Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the world's largest full-text online resource for political science, diplomatic history, international law and business, policy formation, and country analysis. It is a full-text online database encompassing more than 400,000 pages of working papers, policy briefs, interviews, journal articles, and e-books in the field of international relations. CIAO is a dynamic resource that is constantly growing. More than 180 leading academic and research institutions, publishers, government agencies, and journals worldwide contribute to CIAO.
CIAO is a widely recognized source for teaching materials and features original case studies written by leading experts in their fields, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes and special features such as interviews with the world's leading international relations experts.
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Special Features
- Complete updating and additional materials, making for more than 45,000 new pages during a 12 month period
- Detailed country maps as well as in-depth political and economic data from the Economist Intelligence Unit
- A monthly focus piece—an outstanding tool for classroom discussions
- Support for Model UN and other simulations
- Textbook instruction for high school, undergraduate, and graduate/post-graduate courses and research opportunities for lecture preparation and reference
CIAO's Editorial Advisors
E. Gyimah-Boadi, University of Ghana • Thomas M. Callaghy, University of Pennsylvania • Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto • Allan E. Goodman, Institute of International Education • Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego • Christopher Hill, Cambridge University • Bruce W. Jentleson, Duke University • Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University • R. Ned Lebow, Dartmouth College • Helen Milner, Princeton University • Thomas Risse, Freie Universität Berlin • Bruce Russett, Yale University • Jack Snyder, Columbia University • Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine • Janice Stein, University of Toronto • Anders Stephanson, Columbia University Press • Hidemi Suganami, University of Wales, Aberystwyth • Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University • Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley
Praise for CIAO
Named one of the top 300 websites by the International Political Science Association
"So rich in content and so well suited to the needs of serious researchers that we recommend it without hesitation."—Library Journal
"Highly recommended."—Choice
Contact Us
For subscription information, contact: Kevin Kurtz.
To contribute, contact: Robert Sedgwick
For a free trial to CIAO, please visit www.ciaonet.org or e-mail columbiaonline@columbia.edu.
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