Friday's Miscellany 10-09-2020 & 10/16/2020

 38 North

• India-ROK: The Search for a Post-Pandemic Comprehensive Partnership
  
• North Korea Unveils Two New Strategic Missiles in October 10 Parade
  
• North Korea’s Short-Range Ballistic Missiles: They Can’t “Evade Detection” and Are Still Vulnerable to Interception
  
• Pyongyang Gears Up for Major Workers’ Party Anniversary Events  
  

 Action on Armed Violence

• Improvised Explosive Devices: Past, Present and Future
  

 Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

• Solidarity, Strength and Substance: Women’s Political Participation in Afghanistan
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• A Light in Libya’s Fog of Disinformation
  

 Air University Press

• The Hydra: The Strategic Paradox of Human Security in Mexico
  

 American Enterprise Institute

• Some US-China Economic and Trade Facts
  

 Amnesty International

• Saudi Arabia: "This Is Worse Than Covid-19": Ethiopians Abandoned and Abused in Saudi Prisons 
  
• Tanzania: Lawfare: Repression By Law Ahead of Tanzania's General Elections

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), September 2020, v. 27, no. 9
• Update: Routine screening for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus, civilian applicants for U.S. military service and U.S. Armed Forces, active and reserve components, January 2015–June 2020
• Incidence of inguinal hernia and repair procedures and rate of subsequent pain diagnoses, active component service members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2010–2019
• Surveillance of spotted fever rickettsioses at Army installations in the U.S. Central and Atlantic regions, 2012–2018

 Asia Foundation

• Civil Society in Southeast Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic  

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• The Chemical and Biological Attack Threat of Commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems

 Atlantic Council

• Chinese Discourse Power
  
• Effective Resilience and National Strategy: Lessons from the Pandemic and Requirements for Key Critical Infrastructures
  
• Lubyanka Federation: How the FSB Determines the Politics and Economics of Russia
  
• The Maduro-Hezbollah Nexus: How Iran-Backed Networks Prop up the Venezuelan Regime
  
• The Politics of Internet Security: Private Industry and the Future of the Web
  
• Revitalizing the WTO
  
• Value beyond Price: Prioritizing Political Stability and Regional Integration When Financing Mediterranean Gas
  

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Covid-19 Disinformation & Social Media Manipulation
  
• Critical Technologies and the Indo-Pacific: A New India-Australia Partnership
  
• Economic Coercion: Boycotts and Sanctions-Preferred Weapons of War
  
• The Flipside of China’s Central Bank Digital Currency
  
• Indo-Pacific Island States: Vulnerabilities in the Age of Covid
  
• Snapshot of a Shadow War
  

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• The Coup d‘état in Mali
  
• The Franco-German Reaction to the COVID19 Pandemic
• US Leadership and Central European Countries
  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Economic Policy Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
  
• Framing Energy and Minerals for Future Pathways
  
• Geoeconomics vs. Russian Gas Coercion
  
• Promoting Energy Market Stability in a Transitioning World
• Refreshing Global Energy Security Policy and Infrastructure for the Energy Transition 
  
• Tax Policies for a Mobile Workforce
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• The Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict and Its Implications for Iran
  
• Belarus Needs Peaceful US Engagement
  
• A “Devil’s Advocate” Approach to the US Presidential Election
• Erdoğan and His Arab “Brothers” 
  
• Golda Meir: The Civilian Who Exposed Israel’s Lack of Preparedness for the 1973 War 
  
• The India-China Rivalry Undermines the Emergence of a Multipolar World 
  
• India Has Few Options to Thwart Chinese Aggression 
  
• Is It Possible to Curb the Extreme Bias of the BBC?
  
