Friday's Miscellany 10-30-2020

38 North

• North Korea’s Yongbyon Complex: Activity Picks Up
  
• Pyongyang Post-Party Anniversary: Shifts in Construction Priorities 
  

 Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

• Behind the Statistics: Drop in Civilian Casualties Masks Increased Taleban Violence
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Six Issues Shaping Côte d’Ivoire’s Presidential Election 
  

 Airwars

• Eroding Transparency: Trump in Yemen
  
• Seeing Through the Rubble: The Civilian Impact of the Use of Explosive Weapons in the Fight against ISIS 
  

 Alliance for Securing Democracy

• A Future Internet for Democracies: Contesting China’s Push for Dominance in 5G, 6G, and the Internet of Everything
  

 American Enterprise Institute

• Fragility and Failure: A Better Foreign Policy To Counter New Threats
  
• Sizing up Little Sparta: Understanding UAE Military Effectiveness 
  

 Arab Gulf States Institute

• Iran’s Post-Sanctions Weapon Purchases: Ambition Collides With Reality
  

 Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

• Standing by; Right-Wing Militia Groups & the US Election
  

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), October 2020, v. 27, no. 10
  
• Characterizing the Contribution of Chronic Pain Diagnoses to the Neurologic Burden of Disease, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2009–2018
• Surveillance Snapshot: Influenza Immunization among U.S. Armed Forces Healthcare Workers, August 2015–April 2020
• Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2004–2018

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Between War and Peace: A Roadmap for U.S. Policy Toward Iran
  

 Atlantic Council

• 2020 Election Scenarios: Implications for American Foreign Policy
  
• Digitalization In Central And Eastern Europe: Building Regional Cooperation
  
• Enhancing US-Japan Cooperation On Clean Energy Technologies
  

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Covid-19 Disinformation & Social Media Manipulation
  
• Cyber-Enabled Foreign Interference In Elections and Referendums
  
• Indo-Pacific Island States: Vulnerabilities in the Age of Covid
  

 Baker Institute

• Analysis: U.S. Income Inequality has Declined 
  
• Enhanced Water Security and Energy Access: Key Investments for Sub-Saharan Africa 
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• The 75th Anniversary of North Korea’s Kim Dynasty: A Striking and Strange Spectacle 
  
• The Abraham Accords as an Impetus to Rehabilitate Western Civilization 
  
• As Turkey’s Lira Tumbles, Erdoğan Pursues Neo-Ottoman Visions 
  
• The Era of Changing Supply Chains 
  
• France’s Showdown with the Islamic World 
  
• France’s Skirmishes with Violent Islam 
  
• From Junior Associate to Senior Partner? The Israeli Navy’s Strategic Challenges in the 21st Century 
  
• George Soros’s Negative Interactions with the Jewish World 
  
• The Quadruple Threat: North Korea, China, Pakistan, and Iran 
  
• Sudan and Israel: An Era of Change 
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Light at the End of the Tunnel
  

 Brookings

• Beyond Huawei and TikTok: Untangling US Concerns over Chinese Tech Companies and Digital Security
  
• COVID-19 and Migrant Remittances: Supporting This Essential Lifeline under Threat  
  
• The COVID-19 Hazard Continues, but the Hazard Pay Does Nt: Why America’s Essential Workers Need a Raise
  
• Flipping the Script, Swing States’ Rural, Suburban, and White Voters Could Power Key Biden Victories
  
• Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure
  
• It’s Not Just Trump and Biden: State and Local Ballot Measures Could Have a Big Impact on Community Recovery
  
• A List of Specific, Actionable Foreign Policy Ideas for the Next President
  
• NATO’s Response to COVID-19: Lessons for Resilience and Readiness
  
• Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — October 2020
  
• Twitter and the Federal Reserve: How the U.S. Central Bank is (and is not) Surviving Social Media
  

 Bruegel

• European Union Recovery Funds: Strings Attached, but not Tied Up in Knots
  

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Digital Entanglement: Lessons Learned from China’s Growing Digital Footprint in South Korea
  

Center for Global Development

• The Effect of COVID-19 on the Economic Inclusion of Venezuelans in Colombia
  
• From Displacement to Development: How Colombia Can Transform Venezuelan Displacement into Shared Growth
  
• Official Development Assistance, Global Public Goods, and Implications for Climate Finance
  

 Center for International Policy

• African Elections Factsheet Series: Ivory Coast Presidential Elections
  
• African Elections Factsheet Series: Seychelles, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, CAR, Niger
  
• African Elections Factsheet Series: Tanzania Presidential Elections
  

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) 

• Adrift: COVID-19 and the Safety of Seafarers
  
• Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Themes, Issues, and Narratives
  
• Artificial Intelligence in Russia Issue 13, October 23, 2020
  
• The Use of Predictive Analytics in Policing
  

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) 

• Establishing Space Cybersecurity Policy Standards and Risk Management Practices
  
• The Fragmentation of DOD: Changing Role of the Services and What it Means for Space Force
  
• The Physics of War in Space: How Orbital Dynamics Constrain Space-To-Space Engagements
  
• Space Agenda 2021
  

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Selective Disclosure: A Strategic Approach to Long-Term Competition
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Buttressing Institutional Integrity in an Election Year
  
• Covid-19 Response Update: October 23-October 30
  
• Energy Transition Strategies: Ethiopia's Low-Carbon Development Pathway
  
• Is China Succeeding at Eradicating Poverty?
  
• The Military Dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa 
  
• On the Rise: Europe’s Competition Policy Challenges to Technology Companies
  
• Practical Guide to Successful U.S.-India Higher Education Partnerships
  
• Represent Series
  
• What Americans Can Do to Address Bias and Structural Racism in the U.S. Foreign Affairs and National Security Workforce
• How I Got Here
• What Russian Meddling Teaches Us About America
• Transphobia and National Security
• Our Achilles’ Heel
• The Leaky Pipeline
• Ableism in National Security Spaces
• “The Talk”
• Sovereignty and the Evolution of Internet Ideology
  
• Sustainable Infrastructure in the Amazon
  
• U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021: Army
  
• U.S.-Russia Relations at a Crossroads
  

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Potential Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis on Long-Term Electricity Demand in the United States
  
• The Qatari Sanctions Episode
  

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Why the “Orders Project” is Troubling
  

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The Commission's 'New Migration Pact': Handle with Care
  
• What Would a Biden Presidency Mean for US-EU Trade Relations? 
  

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• Managing Terrorism-Related Offenders in Prison
  

 Chatham House

• US Foreign Policy Priorities
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Europeanising Health Policy in Times of Coronationalism
  
• Fears for Militarisation of Climate Change
  
• The Russia Policy Conundrum – Who Blinks First?
  

 College of Europe

• Bringing Europe to the Western Balkans: The Europeanisation of Croatia and Serbia Compared
  

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

• The Cost of Trump's Foreign Policy: Damage and Consequences for U.S. and Global Security
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Estimating the Cost of One-Sided Bets: How CBO Analyzes the Effects of Spending Triggers
  
• Information Sources for Policymakers: Congressional Budget Office 101
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, v. 21 
  
• Media and the Security Practitioner
  

 Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

• PERSEREC-TR-20-02 (OPA Report No. 2020-105) November 2020  Shifting the Mindset on Help Seeking in the Military: REACH Field Test Results

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Continued Use of Weather and Safety Leave During COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, Oct. 30, 2020
  
• DOD Memo Establishing the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy 
  
• DOD Report to Congress on Sec. 955 - ASD for Space Policy 
  
• Electromagnetic Spectrum Superiority Strategy 
  

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve I Quarterly Report to the United States Congress I July 1, 2020 - September 30, 2020

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-21-01 DHS Has Secured the  Nation's Election Systems, but Work Remains to Protect the Infrastructure
  
