Friday's Miscellany 05-14-2021 & 05-21-2021

 38 North

• Missile Deployments on the Korean Peninsula: An Accelerating Arms Race
  
• North Korea’s Cement Industry: More Than Meets the Eye 
• Rakwon: North Korea’s Video Conferencing Paradise
  
• Strategic Value, but Limited Prospects: North Korea’s Cement Industry
  

 Amnesty International

• Kyrgyzstan: Mapping The State of Human Rights Education in Formal Secondary Education in Kyrgyzstan
  
• Peru: Failed State of Health: Health Emergency In Indigenous Peoples of Espinar, Peru
  

 Arctic Council

• Arctic Council Repository
  

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), April 2021, v. 28, no. 4
  
• Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Initiation and Completion among Active Component Service Members and Health Care Personnel, 11 December 2020–12 March 2021
• Update: Heat Illness, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2020
• Update: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020
• Update: Exertional Hyponatremia, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2005–2020
• Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, January 2016–September 2020

 Army University Press

• Mustering for War
  

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Implications of the Biden-Suga Summit for Moon’s US Visit
  

 Association of the United States Navy (AUSN)

• Rebuilding U.S. Naval Fleet Strength from the Ground Up
  

 Atlantic Council

• China-LAC Trade: Four Scenarios in 2035
  
• COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker: Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• Europe Needs to Take A  Lead On Iraq
  
• Falling in: The Deterrent Value of Host Nation Support in the Baltic Sea Region
  
• Growing Green: Catalyzing Climate Finance in African Markets
  
• Mission Resilience: Adapting Defense Serospace to Evolving Cybersecurity Challenges
  
• Predictable Strategy And Unpredictable Operations: The Implications Of Agility In Northern Europe
  
• What Would Winston Do? Cooperative Approaches Toward Securing the Five Eyes Information Environment
  

 Australian National University – Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

• Challenges to the Australian Strategic Imagination
  

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• An Australian Strategy for the Quantum Revolution
  
• Family De-planning: The Coercive Campaign to Drive Down Indigenous Birth-Rates in Xinjiang
  
• Stronger Together: US Force Posture in Australia’s North—a US Perspective on Australia’s Strategic Geography
  

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Handbook on CSDP – The Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union, Vol. I, 4th ed.
  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• The Future of Houston as Energy Transitions
  

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• What Will the EU Look Like Post-Pandemic? Ten Challenges for a Europe in Search of Recovery
  

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Al-Qaeda in Iran Threatens the US and Israel
  
• The China-Led WHO Report on Coronavirus Is Deeply Suspect
  
• Hamas is Undermining Israel’s Sovereignty in Jerusalem
  
• Hamas Must Be Comprehensively Routed
  
• Ideology Is Losing. China Is Winning
  
• Iran Might Purge Its Intelligence and Counterintelligence Community
  
• Israel’s Arabs v. Israel
  
• Israeli Appeasement and Palestinian Violence
  
• The Israeli Arabs’ Self-Destructive Behavior
  
• The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and Its Jewish Supporters
  
• The Jihad Within Israel
  
• The Khatam al-Anbiya Camp and the Future of the Revolutionary Guards’ Empire
  
• Playing Politics: Saudi Arabia Targets Middle America
  
• The Quest for the Coronavirus Progenitor: Integrating Intelligence and Science
  
• Security Implications of the Iran-China Deal
  
• The Two Faces of American Foreign Policy
  
• What the Recently Leaked Recordings Reveal About Iran
  

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

• Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• From Sea to Shining Sea: A Bold Bipartisan Plan to Rebuild American Infrastructure
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Deliver Better: How Government Can Facilitate Recovery and Transformation in Africa
  
• Should Tech Make Us Optimistic About Climate Change?
  
• Two Barriers to Normal
  

 Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

• Resist, Reform or Re-Run: Short- and Long-Term Reflections on Scotland and Independence Referendums
  

 Brookings

• Biden’s China Strategy: Coalition-driven Competition or Cold War-style Confrontation?
  
• The COVID-19 Experience Shows Government Budgeting can Become More Nimble
  
• Increasing Federal Investment in Children’s Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability
  
• Pandemic Population Change across Metro America: Accelerated Migration, Less Immigration, Fewer Births and More Deaths
  
• A Proposal for a Federal Paid Parental and Medical Leave Program
  
• Striking a Deal to Strengthen Broadband Access for All
  
• US Military Options to Enhance Arctic Defense
  
• We Can’t Beat the Climate Crisis without Rethinking Land Use
  

Brown University Costs of War Project

• The Costs of War to United States Allies Since 9/11
  

 Bruegel

• Accounting for Climate Policies in Europe’s Sovereign Debt Market
  
• Reducing Mobility of SARS-CoV-2 Variants to Safeguard Containment
  
• Research and Innovation Policies and Productivity Growth
  

 Canadian Coalition Against Terror (C-CAT) and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

• Protecting Innocents in Combat: A Proposed New Act to Sanction and Deter Foreign Actors from Using Human Shields
  

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• The U.K. Applies to Join the CPTPP: What are the Implications for Canada?
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Measuring Trade Facilitation: Evidence from India
  
• Tracking Reforms in Land Leasing and Change in Land Use: Insights From Gujarat and Karnataka
  

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

• Biden's 100 Days
  
• Data as Collectively Generated Patterns: Making Sense of Data Ownership  
• The Promise and Pitfalls of the Facebook Oversight Board
  

 CATO Institute

• China: Rise or Demise?
  
• Criminal Immigrants in Texas in 2019: Illegal Immigrant Conviction Rates and Arrest Rates for Homicide, Sex Crimes, Larceny, and Other Crimes
  

 Center for Global Development

• Win-Win? The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and its Impacts on the Pakistani Economy

 Center for International Policy

• The Saudi Lobby in 2020
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• AI and Industry: Postings and Media Portrayals
  
• China’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance: Understanding China’s AI Strategy Through Industry Alliances
  
• Outline of the People’s Republic of China 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Range Objectives for 2035 [translation]
  
• Truth, Lies, and Automation: How Language Models Could Change Disinformation
  

 Center for Security Policy

• Space Weapons: A Briefing with Recommendations for the Biden Administration
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest No. 268: The State of the Russian Economy
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Covid-19 Response Update: April 30-May 7
  
• Five Years of DREAMS and What Lies Ahead
  
• Mapping the National Security Industrial Base: Policy Shaping Issues
  
• Open Letter Calling for Urgent High-Level US Leadership to Address Escalating Global COVID-19 Vaccine Crisis
  
• Open Letter to the Biden Administration and US Congress Calling for Urgent High-Level US Leadership to Address Escalating Global COVID-19
• Vaccine Crisis
  
• Reshore, Reroute, Rebalance: A U.S. Strategy for Clean Energy Supply Chains
  
• Sustainable States: Environment, Governance, and the Future of the Middle East
  
• Vaccine Confidence & National Security in the Covid-19 Crisis
  
• What Has Covid-19 Taught Us about Strengthening the DOD’s Global Health Security Capacities?
  
• When Vaccine Confidence Becomes National Security
  

 Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

• In the Shadow of a Missile: Assessing the Armenian Military's SS-26 Iskander Debacle
  

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The Cost of Brexit: March 2021
  
• EU Foreign, Security and Defence Policy Co-operation with Neighbours: Mapping Diversity

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Quantifying Trade Secret Theft: Policy Implications
  

 Chatham House

• Myths and Misconceptions in the Debate on Russia
  
• Reforming Venezuela’s Oil and Gas Sector: An Analysis of Competing Fiscal, Contractual and Institutional Regimes
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Ahead of Biden-Moon Summit, South Koreans and Americans Align on China and North Korea
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• China's Ballistic Missile Industry
  
• China's System: Face to Face - In their Own Words
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Financial Disruption and Fragile Markets
  

 Coalition for a Safer Web

• How Digital Platforms Enable the War against American Government
  

 College of Europe

• The EU’s Permanent Structured Cooperation, NATO, and the US: beyond a Zero-Sum Game
  

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, June 2021, v. 14, no. 5  
• The Insider Threat: Far-Right Extremism in the German Military and Police
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Idriss Mounir Lallali, Deputy Director, African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT)
• The Threat Is the Network: The Multi-Node Structure of Neo-Fascist Accelerationism
• Iran’s Currency Laundromats in the Emirates

 Congress. House. Appropriations Committee

• Air Force Quality of Life and Installations Update
  
• Global Climate Finance
  
• Mental Health Emergencies: Building a Robust Crisis Response System
  
• Navy and Marine Corps Quality of Life and Installations Update
  
• The Need for Universal Broadband: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection Resource Management and Operational Priorities
  