• Language As an Anti-Israel Tool 
  
• Turkey’s Relationship with ISIS Proves It Is Deserting Its European Allies 
  
• Will They Or Won’t They? Saudi Recognition of Israel Is the $64,000 Question 
  

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• Epidemiological Modeling Needs New, Coherent, Federal Support for the Post-COVID-19 Era 
  
• Lessons Learned: Why the United States Needs a Counter-Pandemic Border Strategy 
  
• Tech Spotlight Casebook 2020 
  
• Winning Strategic Competition in the Indo-Pacific 
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Fixing the Plumbing: Resetting the Framework of Local Government Funding
  
• Long Covid: Reviewing the Science and Assessing the Risk
  
• Smarter Policing: Principles for a New Approach
  
• Taking Control: How the Centre of Government Can Unlock Economic Recovery
  

 Booz Allen Hamilton

• Establishing A Secure and Resilient 5G Ecosystem
  

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

• Five Ways to Make the European Peace Facility a Role Model for Arms Export Control
  
• Making It Work. AVVR Programmes and Ghanaian Returnees 
  

 Brookings 

• 2021: The Crucial Year for Social Order-Global Order Transformational Changes
  
• The Challenge of Decarbonizing Heavy Transport  
  
• China’s Influence on the Global Middle Class
  
• Competing for Order: Confronting the Long Crisis of Multilateralism
  
• Corporate Bond Market Dysfunction during COVID-19 and Lessons from the Fed’s Response
  
• A Dispute Resolution Program for Social Media Companies
  
• Federal Debt Policy In An Era of Low Interest Rates: A Guide to the Issues
  
• Global China: Global Governance and Norms
  
• International Law with Chinese Characteristics: Beijing and the “Rules-Based” Global Order
  
• October 2020 Update to TIGER: COVID-19 Remains an Impediment to the Global Recovery
  
• The US Role in Advancing Gender Equality Globally through Girls’ Education
  
• What Could Additional Fiscal Policy do for the Economy in the Next Three Years?
  
• What COVID-19 May—or May Not—Change about Swing State Politics
  

 Bruegel

• New Life for an Old Framework: Redesigning the European Union’s Expenditure and Golden Fiscal Rules
  
• What Role for the European Semester in the Recovery Plan?
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• How Will Indian Americans Vote? Results from the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey               
• International Law With Chinese Characteristics: Beijing and the “Rules-Based” Global Order
  
• Practical Ways to Promote U.S.-China Arms Control Cooperation
  
• War, Terrorism, and Catastrophe in Cyber Insurance: Understanding and Reforming Exclusions  

 CATO Institute

• Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19
  
• Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2020
  
• Illegal Immigration and Crime in Texas
  
• Paying Them to Hate Us: The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti‐American Terrorism, 1968–2014
  

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Working Case Study: Congress and the Iraq Surge
  
• Working Case Study: Congress’s Oversight of the Tongo Tongo, Niger, Ambush 
• Working Case Study: Congressional Influence on the Decision to Intervene in Somalia
  

 Center for Global Development

• An Analysis of Clinical Knowledge, Absenteeism, and Availability of Resources for Maternal and Child Health: A Cross-Sectional Quality of Care Study in 10 African Countries
  
• COVID-19 in Pakistan: A Phone Survey to Assess Education, Economic, and Health-Related Outcomes
  
• Developing Country Trade Access after Brexit: The UK’s Plans for the Generalized System of Preferences
  
• Digital Cash Transfers for Stranded Migrants: Lessons from Bihar’s COVID-19 Assistance Program
  
• A Fiscal Policy Dashboard for Low-Income Economies
  
• From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19
  
• Inclusive Coordination: Building an Area-Based Humanitarian Coordination Model 
  
• Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements
  
• New DAC Rules on Debt Relief – A Poor Measure of Donor Effort
  

 Center for Global Security Research (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

• Fit for Purpose? The U.S. Strategic Posture in 2030 and Beyond
  
• Technical Issues in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Ratification Debate: A 20 Year Retrospective  
• Toward New Thinking About Our Changed and Changing World: A Five-Year CGSR Progress Report
  

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• Emerging Technologies and Trade Controls: A Sectoral Composition Approach
  

 Center for International Policy

• African Elections Factsheet Series: Guinea Presidential Elections
  
• U.S. Government and Defense Contractor Funding of America’s Top 50 Think Tanks
  

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

• MITRE ATT&CK Improves Security, But Many Struggle to Imple

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Artificial Intelligence in Russia Issue 12, October 9, 2020
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Estimating the Number of Chinese STEM Students in the United States
• Patent Landscape for Computer Vision: United States and China
  