• OIG-21-02 CBP Has Taken Steps to Limit Processing of Undocumented Aliens at Ports of Entry
  
• OIG-21-03  ICE Needs to Address Concerns About Detainee Care and Treatment at the Howard County Detention Center
  

 Department of Justice (DOJ)

• Human Trafficking Capacity Building Center [new website]

 Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General

• VAOIG-20-02830-05 Veterans Crisis Line Challenges, Contingency Plans, and Successes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  

 Egmont Institute

• From Bad to Worse: The Fate of European Foreign Fighters and Families Detained in Syria, One Year after the Turkish Offensive  

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Current Challenges Facing the Post-Soviet Societies of Central Asia
  
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and OSCE: Organizational Efforts vs COVID-19 in Central Asia
  
• Towards Sustainable Urban Water Supply in Kyrgyzstan
  

 EU Joint Research Centre

• Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2019
  
• How Families Handled Emergency Remote Schooling during the Covid-19 Lockdown in Spring 2020
  
• How the “EU Innovation Champions” Successfully Absorbed and Reacted to the Shock Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Impact of Interventions Regulating Endocrine Disruptors on Trade Dynamics for EU Member States 
  
• State Aid Map in the Energy Sector 
  

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• Compilation of Jurisprudence Exclusion: Articles 12 and 17 Qualification Directive (Second edition)
  
• Judicial Analysis Exclusion: Articles 12 and 17 Qualification Directive (Second edition)
  
• Judicial Analysis Reception of Applicants for International Protection (Reception Conditions Directive 2013/33/EU)
  

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

• Strategic Citizens: Civil Society as a Battlespace in the Era of Hybrid Threats
  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• The Best Defence: Why the EU should Forge Security Compacts with Its Eastern Neighbours
  
• Crisis Presidency: How Portuguese Leadership Can Guide the EU Into the Post-Covid Era
  
• Mapping African Regional Cooperation: How to Navigate Africa’s Institutional Landscape
  

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

• IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2020
  

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

• NATO’s DNA: The Alliance’s Contribution to Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-proliferation
  

 European Parliament

• Air Transport Survival during the Pandemic 
  
• Budget and Staffing Needs at the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) 
  
• Four EU Scenarios for Governance in a Post Covid-19 World 
  
• Intra-African Migration 
  
• Offshore Wind Energy in Europe
  
• Protecting Civil Society Space: Strengthening Freedom of Association, Assembly and Expression and the Right to Defend Rights in the EU 
  
• Reforming Asylum and Migration Management: A Shift Towards Greater Solidarity? 
  
• Research for REGI Committee - Cohesion Policy Measures in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• State of Play of EU-Iran Relations and the Future of the JCPOA
  
• What are the Wider Supervisory Implications of the Wirecard Case? 
  

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Improving Biodiversity: How Can Digitalisation Help?
  

 European Union

• Country Report Non-Discrimination: Poland 2020 Including Summary
  
• EU Transport Infrastructures: More Speed Needed in Megaproject Implementation to Deliver Network Effects on Time
  
• Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
  
• Potential Use Cases for Innovative Technologies in Securities Post-Trading: Single Collateral Management Rulebook for Europe
  
• Representativeness of the European Social Partner Organisations: Education Sector 
  

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Georgia's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• The Slovak Republic's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Digital Authoritarianism in China and Russia: Common Goals and Diverging Standpoints in the Era of Great-Power Rivalry
  
• EU Strategic Autonomy: A Reality Check for Europe’s Global Agenda
  
• Government Reports on Finnish Foreign and Security Policy: Relevant but Not without Problems
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections and the Problem of Oligarchic Rule 
  
• Purple State China: China’s Preferences in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election are…Complicated 
  
• Russian Naval Forces in the Syrian War
  

 Foundation for Strategic Research

• Decentralisation of Command and Control (C2) of Air Operations 
  

 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)

• A Return To Diplomacy: The Iran Nuclear Deal and a Democratic White House
  

 Future Directions International

• Too Many Eggs in the Dragon’s Basket? Part One: Australia’s Reliance on Exports to China
  

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• Antisemitism as an Underlying Precursor to Violent Extremism in American Far-Right and Islamist Contexts
  
• GW Extremism Tracker - Terrorism in the U.S.
  
