Conflict, War and Terrorism

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• al-Qaeda
• Qaida
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• suicide bombers
• terrorism
• terrorists
• victims of terrorism
• War on Terrorism, 2001-
• weapons of mass destruction

previous titles: Patterns of Global Terrorism (1983-2003); Patterns of International Terrorism (1980-1983); International Terrorism (1976-1979); International & Transnational Terrorism--Diagnosis & Prognosis (1976)

• Online version (2004+)
• Online version (2000-2003)
• Online version (1995-1999)
• Online version (1976+)
• U.S. Documents S 1.138: (1986, 1989-2001)
• U.S. Documents Microfiche S 1.138: (1987-1988, 1997)
• ASI Microfiche 248-33 (1976-1977); 244-10 (1978-1980); 7004-13 (1981+)

• 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: The 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

Homeland Security Digital Library (U.S. Naval Postgraduate School)

• Special Collections
  • General U.S. policy documents
  • Major legislation
  • National strategy documents
  • Presidential documents: directives & executive orders
  • CRS reports & issue briefs
  • GAO reports & testimony
  • Homeland security theses & research reports from the Naval Postgraduate School
  • Critical releases in homeland security
  • Exercises & lessons learned
  • After action reports
  • Congressional hearings and testimony
• Research Tools
  • Books & journals
  • Dictionaries, glossaries & lexicons
  • Government Homeland Security offices
  • Grants
  • Statistics
  • Thesis & dissertation repositories
• In Focus Topics
  • Active Shooters
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Border Security
  • Cyber Policy
  • Cyber Threat Actors
  • Disaster Economics
  • Domestic Terrorism in the U.S.
  • Election Security
  • Energy Security
  • Fentanyl & Opioids
  • Global Terrorism
  • Human Trafficking
  • Hurricanes
  • Immigration
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Mass Gatherings
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Severe Winter Weather
  • Unmanned Systems
• Out of Focus (still important, but no longer actively "in focus") - 5G & National Security; 9/11 20th Anniversary; Asylum & Detention at the Border; Biodefense; Contact Tracing; Countering Violent Extremism; COVID Conspiracies; COVID-19 Journal Resources; Debt Limit; Digital Assistants & Privacy; Disaster Fatigue; Earthquakes; Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP); Electronic Surveillance; Extreme Heat; Extremism in the Military; Federal Workforce Challenges; Fusion Centers; Gangs; Havana Syndrome; Insider Threats; Interoperability; Iran; IS-K (Khorosan); Lone Wolf Terrorism; Long COVID; Maritime Domain; Mass Evacuation; Military Role in Homeland Security; Moral Injury; Online Extremism; Pandemics & Epidemics; Police Reform; Policing Protests; Ransomware; Reopening after COVID Shutdown; School Safety; Sea Piracy; Security in Places of Worship; September 11, 2001 Attacks; Social Media Use in Emergencies; Soft Targets for Terrorism; Space Policy & National Security; Suicide Bombers; Supreme Court Nominations; Terrorist Manifestos; Vaccine Hesitancy; Workplace Violence

NOTE: The UCF Library's academic library access to the HSDL does not include access to the Restricted Collection.

NOTE: "Some content on this platform has been removed in accordance with the President's executive orders and DHS priorities."

MIPT - Lawson Terrorism Information Center (Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) provides:

• Global Terrorism Database and Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (1970+) 
• eDocuments - thousands of reports, studies, books and journals, organized into 90 categories such as:
  • Patterns of Global Terrorism
  • Terrorism in the United States
  • First Responders
  • Oklahoma City Bombing
  • Building Security
  • Al Qaeda
  • World Trade Center
  • What You Can Do/Neighborhood Terrorism Prevention
  • Lessons Learned
  • Emergency Management

Free registration provides additional access to:

• Terrorism Reference Library - "Provides students with an understanding of the complex issue of global terrorism. Explores the roots and evolution of terrorism, covering the nature of contemporary terrorism and terrorist organizations."
• Encyclopedia of Terrorism - "More than 300 articles provide detailed discussions of the who, what, where, when, and why of terrorism, including definitions of key terms, famous cases, biographies, laws, and law enforcement techniques."
• War & Terrorism Collection - 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals, plus:
  • Americans at War - "explains to students how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life"
  • Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - "covers the history of the conflict, going back to the birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century"
  • Encyclopedia of Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity - "traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity"
  • Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security - "Covers the origin, development, and results of all major national security policies over the last seven decades"

• Expert analysts dissect specific terrorist acts or types of acts, explore the goals beyond the violence, illuminate the psychology of terrorism, trace the origins and development of terrorist movements, contrast domestic terrorism with extraterritorial threats, compare state-sponsored and independent terrorist activities, and address the formidable problem of developing feasible counter-terrorist measures and policies.
• 117 reels
• Print guides for each set are available in the Reference Collection
• Online guides to supplements 4-7 for which the microfilm is not available in the UCF Libraries:
  • 4th Supplement, 1996-2001
  • 5th Supplement, 2002-2003
  • 6th Supplement, 2004-2005
  • 7th Supplement, 2006-2008

War & Terrorism Collection - over 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals, including the following full-text, peer-reviewed journals:

 and various reports from the Strategic Studies Institute, including:

START - National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (University of Maryland) -- "a university-based research center committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world."

• Global Terrorism Database
• Terrorist Organization Profiles
• Vision of Humanity -- Global Peace Index, U.S. Peace Index, Global Terrorism Index
• Research Projects
  • Terrorism Group Formation & Recruitment
  • Terrorism Group Persistence & Dynamics
  • Societal Impact of Terrorism
  • Integrative Research