A collection of online biographical sources, dictionaries, and encyclopedias on world relations...

Contains nearly 200 entries on foreign countries which cover the geography, history, government, and political conditions, economy and state relations with the United States...

Contains articles by over 200 distinguished international scholars on the key themes and issues of democratic theory and practice, from its beginnings in classical Greece to recent developments around the world, including the overthrow of communism in eastern Europe, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the issue of sovereignty in the European Union and the worldwide impact of mass media on democratic systems...

"Contains 188 analytical, highly readable entries by leading scholars...

Covers "issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of digital government (or electronic government)...

Contains entries on "current concepts, trends, challenges, applications, and dot...

Contains scholarly essays on a wide range of topics relating to government and politics on the global, regional, and national levels...

More than 240 articles exploring how politics and religion interact in various cultures around the world ...

"Provides a broad overview of national governments throughout history, explaining their structures and histories, key players and events, and how governments effect, and are affected by, social change...

Contains extensive, cross-referenced entries covering the whole range of the social sciences...

Contains entries which give "in-depth global coverage on this scale to the modern phenomenon of fascism from its first stirrings in the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the new millennium...