The European Union

There are a number of resources available to you from the Randall Library. Each takes some time to explore and consider as a research choice.

Some sources will be:

• Available on-line as a full-text article
• In print only - not available online
• In the reference collection
• In a database
• In another library - you may borrow it via Inter-Library Loan at no charge

Give yourself time to search each resource area to find your sources for this project.

Research Aids

Open your browser to the Randall Library Catalog.

Search by "Subject" in the drop-down menu (to the left of the search box -click the black triangle).

Suggested Subject Headings:

• Europe - Foreign Relations
• Germany - Foreign Relations
• (insert your country here) - Foreign Relations
• Political Science - Periodicals

Search the Databases (top-center of the library website Search The Research Databases).

Try these databases:

• JSTOR - Search "European Union" AND "foreign policy" under SUBJECT search
• Historical Abstracts - This database only gives you abstract (summaries) of articles, no full text. However, you can use the citation from that summary to search in the Randall Library Catalog.
• Or, pick a database from the database page under:
• Browse by subject - choose Political Science

Websites are free and often useful tools - but be careful, they may not be authoritative.

http://europa.eu.int/pol/ext/index_en.htm

http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euguide/euguide.htm

http://www.dti.gov.uk/

www.google.com

- Search for "Lisbon Agenda," "Lisbon Strategy," "Foriegn Affairs" AND *your country*) in all of the above

Think about these topics while pursuing your research:

How does the country approach welfare?

What is its pattern of economic growth?

What is its foreign policy towards the EU?

What is the EU?

What variables or influences have there been recently that might affect this country's policies (major news stories, catastrophies, depression, terror strikes)?

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Below are some selected titles from the Randall Library. Beneath each title, the subject headings that the Library of Congress uses to classify each title are listed. Use these subject headings in the search box of the Randall Catalog (drop-down menu - "Subject") to search for additional titles that discuss similar subjects.

Culture Grams.

Call number: GT150 .C85 - Reference Collection

Subject Terms:

• Civilization
• Manners and Customs
• Culture
• National Characteristics

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour Through History from Ancient Times to the Present / Joyce E. Salisbury, general editor.

Call Number: GT31.G74 - Reference Collection

Subject Terms:

• Manners and customs - History - Encyclopedias
• Lifestyles - History

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World / edited by Saul B. Cohen.

Call Number: G103.5 .C65 1998 - Reference Collection

Subject Terms:

• Gazetteers
• Geography - Dictionaries

The World Factbook.
Call Number: G122 .U56 - Reference Collection
Subject Terms:

• Geography - Periodicals

The National Geographic Desk Reference.

Call Number: G123 .N38 1999 - Reference Collection

Subject Terms:

• Geography - Handbooks, Manuals, Etc.

The Statesman's Year-book.

Call Nubmer: JA51 .S7 - Ready Reference

Subject Terms:

• Political Science - Periodicals

European Union Foreign Policy: What it is and What it Does.

Call Number: D1060 .S58 2002 - General Collection (2nd Floor)

Subject Terms:

• European Union
• International Economic Relations
• European Union Countries - Foreign Economics Relations
• European Union Countries - Foreign Relations
• Europe - Foreign Relations - 1989 -

Global Europe: The European union in World Affairs

Call Number: D1058 .P54 1997 - General Collection ( 2nd Floor)

Subject Terms:

• European Union Countries - Foreign Relations
• European Union

The European Union is a unique, treaty-based, institutional framework that defines and manages economic and political cooperation among its fifteen European member countries.

- from http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euguide.htm Chapter 1, "What is the European Union?"
Last Update: December 12, 2005