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Max Abrahms in The Atlantic: What History Says Will Happen Next in Iran

After claiming credit for killing Qassem Soleimani outside Baghdad International Airport, Donald Trump said that the world was now a “safer place.” This viewpoint was perhaps understandable, given Soleimani’s position as the commander of Iran’s Quds Force and his role in developing the Badr Organization in Iraq, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, and the Houthi movement in Yemen, among numerous other fighting outfits around the world. At the heart of this sprawling violent network stood Soleimani.

20 Ways to Protect Your Mental Health

We’ve crossed the threshold into a new decade. There’s a lot of resolution advice swirling, but not all of it is evidence-based or realistic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global mental health crisis. It projects that, by the next turn of the decade in 2030, lifestyle and stress-related illness will surpass communicable diseases.

Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern…

Brittle Infrastructure, Community Resilience, and National Security

This article emphasizes resilience, the ability to withstand and respond to as well as quickly recover from a disaster, as…

Seismic Lifelines Evaluation, Vulnerability Synthesis, and Identification

This document analyzes key "lifelines," or critical transportation corridors that would be essential for providing emergency services and facilitating economic…

The Growing Threat of Pandemics: Enhancing Domestic and International Biosecurity

This document analyzes how the risk of pandemics has escalated with the acceleration of globalization and technological innovation. The document…

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Combined Heat and Power: Enabling Resilient Energy Infrastructure for Critical Facilities

This paper looks at the risk that critical infrastructure faces when power or heating services are lost in the United…

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Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy

This paper uses mathematical document methods to analyze the topics discussed post Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Sandy (2012) as a…

The Role of Groceries in Response to Catastrophes

This research paper examines the effects of catastrophes on supply chains, and focuses on increasing the resilience and recovery time…

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Ties that Bond, Ties that Build: Social Capital and Governments in Post Disaster Recovery

This paper revolves around Emily Chamlee Wright's book The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a Post-Disaster Environment.

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Lessons Learned from the 2017 Boston Logan International Airport Active Shooter/Hostile Event Exercise

In late September 2017, a major exercise to prepare for an active shooter/hostile event was conducted at Boston Logan International Airport.

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Identifying Heterogeneous Infrastructure Interdependencies through Multiverse Simulation

When an infrastructure system responds to a disruption, its adaptive behavior can be described by the interactions between elements. These…