Simon Saradzhyan is a research fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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 at Harvard University

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. Saradzhyan has previously worked as deputy editor of Moscow Times and has contributed articles for many other publications as well, such The Times

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, the Sunday Telegraph

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, Defense News

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, Space News and Homeland Defense Journal. He is an expert in security and foreign policy affairs and has authored several academic papers on the subject.

Selected publications

• Disrupting Escalation of Terror in Russia to Prevent Catastrophic Attacks. Saradzhyan, Simon and Nabi Abdullaev. Discussion Paper 2005-10, International Security Program, December 2005. http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2960/disrupting_escalation_of_terror_in_russia_to_prevent_catastrophic_attacks.html
• Russia: Grasping Reality of Nuclear Terror. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 607, No. 1, 64-77 (2006). DOI: 10.1177/0002716206290964.
• Russia's System to Combat Terrorism and Its Application in Chechnya. NATO Security Through Science Series, 2006, VOL 14, pages 176-190.
• Trade-offs Between Security and Civil Liberties in Russia's War on Terror: Four Regional Case Studies, by Abdullaev, Nabi and Saradzhyan, Simon in "Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism," Routledge; Ill edition, 2008.