• Russian AI Research 2010-2018
  
• U.S. Military Investments in Autonomy and AI: Costs, Benefits, and Strategic Effects
  
• U.S. Military Investments in Autonomy and AI: A Strategic Assessment
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 271: China and Russia Maneuver in the Middle East
  
• No. 272: China, Multilateral Banking and Geopolitics  
• Caucasus Analytical Digest No. 117: Agriculture and Trade with Russia
  
• Europe's Fiery Future: Rethinking Wildfire Policy
  

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (Aerospace)

• Establishing Space Cybersecurity Policy, Standards, and Risk Management Practices
  
• The Fragmentation of DOD: Changing the Role of Services and What it Means for Space Force
  
• The Physics of Space War: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Space-To-Space Engagements  
• A Roadmap for Assessing Space Weapons 
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 

• The Analytic Edge: Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Transform Intelligence Analysis 
  
• The Chinese Communist Party Targets the Private Sector
  
• Climate Solutions Series: Decarbonizing Heavy Industry
  
• Covid-19 Response Update: October 2-October 9
  
• Covid-19 Response Update: October 9-October 16
  
• Defense Acquisition Trends 2020: Topline DoD Trends
  
• Mapping the Future of U.S. China Policy: Views of U.S. Thought Leaders, the U.S. Public, and U.S. Allies and Partners
  
• Post-pandemic Natural Resource Management in the Indo-Pacific
  
• Promote and Build: A Strategic Approach to Digital Authoritarianism
  
• Sharpening America's Innovative Edge
  
• Significant Cyber Incidents [updated Oct 2020]  
• The Need to Expand the Focus of the Congressional Budget Office 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook
  
• Three Recommendations for Improving Air Force Pilot Retention
  
• Toward a New “Lost Decade”? Covid-19 and Defense Spending in Europe
  
• What Can the United States Do to Prevent Another Pandemic? Commit to Modernizing Influenza Vaccines
  

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• China Must Take Action Now on Net Zero Pledge
  
• Everything You Think About the Geopolitics of Climate Change Is Wrong
  

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Yes, the U.S.’ National Security Enterprise Will ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’
  
• Guest Post: Brian Cox on “Military Justice Reform, Accountability, and the Legitimacy Imperative: The Kunduz Example”
  
• Should Congress be Able to Force Your Spouse, Your Doctor, Your Pastor, or Your Lawyer to Testify in Investigations to Enhance Its “Public Shaming Leverage”? 
  
• What Kind of “Clients” Do Military Lawyers Serve?  Read On!  

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

• The Impact of Polarization on Turkey's Information Environment
  

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• An International Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Strategy for Canada 
  

 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Studies in Intelligence, 2020, v. 64, no. 2
  
• US Intelligence, Theodor Heuss, and the Making of West Germany’s First President
• A Native American Hero in the OSS and CIA
• Fifty Years after “Black September” in Jordan

 Chatham House

• US Foreign Policy Priorities
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Conducting City Diplomacy: A Survey of International Engagement in 47 Cities
  
• Do Republicans and Democrats Want a Cold War with China?
  
• US Experts Anticipate Future Decline for Russia Among the Great Powers
  
• US Experts Consider China a Shifting and India a Stable Friend to Russia
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• 2020 State of the Game
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Economic & Governance Effects of Migration Policies in Agadez
  

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Desert Drift, Declining Deadliness: Understanding the Evolution of AQIM’s Suicide Bombings
  

 Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee

• IRS in the Pandemic
  

 Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence  

• Rightly Scaled, Carefully Open, Infinitely Agile: Reconfiguring to Win the Innovation Race in the Intelligence Community  

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

• DHS Run Amok? A Reckless Overseas Operation, Violations, and Lies [Democratic staff report]
  

 Congressional Budget Office CBO)

