James Marrone
I am trained as an applied economist, and my research focuses on national security topics, including: military family policy, radicalization/propaganda, and protection of at-risk cultural heritage. I use both theory and a variety of empirical tools in econometrics, psychometrics, and machine learning. Most of my work is also interdisciplinary: I have worked on teams with researchers trained in sociology, psychology, law, archaeology, criminology, and art history.
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In this report, the authors compile evidence from numerous open sources to outline the major policy-relevant characteristics of that market and to propose the way forward for developing policies intended to disrupt illicit networks. The approach uses multiple methods and data sources, with the understanding that no single piece of evidence can provide a complete picture of the market and that only by cross-referencing and triangulating among various sources can salient market characteristics be illuminated.
organized crime, and rogue states. Therefore, tracking and disrupting these networks
is an important national security goal, but it is often difficult to accomplish because of
the clandestine nature of these transactions.
The authors of this report aim to track these networks through open-source
data. They pair this research with analytical frameworks that could help policymakers
and law enforcement personnel better respond to these issues while also providing
advocates, experts, and researchers in the field with a set of grounded estimates and
methodologies to build on in their future research. The authors demonstrate how
these methods can be used to map a specific illicit market and discuss how these
methodologies can be reused in similar projects.