• September 2020
• Legal Cases Database 
  

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

• U.S. Women, Peace, and Security Index 2020
  

 German Development Institute

• COVID-19 and European Defense: Voices from the Capitals 
  
• EU Trade Policy Reform: Levelling the Playing Field in a New Geo-Economic Environment 
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Emmanuel Macron’s “New Way”
  

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Digital Dunes and Shrublands: A Comparative Introduction to the Sahelian Jihadi Propaganda Ecosystem
  
• Examining the Developmental Pathways of Online Posting Behaviour in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums 
  
• LOL Extremism: Humour in Online Extremist Content 
  
• Rethinking Bioterrorism Post COVID-19  
  
• What’s in a Meme? The Rise of “Saint Kyle” 
  

 Globsec

• The European Defence Fund and Norway
• The Future of Tech Startups in Central & Eastern Europe
  
• Third Country Participation in EU Defence Integration Initiatives 
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Forced Labor Imports: DHS Increased Resources and Enforcement Efforts, but Needs to Improve Workforce Planning and Monitoring GAO-21-106
  
• Intellectual Property: CBP Has Taken Steps to Combat Counterfeit Goods in Small Packages but Could Streamline Enforcement GAO-20-692
  
• Navy Maintenance: Navy Report Did Not Fully Address Causes of Delays or Results-Oriented Elements GAO-21-66
  
• Nuclear Safety: DOE and the Safety Board Should Collaborate to Develop a Written Agreement to Enhance Oversight GAO-21-141 
  
• Puerto Rico: Perspectives on the Potential to Expand Air Cargo Operations GAO-21-21
  
• Retirement Security: Other Countries' Experiences with Caregiver Policies GAO-20-623
  
• Telecommunications: FCC Should Enhance Performance Goals and Measures for Its Program to Support Broadband Service in High-Cost Areas GAO-21-24
  
• TSA Acquisitions: TSA Needs to Establish Metrics and Evaluate Third Party Testing Outcomes for Screening Technologies GAO-21-50
  

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

• Hate Speech and Stereotyping in Traditional and New Media 
  

 Heritage Foundation

• China and the Maldives: Lessons from the Indian Ocean's New Battleground 
  
• How the U.S. and Britain Can Build on Private-Sector Support for an Ambitious U.S.–U.K. Free Trade Agreement
  
• The International Response to Russia’s Chemical Weapons Use Must Be Stronger 
  
• U.S. Leaders Should Continue to Deepen Partnership with Romania
  
• U.S. Will Face Stronger, More Provocative North Korea in 2021
  

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, no. 68 
  
• Turkey In The Eastern Mediterranean Crisis

 Human Rights Watch

• “I Sleep in My Own Deathbed”: Violence against Women and Girls in Bangladesh: Barriers to Legal Recourse and Support
  
• “Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”: Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• COVID-19 Impacts on Public Health and the Economy of GTIPA Member Nations
  
• Nations' Trade Policy Priorities for the Year Ahead
  
• The Importance of E-commerce, Digital Trade, and Maintaining the WTO E-commerce Customs Duty Moratorium 
  
• Understanding the U.S. National Innovation System, 2020
  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Analysis of a Salary-Based Pay System for the Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation
  
• Cognitive Hyper-Dissonance: Nuclear Signaling Through Military Exercises
  
• Sudan’s Democratic Transformation Cannot Succeed Unless Its Security Forces Reform: Obstacles and Options
  

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Update on New Construction Activity at Natanz
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Climate Change and Israel's National Security
• Covid-19 Challenges for the Israeli Police  
  
