Sunday, January 31, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 01-22-2021

 38 North 

·         Kim Yo Jong Stays in the Picture

·         North Korea’s Eighth Workers’ Party Congress: Putting Things Into Context

·         Post-Party Congress Clean-up in Pyongyang

·         SPA Session: Lowest Official Growth Rate in Decades

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats

·         Power Shift in the DRC Creaks open a Door to Reform

 American Enterprise Institute

·         AEI Polling Report: Reactions to January 6, Political Leadership, and COVID-19 Experiences

 Arms Control Association

·         Nuclear Challenges for the New U.S. Presidential Administration: The First 100 Days and Beyond

 Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington

·         Prospects for Biden Administration Arms Sales to the Gulf: Revolution or Reversion to Norm?

 Atlantic Council

·         Choosing Wisely: How The Biden Administration Can Build a Better Coalition On International Energy and Climate Policy in a Post-Covid World

·         How the Rest of the World Responds to the US-China Split

·         The Global Energy Agenda

·         Mapping Green Innovation Ecosystems: Evaluating the Success Factors for the World’s Leading Greentech-Innovation Centers

·         The United States, Germany, and World Order: New Priorities for a Changing Alliance

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

·         EU-Trends in 2021

 Baker Institute for Public Policy  

·         Climate Policy in 2021: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Action

·         How High-Income Countries Can Contribute to a More Sustainable Plastics Economy

·         Minerals and Materials for Energy: We Need to Change Thinking

·         Policies to Promote Economic Growth in the United States

·         Prioritize Engineered & Natural Solutions for Effective GHG Mitigation

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         After Coronavirus, Governments Must Promote Health, Empathy, and Solidarity

·         Arab and Iranian Responses to the Capitol Hill Riot

·         Arrival of Sa’ar 6 Ships Marks Evolution of Israeli Naval Doctrine

·         Debating Yad Vashem

·         The Common Israeli Destiny

·         The Hellenic Countries Are Integrating Into the Middle East

·         Not an “Existential Threat”—A Vital National Interest

·         Saudi Arabia Is Sending Joe Biden Mixed Messages

·         The True Nature of Tolerance

·         The Turkish Air Force: Flying into the Abyss?

·         What Can Israel Learn from the Descent of Lebanon?

·         Who Is Quds Force Chief Esmail Qaani?

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

·         Avoiding a Plastic Pandemic: The Future of Sustainability in a Post COVID-19 World

 Blair Institute for Global Change

·         Government by Algorithm: The Myths, Challenges and Opportunities

·         Populists in Power: Perils and Prospects in 2021

·         Prioritising Key Workers for Vaccination

·         Sunlit Uplands? Vaccine Rollout and the Return to Normality

 Brookings

·         6 Developments that Will Define AI Governance in 2021

·         Foresight Africa 2021

o    The Great Reset: Relaunching African Economies

o    Support for Public Health: Preparing for the Next Pandemic

o    Human Development: Protecting Vulnerable Populations

o    Private Sector Leadership: Building African Businesses and Creating Jobs

o    Continental Integration: Uniting a Revitalized Africa

o    Good Governance: Building Trust between People and Their Leader

·         How a New National Recovery Investment Corps Can Drive a Bottom-Up,Inclusive Economic Recovery

·         Gender-Based Violence in Primary Schools: Jamaica

·         Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: New Zealand

·         Tracking President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and Appointees: Diversity and Pace of Senate-Confirmed Positions

 Bruegel

·         Economic Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         What Canadians Need to Know About the Biden Inauguration

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Proportionate Deterrence: A Model Nuclear Posture Review

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

·         Disability Rights

 CATO Institute

·         Heterogeneous Effects of State Enterprise‐Zone Programs in the Shorter Run and Longer Run

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Networked: Techno-Democratic Statecraft for Australia and the Quad

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

·         The Black Sea … or a Black Hole?

