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Collins: Contemporary Security Studies
http://www.ciaonet.org.wps/sites/copri.html/
This website includes the Working Papers produced at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) The Institute was established in 1985 and ceased to exist in January 2005 when it was merged into the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
http://www.globalsecurity.org
Global Security.org contains useful background information on armed conflicts past and present as well as developing news stories in the fields of defence and security
http://www.idss-nts.org/
This website contains information about the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) Project on Non-Traditional Security in Asia, funded by the Ford Foundation. The website is an information hub for policy makers and academics working on Non-Traditional Security and offers analytical tools by analysing the dynamics of securitization and de-securitization
http://www.sipri.org/
SIPRI (The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) is one of the world’s main centres for the analysis of arms and disarmament
http://prio.no/
The Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) is noted, in particular, for its work on civil wars
http://www.rand.org
The Rand Corporation’s website contains excellent studies of coercion and air power available in full-text
Journals:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=4&tid=26
International Security. The leading mainstream journal
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09636412.asp
Security Studies. A high ranking journal mostly publishing American mainstream research, but often more open to deep theoretical debate than International Security