Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISISK, ISIS-K, Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISPK), Daesh–Khorasan, Wilayat Khorasan) Resources
Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
- Terrorist Groups in Afghanistan IF10604
Counter Extremism Project
Department of State
European Asylum Support Office (EASO)
- Afghanistan Security Situation - June 2021
Henry Jackson Society
Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Afghanistan’s Terrorism Challenge: The Political Trajectories of al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, and the Islamic State
- The Islamic State in Afghanistan: Examining its Threat to Stability
Observer Research Foundation
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
Taylor & Francis
- Small Wars & Insurgencies 2019, v. 30, no. 2
- ISIS-K: Deadly Nuisance or Strategic Threat?
[this is NOT an open
access article]
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
Other Items of Interest:
38 North
Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS)
- Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Impact of COVID-19 in Afghanistan
- Roundtable Discussion on Presence of ISIS in Afghanistan and South Asia
Air Force Research Institute (AFRI)
- Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2021, v. 15, no. 3
- The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare
- An Overlooked Aid to Arms Control: US Nuclear Modernization
- Strategic Imperative: A Competitive Framework for US-Sino Relations
- The Remote Sensing Revolution Threat
- Arctic Space Strategy: The US and Norwegian Common Interest and Strategic Effort
- Comprehensive Security Approach in Response to Russian Hybrid Warfare
Air University Press
- America’s Strategic Baggage in the Middle East: Is it Necessary and Sustainable
- Journal
of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Fall 2021, v. 5, no. 5
- Managerial Technicalism: The Evolving Nature of Canadian Decision Making in the Afghanistan War, 2001–2014
- The Second Nagorno- Karabakh War: Takeaways for Singapore’s Ground- Based Air Defense
- India’s Acquisition of the S-400 Air Defense System: Implications and Options for Pakistan
- The Provisional Air Corps Regiment at Bataan, 1942: Lessons for Today’s Joint Force
- Changing Political Dynamics in South Asia: The Belt and Road Initiative and Its Effects on Indian Regional Hegemony
- The China–Australia Cold War: Unpacking National Security Concerns and Great Power Competition
- Stewards of the Status Quo: US Air, Space, and Cyber Imperatives in the Indo- Pacific Gray Zone
- Geopositional Balancing: Understanding China’s Investments in Sri Lanka
- To Honor Its Commitment to UN Arms Trade Treaty, China Must Sacrifice
- Missile Woes: Why North Korea’s New (Monster) ICBM May Signal Significant Shortcomings in North Korea’s Nuclear Deterrent
- Journal
of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Special 2021, v. 4, no.
6
- Myanmar Probably Needs a Military . . . Just Not the One It Has
- Women on the Front Lines in Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy
- Myanmar in the US Indo- Pacific Strategy
- The Myanmar Coup as an ASEAN Inflection Point
- Myanmar’s Military Coup
- Between Political Violence and COVID-19: Many Citizens in Myanmar Pushed to Armed Resistance
Amnesty International
- China: Further information: Covid-19 Journalist Hospitalised, Grave Concerns: Zhang Zhan
- Colombia: Protect journalist at Risk
- Iran: Ill-Treated for Seeking Truth and Justice: Maryam Akbari Monfared
- Nicaragua: Where Are They?: Enforced Disappearance As A Strategy of Repression
- Philippines: Undermining Workers’ Rights: Labour Rights Abuses in Nickel Supply Chains
- Qatar’s Failure to Investigate, Remedy And Prevent Migrant Workers’ Deaths
Army War College
- Parameters, Autumn 2021, no. 51, no. 3
- The Alt-Right Movement and National Security