• An Overview of The 2020 Long-Term Budget Outlook
  
• Confidentiality and Data Access: A User’s Perspective
  
• The Cost of the Navy’s New Frigate Program
  
• The Distribution of Household Income, 2017
  
• Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under 65: 2020 to 2030
  
• How Changes in Revenues and Outlays Would Affect Debt Service, Deficits, and Debt 
  
• Key Methods That CBO Used to Estimate the Effects of Pandemic-Related Legislation on Output
  
• A Review of CBO’s Estimate of Spending From the Department of Defense’s Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund
  

 Count Every Hero

·         Military Voting inall 50 States 

Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• China’s Global Influence:  Perspectives and Recommendations
  
• Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight:  Thinking about Security in the Indo-Pacific
  
• Security Nexus, v. 21  
• Empowering Women as Leaders: Role of Governments and International Cooperation
  
• Perceptions of U.S. Posture in Papua New Guinea
  
• Religion in a Values-Based Approach to Strategic Competition
  
• Strategic Competition, National Security and the Need for ‘Competitive Intelligence’
  
• Why We Believe: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Neuroscience
  
• Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh: Preventing Violent Extremism and Building Peace
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Managing US-China Rivalry in the Arctic: Small States Can be Players in Great Power Competition
  

 Defense Science Board (DSB)

• 21st Century Multi-Domain Effects: Executive Summary
  
• Counter Autonomy: Executive Summary
  
• Strengthening Counterintelligence Capabilities Against the 'Insider' Threat
  

 Deloitte

·         States at Risk:The Cybersecurity Imperative in Uncertain Times

Department of Defense (DOD) 

• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, Oct. 7, 2020
  
• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, Oct. 14, 2020
  
• Delegation of Waiver Approval Authority for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Personnel Movement and Travel Restrictions
  
• DOD Data Strategy
  
• Secretary of Defense Remarks at CSBA on the NDS and Future Defense Modernization Priorities
  

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-003 Audit of the Department of Defense Process for Developing Foreign Military Sales Agreements
  

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment
  

 Department of Labor (DOL)

• 2020 List of Goods Produced By Child Labor for Forced Labor
  

 Department of State

• Identification of Foreign Persons Involved in the Erosion of the Obligations of China Under the Joint Declaration or the Basic Law [report]
  

 Economic Research Forum

• Agree to Disagree? Making Sense of Vagueness in International Environmental Agreements
  
• A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of Covid-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model
  
• Determinants of Growth Performance of High Growth Firms: An Analysis of The Turkish Manufacturing Sector
  
• Explaining Firm-Level Gender Productivity Differential in Africa
  
• Foreign Direct Investment and Corruption in Egypt: A Cointegration Analysis
  
• A GMM Approach for An Explanation of the Fertility Change Upward in Tunisia
  
• Redistributing Water Rights between the West Bank and Israel – More Than A Zero-Sum G
• Trade and Exchange Rate Effects: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
  

 Egmont Institute

• What Can the EU Expect from the New Belgian Government?
  

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• The Case for Gender Balance in Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Negotiations
  
• Mapping Non-proliferation and Disarmament Education in Europe
  
• Monitoring the Response to Converted Firearms in Europe
  

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Guidance for Discharge and Ending of Isolation of People with COVID-19
  
• Operational Considerations for Influenza Surveillance in the WHO European Region during COVID-19: Interim Guidance
  

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

• The Navalny Poisoning Case through the Hybrid Warfare Lens
  

 European Commission

• A Persistent Identifier (PID) Policy for the European Open Science Cloud
  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Talking to the Houthis: How Europeans can Promote Peace in Yemen
  

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• The Covid-19 Crisis, Italy and Ms Merkel’s Turnaround: Will the EU Ever be the Same Again?
  
• EU27 and the UK: Product Dependencies and the Implications of Brexit
  
• World Economy: What Does the Road to Recovery from COVID-19 Look Like?

 European Parliament

• How to Provide Political Guidance to the Recovery and Resilience Facility?  
  
• Understanding US Presidential Elections 
  
• What Role for the European Semester in the Recovery Plan? 
  

