Friday's Miscellany 08-20-2021

 38 North

• Beyond the Billet-Doux: Thoughts on How to Read the Trump-Kim Letters 

 Action on Armed Violence

• An Examination Of The Precursor Chemicals Used In The Manufacture Of Explosive Compositions Found Within Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) 

 Air University Press

• There From the Beginning: Women in the U.S. Air Force 

 Army University Press

• Military Review, September-October 2021, v. 101, no. 5 
• The Loss of Private Waller
• Clausewitz’s Perspective on Deterring Russian Malign Activities in Cyberspace
• Enduring Competition in a New Age of Power
• The Battle for Hong Kong: Insights on Narrative and Resistance for the Army in Strategic Competition
• The Trouble with Mission Command: Army Culture and Leader Assumptions
• Multi-Domain Operations in Urban Terrain and Implications for the Medical Line of Effort
• Combat and Operational Stress Control in the Prolonged Field Care Environment
• Factor Analysis: A Valuable Technique in Support of Mission Analysis
• “We Who Wear the Cloth of Our Nation”: Using Character Development and Education to Combat Partisan Polarization in the Military
• Leading the Change: The Field Grade Leader’s Role in Responding to the Fort Hood Report
• The Case for an Information Warfighting Function
• The Philippine Constabulary: An Example of American Command of Indigenous Forces
• Framing Turkey’s Cross-Border Counterterrorism Operations in the Context of Pragmatic Strategic Culture: An Operational Design
• The American Maginot Line
• An After-War Poem
• Vietnam War Portraits: The Faces and Voices
• "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

 Atlantic Council

• EU-US Future Forum 2021: A Path Forward for Transatlantic Relations 
• The UK, France, and the United States in Sweden’s Vicinity: Strategic Interests and Military Activities 
• Whither the Arabs: The End of the Welfare State and the Start of a Journey Into the Unknown 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• ANZUS at 70: the Past, Present and Future of the Alliance 
• Buying and Selling Extremism 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Did the TCJA Reduce Wealth Inequality?
  
• The PJD & Economic Policymaking in Morocco 

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Planes, Homes and Automobiles: The Role of Behaviour Change in Delivering Net Zero 

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• A View from Pakistan – Review of ‘Nuclear Responsibilities: A New Approach for Thinking and Talking About Nuclear Weapons’ 

 Brookings

• Beyond ‘Food Deserts’: America Needs a New Approach to Mapping Food Insecurity 
• A Proposal for Long-Term COVID-19 Control 
• Remote work wanted? Evidence from job postings during COVID-19 
• Social and Development Impact Bonds by the Numbers: August 2021 Snapshot 
• Vaccine Hesitancy in Nursing Homes Isn’t All Politics 

 Brown University, Watson Institute

• Creating Refugees:  Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars
  
• The Long-Term Costs of United States Care for Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
  

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Debt, Tech and Tension: Addressing COVID-19’s Global Fault Lines 

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

• Media Freedom and Technological Change 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• Frequently Asked Questions about Gun Trafficking 
• How Nonprofit Hospitals Can Support Communities and Advance Public Health 
• It’s Time for Congress to Protect Americans from Deadly Extreme Heat 
• Using Holistic, Multigenerational Strategies To Alleviate Poverty 
• What the European Union’s Proposed Trade Tax on Carbon Means for the United States 
  

 Center for Data Innovation

• Principles to Promote Responsible Use of AI for Workforce Decisions 

 Center for Global Development 

• The Challenge of Reallocating SDRs: A Primer 
• Enabling US Government Participation in Pull Mechanisms for Social Impact Innovation: A Survey of Federal Authorities, Budgetary Barriers, and Potential Solutions 
• The Impacts of COVID-19 on Women’s Social and Economic Outcomes: An Updated Review of the Evidence 
• Malaria Case Management in the Private Sector in Africa: A Call for Action to Identify Sustainable Solutions 
• One Year after COVID: The Challenges and Outlook of Chinese Micro and Small Enterprises 
• Vietnam: The East Asian Model Redux 

 Center for International Policy

• USAPM: Spotlight on Zambia 

 Center for Naval Analysis (CNA)

• Russian Military Strategy: Core Tenets and Operational Concepts  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) 

• 35 Key “Stranglehold” Technologies
  
• Indonesia’s AI Promise in Perspective 

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• The FY22 Defense Space Budget Request Analysis 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The Reasons for the Collapse of Afghan Forces 

