Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 01-15-2021

 38 North 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

  • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Winter 2020, v. 3, no. 5 (special issue)
    • Quad Plus: Form versus Substance
    • Foam in the Ocean” or an “Asian NATO”? : Chinese Views of the Quad
    • US–China Strategic Competition and Washington’s Conception of Quad Plus
    • India and the Quad Plus: Between Pointed-Alignment and Conjectural Alliance
    • Japan and the Quad Plus: A Japanese View for the Development and Expansion of the Quad in the Age of War on the Novel Coronavirus
    • A Quad Plus?: The Prospects for Australia and New Zealand
    • Whose Centrality?: ASEAN and the Quad in the Indo-Pacific
    • Britain and the Quadrilateral
    • South Korea's Perspective on Quad Plus and Evolving Indo-Pacific Security Architecture
    • Israel and Quad Plus: A Pivot to Asia and Through the Indian Ocean
    • France's Info-Pacific Strategy and the Quad Plus
    • Quad Plus? : Carving Out Canada's Middle Power Role
    • Brazil in the Quad Plus: Incongruous or Extended Drawbridge of the Indo-Pacific?
    • Russia and Quad Plus: Is there a Way Forward?
    • Indian Ocean Island States and the Quad Plus
    • Connectivity and the Quad Powers: Revisiting History and Thought
    • Realistic Expectations: The China Factor in the Australia-US Perspective on the Indo-Pacific
    • The Middle East and the Quad Plus
    • Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran Triangularity and the Quad Plus: Countering China's Growing Influence
    • Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, 2021, v. 4, no. 1
    • The Influence of Arms: Explaining the Durability of India–Russia Alignment
    • Russia–Pakistan Strategic Relations: An Emerging Entente Cordiale
    • Russian Influence on India’s Military Doctrines

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

 Arctic Institute

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University – Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

 Australian National University Press

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Brookings  

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

 Chatham House

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, January 2021, v. 14, no. 1
    • Terrorism and Counterterrorism Challenges for the Biden Administration
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: David Lasseter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • Afghanistan’s Security Forces Versus the Taliban: A Net Assessment
    • The April 2020 Islamic State Terror Plot Against U.S. and NATO Military Bases in Germany: The Tajik Connection

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council for Foreign Relations

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

 Department of Justice (DOJ)

 Department of the Navy

 Director, Operational Test and Evaluation

 East-West Center

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Parliament

 European Union

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, January 2021
    • Perspective: Strengthening Relationships by Managing Biases
    • Leadership Spotlight: Addressing Adaptive Challenges 
    • Community Outreach Spotlight: Bridging the Gap Through Boxing
    • Conducting a Digital Forensics Capability Study

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies

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

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

 German Development Institute

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Columbia Class Submarine: Delivery Hinges on Timely and Quality Materials from an Atrophied Supplier Base GAO-21-257
  • Department of Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Accounting of Intradepartmental Transactions GAO-21-84
  • Department of Energy Contracting: Improvements Needed to Ensure DOE Assesses Its Full Range of Contracting Fraud Risks GAO-21-44
  • DHS Employee Morale: Some Improvements Made, but Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Employee Engagement GAO-21-204
  • DOD Critical Technologies: Plans for Communicating, Assessing, and Overseeing Protection Efforts Should Be Completed GAO-21-158
  • Nuclear Waste: Congressional Action Needed to Clarify a Disposal Option at West Valley Site in New York GAO-21-115

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Henry Jackson Society

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine, 2021, special issue - The Continuing Relevance of Clausewitz
    • Clausewitz’s Supreme Question: Reconsidering his Legacy
    • Clausewitz's Definition of War and its Limits
    • The Mirage of Post-Clausewitzianism: Understanding War and Politics on the Frontier of Clausewitzian Thought
    • In Search of a Point: The Blob at War
    • The Occam's Razor of Strategic Theory: The Relevance of Clausewitz for Political Conduct
    • Strategy, War, and the Relevance of Carl von Clausewitz

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

 Institute for Science & International Security

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

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalization

 International Crisis Group

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, January 12, 2021, v. 21, no. 1
    • Winter Coal Shortages Reveal Chinese Energy Vulnerabilities
    • Xi Jinping Boosts the Party's Control and His Own Authority
    • Trouble Finding Partners: Barriers to China’s Overseas Basing
    • Buying Silence: The Price of Internet Censorship in China
    • Year-End CCP Politburo Meetings Stress Political Loyalty—and Hint at Potential Shake-Ups in the Party Bureaucracy
  • Terrorism Monitor, January 15, 2021, v. 19, no. 1
    • American  ‘Boojahideen’:  The Boogaloo  Bois’ Blueprint for Extreme Libertarianism and Response to the Biden Administration
    • Boko Haram’s Pan-Nigerian Affiliate System after the Kankara Kidnapping: A Microcosm of Islamic State’s ‘External Provinces’
    • Inside Duterte’s Failed Response to the Philippines’ Communist Insurgency and the Appeal of New People’s Army among Indigenous Peoples

 Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

 Manhattan Institute

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Middle East Institute

 MITRE

 National Academies Press

 National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College

 NewSpace New Mexico

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 Nuclear Threat Initiative

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

 Our World in Data

 Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

 Pak Institute for Peace Studies

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

 Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

 Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

 Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 Simons Center

 Small Wars Journal

 Stimson Center

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UK National Audit Office (NAO)

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

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum