Friday's Miscellany 07-23-2021 & 07-31-2021

 38 North

• North Korea’s Party Personnel Shuffles: A Reality Check
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• African Militant Islamist Group Violence Maintains Record Pace, though Slowing
  
• Tunisia’s Evolving Counterterrorism Strategy
  

 Air Force’s Chief Scientist for Directed Energy

• Directed Energy Futures 2060
  

 Air University

• Medical Support in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Contested Environment   
  

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• The Outlook for US-China Relationship after the Anchorage High-Level Meeting: A Focus on the US Perspective
  
• The Perils of Openness? South Korea’s Quarantine Exemption for Chinese Vaccines
  
• Uncovering a Global Reputation: The ROK’s Stabilization Policy and Development Model in the Middle East and North Africa
  

 Asia Foundation

• Accelerating Women’s Advancement in STEM: Emerging Lessons on Network Strategies and Approaches
  

 Atlantic Council

• The Security of Defense Trade with Allies: Enhancing Contact, Contracts, and Control in Supply Chains
  
• A Strategic Framework for Countering China’s Human-Rights Violations in Xinjiang
  

 Australian National University Press

• Made in China Journal, 2021, v. 6, no. 1
  
• The Cultural Politics of National Tragedies and Personal Sacrifice: State Narratives of China’s ‘Ordinary Heroes’ of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Outsider Within: Young Chinese Feminist Activism in the Age of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom
• Labour Relations, Depersonalisation, and the Making of Class Identity in a Chinese Rural County
• An Anatomy of Trump’s Appeal to Chinese Liberals: A Conversation with Teng Biao
• Cultivate Aridity and Deprive Them of Air: Altering the Approach to Non-State-Approved Social Organisations
• Pioneers and Possibilities: Reflecting on Chinese NGO Development through Oral History
• NGO Development in China Since the Wenchuan Earthquake: A Critical Overview
• Humility in the Pursuit of Tacit Knowledge: Public-Benefit Work in Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development
• From State Humanitarianism to Equal Citizens: The Making of Disability Subjects in China
• Unfinished Revolution: An Overview of Three Decades of LGBT Activism in China
• The Yirenping Experience: Looking Back and Pushing Forward
• From Green Shoots to Crushed Petals: Labour NGOs in China
• China’s Human Rights Lawyers: Rifts and Schisms in an Era of Global Human Rights Backlash
• Going Global: The International Endeavours of Chinese NGOs
• Will There Be a Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era? Advocacy and Non-Profit Organising in the New Regime
• Railroaded: The Financial Politics and the Labour Puzzle of Global China
• Chinese Energy Investment in Cambodia: Fuelling Industrialisation or Undermining Development Goals?
• A Disappointing Harvest: China’s Opium Replacement Investments in Northern Myanmar Since 2009
• Securing China’s Northwest Frontier: A Conversation with David Tobin
• Beijing from Below: A Conversation with Harriet Evans
• Revisiting Minjian Intellectuals: A Conversation with Sebastian Veg

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• 'Lead Me To The Harbour!': Plotting Darwin Harbour's Future Course
  
• Losing Our Agnosticism. How To Make Australia’s Foreign Influence Laws Work
  

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Learning Truth from Facts: Britain’s evolving relations with the PRC
  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Centenary Propaganda and Chinese Socialism
  
• Centenary Propaganda and Nationalism with Xi Jinping Characteristics for a New Era
  
• Corruption and Anti-Corruption from the Left and Right in the Americas
  
• U.S. Federal Scientific R&D: Budget Overview and Outlook
  
• US-Mexico Relations: Potential Progress and Stumbling Blocks
  
• Why the U.S.-Mexico Border Should be Reopened
  

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• A Moment to Reflect: Creating Euro-Mediterranean Bonds that Deliver
  
• Urban Mobility after COVID-19. Long-term Strategies for the Sustainable Mobility Transition in European Cities  

Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

• Remote Working and (In)Security
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Antibody Testing as a Tool of Pandemic Management
  
• A Research and Policy Agenda for the Post-Pandemic World  
  
• Risks and Restrictions: Striking the Right Balance
  
• Six Steps to Universal Energy Access in Africa
  
• Transformative Industrial Strategy for the Long Term
  
• Violent Extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From the Rise of Boko Haram
  

 Brookings

• A Cool, Cautious Calm: US-Turkey Relations Six Months into the Biden Administration
  
