Eastern Europe

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News Sources in English on Eastern Europe-- Baltics Worldwide (Baltic States), Central Europe Online (EIN News), Prague Daily Monitor (Czech Republic), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (International), Transitions Online (International), RIA Novosti (Russia), Moscow Times (Russia), Pravda (Russia), Warsaw Voice (Poland), Balkan Insight (SE Europe)

• Centre for European Policy Studies-- From Brussels, one of Europe's leading think tanks, with the motto of "Thinking ahead for Europe." Excellent and numerous online publications, full-text and abstracts, and commentary index, largely on the European Union.

• Council for European Studies-- "The leading academic organization for the study of Europe... promotes and recognizes outstanding, multidisciplinary research in European Studies through a range of programs, including conferences, publications, and awards." Posts professional items and resources for European studies, including articles, working papers, newsletter, and links to the chief research centers for the study of Europe. From Columbia University.

• European Archive-- "Digital library of [European] cultural artifacts in digital form. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public." Posts culturally significant documents, videos, audio, images of a wide variety.

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development-- Information on the economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

• European Centre for Minority Issues-- NGO that "advances majority-minority relations in the wider Europe through action, research and documentation... supports the stabilization of areas of ethno-political tension and conflict, contributes to the strengthening of relevant legislation and best practices in governance, and enhances the capacity of civil society actors and governments to engage with one another in a constructive way." All reports, working papers, and issue briefs are available online in full-text. Note the Ethnopolitical Map of Europe and the Enriched Links Database.

• European Information Network on International Relations and Area Studies-- "Association of research institutions dealing with information and documentation on international relations in research and political practice... to establish a common European database on international relations and area studies." Posts a useful links directory for the major regular publications of its members. Also helpful is the searchable EINIRAS Database Network, "a virtual Pan-European system of databases for international relations and area studies [with] bibliographical data of articles in a common form and structure, but still referred to with different terminologies."

• European Institute-- From the London School of Economics and Political Science, an outstanding "primary focus for the inter-disciplinary study of processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe." Posts many papers in its priority areas of research: governance of the European Union, European ideas and identities, and European political economy. The "Europe in Question" series explores "the future development and governance of Europe... new lines of reflection and analysis, and... research across cognate disciplines." Note the Research Resources on Europe page.

• European Values Study-- "Large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values [in Europe], [carried on by] the European Values Study group...  aimed at exploring the moral and social values underlying European social and political institutions and governing conduct." Site posts surveys and results, newsletters, link to data, and more.

• IREON: The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway-- "Product of leading German and international research institutes working in the fields of foreign and security policy and development policy," provides a large searchable bibliographical database of international relations and area studies publications, in various languages. Some items are available in full-text online.

• Russian and East European Network Information Center-- From the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas, a good links directory for the region.

• Statistical Agencies in the UN/ECE Region-- Links to national and international statistics agencies relevant to the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe's 55 member countries in Europe and North America.

• Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center-- "The first center in the United States devoted to understanding the links among terrorism, transnational crime and corruption, and to teach, research, train and help formulate policy on these critical issues," from the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Emphasis on the CIS, with many studies posted online, including the Russian Regional Report.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe-- News, information, many statistics, and many online reports are available free in full-text from this United Nations regional organization. Great source for authoritative online economic information about Europe.  Note the Statistical Database, with a wide range of data covering Europe, North America, and Central Asia.

• University Association for Contemporary European Studies-- Based in the UK, "one of the world’s premier European Studies associations [which] has brought together academics involved in researching and teaching on Europe with practitioners active in European affairs. It encourages the involvement of people from a variety of disciplines which have a European emphasis." Posts mainly UACES materials and maintains the Expert on Europe website, a database of experts on European matters.

• World Bank Europe and Central Asia Information-- Papers, discussion notes, and reports dealing with the full range of economic, environmental, and social issues facing Eastern Europe and Central Asia today.

• ZACAT-- "Social science data portal allowing you to search for, browse, analyse and download [European] social science survey data, provided by the GESIS department 'Data Archive and Data Analysis'...  Beside documentation on study level (e.g. abstract, related publications), all studies come along with documentation of full question and answer texts on variable level."