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Resource Management and Operational Priorities
  

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

• Operations in Cyberspace and building Cyber Capabilities Across the Department of Defense
  
• Posture and Readiness of the Mobility Enterprise
  
• Recommendations of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
  
• Reviewing Department of Defense Science and Technology Strategy, Policy, and Programs for Fiscal Year 2022: Fostering a Robust Ecosystem for Our Technological Edge
  
• An Update on Afghanistan
  

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Driving a Global, Whole-of-Society Response to Climate Action
  
• A Race against Time: Deploying Vaccines and Addressing the Disproportionate Impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• The U.S.-Afghanistan Relationship Following the Military Withdrawal
  

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

• Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre
  
• An Unending Crisis: Essential Steps to Reducing Gun Violence and Mass Shootings
  

 Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

• The Capitol Insurrection: Unexplained Delays and Unanswered Questions
  
• Examining Next Steps for U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan
  

 Congress. House. Science, Space, and Technology Committee

• COVID-19 Variants and Evolving Research Needs
  

 Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

• Federal Real Estate Post-COVID-19 Part One: A View from The Private Sector
  

 Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee

• Domestic Violent Extremism in America
  
• Military Infrastructure and Climate Resilience
  
• National Guard and Reserve
  
• Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Resiliency, Part I: Protecting Our Nation’s Transportation Systems
  
• Rethinking Disaster Recovery and Resiliency, Part 2: Protecting Communities and Accelerating Assistance  
• Review of the FY2022 Budget Blueprint for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  

 Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

• Cybersecurity of the Defense Industrial Base
  
• Department of Defense Budget Posture for Nuclear Forces in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program
  
• Department of Energy’s Atomic Defense Activities and Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2022 and Future Years Defense Program
  
• Military and Civilian Personnel Programs in the Department of Defense in Review on the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program
  

 Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

• Freight Mobility: Strengthening America’s Supply Chains and Competitiveness
  
• Protecting Kids Online: Internet Privacy and Manipulative Marketing
  

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

• COVID-19 Pandemic and the International Response
  

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

• COVID-19 Part II: Evaluating the Medical Supply Chain and Pandemic Response Gaps
  
• DHS Actions to Address Unaccompanied Minors at the Southern Border
  
• Examining the Role of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis
  
• Examining the Findings and Recommendations of GAO’s 2021 Report on Duplication, Overlap, Fragmentation and Opportunities to Achieve Financial Benefits
  
• Prevention, Response, and Recovery: Improving Federal Cybersecurity Post-SolarWinds
  

 Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

• The Essential Role of Immigrant Workers in America  
• Stop Gun Violence: Ghost Guns
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Discretionary Spending in H.R. 3237 - Emergency Security Supplemental to Respond to January 6th Appropriations Act, 2021
  
• An Overview of the 2021 Long-Term Budget Outlook
  
• The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer, 2021 Update
  

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Major Power Rivalry in Africa
  

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• Melting Mountains, Mounting Tensions: Climate Change and the India-China Rivalry
  

 Cyber Policy Center

• One Face, Many Names: An Investigation into Fake NGOs and Media Outlets Linked to Harouna Douamba on and off Facebook
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2021, v. 22  
• China’s Manipulative Use of Climate Change
  
• Goldilocks Power and the Reform of Irregular Warfare in a Changing World
  
• Rebalance U.S. Coast Guard Cutters to Help Advance a ‘Free and Open’ Indo-Pacific
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies  (DIIS)

• Religion, Conflict and Global Society: A Festschrift Celebrating Mark Juergensmeyer
  
• Violence and Fragmentation in Congo’s Political Marketplace
  
• West Africa Security Perspectives
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update
• May 19, 2021
  
• May 12, 2021
  
• Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, Fiscal Year 2020
  
• Memorandum on Updated Mask Guidelines for Vaccinated Persons
  

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-085 Evaluation of the Department of Defense’s Handling of Incidents of Sexual Assault Against (or Involving) Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy
  
• Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom’s Sentinel I Quarterly Report to the United States Congress I January 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin, May 14, 2021  
• Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

