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Tag Archives: security studies
New Conflict Forecasting Website
Wardlab is the working group run by Michael D. Ward. The lab has a new website: mdwardlab.com. You can find out about our ongoing projects, download software packages, or follow the Conflict Forecast blog. The team includes some really smart … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, data, forecasting, international relations, political science, politics, prediction, programming, research, security studies, statistics, violence, war
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H.R. McMaster on War
Last Thursday evening I had the privilege of attending Maj. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s keynote address to the ISSS/ISAC conference. General McMaster is the author of Dereliction of Duty and currently serves as the director of the US Army’s Manuever Center … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, foreign policy, history, international relations, political theory, politics, rhetoric, security, security studies, violence, war
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Modeling Third-Party Intervention in Civil Wars
Inspired by the 2011 coalition action in Libya, Shahryar Minhas and I recently developed a new agent-based model of third-party intervention in civil wars. If you are attending the ISSS/ISAC conference in Chapel Hill, you will get a chance to … Continue reading
Do Targeted Killings Work?
Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations rounds up answers from Daniel Byman (sometimes), Joshua Foust (maybe), Sarah Holewinski (probably not), Patrick Johnston (yes, if targeted selectively), and Pir Zubair Shah (probably, at least in Pakistan). I have explored … Continue reading
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Tagged data, drugs, leadership removal, Mexico, political violence, politics, research, security, security studies, terrorism, war
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New Feature: Reading Lists
Several colleagues have recently asked me to curate reading lists for them, either to brush up on an unfamiliar subject or as the basis for part of a survey course. I have decided to include these lists on a new … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, economic development, economics, education, entertainment, foreign policy, history, international relations, literature, politics, reading, research, security, security studies, terrorism, violence, war
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What Can Hacking Teach Us About War?
Mat Honan recently described the ‘epic’ way that his Amazon, Apple, Gmail, and Twitter accounts were all successively hacked. Once the hacker(s) had access to his Apple ID, they used the ‘Find My iPhone’ and ‘Find My Mac’ features to … Continue reading
Wednesday Nerd Fun: The Science of Batman
Batman is a particularly entertaining superhero because he is in some sense the most realistic. There’s no need for an alternate universe or an elaborately fictional back story: he’s a guy with a cause and enough money to acquire the … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, entertainment, fun, humor, movies, political violence, politics, security studies, television, violence
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