Friday, February 19, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 02-12-2021

 38 North

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 AidData

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies

 Arctic Institute

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

  • Made in China Journal, 2020, v. 5, no. 3
    • Fear in the Classroom: How Hong Kong’s National Security Law Suppresses Academic and Intellectual Freedom
    • Medical Disturbances as a Form of Patient Activism in China?
    • The Chongqing Model One Decade On
    • Migration and the Globalisation of Chinese Capital
    • Africa Drifters
    • Doing Time, Making Money at a Chinese State Firm in Angola
    • The Double-Tongued Dilemma: Translating Chinese Workers’ Relations in Mongolia
    • Building the New Macau: A Portrait of Chinese Construction Workers in Sihanoukville
    • Redefining ‘Labour’ Migration from a Sino-Japanese Perspective
    • Legal Remedies for China’s Overseas Workers
    • Transformation of Shen Kong Borderlands
    • Hong Kong, China: The Border as Palimpsest
    • Embodied Borders: The Sino-British Maritime Frontier, 1950–1957
    • From the Third Front to the Second Line: The Construction Soldiers of Shenzhen
    • Border at the Centre of Myth: Fishing Village, Caiwuwei, Shenzhen
    • Narrating Mobility as an Achievement on the Shenzhen–Hong Kong Border 
    • The Enduring Importance of Space Within a Virtual Border: The Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Trading Hall
    • Politically Correct Masks: Navigating the China–Hong Kong Border During COVID-19
    • Border as Sluice: Towards a Cultural Geography of the Shen Kong Borderlands
    • Workers and Change in China: A Conversation with Manfred Elfstrom
    • The Children of China’s Great Migration: A Conversation with Rachel Murphy

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

 Beyond Parallel

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

 CATO Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

 Center for Internet Security (CIS)

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

  • Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (JMSS), 2021, v. 20, no. 2
    • Slouching toward FUBAR? Thoughts on Recent Events in the US
    • Ottoman Campaigns in the First World War
    • The Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserves and Aid to the Civil Power Maximizing Service and Minimizing Risk for Canadians
    • ‘Defence Against Help’ Revisiting a Primary Justification for Canadian Participation in Continental Defence with the United States
    • The Unpredictable Course of Naval Innovation – The Guns of HMS Thunderer
    • Russian Strategic Culture after the Cold War: The Primacy of Conventional Force

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

 Climate 21 Project

 College of Europe

 Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

 Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Science Board (DSB)

 Defense360

 Department of Defense (DOD)

  • COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update, Feb. 10, 2021

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2021-053 Audit of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Sole Source Captains of Industry Strategic Support Contracts

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

  • OIG-21-19 CPB Needs to Improve the Oversight of Its Canine Program to Better Train and Reinforce Canine Performance (redacted)

 Department of State Office of the Historian

 Department of State OIG

 Egmont Institute

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Parliament

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, February 2021
    • Focus on Social Media: Effectively Managing Messages
    • Officer Wellness Spotlight: The Law Enforcement Family
    • Leadership Spotlight: Create Your Own Outline

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Freedom House

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

 Future Directions International

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

 German Development Institute

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Electronic Health Records: VA Has Made Progress in Preparing for New System, but Subsequent Test Findings Will Need to Be Addressed GAO-21-224
  • Freedom of Information Act: Update on Federal Agencies' Use of Exemption Statutes GAO-21-148
  • Immigration Detention: Actions Needed to Improve Planning, Documentation, and Oversight of Detention Facility Contracts GAO-21-149
  • Operation Warp Speed: Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Development Status and Efforts to Address Manufacturing Challenges GAO-21-319
  • Sexual Harassment and Assault: Guidance Needed to Ensure Consistent Tracking, Response, and Training for DOD Civilians GAO-21-113
  • Venezuela: Additional Tracking Could Aid Treasury's Efforts to Mitigate Any Adverse Impacts U.S. Sanctions Might Have on Humanitarian Assistance GAO-21-239

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

 Heritage Foundation

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

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

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • Terrorism Monitor, February 12, 2021, v. 19, no. 3
    • Neo-Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh’s Female Members Further Islamic State’s Recruitment and  Propaganda
    • Baluch Nationalist- Separatist Militant  Alliance Threatens  Pakistani Security Forces
    • Iran’s Resistance Axis  Rattled by Divisions: Asaib Ahl al-Haq’s Leader  Rejects the Ceasefire in Iraq

 Just Security

 Korea Economic Institute of America

 Lexington Institute

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Martens Centre for European Studies

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Migration Policy Institute

 MITRE

 National Academies Press

 National Defense University Press

  • Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  100 (1st Quarter, January 2021)
    • The Evolution of Special Operations as a Model for Information Forces
    • Harnessing the Power of Information: A Better Approach for Countering Chinese Coercion
    • Beyond Bean Bags and Rubber Bullets: Intermediate Force Capabilities Across the Competition Continuum
    • The “Next Training Revolution”: Readying the Joint Force for Great Power Competition and Conflict
    • Beneath the Crosshairs: Remotely Piloted Airstrikes as a Foreign Policy Tool
    • It’s Not Just About Cyber Anymore: Multidisciplinary Cyber Education and Training Under the New Information Warfare Paradigm
    • Logistics Under Fire: Changes for Meeting Dynamically Employed Forces
    • Independent and Credible: Advising Afghan Security Forces During the 2019 Presidential Election
    • The Myths of Lyme Disease: Separating Fact from Fiction for Military Personnel
    • Fight Tonight: Reenergizing the Pentagon for Great Power Competition
    • Modernizing the Operational Design of the Medical Readiness Training Exercise
    • A New Look at Operational Art: How We View War Dictates How We Fight It
    • Multidomain Ready: How Integrated Air and Missile Defense Is Leading the Way
    • Behind Enemy Plans: A Process-Tracing Analysis of Germany’s Operational Approach to a Western Invasion
    • Military Health System Preparedness in Humanitarian Action

 National Endowment for Defense (NED)

 National Security Archive

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 Observer Research Foundation

 Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

 Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

 Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

 RAND Corporation

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

  • SIGAR 21-17-FA U.S. Department of State’s Community-Based Demining Projects in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by Afghan Technical Consultants
  • SIGAR-21-18-LL Support for Gender Equality: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan
  • SIGAR-21-18-LL Support for Gender Equality: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan (INTERACTIVE)

 Sudd Institute

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

 Taylor & Francis

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

  World Economic Forum