Introduction to This Page
This page is meant to supplement the syllabus and lectures for my undergraduate course "International Conflict" (PSCI 4821) at the University of North Texas. It is organized along the same outline as the reading list for the course, to help students who wish to go beyond the original assigned readings.
Obviously, this page -- like any other page on the Web -- is a work in progress. I will do my best to keep it up-to-date throughout the semester. Unfortunately, many of these links may be redirected or even removed from the Web by the end of the semester (one semester I found that over one-third of all of the links on one of my pages broke between September and December). I would appreciate being informed via email if you find any broken links on this page, so that I can attempt to fix or delete the link in question.
Note that this page is in need of serious updating - I have not checked many of these resources for over a decade, and only in 2018 have I merged them all into one place where I can start organizing them and verifying that they still exist.
Defining and Studying Conflict and War
- Uppsala Conflict Data Project
- World at War (from the Center for Defense Information or CDI)
- Contemporary Conflicts (from the Canadian Department of National Defence)
- CrisisWeb (from the International Crisis Group)
- Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (from the U.S. Department of Defense)
- INCORE International Conflict Research project (a joint project from the University of Ulster annd United Nations University)
- MILNET: The Online Military Encyclopedia
- U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
- War and Military Resources (from PBS' The American Experience)
- War on the Web
Individual-Level Causes
- Human Nature:
- Personality: Human Nature (from Learner.org)
- Robin Fox, The Human Nature of Violence (from the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford)
- Sociobiology:
- C. George Boeree, Sociobiology
- Great Man Theory:
- The Dictionary of Critical Sociology at Iowa State includes an entry on Great Man Theory
- Edwin Seligman (1901-2), The Economic Interpretation of History (contrasted with the great man approach)
- Misjudging History (an essay on the "great man" Winston Churchill)
- Dubious Influences (from Time magazine)
Group-Level Causes
- Nationalism and Civilizations:
- Number of (active or potential) national-type groups:
- The Minorities at Risk project collects and reports data on politically active minority groups around the world, including information on groups in each country)
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World (includes information on languages in each country, among many other useful resources)
- GeoNative offers extensive information about world minorities; see also their links)
- Ethnic Groups Worldwide (excerpts from a useful reference book; the same publisher offers the Encyclopedia of World Cultures)
- EuroMosaic (offering reports on minorities in Europe, sorted by language and by state)
- Center For Russian Studies' Ethnic Groups Database
- Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
- Number of (active or potential) national-type groups:
State-Level Causes
Diversionary Theory
- The War Powers Act of 1973
- Full Text (from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School)
- War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance (a 1996 Congressional Research Service report)
Organizations and Groups
- The Schlieffen Plan, Other Military Doctrines, and World War I
- Military Plans and the First World War
- War Plans 1905-1914 (from Trenches on the Web; includes information on major countries' war plans, often with maps)
- The Schlieffen Plan (from Max Forsythe's site on The Great European and World War; includes an excellent map illustrating the plan)
- The Schlieffen Plan (from the Spartacus Educational site; includes illustrations of the plan and its results)
- The Department of Defense offers definitions of preventive war and preemptive war"
International-Level Causes
Lateral Pressure and Conflict over Resources
- General Water Scarcity Issues:
- AquaStat (extensive information and data about water scarcity for dozens of countries, from the UN FAO)
- The UN has produced a Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World
- Water: Critical Shortages Ahead? and The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems (from the World Resources Institute)
- Freshwater data tables (in PDF format, from the WRI's World Resources 1998-99 report)
- Conflict over Cross-Border Rivers and Lakes:
- Research by Aaron Wolf on Conflict And Cooperation involving International Waterways
- Water Wars: Shortage in the Middle East
- Atlas of Freshwater Conflicts (from Green Cross International -- currently incomplete and with an unreliable connection)
Territorial Claims
- My ICOW research project focuses on territorial claims.
D3. Anarchy, the Security Dilemma, and Arms Races
- Arms Races
- Dreadnought: The Epic Arms Race of Battleships between Great Britain and Germany, the United States and Japan
- Chuck Hawks, Basic Characteristics of the Treaty Battleships (a discussion of attempts to prevent another naval arms race in the 1920s)
- Armor and the Arms Race (focusing on improvements over time in tank technology)
- The Cold War (1946-1990) (from Historic American Engineering Record; emphasizes technology and the arms race)
- Arms Races: The Next Generation (from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)
D4. Crisis Bargaining
- Resources yet to be added
System-Level Causes
Power Transition Theory
- Resources yet to be added
International System Structure
- Resources yet to be added
Costs and Consequences of War
- World War I Reverberates through History (from ABC News' "The Century")
- Society and Politics under the Strains of War, From Victory to Defeat and Revolution, and The Treaty of Versailles (resources on the impact of World War I on Germany, from Raffael Scheck's course on German history at Colby College; he also covers World War II with The Aftermath of the War)
- Power Kills (by Rudolph Rummel)
- United Nations Mine Action Service (links to a variety of UN resources on land mines and demining, including a database of each country's estimated stockpiles and current legal standing with respect to land mines.
- Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (UNICEF)
- State Level Casualty Lists from Korea and Vietnam (from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Security and Deterrence
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Center for Defense Information
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Federation of American Scientists
- Heritage Foundation National Security Resources
- ISN - International Relations and Security Network (from ETH-Zurich)
- Jane's Security resources and Defense resources
- National Security Archive (from George Washington University)
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Security projects
- Henry L. Stimson Center
- UN Peace and Security Links
- U.S. Department of Energy - National Nuclear Security Administration
- Yahoo! - Government:Military
Weapons of Mass Destruction
- The Atomic Archive
- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - Doomsday Clock (level across the Cold War and beyond)
- CDI's Nuclear Proliferation resources
- James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- Federation of American Scientists - Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation and Biological and Toxin Weapons resources
- International Atomic Energy Agency
- Nuclear Control Institute (NCI)
Missile Defense
Conventional Weapons
- CDI's Arms Trade and Small Arms/Light Weapons resources
- FAS Arms Sales Monitoring Project
- Jane's Home Page
- The Military Balance
- MilNet
Disarmament
Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping
- The Carter Center (from Emory University)
- ConflictResolver.net ("a free online resource for conflict resolution practitioners and academics")
- Dimostenis's Conflict Resolution Page
- Institute for Conflict Analysis and Prevention and Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution (from George Mason University; see especially the ICAR page of online resources.)
- ICAR Conflict Analysis & Resolution
- INCORE Resources on Peace and Conflict Resolution
- UN Scholars' Workstation (from the Yale library))
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- WWW Virtual Library on Private Dispute Resolution (covering such topics as mediation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution)
- Yahoo's Peace and Conflict Studies Directory
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