Resources
- Correlates of WarCOW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations. Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures.
- Global Conflict TrackerThe Center for Preventive Action's (CPA) Global Conflict Tracker is an interactive guide to ongoing conflicts around the world of concern to the United States. The interactive covers nearly thirty conflicts with background information and resources on each conflict.
- International Crisis GroupThe International Crisis Group is an independent organization working to prevent wars and shape policies that will build a more peaceful world.
- INTERPOLThis is the world's largest international police force focusing on international crime.
- The National Security Institute at Scalia Law SchoolReports and podcasts can be found under the various tabs at the top of the page, including Public Policy, and News and Media.
- National Security PodcastsRecommended top podcasts covering national security and foreign intelligence.
- SciencePo Mass Violence and Resistance - Research NetworkMass Violence & Resistance (MV&R) is an interdisciplinary online journal focusing on 20th and 21st century massacres and genocides as well as on local resistance against mass violence. The aim of the journal is to provide reliable information on events that are sometimes difficult to document and that remain deeply rooted in individual and collective memories. Such events can be considered as ongoing, as their impact on national and international arenas continues.
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Arms Transfers DatabaseThe SIPRI Arms Transfers Database shows all international transfers of major conventional arms since 1950 and is the most comprehensive publicly available source of information on international arms transfers.
- Digital Open Access Books (DOAB): Foreign Intelligence
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DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. - Digital Open Access Books (DOAB): National Security
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DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. - MERLOT: Foreign Intellligence
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MERLOT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) is defined as a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet. - MERLOT: National Security
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MERLOT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) is defined as a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet. - MIT OpenCourseWare: National Security
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MIT OpenCourseWare offers free course materials. - Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): National Security
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OASIS is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from over one hundred different sources and contains hundreds of thousands of records. - Open Textbook: National Security
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The Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers. Around 60% of books in the Open Textbook Library have been reviewed. - Open Textbook Library: National Security
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The Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers. Around 60% of books in the Open Textbook Library have been reviewed.
- Bureau of CounterterrorismThe Bureau of Counterterrorism's mission is to promote U.S. national security by taking a leading role in developing coordinated strategies and approaches to defeat terrorism abroad and securing the counterterrorism cooperation of international partners.
- Bureau of Industry and SecurityBureau of Industry and Security from the U.S. Department of Commerce offers information about enforcement of different policies and regulations relating to business. The Bureau's mission is to protect the security of the United States, which includes its national security, economic security, cyber security, and homeland security.
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)The CIA website contains the World Factbook, the Center for the Study of Intelligence publications, the online Directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments and a searchable CIA Library.
- Crime SolutionsThis resource from the National Institute of Justice, features research about different solutions to crime. Includes resources about corrections facilities, court information, crime and crime prevention, drugs and substance abuse information, juvenile statistics, forensic science and victimization information.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)The FBI website offers news, descriptions of crimes investigated and crime statistics from the Uniform Crime Report and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). For further resources see Arrest Statistics: 1994-2014 and FBI Supplemental Homicide Reports: 1980-2018.
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)The FCC regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. It provides leadership in strengthening the defense of the nation's communications infrastructure.
- Foreign interference targeting election infrastructure or political organization, campaign, or candidate Infrastructure related to the 2020 US Federal ElectionKey findings and recommendations from the joint report of the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security on foreign interference targeting election infrastructure or political organization, campaign, or candidate Infrastructure related to the 2020 US Federal Election.
- Homeland Security Digital LibraryThe Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
- National Security Commission on Artificial IntelligenceFinal report from the NSCAI, 2021 concluding the importance for AI development for national security.
- Office of the HistorianThis website offers information about U.S. foreign policy and other classified and unclassified federal government records.
- Transportation Security Administration (TSA)The TSA provides information about travel requirements in the United States.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)CBP is one of the world's largest law enforcement organizations and is charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. while facilitating lawful international travel and trade.
- U.S. Department of DefenseThe Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security.
- CIA World FactbookThis resource provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military as well as transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes: a variety of world, regional, country, ocean and time zone maps; Flags of the World; and a Country Comparison function that ranks the country information and data in more than 75 Factbook fields.
