Research Help Desk.
Use keywords to find books, government and other documents as well as films in the library’s catalogue.
For all relevant titles, click on the subject headings to continue your search.
Suggested Subject Headings:
Croatia -- Politics and government -- 1990-
Serbia -- History
War criminals -- Bosnia and Hercegovina
Serbia And Montenegro Nationalism Serbia
Bosnia And Hercegovina -- Economic Conditions
Miloševic, Slobodan, 1941-
Yugoslavia -- Ethnic relations
Balkan Peninsula -- Civilization
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Participation, Foreign
Fulltext eBook Collections:
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Columbia International Affairs Online
Oxford University Press eBooks
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Canadian Publishers Collection
Wiley Online Journals
Key Databases
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- International Political Science Abstracts
- Columbia International Affairs Online
- European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Additional Databases:
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
- PAIS Index (previously PAIS International)
- IHS Jane's: Defence & Security Intelligence & Analysis
- America History and Life
- Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU)
- Scopus
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (previously CBCA Complete)
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
- Central and Eastern European Online Library
- GEOBASE
- Political Science Database (previously ProQuest Political Science)
- Dissertations and Theses Global
Government Infomration
MADGIC Maps, Data and Government Information Centre, Carleton University Library
Government of Canada
- Avalon Project (The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.)
- Yugoslavia and the Balkans1900-1998 (BBC)
- A Country Study: Yugoslavia (Former) (Library of Congress)
- Chronology of the Balkan Conflict [1980-1995] (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Conflict in the Balkans: a Selected Bibliography (Pentagon Library)
- United States Institute of Peace (USIP) reports on the Balkans
- Ethnic nationalism and regional security in Southeast Europe. A multidimensional perspective by Oana C, Popa (Nato)
- History of Bosnia and Herzegovina form the origins to 1992 (Nato - SFOR Stabilizaton Force)
- Impact of ethnic issues on the security of South Eastern Europe by Ivanka Nedeva Atanassova (Nato)
- Central Balkan Region
- Historical Maps of the Balkans
- Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)
- The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990-1992 U.S. Office of the Historian
- Balkan Region United States Institute of Peace
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- NATO and the Balkans – website of resources compiled by the NATO Multimedia Library
Useful websites
Europe:
- Europa
- EuroDocs
- COBISS.net (links the library systems of Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania)
- The Digital Library of Slovenia
- Kosovo & Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis
- Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
- Ethno-National Conflicts: Research Sources
- Identity Crisis: a Briefing on Balkan Key Issues
- INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict in Balkans-Regional
- INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Security in Divided Societies-Balkans
- Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Southern Balkans
- State of the Balkans
- Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History (The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism) by Steven W. Sowards
Bosnia Herzegovina
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- INCORE Guide to Internet Sources on Conflict in Bosnia Hercegovina
Kosovo
Writing & Citing Guides:
Citation Management (workshops offered at the Library)
More Writing & Citing Resources:
- Thomson-Nelson Guide to Research and Writing in Political Science. JA86 .C43 2006
- Political science research methods JA73 .J64 2012
- The Political Science Student Writer's Manual. JA86 .S39 2006
- Politics on the Internet: A Student Guide. REF JA86.B83 2005 (online)
- A Student's guide for Writing in Political Science REF JA86.M37
- Writing in Political Science: A Practical Guide REF JA86.S36 2005
- How to map arguments in political science JA71.P37 2007
- Information skills: finding and using the right resources
- The postgraduate research handbook : succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD LB 2371.W576 2008
- Student guide to research in the digital age : how to locate and evaluate information sources ZA3075.S74 2006
- Your research project: how to manage it (online)
- The essential guide : research writing across the disciplines LB2369.L399 2005
Citing Print and Electronic Resources
- Citing Sources From Duke University. This guide provides examples of citations in APA, Chicago, MLA,and Turabian styles for both print and electronic resources.
- Online! Citing Electronic Resources Provides guidelines for the citation of electronic resources in a variety of styles
How to write a literature review
- How to write a literature review (Concordia University Libraries)
- The literature review: a few tips on conducting it (U. of Toronto)
- Literature reviews (University of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Sample APA papers: Literature review (Midwestern State University reposting of document from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Conducting research literature reviews : from the Internet to paper RSV Q180.55.M4 F56 2010
- Doing your literature review : traditional and systematic techniques H62 .J44 2011
- How to research Q180.55.M4 B59 2010 [chapter 4]
- Information skills : finding and using the right resources ZA3075 .G75 2010 [chapter 2]
- The literature review : a step-by-step guide for students RSV LB2369 .R525 2008
- Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches HM571 .N48 2011 [chapter 5]
- Social work research and evaluation : foundations of evidence-based practice HV11 .S589 2011 [extensively covered in Part III]
- Student guide to research in the digital age : how to locate and evaluate information sources ZA3075 .S74 2006
- Systematic approaches to a successful literature review LB1047.3 .B6 2012
- Telling a research story: writing a literature review LB2389.F43 2009
- Writing literature reviews : a guide for students of the social and behavioral sciences RSV H61.8 .G34 2006
