UNSCRA dataset

The United Nations Security Council Resolution Authors (UNSCRA) dataset provides information on the authors of 2,179 draft resolutions officially submitted at the United Nations Security Council. It tracks both sponsors (1990–2023) and lead negotiators, or “penholders” (2008–2023), at a document-specific level, making it possible to move beyond the public vote and examine who actually drafts, sponsors and negotiates the texts that shape Council decisions. For each draft, the dataset records the states involved in its authorship, allowing researchers to study patterns of co-sponsorship, the division of drafting labour between permanent (P5) and elected (E10) members or how these authorship dynamics relate to whether a resolution is ultimately adopted. It offers a systematic empirical basis for analysing informal influence, coalition-building, and the distribution of agenda-setting power within the Council over more than three decades. The dataset accompanies the article “Introducing the UNSCRA dataset: Authoring Security Council resolutions, 1990–2023” (Journal of Peace Research, 2025) and can be accessed here.

NATO-SGD corpus

The NATO Secretary General Documents (NATO-SGD) corpus — compiled together with Valerio Vignoli, Federico Salvati and Fabio Maina — is a text collection of over 3,000 speeches and statements designed for analysing NATO’s public discourse. It spans 1996 to 2024 by covering six Secretaries General (from Javier Solana to Mark Rutte), offering a systematic record of how the Alliance’s most visible spokesperson has framed its purpose, threats and priorities across nearly three decades. Because the Secretary General speaks for the Alliance as a whole, the corpus provides a longitudinal window onto NATO’s evolving rhetoric — on collective defence, burden-sharing, enlargement, partnerships and the shifting security environment from the post-Cold War period through the wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine. Each document is organised to support quantitative text analysis, making the corpus a resource for studying how international organisations communicate, legitimise their actions and respond to changing geopolitical conditions. The corpus accompanies the article “The Alliance is speaking: Introducing the NATO Secretary General Document (NATO-SGD) corpus” (International Interactions, 2026) and can be accessed here.