Resources4Missions

General

Portals and general Europe info:

BBC country profiles (excellent with links to all major newspapers, TV, radio, and latest headlines)
BBC news – Europe specific
Bringham Young University (tons of links)
Christianity Today Library 300+ Articles on Europe free preview
Euobserver.com (EU related news)
Europa (official EU portal)
European Reading Room (Library of Congress)
Indiana University Western Europe site
Institut Diakrisis (Germany)
Lausanne
Library of Congress Country Studies
Michigan State University global edge global insights
Operation World – The Official Web Site
The European library.org (links to all national European Libraries)
University of Pittsburgh – Russian & East European Studies Virtual Library
US State Department
World Fact Book ww.cia.gov
World Missions Atlas Project
 
Western Europe & Europe National Resource Centers
Eastern Europe & Russia National Resource Centers

Articles

An overview of Eastern Europe. Lausanne World Pulse: February 01, 2007.
An overview of Western Europe. Lausanne World Pulse: March 01, 2007.

Books 

God’s Continent Christianity, Islam, and Europe’s Religious Crisis.
Living as People of Hope Faith, Hope and Vision for 21st Century Europe.
While Europe Slept How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within.
Menace in Europe Why the Continent’s Crisis Is America’s Too.
Without Roots The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam.
Lost Land of the Bible (Turkey)
Londonistan (Islamic fundamentalism in England)
The Cube and the Cathedral Europe, America, and Politics Without God.
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures The Pope addresses the “crisis of culture” in Europe today
Dawson, Christopher Understanding Europe . New York: Doubleday Image, 1960.Eastern Europe
Aman, Anders . Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe During the Stalin Era; An Aspect of Cold War History MIT Press, Boston, 1992.
Auer, Andreas (ed.). Direct Democracy: the Eastern Central European Experience. Aldershot, Hants: England, 2001.
Collins, Susan. Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the World Economy. Institute for International Economics: Washington, D.C., 1991.
Hupchick, Dennis P. The Balkans from Constantinople to Communism. Palgrave, New York, 2002
Hupchick, Dennis P. Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1995.
Hupchick, Dennis P. Culture and History in Eastern Europe St. Martin’s Press, New York: 1994.
Identity in Transformation (book on post communism)
Institute for International Economics. From Soviet Disunion to Eastern Economic Community? Washington, D.C., 1991.
Mai Koll, Anu. The Baltic Countries Under Occupation: Soviet and Nazi Rule 1939-1991. Almquist & Wiksell: Stockholm, 2003.
Molchanov, Mikhail. Political Culture and National Identity in Russian-Ukrainian Relations. Texas A&M University Press: College Station, 2002.
Palmer, Alan. The Lands Between: A History of East-Central Europe Since the Congress of Vienna. Weidenfield and Nicolson, London: 1970.
Richmond, Yale. From Da to Yes – Understanding the East Europeans. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1995. 320 pp.
Rupnik, Jacques The Other Europe; The Rise and Fall of Communism in East-Central Europe . Pantheon Books, New York: 1989.
Smith, David J. The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Routledge: New York, 2002.
Smith, Graham. The Baltic States: the National Self Determination of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. St. Martin’s Press: New York, 1994.
Velychenko, Stephen. Shaping identity in Eastern Europe and Russia: Soviet and Polish Accounts of Ukrainian History,1914- 1991 . St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1993.
White, Stephen (ed.). Developments in Central and Eastern European Politics. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2001.
Yale Center for International and Area Studies. National Character and National Ideology in Interwar Eastern Europe . Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1995.