Friday's Miscellany 09-17-2021 & 09/24/2021

 38 North

• The Future of Southeast Asia-DPRK Engagement
  
• Initial Analysis of North Korea’s “New Type Long-Range Cruise Missile”
  
• It’s the Launcher, Not the Missile: Initial Evaluation of North Korea’s Rail-Mobile Missile Launches
  
• Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Defense Versus Civilian Spending
  

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• 10 Years after Independence South Sudan Faces Persistent Crisis
  

 AidData

• Aid and Institutions: Local Effects of World Bank Aid on Perceived Institutional Quality in Africa
  
• Does India Use Development Finance to Compete with China? A Subnational Analysis
  

 Air University

• Air & Space Power Journal, Fall 2021, v. 35, v. 3  
• Special Feature: The B-52 Stratofortress
• Piloting Unmanned Aircraft with a Computer Mouse: Challenges to Point-and-Click Flying
• National Security and the Third-Road Threat: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Information Warfare
• Combatting Russian Influence through Improved Security Assistance
• Shifting Satellite Control Paradigms: Operational Cybersecurity in the Age of Megaconstellations
• Directed-Energy Weapons: An Option for Strategic De-Escalation
• Mobilizing Uniformed Scientists and Engineers
• F-35 O-Ring Production Functions versus Mosaic Warfare: Some Simple Mathematics

 Air University Press

• Flexible Employment of Multi-Role Assets
  
• No Moment of Victory: The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, 2009–2011
  

 American Enterprise Institute

• Prioritize Long-Range Nuclear Limits
  

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

• Revamping China Policy for The Transatlantic Alliance: Major Issues for the United States and Germany
  

 Amnesty International

• Egypt: “This Will Only End When You Die”: National Security Agency Harassment of Activists in Egypt
  

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), July 2021, v. 28, no. 7
  
• Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use, Active Component Service Women, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020
• Oral cavity and pharynx cancers, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2019
• The Evolution of Military Health Surveillance Reporting: A Historical Review

 Arms Control Association

• Understanding Hypersonic Weapons: Managing the Allure and the Risks
  

 Army University Press

• Military Review, 2021, China Reader Special Edition  
• Leadership Remarks about Indo-Pacom Activities
• The Question: Why Would China Not Invade Taiwan Now?
• The Long March: A Generational Approach to Achieving the People’s Republic of China Strategic Objective to Annex Taiwan
• Extract from “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2019”
• Steal the Firewood from Under the Pot: The Role of Intellectual Property Theft in Chinese Global Strategy
• Extract from “The FBI and the National Security Threat Landscape: The Next Paradigm Shift”
• Extract from “China’s Impact on the U.S. Education System”: Staff Report
• Pivot Out of the Pacific: Oil and the Creation of a Chinese Empire in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• The People’s Bank of China’s Monetary Armament: Capabilities and Limitations of Evolving Institutional Power
• Geoeconomics
• China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative and Its International Arms Sales: An Overlooked Aspect of Connectivity and Cooperation?
• China’s Maritime Militia and Fishing Fleets: A Primer for Operational Staffs and Tactical Leaders
• The Strategic Significance of the Chinese Fishing Fleet
• Competing with China for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific
• Contemporary China: In Conflict, Not Competition
• Chinese Soft Power: Creating Anti-Access Challenges in the Indo-Pacific
• Economic Warfare: China’s Financial Alternative to Military Reunification with Taiwan
• How to Counter China’s Disinformation Campaign in Taiwan
• Preparing for the Future: Marine Corps Support to Joint Operations in Contested Littorals
• Taiwan and the U.S. Army: New Opportunities amid Increasing Threats
• Understanding the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force: Strategy, Armament, and Disposition
• The Impact of Base Politics on Long-Range Precision Fires: A Closer Look at Japan
• Drive Them into the Sea
• Deterring the Dragon: Returning U.S. Forces to Taiwan
• Extract from Rear Admiral Luo Yuan’s Speech at the 2018 Military Industry Ranking Awards Ceremony and Innovation Summit
• A Legacy of Ashes: The US Army and the Destruction of San Francisco
  

