A vast resource of topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that combine the best of legacy microfilms from Gale and Primary Source Media and new, never-before-filmed collections. Specifically developed to address the needs of individual scholars, universities and organizations, Archives Unbound is unique not only for its expansive, multi-disciplinary content but also for the distinct new intuitive search platform by which you access it.
Access includes:
Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department
U.S. Relations and Policies in Southeast Asia, 1944-1958: Records of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs
National Security and FBI Surveillance Enemy Aliens
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This electronic resource searches 22 business sectors in up to 200 markets; includes company profiles, SWOT analyses, sector peer analyses, and curated news/research; gives the option to receive alerts for crucial market updates, and contains export bespoke data sets from across 2.3 million lines of data, with 10 year forecasts for 200+ markets.
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Scholarly materials on politics and international relations
Full text of working papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings and links to Web sources
Journal abstracts, book summaries, country data, and economic indicators
CIAO Focus is a monthly feature that highlights a current international issue with links to relevant documents.
Four periodicals are included in the East View Information Services electronic resource:
The weekly Current Digest of the Russian Press contains Russian-language press materials translated into English from 1949- present.
International Affairs: A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations, is published six times/year with issues from 1954 - present. It offers analysis of foreign policy and international security issues.
Military Thought: A Russian Journal of Military Theory and Strategy is a quarterly publication of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense, 1992 - present, and contains articles on Russian military reform, tactics and strategy of modern combat, counterterrorist operations, and international security.
Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) is the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army, the military of the People's Republic of China, and is searchable from 1965 - present. Written in Chinese only.
Each week The Current Digest of the Chinese Press presents a digestible collection of articles from key Chinese newspapers on such topics as:
Politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, culture and more.
Articles are selected from a wide variety of sources in China, all of which are explicitly targeted on a domestic – not foreign – audience.
Each article is carefully translated into English, with great attention given to conveying "the sense and spirit" of the Chinese text.
Primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945
Diverse collections organized by country, event, or topic:
Afghanistan/ Argentina/ Berlin Crisis/ Chile & the U.S./ China and the U.S./
CIA Covert Ops/ CIA Family Jewels/ Columbia & the U.S./ Cuban Missile Crisis/
Guatemala and the U.S./ El Salvador 1977-1994/ Electronic Surveillance and the NSA/
Iran Revolution/ Iran-Contra Affair/ Iraqgate/
Japan and the U.S., 1960-2000/ Kissinger Telephone Conversations/
Kissinger Transcripts/ Mexico-U.S. Counternarcotics Policy/ National Security Agency/
Nicaragua/ Peru/ Philippines & U.S. Policy/
Presidential Directives/ South Africa/ Soviet Estimate/
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968-2002/ The United States and the Two Koreas/
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence/ U.S. Intelligence & China/
Intelligence Community 1947-1989 & After 9-11/ Weapons of Mass Destruction/
Military Uses of Space/ U.S. Nuclear History/
Nuclear Non-Proliferation/ U.S. Policy in Vietnam War, 1954-1975
Chronologies; glossaries; subject bibliographies
Click Collections Guide for a list and description of the various collections.
Intelligence, security, and counter-terrorism issues
Full text
Journal articles; reference material
Country reports, news feeds, and Web-based information on terrorism and security
Expert analyses and reports
Recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum
Current biographies
Comprehensive work on a wide range of topics in international law
Peer-reviewed articles written by legal scholars and practitioners world-wide
Articles are listed alphabetically, by subject, and by author and are accompanied by selected bibliographies and document references
See also print version of the Encyclopedia:
KZ1160 .E532 1992 (1992-2000) in the Reference collection
KZ1160 .E53 1981 (1981-1990) located in the hallway outside the Library Director’s office
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1956 - 1996 is an archive of foreign broadcasts and news, translated into English from media sources outside the United States.
FBIS is a comprehensive and fully searchable full-text database of openly available news and reports from:
Middle East and North Africa East Asia
Near East and South Asia/ Latin America
South Asia/ Eastern Europe
China/ Soviet Union & Central Eurasia
Asia and the Pacific/ Western Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa
A weekly publication, the Globalist, Naval War College Executive Edition, explores new trends and risks emerging in the global economy and looks closely at the agendas of pivotal nations and other forces that shape interactions between key global players.
Quick factual inputs; leading-edge analysis; assumption-challenging perspectives;out-of-the-box thinking; thought-provoking features
Information from more than 200 sources, ranging from leading newspapers and magazines to important government agencies, NGOs and think tanks
The Top 25:
Each week, the Globalist presents 25 new facts in six sections that have been carefully selected to cover key trends.
Global economy
American economy
European economy
Asian economy
In Focus: A special topic each week
Quote of the week
Politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment
Translated into English from foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents
Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East
Content: 1996 to present
A legal collection of American and international law materials.
Full-text articles from over 600 legal journals
Most cited law journals, international and non-U.S. law journals
Treaties and agreements library including Treaties in Force
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Supreme Court Library
Country by country internal and external security and threat assessments
Defense news and analysis
Order of battle information for armies, navies and air forces worldwide
Information on military systems and equipment
Geopolitical and terrorism intelligence
Terrorist news updated daily and allows for the tracking of terrorist activity by region or country.
Search by region, country, terrorist group, tactic, target type, scale of attack, and target ownership
Attack records include details of damage, casualty statistics, and historical trends
Records of statements by terrorist/insurgent groups
Indicators and warnings issued by government agencies
Latitude-longitude geo-codes provided for mapping terrorist attack/threat patterns
This collection features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. It contains a wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials translated from many languages.
An archive of scholarly journal literature in the humanities.
Academic disciplines that include history, political science, and law, as well as Middle Eastern, Latin American, Asian, African, and Slavic studies
Content includes the first issuance of each journal title included in the database
Current to within the last 2-5 years
National and international newspapers; business and legal information
Articles from thousands of domestic and international newspapers
Transcripts from domestic and international news wire services and media reports
Newsletters and magazine articles, law review articles
Securities and Exchange Commission reports and filings
References to the medical literature via the Medline database
Note: For defense & military-related magazine articles, it is best to search the ProQuest database
Military Thought is a quarterly publication of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense, 1992-present, and contains articles on Russian military reform, tactics and strategy of modern combat, experience of counterterrorist operations, and international security.
Information focused on issues in North Korea, with daily updated exclusive news and analysis, full access to the KCNA Watch North Korea media monitoring suite, full access to the NK Leadership Tracker, and full access to NK News archives
OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 - over 1 200 journal issues, 7 260 working papers, 6 390 multi-lingual summaries, 16 580 e-book titles, 275 840 tables and graphs, 2 550 articles, 89 930 chapters, and more than 7 billion data points across 44 databases.
Comprehensive resource from Oxford Press on Islamic studies with an emphasis on modern Islam
Qur’an verse lookup
A-Z reference entries
Primary source documents translated into English
Scholarly articles and essays
Timelines of Islamic and world events
Image library
Date converter from Western to Islamic
Suggestions for further reading
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is the bibliographic index to the social sciences
References to journal articles and books
Governmental documents and reports
Reports from public and private organizations
Statistics and directories
Some of the references are in languages other than English. An associated database grouped with PAIS is the Periodical/Publisher Information Database that provides periodical and publisher information for documents found in the PAIS database.
This collection serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covers more than 160 subject areas including business, economics, military, news and world affars, science, telecommunications, etc. through scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, books, magazines, trade publications and videos.
Includes: ProQuest Research Library; ProQuest Military; ProQuest Asian Business; ABI/Inform Complete; Wall Street Journal; OxResearch; and many more.
This collection covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more. It includes over 550 titles, with more than 370 available in full-text, allowing you to search over 3.5M records, dating back to the early 1990's.
ProQuest Political Science offers hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
Online edition of the yearbook from 2010 to the present
Provides access to high-quality, topical data and analysis on armaments, arms control, armed conflicts and resolutions, security arrangements, and important longer-term trends in international security.
Country profiles
Topical and regional net assessments
Situation reports
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Stratfor Worldview is worldwide in scope and provides insights into international security issues, risk management, and global alliances.
Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. TRAC provides researchers in the fields of terrorism studies, political science, international relations, sociology, criminal justice, philosophy and history with content that enables intellectual clarity on a highly complex topic.
-- Core analyses of 3,800 groups that have been known to aid and abet political violence or terrorist organizations.
-- Original, commissioned analyses of seminal terrorism topics.
-- Profiles of vulnerable regions and cities mostly likely to attract terrorist incidents.
-- Live intelligence repository: TRAC provides a publishing center for research of any length produced by its members.
-- TRAC continuously monitors important news and analysis sources and posts feeds to the site as events unfold.
-- Hot links that quickly navigate between concepts within articles, news feeds, and outside resources.
-- Access to political violence experts worldwide.
-- Hundreds of internet links to think tanks; government agencies; universities, community colleges and police academies offering courses in terrorism, criminal justice, and homeland security; government and private research centers.
Status of multilateral treaties
United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS)
League of Nations Treaty Series
Handbooks and summaries of practice
This collection also includes the text and status of recently deposited multilateral treaties, memorandums of understanding, and many other documents as well as rejections, withdrawals and reservations. It is important to note that searching this collection requires constantly turning off pop-up blocker.
World Politics Review (WPR) is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs.
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