Research Areas

The Strategic Trade Control Research Group provides expertise in developing tools to enhance the detection and prevention of illicit trade in strategic goods. We take an all-source approach to strategic trade analysis, adapting methods to support state authorities, international organizations, private industry, and other interested parties.

Areas of research include:

• Open-source intelligence techniques

• Correlating export control nomenclatures and the Harmonized System

• Crime scripting for illicit international trade transactions

• Strategic trade risk assessment

• Mirror statistics and market share analysis

• Transshipment and re-export estimation

• Machine learning for strategic trade

  • • Supervised classification

    • Clustering

    • Outlier detection

    • Natural language processing

• Network Analysis