38 North
- Breaking the Ice in Northeast Asia: President Lee’s Brazen Bet on the Arctic
- From Recovery to Development: North Korea’s New Five-Year Economic Plan
- More Than a Destroyer: What Choe Hyon Reveals About North Korea’s Maritime Strategy
- Russian Construction Makes Progress Toward Bridge Opening
- OE Watch: Foreign
News & Perspectives of the Operational Environment, 2026, no. 6
- Fighting with Data: Design Implications for AI-Enabled Mission-Command Systems
- Perceiving a Competitor: Culture and Cognitive Biases of the Strong Enemy and the Pacing Threat
- From Growth to Visibility: Bureaucratic Incentives After China’s Cadre Evaluation Reforms
- Scam Offensives in
Southeast Asia: Comparing Beijing's and Washington's Strategies and
Assessing Opportunities for Coordination
- ASEAN-5 in An Era of Geoeconomic Realignment: Opportunities and Risks in a Fragmenting Global Economy
- The Crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is a Heavy Blow to the Deteriorating Maritime Order
- Deficit Tracker [updated July 2026]
- Curbing the Expansion of Lakurawa and Mamudawa Insurgent Groups
- How Victims of
Violence Can Shape Transitional Justice in Cameroon's Far North
- Canada's Cybersecurity Cooperation
with Japan and Korea
- Operationalizing Moving Target Defence in Canada’s Cyber-Defence Ecosystem
- Generative AI and Atrocity Denial in War
- How Populist Middle Powers Are—and Are Not—Reshaping Global Politics
- Guidelines for the Deployment and Application of Artificial Intelligence Large Models in the Government Sector [translation]
- Battle for Hormuz Will Reshape the Global LNG Market
- Flipping the Script: How to Hold China’s New Carriers at Risk
- How Tehran’s Use of Cyber Operations in the U.S.-Iran Conflict Has Evolved
- Injecting the Free Market into Spectrum Use for Space Applications
- Old Friends, New Calculations: A Reset in China-North Korea Relations
- Rethinking Water as a Frontline Security Risk
- Risks of Racing: Russian and Chinese Perceptions of Strategic Competition in the Euro-Atlantic Region
- Russia’s Cap on Partner Aid: Institutional Rigidity and the Limits of External Support
- Six Reasons Why the United States Is Low on Munitiobs
- Tokenpolitik: How the United States Can Compete with China to Build the Global AI Stack
- Toward a Federal Framework: Lessons from State and International Frontier AI Regulation
- The Visibility Gap: How AI Can Stop Chinese Transshipment Under USMCA
- CTC Sentinel, July 2026, v. 19, no. 7
- A View from the CT
Foxhole: Vanda Felbab-Brown, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, Brookings
Institution
- Feature Commentary:
Guardrails Under Test: Terrorist Misuse of AI Models and the Open-Weight
‘Abliteration’ Problem
- The Historical
Evolution of the Islamic State’s Anti‑China Propaganda
- A Domestic Mimetic
Chain: Nihilistic Violent Extremism, Youth Radicalization, and School
Violence in Italy
- Conflict-Driven Chokepoint Disruptions
- Coups and Other Irregular Leadership Changes
- Gray Zone Attacks Against U.S. Allies and Partners
- Insurgency-Related Conflict
- BTAM: Behavioral Threat Assessment Outcomes in School Settings
- BTAM: Lessons Learned from Incidents of Violence
- Choosing Credible Messengers for Preventing Violent Extremism
- Fame-Seeking, Fixation, and Leakage
- Substance Abuse and Violent Extremism
- Shoring up an International System Adrift: A Policy Guide for the EU in Five Areas of Global Governance
- The Story of Global Governance: EU Strategic Narratives in an Age of Rupture
- If Marine Le Pen Wins: A European Guide to a Far-Right France
- The Magnificent Ten: A Coalition of the Willing to Drive the EU’s Next Enlargement
- Can the US and Europe Cooperate in Africa?