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Fundamentals of South Korean Public Opinion on Foreign Policy and National Security
  

 Asia Society

• China’s New Direction: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Policy

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) in Asia Pacific
  

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Combat Multiplier: Examining the Security Force Assistance Brigade's Role in Future Army Strategic Deterrence
  

 Atlantic Council

• Beyond the Peninsula: Prospects for US-ROK Regional Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
• Cyber Defense Across the Ocean Floor: The Geopolitics of Submarine Cable Security
  
• International Corporate Tax Reform: Transatlantic Cooperation after the OECD-Deal
  
• The Special Role of US Nuclear Weapons
  
• Upgrading US Public Diplomacy: A New Approach for the Age of Memes and Disinformation
  

 Australian National University Press

• Dictionary of World Biography (8th ed.)
  
• Finding the Enemy Within: Blasphemy Accusations and Subsequent Violence in Pakistan
  

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• A 3D Deep Dive into the India–China Border
  
• Iron Ore Futures: Possible Paths for Australia’s Biggest Trade with China
• New Beginnings: Rethinking Business and Trade in an Era of Strategic Clarity and Rolling Disruption
  
• The Pacific Fusion Centre: The Challenge of Sharing Information and Intelligence in the Pacific
  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• The Advanced Carbon Economy: A Sustainable Hydrogen Pathway
  
• Copper and Lithium: How Chile is Contributing to the Energy Transition
  

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• 20 Years on from 9/11: War Impossible, Peace Improbable 
  
• From Market Good to Social Right? Shifting Approaches to Housing in Europe 
  
• The Next Generation EU: Opportunity and Risk
  
• Turkey and the European Union: A Difficult but Critical Relationship
  

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• A Next Generation National Information Operations Strategy and Architecture
  
• Revitalizing NATO: A Role for the U.S. Congress
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Changing Values in the Middle East: Secular Swings and Liberal Leanings
  
• Pandemic to Endemic: The Race against Time
  
• Peace and Tolerance Education in the Arab World Two Decades After 9/11 
  

 Brookings

• 9-11 and the US-Mexico Border: New challenges 20 Years Later
  
• Beneficial Ownership in Mongolia: A Way Forward
  
• Can Fintech Improve Health?
  
• City Playbook for Advancing the SDGs [Sustainable Development Goals]
  
• Developing a Roadmap for USMCA Success
  
• The External Wealth of Nations Database
  
• Greening the AfCFTA: It Is Not Too Late
  
• State Resilience and Recovery: Strategies to Reduce Inequality and Promote Prosperity by Creating Better Places
  

 Brown University Costs of War Project

• Profits of War: Corporate Beneficiaries of the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
  

 Bruegel

• Can Climate Change be Tackled without Ditching Economic Growth?
  
• EU-India Trade Relations: Assessment and Perspectives
  
• Investing in China: Myths and Realities
  

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Milestones in Canadian Gender and Trade Policy
  

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Chinese Mining and Indigenous Resistance in Ecuador
  
• How Syria Changed Turkey’s Foreign Policy
  
• Understanding the Encryption Debate in India
  

 CATO Institute

• Black Lives Matter Protests, Fatal Police Interactions, and Crime
  
• Can Electronic Monitoring Reduce Reoffending?
  