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Europe as a Global Standard-Setter: The Strategic Importance of European Standardization
  

 European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

• The Security Situation in Hong Kong and Global Implications of China's Assertive Regional Posture
  

 European Union

• Civic Engagement
  
• Text Mining for Horizon Scanning: An Insight into Agricultural Research and Innovation in Africa
  

 EUROPOL

• 2020 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA)
  
• EU IRU Transparency Report 2019
  

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, October 2020

o    Suicidal Behavior in Preteens

o    Mission Command in Policing

o    Perspective: Winning the War Within—An Effective Approach

o    Leadership Spotlight: Prompting Reflection

 Federal Task Force on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

• National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, 2020-2025
  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs

• EU Peace Mediation in the 2020s: From Intervention to Investment
  
• Iran’s Foreign Policy: Buying Time until the US Presidential Elections
  
• Trump 2.0 or a First Biden Administration? How Different Worldviews Will Shape US Foreign Policy
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements—and Why We Should Care
  
• Dueling Visions: America’s Role in the World and the 2020 Election
  
• The Russian Ground-Based Contingent in Syria
  
• Uncertain Prospects: South China Sea Code of Conduct Negotiations
  

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Made in Germany, Co-opted by China
  

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

• Europe, Germany and Defense: Priorities and Challenges of the German EU Presidency and the Way Ahead for European Defense
  

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

• German Economic Policy during the Corona-Crisis: How Germany Intends to Support Its Economy
  
• The Renovation Wave: A Make or Break for the European Green Deal
  
• Technology Strategies in China and the United States, and the Challenges for European Companies
  

 Future Directions International

• The Chinese Distant Water Fishing Fleet and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
  
• State of Play: India’s Gulf Relations Amid Shifting Regional Ties
  

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

• The Best and Worst States to Be a Woman: Introducing the U.S. Women, Peace and Security Index 
  

 German Development Institute

• Forums, Fees and Data Flows: Coordinating Mining and Water Policy in Mongolia
• Reviving the Dying Giant: Addressing the Political Causes of Water Shortage in the Zayandeh Rud River, Iran
  
• Strengthening Coordination in River Basin Governance in Southern Spain – Cooperation, Incentives and Persuasion
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Customs Union: Old Instrument, New Function in EU-Turkey Relations
• The New EU Migration and Asylum Package: Breakthrough or Admission of Defeat?
  
• Upholding the World Health Organization 
  
• Uzbekistan’s Transformation
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States 

• The Changing Landscape of Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership
  
• Civil Society in Central Europe: Threats and Ways Forward
  
• Climate Change: The Shared Existential Challenge
  
• Coping with COVID-19 and Future Pandemics  
  
• Economic Revival and Transformation: Jobs, Growth, Trade 
  
• From Apathy to Action: Attitudes to Civic Engagement in the Eastern Partnership 
  
• Together or Alone? Choices and Strategies for Transatlantic Relations for 2021 and Beyond 
  
• The U.S. Election: Consequences for European Security 
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aviation Consumer Protection: Increased Transparency Could Help Build Confidence in DOT's Enforcement Approach GAO-21-109
  
• Aviation Cybersecurity: FAA Should Fully Implement Key Practices to Strengthen Its Oversight of Avionics Risks GAO-21-86
• Data Security: Recent K-12 Data Breaches Show That Students Are Vulnerable to Harm GAO-20-644
  
• Disaster Recovery: COVID-19 Pandemic Intensifies Disaster Recovery Challenges for K-12 Schools GAO-21-62R
  
• DOD Financial Management: Continued Efforts Needed to Correct Material Weaknesses Identified in Financial Statement Audits GAO-21-157
  
• The Nation's Fiscal Health: A Long-Term Plan Is Needed for Fiscal Sustainability GAO-21-161T [testimony]
  
• National Security: Additional Actions Needed to Ensure Effectiveness of 5G Strategy GAO-21-155R
  
• Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Plans to Modernize Critical Depleted Uranium Capabilities and Improve Program Management GAO-21-16 
  
• Open Data: Agencies Need Guidance to Establish Comprehensive Data Inventories; Information on Their Progress is Limited GAO-21-29
  
• Unaccompanied Children: Actions Needed to Improve Grant Application Reviews and Oversight of Care Facilities GAO-20-609
  
