Research Guides
Security studies: Background info
Reference databases
- Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Full text encyclopedias in all subject areas
- The International Studies Encyclopedia
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Extensive overviews of key issues and sub-disciplines in international studies.
- Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Introductions to topics and critical surveys of the current state of scholarship in a particular field of study.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online - Political Science
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Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on political science topics. - Annual Review of Political Science
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Literature reviews on topics in political theory, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration, and methodology. - Military Balance
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Detailed statistics and narratives on military capabilities by region around the world. - SIPRI Yearbook: world armaments and disarmament
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Annual on developments in armed conflicts, data on military spending and armaments, and development in arms control. From the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - Defense360Analysis, data, and commentary on military strategy, budget, forces, acquisition, and reform.
Subject-specific reference sources
- Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
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Survey of the full range of historical, political, theoretical and philosophical issues relating to peace and conflict. - Resort to War: a Data Guide to Inter-state, Extra-state, and Non-state wars, 1816-2007A study of the patterns of interstate, intra-state, and extra-state conflicts.
- Handbook of International Rivalries, 1494-2010
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Examines 200 strategic rivalries, and includes the location and origin, duration, level of conflict, resolution, and symmetry for each rivalry. - International Military Alliances, 1648-2008Examinations of the characteristics, history, interrelations, and impact of over 450 formal interstate alliances.