• The COVID-19 Case for Bigger Government Is Weak
  
• Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night Lights Data
  
• Inequality beyond GDP: A Long View
  

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• A Limited Partnership: Russia-China Relations in the Mediterranean
  

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

• Party Capital: A Blueprint for National Security Due Diligence on China
  
• Unmasked: Vessel Identity Laundering and North Korea's Maritime Sanctions  
  

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• How Weak Safety Net Policies Exacerbate Regional and Racial Inequality 
  

 Center for Global Development

• Global Mobility: Confronting A World Workforce Imbalance
  
• Operationalizing Climate Adaptation at the US International Development Finance Corporation: The Case for an Agriculture-Led Agenda in Low-Income Countries
  
• Oral Evidence: Implementing the Integrated Review in Nigeria
  
• Reallocating SDRs into an IMF Global Resilience Trust
  

 Center for International Policy

• Dismantling Racism and Militarism in U.S. Foreign Policy
  
• The Expanding Scope of U.S. Security Assistance Since 9/11
  
• USAPM: France neutralizes ISIS Leader in the Sahel  

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

• Mediterranean Transport and Logistics in a Post-COVID-19 Era
  

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• 2021 Methuen Police Department Performance Audit
  
• The Future of US Alliances and Partnerships: A Data Science Approach
  
• The PLA's New Joint Doctrine
  
• Views from the People's Republic of China on US-China Relations since the Beginning of the Biden Administration
  

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• AI Education in China and the United States: A Comparative Assessment
  
• Application Guidelines for the “Chips, Software, and Compute” (Chip Category) Major Special Project of the 2020 Annual Guangdong Provincial Program for Research and Development in Key Fields
  
• CSET Legislation Tracker
  
• Concentrations of AI-Related Topics in Research: Natural Language Processing
  
• Concentrations of AI-Related Topics in Research: Robotics
  
• Education in China and the United States
  
• From Cold War Sanctions to Weaponized Interdependence: An Annotated Bibliography on Competition and Control over Emerging Technologies
  
• Notice of the [Wuhan] City People’s Government on Certain Policies to Support the Development of the National Cybersecurity Talent and Innovation Base
  
• Press Conference on the “Launch and Implementation of the National Key R&D Program”: Summary Transcript
  
• Open Solicitation of Opinions on the Three-Year Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Cybersecurity Industry (2021-2023) (Draft for Solicitation of Opinions) 
  
• Provisional Administrative Methods for Entrusting Enterprises with Building State Key Laboratories
  
• Robot Hacking Games
  
• White Paper on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
  

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• A Digital Army: Synergies on the Battlefield and the Development of Cyber-Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA)
  

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• The Future of Civil and Commercial Space Authorization and Oversight
  

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Arms Control: Can Its Future Be Found in Its Past?
  

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The Afghanistan Archives: Key Metrics from 2002-2019
  
• Beyond COVAX: The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery to Developing Countries
  
• By Air, Land, and Sea: China’s Maritime Power Projection Network
  
• CPTPP as a Global “Docking Station” for Free Traders? Prospective Members and Potential Gains [Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership]
  
• Developing Inclusive Digital Payment Systems
  
• Economic Opportunity in the Northern Triangle: U.S. Government Support for Private Sector-Led Development
  
• Encouraging Small Business Procurement in Indian States
  
• Five Opportunities for the U.S.-Australia Alliance to Lead
  
• Implications of the Digital Markets Act for Transatlantic Cooperation
  
• Reaching Farther, Risking Less: Remotely Crewed Systems’ ISR Applications for Great Power Competition
  
• Restoring Momentum to U.S. Foreign Policy in the Wake of Afghanistan
  
• Russia and the Technological Race in an Era of Great Power Competition
  
• Russia’s Climate Gamble: The Pursuit and Contradiction of Its Arctic Ambitions
  
• Russia’s “Hybrid Aggression” against Georgia: The Use of Local and External Tools
  
• The Russian and Ukrainian Spring 2021 War Scare
  
• Strengthening European Deterrence and Defense: NATO, Not European Defense Autonomy, Is the Answer
  
• Strengthening Russia’s Nuclear Forces in the Arctic: The Case of the Kinzhal Missile
  
• The Sustainable Development Goals: A Playbook for Reengagement  

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Oil Intensity: The Curiously Steady Decline of Oil in GDP  

 Center on U.S.-China Relations

• China’s New Direction: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Policy
  

 Centre for Independent Studies

• Reflections on the EU Project and Its Flaws: A Fatal Conceit about Markets and the Real World
  
• Xi Dreams of 100 More Glorious Years for the Party: Might China Awake?
  