- Lida Shuffle: Su-25 “Nuclear” Exercises in Belarus
- Taking LEO Off the Board: Russian Thinking About Anti-Satellite Warfare
- The EU and the Taliban Gordian Knot - Risks and Opportunities for Selective Re-Engagement
- The Logic of Escalation: Putin, Regime Survival, and the Limits of Western Pressure
- Georgetown Security
Studies Review, Spring 2026, v. 13, no. 2
- Controls at the
Gate: Do People’s Republic of China Export Licenses Delay U.S. Defense
Deliveries
- Racing Without Ends:
Implications of Cold War Deterrence Gaps for the Hypersonic Arms Race
- Welfare, Social
Cohesion, and National Security: A Comparative Study of Collectivist and
Liberal Individualist States
- Cutting the
Lifeline: Attack Scope Limiting Effects of Sanctioning State Sponsors of
Terrorism
- Measuring Success
and Embracing Failure: Acquisition Metrics in the Age of Prototype
Warfare
- From Blackpill Fatalism to Misanthropy: Unpacking the Motivation of the Schongau School Shooter
- From the Ground Up: Citizen-Led Counterspeech Against Male Supremacism on Reddit
- The Sixth Annual GNET Conference: A Summary of Key Takeaways
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- DOGE Wall of
Receipts: More Transparency Needed on How Savings Are Derived from
Contract, Grant, and Lease Terminations GAO-26-108615
- FEMA Workforce: Staff
Reductions and Lack of Planning May Impact Mission Readiness GAO-26-108427
- International
Agreements: DOD Has Opportunities to Improve Internal Communication and
Oversight GAO-26-108249
- Law Enforcement: DOJ
Should Improve Training and Misconduct Guidelines for Nonfederal Task
Force Officers GAO-26-108468
- Priority Open
Recommendations: Department of Defense GAO-26-108980
- Semiconductors:
Commerce Needs Plan to Meet CHIPS for America R&D Requirements
GAO-26-109121
- Wearable
Technologies: Potential Benefits and Challenges in Clinical
Decision-Making GAO-26-107847
- Just War Theory in a Changing World Order
- Theater Missile Defense Inventory: Inadequate for a U.S.–China Conflict
- Strategika, no. 106
- Old Weapons on New
Battlefields
- The Carrier Air Wing
and the Future of Combat
- Armor on a Robotic
Battlefield
- Military Strategy
Magazine, August 2026, Special Edition - War on the Waves: Lessons on Naval Military History and Strategy
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Under Fire: U.S. Carrier Aviation and the Institutional Learning Curve,
1929–1944
- Adaptation in
Ambiguity: The Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942
- Dilemmas, Dilemmas:
The Frustrations of Late-Imperial Chinese Naval Strategy
- The Best-Laid Plans
of the British Navy, 1783–1794
- HMAS Australia,
Australian Maritime Strategy, and the AUKUS Agreement
- Was the Battle of
Midway Won or Lost? Considerations for Strategists
- “What’s My Age
Again?” German Naval Strategy – The First 175/70 Years
- The China–Tajikistan Treaty: Formalisation of Chinese Influence in Central Asia
- Impact of AI on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Emerging Risks and Policy Responses
- India’s Arctic Endeavours: Capacity Building and Capability Enhancement
- Radicalisation in Closed Loops: Risks and Intervention Opportunities with AI Chatbots and Companions
- Africa File
- August 6, 2026
Tigray on the Precipice; New FDLR Demobilization Plan; Saudi Red Sea Task
Force
- China & Taiwan
Update
- Iran Update
- August 3, 2026
- August 4, 2026
- August 5, 2026
- August 6, 2026
- August 7, 2026
- August 8, 2026
- August 9, 2026
- Korean Peninsula
Update
- Russian Occupation
Update
- Russian Offensive
Campaign Assessment
- Europe in an Age of America First Economics
- Negotiating Heritage: Local Mediation and the Reconstruction of Social Space in Today’s Syria
- Sustainable Transitions and Competitiveness: Policy Directions for the European Union and Italy
- Orbital Data Centers Could Potentially Exacerbate the Risk of Escalation in Outer Space
- Preparing Populations for Hybrid Threats against Critical Infrastructure: The European Experience
- Social Terrain: The Strategic Substrate of Irregular Competition
- China Brief, August 7, 2026, v. 26, no. 16
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Beijing’s Closed-Door Strategy
- Politics on Display
at Overseas Chinese Affairs Conferences
- Taiwan Shows
Resilience in Trying Times
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New Structures in Taiwan’s EEZ
- Institutions Outpace
Ideas in ‘Autonomous Knowledge System’
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Bed for New Whole-of-Nation System
- Chinese Research
Details Distillation for Military Use
- Terrorism Monitor, August 7, 2026, v. 24, no. 13
- NRF’s Potential to
Launch an Anti-Taliban Counterinsurgency
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Threat of Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan
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Silent, AQAP Looks to the Sahel
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Economy: An Insurgent Way of Doing Business
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Muted in Iran’s Khuzestan Amid Wartime Pressures
- Defense of Japan 2026
[white paper]
- Australia and China: Embracing While Sparring
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- The Rise of Authoritarian Cooperation: A New Illiberal Order?
- Arms Control, Allied Assurance, and Russia’s War in Ukraine
- Russia’s May 2026 Nuclear Exercise
- U.S. Extended Nuclear Deterrence: A Guide for the Perplexed
- Counter-FIMI: The Case for Disrupting Hostile Actors
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- China Maritime Report #57: Sailing Thousands of Miles Without Losing Course: The Roles and
Authorities of the PLAN Party Standing Committee
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Powerful Enemy at Sea Precision Strikes by the Powerful Enemy at Sea
- Advancing the Future: Assessing Emerging Pathways for Expanding Organ Access in India
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- Hate Monitor, June 2026
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- A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
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Then: Introduction to the Special Issue
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Allegations After October 7
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Accelerator: Contagion and Validation Effects Driving the Post-October 7
Surge in Global Extremist Violence
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Perception of Hamas: The Role of Significance Quest
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Beliefs to Radical Action: Antisemitic Narratives, Anti-Israel Attitudes,
and Pathways to Political Radicalization
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Antisemitism in the Netherlands: Group Apology as an Intervention?
- The Department of Public Safety Along the Texas-Mexico Border (2025-2026)
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- Ethnic and Racial
Studies
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- A Relational Approach to Comparisons of Race and Racism in the Americas and Beyond
[open access article]
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Studies
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