Research Guides: International Terrorism: Middle East, Eurasia, and beyond: Gelman and Public Databases

Specialized Publicly Available Databases

All Minorities at Risk Project
The All Minorities at Risk project (based at the University of Maryland) monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000.
Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism
A searchable database on all suicide attacks from 1974 through June 2016. The database includes information about the location of attacks, the target type, the weapon used, and systematic information on the demographic and general biographical characteristics of suicide attackers.
Foreign Terrorist Organizations
List of foreign organizations designated by the US Secretary of State as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Global Terrorism Database
The Global Terrorism Database is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017.
Mapping Militants Project
The Mapping Militants Project (based at Stanford University) identifies patterns in the evolution of militant organizations in specified conflict theatres and provides interactive visual representations of these relationships.
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism
A research and education center comprised of an international network of scholars committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world.
National Counterterrorism Center
Integrates the US' counterterrorism effort by fusing foreign and domestic information on counterterrorism, providing terrorism analysis, sharing information with partners, and driving whole-of-government action to secure national objectives.
Terrorism and Preparedness Data Resource Center
Archives and distributes data about the nature of domestic and international terrorism incidents, responses to terror, and citizen's attitudes towards terrorism.
US State Department Terrorism Designations Press Releases
September 2001 to the present

Military and Homeland Security Databases

Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Technical, country specific information on terrorism-related issues.
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Covers significant articles, news, editorials appearing in English-language military and aeronautical periodicals. Very technical military aspects of terrorism.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text journals and periodicals, selected articles, newsfeeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Country specific.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) This link opens in a new window
The Homeland Digital Security Library compiles documents relevant to homeland security policy and related national strategy. Information in the HDSL comes from federal, state and local agencies, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Includes documents created since 2002, plus some earlier documents relevant to current initiatives. Specialized for terrorism-related issues, with military slant.
U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new window
Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half-dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks.

Think Tanks and Online Journals

Agentura.Ru Studies and Research Centre
A Russian NGO providing research, analysis, and commentary covering security and terrorism issues.
Foreign Policy Research Institute Center for the Study of Terrorism
Conducts original research and meta-research regarding adversaries’ goals, resources, tactics and strategies in the use of terrorism against the United States and its allies.
Institute for the Study of War
A non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization.
Jamestown Foundation Terrorism Monitor
A bi-weekly journal providing in-depth, objective analysis on al-Qaeda and the War on Terror.
Long War Journal
Provides reports and analysis of the Long War (also known as the Global War on Terror) through programs of embedded reporters, news and news aggregation, maps, podcasts, and other multimedia formats.
Middle East Institute
The oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East. Its avowed mandate is “to increase knowledge of the Middle East among the citizens of the United States and to promote a better understanding between the people of these two areas.”
Middle East Media Research Institute
Provides timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, Urdu-Pashtu, Dari, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends
National Security and Terrorism at RAND Corporation
Providing research and analysis to guide policymaking
Small Wars Journal
Facilitates the exchange of information among practitioners, thought leaders, and students of Small Wars, in order to advance knowledge and capabilities in the field.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Terrorism
The largest research institute devoted exclusively to the study of the Middle East, the mission of The Washington Institute is to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them.

Science and engineering databases for terrorism research

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Access to the text of Association for Computing Machinery journals and proceedings. Very strong for researching computer science related issues of terrorism. Very technical, industry and country specific, but specifically strong in general areas.
FORENSICnetBASE This link opens in a new window
Access to all CRC Press forensic sciences e-books. Full text available. Deals with very technical aspects of terrorism, country specific. Touches upon the issues of both combating the terrorism and of terrorist techniques, very productive database.
American Chemical Society Web Editions This link opens in a new window
Full text. Access to large number of chemical journals. Very technical info on terrorism-related issues in variety of countries, with emphasis on chemistry and biology.
Science Online This link opens in a new window
Access to articles from Science Magazine and Science NOW and variety of other resources. Very big on general terrorism-related issues, not country specific.
ScienceDirect Journals This link opens in a new window
Access to large number of science journals, very strong on general terrorism issues, not country specific.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) E-journals This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to the following journals: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal of Chemical Physics, Physics of Fluids. Deals with technical issues of nuclear terrorism, policy of nuclear security and other terrorism issues.
IEEE/IEE Electronic Library This link opens in a new window
Access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics, including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IEE journals, conference proceedings, and IEEE Standards. Very technical, full text on subjects related to terrorism and electronic security.
Compendex This link opens in a new window
Covers engineering journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. Areas covered include chemical and process engineering; computers and data processing; applied physics; electronics and communications; and civil, mechanical and materials engineering. Technical, background info for terrorism research.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary scientific journal. Very good info on terrorism as it relates to science, bio-terrorism. Country specific.
TRID This link opens in a new window
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS Database) and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD Database). TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

Political and Social sciences databases for terrorism research

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This academic multi-disciplinary database provides than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1887.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
International coverage of the fields of anthropology and archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Brings together the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) from the UK.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the US) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. The database indexes more than 1,700 academic historical journals. Excellent for terrorism research, country specific.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Current indexing and abstracting of the worldâ**s leading journals in political science. Important source for Russia related materials. Index and abstracts, with some linked full-text. Good resource on terrorism, country specific.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Back issues of core scholarly journals in subjects including African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Includes free Early-Journal Content, journals published before 1923 in the U.S. and before 1870 outside of the U.S.
ProQuest Research Library Plus This link opens in a new window
Scholarly bibliographic and full text database that contains materials on variety of terrorism-related issues. Best for historical and background information, country specific.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Part of the Web of Science covers scholarly literature across the social sciences, with citations culled from a vast array of journals. Good for researching social aspects of terrorism, up to date, country specific.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Proquest product: Provides bibliographic coverage of current scholarly research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations. Excellent for terrorism research, country specific.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Proquest product: Provides citations to the international periodical literature in political science and its complementary fields. Index and abstracts, with some linked full-text. Good for historical and background information on terrorism, country specific.