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Primary source documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Individual parts are: Afghanistan : the making of U.S. policy, 1973-1990 -- Afghanistan War and the United States, 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 -- 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, Part IV: The Eisenhower Years, 1953-1961 -- CIA Family Jewels Indexed -- 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, From Bay of Pigs to Nuclear Brink -- Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, 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 -- El Salvador: the making of U.S. policy, 1977-1984 -- Death squads, guerrilla war, covert operations, and genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999 -- 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 -- Kissinger telephone conversations: a verbatim record of U.S. diplomacy, 1969-1977 -- Kissinger transcripts: a verbatim record of U.S. diplomacy, 1969-1977 -- Mexico-United States counternarcotics policy, 1969-2013 -- 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 from Harry Truman to William Clinton, Part I -- Presidential directives on national security from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, Part II -- The President's Daily Brief: Nixon, Ford, and the CIA, 1969-1977 -- The President's Daily Brief: Kennedy, Johnson, and the CIA, 1961-1969 -- 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 and Occupation, 2004-2011 -- Terrorism and US policy 1968-2002 -- 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 -- U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action -- The U.S. intelligence community: organization, operations and management, 1947-1989 -- The U.S. Intelligence Community After 9/11 -- 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, 1969-1976: Weapons, Arms Control, and War Plans in an Age of Strategic Parity -- U.S. nuclear history: nuclear arms and politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968 -- U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy, 1945-1991 -- U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part I: From Atoms for Peace to the NPT, 1954-1968 -- U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation 2, Part II: The Nixon-Ford Years, 1969-1976 -- U.S. policy in the Vietnam War. Part I: 1954-1968 -- U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975 -- The United States and the Two Koreas, 1969-2000 -- The United States and the Two Koreas, Part II, 1969-2010 -- U.S. Policy toward Iran: From the Revolution to the Nuclear Accord, 1978-2015 -- The President's Daily Brief: Nixon, Ford, and the CIA, 1969-1977 -- 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 -- U.S. Climate Change Diplomacy: From the Montreal Protocol to the Paris Agreement, 1981-2015 -- Afghanistan War and the United States, 1998-2017 -- U.S.-Russia Relations: From the Fall of the Soviet Union to the Rise of Putin, 1991-2000‎.

Full-text searchable digital library of early printed books in Arabic script covering religion, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature. Includes European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European works.
Human Rights Studies Online is a research and learning database providing comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects
Citations to over 240,000 articles and monographs dealing with all aspects of Muslim life and Middle Eastern studies, including history, economics, religion and theology, law, art and architecture, and philosophy. Also included are citations to conference papers and presentations, memorial volumes and collected essays.
A bibliogrpahy paremiological and phraseological publications spanning the past 200 years. Covers the 10,000 publications that are part of the International Proverb Archives and every bibliographical reference is followed by one to three lines of alphabetically arranged key-words (names, subjects, titles, and texts of individual proverbs and phrases).

Muteferriqa is an online research portal. It contains an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century. It paves the way for interdisciplinary collaboration in historical research through its English and Turkish language support.

Through its sleek Web interface, Muteferriqa lets you perform full-text search within seconds across millions of pages of its corpus, which consists of virtually all the books and a large majority of periodicals ever printed in Ottoman Turkish. Refining queries through rich and extensive metadata gives relevant cross-sections of the material. - Publisher

Provides peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the range of lived experiences and textual traditions of Muslims as they are articulated in various countries and regions throughout the world. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
Includes English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Portuguese.
This collection offers a detailed view of U.S. foreign relations in Africa and the Middle East during the 1960-1969 period.
Twentieth Century Religious Thought: Islam focuses on modern Islamic theology and tradition and details Islams evolution from the late 19th century by examining printed works and rare documents by Muslim writers, both non-Western and Western voices.
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International commodity trade statistics for over 130 countries, detailed by commodity and partner country. For many countries data coverage is 1962 to present.
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The UN iLibrary provides access to books, magazines, and journals published by the UN Secretariat, agencies, funds, and programs dating back to 2013.
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Includes the texts of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General and the United Nations Treaty Series. Provides the official text of over 40,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties. Search by party, date, subject, popular name, type of agreement, and keywords.

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