About Security Issues Online

A collection that provides critical information and context during an increasingly insecure time, Security Issues Online is a research and learning database providing in one place comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major events and themes related to security. Security Issues Online includes over 100,000 pages of text and over 180 hours of video that provide useful findings on key events and themes throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.

The collection provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Iran (1940s to the Present), 1960 U-2 Incident, World War II and Intelligence, Cold War: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1961-1962, and more. Resources for each topic guide users through the full scope of the event, from the historical context that made such security issues possible through the international response, steps for retaliation, and global reaction. Future releases will include content on nuclear testing, cyber security, North Korea and international relations, the Northern Ireland Conflict, and more.

Resources to support the study of the events:

  1. Contemporary personal accounts that allow students to understand the impact of policies on individuals.
  2. Contemporaneous television footage, photographs, and press releases that show how events were portrayed in the media as they took place.
  3. Documentaries, interviews, monographs, essays, and articles that help contextualize the primary sources and clarify the breadth of the events.
  4. Reference material such as maps, bibliographies, and chronologies that provide key overviews and analyses of events.
  5. Links to third-party web content, including resources local and contemporaneous to the events.

The project is curated with assistance from an advisory board of respected scholars in the field. Content is provided by preeminent historical archives and other respected content partners including Archives, Routledge, TVF International, Georgetown University: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, and Cambridge University Press.

Editorial Board

Sharad Joshi (University of Richmond)

Stephen Long (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)

Landon Turner (New Jersey City University)

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