 Department of Homeland Security OIG

• OIG-21-34 CBP Leaders’ Handling of Social Media Misconduct  
• OIG-21-35 DHS Law Enforcement Components Did Not Consistently Collect DNA from Arrestees
  

 Department of State

• 2020 International Religious Freedom Report
  
• Previous reports
  

 Department of State OIG

• ISP-I-21-18 Targeted Inspection of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Office of Special Investigations
  
• Lead Inspector General Report to the United States Congress Operation Freedom's Sentinel January 1, 2021–March 31, 2021   

 Department of the Treasury OIG

• OIG-CA-21-021 Operation Inherent Resolve - Summary of Work Performed by the Department of the Treasury Related to Terrorist Financing, ISIS, and Anti-Money Laundering for Second Quarter Fiscal Year

 East West Center

• Regional Connectivity in the Bay of Bengal
  

 Egmont Institute

• The EU and China: Sanctions, Signals, and Interests
  

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Examining the Causes of Femicide in Kazakhstan
  
• The Many Faces of Polygyny in Kazakhstan
  

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

• Assessing Smart Specialisation: Governance
  
• EU Ecosystem Assessment
  

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• Follow‐up: COVID‐19 Vaccination for Applicants and Beneficiaries of International Protection
  

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

• The Concept of Hybrid War in Russia: A National Security Threat and Means of Strategic Coercion
  
• Cyber-Biosecurity: How to Protect Biotechnology from Adversarial AI Attacks
  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Rome’s Moment: Draghi, Multilateralism, and Italy’s New Strategy
  

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

• Open Skies in the Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities
  

 European Parliament

• Defence Industry Cooperation in the European Union: Rationale, Initiatives, Achievements, Challenges
  

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Balkan Youth Speaks Up About Digital Issues: Lessons for the Conference on the Future of Europe
  
• National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Empowering the Green and Digital Transitions?
  

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Implementing the Peace Agreement in Colombia
  

 European Values

• The Most Dangerous Lies Spread during the Pandemic Crisis
  

 EUROPOL

• European Migrant Smuggling Centre 5th Annual Report - 2021
  

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, May 2021
  
• Taser’s Evolution Through the Courts
• Perspective: SWAT Team Activation—When, Why, and How
• Community Outreach Spotlight: Caught Doing Something Right
• Leadership Spotlight – What Works for You?

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) & Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism
  

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• COVID-19 Pandemic Operational Guidance: All-Hazards Incident Response and Recovery
  

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  

 Finnish Defence Forces

• Finnish Military Intelligence Review 2021
  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• The Geostrategic Interests of External Actors in Myanmar: A Struggle for Influence in a Country in Turmoil
  
• Water and Fire at Kyrgyz-Tajik Border: Ferghana Valley’s Security Environment Could Take a Turn for the Worse
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• China’s Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capability in the South China Sea
  
• Instability and Interrelated Conflict: Evolving Security Dynamics in the Middle East
  
• Russia’s Nuclear Activity in 2020: A Show of Strength Despite COVID-19
  
• Small Islands, Global Challenges: Greece, COVID, and Mediterranean Migration
  
• The Tension Between Secrecy and Innovation
  
• Understanding the Origins of Pan-Islamism during World War I
  

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

• Great-Britain and Africa : Boris Johnson's Strategic Reversals
  

 Friends of Europe

• All Resilience is Local
  
• Crossing the Wilderness: Europe and the Sahel
  

 Future Directions International

• Challenges and Opportunities in the Australia-Indonesia Cattle Trade
  
• Pakistan’s Dilemma: To Love or Hate Its Eastern Neighbour?
  

 German Development Institute

• Dissecting Aid Fragmentation: Development Goals and Levels of Analysis
  
• EU-China Engagement in Humanitarian Aid: Different Approaches, Shared Interests?
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Russia in the Global Hydrogen Race
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Central Europe’s Radical Right and EU Foreign Policy
  
• Chinese Maritime Coercion in East Asia: What Tools Can be Used to Respond? [testimony]
  
• Not Just a Summit: Building the Democracy Support Engine Room
  
• Policy Towards China and the Indo-Pacific under the Biden Administration
  
• The West Is Not the World 
  

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• All roads lead to Rome: Towards a Coordinated Multilateral Response to Organized Crime and Corruption
  
• Exploited in Plain Sight: An Assessment of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Protection Responses in the Western Balkans
  