 Center for Global Development

·         An Overview of the Impact of Proposed Cuts to UK Aid

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

·         Biden’s North Korea Challenge

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

·         An Evaluation of Online Security Guides for Journalists

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         30 Years Later Analysis in Combat — Desert Storm

·         Artificial Intelligence in Russia Issue 18, January 15, 2021

·         Racial Bias Audit of the Albany, New York Police Department

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

·         China’s STI Operations

·         Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains

·         The Semiconductor Supply Chain

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         The Biden Administration’s Impulse to US-EU Cooperation on Libya

·         Russian Analytical Digest No. 261: Environment

·         Trend Analysis Civil Protection 2030

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

·         A Space Policy Primer: Key Concepts, Issues, and Actors

·         Triggers and Effects of an Active Debris Removal Market

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         CSIS European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues

·         Toward a Brazil–U.S. Binational Institution

 Center on Global Energy Policy

·         To Bring Emissions-Slashing Technologies to Market, the United States Needs Targeted Demand-Pull Innovation Policies

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

·         Pacifism and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: A Relationship More Nuanced Than You Think?

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Ditchley Conference Report: COVID-19, the Global Economy and the Return of Power Politics

·         A New Transatlantic Consensus on Iran

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Democrats, Republicans Support Alliances, Disagree on International Organizations

 Clingendael Institute

·         Turkey's Love-In with Qatar: A Marriage of Convenience

 College of Europe

·         American LNG and the EU-Russia Relationship: The End of Moscow’s Energy Weapon?

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Baseline Budget Projections

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Social Protection, Caste and Ethnicity in Nepal: A New Social Contractor an Old Political Settlement?

·         The Becoming of Coal Mining and the Security Around It: The Case of Colombia

·         What to Do About China?: Forging a Compromise between the US and Europe in NATO

·         When Jihadists Broker Peace: Natural Resource Conflicts as Weapons ofWar in Mali’s Protracted Crisis

 Deep Cuts Commission

·         The TPNW [Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons] and the NPT [Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]

 Defense360

·         Surveillance, Situational Awareness, and Warning at the Conventional-Strategic Interface

 Department of Defense (DOD)

·         COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, January 21, 2021

·         Contractor Support of U.S. Operations in the USCENTCOM Area of Responsibility (January 2021)

·         Day One Message to the Force from Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III

·         Force Health Protection Guidance (Supplement 15) Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Laboratory Testing Services

·         Memorandum on Countering Sexual Assault and Harassment – Initial Tasking

·         Succession Plan for Jan. 20, 2021

·         USD(I&S) Memo on Security Clearance Appeals Process

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2021-046  Evaluation of the Aircraft Monitor and Control System’s Nuclear Certification [redacted]

·         DODIG-2021-047 Evaluation of Department of Defense Contracting Officer Actions on Questioned Direct Costs

 DISQO

·         Understanding the News: A Portrait of the Parler Audience

 Economic Research Forum

·         The Determinants of Defense Spending in the Gulf Region: Evidence fromSeemingly Unrelated Regressions

·         Exploring the Relationship between Electricity Consumption and Driversof Climate Change: A Functional Data Analysis Approach

 Egmont Institute

·         From One Master of Survival to Another: A Tardigrade’s Plea for NATO2030

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

·         Cumulative Economic Impact of Trade Agreements on EU Agriculture

·         Uplifting of COVID-19 Containment Measures in Europe

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

·         The Importance of Narrative in Nuclear Policymaking: A Study of theNuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

 European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Artificial Divide: How Europe and America Could Clash Over AI

·         The Crisis of American Power: How Europeans See Biden’s America

·         Power Surge: How the European Green Deal Can Succeed in Morocco andTunisia

·         Spoiler Alert: How Europe Can Save Diplomacy in Libya

 European Parliament

·         Economic Dialogue with the President of the Eurogroup

·         International Agreements in Progress - After Cotonou: Towards a New Agreement with the African, Caribbean and Pacific States

·         Mexico's Parliament and Other Political Institutions

·         The Proposed Amendments to the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism

·         Qualified Majority Voting in Foreign and Security Policy: Pros and Cons

·         Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy

·         Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ─ The 'Ban Treaty'

·         Understanding EU Action against Migrant Smuggling

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         EU Return Sponsorships: High Stakes, Low Gains?

·         Turning a New Vision Into Reality: What Next for the EU’s Role in Health?

·         Will Corporate Debt Choke the Post-COVID-19 Recovery?