- Crisis Management Lessons from the Clinton Administration's Implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56
- Assessing Risk at the National Strategic Level: Visualization Tools for Military Planners
- Reversing the Readiness Assumption: A Proposal for Fiscal and Military Effectiveness
- Great (Soft) Power Competition: US and Chinese Efforts in Global Health Engagement
- Hope versus Reality: The Efficacy of Using US Military Aid to Improve Human Rights in Egypt
- Samuel Huntington, Professionalism, and Self-Policing in the US Army Officer Corps
- The Battalion Commander Effect
- The Evolution of Hybrid Warfare: Implications for Strategy and the Military Profession
Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Asia Foundation
Atlantic Council
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
Australian Trade and Investment Commission
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Berghahn Publishers
- Conflict
and Society, 2021, v. 7, no. 1 [all open access]
- Introduction: Experiential Landscapes of Terror
- (Counter)Terrorism and the Intimate: Bodies, Affect, Power
- Shockwaves: Atmospheres beyond the Conflict City/Ordinary City Divide
- The State of Emergency at Home: House Arrests, House Searches, and Intimacies in France
- Listening to Terror Soundscapes: Sounds, Echoes, and Silences in Listening Experiences of Survivors of the Bataclan Terrorist Attack in Paris
- “Counterterrorism Citizens” and the Neurotic City
- Introduction: The Longitudinal Ethnography of Violence
- Telling Tales?: Subjective Ethnography and Situated Narratives in Longitudinal Research on Violence in Nicaragua
- Changing Narratives of Intimate Partner Violence: A Longitudinal Photo-Ethnography
- Times of Violence: The Shifting Temporalities of Long-Term Ethnographic Engagement with Burundi
- “What about Last Time?”: Exploring Potentiality in Danish Young Women’s Violent Conflicts
- “I Showed You What I Thought Was Appropriate”: Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnographic Research and the Performativity of Dutch Gang Life
Blair Institute for Global Change
Brookings
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force
- 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
Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)
- Afghanistan: Looking Back to Move Forward
- Debt, Tech and Tension: Addressing COVID-19’s Global Fault Lines
- Growing Canada-Taiwan Trade and Investment Co-operation
- Russian Cyber-Operations in Ukraine and the Implications for NATO
- What Diplomats Need to Know about Canadian Elections
CATO Institute
- The Biden Executive Order and Market Power
- The Intergenerational Effects of the Vietnam Draft on Risky Behaviors
- Society Will Never Be Free of COVID-19—It’s Time to Embrace Harm Reduction
Center for a Media Assistance (CIMA)
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
- Building Common Ground in Transatlantic Cybersecurity – A Baltic Approach
- How Can the Baltic States Support 5G Security Through Transatlantic Cooperation?
Center for Global Development
- How Effectively Is the Asian Development Bank Responding to COVID-19? An Early Assessment
- Innovation Strategy and Economic Development
Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)
Center for International Policy
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
- Concentrations of AI-related Topics in Research: Computer Vision
- Headline or Trend Line? Evaluating Chinese-Russian Collaboration in AI
- Responsible and Ethical Military AI: Allies and Allied Perspectives
Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)
- Partnering Not Bossing: Better Leveraging International Capabilities For Space Domain Awareness
- State of Play: Smallsats Go Back to the Future
- Toward Environmental Accountability: Transforming Satellite Data Into Action
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- The Future of the International System
- What Do CPTPP Member
Country Businesses Think about the CPTPP?
[Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific
Partnership]
- What Is DoD Buying?: Defense Acquisition Trends 2020
Center on Global Energy Policy
- Getting to 30-60: How China’s Biggest Coal Power, Cement, and Steel Corporations Are Responding to National Decarbonization Pledges
- Green Hydrogen in a Circular Carbon Economy: Opportunities and Limits
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Centre for Independent Studies
Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Americans, Japanese,
and South Koreans Wary of China's Intentions
- Americans Split on Military Aid to Israel, Say Political Status Quo Unacceptable
- For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations
College of Europe
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Conflict Armament Research
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)
Counter Extremism Project
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)
- DODIG-2021-106 Audit
of the Department of Defense’s Controls on Health Information of
Well-Known Department of Defense Personnel
Department of Justice Inspector General
- 21-109 Audit of the Drug Enforcement
Administration’s Headquarters-Based Oversight of its Supported Foreign Law
Enforcement Units
East-West Center
Economic Research Forum
- Economic Interdependence and Conflict in MENA
- Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Education in The Jordanian Case: From 2008 to 2017
- The Relationship between Economic Interdependence and Conflict Prevention: An Institutional Perspective
- Shooting Down Trade
- What Does the Literature Tell Us on the Relationship between Economic Interdependence and Conflict Management? An Overview with A Focus on the MENA Region
European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
European Council on Foreign Relations
- The Fall of the Afghan Government and What It Means for Europe
- Fish and Ships: Chinese Fishing and Europe’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
European Institute of the Mediterranean
- Great Expectations: Defining A Trans-Mediterranean Cybersecurity Agenda
- IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2021
- Towards a Renewed Partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)
Future Directions International
Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS)
- China’s Technological Challenge to European Strategic Autonomy
- Energy Transition, Europe and Geopolitics
- EU Strategy: Resolutely Moderate
- European Trade Strategy: Striking a Balance between Liberalism and Nationalism
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Defense
Transportation: The Army Should Take Action to Better Ensure Adequate Rail
Support to Combatant Commanders GAO-21-411
- Facial Recognition
Technology: Current and Planned Uses by Federal Agencies GAO-21-526
- Priority Open
Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security GAO-21-377PR
- Public Safety
Officers' Benefits Program: Bureau of Justice Assistance In Compliance
With Offset and Reporting Requirements for 9/11-Related Claims GAO-21-553R
- Small Business
Administration: Physical Disaster Loan Performance Before and After
Changes in Statutory Collateral Requirements GAO-21-581R
Heritage Foundation
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
- Assessing the Federal Government’s Transition to Web-Based Forms
- The Promise of Immersive Learning: Augmented and Virtual Reality’s Potential in Education
Innovation Frontier Project (IFP)
Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)
Institute for Security and Development Policy
Institute for Security Studies [Africa]
- Where are They? Searching for Missing Persons and Meeting Their Families’ Needs
- Will the DRC’s ‘Sacred Union’ Deliver Electoral Reform?
Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool
- Improving Access to Education for Marginalised Girls in Conflict Areas
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)
International Peace Institute (IPI)
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
Italian Institute for International Political Studies
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
Manhattan Institute
Marine Corps History Division
- Marine
Corps History Magazine Summer 2021, v. 7, no. 1
- Doughboy Devil Dogs: U.S. Army Officers in the 4th Brigade in the Great War
- The American Naval Base in Ponta Delgada, 1917–19
- Marine Corps Boot Camp during World War II: The Gateway to the Corps’ Success at Iwo Jima
- Hybrid Warfare in Vietnam: The U.S. and South Vietnamese Success against the Viet Cong Insurgency
- Fighting the Phantom: 1st Viet Cong Regiment in I Corps
- Game Review: The Shores of Tripoli
Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies
- per
Concordian, 2021, v. 11, no. 2
- The Pandemic and National Security
- Profound Implications: How the Pandemic has Affected Security Across the World
- Effective Multilateralism: The EU, Great Power Competition and COVID-19
- COVID-19 and Preparedness: Lessons for Future Crises
- COVID-19 Challenges the MENA Region: The Pandemic's Impact on the Middle East and North Africa
- Managing Pandemics: What Armed Forces Can Do
- Therapies and Implications: The Consequences of COVID-19 in the Post-Soviet Space
- COVID-19 and Kyiv: The Pandemic and Its Impact on Ukraine
- Trade Routes and Security Alliances: The Post-Pandemic Security Terrain in Central Eurasia
- Strategic Deterrence Unabated: Defending the Nation During a Pandemic
- Bringing Foreign Fighters Home: How Kosovo Rehabilitates Repatriated Islamic State Fighters
- A New Normal: Health Security May Become a Core Task of Militaries
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