 Chatham House 

• Advanced Military Technology in Russia: Capabilities, Limitations and Challenges
  
• Climate Change Risk Assessment 2021
  
• US and European Strategies for Resilient Supply Chains
  
• What Deters Russia: Enduring Principles for Responding to Moscow
  

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• New Solutions for a Changing Climate
  
• Renewing International Extension to Equip Farmers for a Changing Climate
  

 China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe

• The Environmental Impact of Chinese Projects in the Western Balkans
  

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Europe’s Indo-Pacific Embrace
  
• The Future of European Intelligence Cooperation
  

 College of Europe

• Just Transition in EU External Action: Conceptualising EU Efforts to Promote a Global Low-Carbon Future
  
• A Market Investigation Tool to Tackle Algorithmic Tacit Collusion: An Approach for the (Near) Future
  

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Afghanistan 2001- 2021: Evaluating the Withdrawal and U.S. Policies – Part 1
  
• An International Response to Ortega’s Destruction of Democracy in Nicaragua  
• Shifting the Power: Advancing Locally-led Development and Partner Diversification in U.S. Development Programs
  
• Transatlantic Cooperation on Countering Global Violent Extremism
  

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

• Stakeholder Perspectives on the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2021
  
• Worldwide Threats to the Homeland: 20 Years After 9/11
  

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

• National Cybersecurity Strategy: Protection of Federal and Critical Infrastructure Systems
  
• Threats to the Homeland: Evaluating the Landscape 20 Years after 9/11
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Alternative Approaches to Adjusting Military Cash Pay
  
• An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2022 Shipbuilding Plan
  
• The Role of the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Single-Family Mortgage Market
  

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2021, v. 22   
• A Biodefense Fusion Center to Improve Disease Surveillance and Early Warnings to Enhance National Security
  
• Learning to Live with Endemic COVID-19
  

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Governing Climate Mobility: Scoping Study of Two Localities in Ghana
  
• Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Resource Mobilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa
  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Anomalous Health Incidents
  
• Commencing Department of Defense Actions and Implementation to Address Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Military
  
• Guidance for Continuation of Operations During a Lapse of Appropriation
  

 Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2021-123 Audit of Military Services Special Assignment Airlift Mission Cargo Movement Requests
  
• DODIG-2021-124 Independent Auditor’s Report of Department of State Funds Transferred to DoD for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention
  
• DODIG-2021-125 Evaluation of U.S. Special Operations Command’s Supply Chain Risk Management for the Security, Acquisition, and Delivery of Specialized Equipment
  
• DODIG-2021-129 Audit of Defense Logistics Agency Award and Management of Bulk Fuel Contracts in Areas of Contingency Operations
  
• DODIG-2021-132 Management Advisory: Identifying and Reporting Possible Human Trafficking Violations and Abuse Against Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Applicants and Other Afghan Refugees
  
• DODIG-2021-135 Management Advisory Regarding the Continued Use of Unauthorized “For Official Use Only” Markings and the Ineffective Implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information Program
  

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-21-59 CISA Can Improve Efforts to Ensure Dam Security and Resilience
  
• OIG-21-60 DHS Needs to Enhance Its COVID-19 Response at the Southwest Border
  
• OIG-21-65 Coast Guard Should Prioritize Upgrades to Rescue 21 Alaska and Expand Its Public Notifications during Outages
  
• OIG-21-68 TSA Has Not Implemented All Requirements of the 9/11 Act and the TSA Modernization Act
  

 Egmont Institute

• A Revised European Semester under Centralised Management: The Risk of Overlooking Social Policy
  
