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International Relations

Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
'Defensive Liberal Wars’: The Global War on Terror and the Return of Illiberalism in American Foreign Policy 2015-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
A Climate of Terror? Approaches to the Study of Climate Change and Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Means for Terrorist Exploitation 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as a Potential Ideological Driver of Terrorism 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
A Climate of Terror? Climate Change as an Indirect Contributor to Terrorism 2022-05-20T12:00:00 Research Brief
Back to the Future: Teaching about the End of the World 2019-07-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Blue or Stormy Skies? The Roles of Strategic Risk Communication in Protecting Communities Before, During, and After Severe Weather 2022-12-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Book Review: Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion 2019-09-01T12:00:00 Book Review
Climate Change and Security 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: A Call to Action 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Change and Terrorism: Key Insights 2022-05-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security and Russian Influence in North and West Africa 2025-03-28T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2023-04-17T12:00:00 Research Brief
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa 2024-12-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 1: Farmer-Herder Conflict 2024-12-29T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 2: Russian Influence 2024-12-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-10-09T12:00:00 START Reports
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Conceptualization of Climate Security in Southeast Asia 2024-04-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Competing with Great Powers Through Competitive Strategy and Unconventional Warfare 2021-04-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Connecting Adversarial and Environmental Geopolitics in Southeast Asia 2023-04-24T12:00:00 Research Brief
Contributing Factors to North Korea’s Different Treatment of 2006 and 2009 Missile Launches 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Report
COVID-19's Impact on Business Absorptive Capacity 2021-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Criminological perspectives on extremist radicalisation and terrorist acts 2023-10-18T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism 2009-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Disaggregating and Defeating Terrorist Safe Havens 2014-12-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Divergent Axes of Russian Influence in Colombia and Latin America 2019-09-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor 2022-09-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Escalation Management in International Crises: The United States and its Adversaries 2023-02-16T12:00:00 Book
Escalation Management in the Gray Zone 2021-12-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Explaining Homegrown Western Jihadists: The Importance of Western Foreign Policy 2018-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Extended Deterrence Dilemmas in the Grey Zone: Trans-Atlantic Insights on Baltic Security Challenges 2020-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
External Interventions: Bluffing and Adaptive Learning in Civil Wars 2024-10-18T12:00:00 Journal Article
Fled or Expelled? Representation of the Israeli–Arab Conflict in U.S. High School History Textbooks 2010-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent World 2009-12-01T12:00:00 Book
Fragile States 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Report
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterterrorism from 2010 to 2023 2024-12-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Information Operations from 2002 to 2022 2024-12-20T12:00:00 START Reports
Greater Tumen Area Economic Development Project: A Background 2010-01-27T12:00:00 Report
Guilty as Perceived: How Opinions About States Influence Opinions About NGOs 2017-09-30T12:00:00 Journal Article
Instruments and Arrangements against Online Terrorism Relating to International Cooperation 2019-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Interpersonal Discussions and Attitude Formation on Foreign Policy: The Case of Polish Involvement in the Iraq War 2013-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very High Recall and Precision Event Extraction from Narratives about International Crises 2022-07-26T12:00:00 Report
Introduction: Exploring Peace 2017-03-31T12:00:00 Journal Article
Just Between Friends: Bilateral Cooperation and Bounded Sovereignty in the "Global War on Terror" 2009-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Key Factors in Crisis Escalation 2024-03-19T12:00:00 Journal Article
Mediating International Crises: Cross-National and Experimental Perspectives 2003-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Myth and Reality in International Politics: Meeting Global Challenges through Collective Action 2015-09-01T12:00:00 Book
New Opportunities in Common Security and Defence Policy: Joining PESCO 2020-02-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
North American Strategic Defense in the 21st Century: Security and Sovereignty in an Uncertain World 2018-05-01T12:00:00 Book
North Korea: Working toward Full Political and Economic Relations with the U.S. 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Report
Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons 2022-12-12T12:00:00 Book
Paying it Forward: Canada's Renewed Commitment to NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence 2019-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Paying It Forward: Sustaining the Transatlantic Relationship with Canada’s Mission in the Baltics 2018-10-01T12:00:00 Report
Potential for radicalization amongst Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon: Risks, factors, and implications 2018-07-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Power Play: Mediation in Symmetric and Asymmetric International Crises 2006-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Private Military Companies: Lessons from Wagner 2023-10-12T12:00:00 Journal Article
Re-Thinking Climate Security 2023-04-11T12:00:00 Research Brief
Reinterpreting the (Relatively) Immutable Features of the North Korean Strategic Culture 2023-10-10T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Religious Fundamentalism, Liberal Nationalism, and Sectarian Solidarity among Lebanese 2021-08-01T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Research Handbook on Mediating International Crises 2019-05-01T12:00:00 Book
Russian Aggression in Ukraine: Is There a Solution? 2016-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Russian Clients and Global Foreign Policy Strategy: Evidence from Foreign Military Sales 2015-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Russian Nuclear Rhetoric 2014-2023: Transatlantic Differences in Threat Perception 2024-03-14T12:00:00 Journal Article
Russian Women in the Face of War Against Ukraine 2024-03-26T12:00:00 Report
Security. Cooperation. Governance: The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox 2023-10-01T12:00:00 Book
Shifting Eastern Mediterranean Alliances 2016-03-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
Social Networks and Public Support for the European Union 2013-06-01T12:00:00 Book
System, State, or Individual: Gaming Levels of Analysis in International Relations 2019-10-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Effects of Rivalry on Rivalry: Confrontations and the Strategic Management of Threats 2014-01-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Evasion of Liberal Democracy in the Proxy Warfare Narrative 2024-06-01T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Influence of Nationalism on Russian Security Policy: The Logics of (Dis)-Order and Terrorism in the Shift from Nation-State to Nation-Civilization 2015-10-01T12:00:00 START Reports
The Lessons of 20 Years of Counterinsurgency Research 2023-03-23T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Palestinian Quest for Significance and Hamas Violence 2023-11-15T12:00:00 Journal Article
The Use of Force in Foreign Policy 2017-07-27T12:00:00 Book Chapter
Two Birds with One Stone – Attention from the US & Conciliation from the ROK 2009-01-01T12:00:00 Report
U.S. Arms Transfers to Ukraine: Impact Assessment 2023-01-12T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine in the Information Space: Intelligence, Cyber, and Signaling 2023-02-28T12:00:00 START Reports
U.S. Military Training Assistance to Ukraine 2023-02-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Violent Democracies in Latin America 2010-03-01T12:00:00 Book
Weaponizing Peace: Colombia’s Demobilized FARC as a Lever of Russian Influence 2019-05-01T12:00:00 White Paper
Why Leave Home 2021-03-01T12:00:00 Research Brief
Title Job Title Institution
person-default Alexandra Williams Junior Researcher University of Maryland
person-default Bryan Arva Former Researcher: Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
Egle Egle Murauskaite Senior Researcher & Simulation Developer, ICONS Project, START University of Maryland
Elizabeth Elizabeth Radziszewski Associate Research Scientist, START University of Maryland
Lindquist Katy Lindquist Principal Research Scientist, NSI Inc.
Erdemandi Max Erdemandi Ph.D. Student, Communication Science and Social Cognition University of Maryland
Oleksiy Oleksiy Krylyuk Former Researcher, GTD University of Maryland
person-default Rhyner Washburn Research Affiliate University of Maryland
Henkin Samuel D. Henkin Former Geospatial Research Unit (GRU) Researcher, START
Steve S. Sin Steve S. Sin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist & Director, Unconventional & Asymmetric Threats Division
Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University
Adjunct Instructor for Forensic Sciences, Oklahoma State University
Chief Academic Officer, Platinum East 		University of Maryland
Guarrieri Thomas Guarrieri Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Assistant Research Scientist, Unconventional Weapons &
Technology (UWT) Division, START 		University of Maryland
Tyler yates Tyler Yates Former Researcher, Global Terrorism Database (GTD) University of Maryland