• The Forgotten Ones: Relatives of Murdered and Disappeared Journalists in Mexico
  
• Illicit Gold Markets in East and Southern Africa
  
• Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe
  
• Rethinking Resilience: The Role of Women in Community Responses to Organized Crime
  
• Zero Risk Mentality: The Damaging Effect of AML/CFT Measures for Civil Society  

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Defining the Delta Between Hashed Terrorist Content and All Terrorist Content
  
• The Digital Transformations of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in the Battle Against Online Propaganda
  
• Examining Online Indicators of Extremism in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Biodefense: DHS Exploring New Methods to Replace BioWatch and Could Benefit from Additional Guidance GAO-21-292
  
• COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: Most Homes Had Multiple Outbreaks and Weeks of Sustained Transmission from May 2020 through January 2021 GAO-21-367
  
• COVID-19 Pandemic: VA Provides Health Care Assistance to Civilians as Part of the Federal Response GAO-21-395
  
• Cyber Insurance: Insurers and Policyholders Face Challenges in an Evolving Market GAO-21-477
  
• Defense Intelligence and Security: DOD Needs to Establish Oversight Expectations and to Develop Tools That Enhance Accountability GAO-21-295
  
• Defense Navigation Capabilities: DOD is Developing Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Technologies to Complement GPS GAO-21-320SP
  
• FAA Workforce: Better Assessing Employees' Skill Gaps Could Help FAA Prepare for Changes in Technology GAO-21-310
  
• Foreign Assistance: State Department Should Better Assess Results of Efforts to Improve Financial and Some Program Data GAO-21-373
  
• Military Housing Privatization: DOD Should Improve Oversight of Property Insurance and Natural Disaster Recovery GAO-21-418
  
• NASA: Assessments of Major Projects GAO-21-306 
  
• Physical Infrastructure: Preliminary Observations on Options for Improving Climate Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure GAO-21-561T [testimony]
  
• President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: State Should Improve Data Quality and Assess Long-term Resource Needs GAO-21-374
  
• Puerto Rico Recovery: FEMA Made Progress in Approving Projects, But Should Identify and Assess Risks to the Recovery GAO-21-264  
• Superfund: EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Manage Risks from Climate Change Effects GAO-21-555T [testimony]
  
• Veterans' Growing Demand for Mental Health Services GAO-21-545SP
  

 Graphika

• Ants in a Web
  

 Heritage Foundation

• The Biden Administration Must Defend Americans Targeted by the International Criminal Court
  
• Congress Should Avoid Changes That Would Erode the Military Justice System
• The United States Innovation and Competition Act
  
• South Korean President Must Deliver in Meeting with President Biden  

 Hudson Institute

• The Atrocities Against Uyghurs and Other Minorities in Xinjiang
  

 Human Rights Watch

• “Years Don’t Wait for Them” Increased Inequalities in Children’s Right to Education Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
  

 Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response

• COVID-19: Make it the Last Pandemic [main report & Background documents]
  
• Core documents
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Broadband Myth Series: Do We Need Symmetrical Upload and Download Speeds?
  
• “Building Back Better” Requires Building In Digital
  
• Industry by Industry: More Chinese Mercantilism, Less Global Innovation
  
• Refining the Biden Broadband Proposal
  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Chinese Power: Trends in Engagement and Containment
  

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

• Defence Innovation: New Models and Procurement Implications. The British Case
  
• Defence Innovation: New Models and Procurement Implications. The German Case
  
• Linking PESCO and EDF: Mechanisms and Political Choices
  

 Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

• PLA Overseas Operations in 2035: Inching Toward a Global Combat Capability
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Operation Guardian of the Walls: Envisioning the End
  
• Operation Guardian of the Walls: The Need for an Integrated Multi-Front Strategy
  

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Unknown Amad Sites, Prior to the Nuclear Archive Seizure
  

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Dealing with a Difficult Past: Time to Revitalise the Ethiopian Reconciliation Commission?
  

