Aaron Mannes (born 1970) is an American expert on evaluation of terrorist risk. He has been director of research at the

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and a researcher at the Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory and the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics at the

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. In 2004 he published '' Profiles in Terror: A Guide to Middle East Terrorist Organizations''.

Education

Mannes earned a master's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland."About the Author"
''Profiles in Terror''
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on May 24, 2005. In 2014 he completed a doctorate in Public Policy at the University of Maryland with a dissertation entitled "The Evolving National Security Role of the Vice President"."CISSM Forum: The Whole Equation: The Vice President as Advisor"
University of Maryland School of Public Policy, November 2014.

Career

From 1998 to 2001, Mannes was the director of research at the Middle East Media Research Institute.

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, retrieved May 24, 2017. From 2004 to 2007, he worked on semantic web analysis of terrorism-related issues at the Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory of the University of Maryland. He then became a researcher at the Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics within the university's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, where he has worked on computerized forecasts of terrorist activity, such as work with V.S. Subrahmanian on predicting attacks by the

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Publications

In 2004 Mannes published ''Profiles in Terror'', in which he profiled more than twenty terrorist organizations. With V. S. Subrahmanian and others, he has co-written ''Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba'' (2012) and ''Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy'' (2013), and he wrote the chapter "Qualitative Analysis & Computational Techniques for the Counter-Terror Analyst" in ''Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism'' (2013), edited by Subrahmanian. A 2008 article in the ''Journal of International Policy Solutions'', "Testing the Snake Head Strategy: Does Killing or Capturing its Leaders Reduce a Terrorist Group's Activity?" has been cited as one of several quantitative studies in the first decade of the 21st century casting doubt on the usefulness of leadership decapitation as a counter-terrorism tactic.Arian Sharifi
"The Futility of Insurgent Leader Assassination"
''Ex-Patt Magazine of Foreign Affairs'', Spring 2014, pp. 7–18.

References

External links

TerrorWonk
Mannes's blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Mannes, Aaron 1970 births Living people American non-fiction writers St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni