Friday's Miscellany 05-09-2025

 38 North

• Coal Exports from Rason at Highest Levels in Years 
• Quick Take: Buildings Take Shape at New Chinese Crossing 
• Quick Take: Progress on New Rail Spur at Sohae Satellite Launching Station 

 American Enterprise Institute

• Developing a Model of National Security Innovation:  Systems, Enablers, and Types 

 Amnesty International

• Uncounted: Invisible Deaths of Older People and Children During Climate Disasters in Pakistan 

 Army University Press

• Opération Serval: A Memoir of War 

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Outlook for North Korea Policy under the Second Trump Administration and South Korea’s Response 
• A Sixties Comeback: Restoring U.S. Nuclear Presence in Northeast Asia 

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Beyond the Blue: The Human Dimension in the Indo-Pacific 

 Atlantic Council

• Counting the Costs: A Cybersecurity Metrics Framework for Policy 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Small Modular Reactors for Nuclear Desalination and Cogeneration in the Permian Basin 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• The European Economic Strategy after the EU and US Elections 
• War and Peace in the 21st Century. The Future of the Middle East: Understanding Conflict, Building Peace 

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• In the Vortex of Great Power Competition:  Climate, Trade, and Geostrategic Rivalry in U.S.–China–EU Relations 

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Governing in the Age of AI: Reimagining Local Government 

 Brookings Institution

• Building Regional Capacity for AI Safety and Security in Africa 
• What Happens to DOGE When Elon Musk is Gone? 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• The Sovereign Imperative of Making Canadians Care About National Security 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• What the White House and Congress Can Do to Prevent Global Mass Atrocities 

 Cato Institute

• The Politics of Tariff Exemptions 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Lessons in Learning:  Ensuring Interoperability for Autonomous Systems in the Department of Defense 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Adaptation Under Fire:  Mass, Speed, and Accuracy Transform Russia’s Kill Chain in Ukraine 
• Defend in the Cloud: Boost NATO Data Resilience 
• Russia’s Strategy and Military Thinking:  Evolving Discourse by 2025 
• War and Sino-Russian Partnership:  An Indispensable but Uneasy Relationship 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Best Practices for Countering Malign Influence  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Guiding Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Government Investment Funds [translation] 
• Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 326: Business Elites and State-Business Relations 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• At the Doorstep:  A Snapshot of New Activity at Cuban Spy Sites 
• Game On for the United States and Canada After Oval Office Opener 
• Insights for Future Conflicts from the Russia-Ukraine War 
• Operational Fires in the Age of Punishment 
• Rebuilding U.S. Zinc Capacity in an Era of Global Competition 
• Underexplored and Undervalued: Addressing Africa’s Mineral Exploration Gap 

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

• Turkey’s Role in Consolidating European Security: Challenges and Opportunities 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Ditchley Conference Report: A European Path to Higher Economic Growth 
• Does EU Enlargement Require Voting Reform? 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Just Half of Americans Support Airstrikes Against Houthis 
• Most Americans Think the United States Should Pursue Global Free Trade 
• US-Russia Relations in a Changing World 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• The Real Space Race:  China Will Send a Crew to Orbit Mars by 2050 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Dealing with Authoritarian Security Providers: Risks and Possibilities 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Business Tax Credits for Wind and Solar Power 
• CBO’s Interactive Force Structure Tool [Explore the Interaction Between the Size and Cost of Military Forces] 
• Effects of Lower Launch Costs on Previous Estimates for Space-Based, Boost-Phase Missile Defense 
• The Federal Environment for Surface Transportation Infrastructure 
• The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: Fiscal Year 2025 Update to Personnel Numbers and Costs 

 Counter Extremism

• Countering Extremism in West Africa: What Options Are Left? 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• The Political Economy of Mini-Grids in Ghana 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Certification of Merit-Based Military Service Academy Admissions 
• Development of the 2025 National Defense Strategy 
• Implementing Policy on Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness 
• Memorandum Directing General and Flag Officer Reductions  
• Reviewing the Department's Military Educational Institution Library Collections
• Memo 
• Statement 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-091 Evaluation of the DoD’s Capabilities to Effectively Carry out Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore Operations and Exercises 

 ENSURED Project 

• Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Is UNFCCC Decision-Making Up to the Challenge? 
• The Intellectual Property and Public Health Regime Complex: Considerations on Vaccine Access and Equity 
• Regulating Cyberspace: UN Consensus-Building in a Fragmented Digital World 
• The UN Human Rights Council: Challenges and Opportunities for Reform 

