Subject Guides: JLC 673: Seminar on Security Policy: Home

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Subjects: Laws, Cases, and Legal Scholarship, Political Science & Government, Public Administration

SIPRI Yearbook This link opens in a new window
An annual compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts, military spending and armaments, and non-proliferation, arms control, and disarmament. Produced by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED)
Described on their website as: "designed for disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping. This dataset codes the locations, dates and types of all reported conflict events in over 50 countries in the developing world. Data are available for public download from the data page."
Global Terrorism Database (University of Maryland)
The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2011

ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research This link opens in a new window
This resource includes both publicly available and non-publicly available datasets on public policy and social science research.
**Access to datasets requires a free user-specific login.
To create or log into your ICPSR account, click on the 'Log In' button found in the upper right corner of most ICPSR pages.**
Additional information, particularly about off-campus access, is available in the library's Accessing ICPSR datasets at AU Subject Guide.

CRS Reports (via ProQuest Congressional)
Same CRS content, different interface. Change search preferences to remove or add additional Congressional documents such as committee hearings and reports to search results.

Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Resource for the identification of public policy research and analysis.