• The Strategic Compass: Entering the Fray
  

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Q-Pop, The Pride of Kazakh Youth, and its Stimulation of Ethnic Identity
  

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Ecuador Country Analysis Brief  
  
• Indonesia Country Analysis Brief 
  

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• Implementing the 2021 Recast of the EU Dual-Use Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities
  

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

• Central Banks at the Frontline of the COVID-19 Crisis: Weathering the Storm, Spurring the Recovery. A View from the Mediterranean Countries
  

European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• COI Report: Somalia - Key Socio-economic Indicators
  
• COI Report: Somalia - Security Situation
  
• COI Report - Somalia: Targeted Profiles
  
• EASO Newsletter on Asylum Case Law - Issue No 3/2021
  
• Practical Guide on the Welfare of Asylum and Reception Staff - Part I: Standards and Policy
  
• State of Play of COVID-19 Measures on International Protection Procedures (including the Vaccination of Asylum Seekers)
  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Beyond Merkelism: What Europeans Expect of Post-Election Germany
  
• Waves of Ambition: Russia’s Military Build-Up in Crimea and the Black Sea
  
• What Europeans think about the US-China Cold War
  

 European Security and Defence College (ESDC)

• The Sectoral Qualifications Framework for the Military Officer Profession (SQF-MILOF) Package
  

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Methodology for a Sectoral Cybersecurity Assessment
  

 European Union CT MORSE

• 20 Years After 9/11: Why Cities Matter More Than Ever When It Comes to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
  
• Detecting Extremists Online
  
• Reporting about Violent Extremism and P/CVE Challenges for Journalists
  

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Green Digital Diplomacy: Time for the EU to Lead
  
• International Cyber Capacity Building: Global Trends and Scenarios
  
• Melting Ice, Frozen Heart: Russia's Posture on Climate Change and Decarbonisation
  

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Climate Stress Testing
  

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Chile's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Russian Duma Election 2021: Kremlin Supremacy Achieved through Unprecedented Pressure and Fraud
  
• The US is Refocusing Its Foreign Policy Priorities on the Indo-Pacific: Recalibrating Alliance Politics in a Pivotal Region
  

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• 9/11 and Africa: Reflecting on Two Decades of U.S.-Africa Policies and Interests
  
• At a Crossroads: Indonesia’s Navy Modernization
  
• Don’t blame China for the Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in Africa
  
• Engaging Russia over Syria: Managing Peripheral Conflict and Narrowing Interests
  
• German Voters Have Spoken: What Did They Say?
  
• Russia’s Forever Wars: Syria and the Pursuit of Great Power Status
  
• Zapad 2021 and Russia’s Potential for Warfighting
  

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

• Financing the Post-Kabul Alliance: The Challenges of the Reform of NATO’s Common Funding
  

 French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

• After the Hydrogen Bubble Bursts: The Factors Shaping and Possibly Unfolding International Hydrogen Value Chains
  
• Facing a Wall: Climate in the German Elections and Perspectives for France
  
• Geopolitics of the World’s Forests: Strategies for Tackling Deforestation
  
• Kaliningrad in the Post-Crimea Russia. A Bastion or a Weak Link?
  

 Future Directions International

• Joe Biden’s Doctrine: Ending International Liberalism
  
• Lessons from the Afghanistan Conundrum
  

 German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

• Cooperation in Tertiary Prevention of Islamist Extremism
  
• Egypt, the EU, and Migration:  An Uncomfortable Yet Unavoidable Partnership
  
• EU Civilian Crisis Management in 2030: A Test-Run of Scenario-Based Planning
  
• Migration Policy in South Africa: Lessons from Africa’s Migration Magnet for European Policymakers
  
• Three Scenarios for Europe’s Conflict Landscape in 2030
  

 German Development Institute

• Origins, Evolution and Future of Global Development Cooperation: The Role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
  
• Protecting Democracy: The Relevance of International Democracy Promotion for Term Limits
  
• Refugees and Local Power Dynamics: The Case of Gambella Region of Ethiopia
  
• The Transformative Capacity of Transnational and Transdisciplinary Networks and the Potential of Alumni Work
  

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

• Afghanistan: The West Fails – a Win for China and Russia?
  