• Workplace Sexual Harassment: Experts Suggest Expanding Data Collection to Improve Understanding of Prevalence and Costs GAO-20-564
  

 Henry Jackson Society

• The Indo-Pacific: British and Vietnamese Perspectives
  

 Heritage Foundation

• Azerbaijan and Armenia: A Regional Conflict with Global Implications
  
• Cumbersome Defense Reprogramming Process Hampers National Defense and Should Be Streamlined 
  
• Decisive Theaters: Navy Must Pick the Right Fights in Great-Power Competition
  
• The Axis of Disruption
  
• United States Should Derail Prospects for an Iran–China Alliance
• The U.S. Must Respond to North Korea’s Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Program

 Hoover Institution

• Due Diligence And The US Defend Forward Cyber Strategy
  
• Evolution of Modern Business Cycle Models: Accounting for the Great Recession
  
• The Iranian Deep State: Understanding The Politics Of Transition In The Islamic Republic
  

 Human Rights Watch

• “No #MeToo for Women Like Us”  Poor Enforcement of India’s Sexual Harassment Law
  
• Shackling of People with Psychosocial Disabilities Worldwide
  
• "Targeting Life in Idlib"  Syrian and Russian Strikes on Civilian Infrastructure
  
• Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and Obstacles to Asylum in the United States
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Impact of China’s Production Surge on Innovation in the Global Solar Photovoltaics Industry
  
• Monopoly Myths: Is Concentration Eroding Labor’s Share of National Income?

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

·         China’s Claims in the South China Sea

·         Maritime Issue Trackers

o    Arctic Tracker

o    East China Sea Tracker

o    South China Sea Tracker

·         U.S.-China Relations in the Age of COVID-19: Politics,Polemics and Pandemic Response Measures

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• FATF: In Need of Darker Shades of Grey
  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Powering Agriculture: Summative Evaluation
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Autumn Chills: Israel-China Relations and the Normalization Agreements with the Gulf States
  
• A Discussion at INSS on Hamas-Fatah Reconciliation Efforts 
  
• Is a Strategic Change in Lebanon-Israel Relations Possible at the Present Time? 
  
• Might Qatar Join the Abraham Accords? 
  
• New Opportunities for Israel in the Cognitive Campaign in Lebanon  
  

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Looking for Evidence of the Construction of Iran’s New Centrifuge Assembly Plant: New Possible Preparations Identified
  

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• China’s Criminal Justice Reforms: Impacts on the Prevention of Miscarriages of Justice
  
• Fijian Leadership in the Pacific: Charting a New Course?
  

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Maritime Cyber Security: Getting Africa Ready 
  
• Why Africa’s Development Models Must Change: Understanding Five Dynamic Trends
  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

• Public Figures, Public Rage: Candidate Abuse on Social Media  
• QAnon and Conspiracy Beliefs
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Belarus Warning Update:
• The Kremlin Will Likely Use October Military Exercises to Advance its Hybrid War in Belarus
  
• Lukashenko Begins Campaign For “Information Sovereignty” to De-escalate Protests in Belarus
  
• Lukashenko Escalates Crackdown in Likely Response to Increased Risk of Kremlin Intervention
  
• Police Detain Demonstrators as Protests Escalate
  
• Protests in Kyrgyzstan May Fuel Intensified Kremlin Action in Belarus
  
• Putin Seeks Belarus’ Integration with Russia via Belarusian Constitutional Amendments
  
• Russia Likely Began Preparing Logistics Supply Lines to Belarus 
  
• Erdogan Seeks to Upend Kremlin-Backed Status Quo in Nagorno-Kara
• ISIS Poised to Exploit Mass Releases of Displaced Persons from Syrian Camp
  
• Russia May Deploy Conventional Forces to Syria 
  
• SDF Begins Mass Release of ISIS Members and Sympathizers in Syria 
  
• Syria Situation Report: September 30 - October 13, 2020 
  
• Turkey Reinforces Positions in Greater Idlib to Pressure Russia into Negotiations 
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• HOPE for a New Regional Security Architecture: Toward a Hormuz Community
  
