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Call Number: General Collection - 4th Floor -- UA 15.L652
Online editions: 1997+ Print editions: 1969/1970-1984/1985,1986/1987-2007
Contents:
- Conflict Analysis & Conflict Trends
- Comparative Defence Statistics
- North America
- Europe
- Russia & Eurasia
- Asia
- Middle East & North Africa
- Latin America & the Caribbean
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Country Comparisons: Force Levels & Economics
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Classified government document collections consisting of over 94,000 documents covering critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century
Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973–1990
The Afghanistan War and the U.S., 1998-2017
Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
The Berlin Crisis, 1958–1962
Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970–1990
China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998
The CIA and the Behavioral Sciences: Mind Control, Drug Experiments and MKULTRA
CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
CIA Covert Operations III: From Kennedy to Nixon, 1961-1974
CIA Covert Operations IV: The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961
CIA Family Jewels Indexed [free index]
Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Cuba and the U.S.: The Declassified History of Negotiations to Normalize Relations, 1959-2016
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: An International Collection of Documents, From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War
Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes, Part I: The Pentagon and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2001-2003
Donald Rumsfeld's Snowflakes, Part II: Teh Pentagon and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2004-2006
Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1984
El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980–1994
Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977–1980
The Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983–1988
Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980–1994
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992
Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Telephone Conversations: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
The Kissinger Transcripts: A Verbatim Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
Mexico-U.S. Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
The National Security Agency: Organization and Operations, 1945-2009
Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978–1990
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
The Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965–1986
Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
The President's Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961-1969
The President's Daily Brief: Nixon, Ford and the CIA, 1969-1977
South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989
The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947–1991
Soviet-U.S. Relations: The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991
Targeting Iraq, Part 1: Planning, Invasion, and Occupation, 1997-2004
Targeting Iraq, Part II: War & Occupation, 2004-2011
Terrorism and U.S. Policy, 1968–2002
The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000)
The United States and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010
U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015
U.S. Espionage and Intelligence, 1947–1996
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Carter Years, 1977-1981: Highest-Level Memos to the President
U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action
The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11
The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947–1989
U.S. Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq
U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945–1991
U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968
U.S. Nuclear History, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity
U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1945–1991
U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part 1: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968
U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975
U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015
U.S.-Russia Relations: From the Fall of the Soviet Union to the Rise of Putin, 1991-2000
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World News Connection* (1990+)
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