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

• The Cloud Caliphate: Archiving the Islamic State in Real Time
  
• A Snapshot of Far-Right Activity on Gab in Australia
  

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

• Biden’s Geo-Economics Forces De-Globalization
  
• NATO’s Pivot Towards the Quad: Implications for Taiwan
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• ISIS and Iranian-backed Militias Compete to Control Baghdad Region
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Inclusion in Crisis Response, Recovery and Resilience
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Natural Gas in South-east Asia: Key Trends and Long-term Outlook
  
• The Transatlantic Dimension of Europe's Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran: 2003–21
  

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Chinese Defence Minister’s Visit to Sri Lanka: A New Dynamic to Bilateral Ties
  
• COVID-19 Lockdown in India: Impact on the Poor and the Government’s Response
  
• Europe’s Indo-Pacific Adoption: Two Southeast Asian Challenges
  
• The European Union-India Connectivity Partnership: Enlarging Choices, Challenging China
  
• India Records High Agricultural Export Growth amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Mohamed Nasheed Attacked: Rise of Islamic Radicalism in the Maldives
  
• Pakistan’s Struggle Within: Religious Politics and Interfaith Harmony
  
• Sri Lanka in a Post COVID-19 World: Balancing Ties with the Great Powers
  

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Evolution of Jihadism in Finland
  

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• A Northern Agenda for an Open and Secure Europe
  

 International Crisis Group

• Myanmar’s Military Struggles to Control the Virtual Battlefield
  
• The Risks of a Rigged Election in Nicaragua
  

 International Energy Agency (IEA)

• The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions
  

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• The Evolving Nature of China’s Military Diplomacy: From Visits to Vaccines
  
• Missile Developments in South Asia: A Perspective from Pakistan
  
• Missile Multinational: Iran’s New Approach to Missile Proliferation
  
• Open-Source Analysis of Iran’s Missile and UAV Capabilities and Proliferation
  

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Protection, Justice, and Accountability: Cooperation between the International Criminal Court and UN Peacekeeping Operations
  
• A UN for All? UN Policy and Programming on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics
  

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

• Models for Tackling Lebanon's Electricity Crisis
  

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Russia’s Foreign Policy: The Internal-International Link
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, May 7, 2021, v. 21, no. 9
  
• Tianhe Launch Marks a Key Step in China's Growing Space Ambitions
• China’s Port Investments in Sri Lanka Reflect Competition with India in the Indian Ocean
• The PLA Navy’s ZHANLAN Training Series: Supporting Offensive Strike on the High Seas
• Legal Obstacles to #MeToo Cases in China’s Courts
• Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia, Part Two: Developments in Kazakhstan
• Terrorism Monitor, May 7, 2021, v. 19, no. 9
  
• Maximum Pressure: Turkey’s Anti-PKK Counter-Terrorism Campaigns in Northern Iraq
• Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: Is China in its Crosshairs?
• Abu Walaa’s Islamic State Network and Germany’s Counter-Terrorism Prosecutions

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

• Tickling the Sleeping Dragon’s Tail: Should We Resume Nuclear Testing?
  

 Korea Institute for National Unification

• Evaluation of Biden Administration’s North Korean Policy after a Review and the ROK’s Response
  

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Countering China’s Adventurism over Taiwan: A Third Way
  

 Manhattan Institute

• Cut Spending for the Rich Before Raising Their Taxes
  
• Declining Turnout in Big-City Elections: A Growing Problem for Democratic Accountability
  

 Marine Corps History Division

• An Annotated Guide to Tactics: Carl von Clausewitz’s Theory of the Combat  
• On Our Terms: U.S. Marines in Operation Dewey Canyon, 22 January to 18 March 1969
  

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Getting Back to Basics: Four Centre Right Steps to Economic Recovery
  

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Ending the Invisibility of Dual Language Learners in Early Childhood Systems: A Framework for DLL Identification
  
• EU Strategy on Voluntary Return and Reintegration: Crafting a Road Map to Better Cooperation with Migrants’ Countries of Origin
  
• Taking Stock of Dual Language Learner Identification and Strengthening Procedures and Policies
  

 Mitchell Institute

• Building an Agile Force
  

 MITRE

• A Call to Action: A National Strategy for Digital Health
  
• Evaluating Safety Management Effectiveness
  
• A Framework for Assessing Equity In Federal Programs and Policy
  
• A "Horizon Strategy" Framework For Science And Technology Policy
  
• A National Strategy for Digital Health
  

National Academies Press

• Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science
  
• Enhancing Community Resilience through Social Capital and Social Connectedness: Stronger Together!
  