• The Lebanese Crisis and the Mirage of Natural Gas
• A Sectarianised Pandemic: COVID-19 in Lebanon 
  
• Struggling Iraq Faces Another Crisis in COVID-19 
  
• War and COVID-19 in Yemen 
  

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Resilient Supply Chain Initiative: Attracting Japanese Investment to Bangladesh
  

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

• Mitigating Advanced Persistent Insider Threats
  

 International Crisis Group

• Leaders under Fire: Defending Colombia’s Front Line of Peace
  

 International Energy Agency (IEA)

• OECD Energy Prices and Taxes Quarterly 3rd Quarter, 2020
  

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Bouncing Back from Rock Bottom: A New Era for the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations?
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor, October 13, 2020, v. 18, no. 18 
  
• Turkey Makes New Advances in Land and Naval Warfare with Introduction of Aksungur ASW Drone
• The Battle for Baga Halts Return to Normalcy in Nigeria’s Borno Province
• HTS Leader al-Julani’s New Strategy in Northwestern Syria

 Lexington Institute

• Why U.S. National Security Requires A Robust, Innovative Technology Sector

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Asia Power Index 2020
  
• Australia's Security and the Rules–Based Order
  
• Pacific Aid Map
  

 Middle East Institute

• Jannah or Jahannam: Options for Dealing with ISIS Detainees
  
• Rethinking Egypt's Economy
  

 Migration Policy Institute

• Criminalization of Search-and-Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean Has Been Accompanied by Rising Migrant Death Rate
  
• Immigrant-Origin Students in U.S. Higher Education: A Data Profile
  
• Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families through Home Visiting: Innovative State and Local Approaches
  
• Will International Migration Governance Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic?
  

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• Understanding the Promise of Skyborg and Low-Cost Attritable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  

 MITRE

• Achieving Transformational Customer Experience
  
• Actionable Ethics for Fairness in AI
  
• A Look at Commercial Geospatial Intelligence
  
• MITRE Air Traffic Update: Who Cares About Non-Stop?
  
• Russian Military Art and Advanced Weaponry
• Strengthening Our Resilience to Environmental Change Is a National Security Imperative
  

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

• American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2019

 National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• The Nevernight Connection [video]
  
• Intelligence Threats & Social Media Deception
  
• The China Threat: Foreign Intelligence Services Use Social Media Sites to Target People with Security Clearances
  

 National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

• Canadian Military Journal, Summer  2020, v. 20, no. 4
  
• Listening to the Chief of the Defence Staff: The ‘Blurred’ Boundaries of Military and Defence Advice
• Barriers to Women in the Canadian Armed Forces
• The Big Four and Cyber Espionage: How China, Russia, Iran and North Korea Spy Online
• Swarming, Expendable, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a Warfighting Capability
• “Our Main Duty in Berlin Having Been Fulfilled”: The Canadian Berlin Battalion on Parade in the Fallen Capital, 21 July 1945
• Sustaining Strong, Secure and Engaged Funding: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Defence Funding
• Sacrificing Culture in the Name of Strategy: Why Militia Armouries Matter
• Australia’s 2020 Defence Update: Lessons for Canada, and Snowbird Futures

 National Security Archive

• The Bridge: Connecting Past and Present through Archival Research on Russia
  
• Che Guevara and the CIA in the Mountains of Bolivia
  
• Reconnaissance Flights and U.S.-China Relations
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Recent Cyber Events and Possible Implications for Armed Forces #6
  

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Clarifying Digital Terms
  

 Naval War College Press

• International Law Studies, 2020, v. 96 issue 1
  
• Autonomous Cyber Capabilities Below and Above the Use of Force Threshold: Balancing Proportionality and the Need for Speed
  

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Indonesia: How to Boost Investment in Renewable Energy
  
• Lao PDR: How to Attract More Investment in Small-Scale Renewable Energy

 Observer Research Foundation

• Breaking Glass Ceiling? Mapping EU-India Security Cooperation
• Ensuring Cyber Security in India’s Nuclear Systems
  