 European Security and Defence College (ESDC)

·         The European Security and Defence College and Its Contribution to the Common Security and Defence Culture

 European Union

·         Air Pollution and COVID-19

·         Artificial Intelligence in Road Transport: Cost of Non-Europe Report:In-Depth Analysis

·         Atlas of the Human Planet 2020: Open Geoinformation for Research,Policy, and Action

·         China IPR SME Helpdesk: Managing IP as a Business Asset

·         Conflicts to Come: 15 Scenarios for 2030

·         Future of EU Agencies: Potential for More Flexibility and Cooperation

·         International Recommendations on Internally Displaced PersonsStatistics (IRIS)  

·         Securing Future COVID-19 Vaccines for Europeans 

·         Sustainable Batteries in Their Full Life-Oycle: A Step Forward Towards Circular Economy and Climate Neutrality

·         Upskilling, Reskilling and Prevention in Times of Crisis

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

·         2020 Report on CSIRT-LE Cooperation: Study of Roles and Synergies among Selected Countries

 European Values

·         Mapping Research: Comparing Foreign Influence in Georgia

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Covid-19 and the Changing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Landscape

·         Cuba's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Jamaica's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Nicaragua's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: The Challenges of RetainingPower

·         Exit from a Sparse Hegemony: Central Asia’s Place in a Transforming Liberal International Order

 French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs

·         China's Ambitions in Space: The Sky's the Limit

·         “New Southern Policy”, Korea’s Newfound Ambition in Search of Strategic Autonomy

·         Portugal and Lusophone Africa: Complex Postcolonial Relationships

 Future Directions International

·         India and the Strategic Salience of The Vanilla Islands

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

·         The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus: Amplifying Women's Contributions at the Grassroots

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

·         How Germany Can Work With Biden to Rebuild Trans-Atlantic Ties

 German Development Institute

·         Approaches for Supporting Smallholders in the Global South:Contentious Issues, Experiences, Syntheses

·         A Behavioural Perspective on the Drivers of Migration: Studying Economic and Social Preferences using the Gallup World Poll

·         Blockchain Technology in Supply Chains – What are the Opportunitiesfor Sustainable Development?

·         Can Integrated Social Protection Programmes Affect Social Cohesion?Mixed-Methods Evidence from Malawi

·         The Impact of Patient Capital on Job Quality, Investments and FirmPerformance: Cross-Country Evidence on Long-Term Finance

·         Puzzles of Political Change in the Middle East: Political Liberalisation, Authoritarian Resilience and the Question of Systemic Change

·         What are the Distributional Implications of Climate Policies? Recent Evidence from Developing Countries

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         China’s Health Diplomacy during Covid19

·         German Arms Exports and the Militari­sation of Arab States’ ForeignPolicies

·         Operation Barkhane and the Future of Intervention in the Sahel

·         Revolution Again in Kyrgyzstan: Forward to the Past?

·         Strategic Sovereignty in Energy Affairs  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Building Back Better with Distributed Computing

·         More Ambition, Please! Toward a New Agreement Between Germany and theUnited States

·         Vibrant Neighborhoods Forum: Leveraging Civic Engagement for SocialImpact

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

·         Alt-Tech and Online Organising After the Capitol Riots

·         Anti-5G, Infrastructure Sabotage, and COVID-19

·         Attack Dates as Terrorist Messaging

·         The Impact of the Capitol Attacks on Extremist Operational Security

·         “Take Nothing But Pictures, Leave Nothing But (Digital) Footprints”: Social Media Evidence From the US Capitol Siege Perpetrators

·         Turner Diaries: Defining a Movement

 Globsec

·         European Strategic Autonomy and Third Countries: the Defence Industrial Dimension

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Chemical Assessments: Annual EPA Survey Inconsistent with Leading Practices in Program Management GAO-21-156

·         Chemical Security: Overlapping Programs Could Better Collaborate to Share Information and Identify Potential Security Gaps GAO-21-12

·         Close Air Support: Actions Needed to Enhance Friendly Force Tracking Capabilities and Fully Evaluate Training GAO-21-99

·         DHS Annual Assessment: Most Acquisition Programs Are Meeting Goals but Data Provided to Congress Lacks Context Needed For Effective Oversight GAO-21-175

·         GPS Modernization: DOD Continuing to Develop New Jam-Resistant Capability, But Widespread Use Remains Years Away GAO-21-145

·         Health Care Funding: Federal Obligations to and Funds Received by Certain Organizations Involved in Health-Related Services, 2016 through 2018 GAO-21-188R

·         U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Information on the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program GAO-21-240R

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

·         Climate Security Assessment: A Methodology and Assessment of the Nexusbetween Climate Hazards and Security of Nations and Regions

·         Russia’s Unsustainable Business Model: Going All In on Oil and Gas

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

·         From Street-Based Activism to Terrorism and Political Violence: UK Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives at a Time of Transition