• Exploring Disaster Human Services for Children and Youth: From Hurricane Katrina to the Paradise Wildfires
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
  

 National Aeronautics and Space Administration OIG

• IG-21-019 NASA’s Cybersecurity Readiness
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Cyber Considerations for Military Mobility
  

 NATO Defense College 

• NATO, Strategy and Net Assessment
  
• Net Assessment: "Competition is for Losers"
  

 National Security Agency Central Security Service (NSA/CSS)

• Potential Threat Vectors to 5G Infrastructure
  

 Naval War College - China Maritime Studies Institute

• Chinese Nationalism and the “Gray Zone”: Case Analyses of Public Opinion and PRC Maritime Policy
  

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Enhancing the Effectiveness of the G5 Sahel Force by Strengthening Strategic Coherence and International Support
  
• Reviewing Jihadist Governance in the Sahel
  

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program

• The Three N Approach to Strategies for United States Government Information Operations
  

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

• Connecting the Pillars of the NPT: Multilateral Disarmament Verification and Non-Proliferation
  

 Observer Research Foundation

• Children Left Behind: Challenges in Providing Education to the Rohingya Children in Bangladesh
  
• China’s Military Modernisation: Recent Trends
  
• China’s Xinjiang Policy: The Imperative for India
  
• The Global Trade Map After COVID-19: Where to for Global Companies and Investors, and Policymakers?
  
• The Rashomon Effect: Retelling the Killing of Osama Bin Laden, 10 Years Since

 Office of Personnel Management OIG

• 4K-FS-00-20-042 Evaluation of OPM's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism
  

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

• Applying Gender-Sensitive Approaches in Combating Trafficking in Human Being
• Police Reform in Montenegro 2011-2019 - An Assessment and Recommendations for Good Governance in Policing
  

 Overseas Development Institute

• From Aid to Development Partnerships: Lessons from the Literature and Implications of the Covid-19 Crisis
  

 Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

• PRAC-2021-03 Key Insights: COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities
  

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Startups in the United States during the Pandemic Reflect Some Dynamism amid Job Losses
  

 Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

• Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment
  

 Pew Research Center Science & Society

• Trust in Medical Scientists Has Grown in U.S., but Mainly Among Democrats
  

 Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

• Black and Hispanic Americans See Their Origins as Central to Who They Are, Less So for White Adults
  
• First-Generation College Graduates Lag Behind Their Peers on Key Economic Outcomes
  
• How U.S. Lawmakers Have Discussed Asian Americans on Social Media
  

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

• Americans See Broad Responsibilities for Government; Little Change Since 2019
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• Belarus-Russia Integration Talks
  
• Challenges to the Intensification of EU Cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• Czechia on the Biden Administration
  
• EU27-India Summit: Partnership against Common Challenges
  
• Israel Escalates Actions Towards Iran
  
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict—Escalation and Significance
  
• Leaders Summit on Climate
  
• The Palestinian Authority after the Cancellation of Elections
  
• President of Moldova Dissolves Parliament and Calls Early Elections
  
• Prospects for EU-UK Security Cooperation
  
• Prospects for Russia’s Policy Towards Afghanistan
  
• Prospects for the Reconstruction of Lebanon
  
• Prospects for U.S.-Russia Relations after the Meeting between Blinken and Lavrov
  
• Return of the European Army Idea?
  
• Russia’s Demonstration of Power on the Border with Ukraine and in Occupied Crimea
  
• Sudan: Cooperation with the U.S. at Russia’s Expense
  

 RAND Corporation

• Analyzing a More Resilient National Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Capability
  
• Ending the use of physical and emotional violence against children and adolescents in Peru: A case study on the advocacy efforts of INFANT and ONNAS
  
• Evolution of Department of Defense Disability Evaluation and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury: Overview of Policy Changes, 2001–2018
  
• Healthy Relationship Approaches to Sexual Assault Prevention Programs and Strategies for Use Within the U.S. Military
  
• RAND's Scalable Warning and Resilience Model (SWARM): Enhancing Defenders' Predictive Power in Cyberspace
  
• Reopening Under Uncertainty: Stress-Testing California's COVID-19 Exit Strategy
  
• Trends in Department of Defense Disability Evaluation System Ratings and Awards for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury, 2002–2017
  
• Urban and Rural Districts Showed a Strong Divide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the Second American School District Panel Survey
  

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• A New Normal: Countering the Financing of Self-Activating Terrorism in Europe
  

