LibGuides: INTL 203: Foundations & World Politics (with Dr. Rachel Vanderhill): Group Activity

BEAM Model--for evaluating information resources

The BEAM Method helps you evaluate information resources depending on the purposes they can serve for you. Some resources may serve more than one purpose:

Background information?
Evidence or Exhibit?
Argument (or Analysis or Viewpoint or Opinion)?
Method (or Theory or Lens)?

For details on using the BEAM Model for evaluating information resources--a short video and a short checklist borrowed from Williams University Library and Portland State University Library.

Sample Resources about North Korea's Nuclear Defense Program

Type of resource => Database used to find it =>Title of the resource

1A. Newspaper article (from The New York Times) =>U.S. Major Dailies =>"North Korea Flaunts New Missiles in Parade With Chinese and Russian Officials"
1B. Report in English by the state-run North North Korean news agency KCNA => Access World News => "N. Korea Says Biden Made 'Big Blunder' Regarding U.S. Policy towards Pyongyang"
2. Op-ed piece from The Wall Street Journal => U.S. Major Dailies => "North Korea's U.N. Protectors:China and Russia Are Enabling Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Provocations"
3. A policy paper => Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) => "The U.S.–Japan–South Korea Trilateral Partnership: Pursuing Regional Stability and Avoiding Military Escalation"
4. Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article => Political Science Complete => "Dominating the Superpower: A Bounded Rationality Approach to Nuclear Proliferation and Inhibition in the U.S./North Korea Dyad"
Bonus:Dataset, or statistical chart => Statista => "Number of Ballistic Missile Tests Conducted by North Korea from 1984 to September 2024, by Test Results"