Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites

International Relations: Peace, Security, and Defense

Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a public policy research institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. CSIS is the only institution of its kind that maintains resident experts on all the world's major geographical regions. The Center's staff of 90 policy experts, 80 support staff, and 70 interns, is committed to generating strategic analysis, exploring contingencies, analyzing policy options, exploring contingencies, and making policy recommendations.

Boundary News Archive (International Boundary Research Unit)
Searchable database with over 10,000 boundary-related reports from a wide range of news sources around the world dating from 1991 to approximately six months before the current date.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has built its reputation and standing on competence, professional skills, and the collection of hard data and precise facts, rendering accessible impartial information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, military expenditure, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament. The task of the Institute is to conduct scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solution of international conflicts and for a stable peace. This site offers research reports on the aforementioned areas of peace research. Other related links are also available on this site.

U.S. Department of State. Counterterrorism Office
The Office of Counterterriorism coordinates all U.S. Government efforts to improve counterterriorism cooperation with foreign governments. Among the information available on this site is official statements from the Coalition Against Terrorism, White House information from the Multi-Front War on Terrorism, Terrorism Sanctions, and up-to-date Congressional bills and resolutions related to the attack of September 11, 2001. The "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" designations report, along with other releases and reports is also on the site. The "Archives" section contains such reports as "Patterns of Global Terrorism" (1995-1999) and "Significant Incidents of Political Violence Against Americans" (1995-1999).