• A Shared Responsibility for Northern Ireland
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Next-Generation European Political Leaders' Views on Transatlantic Cooperation
  

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Environmental Crime in Vietnam and Indonesia: Civil Society ad Change Agents
  
• How to Silence the Guns? Southern Africa's Illegal Firearms Market
  

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Climate Resilience: Options to Enhance the Resilience of Federally Funded Roads and Reduce Fiscal Exposure GAO-21-436
  
• Coast Guard: A More Systematic Process to Resolve Recommended Actions Could Enhance Future Surge Operations GAO-21-584
  
• Coast Guard: Information on Defense Readiness Mission Deployments, Expenses, and Funding GAO-21-104741
  
• Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel: Congressional Action Needed to Break Impasse and Develop a Permanent Disposal Solution GAO-21-603
  
• COVID-19: Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund Cash Management and Defense Logistics Agency Pandemic Response GAO-21-104590
  
• Defense Budget: DOD Has Adopted Practices to Manage Within the Constraints of Continuing Resolutions GAO-21-541
  
• DOD Fraud Risk Management: Actions Needed to Enhance Department-Wide Approach, Focusing on Procurement Fraud Risks GAO-21-309
  
• Electronic Health Records: DOD Has Made Progress in Implementing a New System, but Challenges Persist GAO-21-571
  
• Electricity Grid Resilience GAO-21-105403
  
• Federal Real Property Asset Management: Additional Direction in Government-Wide Guidance Could Enhance Natural Disaster Resilience GAO-21-596
  
• Missile Warning Satellites: Comprehensive Cost and Schedule Information Would Enhance Congressional Oversight GAO-21-105249
  
• Public Transportation: Identifying Lessons Learned Could Help Improve FTA's Process to Manage Safety Risks GAO-21-104029
  
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Advanced Plastic Recycling GAO-21-105317
  
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Actions Needed to Address Pending Caseload GAO-21-529
  
• Veterans Justice Outreach Program: Further Actions to Identify and Address Barriers to Participation Would Promote Access to Services GAO-21-564
  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Taming Techno-Nationalism: A Policy Agenda
  

 Henry Jackson Society

• Defender of the Faiths: How the Russian Government uses Religious Diplomacy
  

 Heritage Foundation

• After the Fall of Afghanistan, the U.S. Must Re-Engage with Central Asia
  
• An Agenda for the 2021 Quad Summit: Five Next Steps
  
• Clean Debt-Limit Suspension Is a Blank Check for Ever-Expanding Government
  
• The COVID-19 Intellectual Property Waiver: Threats to U.S. Innovation, Economic Growth, and National Security
  
• Dangerous Nuclear Policy Idea No. 4: Defunding the Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
  
• Five Agenda Items for the Next U.S.–Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue
  
• The Need to Examine the Life Cycles of All Energy Sources: A Closer Look at Renewable-Energy Disposal
  
• Twenty Years After 9/11: Never Forget
  
• The U.S. Development Finance Corporation Is Failing to Counter China
  
• Winds of Change in Berlin? A Road Map for U.S.–German Relations
  

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, no. 75 America after Afghanistan
  
• Our Revels Now Are Ended
• Afghanistan Post-Mortem
• Dented, Not Damaged: The American Empire After Afghanistan
• Graveyard of Narratives
• The Afghanistization Of America
• A Lost War: A Conversation With Victor Davis Hanson And H. R. McMaster On Afghanistan’s Past, Present, And Future
• Fleeing Afghanistan
• Who Will Trust Us after Afghanistan?
• The ‘Forever War’ Hasn’t Ended

 Human Rights Watch

• “I Had Nowhere to Go”: Violence Against Women and Girls During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Kenya
  
