Al-Nasser Zakaria is an Indian professor of political science, social worker and politician. Al-Nasser Zakaria is currently the secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.
Biography
Al-Nasser Zakaria was born in the suburb of Bandra in Mumbai, India. He is the son of Salim Zakaria, the former MLA of Bandra and for Education Minister in the Maharashtra Government. Al-Nasser Zakaria is currently the Secretary in Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and is also a former spokesman for them. He did M.A. in Political Management from George Washington University, in the United States of America. His hobbies are swimming and horse riding. He is married to Reshma Zakaria and has two sons, Amir and Yousuf.
Biography
Al-Nasser Zakaria was born in the suburb of Bandra in Mumbai, India. He is the son of Salim Zakaria, the former MLA of Bandra and for Education Minister in the Maharashtra Government. Al-Nasser Zakaria is currently the Secretary in Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee and is also a former spokesman for them. He did M.A. in Political Management from George Washington University, in the United States of America. His hobbies are swimming and horse riding. He is married to Reshma Zakaria and has two sons, Amir and Yousuf.
Tanja Playner (born in 1982 in Perm, Soviet Union) is a Russian-born Pop Art artist living in Austria.
Life and art
Playner came in 2006 to Germany and lived in Austria since 2007. "Pop Art has been a major influence on the artist's sensibility, with its dedication to examining and even glamorizing consumerism and lavish lifestyles. Her bright, highly stylized illustrations offer views of fantasy and dream-like imagery, in a nod to Surrealism"
Tanja Playner participated alongside Ernst Fuchs, Jazz Gitti, Alfons Haider, Christina Stürmer and DJ Ötzi for peace in the project "art in the service of peace" of the Federal Ministry of Defence. Ernst Piech - a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche - invited the artist to show her works in his museum FahrTraum. It was realized in the exhibition "50 masterpieces of pop art by Tanja Playner".
Other collectors of Tanja Playner artworks are Ernst Piech - grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Heinz-Christian Strache, Franz Aigner.
She supports the Austrian right-wing populist party FPÖ publicly.
In July 2016, Tanja Playner was listed on artnet among the top 300 most searched artists on artnet worldwide, which lists over 320,000 artists.
Criticism
Due to her strong appearance in the Austrian Twitter-Feeds and her support of the candidate for President in Austria Norbert Hofer
, Hanna Herbst published an article in the magazine Vice about the artist. In her research the journalist found out, that she mostly got featured by the 'PAKS Gallery', the 'MAMAG Museum' and the 'About Art Magazine', which are all owned by her husband Heinz Playner.
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* 2015: Tokyo International Art Fair, Quest Hall Harajuku
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* 2015: Institute of Hispanic culture of Houston
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* 2015: International Modern Art Dubai / Parallel to Art Fair Dubai/ Alliance Francaise of Dubai, UAE
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* 2015: Oxford International Art Fair / Historic Oxford Town Hall & Museum Oxford, England
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* 2015: Carrousel du Louvre, Paris France
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* 2015: PAKS Gallery, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
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* 2016: 1st Central Europe Fine Art Biennale, MAMAG Modern Art Museum, Austria
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* 2016: Artexpo New York, US
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* 2016: International Fine Art Cannes Biennale, Marriott Hotel, Cannes, Boulevard de la Croisette, France, organised by the MAMAG Modern Art Museum, Austria
Life and art
Playner came in 2006 to Germany and lived in Austria since 2007. "Pop Art has been a major influence on the artist's sensibility, with its dedication to examining and even glamorizing consumerism and lavish lifestyles. Her bright, highly stylized illustrations offer views of fantasy and dream-like imagery, in a nod to Surrealism"
Tanja Playner participated alongside Ernst Fuchs, Jazz Gitti, Alfons Haider, Christina Stürmer and DJ Ötzi for peace in the project "art in the service of peace" of the Federal Ministry of Defence. Ernst Piech - a grandson of Ferdinand Porsche - invited the artist to show her works in his museum FahrTraum. It was realized in the exhibition "50 masterpieces of pop art by Tanja Playner".
Other collectors of Tanja Playner artworks are Ernst Piech - grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Heinz-Christian Strache, Franz Aigner.
She supports the Austrian right-wing populist party FPÖ publicly.
In July 2016, Tanja Playner was listed on artnet among the top 300 most searched artists on artnet worldwide, which lists over 320,000 artists.
Criticism
Due to her strong appearance in the Austrian Twitter-Feeds and her support of the candidate for President in Austria Norbert Hofer
, Hanna Herbst published an article in the magazine Vice about the artist. In her research the journalist found out, that she mostly got featured by the 'PAKS Gallery', the 'MAMAG Museum' and the 'About Art Magazine', which are all owned by her husband Heinz Playner.
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* 2015: Tokyo International Art Fair, Quest Hall Harajuku
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* 2015: Institute of Hispanic culture of Houston
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* 2015: International Modern Art Dubai / Parallel to Art Fair Dubai/ Alliance Francaise of Dubai, UAE
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* 2015: Oxford International Art Fair / Historic Oxford Town Hall & Museum Oxford, England
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* 2015: Carrousel du Louvre, Paris France
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* 2015: PAKS Gallery, Austria (Solo Exhibition)
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* 2016: 1st Central Europe Fine Art Biennale, MAMAG Modern Art Museum, Austria
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* 2016: Artexpo New York, US
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* 2016: International Fine Art Cannes Biennale, Marriott Hotel, Cannes, Boulevard de la Croisette, France, organised by the MAMAG Modern Art Museum, Austria
The rising demand for energy
The International Energy Agency’s 2007 World Energy Outlook states that between now and 2030:
Global energy needs are expected to grow, with fossil fuels remaining the dominant source.
