This IRG program track focuses primarily with questions of conflict within and across national borders, and the efforts by state- and non-state actors to minimize threats and forge a peaceful and just world. Broad considerations of the foreign policies of nations fit within this track, as well as a focus upon war, revolution, imperialism and decolonization — any subjects involving the extension of power in the international sphere. The proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of global terrorism are central concerns within this track. Security matters may involve both external and internal threats. In an age of globalization, many issues that threaten to derail the stability of any one government—social unrest, mass migration, political turmoil—can quickly become a regional and even global hazard, and thus may fall within this track’s scope.
The tabs below have resources related to Track II: International Security. The 'background' tab contains an encyclopedia database and individual books focusing on larger overviews, definitions, and central concerns of international security. The databases link contains suggestions for databases with a focus on international security that will have in-depth research sources.
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies
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Updated regularly. Provides a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin American politics. Useful for students, academics, policy analysts and government officials.
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Updated regularly. Offers electronic documents made available by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, searchable by keyword or by topic. Included are general U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders. Readers can also find notices of events and conferences pertaining to homeland security, as well as news items drawn from various sources.
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents.
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The United Nations Digital Library currently provides access to over 862,000 UN publications including maps, images, voting data, speeches, and other documents such as resolutions and decisions, meeting records, administrative issuances, reports of sessional committees, and a variety of other statements. Issuing organizational bodies include the General Assembly, the Economic And Social Council, the International Court Of Justice, the Secretariat, the Security Council, the Economic Commissions, the Human Rights Bodies, and other various agencies. Most files are PDFs, and most documents are available in the six languages used for official UN communications. The Library is updated regularly and a “Search Guide” and “Search Tips” are available.
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Updated regularly. A full-text collection of declassified U. S. government documents. Includes correspondence and memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports. Coverage is from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. The major domestic and international events of the post-World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress members.
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RAND is a nonprofit public policy research institution. It was established after World War II to study national security. In the 1960s it added domestic policy problems to its research agenda. Current areas of research and analysis include national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies. This searchable archive includes more than 17,000 titles dating back to 1948. Some RAND documents are not included in this database. Search the Library Catalog or ask library staff for assistance to locate these.
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Updated regularly. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 500 (with full text for 400) military and general interest publications.
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The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University.Updated annually. The Digital National Security Archive includes 53 collections of declassified documents, consisting of over 94,000 indexed documents, with more than 733,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. Glossaries, chronologies, bibliographies, overviews, and photographs are included.
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University.
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Updated frequently. Provides information about the National Security Archive and its projects. Contains full-text, declassified U.S. government documents on global human rights issues and foreign policy from WWII to the present, organized into electronic briefing books browseable by subject or searchable through the site’s keyword search box.
The National Security Archive is an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University.
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Updated regularly. Provides free access to the full text of over 60,000 documents, including major human rights treaties and international instruments, United Nations documents, research guides on specific human rights topics, and resources for researching conditions in particular countries and regions of the world. Also includes links to human rights resources on more than 4,000 other websites.
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Updated regularly. An initiative of CUL's Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, the Human Rights Web Archive provides access to archived versions of freely available human rights websites created by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and individuals. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Updated regularly. Created by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the index facilitates access to the observations, recommendations, and special procedures reports issued by the human rights treaty bodies of the United Nations. The index makes it possible to search by keyword, human rights addressed, state or entity mentioned, and persons affected in order to find relevant paragraphs within the entire collection of documents.
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