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Analytic Tradecraft Standards in an Age of AI

June 2024 by McMahon, Gerald

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Nowhere to Hide? Global Policing and the Politics of Extradition

Fall 2022 by Krcmaric, Daniel
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Small Satellites, Big Data: Uncovering the Invisible in Maritime Security

Fall 2022 by Pekkanen, Saadia , Setsuko Aoki and John Mittleman
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Soldiers' Dilemma: Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conflict

Spring 2022 by Joyce, Renanah Miles

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Analytic Tradecraft Standards in an Age of AI

June 2024 by McMahon, Gerald

Reports & Papers

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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Nowhere to Hide? Global Policing and the Politics of Extradition

Fall 2022 by Krcmaric, Daniel

Article

from International Security

A protester holds up a placard outside the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 26, 2019.

Small Satellites, Big Data: Uncovering the Invisible in Maritime Security

Fall 2022 by Pekkanen, Saadia , Setsuko Aoki and John Mittleman

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from International Security

A set of NanoRacks CubeSats is photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member after the deployment by the Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD).

Soldiers' Dilemma: Foreign Military Training and Liberal Norm Conflict

Spring 2022 by Joyce, Renanah Miles

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from International Security

Soldiers conducting a Mobile Training Team deployment in Liberia.

Opportunistic Repression: Civilian Targeting by the State in Response to COVID-19

Fall 2021 by Grasse, Donald , Melissa Pavlik, Hilary Matfess and Travis B. Curtice

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from International Security

Ugandan police and other security forces chase people off the streets to avoid unrest after all public transport was banned for two weeks to halt the spread of the new coronavirus.

The White Power Music Scene — Funding the Extreme Right

Sep. 29, 2021 by Dell’Omo, Augusta and Maximilian Kreter

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from Right Rising

Youth Gangs and the White Power Movement

Sep. 15, 2021 by Dell’Omo, Augusta and Shannon Reid

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from Right Rising

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White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States

Summer 2021 by Byman, Daniel

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from International Security

Black Americans register to vote in the July 4 Georgia Democratic Primary in Atlanta, Ga., on May 3, 1944. Registrations are increasing in Atlanta as black schools are giving instructions to students in ballot casting procedure.