Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC)

The Asymmetric Threat Analysis Center (ATAC), a joint program between START and UMD’s Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), is funded by the Department of Defense under award no. HQ003421F0481. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense. 

Publications

Foundational Datasets: Global Chemical, Biological, Radiological, & Nuclear Data Suite & Portal 

Radicalization in the Ranks: An Assessment of the Scope and Nature of Criminal Extremism in the United States Military 

The Global Terrorism Database: Experiments in Machine-Assisted Data Collection

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterterrorism from 2010 to 2023

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Information Operations from 2002 to 2022

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 2: Russian Influence

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 1: Farmer-Herder Conflict

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa

Civilian Resilience and Resistance: Integrating Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives with a Focus on Ukraine

The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Weibo and Telegram

The Impact of Events in the War in Ukraine on Pro-Russian Narratives: The Case of Twitter

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia

Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: Conceptualization of Climate Security in Southeast Asia

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022 — The Military Lever of Power

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—Legal Approaches

Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power

 

Research Briefs

Russian Government’s Narratives on Twitter in the Context of Events in the Ukraine War

Connecting Adversarial and Environmental Geopolitics in Southeast Asia

Climate Security in Southeast Asia

Re-Thinking Climate Security

 

Data & Tools

PIRUS Dataset

Global Responses to Asymmetric Threats (GRAT) Portal

Violent Non-State Actor Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN)

Global Terrorism Database