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Iraq-United States Relations

This guide is an introduction to the research process that, while not being an exhaustive list of information resources available, should be helpful in getting started in your research about Iraq-United States Relations.  Below you will find pointers to suggested research terms about Iraq-United States Relations, materials in the library catalog about Iraqi-United States Relations, websites relevant to Iraq-United States Relations, and links to library databases that contain information about Iraq-United States Relations.  Please use our email reference service, contact us at (310) 434-4254, or visit us in the library at the reference desk if you need further assistance.

Suggested Research Terms

One of the really helpful things when searching for information about a topic is a short list of terms related to a topic.  We think the following terms will help with your research about Iraq-United States Relations:

  • Operation Desert Storm

  • Operation Desert Shield

  • Operation Iraqi Freedom

  • Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)

  • Al Qaeda
  • Iraq War 2003
  • "Shock and Awe" military air strikes

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Materials in the library catalog related to Iraq-United States Relations

We have the following materials in the library catalog related to Iraq-United States Relations: 

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Websites on Iraq-United States Relations

The following websites will help you with your research on Iraqi-United States Relations:

White House: Iraq War Web Site
Press releases, news articles, reports about the 2003 war with Iraq from the Bush administration's point of view. Contains detailed information on the coalition, texts of presidential addresses, and other specialized data.

Department of Defense: United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) Web Site
Current news and press releases on U. S. military operations from USCENTCOM. Reports include updates on Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan). Chain of command and history and purpose of USCENTCOM are also detailed.

U. S. State Department Fact Sheets on Iraq
A site of the State Department's Bureau of Public Affairs, information covered includes chronologically-arranged reports on the war in Iraq, focusing on such topics as humanitarian aid,
lifting UN sanctions, and the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

MidEastWeb: The Iraq Crisis
MidEast Web, started by an international set of private and professional individuals, states that their "goal is to weave a world-wide web of Arabs, Jews and others who want to build a new Middle East based on coexistence and neighborly relations", presents this page, a compendium of news updates on the war in Iraq, history and background on the relations among the U. N., the U. S., and Iraq.

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Library Databases relevant to Iraq-United States Relations

The following Santa Monica College Library online databases may contain material relevant to Iraqi-United States Relations.  Databases may include magazine, newspaper and journal articles.  Please note: you must be a Santa Monica College student, faculty or staff member to use these services.

Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 450 titles.

Oxford Reference: Military History
Dictionaries and reference titles on military history.

Academic Search Premier, MasterFile Premier
Academic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier provide full text for over 6200 periodicals including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

CountryWatch
Country Reviews provide geographical, political, economic, corporate and environmental information for every country in the world. Country Wire is compiled from the wire services on the latest political, economic, corporate, and environmental events on a country by country basis.

National Newspapers (U.S.)
Searchable index for recent issues of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. Full-text for newer issues and citations for older materials. More information on coverage

Newspaper Source (Regional, National and International)
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Philosophy and Religion Collection
Covers such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, world religions, biblical studies, religious history. Includes more than 300 full text journals.

Ethnic NewsWatch
News, culture and history from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language.

Encyclopedia Americana
Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly.

Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

JSTOR
Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

Researched and evaluated by:
ap 5/12/03

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