·         Researching the Evolution of Countering Violent Extremism

 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

·         Gender and Digitisation in Asia: Future Policy Pathways

 Heritage Foundation

·         Dangerous Nuclear Policy Idea No. 1: Unconditionally Extending New START for Five Years

·         The Top Five U.S. Priorities for European Policy in 2021

·         The New 2020 Tri-Service Maritime Strategy—“Advantage at Sea”

·         The U.S. Navy’s Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of NavalVessels

·         Why the U.S. Should Support Arctic Council Observer Status for Estonia

 Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response for the WHO Executive Board

·         Second Report on Progress

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

·         Five Free-Market Myths About Increasing Federal Research Funding

·         Robots and International Economic Development

·         Side Effects: How Renewable Energy Policies Drive Innovation in Complementary Grid Technologies

·         A U.S. Grand Strategy for the Global Digital Economy

·         Who Is Winning the AI Race: China, the EU, or the United States? —2021 Update

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         Operating in a Compromised Environment – Trusted Recovery from the SolarWinds Breach

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): The Project and its Prospects

·         India-GCC Relations: Looking Beyond the Pandemic

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

·         Horizontal Inequalities in Transition Countries: Guidelines for Better Practice

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         Strategic Survey for Israel 2020-2021 The Year of the Vaccine?Internal and External Challenges to National Security

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

·         A New European-American Agenda for Global Change with President Biden

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

·         Linking Business Environment Reform with Gender and Inclusion: A Studyof Business Licensing Reform in Indonesia

·         Towards Enriching Understandings of Freedom of Religion or Belief:Politics, Debates, Methodologies, and Practices

·         Trends in Conflict and Stability in the Indo-Pacific

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Equal Rights as a Basis for Just Peace: A European Paradigm Shift forIsrael/Palestine

·         NATO's Role in Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Arms Control: A (Critical) History

·         Reforming Multilateralism in Post-COVID Times. For a MoreRegionalised, Binding and Legitimate United Nations

·         Unlocking European Defence

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Sri Lanka in 2021: Foreign Policy Prognosis

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         ISIS and Sexual Terrorism: Scope, Challenges and the (Mis)Use of the Label 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

·         The Universe of Resilience: From Physics of Materials Through Psychology to National Security

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Understanding Salafi Jihadist Attitudes Towards Innovation

 International Crisis Group

·         Relaunching the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Considering the Protection of Civilians during UN Peacekeeping Transitions

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

·         The Middle East's Game of Drones: The Race to Lethal UAVs and Its Implications for the Region's Security Landscape

·         Post-Pandemic Asia: A New Normal for Regional Security?

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Covid Performance Index: Deconstructing Pandemic Responses

 Martens Centre for European Studies

·         Europe and Biden: Towards a New Transatlantic Pact?

 Middle East Institute

·         COVID-19 & Conflict in the Middle East

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Obscure but Powerful: Shaping U.S. Immigration Policy through Attorney General Referral and Review

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

·         Desert Storm: 30 Years Later

 MITRE

·         MITRE’s University Innovation Exchange For Space: Using Space Research to Address Enterprise-Wide Problems

 National Defence University (Pakistan)

·         ISSRA  Papers (Journal of Governance and Public Policy) v. 12, 2020

o    National Narrative Building: Role of Academia, Think Tanks and Media

o    Road to Medina: Future in the Past

o    Policing the Police: A Democratic Exiguity in Pakistan

o    Anti-Corruption Investigation Agencies in Pakistan: An Appraisal

o    Accountability in Pakistan: An Academic Perspective

o    An Analysis of International Organizations’ Independent Role in Contemporary World Politics

o    Peace Characterization of Pakistan: Corroboration from Pakistan’s UN Peacekeeping Missions

o    CPD of University Teachers in Pakistan: Challenges and Prospects

o    Analysing Attitudes towards Democracy in Pakistan Using World Values Survey

o    Modi's Plan of Action in Kashmir and Pakistan's New Political Map

o    China's Strategic and Commercial Relations with Pakistan: Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects

o    Parental Religious Orientation as a Predictor of Identity Styles of University Students

