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Irregular Warfare and Asymmetric Threats

Title Investigators Project Period
Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC) Amy Pate, Robert D. Lamb, Elizabeth Radziszewski, Egle Murauskaite, Sean Doody, Devin Ellis, Joseph Kelly, Michael Jensen
Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia Samuel D. Henkin, Marcus A. Boyd -
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats Elizabeth Radziszewski, Sean Doody, Salma Bouziani, Amy Pate, Madeline Romm
Wargaming, Social Complexity, and Asymmetric Threats Robert D. Lamb -
Project Title Publication Date Publication Type
Civilian Resilience and Resistance: Integrating Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives with a Focus on Ukraine 2024-12-19T12:00:00 START Reports
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
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 2023-01-23T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 — The Military Lever of Power 2024-03-27T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—Legal Approaches 2023-08-01T12:00:00 START Reports
Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power 2023-07-25T12:00:00 START Reports
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
Micro, Meso, Macro: Generic Structures of Social Complexity for Defense Systems Engineering & National Security Wargames 2025-10-12T12:00:00 Conference Paper
Navigating Social Complexity with the Tools We Have 2025-10-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Russian Government’s Narratives on Twitter in the Context of Events in the Ukraine War 2024-12-10T12:00:00 Research Brief
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Twitter 2024-05-27T12:00:00 START Reports
The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Weibo and Telegram 2024-09-30T12:00:00 START Reports
Title Job Title Institution
Amy Pate Amy Pate START Acting Director University of Maryland
person-default Devin Ellis Researcher, ARLIS University of Maryland
Robert lamb Robert D. Lamb ICONS Director and Associate Research Scientist University of Maryland