Quick Search
This search page is designed for research use. FASOC materials often exist as legacy PDFs (full issues or individual articles), sometimes mirrored across repositories. A good search workflow is not “type a phrase and hope” - it’s structured querying: tight keywords, author names as printed, and year/issue filters that make results citeable.
Form fields (examples shown in placeholders):
- Keywords (topic, country, institution, concept) - Example: “civil-military relations” Chile 2000
- Author (exact spelling helps) - Example: Dammert OR Jaramillo Edwards
- Year - Example: 2006
- Issue label (Año / Nº) - Example: Año 15 Nº 3
Tip: archived websites often cannot reproduce “live” search results reliably. If a built-in search returns nothing or behaves inconsistently, that does not mean the content doesn’t exist - it often means the original site used dynamic queries that were not captured by web archiving. Use the strategies below to find the same PDFs through stable repositories or indexing pages.
Search strategies that actually work
1) Use exact phrases when the wording matters
If you’re looking for a specific concept or policy term, use quotation marks to force an exact phrase match. This reduces noise and prevents search engines from scattering results across unrelated pages.
- Good: “security sector reform”
- Better: “security sector reform” Latin America 2006
- Best: “security sector reform” “Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad”
2) Add a year to pin results to a period
Defence and security debates shift fast. Adding a year is the simplest way to keep the result set anchored to the right moment (e.g., peace negotiations around 2000, public security reform debates mid-2000s).
- Example query: civil-military relations Chile 1990
- Example query: “Plan Colombia” 2000 “Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad”
3) Use OR when names have variants
Author names can appear with accents, compound surnames, or abbreviations. If you’re not sure how the name is indexed, search two variants at once.
- Example: (Jaramillo OR “Jaramillo Edwards”) hemispheric security
- Example: (Dammert OR “Lucía Dammert”) police reform
Where to search when the archive interface is limited
If an archived site can’t generate search results reliably, use external indexes that host or point to the PDFs:
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SciELO Social Sciences (serial record): journal-level index pages often expose issue/article lists and stable identifiers.
SciELO: Revista Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad (ISSN record) -
Institutional repositories (FLACSO Chile library pages): frequently provide issue-level product pages with download guidance. These pages can be more stable than old site navigation.
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Internet Archive Scholar: useful when PDFs or captures exist but the original site “vanished” or search is broken.
Practical rule: prioritize sources that provide (1) stable bibliographic metadata and (2) a direct PDF download. If a page is only a viewer, confirm you can still download the original PDF file.
What to record when you find a match (so it’s citeable)
Before you quote or reference an item, capture the minimum citation fields directly from the PDF: journal title, year, issue label (Año / Nº), date range (if printed), article title, author(s), and page numbers. Don’t rely on filenames alone. In legacy archives, filenames can be edited or inconsistent across mirrors.
- Always verify pagination inside the PDF.
- Keep author spelling exactly as printed.
- Store the access source (repository) in your notes.