VCE Global politics units - Unites 3 & 4 - Global actors & challenges

There will be vast amounts of information on climate change. Below are a few resources and suggestions for researching this issue.

Overview

• Gilman, Larry. Climate change Climate change: in context 

International bodies

• Intergovernmental panel on climate change
  • IPCC Climate change reports
• United Nations resource collection on climate change

Ebooks

We hold a wide range of books on climate change, many of them available as ebooks. 

• Vogler, J.(2016). Climate change in world politics
• Farmer, G.(2015). Modern climate change science : an overview of today's climate change science
• Romm, J.(2016) Climate change : what everyone needs to know 
• general search for ebooks on climate change
  • alter search scope to broaden to include print books
  • refine by date to retrieve the most recent items

Articles

• this search is quite specific, note the range of filters used to narrow the search
  • because there are so many articles published on climate change,  your search can be quite specific
• searching using one of the databases suggested on this page (such as Proquest) will allow more focussed and targeted searches.
  • see this search using the Proquest database "climate change" (in the article abstract) politics national interest international co-operation (in peer reviewed journals) published after 2013
• the following articles look at the complexities of government responses to climate change
  • Bättig, Michèle B., and Thomas Bernauer. National institutions and global public goods: are democracies more cooperative in climate change policy? International Organization, vol. 63, no. 2, 2009, pp. 281–308
  • Keohane, Robert O., and David G. Victor. The regime complex for climate change Perspectives on Politics, vol. 9, no. 1, 2011, pp. 7–23

Overview

• Baran, Benjamin E. Armed conflicts: implications for organizations The SAGE encyclopedia of industrial and organizational psychology,
  • this item provides an interesting, broad overview
• Council of Foreign Relations. Global conflict tracker
  • this is a US site focussing on the American perspective but an comprehensive guide to current conflicts
• International Institute for Strategic Studies 
• Worldmark modern conflict and diplomacy  2 volumes. 2014

Specific conflicts

Syria

• Albasoos, H.  An overview of the conflict in Syria International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science, 6(1),2017, pp. 47-54 
• Habets, I. Obstacles to a Syrian peace: the interference of interests. European View, 15(1), 2016 pp.77-85.
• Lundgren, M.  Mediation in Syria: initiatives, strategies, and obstacles, 2011-2016. Contemporary Security Policy, 37(2), 2016, pp.273-288
• general article search on UN and the Syrian crisis, note the additional terms added to refine the search.
• general article search on the international response to the Syrian crisis, note the additional terms added to refine the search

Overview

• Terrorism reference library 
  • this reference was published in 2003 but does give interesting historic context to terrorism
• Donahue, Thomas J. Terrorism Encyclopedia of modern political thought 
• Worldmark modern conflict and diplomacy  2 volumes. 2014

Articles

• general article search on international responses to terrorism
• general article search for state sponsored terrorism
• articles on asymmetric warfare, note the terms used to narrow this search

Specific terrorist organisations

• Ebooks on Islamic State
  • change or add terms, use the "refine results by" to narrow search
• Articles on Islamic State
  • there are a vast number of articles on Islamic State, note this more specific search. 
  • search using quite specific terms, specify date range for most recent articles, limit to peer reviewed for the best quality articles

Overview

• Economic crises International encyclopedia of the social sciences
  • ​note the "See Also"  options at the end of the article.

Articles

This is a very broad topic, use quite specific keywords to narrow your search. Consider searching in a specific database rather than using 'article search' to search across many databases.

This search was was done on Proquest. Not all these articles will be relevant but a number might be. The search was for terms 'econom*' and 'instability' with the subject 'globali*ation' for peer reviewed articles published since 2010. See also these articles:

• Kovalcíková, N. Globalisation and the threats it poses in the twenty-first century. European view, 13(1), 2014, pp.169-179
• Pollifroni, M., Militaru, G., & Ioana, A.  Glaring asymmetries of the globalization: an analysis oriented to business economics Economics, Management and Financial Markets, 12(2), 2017, 97-104.
• Tsyganov, V. Limits of global growth, stagnation, creativity and international stability. AI & Society, 29(2), 2014 259-266 

Specific issues

• article search using the terms International Monetary Fund global financial crisis Europe
  • use more specific terms to narrow the search

Listed below are key online resources accessible through the Library.

Library catalogue

Use our catalogue to search for online articles across our databases. Advanced search is the best option

Use the 'Refine results by filters' to focus your search

Change scopes to locate different types of material. For example ebooks or print books

Online databases

• Online journals
• Databases page

• Search our Library catalogue
• Databases, eresources & ebooks
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