Mark Abdollahian
Mark Abdollahian is a Clinical Professor in the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation at Claremont Graduate University. He is also Chief Executive Officer of ACERTAS and cofounder of Sentia Group.
Education
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, History and French from Case Western University, Abdollahian acquired an Master of Arts in Foreign and Defense Policy, and a PhD in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University (1996).[1]
Career
Abdollahian's studies included strategic decision making, data analytics, predictive analytics, international political economy, sustainable development, economics, growth, econometrics, and computational modeling. He has lectured to audiences worldwide, and he served as a board member for several private and nonprofit enterprises. He has co-authored a book on power transition theory with A.F.K. Organski and Jacek Kugler. He has also written many articles on stability across business, politics, economics, and civil service reform in developing countries.[2] His works in predictive analytics have been employed by the US government, the World Bank, the United Nations, as well as private sector companies, such as Arthur Andersen, Motorola, Raytheon, British Aerospace, Chevron and DeBeers. He received multiple grants from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He began teaching at Claremont Graduate University in 2003. In 2005, he helped cofound the Trans Research Consortium, which aims at providing scientific indicators of government performance for all levels of decision makers. In 2011, he was selected CEO of Beijing Ilinoi Investment Company.[1]
Media
As both private corporations and national governments are seeking more advanced scientific methods to understand and predict conflicts, Abdollahian's studies have appeared in the media, such as in CNN [3][4] and The New Yorker [5] he discusses about the prospects of predictive analysis in international politics. BBC [6] has interviewed him on the privacy concerns of data analytics. In China, Joey Zhouzheng has interviewed him on business, Chinese-America relations, and technology. On a TEDx Talk titled “Venture into the Impossible with Analytics ” he examined the important implications on how more data has been collected over the past three years than all of human history and how analytics will be used to create the future.
Bibliography
Chapters in books
- Yang, Zining and Mark Abdollahian, 2014. “Trade, Income Convergence and Sustainable Development” chapter 4 in Handbook of the International Political Economy of Trade, ed David A. Deese, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Arbetman-Rabinowitz, Marina, Kang, Kyungkook, Kugler, Jacek, Nelson, Hal and, Tammen, Ronald “Political Performance” chapter 1, in The Performance of Nations, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. 2012. ISBN 1442217049
- Abdollahian, Mark, Kang, Kyungkook, and Thomas, John. “Setting the Stage: The Politics of Economic Growth” chapter 2, in The Performance of Nations, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. 2012. ISBN 1442217049
- Abdollahian, Mark, Jacek Kugler, Brice Nicholson and Hana Oh. 2010. “Politics and Power” chapter 3 in Estimating Impact: A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects. Alexander Kott and Gary Citrenbaum eds. Springer Science & Business Media, New York. ISBN 1441962344
- Tammen, Ronald, Jacek Kugler, Douglas Lemke, Allan Stam, Carole Alsharabati, Mark Abdollahian, Brian Efird and AFK Organski. 2000. Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century. Chatham House Publishers, New York - editions published in English, Arabic & Chinese. ISBN 1889119431
- Abdollahian, Mark, Jacek Kugler and Hilton Root, 1999. “Economic Crisis and the Future of Oligarchy” in Institutional Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Korea, edited by Larry Diamond and Doh Chull Shin. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 199-232. ISBN 0817996923
- Abdollahian, Mark. 1996. In Search of Structure: The Nonlinear Dynamics of International Politics. PhD dissertation, Claremont, CA, USA
- Organski, AFK, Jacek Kugler and Mark Abdollahian. 1995. “The Mosaic of International Power” in Towards an International Economic & Social History, Bouda Etemad et al. eds., Editions Passé Present, Geneva, 1995.
Articles in journals
- Mark Abdollahian, Zining Yang, Travis Coan, and Birol Yesilada. 2013. “Human Development Dynamics: An Agent Based Simulation of Social Systems and Heterogeneous Evolutionary Games.” Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, 1:18.
- Abdollahian, Mark and Zining Yang. 2013. “Towards Trade Equalization: A Network Perspective on Trade and Income Convergence across the 20th Century.” New Political Economy. Published online, 30 May 2013.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Zining Yang and Hal Nelson. 2013. “Techno-Social Energy Infrastructure Siting: Sustainable Energy Modeling Project (SEMPro).” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Volume 16, Issue 3.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Travis Coan, Hana Oh and Birol Yesilida. 2012. “The Dynamics of Cultural Change: The Human Development Perspective” International Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 3, 1-17.
- Nunberg, Barbara, Nazneen Barma, Mark Abdollahian, Amanda Green and Deborah Pearlman. 2010. “At the Frontier of Practical Political Economy” The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper no. 5176, January 2010.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Michael Baranick, Brice Nicholson and Matthew Nickens. 2009. “A Formal Model of Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations,” Military Operations Research, Volume 14 No. 3 Winter.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Michael Baranick, Jacek Kugler. 2008. “Pathways to Peace: A Multi-Model Assessment of the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement” Societal Conflict Conference, Cornwallis Group XIII, Nova Scotia, Canada, Mar 17.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Travis Coan, Hana Oh and Birol Yesilada, 2008. “Dynamics of Cultural Change: the Human Development Perspective” World Values Research Papers, Volume 1, No. 4.
- Abdollahian, Mark and Kyung-Kook Kang, 2008. “In Search of Structure: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Power Transitions,” International Interactions, Volume 34, 333–357.
- Abdollahian, Mark, Michael Baranick, Brian Efird and Jacek Kugler. 2006. “Senturion: a Predictive Political Simulation Model” Defense and Technology Paper, Volume 32, National Defense University, Washington DC, July.
- Abdollahian, Mark and Carole Alsharabati. 2003. “Modeling the Strategic Effects of Risk and Perceptions in Linkage Politics,” Rationality and Society, Volume 15, No. 1, 113-135.
- Root, Hilton, Mark Abdollahian and Jacek Kugler. 2002. “In Korea, the Thirst for Funds Drives Changes,” Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 1–30.
- Kugler, Jacek, Mark Abdollahian and Ronald Tammen, 2000. “Forecasting Complex Political and Military Events: The Application of Expected Utility to Crisis Situations,” Command and Control Research Technology Symposium, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, CA, May 22–24.
- Efird, Brian, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Jacek Kugler and Mark Abdollahian, 2000. “Negotiating Peace in Kosovo,” International Interactions, Volume 26, no. 2, pp 153–178.
- Berman, Dianne and Mark Abdollahian, 1999. “Negotiating the Peaceful Expansion of the South African Electorate,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 43, no 2, 229-244.
- Hilton Root, Mark Abdollahian and Greg Beier. 1999. “The New Korea: Crisis Brings Opportunity,” Milken Institute Policy Brief, Santa Monica, California, February.
- Kugler, Jacek and Mark Abdollahian, 1997. “The Ties that Divide: Political Succession in Russia,” International Interactions, Volume 23, Spring pp 267–281.
References
- 1 2 Curriculum Vitae
- ↑ CGU faculty page
- ↑ Tara Kangarlou, "Team of political scientists saw Egypt's turmoil coming," CNN, July 7, 2013
- ↑ Tara Kangarlou, "State Department hopes it can find peace among data," CNN, May 1, 2013
- ↑ Wendell Steavenson, "Pessoptimism," The New Yorker, March 14, 2011
- ↑ Sharon Weinberger, "Predicting the future: Forecasting the news of tomorrow," BBC, February 22, 2012
External links
- Faculty Page at Claremont Graduate University
- Trans Research Consortium
- The Zhouzheng Show interview