Conflict, Terrorism, & Security

Offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as to enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. Includes content from journals, country reports, books and more.

Provides global indexing of the scholarly literature in the social sciences, including full-text scholarly journals and key non-periodical sources such as dissertations and working papers, covering political science, sociology, the applied social sciences, criminal justice, education, and other areas. Search one or more of these databases, from Alt-PressWatch to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

Contains a compilation of downloadable data, currently from 1968 through 2009, providing comprehensive information on international and domestic terrorism. Defines and categorizes terrorist attacks. Display results as a list, or on a pie chart or chronological chart. Note: Coverage of domestic terrorism incidents begins with 1998.

Index, abstracts and full-text of over 20,000 titles in the RAND archive dating back to 1946. Covers areas in energy, education, health, justice, the environment, and international and military affairs.

Offers indexing for more than a thousand academic journals, most with full text. Covers a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

Provides full-text articles for over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses, from 1970 to current.

Index of bibliographic materials combining Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, material culture, and related interdisciplinary research from early 19th century to today.

Succeeds the International Relations and Security Network (ISN). Like its predecessor, the purpose of the Resources section is outreach i.e., it features the publications and analyses of CSS experts, external partners and other like-minded institutions in order to promote further dialogue on important international relations and security-related issues.

Search suicide attacks from 1974 through June 2019. Continually updated data includes information about the target, weapon, demographic and biographical information of suicide attackers, and location of the attack. Download data as .csv files for analysis.

Provides a wide range of scholarship in international affairs from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, conference proceedings, books, journals, and policy briefs. Also includes teaching materials such as case studies and course packs of background readings. Contains links to international affairs centers, institutes, and other resources; U.S., international, and foreign government sites; environmental studies web pages; and news media services. All sections updated monthly.

Provides indexing, abstracting, and some full text for journals and books related to communication and mass media studies back to 1915.

Quantitative datasets on topics within international relations including trade, territorial change, intergovernmental organizations and diplomatic exchange, religion, alliances, militarization, colonialism, and conflict. Event dates range by dataset.

Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Covers U.S. and international scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields.

Consists of curated and indexed government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.

Extensive country information from various Economist Intelligence Unit publications, covering most countries and including politics, economics, business, markets and data. Publications include Country Report, Country Profile, Country Monitor, and Business Newsletters.

Includes journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses from 1959-present. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.

Provides subject access to the Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government, including translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations worldwide. Focuses on international political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events; covers all regions and reflects the changes that have occurred in them1975-1996. See World News Connection for broadcasts from 1996 to 2013.

Provides publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Its archival material, dating back to 1970, focuses on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government and special reports.

Includes open-source information on terrorist events around the world from 1970-2015, with updates planned for the future.

Standard source for quantitative facts of American history. Expanded and revised to include over 37,000 data series from over 1,000 sources. Includes sections on Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations. Tables may be downloaded into Excel. Users may create custom tables as well.

Provides access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents, as well as specialized resources such as dissertations, reports, and position papers from universities, research institutions, think tanks, U.S. local and state agencies, and international organizations.

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.

Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

Resources from the military alliance of democratic states in Europe and North America.

Abstracts of literature concerning peace studies, conflict studies, and international relations.

Chronicles the activities of Republic of New Afrika national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Provides documentation collected by the FBI through intelligence activities, informants, surveillance, and cooperation with local police departments.