 The Sentry

• Sudan Struggles to Control Its Parastatals
  

 Small Wars Journal

• Afghanistan’s Importance to the Future of U.S. National Security
  
• The Dark Side of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Case Studies in Urban Warfare
  
• Finding the Right Words: Ending the Confusion on What “Information Operations” Actually Means
  
• Impasse Antimafia en Estados Totalitarios que Patrocinan al Crimen Organizado y en Estados Débiles Capturados por el Crimen Organizado
  
• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #50: Additional Weaponized Consumer Drone Incidents in Michoacán and Puebla, MX
  
• Mules: The AK-47 of Logistics Recommitting to Pack-animals Across the Spectrum of Conflict
  
• OSS Influence on Early US Special Forces: the Forgotten Ones
  

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Anticipatory Governance in SADC: Reducing Disaster Risk After COVID-19
  
• Building Anticipatory Governance in SADC: Post-COVID-19 Conflict and Defence Out
• Building Anticipatory Governance in SADC: Post-COVID-19 Governance Outlook
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Climate Finance and Green Development
  
• Implications of COVID-19 for Climate Finance in Africa
  
• Nuclear Revival in North Africa? Developments in Algeria, Libya, and Egypt
  

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 21-33-IP SIGAR Financial Audits: $494 Million Questioned Because of Insufficient Supporting Documentation or Noncompliance with Laws and Regulations  
• SIGAR 21-34-FA U.S. Air Force Support for Operation and Maintenance of A-29 Aircraft for the Afghan Air Force: Audit of Costs Incurred by Sierra Nevada Corp.  

 Taylor & Francis

• Conflict, Security & Development, 2021
• Precarious Spaces and Violent Site Effects: Experiences from Hargeisa’s Urban Margins [open access article]
  
• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2021, v. 14, no. 2
• Countering or Contributing to Radicalisation and Violent Extremism in Kenya? A Critical Case Study [open access article]
  
• Policing and Society, 2021
• Desistance from Criminalisation: Police Culture and New Directions in Drugs Policing [open access article]
  
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021, v. 33, no. 4
• Social Media Mechanisms for Right-Wing Political Violence in the 21st Century: Discursive Opportunities, Group Dynamics, and Co-Ordination [open access article]
  

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

• Inequality of Opportunity: Who Are Those Left Behind? Maldives and Other Asia-Pacific SIDS 
• SDG 7 Localization Affordable and Clean Energy in ASEAN Cities
  
• Smart Railway Solutions for Trans-Asian Railway Network in the Times of COVID-19 Pandemic
  

 UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

• Advancing the Process to Negotiate a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: The Role of States in the African, Asia-Pacific and Latin American and Caribbean Regions
  

UN Women

• New Feminist Activism, Waves, and Generations
  

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• China in Latin America and the Caribbean
  
• Chinese Companies Listed on Major U.S. Stock Exchanges
  

 US  Institute of Peace (USIP) 

• The Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Achieving Sustainable Peace in Yemen
  
• The Armenian Genocide, Maronite Starvation, and the Lessons in Past Atrocities
  
• The Dangers of the United States Ignoring Intra-Kurdish Dialogue in Syria
  
• Stalemate in Northeast Syria: Options for Advancing U.S. Interests
  
• Stalling Visions of the Gulf: The Case of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
  

 Wilson Center

• Border Security in North America
  
• Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Resilience in North America
  
• Increasing Opportunities to Address Migration in North America
  
• Partners in North American Defense: Perspectives of Three Previous Commanders
  
• Russia in the Middle East: National Security Challenges for the United States and Israel in the Biden Era
  
• Successful Workforce Development Is Vital for a Competitive and Prosperous North America
  
• Threats Perceived and Real: New Data and the Need for a New Approach to the Turkish-SDF Border Conflict
  

 White House

• Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
  

 World Bank

• World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives
  

 World Economic Forum

• Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry: Playbook for Boards and Corporate Officers
  
• Digital Assets, Distributed Ledger Technology, and the Future of Capital Markets
  
• Pandemic, Parcels and Public Vaccination: Envisioning the Next Normal for the Last-Mile Ecosystem
  

 World Peace Foundation

• Starving Tigray: How Armed Conflict and Mass Atrocities Have Destroyed an Ethiopian Region’s Economy and Food System and Are Threatening Famine