• Saudi Arabia and Normalization with Israel 
  

 Institute for Peace Research and Policy Security

• Climate Change and Security in the United Nations Security Council
  

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• Balancing China in the Indo-Pacific: France Joins Hands with – India and Australia

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

• The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Five Years On
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Belarus Warning Update
• Lukashenko Raises Odd Chemical Terrorism Threat 
  
• Lukashenko Will Likely Outlast Ultimatum Protests   
  
• Putin Intensifies Russian-Belarusian Military Integration  
  
• Russia-Turkey Competition Escalates across Theaters  
  
• Syria Situation Report: October 14 - 27, 2020 
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State
  
• Designing for Impact: South-South Trade and Investment  
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• External Differentiation in Access to the Single Market: Effectiveness, Accountability and Political Unity 
  

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• National Commission for Minorities in Pakistan: Problems of Inclusion, Jurisdiction, Independence and Legitimacy
  
• Recent Labour Reforms in India: How Will They Facilitate Investments?
  

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Democracy, ‘Alternative Reality’ and Estonia’s Resilience 
  

 International Crisis Group

• Fleshing Out the Libya Ceasefire Agreement
  
• How Europe Can Help Lebanon Overcome Its Economic Implosion
  
• Steering Ethiopia’s Tigray Crisis Away from Conflict
  

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• The COVID-19 Pandemic: Scenarios to Understand the International Impact  
  

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Woman First, Soldier Second: Taboos and Stigmas Facing Military Women in UN Peace Operations 
  

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Four Years of Trump. The US and the World  
  
• Strategic Missteps: Learning From a Failed EU Sahel Strategy 
  

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

• A Guide to Investigating Outbreak Origins
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, October 30, 2020, v. 20, no. 19
  
• Beijing Rejects Any Involvement in Nuclear Arms Limitation Talks
• Beijing Raises Shenzhen’s Status at the Expense of Hong Kong
• Evaluating the Utility of Global Data Collection by Chinese Firms for Targeted Propaganda
• Rethinking the “Quad” Security Concept in the Face of a Rising China
• China’s Discourse and Interests Related to Its Role in U.N. Peacekeeping
• Terrorism Monitor, November 5, 2020, v. 18, no. 19
  
• Yemen’s War Tests Oman’s Neutrality:  Focusing on the Saudi Footprint in Al-Mahra
• Islamic State’s South African Fighters in Mozambique: The Thulsie Twins Case 
• Antifa’s Denver Shooting: New Trends in Left-Wing Political Violence, Syrian Connections, and Sub-cultures

 Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

• Joint Pub 3-14, Space Operations, 10 April 2018 Incorporating Change 1, 26 October 2020 
  

 Lowy Institute

• Asia Power Index: Key Findings 2020 
  
• Digital Authoritarianism, China and COVID 
  

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Why The Demise Of The Cold War's INF Treaty Will Not Alter The Strategic Military Balance
  

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

• MES Insights, October 2020, v. 11, no. 4
  
• Argument for Small U.S. Military Presence in Afghanistan

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

• The Abraham Accords – Paradigm Shift or Realpolitik? 
  
• The COVID-19 Pandemic: Counterterrorism Practitioners’ Assessments
  

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• The New Pact on Migration: A Set of Innovative Proposals with an Uncertain Outcome 
  

 Migration Policy Institute

• Immigrant-Origin Students in U.S. Higher Education: A Data Profile 
  

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• COVID-19’s Potential Impact on Cities: Five Trends and Indicators to Watch 
  

 MITRE

• Rubric for Applying Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to Medical Devices
  

 National Academies Press

• Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Mental Health
  
• Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine 
  
• Health-Focused Public–Private Partnerships in the Urban Context 
  
• State of the Industry Report on Air Quality Emissions from Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuels 
  
• Strengthening U.S. Air Force Human Capital Management: A Flight Plan for 2020-2030  
  

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

• In the Eye of the Storm: An Update: Managing Terrorism and Asymmetric Threats during Covid-19  