• Digital Transformation in Labor and Education Systems: Improving the Government Response to the Next Unemployment Crisis
  
• Donor Engagement with Agenda 2030: How Government Agencies Encompass the Sustainable Development Goals
  
• The Emergence of GCC-Israel Relations in a Changing Middle East
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Industries without Smokestacks in Kenya: The Case of Horticulture, ICT, and Tourism Sectors
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Industries without Smokestacks in Senegal
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Industries without Smokestacks in South Africa
  
• Industries without Smokestacks in Africa: A Kenya Case Study
  
• Making Waves in India: Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Supporting Distressed Communities by Strengthening Regional Public Universities: A Federal Policy Proposal
  
• Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — July 2021
  

 Canada. Department of National Defence

• Canadian Military Journal, Summer 2021,  v. 21, no. 3
  
• Listening to the Chief of the Defence Staff: The Politics of Military Advice in Canada
• 360 ̊ Iranian Smart Power in the Grey Zone
• NATO Enlargement, Russia, and Balance of Threat
• Women’s Lived Experiences of Serving in the Canadian Armed Forces Primary Reserve
• Project REGi-Net, or: How to Pull a Rabbit Out of a Hat
• Warrior Spirit
• So Close, and Yet So Far: A Feminist Perspective on Operation HONOUR
• A Perfect Storm?

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Advancing Trade with the Indo-Pacific: Canada’s Role in Welcoming New Members to the CPTPP
  
• Canada’s Active Cyber Defence is Anything But Active
  
• The European Union’s Eastern Partnership: Bold Ambitions in a Troubled Region
  
• How Can Canada Best Defend its Security Interests in the Indo-Pacific?
  
• National Defence and the Tyranny of Time
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Fake Civil Society: The Rise of Pro-Government NGOs in Nigeria
  
• Less Than a Full Deck: Russia’s Economic Influence in the Mediterranean
• Redefining the U.S.-Turkey Relationship
  

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

• Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy 
  

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• From Mardi Gras to the Philippines
  
• Risky Business: Future Strategy and Force Options for the Defense Department
  

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• Citizens in the World’s Leading Economies Want a Fast Recovery Post-Pandemic
  
• Frequently Asked Questions About Firearm Safe Storage
  
• Social and Emotional Supports for Educators During and After the Pandemic
  

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Hybrid Warfare of the Future
  

 Center for Global Development

• Building Digital Financial Inclusion: A Decision Tree Approach [with case studies: Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Pakistan]
• Expanding Legal Migration Pathways from Nigeria to Europe: From Brain Drain to Brain Gain
  
• Searching for the Binding Constraint to Digital Financial Inclusion in Pakistan: A Decision Tree Approach  
• Social Assistance and Information in the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons from a Household Survey in India
  
• Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Why Europe Should Build Legal Migration Pathways with Nigeria 
  

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• The Challenge of Convincing China to Push North Korea Towards Denuclearization
  

 Center for International Policy

• Towards Global Best Practices for Regulating Foreign Influence
  
• U.S. Africa Policy Monitor
• July 20, 2021
  
• July 27, 2021
  

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

• The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Raising Awareness of the Green Transition in the Southern Neighbourhood. Obstacles, Practices and Potential for the EU’s Support
  

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Law Enforcement Officer Safety
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• China’s CyberAI Talent Pipeline
  
• Ending Innovation Tourism
  
• The Huawei Moment
  
• Measuring AI RC Growth
  
• National Power After AI
  

 Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

• Georgetown Security Studies Review, July 2021, v. 9, no. 1
  
• Russian Military Modernization From 2007-2020: Mixed Results or a Quantum Leap in Power?
• Women's Agency and Authoritarian Upgrading: Complicating Subaltern Politics in Syria 2000-2010
• Blurring  the  “Red  Line:”  Understanding  the  IC’s  Influence  over  Policy  through  Behavioral  Public Choice
• India’s “Counter China” Foreign Aid Policy
• The Destructive Potential of Cyber Capabilities in the Hands of Islamist Terrorist Act
• Parrying the Proxy Payroll: An Analysis of Iranian Expenditures on Proxy Networks and the Effects of US Counter-Proxy Sanctions
• COVID-19 and America’s Far Right: A Look at the Contemporary Extremist Landscape
• Disunited Kingdom: Scottish Independence and Transatlantic Security
• Why Operation PBSUCCESS Failed: Misperceptions, Unethical Conduct and False Precedents
• The Flaws in the Antiquities-Trafficking-As-Art-Crime Law Enforcement Model
• Do Extremists Follow Elections? A Quantitative Analysis of Politics and Domestic Terror in the United States from 1970–2016