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

• JRC and the EU’s Arctic Policy 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• MAGA Goes Global: Trump’s Plan for Europe 
• Pieces in Motion: Rebalancing Power in a New Levantine Order 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Coalitions of the Willing within the EU: Opportunities and Risks of Differentiated Integration 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Navigating Political Crisis and Conflict in Mozambique: Quad’s Interest and Strategy 
• Navigating Turbulent Waters: Does Zimbabwe Have a Future? 
• The Return to Strategic Ambiguity: Assessing Trump’s Taiwan Stance 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• The Houthi Challenge:  Forging a Strategy to Defeat the Iran-Backed Terror Group in Yemen 

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

• A Fragile Consensus?  The Pressure on the Norm Against Nuclear Testing 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) (Germany)

• Israel’s Radical Government:  Dismantling the Separation of Powers, Takeover of the State Apparatus, and Accelerated Annexation 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Democracy Building in Moldova:  Diaspora’s Vision for Moldova’s Resilient Future 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Who is Making Russia's Drones? 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• "Everyone Will Remember Jamie”: A Post-Adolescence Reflection on Online Misogyny 
• IS Wilayah Somalia: Digital Propaganda and Strategy Against the Puntland and its Foreign Allies 
• Platforming the Caliphate: Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Digital Strategy and Radicalisation Risks /

 Global Taiwan Institute

• Global Taiwan Brief, 2025, v. 10, no. 9 
• Polls Indicate that the US Public Supports Taiwan Defense, Regardless of Views on China
• The Malicious Exploitation of Deepfake Technology: Political Manipulation, Disinformation, and Privacy Violations in Taiwan
• Growing Canada-Taiwan Relations—Will the Momentum Continue?
• Rethinking Taiwan’s Investment Security Strategy
• Taiwan’s “Little Pink” Resentment: Expulsions, Douyin, and the Edge of Democratic Tolerance
• Taiwan’s Role in the Global Democracy Movement: Civil Society Innovation, Resilience, and Engagement 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Commuter Rail: Most Systems Struggling to Recover Ridership Following the COVID-19 Pandemic GAO-25-107511 
• Federal Workforce: Observations on the Implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Personnel Vetting Reform Initiative GAO-25-107325 
• Intellectual Property: Patent Office Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Address Persistent Examination and Quality Challenges GAO-25-107218 
• Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Justice GAO-25-108009 
• Priority Open Recommendations: Office of the Director of National Intelligence GAO-25-108078 
• Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Improvements Needed to Meet Statutory Requirements and Engage Stakeholders GAO-25-107269 
• Telework: Private Sector Stakeholder and Expert Views GAO-25-107078 

 Griffith University

• China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Investment Report 2024 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Hybrid Threat Modeling 
• The Socio-Political Instability Observer: January 2025 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Nuclear Ambiguity in the Indian Ocean 
• Why Russia Isn’t Doomed 

 Hudson Institute

• Stop Giving Beijing an Advantage Through TikTok 

 Human Rights Watch

• Facing the Bulldozers: Iban Indigenous Resistance to the Timber Industry in Sarawak, Malaysia 
• From Bad to Worse: The Deterioration of Media Freedom in Greece 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Alabuga Special Economic Zone Post-Attack Analysis and Air Defense Site Identification 
• Iranian Breakout Timelines Under JCPOA-Type Limits 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• Military-Civil Fusion is a Key Chinese Strategy with Long-term Implications:  An Interview with Jingdong Yuan and Yifei Zhu 
• Tibet’s Climate Crisis: The Japanese Perspective 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Data Briefing – January to August 2024: Online Domestic Extremism in Canada 

 Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire)

• The Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Trade, Influence and Rivalries 
• Chinese Cloud Seeding Practices on the Tibetan Plateau 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Can Reconciliation Happen without (Positive) Peace? 
• European and Italian Just Transition Policies amid Industrial Decarbonisation and External Policies 
• Will Trump’s Visit to the Gulf Be More than Just Fanfare? 

 Institute of the Study of War

• Africa File
• May 8, 2025: RSF Drone Strikes on Port Sudan; Iran Exports Regime Security to Africa; Burkina Faso Looks for Additional Partners 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• May 9, 2025 
• Far-Right Gains in Romania Could Advance Kremlin Objectives 
• Hiding Russia’s Weakness 
• Iran Update
• May 5 
• May 6 
• May 7 
• May 8 
• May 9 
• Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update
• May 7  
• Russian Occupation Update
• May 5 
• May 8 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• May 5 
• May 6 
• May 7 
• May 8 
• May 9 
• May 10 
• May 11 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Distance is Not a Shield. Russia’s Transnational Repression in Wartime 
• Russia’s War in Ukraine: Ukraine’s Strategy and Western Military Assistance 