 National Defence University (Pakistan)

• Margalla Papers 2020, 24, v. no. 1
  
• Trajectories of RSS Ideological Dominations in the Indian Policy Making: Implications for South Asia
• Spread of Covid-19 and its Impact on Pakistan: A Need for Prospective Planning
• Pakistan in the FATF Grey-List: Challenges, Remedies and International Response
• Hindu Nationalism, Modi Factor and the Ideology Matrix in Contemporary India
• Political Dynamics of Fundamentalism: A Case Study of India and the US
• India's Naval Expansion and Strategic Partnership with the US in the Indian Ocean Region: Implications for Pakistan
• Strategic Convergence and Competitions in the Indo-Pacific Region: Policy Options for Pakistan
• Carbon Security of Pakistan: Dissecting the Carbon Dilemma
• Strategic Autonomy or Isolation: an Analysis of Major Dynamics of Pakistan's Foreign Policy
• Pakistan's Trade With Africa: Peculiarities and Road Ahead
• Pak-US Alliance Curse: Some Hypotheses
• Narrative Construction and its Social Vitality

 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

• Drug and Alcohol Prevalence in Seriously  and Fatally  Injured Road Users before and during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
  

 National Security Archive 

• 2020 Party Platforms and Cyber Policy
  
• New Light in a Dark Corner: Evidence on the Diem Coup in South Vietnam, November 1963
  
• Trump Doubles Down on Secrecy As Election Nears
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• The Five Eyes and Offensive Cyber Capabilities: Building a ‘Cyber Deterrence Initiative’
  
• National Cybersecurity Organisation: Romania 
  

 NATO Defense College

• The Interstate Conflict Potential of the Information Domain 
  

 Naval War College Press

• China Maritime Report No. 10: PLAN Force Structure Projection Concept, A Methodology for Looking Down Range
  
• International Law Studies 2020, v. 96
  
• An Incident in the South China Sea 
  

 New America

• America Needs a Federal Elections Agency
  

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Intergovernmental Checkmate on Cyber? Processes on Cyberspace in the United Nations 
  
• Security Council Resolution 1325 at 20: What Next for the Women Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda?  
  

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

• Priorities for the Next President to Reduce Nuclear and Biological Threats  

 Observer Research Foundation

• Education as a Pivot in India’s Cooperation with BIMSTEC Countries
  
• Fulfilling the SDG on Zero Hunger: A Progress Report on BIMSTEC Nations 
  
• Retired at Eighteen: Political Economy of Child Labour in the Textiles and Allied Industries in India 
  
• The Sustainable Development Agenda: Evaluating the G20 as a Stage for National and Collective Goals  
  

 One Earth Future - Stable Seas Program

• Policy Beyond Counter-Piracy: Improving Maritime Enforcement Capacity, Fisheries, Coastal Welfare, and Rule of Law in the Gulf of Guinea 
  

 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

• Safety of Female Journalists Guide 
  

 Our World in Data

• Why Is Life Expectancy in the US Lower Than in Other Rich Countries? 
  

 Oxford Research Group

• Looking Back to Look Forward: The Value of ORG’s Approach to Conflict 
  

 Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute  (PKSOI)

• Crippling Insurgencies with National Reconciliation Programs: A Primer for Military Practitioners
  

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• As China Recovers from the Pandemic, Will Zombie Firms Return
• Trump's Phase One Trade Deal with China and the US Election 
  
• US-China Phase One Tracker: China’s Purchases of US Goods  
  
• US Fiscal Stimulus Helped Boost Spending in Low-Income Areas Early in the Pandemic  
  

 Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

• The Challenges of Contact Tracing as U.S. Battles COVID-19 
  

 Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

• Coronavirus-Driven Downturn Hits Newspapers Hard as TV News Thrives
  

 Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

• Most Parents of K-12 Students Learning Online Worry About Them Falling Behind  
  

 Policy Exchange

• The Future of the North Sea: Maximising the contribution of the North Sea to Net Zero and Levelling Up
  
