InfoGuides: International Security: Find Data

General International Data Sources

World Databank This link opens in a new window
Access data from all the World Bank data sources—more than 50 databases—freely available through the World Databank.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Statistics on various topics for OECD member and non-member countries. Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD).

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

One of the world’s oldest and largest social and behavioral science data archives, ICPSR contains many studies that are of use for research and instruction. First time users need to create a MyData account to download data. Contact the Libraries' Data & Digital Scholarship Services for help.

Terrorism & Conflict-related Datasets

Fragile State Index
The Fragile States Index is a collaboration between Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace. It includes data and analysis on 60 of the world's most fragile states from 2009-2013.
START Data Collections
START maintains 19 data collections that are freely available. Topics include terrorism, Muslim public opinion, minorities, information sharing and attitudes, predictors of activism and radicalism, partisanship, assigning blame after disasters, ethnicity, and social vulnerability.
Suicide Attack Database
A searchable database of suicide attacks from 1982 through August 2014, maintained by the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism.

International Crisis Behavior Project This link opens in a new window
Provides datasets and summaries on 470 international crises, 1,036 crisis actors, and 35 protracted conflict from 1918 through 2013 with data points on type of violence, global involvement, system-level, conflict name, triggers, start/end dates, and outcomes of the event. Datasets are available from the system-level and the actor-level and can be downloaded for analysis.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Article Databases (SIPRI) This link opens in a new window
SIPRI's has datasets on arms transfers, military expenditures & peace operations.

Data Format	[Zipped] SPSS, SAS, & Stata or analyzed online using SDA.
Registration	You will need to create an account to download data. George Mason University is an ICPSR member which means students, staff and faculty have full access to its resources.