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Building Normentum: A Framework For Space Norm Development
  
• A Framework For Developing Trust In Artificial Intelligence
  
• The In-Space Rescue Capability Gap
  

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Slow and Steady: Analysis of the 2022 Defense Budget Request
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Climate Cooperation and Competition: Leveraging Sustainable Development Goal 13
  
• Digital Governance: It Is Time for the United States to Lead Again
  
• Facing the Risk: Mapping the Human Rights Risks in the Development and Deployment of Facial Recognition Technology
  
• Global Britain in a Competitive Age and Defence in a Competitive Age: A Critique
  
• Iran and U.S. Strategy: Looking beyond the JCPOA
  
• Learning from the War: “Who Lost Afghanistan?” versus Learning “Why We Lost”
  
• NATO Futures: Three Trajectories 
  
• The Real National Security Concerns over Data Localization 
  
• Repression Trap: The Mechanism of Escalating State Violence in Russia
  
• Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of Russia’s Private Military Companies
  
• Russia Goes to War: Exercises, Signaling, War Scares, and Military Confrontations
  
• Time to Escalate U.S. Leadership on Covid-19 and Beyond
  
• U.S. Views on the Trade and Climate Policy Nexus
  
• Understanding Senior Leadership Dynamics within the Russian Military
  
• When Biosecurity Is the Mission, the Bioeconomy Must Become Government’s Strategic Partner 
  

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• CER Bulletin, Issue 139 - August/September 2021
  
• A New Migration Crisis May Be Brewing
• Three Questions on the German Election
• The 'Fit for 55' Climate Proposals Explained

 Centre for Independent Studies

• Writing Matters: Reversing a Legacy of Policy Failure in Australian Education 
  

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• Developing a Paradigm to Assess and Measure Adaptability
  

 Chatham House

• South Korean Foreign Policy Innovation Amid Sino-US Rivalry
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• US, Japan, and South Korea Coordination Key to Competing in Southeast Asia
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Russian Participation in PRC Strategic Exercise Emblematic of Improving Military Cooperation
  

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

• China’s ‘Digital Silk Road’ Enters the Western Balkans
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Fruitless Cherry Picking? EU Support for the Syrian Opposition
  
• The Green Agenda: Providing Breathing Space for Western Balkans?
  
• Mission Probable: The EU’s Efforts to Green Security and Defence
  

 College of Europe

• Policy Recommendations for the Slovenian Council Presidency: Time to Move Forward
  

 Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

• The Findings and Recommendations of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military
  
• Non-Governmental Views on the Fiscal Year 2022 Department of Defense Budget 
  
• Review of the Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for U.S. Special Operations Forces and Command
  

 Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

• Stopping Digital Thieves: The Growing Threat of Ransomware  
  

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Historic Protests in Cuba and the Crackdown on Free Expression
  
• Implementation of the Global Child Thrive Act and Investing in Early Childhood Development
  
• Lebanon: Assessing Political Paralysis, Economic Crisis and Challenges for U.S. Policy
  
• People to People: Examining Grassroots Peacebuilding Efforts Between Israelis and Palestinians
  
• Renewable Energy Transition: A Case Study of How International Collaboration on Offshore Wind Technology Benefits American Workers
  
• U.S.-European Cooperation on China and the Broader Indo-Pacific
  

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

• The Cyber Talent Pipeline: Educating a Workforce to Match Today’s Threats
  
• DHS's Efforts to Disrupt Transnational Criminal Organizations in Central America
  
• Taking to the Skies: Examining TSA’s Strategy for Addressing Increased Summer Travel
  
• Terrorism and Digital Financing: How Technology is Changing the Threat 
  

 Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

• A Fine Scheme: How Court-Imposed Fees and Fines Unjustly Burden Vulnerable Communities 
  
• The Need to Enhance the Voting Rights Act: Practice-Based Coverage
  

 Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

• Defending the U.S. Electric Grid Against Cyber Threats 
  
• Democracy in Danger: The Assault on Voting Rights in Texas
  
• FITARA 12.0  

 Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

• Silent Killer: The Rising Problem of Extreme Heat in the U.S.
  

 Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

• Assessing the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts and Its Impact
  
• Bridging the Gap: Improving Diversity and Inclusion in the U.S. Aviation Workforce 
  
• Review of Fiscal Year 2022 Budget for the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs
  

 Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

• FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act Executive Summary
  

 Congress. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

• Abuse and Misconduct at the Department of Commerce [Minority Staff Report]
  
• Pipeline Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Infrastructure
  
• Space Situational Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Orbital Debris: Examining Solutions for Emerging Threats
  

 Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

• Combatting Climate Change in East Asia and the Pacific
  
• Modernizing the State Department for the 21st Century
  
• U.S. Policy on Turkey
  
• U.S. Trade and Investment in Africa
  

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

• President Biden is Wasting Billions by Not Building the Border Wall: Interim Minority Staff Report
  
• Resources and Authorities Needed to Protect and Secure the Homeland
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Additional Information About the Updated Budget and Economic Outlook: 2021 to 2031
  
• Fair-Value Budgeting: Practical Issues
  
• Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, July 2021
  

 Council on Strategic Risks

• Converging Crises in North Korea: Security, Stability and Climate Change
  
• Toward a Global Pathogen Early Warning System: Building on the Landscape of Biosurveillance Today
  

 Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force

• Report of the Defense Critical Supply Chain Task Force
  
• Press release
  

 Department of Commerce

• The Effects of Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts on the National Security: An Investigation Conducted under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as Amended
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Tenets of Responsible Behavior in Space
  

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-103 External Peer Review of the Missile Defense Agency Internal Review Office
  
• DODIG-2021-110 Audit of the Department of Defense Recruitment and Retention of the Civilian Cyber Workforce
  
• Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | April 1, 2021 – June 30, 2021
  

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• S&T Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Strategic Plan
  

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-21-47 CBP Has Placed Travelers’ PII at Risk of Exploitation
  
• OIG-21-48 CBP Needs to  Strengthen Its Oversight and Policy to Better Care for Migrants Needing Medical Attention
  

 Department of the Navy

• Science & Technology Strategy for Intelligence Autonomous Systems
  

 Economic Research Forum

• Policy Analysis for a Developing Country in A Financial CGE Model: Case of Tunisia After the 2011’s Revolution
  

 Egmont Institute

• The Evolution of the Policy Response to Jihadi Returnees in Europe (2012-2020)
  

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Iran Country Analysis Brief [updated July 20, 2021]
  

 Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC)

• Saudi Bureaucrats’ Incentives Jeopardize the Vision 2030 Implementation Plan
  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• People before Politicians: How Europeans Can Help Rebuild Lebanon
  

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Solidarity in the EU: More Hype than Substance? 
  

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Trust Services Security Incidents 2020 - Annual Report
  
• Telecom Security Incidents 2020 - Annual Report 
  
• Threat Landscape for Supply Chain Attacks
  

 European Union CT MORSE

• Non-custodial Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism: A Guidebook for Policymakers and Practitioners in South-Eastern Europe
  

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• European Sovereignty: Strategy and Interdependence
  
• Naval Gazing? The Strategic Compass and the EU's Maritime Presence
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• How to Recalibrate U.S. Policy in the Middle East
  
• Reconceptualizing Lithuania’s Importance for U.S. Foreign Policy
  
• Reframing Russia’s Afghanistan Policy
  
• The U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty and Philippine External Defense Forces
  

 French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs

• The Changing Landscape of European Cloud Computing: Gaia-X, the French National Strategy, and EU Plans
  
• Russia: Can Economic Difficulties Weaken the Political System?
  
• Turkey's Method in the Mediterranean : The Hold over Northern Cyprus
  
• Towards Geopolitical German Development Cooperation? Recent History, Current Trends, and Future Prospects
  

 German Development Institute

• The EU-UNDP Partnership and Added Value in EU Development Cooperation
  
• Global access to COVID-19 Vaccines: Challenges in Production, Affordability, Distribution and Utilisation  
  
• Municipal Development Policy in Germany: Current Status and Prospects
  

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Turkish-Russian Relations in Light of Recent Conflicts: Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• A “Full Stack” Approach to Public Media in the United States
  

 Global Ecco

• Combating Terrorism Exchange (CTX) v. 11, no. 2, Spring 2021  
• At the Very End, I Smiled
• ISIS Medical System as a Target for Counterterrorism Efforts
• The Future of Islamic Extremism in Pakistan: An Ethnography, Part Two
• The CTX Interview | GEN David Petraeus, US Army (ret.)
• The Game Floor | Facilitating CT Virtual Games: The Transition to the Virtual World
• Ethics and Insights | Sometimes

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Colombia National Strike: When Social Demonstrations Fuels Criminal Interest
  
• Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe
  

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Africa and COVID-19: Where Do We Go from Here?
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Cargo Security: TSA Field Testing Should Ensure Screening Systems Meet Detection Standards GAO-21-105192
  
• Bureau of Prisons: BOP Could Further Enhance its COVID-19 Response by Capturing and Incorporating Lessons Learned GAO-21-502
  
• Child Welfare: Pandemic Posed Challenges, but also Created Opportunities for Agencies to Enhance Future Operations GAO-21-483
  
• Countering Violent Extremism: DHS Can Further Enhance Its Strategic Planning and Data Governance Efforts GAO-21-507
  
• COVID-19: Continued Attention Needed to Enhance Federal Preparedness, Response, Service Delivery, and Program Integrity GAO-21-551
  
• COVID-19 Contracting: Contractor Paid Leave Reimbursements Could Provide Lessons Learned for Future Emergency Responses GAO-21-475
  
• COVID-19 Contracting: Opportunities to Improve Practices to Assess Prospective Vendors and Capture Lessons Learned GAO-21-528 
  
• COVID-19 Pandemic: Actions Needed to Improve Federal Oversight of Assistance to Individuals, Communities, and the Transportation Industry GAO-21-105202
  
• COVID-19: VA Should Assess Its Oversight of Infection Prevention and Control in Community Living Centers GAO-21-559
  
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: TSA Is Taking Steps to Address Some Pipeline Security Program Weaknesses GAO-21-105263
  
• Cybersecurity and Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Strengthen Efforts to Address High-Risk Areas GAO-21-105325
  
• Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Communication with Applicants and Address Fraud Risks GAO-21-589 
  
• Evidence-Based Policymaking: Survey Data Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Capacity across Federal Agencies GAO-21-536
  
• Immigration Enforcement: Actions Needed to Better Track Cases Involving U.S. Citizenship Investigations GAO-21-487
  
• Military Installations: DOD Should Consider Various Support Services when Designating Sites as Remote or Isolated GAO-21-276
  
• Military Personnel: DOD's Transition Assistance Program at Small or Remote Installations GAO-21-104608 
  
• National Flood Insurance Program: Congress Should Consider Updating the Mandatory Purchase Requirement GAO-21-578
  
• Private Security Contractors: DOD Needs to Better Identify and Monitor Personnel and Contracts GAO-21-255
  
• Spectrum Management: Agencies Should Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms and Processes to Address Potential Interference GAO-21-105319
  
• Spectrum Management: Agencies Should Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms and Processes to Address Potential Interference GAO-21-474
  
• Voters with Disabilities: State and Local Actions and Federal Resources to Address Accessibility of Early Voting GAO-21-352
  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• A Chinese Perspective on the Future of Cyberspace
  

 Henry Jackson Society

• Supporting Taiwan: A Calling for Global Britain
  

 Heritage Foundation

• U.S. Policy Options for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
  

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, no. 74 - The Prospects of a New Iran Deal
  
• Iran’s Nuclear Program
• The Prospects of a New Iran Deal
• Can U.S.-Iranian Relations Be Remade?

 Human Rights Watch

• Aluminum: The Car Industry’s Blind Spot: Why Car Companies Should Address the Human Rights Impact of Aluminum Production
  
• “Between Hunger and the Virus”: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People Living in Poverty in Lagos, Nigeria
  
• “They Killed Us from the Inside”: An Investigation into the August 4 Beirut Blast
  
• “We Are All Vulnerable Here”: Kenya’s Pandemic Cash Transfer Program Riddled With Irregularities
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• False Promises II: The Continuing Gap Between China’s WTO Commitments and Its Practices
  
• How Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows Are Spreading Globally, What They Cost, and How to Address Them
  
• How Much Will the Artificial Intelligence Act Cost Europe?  
• The House’s Antitrust Legislative Package: An Innovation Perspective
  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• “China Plus One”: Supply Chain Resilience Initiative and Beijing in Indo-Pacific
  
• The Dark Web and Regulatory Challenges
  
• Inter-state Border Disputes in Northeast India
  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Initiative Persistence as the Central Approach for U.S. Cyber Strategy
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel) 

• Contemporary Antisemitism in the United States
  
• Strategic Assessment, July 2021, v. 24, no. 3
  
• Iran’s Deterrence Concept
• Media Portrayal of a Foreign State in the Face of Civil Society Action: Israel and BDS in Britain
• The National Significance of Israeli Demographics at the Outset of a New Decade
• Russia in Syria: A Long Road to Victory
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Moving Away from the Ability to Find and Promote Solutions
• Τhe Remilitarization of Turkish Foreign Policy: The Military Resumes a Leading Role in National Issues
• The “War of the Generals” after the Yom Kippur War
• Iran’s Drive for a Railway Connection to the Black Sea: Technical Obstacles and Geostrategic Implications
• An Arab Party in Israel’s Government: A Test for Jews and Arabs Alike
• The Core of the Regional Struggle: Actors or Camps?
• Can Beijing Maintain its Peaceful Rise?
• Smart Cities with Chinese Characteristics
• Strategic Challenges Facing Israel, and Policy Recommendations: Special Update for the President
  

 Institute for Security and Development Policy

• China’s Communist Party at 100: From Revolution to Rule
  
• Merkel’s China Legacy
  

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• African States and The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation
  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

• An Online Environmental Scan of Right-Wing Extremism in Canada
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Russia in Review: July 7 – July 20, 2021
  
• Turkey Will Likely Leverage Syrian Proxies for Afghanistan Mission
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Addressing Religious Inequalities as a Means of Preventing Atrocity Crimes: The Case of the Uyghur Genocide
  
• Uyghurs in China: Personal Testimony of a Uyghur Surgeon
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Climate Change and Sustainability: Mediterranean Perspectives
  
• Decolonising Knowledge: A Euro-Mediterranean Perspective
  
• EU Open Strategic Autonomy in a Post-Covid World
  
• European Strategic Autonomy and the US–China Rivalry: Can the EU "Prefer not to Choose"?
  
• Global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Capital Allocation Strategies
  
• Media and Securitisation: The Influence on Perception
  
• Seizing the Moment: European Strategic Autonomy and the Biden Presidency
  
• Six Principles to Guide EU Action in the Western Balkans
  
• Space and European Digital Sovereignty
  
• Strategic Autonomy in Post-Covid Trade Policy: How Far Should We Politicise Supply Chains?
  
• US–China Rivalry and European Strategic Autonomy in the post-Covid Global Economy
  

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Remembering Utøya, 10 Years Later: Enduring Lessons for Counter-Terrorism
  
• Siege Culture After Siege: Anatomy of a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Doctrine
  
• Small Arms and Light Weapons as a Source of Terrorist Financing in Post-Qadhafi Libya
  
• The Upcoming SADC Intervention: A New Way Ahead to Combat Terrorism in Mozambique?
  

 International Crisis Group

• Iraq’s Tishreen Uprising: From Barricades to Ballot Box: From Barricades to Ballot Box
  

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

• Water-Energy Nexus of Water and Wastewater Service in Lebanon
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, July 30, 2021, v. 21, no. 15
  
• Historic Chinese Flooding Highlights Outstanding Infrastructure Problems
• Xi Jinping Issues Tough Warnings to Enemies Within the Party
• What the 2020 Chinese Census Tells Us About Progress in Hukou Reform
• Recent Trends in Sino-Israeli Relations Bely Lasting Warm Ties
• China’s Hypersonic Missiles: Methods and Motives
• Terrorism Monitor, July 30, 2021, v. 19, no. 15   
• New Europol Report Warns of Lone Actors and Analyzes Decrease in Terrorism in 2020
• U.S. Troops to Combat al-Shabaab in Kenya Amid Mandera County’s Security Crisis
• Turkey Conducting Targeted Killings of PKK Leaders in Iraq: What’s Next?

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

• Ready for the Next Storm: AI-Enabled Situational Awareness in Disaster Response: AI-Enabled Situational Awareness in Disaster Response
  

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Bridging Papua New Guinea’s Information Divide
  

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Reforming the European Stability Mechanism: Too Much but Never Enough
  

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• China’s Rule and Standard-Setting Ambitions for Global Trade: Implications for EU Trade Policy
  
• Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy
  

 Migration Policy Institute

• Deepening Labor Migration Governance at a Time of Immobility: Lessons from Ghana and Senegal
  
• Future Scenarios for Global Mobility in the Shadow of Pandemic
  
• Socioeconomic Integration of Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees: The Cases of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
  

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• No Ticket to Ride: A Systematic Definition of Transit Insecurity
  

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• Speed is Life: Accelerating the Air Force’s Ability to Adapt and Win
  

MITRE

• Intelligence After Next: Designing for Chaos Leads to Resiliency
  
• Supply Chain Security—It’s Everyone’s Business
  
• U.S. Food Supply Chain Security: A Network Analysis
  

 National Academies Press

• Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System
  
• The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines: Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy
  
• Exploring Disaster Human Services for Children and Youth: From Hurricane Katrina to the Paradise Wildfires
  
• Lessons Learned in Health Professions Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Part 1
  
• Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration
  

 NATO Defense College

• Defining Russian Military Science
  
• Lengthening the bridge: the role of current weapons and emerging technologies in expanding the pre-nuclear phase of conflict
  
• Russia’s updated National Security Strategy
  
• NATO 2030 and the out-of-area conundrum
  

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Georgia’s Information Environment through the Lens of Russia’s Influence
• How Did The Nordic-Baltic Countries Handle The First Wave of COVID-19?
  

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies 2021, v. 97, issue 1  
• Cyber Attribution and State Responsibility
  
• Application of the Due Diligence Principle to Cyber Operations
  

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• The Future of Disinformation Operations and the Coming War on Brands
  

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

• U.S. Nuclear Policies for a Safer World
  

 Observer Research Foundation

• An Agenda for Innovation in the U.S.-India Defence Relationship
  
• Blue Economy in the Indo-Pacific: Navigating Between Growth and Conservation 
  
• Building Indian Narratives and Battling New Militancy in Kashmir
  
• The Future of BRICS
  
• India Calibrates its South China Sea Approach
  
• Regression in Learning: The High Cost of COVID-19 for India’s Children
  
• Turning the Tide: Is Mumbai Ready for the Next Wave?
  
• The Weaponisation of Disease Outbreaks
  

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

• Community Rights Assessment Report (5th ed.)  

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Sustaining development in Small Island Developing States: a reform agenda
  

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• Students’ Civic Knowledge Achievement – A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
  

 Pew Research Center

• Economic Attitudes Improve in Many Nations Even as Pandemic Endures
  

 Policy Exchange (UK)

• Islamism and the Left
  
• New Directions in Innovation Policy
  

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

• The Crisis of the Northern Ireland Political System and EU-UK Relations
  
• Faked Reality: The Balance of 100 Years of the Communist Party of China
  
• Newest Wave of Middle Eastern Emigration to Africa
  
• Prospects for the Development of the EU-ASEAN Strategic Partnership
  

 Project 2049

• Hostile Harbors: Taiwan’s Ports and PLA Invasion Plans
  

 Program on Extremism at George Washington University

• The Founding Fathers of American Jihad: The Impacts and Legacies of Anwar al-Awlaki, Samir Khan, and Ahmad Abousamra
  

 RAND Corporation

• Afghanistan in the Era of Fentanyl: Considering Potential Economic and Political Impacts of a Collapse in Demand for Afghanistan's Opiates
  
• Combating Foreign Disinformation on Social Media: Study Overview and Conclusions
  
• Championing the Agile Air Force Officer Career: Examining the Potential Use of New Career Management Flexibilities
  
• Chinese Disinformation Efforts on Social Media
• Community Supervision in a Digital World: Challenges and Opportunities
  
• Countering Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military
  
• The COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Opportunity to Rethink Strategic Competition on the Continent
  
• Department of the Air Force Officer Talent Management Reforms: Implications for Career Field Health and Demographic Diversity
  
• DoD Cyber Excepted Service Labor Market Analysis and Options for Use of Compensation Flexibilities
  
• Evaluating Baltimore's Aerial Investigation Research Pilot Program: Interim Report
  
• Evaluation of the Military Spouse Employment Partnership Program
  
• Exploring the Feasibility and Utility of Machine Learning-Assisted Command and Control
• Volume 1, Findings and Recommendations
  
• Volume 2, Supporting Technical Analysis
  
• Exploring Gaps in Arctic Governance: Identifying Potential Sources of Conflict and Mitigating Measures
  
• Food Insecurity Among Veterans: Veterans' Issues in Focus
  
• Indonesian Fires and Haze: Measuring the Health Consequences of Smoke Exposure
  
• Natural Language Processing: Security- and Defense-Related Lessons Learned
  
• Preparing for the Future of Combat Casualty Care: Opportunities to Refine the Military Health System's Alignment with the National Defense Strategy
  
• Preparing Japan's Multi-Domain Defense Force for the Future Battlespace Using Emerging Technologies
  
• Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe
  
• Tailoring Deterrence for China in Space
  
• Vulnerability, Inequity, and COVID-19: A Portrait of the Pandemic in Allegheny County: Tracking Evolving Disparities in Testing, Cases, Hospitalizations, Deaths, and the Ability to Practice Physical Distancing
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Late Malaysian Politics: From Single Party Dominance to Multi Party Mayhem
  

 Security Council Report

• The UN Security Council and Climate Change
  

 Small Wars Journal

• Machiavelli and our Wars in the Middle East
  
• Parties of Crime? Brazil’s Facções Criminosas – Good Governance and Bad Government
  
• Taking a Bite Out of the Elephant: How to Improve Security Cooperation
  
• Technology Adoption: Are We Too Late to the Party?
  
• Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
  

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Estimating the Economic Impact of Chinese BRI Investment in Africa
  
• Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy from Nigeria Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• Vaccine Diplomacy and Beyond: New Trends in Chinese Image-Building in Africa
  

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• July 30, 2021 Quarterly Report to Congress
  

 Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

• The People of the PLA 2.0
  

Sudd Institute

• Clearing the Dimming Vision of the Liberation of South Sudan: Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Independence
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Conflict, Security & Development, 2021, v. 21, no. 3
• Bridging Identities through Activism: Palestinians in Sweden Navigating the Transnational Divide [open access article]
  
• Care and silence in women’s everyday peacebuilding in Myanmar [open access article]
  
• The unfortunate omission of entangled resistance in the ‘local turn’ in peace-building: the case of ‘forced marriage’ in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [open access article]
  
• Defence Studies, 2021, v. 21, no. 3
• Critically Engaging the Concept of Joint Operations: Origins, Reflexivity and the Case of Sweden [open access article]
  
• Ethics & Global Politics 2021
• Mitigating the Costs of Departure. Brain Drain, Disadvantage and Fair Burden-Sharing [open access article]  
• Intelligence and National Security, 2021, v. 36, no. 5
• Understanding the Complexity of Intelligence Problems [open access article]   
• Policing and Society, 2021
• ‘Lurking’ and ‘Loitering’: The Genealogy of Languages of Police Suspicion in Britain [open access article]
  
• Police and Crime Commissioners: New Agents of Crime and Justice Policy Transfer?  [open access article]
  
• Women-Led Police Stations: Reimagining the Policing of Gender Violence in the Twenty-First Century [open access article]
  
• Security Studies, 2021, v. 30 no. 2
• The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI [open access article]
  
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021
• The Unfinished Revolution of ‘Dissident’ Irish Republicans: Divergent Views in a Fragmented Base [open access article]
  
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021, v. 33, no. 5
• How Contagious Were the Capitol Riots in Europe – In Praxis and in Perception? [open access article]
  
• We Have All Been Warned: Public Debate on the Capitol Attack in Finland and Sweden [open access article]
  

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

• Airship Technology for Air Connectivity and Humanitarian Aid in the Caribbean and the Pacific
  

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• A Reference Methodology for National Weapons and Ammunition Management Baseline Assessments
  
• Table-Top Exercises on the Human Element and Autonomous Weapons System
  
• UNIDIR on Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Mapping our Research to the Discussions of the GGE on LAWS
• Women Managing Weapons
  

 UN Women

• Rethinking Gender-Responsive Procurement: Enabling an Ecosystem for Women’s Economic Empowerment
  

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution
  
• Processes of Reintegrating Central Asian Returnees from Syria and Iraq  

 US International Trade Commission (USITC)

• Economic Impact of Trade Agreements Implemented under Trade Authorities Procedures, 2021 Report
  

 Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation

• The Safe, Secure and Sustainable Application of Nuclear Technology in Industry and Agriculture
  

 White House

• Collaborative Migration Management Strategy
  
• National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems
  
• U.S. Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America  

 Wilson Center

• Kennan Cable No. 70: Landslide Victory for Reformists in Moldova
  
• Unpacking Transparency to Support Ethical AI
  
• Venezuela’s Bolivarian Armed Force: Fear and Interest in the Face of Political Change
  

 World Bank

• Development Research in Practice : The DIME Analytics Data Handbook 
  

 World Economic Forum

• Shifting Global Value Chains: The India Opportunity