Friday's Miscellany 01-08-2021

 38 North

• Pyongyang Celebrates 2021, but a Parade Is Still to Come
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Analyzing Africa’s Second Wave of COVID-19
  

 American Enterprise Institute

• Into the Danger Zone: The Coming Crisis in US-China Relations
  

 Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

• Arabic Origins of the Foundational Myth of Western Identity: Between Histories of the Conquest of America and the Conquest of Andalusia
  

 Arctic Institute

• China and its Arctic Trajectories: The Arctic Institute’s China Series Report 2020
  

 Army Center of Military History

• Army History Magazine, Winter 2021, no. 118
  
• The Gulf War at 30
• Touching History: Material Culture at West Point

 Army University Press

• Military Review, January-February 2021, v. 101, no. 1
  
• China’s Maritime Militia and Fishing Fleets: A Primer for Operational Staffs and Tactical Leaders
• Dense Urban Environments: The Crucible of Multi-Domain Operations
• Hunting the Adversary: Sensors in the 2035 Battlespace
• Humility: The Inconspicuous Quality of a Master of War
• Event Barraging and the Death of Tactical Level Open-Source Intelligence
• Seeing through the Fog: Developing Fog of War Resistant Visualization
• Multi-Domain Operations at Division and Below
• Impact of Cultural Globalization on Soldiering: An Emerging Concern for Future Leaders
• Teaching the Army: Virtual Learning Tools to Train and Educate Twenty-First-Century Soldiers
• The Rock of Gallipoli: The Leadership of Mustafa Kemal
• The Pitfalls of Well-Meaning Compassion: Joint Task Force-Haiti’s Infowar of 2010
• Leadership and Military Writing: Direct, Organized, Strategic
• Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India
• Does Russia Need "Universal" Values?

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Nature and Nurture: How the Biden Administration Can Advance Ties With India
  

 Atlantic Council

• Gone with the Muhasasa: Iraq’s Static Budget Process, and the Loss of Financial Control 
  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• The Bottom of the Barrel: Saudi Aramco and Global Climate Action 
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• After Political Partition Between the PA and Hamas’s Gaza, Now Economic Boycott
  
• Battles Between Light and the Darkness of Antisemitism
  
• Cautious Optimism in Ramallah Regarding Biden
  
• Erdoğan’s Reckless Gambit: It’s Payback Time
  
• Hamas’s Maneuvers Are Defensive—For Now
  
• Implications for Israel of the Joint Terrorist Military Exercise in the Gaza Strip
  
• Is America’s Fourth Estate in Foreclosure?
  
• Saudi Arabia vs. the Muslim Brotherhood
  
• The Swamp Returns to Washington
  
• Three Months After the Abraham Accords, the Palestinians Have Lost the Arab Street
  
• Whither the Iran Nuclear Deal?
  

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• The Debt Limit: What You Need to Know
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• A Blueprint for Accelerated Vaccine Rollout
  
• Tech Moonshots: Big Ideas for a Brighter Future
  

 Brookings

• How Disinformation Evolved in 2020
  
• National Human Rights Institutions: A Reason for Hope in the Middle East and North Africa?
  
• A New Green Learning Agenda: Approaches to Quality Education for Climate Action
  
• Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19: Australia
  
• Why the United States Should Compete with China on Global Clean Energy Finance
  

 Bruegel

• The Productivity Paradox: Policy Lessons from MICROPROD 
  

 Canada. Department of National Defence

• Canadian Military Journal, Winter 2020,  v. 21, no. 1
  
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Dynamics in Mali
• Naval Culture, Customs, and Traditions: Perspectives from Members  of the Royal Canadian Navy
• The Value of Intelligence Sharing for Canada: The ‘Five Eyes’ Case
• Is Your Organization Truly Innovative?
• Back to the Future? The Tale of Two Trudeaus and Their Defence Policies
• Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight: Canadian Strategic Communications and Information Operations in Latvia, Operation Reassurance 2019-2020
• Mindfulness: Building Resiliency in the Canadian Armed Forces
• The Canadian Way of Remembering War: Canada’s “Conflicted”  and “Contested” Memory of the Second World War 

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

• LGBTQ Rights: Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the U.S.
• Women's Rights 

 CATO Institute

• When Workplace Safety Is Illegal
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• AI and the Future of Cyber Competition
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest, No. 260: Arms Control
  
• Turbulent Trade: Europe and the Biden Challenge
  

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Seizing on Weakness: Allied Strategy for Competing With China’s Globalizing Military
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The Biden Transition and U.S. Competition with China and Russia: The Crisis-Driven Need to Change U.S. Strategy
  
• Deep Dive Debrief: Strategic Stability and Competition in the Arctic
  
• Industrial Mobilization: Assessing Surge Capabilities, Wartime Risk, and System Brittleness
  
• U.S. Military Forces in FY 2021: Space, SOF, Civilians, and Contractors
  

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• How high-tech logistics could be game-changing for the US military  

 Center on National Security

• ISIS and the Crime-Terror Nexus in America: A Counterpoint to Europe
  

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• How Telegram Disruption Impacts Jihadist Platform Migration
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Rebuilding the Midwest's Infrastructure
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• 2020 State of the Game
  

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

• Huawei in Central and Eastern Europe: Trends and Forecast
  

 College of Europe

• Guardian of the Galaxy? Assessing the European Union’s International Actorness in Cyberspace
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The 2021 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding: Prospects and Challenges in Building a Larger Fleet
  

 Counter Extremism Project

• ISIS Redux: The Central Syria Insurgency in December 2020
  
• The Top 20 Most Dangerous Extremists Around the World
  

 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Emergency Directive (ED) 21-01 Supplemental Guidance version 3: Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, v. 22
• Simplifying Complexity with Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning
  
• Strategic Approaches to Simplifying Complex Adaptive Crises
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• The Political Economy of ‘Scarcity’ in East Africa: A Case Study of Sugar Production, Smuggling and Trade in Tanzania
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, January 6, 2021
  
• Department of Defense Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Strategy
  
• Planning and Execution Timeline for the National Guard's Involvement in the January 6, 2021 First Amendment Protests in Washington D.C.
  

 Department of State

• United States Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability
  

 Department of State Inspector General

• AUD-CGI-21-12 Information Report: Review of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, U.S. Section, Compliance With Executive Order 13950 on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
  

 Department of the Army

• The Army Cloud Plan 2020
  

 Department of the Navy

• A Blue Arctic: A Strategic Blueprint for the Arctic
  

 Dudley Knox Library (DKL)

• Posse Comitatus / Sovereign Citizens: A Brief Bibliography [2020 update]
  

 East-West Center

• Can ASEAN Expand Vocational Training to Help Workers Survive Automation and AI?
  

 Egmont Institute

• Russian Grand Strategy and how to handle it
  

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• COVID-19 Pandemic and Central Asia: Crisis Management, Economic Impact, and Social Transformations
  

 Enough Project - The Sentry

• Understanding Money Laundering Risks in the Conflict Gold Trade: From East and Central Africa to Dubai and Onward
  

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

• Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2020: A New Normal Beyond Covid-19
  
• National Energy and Climate Plans for 2021-2030 under the EU Energy Union
  
• What Did We Learn from Schooling Practices during the COVID-19 Lockdown?
  

 European Parliament

• EU Economic Developments and Projections  
• Ten issues to watch in 2021
  

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Give Lisbon a Chance: How to Improve EU Foreign Policy
  

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Good Practices in Innovation on Cybersecurity under the NCSS
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Trends in Terrorism: What’s on the Horizon in 2021?
  

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

• Russia’s Space Policy: The Path of Decline?
  

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

• Russia’s Strategic Interests and Actions in the Baltic Region
  
• US Global Credibility and Capacity to Act After the Capitol Siege
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• China – Winning the Pandemic… for Now: The People’s Republic Is Exuding Strength, But Can They Keep It Up?
  
• Future Combat Air System: Too Big to Fail: Differing Perceptions and High Complexity Jeopardise Success of Strategic Armament Project
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Treasury’s War on Corruption
  
• The Weaponized Web: Levers in the Digital Advertising Ecosystem
  

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• GNET Research Digest December 2020
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aircraft Noise: Better Information Sharing Could Improve Responses to Washington, D.C. Area Helicopter Noise Concerns GAO-21-200
  
• Hanford Cleanup: DOE's Efforts to Close Tank Farms Would Benefit from Clearer Legal Authorities and Communication GAO-21-73
  

 Gulf International Forum

• Prospects of Resolving the Gulf Crisis at the 41st GCC Summit
  

 Heritage Foundation

• Fielding the Long-Range Standoff Weapon Prevents a Dangerous Gap in the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent
  

 Human Rights Watch

• “Like I’m Drowning”: Children and Families Sent to Harm by the US ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

• 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)

• The Joint Military Exercise in the Gaza Strip: Ostensible Strength in a Response to Weakness 
  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue

• Responding to a Terror Attack: A Strong Cities Toolkit
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• People's Warfare against COVID-19: Testing China’s Military Medical and Defense Mobilization Capabilities
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Supporting Women’s Empowerment in Pakistan: Lessons for Donors
  
• Using Participatory Action Research Methodologies for Engaging and Researching with Religious Minorities in Contexts of Intersecting Inequalities
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Rethinking EU Leadership in the "Neighbourhood": Limits and Ambitions
  

 Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs

• Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19: A Policy Tool Kit
  

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• “Greening” China: An Analysis of Beijing’s Sustainable Development Strategies
  

 Middle East Institute

• Syria's Constitutional Committee: The Devil in the Detail
  

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• Implications of the Sunburst Cybersecurity Attack on the Transit Industry
  

 National Academies Press

• Cultivating Interest and Competencies in Computing: Authentic Experiences and Design Factors
  

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

• Divergent Dimensions of Radicalization Risk: Migration and Violent Extremism in Sabah, Malaysia
  

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• NCRI Assessment of the Capitol Riots: Violent Actors and Ideologies Behind the Events of January 6, 2021
  

 Observer Research Foundation

• India’s Historic Vaccination Drive: Evaluating the Stakes, Hurdles and Opportunities
  
• The Role of SDGs in Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery
  
• Towards Zero Deaths: Imperatives for Safer Indian Railways
  
• What Ails Health Systems in Africa? An Economic Perspective
  

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

• Perception of the Police in Montenegro- Results of a Quantitative Survey
  
• We are the Power of the Team- For More Women in Policing
  

 Our World in Data

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
  

 Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

• Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress
  

 Policy Exchange (UK)

• Grasping the Nettle: The Austrian State and Islamism
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• The Clean Network Initiative as an Element of the U.S.-China Competition
  
• More Obstacles to Ratification of the EU-Mercosur Agreement
  
• New Sanctions in the U.S. Defence Budget
  
• Priorities of the New Lithuanian Government
  
• Prospects for Deeper Economic Relations between the EU and the U.S.
  
• Russia-Belarus Agreements on 2021 Hydrocarbon Prices
  

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

• National Policy Space: Reframing the Political Economy of Globalization and Its Implications for National Sovereignty and Democracy
  

 RAND Corporation

• The Coronavirus Pandemic Highlights Why Family Caregivers Need to Be Integrated into the Health Care Team and Shows Us How to Make It Happen
  
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Special and Incentive Pays for Career Enlisted Aviators
  
• Distributed Kill Chains: Drawing Insights for Mosaic Warfare from the Immune System and from the Navy
  
• Findings on Mosaic Warfare from a Colonel Blotto Game
  
• How to Transform the U.S. Mental Health System: Evidence-Based Recommendations
  
• Modeling Rapidly Composable, Heterogeneous, and Fractionated Forces: Findings on Mosaic Warfare from an Agent-Based Model
  

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• A New Direction for the Ministry of Defence’s Budget? Implications of the November Spending Review
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• China’s Central Bank Digital Currency: Implications for ASEAN
  

 Small Wars Journal

• China Wages War NOT Competition
  
• Cognitive Blind-Spots and Dominated Strategies
  
• Mali: The Tradeoff Between Impartiality and Military Aid
  
• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #48: Video of CJNG Engagement of Autodefensa Mounted Infantry in IAFV in La Bocanda, Michoacán
  
• The Other Side of COIN
  
• The Two Special Operations Trinities
  
• What is the Role of Information Operations in Supporting Training Missions? Or, When is a Tweet More Than Just a Tweet?
  

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 21-12-FA U.S. Department of the Air Force’s Support for the Afghan Air Force’s C-130H Airlift Capability: Audit of Costs Incurred by AAR Government Services Inc.
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2020
• Fascist Aspirants: Fascist Forge and Ideological Learning in the Extreme-Right Online Milieu [open access article]
  

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• 2020 Trends in Terrorism: From ISIS Fragmentation to Lone-Actor Attacks
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• America, the Middle East, and the World: A Conversation with Tony Blair
  
• The Coming Iran Nuclear Talks: Openings and Obstacles
  
• Counterterrorism Under the Trump Administration :A Fractured Response to a Diversified Threat
  
• Enough Theory, European Strategic Autonomy Needs Practice in the Middle East
  
• Gas in Iraqi Kurdistan: Market Realities, Geopolitical Opportunities
  
• Humanitarian Aid and the Biden Administration: Lessons from Yemen and Syria
  
• Khamenei’s First Speech of 2021: Reemphasizing U.S. Weakness, Iranian Self-Reliance
  
• Leveraging U.S. Sanctions on Faleh al-Fayyad
  
• Presidential Transition Event: Thinking about the Next Phase of Iran Nuclear Diplomacy
  
• Qatari Public Supports Compromise on GCC Rift, but Even More Like Turkey; Split on Israel, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and Iran
  
• Understanding Moroccan “Normalization” with Israel
  
• What to Expect from Cairo’s Strategy with the New U.S. Administration
  

 White House

• National Maritime Cybersecurity Plan to the National Strategy for Maritime Security
  
• National Space Policy of the United States of America
  

 World Bank

• Global Economic Prospects, January 2021
  

 World Economic Forum

• Circular Trailblazers: Scale-ups Leading the Way Towards a More Circular Economy
  
• Indian Cities in the Post Pandemic World