• “I Thought of Myself as Defective”: Neglecting the Rights of LGBT Youth in South Korean Schools
  
• “No One Represents Us”: Lack of Access to Political Participation for People With Disabilities in Iraq
  

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Could Reshape DOE’s RD&D Portfolio Over the Next 5 Years—in a Good Way
  
• How an Information Technology Agreement 3.0 Would Bolster Economic Growth and Opportunity
  
• Reforming Merger Reviews to Preserve Creative Destruction
  
• Unworkable Solution: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms and Global Climate Innovation
  

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• Secure Automation for Mission Readiness
  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• The Afghan Quagmire and American Failure
  
• US–Pakistan Equations at a Crossroads
  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Beyond Biological Defense: Biotech in U.S. National Security and Great Power Competition
  

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

• Defence Innovation: New Models and Procurement Implications. The Estonian Case
  
• What Scope for EU-US Defence Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s?
  

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report - September 2021
  
• Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme to Acquire Controlled Spectrometry Systems Busted
  

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• The Unfinished Campaign: Social Media in Operation Guardian of the Walls
  

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• China’s Health Diplomacy: Taking Forward the Health Silk Road in Southeast Asia
  
• India-Nordic Engagement: A Veritable Strategic Partnership in Reimagine and Configure
  
• Japan’s Multi-Domain Defense Force: The Space, Cyber, and Electromagnetic Domains
  
• Tokyo and Taliban 2.0: Gauging Japan’s Political Stake in Kabul
  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

• The Business of Hate: Bankrolling Bigotry in Germany and the Online Funding of Hate Groups
  

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

• Afghanistan: Future of Global Terrorism
  
• The Fall of Kabul, Peace Process and Afghanistan’s Political Future
  

 Institute for the Study of War

• Recent Iranian Proxy Attack in Iraqi Kurdistan Unlikely a Signal for New Escalation
  
• Russia in Review: September 1 – September 21, 2021
  
• Russia’s Zapad-2021 Exercise
  

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Student Wellbeing in Contexts of Protracted Violent Conflict
  

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Covid-19 Crisis and the Mediterranean Basin: Overcoming Disparities, Promoting Genuine Cooperation 
  
• Differentiated EUrope 2035: Elaboration and Evaluation of Five Potential Scenarios 
  

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• India, Singapore and the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
  

 Intelligence & National Security Alliance (INSA)

• The Future of the IC Workforce: The Promise and Limits of Remote Work Technology
  
• Managing Insider Threats in a Remote Work Environment: Lessons from the Pandemic
  

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Islamist Militancy in Indonesia and the Philippines: Domestic Lineage and Sporadic Foreign Influence
  
• The Public Relations of the Taliban: Then and Now
  
• The US National Strategy on Countering Domestic Terrorism as a Model for the EU
  

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Pushed to the Limit? Italian and Spanish Lessons from the Migration Crises 
  

 International Crisis Group

• Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror 
  

 International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (IIJ)

• Addressing Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism
  

 James Martin  Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

• Scientific Risk Assessment of Genetic Weapons Systems
  

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, September 23, 2021, v. 21, no. 18
  
• Xi Facing Opposition on Different Fronts in Run-Up to Key Party Plenum
• Evidence of the Chinese Central Government’s Knowledge of and Involvement in Xinjiang’s Re-Education Internment Campaign
• Beijing’s Growing Influence on the Global Undersea Cable Network
• Divide, Depoliticize, and Demobilize: China’s Strategies for Controlling the Tibetan Diaspora
• Terrorism Monitor, September 24, 2021, v. 19, no. 18   
• Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Discursive Shift From Global Jihadist Rhetoric to Pashtun-Centric Narratives
• Can New Policies Curtail Banditry in Northwestern Nigeria Amid the School Closure Crisis?
• The Taliban’s Persistent War on Salafists in Afghanistan

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Beyond Fortress Australia
  

 Manhattan Institute

• Pandemic Preparedness: What Role for the Private Sector?
  
