European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

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“The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies is a multi-lingual thesaurus containing ca. 8000 hierarchically arranged terms. It covers all the main aspects of the subject area of international relations and area studies.”

General information
Vocabulary type: 
Thesaurus
Author or Editor: 
“The Thesaurus was developed with the participation of numerous European research institutes as a project of the European Information Network on International Relations and Areas Studies (EINIRAS).”
Was vocabulary created as a course project: 
No
Scope and Usage
Languages: 

Currently the thesaurus is available in the following languages: British English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian and Russian. At the search interface, a user can specify translation of the typed words into a selected language.

Major subjects covered: 

International policies/relations; International security / Military realm; International economy; International law; Technology; Economy; Society; Science/research; Law; Environment/Nature; Culture; Education; Agriculture; Social affairs/Health; Information and communication; Labor and employment; Politics and policy; Human beings; International organizations; World regions, countries, oceans; International agreements

Purpose: 

For online search of the databases maintained at the International Relations and Area Studies Gateway (IREON). “The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway is a product of leading German and international research institutes working in the fields of foreign and security policy and development policy. Their libraries and documentation centres form the Information Network International Relations and Area Studies (FIV-IBLK) consortium. FIV-IBLK provides specialist information for research, education and policy-making, thus fulfilling the role of a national information resource as outlined in the 1974 Information Programme of the German Federal Government, now under the auspices of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).”

Vocabulary characteristics
Type of display : 
Hierarchy
Alphabetical list
Relationship types: 
Equivalence (Primary/variant terms or Preferred/non-preferred)
Hierarchical (Broader/narrower terms)
Associative (Related terms)
Number of classes: 

26

Number of terms: 
8,200
Provider
Vocabulary provider name: 
International Relations and Area Studies Gateway (IREON)
Provider URL: 

http://www.ireon-portal.de

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