Friday's Miscellany 01-01-2021

 38 North

• North Korean Forestlands Have Rebounded in Recent Years
  
• Rehearsals Fill Kim Il Sung Square on Saturday
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• African Migration Trends to Watch in 2021
  
• The Battle for the Soul of Uganda
  
• Islamic State in the Greater Sahara Expanding Its Threat and Reach in the Sahel
  
• The Spread of Surveillance Technology in Africa Stirs Security Concerns
  

 Air University Press

• Air & Space Power Journal, Winter 2020, v. 34, no. 4
  
• Achieving Convergence in the Information Environment: Revising the Air Component Structure
• Command and Control Operations in the Information Environment: Leading with Information in Operational Planning, Execution, and Assessment
• Restructuring Information Warfare in the United States: Tuning Our Instruments to Overcome Barriers to Battlefield Harmony
• Empowering the Information Warrior: Unlocking the Latent Value of This Strategic Asset 
• Not All Wars are Violent: Identifying Faulty Assumptions for the Information War
• The Spectrum of Cyber Attack
• Information Warfare and Joint All-Domain Operations: A Primer for Integrating and Prioritizing Data Requirements
• Journal of Military Conflict Transformation, September 2020, v. 1, no. 2 https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/AFNC/documents/jmct/web_jmct_vol1no2_sept2020.pdf
• Transformational Negotiation: Establishing a Novel Approach to Workplace Conflict
• Engaged Leadership – Why Leaders Should Practice Self Reflection
• Transformational Negotiation in Workplace Change Initiatives
• The Active Duty to Civilian Reintegration Dilemma: A Case Study on Veteran Reintegration
• Dispute and Conflict Transformation Basics
• Joint Task Force Katrina
• Negotiating Advanced Cyber Capabilities

 Arctic Institute

• Isolation and Resilience of Arctic Oil Exploration during COVID-19: Business as Usual or Structural Shift?
  

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), December 2020, v. 27, no. 12
  
• Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Comorbidities among Military Health System Beneficiaries, 1 January 2020 through 30 September 2020
• Characteristics of U.S. Army Beneficiary Cases of COVID-19 in Europe, 12 March 2020–17 April 2020
• Air Evacuation of Service Members for COVID-19 in U.S. Central Command and U.S. European Command from 11 March 2020 through 30 September 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza Coinfection in a Deployed Military Setting— Two Case Reports

 Asia Foundation

• North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs in South Korea: Unveiling Korea’s Hidden Potential
  

 Atlantic Council 

• Countering China’s Challenge to the Free World: A Report for the Free World Commission
  
• Countering Russia’s Challenge to the Free World
  
• United States Interests and Policy Choices in the Middle East: We Didn’t Start the Fire…  

 Australian National University Press

• Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, 2020, v. 27, no. 1
  
• The Trapped Dragon: A Province-by-Province Analysis of the Middle-Income Trap in China
• The Changing Nature of Community Service Obligations in the Postal Sector and the Future of Australia Post
• Tax Planning in Australia’s Income Tax System

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• Housing in the Digital Age: Trends and Implications  
• The Resurgence of the Right in Latin America: New Coalitions and Agendas
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Achievements in 2020 in the Battle Against Antisemitism
  
• Biden and Russia: Pressure, But Not Too Much
  
• The Emerging US Standpoint on Moderate Arab States
  
• The IDF Must Revamp Its Strategies
  
• Israel’s “West Point” Increasingly Shapes the IDF Ground Forces
  
• Pakistan Struggles to Regain Its Footing in a Changing Muslim World
  
• Post-Pandemic Culture Shock
  
• A Serious Moral Failure at Yad Vashem
  
• Sri Lanka’s Trading Policy Options in the Era of COVID-19
  
• Turkey’s Boycott Threats Are Preposterous
  
• The US and Israel Prepare for Iranian Revenge
  
• Yad Vashem at a Crossroads
  
• Will RCEP Change the Game in Asia?
  

 Beyond the Parallel

• Undeclared North Korea: The Kal-gol Missile Operating Base
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• A Plan for Vaccine Acceleration
  

 Brookings 

• Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security
  
• Session 1 - Presidential War Powers
  
• Session 2 - The Use (and Abuse) of Executive Agreements
  
• Session 3 - Nuclear Command and Control
  
• Session 4 - Economic Sanctions in the Age of Maximum Pressure
  
• Session 5 - The Insurrection Act and Putting Troops on American Streets
  
• Session 6 - Trade and National Security Exceptionalism
  
• Session 7 - Congress and Control of the Military
  
• Session 8 - Transparency and War Powers  
• Despair is Hurting America’s Labor Markets
  
• Enclave Governance: How to Circumvent the Assad Regime and Safeguard Syria’s Future
  
• Making the AfCFTA Work for ‘The Africa We Want’
  
• Reframing US Syria Policy: The Road to Damascus Runs Through Moscow
  

 Bruegel

• Deglobalisation in the Context of United States-China Decoupling
  

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• COVID-19 and Canada’s Development Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Reinventing Transatlantic Relations on Climate, Democracy, and Technology
  

Center for Global Development

• All Foreign Policy Spending Should Take Gender Into Account
  
• E-commerce and Mobile Money for Poverty Reduction in China: Lessons for African Countries
  
• What is the Role of Aid in Middle-Income Countries?
  

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Artificial Intelligence in Russia Issue 17, December 18, 2020
  
• Philadelphia Police Department's Response to Demonstrations and Civil Unrest
  
• Russian Combat Aviation: Procurement, Modernization, and Future Outlook
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest, no. 260: Arms Control
  

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Guest Post: Navy CAPT (Ret.) Pete Pedrozo’s Views on “The Right of Transit Passage Through International Straits”
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Chinese Airborne C4ISR
  

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Rising in the East: The Evolution of the Islamic State in the Philippines
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Federal Policies in Response to Declining Entrepreneurship
  

 Counter Extremism Project

• Extremism Gradualists to Jihadists Islamist Narratives in the West
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, December 30, 2020    

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-042 Evaluation of Defense Logistics Agency Contracts for Ventilators in Response to the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Outbreak
  
• DODIG-2021-044 Evaluation of Department of Defense Compliance With Executive Order 13950, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”
  

 Department of State, Office of the Inspector General

• ISP-I-21-09 Review of Department of State Foreign Assistance Tracking Capabilities
  

 Department of the Treasury, Office of the Inspector General

• OIG-CA-21-012 Operation Inherent Resolve - Summary of Work Performed by the Department of the Treasury Related to Terrorist Financing, ISIS, and Anti-Money Laundering for First Quarter Fiscal Year

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Risk Assessment: Risk Related to Spread of New SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern in the EU/EEA
  

 European Union

• Study to Support the Evaluation of the European Union Strategy for the Protection and Welfare of Animals 2012-2015 : Annexes 1-8 to the Final Report
  

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• National Risk Index
  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• The Widening Arsenal of Terrorist Organizations: Environmental Terrorism on the Rise in the Middle East and North Africa
  

 Henry Jackson Society

• Covid – One Year On
  

 Heritage Foundation

• Why the United States Needs an Atlantic Strategy
  

 Hoover Institution

• Stock Prices, Lockdowns, and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Year Ahead: Twenty-Four Ways Congress and the Biden Administration Can Advance Good Tech Policy in 2021
  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• The Perils of Vaccine Nationalism
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• “China is National Security Threat No. 1" to the United States – and to Israel?
  
• Israel: Note that the Sleeping Transatlantic Giant is Waking Up
  
• Rising Temperatures, Rising Risks: Climate Change and Israel’s National Security
  
• The Roar of the Wolf Warriors: China’s Increasingly Aggressive Diplomacy
  

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Serial Bombings Observed at Masyaf, Syria
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Belarus Warning Update: Kremlin Likely Contriving Amenable Government Structure in Belarus
  

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Islam or the Constitution? Islamabad’s Shri Krishna Temple Dilemma
  
• Resetting the Relationship: India’s Recent Engagements with Nepal
  

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Mitigating the Impact of Media Reporting of Terrorism: Libya Case Study
  

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Towards a NATO China Strategy  

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

• Memetic Irony and the Promotion of Violence within Chan Cultures
  

 International Crisis Group

• Blunting Al-Shabaab’s Impact on Somalia’s Elections
  
• From Elections to Ceasefire in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
  
• Improving Prospects for Peace after the Nagorno-Karabakh War
  

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Promoting and Projecting Stability: Challenges and Perspectives
  

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

• From Middle to Major Power: Correcting Course in Canadian Foreign Policy
  
• The Ties that Bind: Forging a Closer Transatlantic Bond Between Canada and Europe in a Troubled World
  
• WHO You Gonna Call? Why There’s Something Strange about International Institutions
  

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

• Renewed Transatlantic Responses towards China: Identifying Common Ground
  

 National Academies Press

• COVID-19 Addendum to Critical Issues in Transportation
  
• Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions
  
• Planetary Protection for the Study of Lunar Volatiles
  
• Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis 
  
• Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations 
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• National Cybersecurity Organisation: Germany
  

 NATO Defense College

• “NATO-Mation”: Strategies for Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 
  

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Terrorist and Armed Groups in the Fezzan-Sahel Region: Recruitment and Communication Tactics
  

 Naval War College

• China Maritime Report No. 12: Sansha City in China's South China Sea Strategy: Building a System of Administrative Control
  
• International Law Studies, 2021, v. 97, no. 1
  
• Sailor-Scholar: Remembering Rear Admiral Horace B. Robertson Jr., JAGC, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
• Responding to Hostile Cyber Operations: The “In-Kind” Option
• Introduction to the Indo-Pacific Command Paper Series
• U.S. Protests China's Maritime Claims in the South China Sea
• U.S. Position on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
• U.S. Policy on the South China Sea
• U.S. Freedom of Navigation Program
• The South China Sea Arbitration Award
• Navigational Regimes
• Military Activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone
• International Straits
• General Principles of the Law of the Sea
• China's Excessive Maritime Claims
• Archipelagic States
• Air Defense Identification Zones
• Sea Shepherd: The Evolution of an Eco-Vigilante to Legitimized Maritime Capacity Builder
  
• Ten Years In: Implementing Strategic Approaches to Cyberspace
  

 One Earth Future - Stable Seas Program

• ASWJ: What We Know
  

 Policy Exchange (UK)

• The Case for Reforming Judicial Review
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• African Union, United Nations, and the Crisis in Ethiopia
  
• Conclusion of Negotiations on the EU-China Comprehensive Investment Agreement
  
• The End of the Beginning —EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement 
  
• Joint Crisis-Response: Towards a European Health Union
  
• More than Mass Testing: Slovakia and the Fall Wave of COVID-19
  
• Significance of Immigration for the Economies of Gulf Cooperation Council States
  

 RAND Corporation

• The Composition and Employment of Software Personnel in the U.S. Department of Defense: An Initial Analysis
  
• An Experiment in Tactical Wargaming with Platforms Enabled by Artificial Intelligence
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• China’s Central Bank Digital Currency: Implications for ASEAN
  
• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), January 2021, v. 13, no. 1
  
• The Global Threat Landscape in 2020
• Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore
• South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• China
• The Middle East: Between Covid-19, Conflicts, Jihadist Threat and Public Discontent
• The Islamic State (IS): Maintaining Resilience in a Post-Caliphate, Pandemic Environment
• Religious Extremism: Challenging Extremist and Jihadist Propaganda 
• Persistence of Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in the West

 Small Arms Survey

• Trade Update 2020: An Eye on Ammunition Transfers to Africa
  

 Small Wars Journal

• China Wages War NOT Competition
  
• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #48: Video of CJNG Engagement of Autodefensa Mounted Infantry in IAFV in La Bocanda, Michoacán
  

 Stimson Center

• Reporting During a Pandemic: Reflections on the Arms Trade Treaty 2019 Annual Reports
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Defence and Peace Economics, 2021, v. 32, no. 1
• Resident Terrorist Groups, Military Aid, and Moral Hazard: Further Empirical Analysis [open access article]
  
• Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2020, v. 13, no. 3
• Assessing Intervention Outcomes Targeting Radicalised Offenders: Testing the Pro Integration Model of Extremist Disengagement as an Evaluation Tool  [open access article]
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2021, v. 44, no. 2
• Iran and Hezbollah’s Pre-Operational Modus Operandi in the West [open access article]
  

Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control

• Terrorist Assets Report: Calendar Year 2019 Twenty-eighth Annual Report to the Congress on Assets in the United States Relating to Terrorist Countries and Organizations Engaged in International Terrorism
  
• Prior years [scroll down on page]  

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

• Adaptation and Resilience to Drought: From Know How to Do How
  
• Preliminary Analysis of COVID-19 Response and Recovery Policies in Asia and the Pacific: Integrating Space Applications and Socioeconomic Data
  
• A Quantitative Assessment of Economic Impact of Trade Wars and the 'Make in India’ Program
  
• Seasonal Outlook to Socio-Economic Impact Based Forecasting  
• Towards Low-Cost Digital Remittances: Supporting Migrants During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
  

 UN Women

• Addressing Exclusion through Intersectionality in Rule of Law, Peace, and Security Context
  

 US Army Combat Readiness Center

• FY 2020 Annual Assessment of the Army Safety Program
  

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• The Current Situation in Libya
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• A Missile Defense “Manhattan Project” in the Middle East
  
• Submarine Movements on Iran’s Doorstep: Military and Legal Implications
  
• Varied Reactions in Syria to Biden Victory
  

 Watson Institute

• Afghanistan's Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020
  

 White House

• National Strategy for Planetary Protection