Friday's Miscellany 08-06-2021

 38 North

• North Korea’s Vaccination Capabilities: Implications for a COVID-19 Campaign 
  

 Amnesty International

• Trinidad and Tobago: Protect People Fleeing
  

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• The Reserve Component Crisis Necessitates Re-Examining the Total Army Concept
  

 Atlantic Council

• Beyond Pakistan’s 2021-22 Budget: The Economy and Growth
  
• The Energy Transition in the Arab Gulf: From Vision to Reality
  
• Hezbollah Blames Lebanon’s Economic Collapse on the United States
  
• Xi Jinping’s Politics in Command Economy
  

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• Easier to Get into War Than to Get Out: The Case of Afghanistan 
  
• A Policy of Public Diplomacy with North Korea
  
• The Role of Clean Hydrogen for a Sustainable Mobility
  
• Toward a Collaborative Cyber Defense and Enhanced Threat Intelligence Structure
  
• Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition)
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• The IRGC in the Age of Ebrahim Raisi  
  
• Mind the Gap: Success at COP26
  
• Risks and Restrictions: Striking the Right Balance [COVID-19]
  

 Brennan Center for Justice

• Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How Involvement with the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality
  
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement
  

 Brookings

• Addressing Youth Unemployment in Africa through Industries without Smokestacks: A Synthesis on Prospects, Constraints, and Policies
  
• Employment Creation Potential, Labor Skills Requirements, and Skill Gaps for Young People: A Uganda Case Study
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Industries without Smokestacks in Uganda
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• A High-Tech Alliance: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Science and Technology Collaboration
  
• Tangled Wires: Preparing India’s Power Sector for the Clean Energy Transition
  
• What Railway Deals Taught Chinese and Brazilians in the Amazon
  

 CATO Institute

• A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy from the Colonial Period to the Present Day
  

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Esports and the Military  
• From Plan to Action: Operationalizing a U.S. National Technology Strategy
  

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• The ADA at 31: Access to Housing and Health Care Must Meet the Rise of Disability in the U.S.
  
• Advancing Gender Equality at Home and Abroad by Leveraging Women, Peace, and Security
  
• Fact Sheet: Recommendations for Advancing Gender Equality at Home and Abroad by Leveraging Women, Peace, and Security
  

 Center for Global Development

• Financing the Global Humanitarian Public Good: Opportunities for Change
  
• Gender in the MDB Social Protection Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• Ending Forever Wars but not Interventionism: Rethinking U.S. Civil Society Assistance Policy
  
• Is South Korea Truly a “Middle Power?"
  
• Overmatch by other means: integrating Irregular Warfare into Joint Force Wargaming
  

 Center for International Policy

• The Biden Administration's Plans for Post-Withdrawal Security Assistance in Afghanistan
  
• U.S. Africa Policy Monitor August 3, 2021
  
• U.S. Security Assistance to Jordan
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• China is Fast Outpacing U.S. STEM PhD Growth
  
• China’s Robotics Patent Landscape
  
• U.S. AI Summer Camps
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest No. 270: Russia-Turkey Relations  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Alliances in Need of Upkeep: Strengthening the U.S.-Philippines and U.S.-Thailand Partnerships
  
• Battle Networks and the Future Force
  
• Digital Governance: It Is Time for the United States to Lead Again
  
• Hamilton Decarbonization
  
• Iraq, the United States, and the “New” Middle East
  
• Personal Ties: Measuring Chinese and U.S. Engagement with African Security Chiefs
  
• U.S. Emergency Plan for Global Covid-19 Relief: Urgent Action to End the Pandemic Globally and Accelerate U.S. Recovery and Security
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Treaty Allies Matter for US Foreign Policy Experts—but They Are Not Indispensable
  

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Assessing People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force Missile Brigade Commander Competition – Jianfeng 2021
  
• PACAF's State of the Game
  

 Congress. House. Katie Porter

• AWOL: How Watchdogs are Failing to Protect Servicemembers from Financial Scams
  

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

• Federal Cybersecurity: America’s data Still at Risk
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• An Analysis of Certain Proposals in the President’s 2022 Budget
  
• The Distribution of Household Income, 2018
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2021, v. 22  
• Lessons from India’s Handling of the Second Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Surge
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Russia as a Military Superpower: A Portrait of Its Armed Forces
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Annual Report on Civilian Casualties In Connection with United States Military Operations in 2020
  

 European Commission (EC)

• Resilience Dashboards Report and Annex
  

 European Union (EU)

• Distributional Impacts of Climate Policies in Europe
  
• Economic Policy-Making Beyond GDP
  

 European Union CT MORSE

• The Tech against Terrorism Guidelines: Government Transparency Reporting on Online Counterterrorism Efforts
  
• Trafficking in Human Beings and Terrorism
  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• The Belarusian Revolution of 2020: Afterword  

 Future Directions International

• China’s Engagement with the Taliban: What Now for Afghanistan?
  
• The Geopolitical Shift in Afghanistan: Security Implications for India
  

 Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS)

• Mobile Phone Technologies as an Opportunity for Women’s Financial Inclusion: What Does the Evidence Say?  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Biodefense: After-Action Findings and COVID-19 Response Revealed Opportunities to Strengthen Preparedness GAO-21-513
  
• COVID-19: HHS's Collection of Hospital Capacity Data GAO-21-600
• Human Trafficking: DOD Should Address Weaknesses in Oversight of Contractors and Reporting of Investigations Related to Contracts GAO-21-546
  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Do We Need a New Vocabulary for Talking about European Strategy?
  
• How Do We Start Thinking about European Strategy?
  
• NATO Allies’ Offensive Cyber Policy: A Growing Divide?
  
• The New Great Game: Securing Critical Minerals Today for a Clean Energy System Tomorrow
  
• The Transatlantic Relationship: Radical Reform is in the U.S. National Interest
  

 Heritage Foundation

• Amnesty Is Not Infrastructure
  

 Human Rights Watch

• “I Thought Our Life Might Get Better” Implementing Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence against Women Law
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Principles to Promote Responsible Use of AI for Workforce Decisions
  

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

• In Afghanistan, How India Missed the Bus
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Russia In Review: July 21 - August 3, 2021
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  

 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis
  

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Assessing the Threat of Covid 19-related Extremism in the West
  

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• The Belarusian Armed Forces: Structures, Capabilities, and Defence Relations with Russia
  
• NATO’s New Strategic Concept. Balancing Responses to Multiple Threats
  

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

• Counterterrorism in North Africa: From Police State to Militia Rule and the Quagmire of "CVE"
  

 International Crisis Group

• Iran: The Riddle of Raisi
  

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• The Scramble for the Eastern Mediterranean: Energy and Geopolitics
  

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Australia and the Growing Reach of China’s Military
  

 MITRE

• Improving TCP Throughput for AIX Hosts Communicating Over High Latency Network Connections
  

 National Academies Press

• Investing in Transportation Resilience: A Framework for Informed Choices
  
• Resilience Primer for Transportation Executives
  

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• SP 1271  Getting Started with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: A Quick Start Guide
  

 National Security Agency (NSA)

• Securing Wireless Devices in Public Settings
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• New EU’s Cybersecurity Package: Ambitious Proposals, Daring Tasks and Deeper Cooperation
  

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2021, v. 97, issue 1
  
• Confronting Space Debris Through the Regime Evolution Approach
  

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

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

 Observer Research Foundation

• Building a Regional Approach to Energy Security for BIMSTEC
  
• COVID-19 Compounds Global Challenges to Food Security
  
• The Enduring Problem of Illegal Constructions in India’s Cities
  
• The Limits of Military Coercion in Halting Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Programme
  

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

• Annual Report of the Secretary General on Police-Related Activities in 2020
  

 Our World in Data

• How Much of the World’s Food Production is Dependent on Pollinators?
  

 Oxfam

• Precarity and the Pandemic: A Survey of Wage Issues and Covid-19 Impacts amongst Migrant Seafood Workers in Thailand
  
• Tightening the Net: Net Zero Climate Targets – Implications for Land and Food Equity  

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• US Workers are Getting Large Raises, but not Enough to Keep Up with Higher Inflation
  

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• Digital Activism and Authoritarian Adaptation in the Middle East
  

 RAND Corporation

• Championing the Agile Air Force Officer Career: Examining the Potential Use of New Career Management Flexibilities
  
• Documenting Intelligence Mission-Data Production Requirements: How the U.S. Department of Defense Can Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness by Streamlining the Production Requirement Process
  
• Employee Conversions to the Cyber Excepted Service: Assessing Factors and Characteristics Related to Personnel Conversion Decisions
  
• Human Rights in the Digital Age
  
• Media Literacy Education to Counter Truth Decay: An Implementation and Evaluation Framework
  
• A Review of U.S. Army Non-Materiel Capability-Development Processes
  
• Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination in the Active-Component Army: Variation in Most Serious Event Characteristics by Gender and Installation Risk
  
• Supporting Joint Warfighter Readiness: Opportunities and Incentives for Interservice and Intraservice Coordination with Training-Simulator Acquisition and Use 
  

 Small Wars Journal

• Enabling the Fifth Column and the Relevancy of Unconventional Warfare
  
• Troubled Succession: What Leadership Decapitation Means for Rio’s Militias   

 Stimson Center

• Building Bridges, Reinforcing Protection: How NATO's Protection of Civilians Framework Influenced Ukraine's Approach
  
• Trilateral Arms Control: A Realistic Assessment of Chinese Participation
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Defense & Security Analysis, 2021
• Defining Cyberwar: Towards a Definitional Framework [open access article]  
• The Decline of South Africa’s Defence Industry [open access article]
  
• Ethics & Global Politics, 2021
• Complicity in Democratic Engagement with Autocratic Systems [open access article]  
• Upholding Public Institutions in the Midst of Conflicts: The Threat of Political Corruption [open access article]  

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

• Assessing E-Resilience in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia
  
• Digital Economy Integration in Asia and the Pacific: Insights from DigiSRII 1.0
  
• Manual for Operationalizing Impact-based Forecasting and Warning Services (IBFWS)
  
• Regional Situation Analysis: The State of Production, Dissemination, and Use of Disaster-Related Statistics in Selected Countries in Asia and the Pacific
  

 US Coast Guard (USCG)

• Cyber Strategic Outlook
  

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Consolidating Kosovo's Sovereignty: Why it Matters, and What Must Be Done
  
• Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19 in Fragile Settings: A Syndemic Model
  
• The Impact of COVID-19 on South Asian Economies
  

 White House

• United States Government Women, Peace, and Security  (WPS) Congressional Report
  

Wilson Center

• Consolidating Kosovo’s Sovereignty: Why It Matters, and What Must be Done
  
• IDA Proceedings: 8th Biennial Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Naval and Maritime Operations
  
• Venezuela’s Elusive Transition: Toward a New Path
  

 World Economic Forum

• Closing the Loop on Energy Access in Africa 
• Towards a Data Economy: An Enabling Framework