Thursday, July 23, 2020

Anders Corr

About Anders Corr

Anders Corr (B.A. Yale 2001 Summa, Ph.D. Harvard 2008) is an author on international politics. He founded Corr Analytics Inc in 2013 to provide strategic analysis of international politics. He is Publisher of the Journal of Political Risk. His areas of expertise include quantitative analysis and public opinion, and he maintains a global network of regional and sector-specific experts.

Dr. Corr has researched Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and U.S. elections for private clients. He led the U.S. Army Social Science Research and Analysis group in Afghanistan, which oversaw 600 Afghan contract employees on 44 survey projects, and conducted quantitative predictive analysis of insurgent attacks. Dr. Corr conducted analysis at US Pacific Command (USPACOM) and US Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC) on risks to U.S. national security in Asia, including in the Philippines, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Dr. Corr conducted red team modeling and simulation for the Defense Department of terrorist attacks against extremely sensitive military facilities, and worked on social networking for early warning of biological weapons of mass destruction.

His research focuses on authoritarian political influence, effects of military technology on the likelihood and outcome of war, predictors for revolutions and coups, and terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction. He authored No Trespassing: Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles Worldwide (South End Press, 1999), and edited Great Powers, Grand Strategies: The New Game in the South China Sea (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2018). He peer reviews for the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Urban History, and Routledge Press. He frequently appears in the media, including Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, CNBC, UPI, Fox, Forbes, National Interest, Nikkei Asian Review, and World Policy. (amazon)