• Hong Kong’s National Security Law: Implications for India
  

 One Earth Future - Stable Seas Program

• Near-Term Mitigation of Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
  

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

• Unfavorable Views of China Reach Historic Highs in Many Countries
  

 Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

• Before Trump Tested Positive for Coronavirus, Republicans’ Attention to Pandemic Had Sharply Declined
  

 Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

• Amid National Reckoning, Americans Divided on Whether Increased Focus on Race Will Lead to Major Policy Change
  

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

• Amid Campaign Turmoil, Biden Holds Wide Leads on Coronavirus, Unifying the Country
• Deep Divisions in Views of the Election Process – and Whether It Will Be Clear Who Won
  
• Differences in How Democrats and Republicans Behave on Twitter
  

 RAND Corporation 

• Counter-Radicalization Bot Research: Using Social Bots to Fight Violent Extremism
  
• An Evaluation of Task Force True North Initiatives for the Promotion of Resilience and Well-Being Within the Air Force
  
• Foreign Interference in the 2020 Election
  
• Insuring Public Buildings, Contents, Vehicles, and Equipment Against Disasters: Current Practices of State and Local Government and Options for Closing the Insurance Gap
  
• Russia, NATO, and Black Sea Security
  
• Russian Propaganda Hits Its Mark: Experimentally Testing the Impact of Russian Propaganda and Counter-Interventions
  
• Supports for Social and Emotional Learning in American Schools and Classrooms: Findings from the American Teacher Panel
  
• Understanding Russian Black Sea Power Dynamics Through National Security Gaming
  

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Improving Governance and Tackling Crime in Free-Trade Zones
  
• Problems of Geography: Military and Economic Transport Logistics in Russia’s Far East
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Between Byte and Bark: Singapore, US & Chinese Tech
• Incels and Terrorism: Sexual Deprivation As Security Threats
• Jokowi’s Omnibus Law: Cure for Indonesia’s Headache? 
  
• Need for Reset: Modi’s Cross-Border Connectivity Policy
  

 Small Wars Journal

• Extremism in the time of COVID-19: Excerpt from a Bussola Institute Study
• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #46: Weaponized Drones (Aerial Improvised Explosive Devices) Deployed by CJNG in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán
  

 Stanford Internet Observatory, Cyber Policy Center

• Analysis of an October 2020 Facebook Takedown Linked to U.S. Political Consultancy Rally Forge
  

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 

• A Breakdown in Cooperation Puts Us All at Risk
  
• Monitoring the Response to Converted Firearms in Europe
• A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme  
  
• Transparency in Arms Procurement: Limitations and Opportunities for Assessing Global Armament Developments
  
• Understanding Egyptian Military Expenditure

 Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

• The People in the PLA 2.0
  
• Security Threats, American Pressure, and the Role of Key Personnel: How NATO’s Defence Planning Process is Alleviating the Burden-Sharing Dilemma
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, 2020, v. 15, no. 3
• Source Handler Perceptions of the Interviewing Processes Employed with Informants [open access article]
  

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

• The Protection We Want: Social Outlook for Asia and the Pacific
  

 US Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) & Air Mobility Command (AMC)

• TRANSCOM/AMC Commercial Aircraft Cabin Aerosol Dispersion Tests
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy 

• An October Surprise with Iran? Calculations and Policy Implications
  
• Arabs Taking Risks for Peace: Stories from the Frontlines of People-to-People Contact with Israelis
  
• Diplomatic Openings Amid Israel’s Syria Strikes
• Hezbollah’s Secrets Explode—and Are Covered Up—Again
  
• Protests and Regime Suppression in Post-Revolutionary Iran
  
• Risks of the Palestinian Authority’s Outreach to Qatar and Turkey
  
• Tehran Eyes Lifting of Arms Embargo
• Washington Confuses Tactics with Strategy: The Perils of Shuttering the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
  
• The Yemen Matrix: Untangling the Relationships That Drive the War

 Watson Institute - Cost of War

• The Human Cost of U.S. Interventions in Iraq: A History From the 1960s Through the Post-9/11 Wars
  

 White House

• 2020 National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies