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Conflict and Security

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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. It provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

CIA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room
A large collection of declassified "historically significant Agency documents" organized by topic.
Homeland Security Digital Library
“The nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.” The Public Collection contains over 75,000 items.
The National Security Archive
"Combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents." To access these declassified materials and associated research, click on the "documents" tab. Based at George Washington University's Gelman Library.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) e-Library
NATO’s library of publicly available materials. Topical research guides (LibGuides) recommend further resources on external (non-NATO) web sites.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program
The UCDP "has recorded ongoing violent conflicts since the 1970s. The data provided is one of the most accurate and well-used data-sources on global armed conflicts." The UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia is a gateway to conflict-related background information and analysis at the country level.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
“An independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.”
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"The oldest international affairs think tank in the United States."
United States Institute of Peace
"Established by Congress in 1984 as an independent, federally-funded national security institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflict abroad." Access research by country, issue, or publication type.

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