 Centre for Independent Studies

• 90 Days to Freedom? Why Australia Can Learn from Canada’s Vaccination Success 
• The Psychology of Populism: Tribal Challenges to Liberal Democracy
  

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• The Digital Decide: How to Agree on WTO Rules for Digital Trade
  

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2021, v. 20, no. 4
  
• The Theory, Pursuit, and Practice of Cyber power in Israel
• A Force in Adazi: Strategic Deterrence by Denial
• The Archaic Greek Way of War: Reassessing Martial Identities
• Diaspora Discontent: Canada and the Kosovo Crisis
• Appealing to Women’s Obligations to Join the Caliphate: Content Analysis of IS’ English Language Magazine Dabiq
• Warden & Odlum: Positional Vs. Personal Leadership Power in the Officers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918

 CEPOL

• European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, no. 21, Summer 2021 
• Mapping Demands: How to Prepare Police Officers to Cope with Pandemic-Specific Stressors
• The Impacts of COVID-19 Epidemic on the Daily Work of SIRENE Hungary
• International Police Peacekeeping Missions: Recruitment and Selection of German Police Officers
• SKALA - Predictive Policing in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Lightening the Economics of Organised Crime in the EU
• Rising to the Proliferation of Cybercrime Challenging LEAs Across Europe
• Status Quo of National Data Sources Concerning Domestic Violence Across Eight European Countries
• An Inter-Organisational Response to Domestic Violence
• The Challenge of Involving Medical Doctors as Important Frontline Responders in Fighting Domestic Violence

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Expert Insights: Afghanistan 
• Exploring Avenues in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis 
• Ramifications of Further Integration between Belarus and Russia 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• Key U.S. Initiatives for Addressing Biological Threats Part 3: The Biological Threat Reduction Program 
• Pathogen Early Warning: New Technologies and Approaches  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2021, v. 22   
• Wargaming Future National Security Threats Posed by Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Nature-Based Solutions to Development and Climate Change Challenges: Understanding Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Approaches
  
• Risks of Technology Use in Humanitarian Settings: Avoiding Harm, Delivering Impact 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-21-53 U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Acquisition Management of Aviation Fleet Needs Improvement to Meet Operational Needs 
  
• OIG-21-54  FEMA Prematurely Obligated $478 Million in Public Assistance Funds from FY 2017 through FY 2019 

 Department of the Treasury Office of Inspector General

• OIG-CA-21-027 Overseas Contingency Operations - Summary of Work Performed by the Department of the Treasury Related to Terrorist Financing and Anti-Money Laundering for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2021
  

 East West Center

• ASEAN Matters for America/America Matters for ASEAN 

 Economic Research Forum

• Financial Stability and Monetary Policy Reaction: Evidence from the GCC Countries 
• Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Palestine 
• Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and the Distribution of Earnings in Iran 
• The Nexus between Construction Investment and Economic Development: Evidence from MENA Countries
  
• Sanctions, Wars and MENA Trade 

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Cultures of Islam: Vernacular Traditions and Revisionist Interpretations across Russia 

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC) 

• Mobility Imaginaries: Social & Ethical Issues of Connected and Automated Vehicles 
• Technology Transfer in Azerbaijan 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in Belarus 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in Egypt 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in Georgia 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in Jordan 2019 -2020 
• Technology Transfer in Lebanon 2019 -2020 
• Technology Transfer in Morocco 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in the Republic of Moldova 2019 -2020
  
• Technology Transfer in Tunisia 2019 - 2020 
• Technology Transfer in Ukraine 2019 -2020 

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• A Comparison of National Reviews of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 
• Effective and Comprehensive CBRN Security Risk Management in the 21st Century 
• A Proposal for a Ban on Destructive Anti-Satellite Testing: What is the European Union’s Role? 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• EASO Age Assessment Practices in EU+ Countries: Updated Finding 

 European Parliament Research Service

• Innovative Technologies Shaping the 2040 Battlefield 

 European Union (EU)

• Natural Gas Price Control: Theoretical Issues and World Case Studies 

 EUROPOL

• Online Jihadist Propaganda - 2020 in Review 

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, August 2021
  
• The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence
• Blending Public and Private Law Enforcement
• Innovative Latent Print Processing
• The Will to Lead

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Afghanistan and the Rise of the Islamic Emirate: A Tragic Inevitability 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• The Arctic: Global Warming and Heated Politics
  
• Does the Biden Administration Have a Eurasia Policy? 
• Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Why Did the Kremlin Mass Its Forces Near Ukraine This Spring? 
• Violence in Tigray Threatens Ethiopia’s Already Fragile Stability 
• What Will the Terrorism Landscape Look Like in a Taliban-Led Afghanistan? 

