- Contemporary Conflicts in Africa
Well-developed site focusing on conflict in Africa, though some links overlap with conflicts in other parts of the world. Well organized, with various clickable maps to resources on particular conflicts. Each conflict has comprehensive links to information and other sites, including humanitarian reports, news sources, scholarly reports, and recommended clearinghouses. Appealing layout and a good reference.
- Institute for the Study of Advanced Information Warfare
Site devoted to information warfare, run by a self-proclaimed "virtual nongovernmental" organization. Offers interesting links to publications, reports, introductions to the field, and other related sites--mostly American--on the concept of information warfare. Site is organized with hyperlinks embedded in one long text, making quick reference somewhat difficult. Offers a useful jumping-off point on the topic.
- Bonn International Center for Conversion
Run by an independent nonprofit organization, the site focuses on shifting defense and military technologies and expertise to civilian ends. Provides documentation, reports, and links to other sites on conversion. Although site has a narrow focus, it is clearly laid out and comprehensive in its own area. Has information on the work it does in its six main conversion areas, plus additional links to overall conversion issues, a bulletin board, and a conversion survey. Has some downloadable papers on conversion issues.
- The High Energy Weapons Archive
Enormous source of materials primarily related to nuclear weapons technologies and other weapons of mass destruction. Maintained by Cary Sublette, it includes some reference articles, recent news updates culled from Web sites, listservs, links to other pages, graphics archives, and some extensive bibliographies.
- The Nuclear Control Institute
NCI is an independent research and advocacy center specializing in problems of nuclear proliferation. Site provides extensive unannotated links to nuclear-related issues. Site includes press and information releases on current issues in the area of "plutonium" and "uranium" threats. It also has an attractive set of on-going special sections, which currently focus on nuclear terrorism and plutonium air shipments, that provide online full-text articles culled from various sources.
- British American Security Information Council
Web page of the British American Security Information Council. Has press releases, papers, publications, and articles on topics related to nuclear weapons and other weapons proliferation, and on European and trans-European security. Although site makes fairly good use of hypertext, the overall organization could be better and more clearly divided into subjects or categories.
- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Web page of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Good resource for treaties, speeches, fact sheets, reports, historical documents, and related sites to arms control. Well laid out, with good hyperlinks. Strongest aspect of site is its cataloging of arms control related treaties, agreements, and memoranda. Each catalogue link gives a narrative, the text, and the signatories, all under separate hyperlinks for almost all 34 treaties and agreements that are listed. Annual reports of the ACDA are also provided online.
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Excellent source of information on a variety of peace and security-related areas, including arms transfers, nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons. Makes excellent use of hypertext design to give it a very economical feel. Some of the subareas of the site have a variety of archived material, including documents official government, intergovernmental and nongovernmental materials and graphs. Other sections of the site are not yet developed. Military expenditures are well documented, and some full-text articles are provided.
- Infomanage/Nonproliferation
Good source for information and links on weapons of mass destruction and other weapons technologies proliferation. Offers a fairly comprehensive proliferation primer, with timelines, glossaries, and acronyms. Also has extensive links, some of which are annotated, on areas such as conversion, nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, terrorism, and space. Contains news reports and other collections of information. Although more annotation would have been helpful, the siteÕs depth and diversity make up for it. Excellent jumping-off point for general weapons-related issues and resources.
- A Pocket Guide to Nonproliferation Research on the Internet
Compiled by Tariq Rauf and Michael Slage. Excellent annotated source of lists related to nonproliferation and general international security links. Separated into a Top Ten list of research sites, sites listed by subject, an alphabetical listing of sites, and an appendix of listservs and e-mail based discussion groups. Descriptions consist of site name, address, description of the content, and an overall assessment of the site. Good jumping-off point.
- IanWeb International Security Links
Part of the University of Pittsburgh's IANWeb. Comprehensive links, with excellent annotations and explanatory icons. Offers links to centers and institutes, online journals and publishers, other mega-jumping-off points, and some government, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations. Strongest point is its links to security-related centers and institutes. Four separate but related IANWeb pages provide a similar set of links, but with a more narrow focus. For peace and conflict resolution, see http://www.pitt.edu/~ian/resource/conflict.htm. For peacekeeping, see http://www.pitt.edu/~ian/resource/peacekp.htm. For weapons proliferation, see http://www.pitt.edu/~ian/resource/prolif.htm. All four have annotated links with explanatory icons.
- Nuke Homepage
Massive collection of links relating to everything nuclear, including but not limited to nuclear weapons technologies. Unannotated links are broken down into separate categories, including U.S. nuclear power plant information, world nuclear power plant information, nuclear commerce, nuclear news sources, nuclear information postings, nuclear-related organizations, documents, the American Nuclear Society, and some good links to other related sites. Good jumping-off point for anything nuclear.
- International Relations and Security Network
Maintained by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research in Zurich. Megadirectory for resources in the security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international relations field. Site organized according to subject and regional listings, current issues, and links to related research institutions. Well-organized subject categories, with links to traditional dimensions of security, new dimensions of security, related fields, tools. Excellent annotations and icons similar to those of the IANWeb sites. Excellent jumping-off point for international security and general international relations.
- UN Peacekeeping
Official UN site. Includes clickable map of current and completed peacekeeping missions worldwide. Links in turn provide basic information on the status of peacekeeping operations. Other links have information on current troop contributions, fatalities, finances, links to de-mining information, and other information. Good site for keeping track of official peacekeeping operations.
- University of California San Diego Online Data Studies for Conflict, Aggression, and War
Contains three major online databases of interest to international security specialists: behavioral correlates of war (1816-1975), civil strife conflict magnitudes (1955-1970), wages of war (1816-1980 augmented with disputes and civil).
- Peace and Conflict Studies on the Web
Offers some online papers, some bibliographies, links to online news from DFAX on peacekeeping and international security, employment information, a list of films, funding, and other related resources and organization. One minor inconvenience is that many links are set on tiny buttons, rather than entire lines, making quick navigation somewhat frustrating.
- Terrorism Research Center
Who maintains this site is difficult to determine. Provides links to terrorism and infowar, and includes many annotated essays from a wide variety of sources, from official speeches to economists from popular journals. Contains a fairly good set of unannotated links to related sites and an annotated list of essays and articles. For those interested in these two areas, site offers a focused jumping-off point and resource base.
- Canadian National Defence Peace and Security Web Server
The War, Peace, and Security Web server of the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, this well-organized and interesting site offers French/English access to resources on armed forces of the world, contemporary conflicts, international relations, military art and science, military history, peace, disarmament and arms control, and peacekeeping. Each category offers good collection of links on the topic, with particularly good information and explanatory icons on journals and listservs. Contains a valuable clickable map on contemporary conflicts, with a variety of links to different resources on the conflict selected. Excellent hyperlinks, with an economical organization. Good resource base and jumping-off point for international security issues.