Between 2005 and 2030, energy needs are projected to expand by 55 per cent, with demand increasing from 11.4 billion tons of oil equivalent to 17.7 billion.
Between 2005 and 2030, energy consumption is expected to increase by 50 per cent, with the bulk of the demand coming from developing countries.
Oil, coal and gas together account for the majority of global primary energy consumption.
The global energy mix is not anticipated to change dramatically in the next 25 years.
At present, renewable energy’s share is less than 1 per cent, and it is not expected to exceed much more than 5 per cent by 2030.
Why is there an increase in the demand for energy?
World population is still increasing. The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a 2013 UN report.
Growth will be mainly in developing countries, with over 50 per cent in Africa.
Growing populations and increasing standards of living for many people in developing countries will place even more demand on energy resources.
The map outlines the predicted population change between 2003 and 2050.
What is driving the increase in worldwide energy demand?
(1) Industrialization, especially in emerging markets. Businesses, and factories in particular, require significant amounts of energy in the form of both electricity and petroleum-based fuels in order to operate. As economies industrialize, energy demand increases.
(2) Increasing wealth in emerging markets, especially China and India. When economies grow, their energy needs grow. Consumers want cars, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other energy hogs.
(3) Globalization. Transportation is Hipnoterapi Surabaya one of the largest consumers of energy in the world, accounting for 58 percent of liquid fuel consumption in OECD countries in 2004. As we move more often, further, and with greater speed, the energy we use in transportation will inevitably increase. Air travel in particular is a heavy user of fuel.
(4.) Concerns over energy security. While energy demand is typically driven by short-term considerations (e.g., GDP growth, weather, transport needs), long-term concerns over energy security around the world have led to what some might consider an irrational premium paid for energy assets. This is most apparent in the very favorable deals struck by China with host governments in countries around the world to explore for oil & gas, one of the contributing factors to the increasing premium paid per barrel of proven oil reserves in the oil exploration and production industry.
Companies who stand to benefit
ESCO Technologies (ESE) and Itron (ITRI) are two leading manufacturers of "smart" meter readers, and should benefit from the boost in DSM brought on by the rising worldwide demand for energy.
Johnson Controls (JCI), which helps design and maintain more energy-efficient buildings, is well-poised to benefit from the need of corporate customers to reduce energy consumption, as well as the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of a possible carbon trading regime in the U.S.
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. (PHG) has already announced that it is phasing out incandescent bulbs and moving to fluorescent bulbs.
The International Energy Agency’s 2007 World Energy Outlook states that between now and 2030:
Global energy needs are expected to grow, with fossil fuels remaining the dominant source.
Between 2005 and 2030, energy needs are projected to expand by 55 per cent, with demand increasing from 11.4 billion tons of oil equivalent to 17.7 billion.
Between 2005 and 2030, energy consumption is expected to increase by 50 per cent, with the bulk of the demand coming from developing countries.
Oil, coal and gas together account for the majority of global primary energy consumption.
The global energy mix is not anticipated to change dramatically in the next 25 years.
At present, renewable energy’s share is less than 1 per cent, and it is not expected to exceed much more than 5 per cent by 2030.
Why is there an increase in the demand for energy?
World population is still increasing. The current world population of 7.2 billion is projected to increase by 1 billion over the next 12 years and reach 9.6 billion by 2050, according to a 2013 UN report.
Growth will be mainly in developing countries, with over 50 per cent in Africa.
Growing populations and increasing standards of living for many people in developing countries will place even more demand on energy resources.
The map outlines the predicted population change between 2003 and 2050.
What is driving the increase in worldwide energy demand?
(1) Industrialization, especially in emerging markets. Businesses, and factories in particular, require significant amounts of energy in the form of both electricity and petroleum-based fuels in order to operate. As economies industrialize, energy demand increases.
(2) Increasing wealth in emerging markets, especially China and India. When economies grow, their energy needs grow. Consumers want cars, air conditioners, refrigerators, and other energy hogs.
(3) Globalization. Transportation is Hipnoterapi Surabaya one of the largest consumers of energy in the world, accounting for 58 percent of liquid fuel consumption in OECD countries in 2004. As we move more often, further, and with greater speed, the energy we use in transportation will inevitably increase. Air travel in particular is a heavy user of fuel.
(4.) Concerns over energy security. While energy demand is typically driven by short-term considerations (e.g., GDP growth, weather, transport needs), long-term concerns over energy security around the world have led to what some might consider an irrational premium paid for energy assets. This is most apparent in the very favorable deals struck by China with host governments in countries around the world to explore for oil & gas, one of the contributing factors to the increasing premium paid per barrel of proven oil reserves in the oil exploration and production industry.
Companies who stand to benefit
ESCO Technologies (ESE) and Itron (ITRI) are two leading manufacturers of "smart" meter readers, and should benefit from the boost in DSM brought on by the rising worldwide demand for energy.
Johnson Controls (JCI), which helps design and maintain more energy-efficient buildings, is well-poised to benefit from the need of corporate customers to reduce energy consumption, as well as the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of a possible carbon trading regime in the U.S.
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. (PHG) has already announced that it is phasing out incandescent bulbs and moving to fluorescent bulbs.
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 a Master of Arts in Foreign and Defense Policy, and a PhD in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University (1996).
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. 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. and The New Yorker he discusses about the prospects of predictive analysis in international politics. BBC 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.
Education
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, History and French from Case Western University, Abdollahian acquired a Master of Arts in Foreign and Defense Policy, and a PhD in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University (1996).
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. 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. and The New Yorker he discusses about the prospects of predictive analysis in international politics. BBC 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.