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Imprisoning Minds

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Exploring digital arrest scams in India

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India’s Naxals: Endurance and Ideology

Trucks carrying iron ore in the Indian state of Jharkhand, a hub of the Naxal insurgency. Credit: Flickr/Akshay Mahajan. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en

Could political psychology explain why an anachronistic movement lives on?

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Shortwave Wars

Voice of America headquarters in Washington, DC, January 11, 2021. US State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain

How to win friends and influence people through airwaves

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Pakistan’s ISI and the Covert War in Kashmir

A United States Marines helicopter navigates the countryside of Kalam Valley during humanitarian relief efforts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Image Credit: Flickr/Marines. License: U.S. government works

The end of an empire and the birth of a much-scrutinized intelligence service

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The Pahalgam Gambit

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Exploring the goals behind the April 22 massacre in Kashmir

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When the Internet Displaces the Town Square

Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, form a shield wall at the National Gendarmerie Training Center in St. Astier, France, June 19, 2015. The Marines trained to operate through dense smoke and riot-control gas while maintaining tightly organized formations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Lt. Danielle Dixon/Released)

Urbanisation, tech, and culture amid revolution

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Model

Nodes, Neighbours and Footfall

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are cheered and welcomed by crowds Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, along the motorcade route in Ahmedabad, India. (Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks)

A new simulation model looks at how social networks influence attendance in festivals and movies

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Fear and Loathing in Dhaka and DC

Former US Secretary of State Antony Binken meets with Bangladeshi Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus in New York City, September 26, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Yunus and Trump have more in common than you think

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Securing India’s Cities

Managing traffic in front of the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. Credit: Flickr/US Department of State.

Defeating extant and new urban threats is a geopolitical imperative

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Mapping Terror Networks From Open Sources

Network of 220 actors directly or indirectly involved in the1993 Mumbai bombings. Darker colours on nodes and links mean higher weighted degree and higher link weights, respectively.

A quantitative network-analytic approach to the 1993 Mumbai bombings