·         NDU Journal v. 34, 2020

o    Evaluating India-China Tactical Military Standoff through Strategic Lens

o    Pakistan's Fight Against the Menaces of Terrorism Financing and Money Laundering

o    Critical Discourse Analysis of Paigham-E-Pakistan (Unanimous Fatwa): Counter-Narrative to Religious Extremism in Pakistan

o    Legitimacy of India's Hegemonic Claims in South Asia: A Security Perspective

o    Emerging Security Alliances in Eurasian Region

o    Cold Start - Hot Stop? A Strategic Concern for Pakistan

o    Cyber Security Challenges in South Asia and Room for Cyber Diplomacy

o    Pakistan's Nuclear Security Regime: Potential Threats, Risk Assessment and Risk Management for Safe Future

o    Indian Aqua Aggression: Investigating The Impact of Indus Water Treaty (IWT) on Future of India-Pakistan Water Dispute

o    Indian Media: Feeding The War Hysteria or A Peace Dividend?

o    Low Yield Nuclear Weapons and Scope of Limited War Between India and Pakistan

 

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         Security & Strategy, v. 1, no. 1, 2021

o    “Belt and Road” vs. “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”: Competition over Regional Order and ASEAN’s Responses

o    Improving “Medical Readiness” of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force: Drawing on the Lessons from the United States Army

o    A Study of the Correlation between Local Head/Representative Elections and Presidential Elections in Taiwan

o    The Soviet Military Leadership’s Perceptions of Japan during World War II

o    Compellence in Peace Operations: United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

·         NISTIR 8322 Workshop Summary Report for “Building the Federal Profile For IoT Device Cybersecurity” Virtual Workshop

·         SP 800-171 Rev. 2  Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations 

 National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

·         National Strategy to Secure 5G Implementation Plan

 NATO Defense College

·         Operation Althea and the Virtues of the Berlin Plus Agreement

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

·         Data Brokers and Security

·         Falsification of History as a Tool of Influence

 Naval War College

·         International Law Studies, 2021, v. 97

o    Command Accountability forAI Weapon Systems in the Law of Armed Conflict

o    Encirclement, Deprivation,and Humanity: Revising the San Remo Manual Provisions on Blockade

o    Maritime AutonomousSurface Ships: New Possibilities—and Challenges—in Ocean Law and Policy

o    Israel’s Perspective onKey Legal and Practical Issues Concerning the Application of International Law to Cyber Operations

 New America

·         Defining Endless Wars: The First Step Towards Ending Them

·         Whither the IRGC of the 2020s? Is Iran’s Proxy Warfare Strategy of Forward Defense Sustainable?

 Observer Research Foundation

·         Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech Online: Regulation and User Behavioural Change

·         East Asia’s History Wars

·         Extreme Heat Events in India’s Cities: A Framework for Adaptive Action Plans

·         From War Zone to China’s Poster Child, to Economic Despair: Angola’s40-Year Journey

·         A Policy Agenda for India’s Union Budget 2021-22

·         Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery: Seven Priorities for India

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)

·         Conversations with Rural Law Enforcement Leaders: Volume 1

·         Conversations with Rural Law Enforcement Leaders: Volume 2

·         Recruiting and Retaining Officers in Small and Rural Agencies

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

·         Combating Organized Crime in South-East Europe: Asset Seizure, Confiscation, Management and Re-use

·         Integrating the Issue of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Detention Monitoring: A Guidance Note for Oversight Mechanisms

·         Training Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism: Curriculum for Youth Leaders

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Does the Dollar Have an Outsized Effect on Trade Prices?

·         Fiscal Resiliency in a Deeply Uncertain World: The Role of Semiautonomous Discretion

 Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         British, French and German Publics Give Biden High Marks After U.S.Election

 Policy Exchange

·         Closing the COVID 19 Data Gap

·         Ten Ways to Improve the Overseas Operations Bill

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Biden’s Inauguration and First Executive Orders

·         Biden’s Most Urgent Task: Fighting the Pandemic

·         Franco-British Relations after Brexit

·         Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case Georgia v.Russia

·         Laschet Elected Chairman of CDU

·         NATO on the Road to a New Strategy

·         Towards Implementation of the Recovery Fund: Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Capital Flight from Africa: Channels, Actors, Enablers

·         War on Development in Syria: An Interview with Omar Dahi

 RAND Corporation

·         Australia's Third Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children, Priority Area 2: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and Their Children — Final Report

·         Can Artificial Intelligence Help Improve Air Force Talent Management?

