POLS 333: International Security (HC)

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.

This institutional repository for the London School of Economics and Political Science contains articles, book chapters, books, working papers, conference papers and more authored by LSE staff

Users can access timely, updated information from over 350 U.S. public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities. Coverage is from 1990 to the present. Can provide better results than searching Google.

This non-profit organization provides data on a searchable dashboard, broken down by region and a variety of early warning tools and analysis of data. See, for example, Emerging Actor Tracker and From the Capitol Riot to the Midterms: Shifts in American Far-Right Mobilization Between 2021 and 2022

Offers datasets on international conflict and related topics. See also the section on issues which prompt conflict: http://www.paulhensel.org/icow.html#supp.

The ICRG (International Country Risk Guide) Researcher's Dataset from the PRS Group comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk (political, financial, and economic), for 146 countries, over the period 1984 to the previous year. Data are annual averages of components published in the International Country Risk Guide.

Provides statistical and narrative information with regard to war, conflict, on-sided violence, conflict prevention, and peace agreements.

Governance indicators for over 200 countries cover six areas: Voice and accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government effectiveness, Regulatory quality, Rule of law, and Control of corruption.

This organization addresses ethical decision-making in international relations. The website has many different kinds of resources fro research.

This online library offers over 75,000 open source books, chapters, articles, reports and transcripts concerning security studies.

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. 109-113.

Founded in the United Arab Emirates as a Gulf Arab think tank.

From Israel

Conducts strategic studies for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Commands.