• A Global Maritime Power: Building a Better Future for Post-Brexit Britain
  
• Monetary Response to the Coronavirus Crisis: An Assessment
  
• Verified: The UK’s Digital Identity Dilemmas  
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• Dialogue bove All: France on Russia after the Navalny Poisoning
  
• EU Aid to Belarusian Civil Society: Needs and Challenges
  
• Extremist Movements in the U.S: Impact on the Election and Future Administration
  
• The Role of the Economy in the U.S. Presidential Campaign
  
• Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons — From a Rallying Cry to Entry into Force 
  
• Uncertainty as World Waits on U.S. Elections Results 
  

 RAND Corporation

• COVID-19 and the Cost of Vaccine Nationalism
  
• Do Americans Expect Safe and Secure Elections?
  
• Engagement with North Korea: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Diplomacy
  
• How Is the Pandemic Influencing Intention to Vote?
  
• Evaluation of the Ex-Service Personnel in the Criminal Justice System Programme 
  
• The Internet of Bodies: Opportunities, Risks, and Governance 
  
• The Line Between Disorder and Order: Reflections on RAND's Role in the Evolution of Air Force Logistics Thought and Practice
  
• Safe Enough: Approaches to Assessing Acceptable Safety for Automated Vehicles 
  
• Voter Attitudes Toward the 2020 Election: August 2020 Update

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Russian and Chinese Combat Air Trends: Current Capabilities and Future Threat Outlook
  

 Small Wars Journal

• Dissuasion in Cyberspace: The Limitations of Classical Deterrence Theory
  
• France and the Trap of “War on Terrorism” 
  
• The Greed versus Grievance Theory and the 2011 Libyan Civil War: Why Grievance Offers a Wider Perspective for Understanding the Conflict Outbreak 
  
• The Internet Research Agency: Spreading Disinformation 
  
• Joint Operational Design, Re-imagined…  
  
• Making Peace in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines
  
• More Than A “Given:" Professionalizing Military Strategic Leadership
  
• The Political Context of US Army Doctrine, 1974-1976
  
• PSYOP During the Counter - Lords Resistance Army Campaign
  
• Quantifying Chaos in the Era of COVID19 - Reconceptualizing Threat Across the Western Hemisphere
  
• “Smoke and Mirrors”: An Examination of Information Warfare’s Capabilities and the U.S. Defense Against Them
  
• Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 32: Militias (Milícias) Surpass Gangs (Gangues) in Territorial Control in Rio de Janeiro   
• Trying to Coordinate Force in the Sahel: The G5 Sahel  
  
• Ukraine, a New Way Forward 
  
• Ukraine & Cold War 2.0 – Lessons on Intelligence from the Cuban Missile Crisis
  
• Unholy Alliances - Armenia Surrounded
• Why the West Should NOT Worry about ISIS External Operations
  

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Impact of COVID-19 on financial stability in Africa
  
• SADC Automobile Futures: Towards Just e-Mobility Transitions 
  
• SADC e-Mobility Outlook: A Zimbabwean Case Study 
  
• SADC e-Mobility Outlook: Accelerating Low Carbon Transport Futures 
  
• SADC e-Mobility Outlook: Accelerating the Battery Manufacturing Value Chain 
  
• SADC e-Mobility Scenarios: Pathways beyond the ICE Age 
  
• SADC Futures of e-Mobility: EVs as Enablers of a New Energy Paradigm  
  
• SADC Futures of Mining: Implications of Large-Scale EV Adoption
  

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• 49th Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, October 30, 2020

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Autocracy Is On the Rise: Should We Expect Military Spending to Follow?
  
• A Technical Retrospective of the Former South African Nuclear Weapon Programme 
• Women in Multilateral Peace Operations in 2020: What’s the State of Play?
  

 Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

• A Hard Look at Hard Power: Assessing the Defense Capabilities of Key US Allies and Security Partners (2nd ed.)  