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

• The Impact of Trauma Survey: Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Violence 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Ballistics after Bashar 
• Countering China’s Navy:  The U.S. Air Fleet’s Growing Anti-Ship Role  
• Evolving Dynamics of China’s Middle East and North Africa Strategy:  Future Scenarios 
• Made in Yemen? Assessing the Houthis’ Arms-Production Capacity 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• Future Challenges to Cognitive Superiority 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, May 9, 2025, v. 25, no. 9 
• Beijing Touts Malaria Victory in African ‘Discourse Power’ Push
• PRC Logistics Firms in the United States and Mexico Support Military-Civil Fusion
• Hong Kong’s IPO Market Gets Boost from PRC Firms
• Weaponizing the Electromagnetic Spectrum: The PRC’s High-powered Microwave Warfare Ambitions
• Taiwan Exposes More PRC Military Infiltration Cases
• Strategic Snapshot -- CCP Aggression Against Taiwan 

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s (JINSA)

• Flight Risk:  Turkey and the F-35 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Trapped in Debt:  China’s Role in Laos’ Economic Crisis 

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Evaluating China’s Space Capabilities and Ambitions  
• How Mainstream Parties Can Defend Democracy by Adopting Parts of the Populist Agenda 

 MITRE

• The AI Assurance Landscape (v1.0) 
• Barriers in Defense Acquisition 

 National Academies Press 

• Developing a Research Agenda on Contrails and Their Climate Impacts 
• Forecasting the Ocean: The 2025–2035 Decade of Ocean Science 

 National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

• NIDS ASEAN Workshop 2025: New Strategies in Southeast Asia? 

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

• Reconciliation and National Security Space 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Impact of the Digital Services Act: A Facebook Case Study 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• Sea Dragons: Special Operations and Chinese Military Strategy 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies 2025, v. 106, issue 1 
• Intervention, Force & Coercion: A Historical Inquiry on the Evolution of the Prohibition on Intervention 
• Normative Contestation in the International Order: Is China Remaking Global Governance? 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• Foreign Terror Pipelines in the Academy: The Case Study of SFSU and Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi 
• Sourcing Deception and Influence by Design: How the CCP Uses TikTok to Fight the Trade War 

 New America

• Terrorism in America After 9/11:  A Detailed Look at Jihadist Terrorist Activity in the United States and by Americans overseas Since 9/11

 Observer Research Foundation

• Global AI’s ‘DeepSeek Moment’: Impact and Implications 
• The Road to 5G Innovation: Exploring O-RAN Through Experimentation 
• The State of the Global Energy Transition 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Alignment or Misalignment?  U.S. and EU High-Tech Trade and Sanctions Policies Toward China 
• Destined for Division?  U.S. and EU Responses to the Challenge of Chinese Overcapacity 

 Pew Research Center

• Americans’ Trust in One Another 
• Views of Race, Policing and Black Lives Matter in the 5 Years Since George Floyd’s Killing 

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• State and Regime Violence 

 RAND Corporation

• Furthering Intelligence Research:  How the National Intelligence University Can Fill Critical Gaps for Intelligence Research 
• Inclusion of Operating and Support Costs in Competitive Air Force Source Selections:  Challenges and Tools for Implementation 
• On the Extinction Risk from Artificial Intelligence 
• Political Discourse, Debate, and Decisionmaking in the Chinese Communist Party 
• U.S. Space Force Operational Test and Training Infrastructure (OTTI):  Recommendations for Organizational Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities 
• Veteran Families in America [infographic] 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• South Korea’s Global Vision:  Opportunities for UK–South Korea Partnership 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• The Art of the Deal: How Africa Should Play its Cards in a New Era of Minerals Diplomacy 
• Momentum for Middle Powers: Emerging Middle Powers Report 2025 

 Stimson Center

• IUU Fishing Risk Analysis in Southeast Asia Digital Dashboard 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• China-Russia Dashboard 
• China-Russia Alignment – a Shared Vision, Without Fully Seeing Eye to Eye 
• China-Russia Trade: Asymmetrical, Yet Indispensable  
• Joint Military Exercises Signal Deepening Russia-China Strategic Alignment 
• The Land of Victorious Militarism – Militaristic Indoctrination in Russia 

 Swedish National China Centre

• The Chinese Communist Party’s Influence Over Businesses 

 Taylor & Francis

• Intelligence and National Security, 2025
• How Do We Know if an Intelligence Analytic Product is Good? [open access article] 
• A Risk Science Perspective on How to Evaluate the Quality of Intelligence Assessments [open access article]
• Visualizing versus Verbalizing Uncertainty in Intelligence Analysis [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2024
• Ideological Idiosyncrasies and Individual-Level Radicalisation Pathways: Unpacking the Mutating Dynamics of Contemporary Extremism [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Countering Human Rights Regression to Safeguard Peace 

 UK Ministry of Defense

• UK Support to Ukraine:  Fact Sheet 

 UK Parliament. House of Commons. Defense Committee

• The Armed Forces Covenant 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Embedding Fairness: Boosting Efficacy Innovation Nuclear Weapons Space 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• UNODC Drug Use Disorder Treatment and Care - Menu of Services 

 US Army.  Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)

• How China Fights in Large-Scale Combat Operations 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• China Bulletin:  May 1, 2025 
• Chinese Companies Listed on Major U.S. Stock Exchanges 

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

• Artificial Intelligence Implementation Plan 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Rising to the challenge: Delivering Australia’s Nuclear-Powered Submarine Program  

Friday's Miscellany 05-02-2025

 38 North

• North Korea’s Acknowledgement of War Participation 
• Quick Take: After the Party 

 Air University Press

• Human, Machine, War: How the Mind-Tech Nexus Will Win Future Wars 

 American University

• Preliminary Estimates of the Macroeconomic Costs of Cutting Federal Funding for Scientific Research 

 Amnesty International

• Chaos & Cruelty: 10 Compounding Assaults on Human Rights – A Review of President Trump’s First 100 Days in Office 
• Human Rights Violations During Mozambique’s Post-2024 Election Crackdown 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), April 2025, v. 32, no. 4 
• The Medical Surveillance Monthly Report: The First 30 Years
• Historical Perspective: U.S. Military Medical Surveillance: Two Centuries of Progress
• Four Decades of HIV Antibody Screening in the U.S. Military: A Review of Incidence and Demographic Trends, 1990–2024 
• Images in Health Surveillance: The Discovery of Chloramphenicol Treatment for Both Scrub Typhus and Typhoid Fever  
• Update: Malaria Among U.S. Armed Forces, 2024
• Brief Report: Forecasting Influenza with the Long Short-Term Memory Model: Results from the 2023–2024 Influenza Season
• The DoD Global Respiratory Pathogen Surveillance Program: Its Impact on Public Health, from the U.S. Armed Forces to Global Health
• Beyond the Clinic: The Importance of DOD Respiratory Viral Panel Testing for Public Health and Force Health Protection  
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 5, February 1, 2025
• Images in Health Surveillance: Ammunition Ship Explosions in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, 1944 and 1945

 Army University Press

• Military Review, May-June 2025, v. 105, no. 3 
• This We’ll Defend: Our Promise to America
• Pathways to Becoming a Transformational Leader
• A Fighting Heart for the Army's New Look
• Fortifying Operational Readiness in the Pacific: A Strategic Blueprint
• Strengthening the Backbone: Reexamining the Operational and Strategic Role of Today's NCO
• Operational Myopia: A Fatal Fallacy
• No Future for an "Indispensable" Service: The Challenges of Resource-Constrained Army Transformation, 1945–1950
• Exploring Mental Models in Finance: How the Psychology of Money Assists Thinking About War and Strategy
• Rethinking Retreat: Retrograde Operations in the Indo-Pacific
• An Experiment: Eighth Army Operational Effects Directorate
• Security Force Assistance as a Tool of Strategic Competition
• Awake Before the Sound of the Guns: Preparing Advisors for Conflict
• Integrating EMDR Therapy and New Technologies to Enhance Combat Resilience
• Major Jonathan Letterman Revisited: Anticipating Casualty Evacuation Needs in Large-Scale Combat Operations
• The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
• The Birth of the U.S. Army

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• South Koreans and Their Neighbors 2025 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Development as Strategy: The U.S., China, and the Global South 

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Nuclear Risks in the Asia-Pacific [Infographic] 
• Strategic Stability and Nuclear Salience: Japan, South Korea, and Extended Deterrence in the Third Nuclear Age 

 Atlantic Council

• Modernizing the Tools of Economic Statecraft to Meet the Challenges of Today 
• Saudi-Israeli Normalization is Still Possible—if the United States Plays It Smart 
• The United States Needs a Victory Plan for the Indo-Pacific 

 Australian National University Press

• War 4.0: Armed Conflict in an Age of Speed, Uncertainty and Transformation 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Agenda for Change 2025:  Preparedness and Resilience in an Uncertain World 
• Critical Technology Tracker 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Prospects for Carbon Markets in Africa: Ethiopia as a Case Study
• Rivalry, Conflict, and Opportunity in Eastern Mediterranean Natural Gas 
• Unpacking the Rhetoric Behind Mexico’s Judicial Reform 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• U.S. Tariff Tracker: How Much Are Tariffs Raising in Revenue? 

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Protecting the Future: An Agenda for Building Climate-Resilient Economies 

 Brookings Institution

• Changes in the Safety Net Over Recent Decades and Their Impact 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Democratic Recovery After Significant Backsliding:  Emergent Lessons 
• Japan’s Three D’s (Defense, Disaster Management, and Demographics) 
• Views from Taipei:  Essays by Young Indian Scholars on China 

 Cato Institute

• The China Shock Revisited:  Job Reallocation and Industry Switching in U.S. Labor Markets 
• Content Creators, Entrepreneurial Users, and the Impact of Tech Policy 

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

• Shrinking or Abolishing FEMA is a Grave Risk to US National Security 

 Center for Global Security Research 

• A Different Approach: Assessing the Legacy of Track 1.5 and Track 2 Engagements with India and Pakistan 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• At the 20th Collective Study Session of the CCP Central Committee Politburo, Xi Jinping Stresses:  Persist in Being Self-Reliant, Be Strongly Oriented Toward Applications, and Push the Orderly Development of Artificial Intelligence [translation] 
• Plan for Accelerating the Construction of China into an Agricultural Powerhouse (2024-2035) 

 Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

• Georgetown Security Studies Review, March 2025, v. 12, no. 2 
• China and Russia in a Heterogeneous Arctic: Building Purview with “Sharp” Instruments
• Don’t Look Up: Deterrence and Prospects for Arms Control in the New Era of the Space Race
• The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Lessons for the Future of Air Superiority
• Reviving Alliances: The Risks of Egypt's Growing Partnership with Russia
• Missing the Soviet Union’s Nuclear Test “First Lightning”: A Case Study of U.S. Intelligence Failure and Lessons Learned
• The Global Shift to Tactical Nuclear Weapons
• Lessons for Counterterrorism: China and the East Turkistan Movement (ETIM)
• Applying Counterfactual Analysis to the Study of Terrorism

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• No Dominant Strategy for Air Dominance:  Collaborative Combat Aircraft Employment, Basing, and Sortie Generation in a Taiwan Scenario 
• Ready Player None?  An End-to-End Assessment of the Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program    

 Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Conflict in Focus: Lessons from Russia-Ukraine 
• Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience 
• Significant Cyber Incidents [updated April 2025] 
• Sustaining Standards Leadership: The United States Cannot Disengage from RISC-V 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• 74,702 Reasons for Action: The Legal Grounds for Potential U.S. Force Against Drug Cartels 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Power Losses: What's Holding Back European Electricity Trade? 

 Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT)

• The Weaponization of Artificial Intelligence the Next Stage of Terrorism and Warfare Research Project Book 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• National Security Goes into Space 
• Talking to a Brick Wall: The US Government’s Response to Public Comments on AI 

 Chennai Centre For China Studies

• The US AI-related Rules and their China Implications By Subramanyam Sridharan 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Six in 10 Americans Support US Participation in a Nuclear Agreement with Iran 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• China’s Conceptual Approaches to Counter-UAS and Lessons Drawn from Recent Conflicts 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Beyond LEGO: The Need for EU-Based Building Blocks of Technology 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, April 2025, v. 18, no. 4 
• Iraqi Oil and the Iran Threat Network
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Charlie Winter, Co-Founder, ExTrac AI
• The Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan: Evolution, Tactics, and Regional Security Implications

 Conflict Armament Research

• Salafi Jihadists in the Central Sahel – Issue 02 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Trends in Spending for Military Compensation 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Perhaps Norway's Truth and Reconciliation Process Holds the Answers to a Reconciliation Process between Greenland and Denmark 

 Data Abyss

• Undermining Deterrence: The Case for a Total Ban on DoD Research Involving Chinese Military Companies 

 Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

• Defense Acquisition, v. 54, no. 3, May-Jube 2025 
• Interview With Joseph Brooks, Executive Director, Regional Sustainment Framework in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Product Support
• Product Support Speed with Discipline
• The Middle Tier of Acquisition Is Growing Up!
• Unleashing U.S. Power—Building a Lethal, Accountable, and Overmatching Capabilities
• Artificial Intelligence and the Acquisition Strategy
• Contracting Concepts — Multiple Award Contracts and Fair Opportunity
• It’s All About Incentives ─ Lessons for DoD Acquisitions
• A Case Study in Rapid sUSV Acquisition
• Determining Priorities in a Cluttered and Turbulent Environment
• Overcoming Acquisition Obstacles for the Rapid Transition of a New Warfighting Capability
• The Global Race for AI Superiority
• Balancing Warfighter Combat Demands Amid Full Fleet Divestment… and Winning
• Bargaining to Achieve Mission Outcomes

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform 
• Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report of Sexual Assault in the Military 
• Restoring Good Order and Discipline Through Balanced Accountability 
• Memorandum Directing the Development of the 2025 National Defense Strategy 
• Review of Medical Conditions Disqualifying for Accession into the Military 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-088 Audit of DoD Management of Hazardous Waste Disposals in Japan  
• DODIG-2025-090 Audit of the DoD’s Compliance with the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act’s Requirements Concerning Zero Trust 
• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) 

 Department of State

• 2025 Annual Report on International Child Abduction 
• Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve and Other Actions Related to Iraq & Syria| Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025 

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Stepping up Engagement in the Sahel: Russia, China, Turkey and the Gulf States 

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• The EU as a Key Player in Multilateral Forums on Space Security: Perspectives for the OEWG 2025-28 
• Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Technology and Peaceful Uses: Examining the Role and Impact of Export Controls 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• Roadmap for Cooperation between the EUAA and Montenegro (2025-2027) 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• React, Rinse, Repeat: How Europe Can Help Break Somalia’s Cycle of Conflict 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Accelerating Adaptation to Extreme Weather in Europe 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Senegal's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• LEO Wars: China’s Orbital Challenge to the US-Led Digital Order 
• A New Office of Strategic Services? 

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) (IFRI)

• Water in Mexico: an Emergency that Will Wait 

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

• 10-Point Compact for Ukraine’s Just and Sustainable Peace 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

• G20 Debt Negotiations:  What Can the African Union Achieve? 
• Strengthening Europe’s Capacity to Act in Foreign and Security Policy 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Central and Eastern Europe and the Global Economic Fragmentation 

 Global Financial Integrity

• Illicit Financial Flows Risks Related to Beneficial Ownership in the Mining Sector in Tanzania 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Odesa: An Oasis for Organized Crime 
• UN Peacekeeping Ministerial 2025: GI-TOC joins the Global Alliance for Peace Operations 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• EcoFascism and Green Accelerationism: Ghosts of the Past or a Present Danger? 
• Mali's Environmental Crisis: The Link Between Climate Change and JNIM’s Rapid Expansion 

 Globsec

• Private Tech for Resilience: Geopolitical Shifts and Government-Tech Relations 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Army Corps of Engineers: Commercial Fishing Data Could Help Inform Budget Process GAO-25-107447 
• Civil Monetary Penalties: Federal Agencies' Compliance with the 2024 Annual Inflation Adjustment Requirements GAO-25-107966 
• Cyber Diplomacy: The Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy's Efforts to Advance U.S. Interests GAO-25-108445 
• Cybersecurity: DHS Implemented a Grant Program to Enable State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Governments to Improve Security GAO-25-107313 
• DOD Financial Management: Accelerated Timelines Needed to Address Long-standing Issues and Fraud Risk GAO-25-108191 
• Federal Civilian Firefighters: DOD Should Take Action to Address Long-Standing Staffing Gaps GAO-25-107288 
• Federal Workforce: Current and Potential Alternatives for Locality Pay Methodology GAO-25-107788 
• Fishery Disaster Assistance: Process is Changing, but Challenges Remain to Improve Timeliness and Communication GAO-25-107076 
• Fraud in Federal Programs: FinCEN Should Take Steps to Improve the Ability of Inspectors General to Determine Beneficial Owners of Companies GAO-25-107143 
• Human Genomic Data: HHS Could Better Track Use of Foreign Testing Entities and Strengthen Oversight of Security Measures GAO-25-107377 
• Infrastructure Grants: Status of Funding to Tribes, States, Localities, and Territories as of December 31, 2024 GAO-25-107243 
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Wildfire Detection Technologies GAO-25-108161 
• Smart Cities: Technologies and Policy Options to Enhance Services and Transparency GAO-25-107019  
• Veterans Benefits: More Thorough Planning Needed to Help Better Protect Veterans Assisted by Representatives GAO-25-107211  

 Governments of Ukraine and the United States

• Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the United States of America on the Establishment of a United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Conference Report Seabed Security 

 Henry Jackson Society

• The Long Arm of Tehran: Why the UK Should Ban the IRGC 
• Russia Reality Check: How to Destabilise the Kremlin 

 Heritage Foundation

• Nuclear Deterrence vs. Nuclear Warfighting:  Is There a Difference and Does It Matter? 

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, no. 98  
• Are Total Wars Obsolete?

 Hudson Institute

• Indo-Russian Relations Amid Emerging Global Realities 
• Japan-US Trade Talks: Start by Expanding Beyond Trade 
• Promethean Rivalry:  The World-Altering Stakes of Sino-American AI Competition 

 Human Rights Watch

• A Hazard to Human Rights: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Digital Decision-Making 
• Punished for Seeking Change: Killings, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detention Following Venezuela’s 2024 Election 
• United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act, A Human Rights Argument 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• EU Regulatory Actions Against US Tech Companies Are a De Facto Tariff System 
• The State Hamilton Index: Data Visualization 
• The State Hamilton Index: Most States Underperform in Advanced Industries 

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• Navigating Uncertainty in Government Cloud Security 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

• Achieving Regional Economic Integration in South Asia 
• Balancing Legacy and Innovation: Russia, US and India’s Defence Procurement Policies 
• The Israel–Hamas War and Turkish Policy Responses 
• Nepal: The Making of an Inclusive Constitution, Demands, Debates, Dissents 
• Pakistan’s Misadventure in Pahalgam: Strategic Choices from the Mahabharata 
• Russia’s Arctic LNG: A Potential Alternative for India’s Energy Security 
• Trump’s ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs and Taiwan’s Response Strategy 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Revisions to NOAA's Space Weather Scales 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Iran-Russia Nuclear Cooperation 
• Strategic Alternatives for the Gaza Strip 
• Strategic Assessment, March 2025, v. 28, no. 1 
• The Institution of the Russian Family under the Putin Regime and the War in Ukraine
• Israel’s Post-October 7 Wars and the International Order
• Misinformation and Division: The Significance of Policy Changes in Social Media Companies
• Russian Policy in the Middle East in the Context of the Struggle Against the West: Insights for Israel
• Israel’s National Security Concept: Functional Incoherence and the October 7 Disaster
• The Question Nobody’s Asking: Is it Even Possible to Rehabilitate* the Gaza Strip Under Existing Conditions, and if Not, What Then?
• The Risk of Changing the Status Quo on the Temple Mount

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Alabuga Special Economic Zone Post-Attack Analysis and Air Defense Site Identification 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• “Strategic Autonomy, Anyone?” Charting Europe’s Shifting Security Debates and 2024-2029 Priorities 
• (UN)ambiguous Meaning? Cross-Strait Narratives of UN Resolution 2758 

 Institute of the Study of War

• Africa File
• May 1, 2025: AU, Turkey, and United States Surge to Halt al Shabaab; DRC Peace Talks; Uganda’s Role in the Eastern DRC 
• Special Edition: Uganda in the DRC’s M23 Conflict—Friend to All, Enemy to None 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• May 2, 2025 
• Iran Update
• April 28 
• April 29 
• April 30 
• May 1 
• May 2 
• Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update
• April 30 
• Russian Occupation Update
• April 28 
• May 1 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• April 28 
• April 29 
• April 30 
• May 1 
• May 2 
• May 3 
• May 4 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• From Conflict to Courtroom: Indonesia's Legal Response to Terrorism and Core International Crimes 

 International Crisis Group

• Frozen Billions:  Reforming Sanctions on the Libyan Investment Authority 
• Ukraine War Map: Tracking the Frontlines 

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

• The Impact of Displacement and War Threatens Lebanon's Already Fragile Socio-Economic Fabric 
• Mass Displacement Governance in Lebanon: Access To Rights Amidst War and Multileveled Crises 

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Reconciling Sustainability Transition Priorities With Energy Security Ones: A Focus On Industrialized Countries 
• Towards a Tech Exporting Gulf: How the AI Revolution Is Reshaping Defence and Politics in the GCC States 

 Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

• China's Strategic Integration of Port Development and Military-Civil Fusion: Building Dual-Use Infrastructure to Support China's Goals of Becoming a "Transportation Power" and a "Maritime Power" 

 JFK Special Warfare Center and School

• Special Warfare Journal 
• Digital Twins for a Digital World: Data-Driven Training Optimizing the Ready Medical Force 
• Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center: Transformation and Modernization 

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• Indiana’s Jake Laird Law Implementation Guide 

 Marine Corps University Press

• From Boot Camp to the Naval Academy: Making a Marine Aviator, 1946-1949 
• Treasonous Tides: A Historical Primer of Espionage within the U.S. Department of the Navy 
• Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Spring 2025, v. 16, no. 1 
• Power Play: Charging Up Strategic Competition over Lithium Battery Value Chains
• The Winds of Change: How China’s Focus on Rare Earth Minerals Reshapes the World
• Recent U.S. Government Policy Literature on Critical and Strategic Minerals
• Reauthorizing the Defense Production Act in the Era of Defense Mobilization and Supply-Side Industrial Policy
• Why the Ukrainians Fight: The Holodomor (1932–33)
• The European Integration as a Strategic Source 109 for the Ukrainian Democratic Media and the EU in Countering Russian Propaganda
• The Arctic in the New Geopolitical Context of the Twenty-First Century: Protecting the Homeland in a New Kind of Cold War

 MITRE

• Leveraging Streamlined Acquisition Authorities to Deliver Innovation to the Warfighter 
• Risk Discovery Protocol for AI Assurance (v1.0) 
• Strengthening Allied Defense Cooperation 

 National Academies Press 

• Impact of Burnout on the STEMM Workforce: Proceedings of a Workshop  
• Implications of Artificial Intelligence–Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Safeguarding the Food Supply: Integrating Diverse Risks, Connecting with Consumers, and Protecting Vulnerable Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Deterring Opportunistic Aggression During the Cuban Missile Crisis: Necessary Reminders and Applications for Today 

 NATO Defense College

• How Accurate is Forecasting of Military Technologies? 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, 2nd ed 

