Research Guides: POLS 253: Introduction to Terrorism Studies (HC): Policy Resources

Finding Research Reports and Conference Papers

PolicyFile
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Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
This organization makes conference papers, pre-print journal articles, and working papers in the social sciences searchable and provides full text access to many of them. This is a good place to find very recent material.

Brookings Institution
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
This organization addresses ethical decision-making in international relations. The website has many different kinds of resources fro research.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
This online library offers over 75,000 open source books, chapters, articles, reports and transcripts concerning security studies.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Chatham House
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Based in Philadelphia, the organization is "dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the United States." It was founded in 1955 with support from the University of Pennsylvania.
Global Go to Think Tanks 2018
The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania ranks think tanks by topic area and by region. See:
Top Defense and National Security Think Tanks, pp. 96-98, for important research centers around the world.
Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
Conducts strategic studies for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Commands.
International Crisis Group
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RAND Corporation
Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), United States Army War College