BACKGROUND RESOURCES

• Americans at war: society, culture, and the homefront. John P. Resch, ed. 4 vols. E181.A452 2005 Doe Ref
• Defense policies of nations; a comparative study. 3rd ed. UA11.D387 1994 Main
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy. JX1407.E53 2002 Doe Ref
• Encyclopedia of arms control and disarmament. 3 vols. JX1974.E57 1993 Doe Ref

Includes 76 signed articles with annotated bibliographies and excerpts of 141 significant treaties and a chronological list of treaties.

• Encyclopedia of the American military: studies of the history, traditions, policies, institutions, and roles of the army in war and peace. 3 vols. UA23.E56 1994 Doe Ref
• Encyclopedia of the cold war. C. Arms. D843.A668 1994 Doe Ref

Includes people, countries, events, diplomatic/military expressions, & weapons systems.

• Global Geopolitical Flashpoints: an atlas of conflict. E. Anderson. JC319A52 2000 Doe Ref
• International conflict: a chronological encyclopedia of conflicts and their management, 1945-1995. D842.B46 1997 Doe Ref

Includes list and description of 292 interstate armed conflicts, internationalized civil wars, and militarized disputes since 1945. Also examines the basic elements, issues, and techniques in international conflict and conflict management.

• International military and defense encyclopedia. T. Dupuy, ed. 6 vols. U24.I58 1993 Doe Ref

Definitive, comprehensive encyclopedia of international military and defense information. Includes over 700 entries with detailed index and bibliographies.

• Peace, security and conflict prevention: SIPRI-UNESCO handbook. JC1905.P43 1998 Main
• Wars in the third world since 1945. G. Arnold. D883.A77 1995 Doe Ref

Entries include colonial liberation wars, border wars, civil wars: ideological and cover course of struggle, interventions, estimated costs/casualties, and results. Index.

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• Defense and foreign affairs handbook. UA10D43 latest (1996) in Doe Ref-Govt/Stat

Provides history, political, economic, and military data about each country.

• Foreign military sales, foreign military construction sales and military assistance facts. GPO. UA12U4F6 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat
• Military balance. IISS. UA15 M53 latest in Doe Ref-Govt/Stat

Standard assessment of military forces and defense expenditures presented in tabular form for countries/regions. Maps and charts.

• Political handbook of the world. JF37.P6 latest in Doe Ref-Govt/Stat
• SIPRI yearbook; armaments, disarmament and international security. UA10.W6 latest in Doe Ref-Govt/Stat

Factual and statistical info on world's armaments and efforts to control arms proliferation.

• Strategic survey. IISS. U162S771 Main

Supplements Military Balance providing a narrative summary of strategic situation in countries/regions of the world.

• United Nations disarmament yearbook. JX1974 A1.U5 latest in Gov Ref
• U.S. Dept. of Defense. Annual report to the President and the Congress.
• World military expenditures and arms transfers. U.S. ACDA. UA17.W6 latest in Doe Ref-Govt/Stat

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See also sources under ANNUALS

• Lexis/Nexis Statistical.

The web version indexes statistical sources from the US government from 1973 to present (ASI) as well as state and private sources (SRI) and international statistical sources IIS. It links to full text when available. GREF has the microfiche for ASI and IIS sources; print copy may also be available. Bus/Econ Library has the fiche for SRI publications.

• Warfare and armed conflicts: a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000. M. Clodfelter. 2nd ed. D214.C54 2002 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat

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General

• Expanded Academic ASAP. 1980-

Indexes over 3000 journals and magazines from all fields with full text for about 1000 titles.

• Lexis/Nexis Academic.

  Provides full text news, business, legal and medical sources. For translations of foreign news broadcasts use Global NewsBank (http://infoweb.newsbank.com).

• PAIS International / PAIS Archive. 1915-

International index/abstracts for books, articles, working papers, documents, reports, etc. related to economic, social, and political affairs. Includes abstracts but no full text.

• Social Sciences Citation Index. (Web of Science)

International multidisciplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral and related sciences. Unique citation searching capability. Includes abstracts.

Specialized

• Air University Library index to military periodicals. TL508.U46 Gof Ref

Subject index to articles, news items appearing in English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online).

Provides full text access to working papers, books, conferences, and journal abstracts in the field of international affairs.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. 1975-

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

For additional subject indexes/abstracts/databases check the list of "Electronic Indexes" on the Library web at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu

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JOURNALS

Browse the following related journals. Bound volumes are located in Main Stack and unbound issues in Current Periodicals (Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor Doe).

Armed forces & society. U1A65
Arms control today. JX1974.A757
Aviation week & space technology. TL501. A8
Bulletin of the atomic scientists. TK9001. B8 Physics
Comparative strategy. U162.C65
Center for Defense Information-Defense Monitor.
International security. JX1901.I63
Journal of conflict resolution. JX1901.J67
Journal of strategic studies. U162.J65
Military review: the professional journal of the US Army. U5U65
Nonproliferation review. JX1974.73.N645
Security dialogue (formerly Bulletin of peace proposals). JX1901.B83
Security studies. UA10.5 S413
Survival. IISS. U162.S9

Adelphi papers. London: International Institute for Strategic Studies. 1966- U162.A1.A3 Main

Monographic series of short titles that analyze current and future issues of international security. Excellent source of analysis of strategic issues world-wide.

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• Lexis/Nexis Congressional.

Comprehensive access to US legislative information. Provides full text of bills, laws, regulations, committee reports/documents and testimony. Includes text of National Journal ands links to related sources.

• Declassified documents reference system (DDRS).

Offers access to formerly classified information released under FOIA of 1974. Published since 1975, t he documents (mostly from CIA, NSC, Dept of State) provide an important source of information on US post-WWII domestic and international relations.

• Digital National Security Archive (DNSA).

Provides access to more than 35,000 declassified documents spanning fifty years of US national security policy.

• Documents of the National Security Council. Microfilm 18908UA Period/News/Micro Room. Guide to the microfilm edition at UA23.A12 G85 Gof Ref and Index to documents of the NSC at UA23.15 I53 Gof Ref

  This collection allows one to follow US national security policy from Truman to Reagan (1944-1977). Supplements include documents through 1983 and after. Included are background documentation, draft and final policy papers, and discussion of the policy at NSC meetings.

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Gateways:

• Foreign Affairs Online
• ISN: International Relations and Security Network.

Swiss contribution to Partnership for Peace, coordinated and developed by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research at the ETH Zurich. Electronic clearinghouse for resources in the field of security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations. Organized in a subject and regional listing with a current issues page and links to related research institutions.

• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

Examples of international organizations web sites:

• NATO. http://www.nato.int/

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). http://www.osce.org/

• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. http://www.opcw.org/

• United Nations. http://www.un.org

• For U.S. and foreign government department and agencies internet sources go to the Government Information home page (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/ ). Check the links under "US Federal" and/or "Foreign Governments" on the right sidebar.

Examples of independent research institutes, organizations:

• Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. http://www.ciss.ca/
Canada's foremost source of independent information and research on strategic and security issues.
• Center for Defense Information. http://www.cdi.org
Independent monitor of the military providing information on defense issues.
• International Institute of Strategic Studies. http://www.iiss.org/
IISS is a center for research, information, and debate on the problems of conflict.
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). http://www.sipri.se/
Established by Swedish Parliament in 1966. Research and publications focus on the issues of arms transfers, arms production, military expenditures, military technology, chemical and biological weapons, European security.
• UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). http://www-igcc.ucsd.edu/
Multi-campus research unit that sponsors programs and research on arms control and proliferation, regional relations, international environmental policy, international relations theory, and the domestic sources of foreign policy.

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