 Future Directions International

• The Fall of Afghanistan: Can the US Be Trusted Any More? 

German Development Institute

• Export Curbs on Essential Goods in the Wake of Covid-19 and the Least Developed Countries: Permanent Scarring from a Temporary Outburst 
• Focussing European Cooperation with the Middle East and North Africa on Social Contracts 
• The Rise of the Team Europe Approach in EU Development Cooperation: Assessing a Moving Target                

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Assessing Online Wildlife Marketing: A Tool for Monitoring Illegality 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Chaos or Connection? The Global Media and Information Landscape in 2035 
• The Future of Conflict in an Age of Climate Extremes 
• A World Divided? Envisioning the Future of Global Inequality 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Defense Nuclear Enterprise: DOD Can Improve Processes for Monitoring Long-Standing Issues GAO-21-486 
• Federal Debt Management: Treasury Quickly Financed Historic Government Response to the Pandemic and is assessing Risks to Market Functioning GAO-21-606 
• Military Families: Additional DOD Actions Could Better Support Military Foster and Adoptive Families GAO-21-438 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• An Ambidextrous EU Approach to Transatlantic Relations 
• Normative Power and EU Strategic Autonomy 
• The United States May Be Willing, but No Longer Always Able: The Need for Transatlantic Burden Sharing in the Pacific Century 

 Heritage Foundation

• Japanese Strike Capabilities: Security Advantages for U.S. Alliance, Challenges to Overcome 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Assessing the Federal Government’s Transition to Web-Based Forms 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Bangladesh and Its Security Relationship with External Powers 
• CDS and Beyond Integration of the Indian Armed Forces 
• What Beijing’s Expanding Digital Silk Road Means to India? 

 Institute for National Strategic Studies

• Taking Stock of the National Stockpile: Modernizing for a Dynamic Response 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Saudi Security: Increasing Challenges alongside Strategic Limitations 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• Cross-Strait Relations: A Conflict in Slow Motion? 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue  

• Gaming and Extremism: The Extreme Right on Discord 
• Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok 

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

• Ho Chi Minh City, Afghanistan, Is Here 
• Peace Process: Implications for India and South Asia 
• The Ramifications of Ho Chi Minh City, Afghanistan 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Regional Actors Eye Threats and Opportunities in Taliban Takeover 
• Russia in Review: August 4 – August 17, 2021 
• Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) Demonstrates New Capabilities in First-Ever Strategic Exercise 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• The Fall of Afghanistan: A Blow to Counter-Terrorism and Rule of Law Efforts 
• Pathways out of the Quagmire? Perspectives for al-Qaeda in the Sahel 
• Whose Side Are They On? The Diversity of Far-Right Responses to Covid-19 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Fifth Generation Air Policing: The F-35 and Baltic Air Policing
  

 International Crisis Group

• A Time for Talks: Toward Dialogue between the Gulf Arab States and Iran 

 James Martin  Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

• End of an Era: The United States, Russia, and Nuclear Nonproliferation 

 Manhattan Institute

• Crime Hot Spots: A Study of New York City Streets in 2010, 2015, and 2020 
• Lead and Crime: A Review of the Evidence and the Path Forward 

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

• Preexisting Conditions 

 Martens Centre for European Studies

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

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• Gaps and Opportunities in Accessibility Policy for Autonomous Vehicles 

 MITRE

• 10-Point Action Plan: Sustaining A Biopharma Industrial Base for a More Secure Nation 
• Charting New Horizons: Technology and U.S. Competitive Success 
• Five AI Fails and How We Can Learn from Them 
• A National Science and Technology Council for the 21st Century 

 National Academies Press

• Lessons Learned in Health Professions Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Part 1: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Motivating Local Climate Adaptation and Strengthening Resilience: Making Local Data Trusted, Useful, and Used 

 National Security Archive

• Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents 
• Cyber Brief: U.S. Biometric Devices Captured by Taliban, According to Report 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Tallinn Paper: Opportunities for Public and Private Attribution of Cyber Operations 

 New America

• Bridging the Transparency Gap: A Comparative Assessment of Surveillance-Related Transparency Efforts in the United States and India 
• DHS @ 20: Navigating a Changing Security Environment 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Global Carbon Incentive Fund as a Response to the Climate Crisis 
• Tackling Air Pollution at the Sub-National Level: The Case of Rajasthan 

 Office of Naval Research

• Future Force: Naval Science and Technology, 2021, v. 7, no. 2 
• Updating Celestial: A New System Navigates when Satellites Are Down
• Unmanned Vehicles Help Scientists Rediscover the Arctic
• Climate Change Drives New Demand for Ocean Observation
• WISDOM Arms Warfighters with the Power of Weather Prediction
• Interview: "We Execute Science and Technology Development and Transition Capability to the Fleet"
• Meteorology and Oceanography at NRL
• Strategy for Intelligent Autonomous Systems 

 Operations and Policy Center (OPC)

• Visualizing Syria’s Merchandise Trade 2010-2019 

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

• Gender Responsive Short-Term Visa Policies: Overview of Practices in the OSCE Region and Recommendations for Improvement 
• Racist and Xenophobic Hate Crime 

Overseas Development Institute

• War Gains: How the Economic Benefits of the Conflict are Distributed in Afghanistan and the Implications for Peace. A Case Study on Nimroz Province 

 Pew Research Center

• How Call-In Options Affect Address-Based Web Surveys 

 RAND Corporation

• Aligning Roles and Missions for Future Multidomain Warfare 
• The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship 
• Russian Grand Strategy: Rhetoric and Reality 
• Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Member Nations 
• Stress Control for Military, Law Enforcement, and First Responders: A Systematic Review 
• Understanding and Defending Against Russia's Malign and Subversive Information Efforts in Europe 
• Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey About School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools 

 Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)

• Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, Spring 2021, v. 10, no. 2
  
• “The Way of an Eagle in the Air” – The Canadian Air Board and the First Trans-Canada Flight
• “We’re About to Crash”: The Ghosts of KB 965 and Other Lost Aircraft at Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1950–1991
• How We Think: Embracing Complexity in Canadian Armed Forces Policy
• GPS Denial: The Implications to RCAF Operations

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• America, ASEAN and the Question of ASEAN’s Centrality
  
• Community Gardens: A “Fourth Basket” in Singapore’s Food Story?
  
• Creating Synergies between the ADMM and Sub-regional Arrangements 
• Malaysia’s New Government: Same But Different 

 The Sentry

• Cultivating Atrocities: French Sugar and Beverage Giant Castel Group Linked to the Funding of Brutal Militias in Central African Republic 

 Small Wars Journal

• For Those Who Served In Afghanistan 
• Passing the Baby 
• State Weakness and Transnational Power: Explaining the Crisis in Venezuela 
• Subject: Your Request Regarding Possible Incursion into Afghanistan 
• U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Pyongyang 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Lessons for Africa in Chinese SOE Governance
  

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Social Media: A Tool for Peace or Conflict? 

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

• Inside the Raslan Trial: The One Who is Arrested is Lost; The One Who is Released is Newborn 

 Swedish Defence University Centre for Society Security 

• Comprehending Hybrid Threats and Hybrid Warfare : The Hybridity Blizzard Model 

 Taylor& Francis

• Contemporary Politics, 2021, v. 27, no. 4
• Social Norms and (De-) Financialization: Japan’s and China’s Divergent Paths in Consumer Credit [open access article] 
• Spreading a Norm-Based Policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in International Media [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2021
• Gender at the Crossroads: The Role of Gender in the UN’s Global Counterterrorism Reform at the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2021, v. 44, no. 1
• The Unforeseen 2012 Crisis in Mali: The Diverging Outcomes of Risk and Threat Analyses [open access article] 

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

• The Science, Technology and Innovation Ecosystem of Cambodia 
• SDG 6 & COVID-19 : Accelerating Progress Towards SDG 6 in the Asia-Pacific Region in the Context of COVID-19 Recovery 

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• Illicit Fentanyl from China: An Evolving Global Operation 

 Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute

• Case for Democracy: Do Democracies Perform Better Combatting Climate Change?
  
• Democratic Regimes and Epidemic Deaths 
• Pandemic Backsliding: A Year of Violations and Advances in Response to Covid-19
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• A Strategy to Contain Hezbollah: Ideas and Recommendations 

 Wilson Center

• The Cryptocurrency Codex 
• The Road to COP-26: Session 1 of the Brazil-U.S. Dialogue on Sustainability and Climate Change 
• Nicaragua: Ortega Started to Kill Democracy a Long Time Ago 

 World Bank

• Ebb and Flow
• Volume 1 : Water, Migration, and Development 
• Volume 2 : Water in the Shadow of Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa 
• Hidden Debt : Solutions to Avert the Next Financial Crisis in South Asia 

 World Economic Forum

• Youth Recovery Plan