Peter Brecke
Associate Professor
- Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
- Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy
Overview
Dr. Peter K. Brecke joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1991. In 2008 he became the Assistant Dean for Information Technology. His research projects are society design, social global modeling, computer simulation of the spread of ideas in populations, datasets of long-term social processes, fostering interdisciplinary research in a technological university, and a taxonomy of violent conflicts. He is the author of numerous articles and research reports on the computer simulation of worldwide political and economic developments. Previous positions include senior staff member of BDM International, Inc., political affairs officer at the United Nations, research scientist with the Science Center Berlin. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, and the Peace Science Society (International).
Expertise:
- Democracy 2.0
- Historical Data Science
- Ideational Dynamics
- Long-term Social Processes
- Social Global Models
Interests
- Globalization: Political Economy and Governance
- International Trade
- Energy
- Environment
- Inequality and Social Justice
- International Development
- Armed Conflict
- Conflicts
- Governance
- Historiography
- International Trade and Investment
- Social Movements
Courses
- INTA-2001: Careers In Intl Affairs
- INTA-2010: Empirical Methods
- INTA-2040: Sci,Tech & Int'l Affairs
- INTA-2698: Research Assistantship
- INTA-3301: Int'l Political Econ
- INTA-3304: Int'l Trade & Production
- INTA-4241: Democracy-Global South
- INTA-4500: INTA Pro-Seminar
- INTA-4699: Undergraduate Research
- INTA-4803: Special Topics
- INTA-6003: Empirical Research Meth
- INTA-6004: Model,Forecast&Decision
- INTA-6011: Intl Trade&Tech Transfer
- INTA-8010: IAST Ph.D. Proseminar
- INTA-8803: Special Topics
Publications
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Regional Geographic Factors Mediate the Climate-War Relationship in Europe
In: British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2015
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- Positive Correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and Violent Conflicts in Europe
In: Climate Research [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2013
Chapters
- Towards a Characterization and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Theories and Models of Human, Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Processes within Agent-Based Models
Date: July 2013
This book emerged out of a project initiated and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that sought to build on efforts to transform agent-based models into platforms for predicting and evaluating policy responses ... - Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index
Other Publications
- Impacts of External Shocks in Commodity-Dependent Low-Income Countries: Insights from mobile phone call detail records from Cote D’Ivoire
All Publications
Books
- War and Reconciliation
Journal Articles
- Regional Geographic Factors Mediate the Climate-War Relationship in Europe
In: British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2015
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- Positive Correlation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and Violent Conflicts in Europe
In: Climate Research [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2013
- Global Climate Change, War, and Population Decline in Recent Human History
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2007
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- The Emotive Causes of Recurrent International Conflict
In: Politics and Life Sciences [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2003
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- Simulation of the Steps to War: Classification of Violent Conflicts a Necessary Prerequisite,
In: Simulation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 1999
- War and Reconciliation
In: International Interactions: Empirical and Theoretical Research in International Relations [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1999
- An Agenda for Conflict Early Warning Research
In: International Studies Notes [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1998
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- Finding Harbingers of Violent Conflict: Using Pattern Recognition to Anticipate Conflicts
In: Conflict Management and Peace Science [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1998
- A Foundation for Early Warning: A Taxonomy of Violent Conflicts
In: Simulation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1997
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- “An Early Warning System for the United Nations: Internet or Not?”
In: Mershon International Studies Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 1995
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- The Soviet Global Model: SIM/GDP
In: Simulation & Gaming [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1995
- Integrated Global Models that Run on Personal Computers
In: Simulation [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1993
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- Migration in the Middle East: Transformation and Change
In: Middle East Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 1983
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Chapters
- Towards a Characterization and Systematic Evaluation Framework for Theories and Models of Human, Social, Behavioral, and Cultural Processes within Agent-Based Models
Date: July 2013
This book emerged out of a project initiated and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that sought to build on efforts to transform agent-based models into platforms for predicting and evaluating policy responses ... - Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index
- A Pattern Recognition Approach to Conflict Early Warning
- Using Neural Networks to Find Harbingers of Violent Conflicts
- A Bibliographical Report on Six Contemporary Global Models
- International Economic Processes
Conferences
- Simulation of the Steps to War: Classification of Violent Conflicts a Necessary Prerequisite
Working Papers
- “War and Reconciliation”
Date: August 1998
- “Using Pattern Recognition to Identify Harbinger Configurations of Early Warning Indicators”
- “Conflict Alert Systems and Conflict Prevention”
Date: November 1996
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- "Plan for ORCI Early Warning System"
Date: September 1991
- “Roadmap Information System User's Manual”
- “Roadmap Methodology Document”
Date: May 1991
- "Status of the Project to Build a Computerized Database and Early Warning System for ORCI"
- “Global Modeling and Soviet Strategic Net Assessment, Vol. IV: A Soviet Model of the U.S.S.R. National Economy”
- “Global Modeling and Soviet Strategic Net Assessment, Vol. II: The Soviet Global Model: Technical Report”
- “Global Modeling and Soviet Strategic Net Assessment, Vol. III: The Soviet Global Model: Algorithms”
- "Who Wins and Who Loses from Protectionism"
- “Migration in the Middle East: Transformations, Policies and Processes”
Thesis / Dissertations
- Modeling Migration to the Arab Gulf States: Computer Simulation of Development Processes
Other Publications
- Impacts of External Shocks in Commodity-Dependent Low-Income Countries: Insights from mobile phone call detail records from Cote D’Ivoire
- “Paths from Environmental Change to Violent Conflict”
In: published in the Working Papers series of the Georgia Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
Date: November 1996
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