New for Politics

For better or worse, there are several different ways to get to the contents of the extremely useful U.S. Congressional Record, online and otherwise.
We now have a Web page which provides an overview of the various access methods, here.
This page is available from several locations in our Web site, include here.

U.S. Army War College.
Available online. A printed copy has been ordered for the library collection.
"This monograph considers the issues of Iranian influence in Iraq, and its impact on continuing sectarian violence there. It also questions the claims that a Shi'a crescent of power is solidifying by examining the distinct features of Iraqi versus Iranian Shi'ism and political Islam."

Council on Foreign Relations.
Available online.
Author Richard Lapper (Financial Times "recommends a policy in which the United States makes clear its willingness to cooperate with Caracas on pragmatic issues of mutual interest (despite Chávez’s overblown rhetoric), while at the same time seeking to develop an understanding with select Latin American leaders on how to respond if Chávez crosses certain red lines in his foreign and domestic policies."
A link will be maintained on this library page.

National Security Archive.
Available online.
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the scandal, George Washington University's National Security Archive has released this collection of 20 declassified documents and commentary.
A link will be maintained on this library page.

Iraq Study Group.
Available online. A printed copy will be added to the collection.
This is a link to the permanent, "official" U.S. Government version, via GPOAccess.

JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive to which Leyburn Library subscribes, recently added several journals to its database coverage.
To see a list of several of these addition, click on the link below.

JSTOR now contains the complete contents of about 800 journals, previous to each journal's own "moving wall."

U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"This report provides a review of the 9/11 Commission recommendations and the status of their implementation at the end of the 109th Congress... organized on the basis of policy themes that are at the core of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations.
A link will be maintained on this library page.

New England Law Library Consortium.
Available online.
Database of scholarly legal materials, including "working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at member institutions."
A link will be maintained on this library page.

Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy.
Available online.   Printed copy requested.
This "in-depth study of the Jihadi Movement’s top thinkers and their most popular writings" is the "first systematic mapping of the ideology inspiring al-Qaeda. The CTC’s researchers spent one year mining the most popular books and articles in al-Qaeda’s online library, profiling hundreds of figures in the Jihadi Movement, and cataloging over 11,000 citations."