 Observer Research Foundation

• From ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’: Mapping India’s Southeast Asian Engagement 
• Overcoming Mistrust in Public-Sector Digitalisation 
• Pakistan and the IMF: A Cycle of Dependency and the Need for Genuine Reform 
• The Potential Impact of Proposed Gavi Funding Cuts on Global Health Security 
• The Sagarmanthan Review: Navigating the Great Oceans 

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding National Security Authorities Calendar Year 2024 

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Firms: New Evidence for Policymaking 
• Exploring the Relationship between Non-Communicable Diseases and Depression 
• A Multi-dimensional Approach to the Post-COVID-19 World for Panama 
• OECD Benchmark Definition of Foreign Direct Investment (5th ed) 
• OECD Integrity and Anti-Corruption Review of Ukraine 

 Pew Research Center

• Majorities of Americans Support Several – But Not All – Types of Foreign Aid 
• Most U.S. Catholics Say They Want the Church To Be ‘More Inclusive’ 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• From Punishment to Denial: Stabilizing Deterrence on the Korean Peninsula 
• Trump Could Get a Win with North Korea This Time, by Taking Lessons from His First Term 

 RAND Corporation

• Common Shop Stock Lists for the Army's Ground Brigade Combat Teams 
• Demystifying the Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Process:  An Explainer 
• Developing an Office of Disaster Research and Innovation: A Process, Questions, and Options for the National Disaster and Emergency Management University 
• Innovations in Veteran Suicide Prevention [video] 
• Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for an Uncertain Future in Antarctica 
• Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition Project Evergreen Analysis 
• Institutional Risk Analysis Maturity at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security:  Risk Maturity Across Federal Organizations 
• North Korea's Black Knights and Dark Network [video] 
• North Korea’s Black Knights and Dark Network:  Towards the Disruption and Typology of DPRK Sanctions Evasion Networks 
• Russian Mercenary and Paramilitary Groups in Africa:  Examining Changes and Impacts Since the Wagner Rebellion  
• The Quantum Age and Its Impacts on the Civil Justice System 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Maximising UK-German Defence and Security 
• Strengthening the UK's Response to Illicit Finance 
• Scoping the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill 

 Small Arms Survey

• Developing Strategies and National Action Plans on Small Arms Control 
• National Action Plans as Tools for Effective Small Arms Control: Lessons from West Africa 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Making the AfCFTA Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade Work to Achieve Inclusivity 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• April 30, 2025 Quarterly Report to Congress 
• SIGAR 25-22-AR Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with Taliban-Led Ministries: State Department’s Implementing Partners’ MOUs Have Had Mixed Effect on Assistance Delivery 

 Stanford Internet Observatory

• Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2025, v. 2, no. 5  
• Right to Be Delisted? Attitudes Toward Delisting Public Interest Information
• Measurement and Metrics for Content Moderation: The Multi-Dimensional Dynamics of Engagement and Content Removal on Facebook
• Regulating Image-Based Abuse: An Examination of Australia’s Reporting and Removal Scheme
• Science and Causality in Technology Litigation

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2024 

 Strategic Studies Institute—U.S. Army War College

• Waging War Without Disruption:  China’s People’s Armed Police in a Future Conflict 

 Taylor & Francis

• Civil Wars, 2025
• Post-Conflict Regimes and the Survival of Pro-Government Militias [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025
• Gendered Transnational Impunity and Infrastructural Violence on the Migrant Journey through Mexico [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2025
• Intelligence and the ‘Heart’ of the Terrorist: Managing the System of Systems to Discover and Respond to Tactics of Fear [open access article] 
• Intelligence as an Instrument of Coercion: The Case of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) in Botswana [open access article] 
• Leveraging Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) in the African Intelligence Context [open access article] 
• Navigating the Interplay of Cognitive Warfare and Counterintelligence in African Security Strategies: Insights and Case Studies [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2025
• Combating the Terrorist Stigma: Communicating Rehabilitation and Reducing Barriers to Reintegration [open access article] 
• Conspiracies Gone Wild: A Psychiatric Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Belief, Mental Illness, and the Potential for Lone Actor Ideological Violence [open access article] 
• Deconstructing Fears of Terrorism: A Comparison between Fear from Domestic and International Terrorist Groups [open access article] 
• Transparent Communication in Counter-Terrorism Policy: Does Transparency Increase Public Support and Trust in Terrorism Prevention Programmes? [open access article] 

 UK Commission for Countering Extremism

• Commission for Countering Extremism End of Year Report 2024 to 2025 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Armed Group Responses to Climatic Shocks: A Study of FARC-EP Dissident Activities in the Colombian Amazon During an El Niño Year 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Buffeting Winds: Moving the Australia-ROK Bilateral Partnership Forward in a Period of Uncertainty 

 White House

• Executive Orders
• Addressing Certain Tariffs on Imported Articles 
• Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media 
• Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers 
• Protecting American Communities from Criminal Aliens 
• Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens 

 World Bank

• Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review, April 2025: Organized Crime and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean