see also
io research
influence ops
info-ops ref
culture
language
psy of terr

our local resources

organizations & associations additional external links

see also US Gov/Mil cultural studies resources
- at Culture and Language Studies

Our Local Links and Resources ___return to top

• Cultural Awareness and Language, at the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center (aka Air University Library)

• Air Force Negotiation Center of Excellence

• Culture & Language Center
  • comparisons of cultures
  • research & theory
  • language

• Air Force Counterproliferation Center
  • international rivals

• Cyberspace & Information Operations Study Center
  • influence operations
  • psyop
  • terrorist use of the internet
  • research & theory
  • perception
  • reference
  • blogs & discussion groups

• Gateway to Thinking Skills
  • critical thinking
  • analysis & decision making
• Gateway to Intelligence
  • open source intelligence
  • intelligence fusion & analysis
  • cultural intelligence
• US government
  • public diplomacy
• International Studies
  • region & country briefs
  • world news media
  • human rights
  • DoD regional centers
  • strategic culture
  • warrior cultures
  • human security paradigm
• Gateway to Law, including
  • protecting cultural property in war
  • civil-law vs common law - much of the world has a different model from US
  • constitutions of the world
  • international law
  • establishing rule of law
  • Islamic law
• Future Studies
  • global & regional trends
• Center for Terrorism Studies
  • radical fundamentalism
  • who are they?
  • psychology of terrorism
• Military Theory
  • T.E. Lawrence - insights into insurgencies
  • Chinese warfare theory
• Lessons Learned
  • strategic corporal - the lowest ranking personnel can have strategic effects
• Intelligence Gathering & Use
• Leadership Studies
• Communication Skills
  • gender differences
  • deception detection
• Values and Ethics Studies
  • international values & ethics

Organizations & Associations ___return to top

• Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF)
  • The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. The mission of HRAF is to encourage and facilitate worldwide comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale.

• Foreign Area Officer Association (FAOA)
  • Foreign Area Officer Association Journal
  • FAO Journal
    • example article - "When Islamic Radicalism, Fascism, and Arab Nationalism Collide" in March 2005 issue

• Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR)

• National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) at the University of Maryland

• American Translators Association (ATA)

• Foreign Language Resource Centers, Title VI U.S. Department of Education Grant Projects

• Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR)
  • Cross-Cultural Research - The Journal of Comparative Social Science, formerly Behavioral Science Research

Additional External Links ___return to top

• Distributed Information & Intelligence Analysis Group (DI2AG), Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
  • - researching topics such as adversary intent inferencing, deception detection, cultural behavior modeling, distributive/adaptive info retrieval, and problem solving

• Foreign Service Journal

• Global Terrorism Database
  • The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world since 1970. Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on international as well as domestic terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes almost 80,000 cases. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and -- when identifiable -- the identity of the perpetrator.

• Small Wars Journal
  (boo-koo culture articles)

• International Pronunciations
  with audio, from VoA

• CultureGrams - country reports on over 180 cultures of the world

• Rosetta Stone - CD-ROM and online language-learning program
  • Sep 2005 news item - Army contract for $4.2 million

• Wikipedia

• The Psychology of Worldviews, by Koltko-Rivera, in Review of General Psychology, 2004 vol. 8 no. 1