The research, publications, speeches and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). High level analysis and research in international affairs, economics, law, and business, diplomacy, security and terrorism, environment, development, war and peace studies.

comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals, policy briefs, teaching materials and course packs, from 1991 onward. Updated monthly.

From the award-winning, nongovernmental National Security Archive, this resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.
The University has access to
• CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
• CIA Family Jewels Indexed
• The Cuban Missile Crisis: 50th Anniversary Update
• 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
• South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962–1989

An annotated collection of primary source documents on British history covering the years 500 -1914, plus American history to 1776. Includes documents on foreign affairs, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, newspaper articles, personal and official letters and diaries.

provides comprehensive coverage of legal history from inception. It includes more than 1,800 law and law-related periodicals

covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to date, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, etc. Indexes over 2,300 journals, back to 1955 with more than 400 with full text.

a specialist reference work for the field of international relations and international studies. This resource includes specially-commissioned, peer reviewed essays on a wide range of topics including international law, peace studies, security studies, foreign policy and many other areas

books, journals, working papers and statistical datasets released, since 1998, by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development); Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA); OECD Development Centre; PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment); and the International Transport Forum (ITF)

provides access to books, journals and data published by the United Nations secretariat. Themes include human rights, women and gender issues, peacekeeping and security, international law and justice and many more

Legal database covering England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

A full-text multidisciplinary database from EBSCO

Business Research database which also includes the Political Risk Yearbook and Country Reports

periodicals archive of over 2,000 leading scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Over fifty million pages of content

a large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.

index of articles from the world's leading social sciences journals,1970 - present; updated weekly