 Syracuse University,  Uni of the Pacific and Georgetown

• Journal of National Security Law & Policy (JNSLP), 2020, v. 11, no. 1
  
• Special COVID-19 Issue
• Leadership in a Time of Pandemic: Act Well the Given Part 
• The Roles of the State and Federal Governments in a Pandemic
• Emergency Powers, Real and Imagined: How President Trump Used and Failed to Use Presidential Authority in the COVID-19 Crisis
• A Historical Review of the State Police Powers and Their Relevance to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020
• Domestic Military Operations and the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Good Health and Good Privacy Go Hand-in-Hand
• From Shortages to Stockpiles: How the Defense Production Act Can Be Used to Save Lives, Make America the Global Arsenal of Public Health, and Address the Security Challenges Ahead
• Access to Public Records and the Role of the News Media in Providing Information About COVID-19
• The Failing Federation: Why Canada Is Ineffective at COVID-19
• Cyber Attacks and Cyber (Mis) information Operations During a Pandemic
• U.N. Peacekeeping in a Time of Pandemic: Reconciling Armed Conflict Management While Helping to Fight COVID-19
• Falsehoods and the Patois of Pandemics: A Playbook
• COVID-19 & Military Law

 Taylor and Francis

• Defence and Peace Economics, v. 31, no. 7, November 2020
• Does a Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target [open access article]
  

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

• Towards Sustainable Graduation of South Asian LDCs in the aftermath of COVID-19: Challenges, Prospects and Policy Lessons  

 US Central Command (CENTCOM)

• Unipath, 2020, v. 10, no. 2
  
• Defending against Disease: Militaries around the Region Focus Their Fight on Defeating COVID-19
• The Hybrid Threat: Countries Confront Opponents Who Avoid Direct Engagements in Favor of Indirect Attacks
• A Special Warrior: Lt. Gen. Mohammad Farid Ahmadi
• Lessons from Victory: The Defeat of Daesh in Iraq Provides Tactical Knowledge Applicable to Future Conflicts
• Trouble on Two Tracks: Iraqi Military Forces Enlisted Bulldozers to Overwhelm Terrorists in the Streets of Mosul
• Preventing Mass Casualties: Omani and U.S. Troops Train to Defend against Chemical, Biological and Radiological Weapons Threats
• Building an Elite Unit: Lt. Col. Hamed bin Ibrahim Al-Bouromi Trains Oman's WMD Prevention Branch
• Rebuilding Afghanistan: Afghan Stability Would Benefit the Entire Central and South Asia Region
• Houthi Land Mines Kill Yemenis
• Kyrgyzstan Confronts Violent Extremism
• Healing Women: Kuwait's Intisar Foundation Provides Psychological Treatment through Drama Therapy to Arab Women Affected by War
• Uzbekistan Faces Unconventional Threats: The Country's Armed Forces Updates Its Military Doctrine to Address Hybrid Warfare
• A Force foe Stability: The Late Sultan Qaboos was a Bold Leader Who Transformed Oman for the Better
• A Partner for Peace in Qatar: Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah Promotes Stability through Military Cooperation

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• The Arakan Army in Myanmar: Deadly Conflict Rises in Rakhine State 
  
• Pathways for Post-Peace Development in Afghanistan

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• How Does Indonesia View the Prospect of Normalization with Israel?
  
• Israel Expands West Bank Settler Units: Where Demography Meets Geography
  
• A New West in the Middle East: Toward a Humbler, More Effective Model of Transatlantic Cooperation
  
• The Sudan Agreement: Implications of Another Arab-Israel Milestone
  

 Wilson Center

• China’s Economic Engagement with Latin America Beyond COVID-19
  

 World Bank

• Sourcebook on the Foundations of Social Protection Delivery Systems
  
• Who Decides Social Policy? : Social Networks and the Political Economy of Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
  

 World Economic Forum

• Resetting the Future of Work Agenda: Disruption and Renewal in a Post-COVID World