POS 304-404: Great Power Politics: Spring 2010 – Research Links – Capabilities and Conflicts.

• BBC World War I Website.

World War II.

• BBC World War II Website.

Cold War.

• BBC Cold War Website.
• National Security Archives.
  • Interesting documents related to covert actions of Great Powers/Super Powers.
    • Declassified Director of Central Intelligence briefing notes for discussing with JFK coup plot against Diem in Vietnam in 1963.
• Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
• Year Book of Communist Studies.
• International Newsletter of Communist Studies.

Vietnam War.

• Vietnam Center and Archive.
  • Project of Texas Tech University. “you can now access nearly 1 million pages of Vietnam War related research materials through the Virtual Vietnam Archive.  This free online resource is a part of the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University and currently includes the full text of more 80,000 documents, 60,000 photos and slides, hundreds of interviews with veterans and other participants (to include streaming audio and transcripts), other streaming audio and video recordings, and much more.  The documents are comprised of official US government records to include presidential office materials, State Department, CIA, US Embassy materials, and more… .”

Ethnic Conflict.

• Global Review of Ethnopolitics.

Conflict: Cases.

• Haiti.
  • ReliefWeb – Haiti.
  • Washington Post.
  • CNN.
• Kosovo.
  • War in Europe.
    • Frontline. February 2000 air/web date.
    • International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
• Strategic Bombing.
  • “Morality and Modern Air War.” Joint Forces Quarterly (JFQ). Mjr. Jeffrey Gingras and Mjr. Tomislav Ruby USAF, Air Command and Staff College (ACSC).
  • Civilian Deaths in the NATO Air Campaign. Human Rights Watch (HRW).

• Depleted Uranium.
  • BBC Website re: Depleted Uranium.
• Decapitation Strikes/Assassinations.
  • “On the Offensive – Assassination Policy Under International Law” – Harvard International Review Fall 2003 by Kristen Eichensehr.
  • Assassination And Display In Iraq: The Killings Of Uday And Qusai Hussein In International Law. Jurist 2003 by Professor Marjorie Cohn – Executive Vice President National Lawyers Guild.
  • The Yemen Attack: Illegal Assassination Or Lawful Killing? Jurist 2003 by Professor Jeffrey Addicott St. Mary’s University School Of Law -ret. US Army Special Forces.

Intelligence Services.

• General.
  • Global-intel.
    • Occasional articles related to intelligence services and their involvement in foreign and domestic politics managed by: “Gordon Thomas, Travel Editor of The European, best selling author, screenwriter and journalist leads a team of award winning writers producing news reports and travel features for globe-intel’s huge international readership.”
  • Intelligence Forum.
    • Weekly (or more frequent) mailing list related to intelligence services, often with links to articles about intelligence published in major English language media.
  • Secrecy News.
    • “SECRECY NEWS is a email publication of the FAS Project on Government Secrecy. It provides informal coverage of new developments in secrecy, security and intelligence policies, as well as links to new acquisitions on our web site. It is published 2 to 3 times a week, or as events warrant..”
• Canada.
• Mexico.
  • Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (Center for Research and National Security).
• Russia.
  • FSB.
  • SVR.
• United States.
  • Intelligence Community Portal Site.
  • Central Intelligence Agency.
    • Center for the Study of Intelligence.
  • FOIA Reading Room.  Declassified documents produced in response to FOIA requests.

Weaponry/Security Issues.

• General:
  • Global Security Newswire.
    • Daily or weekly summary bulletins and articles re: security issues.
  • Global Security.org.
  • Federation of American Scientists.
  • Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
    • Daily to weekly summaries of coverage of current military conflicts.
  • US DOD DIOR US Force Statistics.
  • FY 2002 Force Size.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction.
  • Nuclear.
    • National Resource Defense Council (NRDC).
      • Nuclear weapons and waste.
      • Data on size of nuclear arsenals.
    • Index of links related to nuclear weapons.
  • Biological.
  • Chemical.

Quantitative Data and Methods.

• Data:
  • Correlates of War.
  • Correlates of War Project at University of Michigan.
• EUgene.
• Expected Utility Generation and Data Management Program.
• Methods of Analysis:
• Network Analysis.
  • Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS).
    • Index of Computational Models and Social Network Tools.
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity.
  • Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE).
  • • Index of resources.
• Agent Based Simulations.
  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
• Expected Utility Models.
  • See EUgene above.
• Rational Choice/Game Theory.
  • Gametheory.net.

Last Update: 11/20/2012.