·         Compensation and Benefits for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workers: A Comparison of the Federal Government and the Private Sector

·         Identifying Systemic Bias in the Acquisition of Machine Learning Decision Aids for Law Enforcement Applications

·         Implementing Restraint: Changes in U.S. Regional Security Policies toOperationalize a Realist Grand Strategy of Restraint

·         Measuring Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effectivenessat the United States Central Command: Data Visualization Tool Documentation

·         Measuring Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effectiveness at the United States Central Command

o    Tool Documentation

·         Media Literacy Standards to Counter Truth Decay

·         Modernizing Officer Career Management: Analyzing Eleven Issues

·         Officer Career Management: Additional Steps Toward Modernization

·         Regional Responses to U.S.-China Competition in the Indo-Pacific:Indonesia

·         Telehealth after COVID-19: Clarifying Policy Goals for a Way Forward

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         The Silent Threat: The Impact of Fraud on UK National Security

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         The Besieged Capital: Militarisation of Washington DC

·         China-Australia: Estranged Partners

·         The Biden Presidency – Biden’s Science Policy: U-Turn from Trump

·         The Growing Challenge of the Extreme Right

·         Measures of Economic Vulnerability & Inter-dependency in the Global Economy

·         Minilateralism for Multilateralism in the Post-COVID Age

·         Russia’s Foreign Policy in 2021

 Small Wars Journal

·         Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 34: The Ranfla Indictment and the Command and Control (C2) Targeting of MS-13’s ‘Board of Directors’ in El Salvador

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         Egypt’s Quest for a Nuclear Future

·         A Strategic Consideration of the African Union Free Movement of Persons Protocol and Other Initiatives Towards the Freer Movement of People inAfrica

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Climate-Related Security Risks in the 2020 Updated Nationally Determined Contributions

 Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Veteran Disability Compensation and the Army Profession: Good Intentions Gone Awry

 Sudd Institute

·         The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic in South Sudan: An Update

·         The National Dialogue Final Resolutions: What the Presidency Should Do

·         Sitting on a Time Bomb: Oil Pollution Impacts on Human Health in Melut County, South Sudan

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

·         Syrian Organizations Respond to the UN Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures

 Taylor & Francis

·         Terrorism & Political Violence, January-February 2021, v. 33, no. 1

o    The Release and CommunitySupervision of Radicalised Offenders: Issues and Challenges that Can Influence Reintegration [open access article]

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

·         A Roadmap to Strengthen US Cyber Enforcement: Where Do We Go From Here?

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

·         Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 in Asia and the Pacific and Designing Policy Responses: An Excel-Based Model

·         Constructing a New Benchmark for Cambodian National Accounts

·         Inequality in Access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in East and North-East Asia and South- East Asia

·         North and Central Asia: An Analysis of the Beijing+25 Review Reports

·         Trade Facilitation in Times of Crisis and Pandemic: Practices and Lessons from the Asia-Pacific

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

·         Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity

·         Nuclear Verification in a Middle East WMD-Free Zone: Lessons from Past Verification Cases and Other Precedents

·         Some Thoughts on the Logic of Strategic Arms Control: Three Perspectives

 UN Women

·         Handbook on Gender-Responsive Police Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence

 Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation

·         Deep Cuts: The TPNW and the NPT

·         Nuclear Verification in a Middle East WMD Free Zone

·         The Transformative Impact of COVID-19 on the Korean Peninsula

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After Sparking the Arab Spring, Is Tunisia Still a Success Story?

·         Changing of the Guard: New Iraqi Militia Trends and Responses

·         End of the Qatar Embargo: An Opportunity, not Threat, for Turkey

·         Gas in Iraqi Kurdistan: Market Realities, Geopolitical Opportunities

·         Riots Erupt in Tunisia

·         What Did the Confirmation Hearings Reveal About Biden’s Middle East Policy?

 White House

·         National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

 Wilson Center

·         3 Things to Watch in 2021: Africa

·         3 Things to Watch in 2021: Asia

·         From Trump to Biden: Mexican Public Opinion and AMLO's Rhetoric

·         Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies are Weaponized against Women Online

·         Putting Citizens' Security First: Towards a New Chapter in U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation

·         The Transfer of Soviet Prisoners of War from Afghanistan to Switzerland, 1982-1984

 World Economic Forum

·         Connecting Countries and Cities for Regional Value Chain Integration:Operationalizing the AfCFTA

·         A Framework for the Safe and Efficient Global Movement of Batteries

·         The Global Risks Report 2021

·         Learning Lessons from Across Europe: Prioritizing Lung Cancer after COVID-19