- From Jailers to Case Managers: Redesigning the U.S. Immigration Detention System to Be Effective and Fair
- Taking the Long View: Options for Inclusive Post-Pandemic Labor Markets
National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- SP 1800-13 Mobile
Application Single Sign-On: Improving Authentication for Public Safety
First Responders
National Iranian American Council (NIAC)
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence
- Generative Adversarial Networks from a Cyber Intelligence Perspective
- National Cybersecurity Organisation: Turkey
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)
Observer Research Foundation
- China in Africa: the Role of Trade, Investments, and Loans Amidst Shifting Geopolitical Ambitions
- China’s Xinjiang Policy and the Silence of Islamic States
- Understanding the Challenges to Mass COVID-19 Vaccination: The Case of UK
Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
- Lessons from Conducting Research on Mental Well-Being of Adolescents in Viet Nam and Tanzania during Covid-19
- Official Development Assistance Financing for Social Protection: Lessons from the Covid-19 Response
Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)
Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
Pew Research Center
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence
RAND Corporation
- A Clean Sheet Approach to Space Acquisition in Light of the New Space Force
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Intelligence Analysis
- In Search of a Durable Solution: Examining the Factors Influencing Postconflict Refugee Returns
- The Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame: Rulebook
- Leveraging Complexity in Great-Power Competition and Warfare:
- Volume I, An Initial Exploration of How Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking Can Frame Opportunities and Challenges
- Volume II, Technical Details for a Complex Adaptive Systems Lens
- Strategic Airlift in Africa Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Member Nations
- Three Essays on the Broader Effects of the Opioid Crisis
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Small Wars Journal
- The Campfire v. the Podium: The Persuasive Power of Storytelling
- To Honor the Fallen, Americans Must Learn the Right Lesson from Afghanistan
- Mission Afghanistan: Advice for A US Special Operations Unit (2009)
- Subject: Your Request Regarding Possible Incursion into Afghanistan
- U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan: The View From Pyongyang
South African Institute of International Affairs
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- Taking Stock of the Arms Trade Treaty:
Swedish Defence Research Agency
Taylor & Francis
- Defense & Security Analysis, 2021
- Analysing Armed Forces Transformation: Methodology and Visualization [open access article]
- Ethics & Global Politics, 2021, v. 14, no. 3
- Complicity in Democratic Engagement with Autocratic Systems [open access article]
- Mitigating the Costs of Departure. Brain Drain, Disadvantage and Fair Burden-Sharing [open access article]
- Upholding Public Institutions in the Midst of Conflicts: The Threat of Political Corruption [open access article]
- Policing and Society, 2021, v. 31, no. 7
- Amsterdam Coffeeshops, Victimisation, and Police Mobilization [open access article]
- ‘No Black and White Answer About How Far We Can G’: Police Decision Making under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme [open
access article]
- Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021
Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI)
- Perspectives
on Terrorism, August 2021, v.15, no. 4
- Counter-Terrorism as a Public Policy: Theoretical Insights and Broader Reflections on the State of Counter-Terrorism Research
- Rival Consolidation in Nascent Insurrections: Why Some Militant Groups Wage Sustained Insurgencies
- The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): An Update on Data Collection and Results
- The Dead Drops of Online Terrorism
- Connecting, Competing, and Trolling: “User Types” in Digital Gamified Radicalization Processes
- International Links and the Role of the Islamic State in the Barcelona and Cambrils Attacks in 2017
- Evidence to Explain Violent Extremist Communication: A Systematic Review of Individual-Level Empirical Studies
- Frictional Security Governance: Policing the Crime-Terror Nexus in Denmark
- Tracing the Fate of Central Asian Fighters in Syria: Remainers, Repatriates, Returnees, and Relocators
- From Spandau to Guantanamo: Prisons as Propaganda Instruments for Extremists and Terrorists
- Counter-Terrorism Studies: A Glimpse at the Current State of Research (2020/2021)
- Counter-Terrorism Bookshelf: 5 Books on Terrorism & Counter- Terrorism-Related Subjects
- Bibliography: Terrorism by Country - United States
- Bibliography: Hamas
- Recent Online Resources for the Analysis of Terrorism and Related Subjects
- Best Theses on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Award 2019-2020
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
- Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021
- If the US-China Trade War is Here to Stay, What are the Risks and Opportunities for Other GVC Economies Outside the War Zone?
US Army Heritage & Education Center (USAHEC) Library
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
US Postal Service Inspector General
- 21-067-R21 U.S.
Postal Inspection Service Oversight of Its Use of Cryptocurrency
US Studies Institute
- Correcting the Course: How the Biden Administration Should Compete for Influence in the Indo-Pacific
World Economic Forum