• Wage Stagnation and Its Discontents: Rethinking the Safety Net to Encourage a More Dynamic Economy
  
• Why Police Need to Enforce Traffic Laws
  

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

• Strategic Competition: International Order and Transnational Organized Crime
  

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Qualified Majority Voting in EU Foreign Policy: Make It So
  

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Healing the Gap: Building Inclusive Public-Health and Migrant Integration Systems in Europe
  
• Migration Management and Border Security: Lessons Learned
  

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• Ambitious Action Plan Tackling Climate Change or Finding Common Ground? A Perspective on the Climate Action Potentials of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
  

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• From EMD to Milestone C and Beyond: Common Issues that Affect Developmental Programs Transitioning into Production
  
• Understanding American Voters’ Sentiment on Strategic Nuclear Deterrence
  

 National Academies Press

• Powering the U.S. Army of the Future
  

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• Taiwan’s Response to Disinformation: A Model for Coordination to Counter a Complicated Threat
  

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

• QAnon Crimes in the United States: A Comprehensive Dataset Codebook
  
• QAnon Offenders in the United States
  

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Clarifying the Issue of Nuclear Weapons Release Authority
  
• Deterrence Implications of the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
  
• Stable Deterrence and Arms Control in a New Era
  

 National Security Archive

• Newly Published Documents Cast Doubt on Claims Taliban Will Give Up al Qaeda
  
• U.S.-Iran Relations: 40 Years of Antagonism, Distrust, and Frustration Reflected in New Volume of Declassified Documents
  

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Recent Cyber Events No 12/ September 2021
  

 NATO Defense College

• What Russian-Israeli Cooperation in Syria?
  

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies 2021, v. 97, issue 1  
• Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations and Complicity under International Law
  

 New America

• Lessons from Leipzig: Local Participatory Democracy Thirty-one Years after German Reunification
  
• Multi-seat Districts and Larger Assemblies Produce More Diverse Racial Representation
  
• Trained for Deception: How Artificial Intelligence Fuels Online Disinformation
  

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) program

• The Future Character of Information in Strategy: Forged by Cognition and Technology
  

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

• The Global Nuclear Security Architecture: Closing Gaps to Build Greater Assurance, Accountability, and Action
  

 Observer Research Foundation

• Explaining the Rise of Minilaterals in the Indo-Pacific
  
• Financing Regenerative Agricultural Practices: A Recommendation for BRICS
  
• The Future of Climate Action: In Search of a United Global South
  
• In Defence of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ Concept
  
• Poverty Alleviation and Political Primacy: The Way of the Chinese Communist Party
  
• Resilient, Inclusive, and Free: Towards a Post-Pandemic Indo-Pacific Region
  
• The Rise and Rise of the ‘Quad’: Setting an Agenda for India
  
• Tehrik-E-Labbaik Pakistan: The New Face of Barelvi Activism
  

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)

• Promising Strategies for Strengthening Police Department Wellness Programs: Findings and Recommendations from the Officer Safety and Wellness Technical Assistance Project
  

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• The Effects of Covid-19 on the Lives of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in the Adult Entertainment Sector in Nepal
  
• The Financial Costs of Mitigating Social Risks: Costs and Effectiveness of Risk Mitigation Strategies for Emerging Market Investors
  

 Partnership for Public Service

• Two Decades Later: How Lessons from the 9/11 Commission Report Can Help Us Improve the Political Appointment Process and Protect Our National Security
  

 Pew Research Center

• Biden Loses Ground With the Public on Issues, Personal Traits and Job Approval
  
• Germany and Merkel Receive High Marks Internationally in Chancellor’s Last Year in Office
  
• In Response to Climate Change, Citizens in Advanced Economies are Willing to Alter How They Live and Work
  
• Majority in U.S. Says Public Health Benefits of COVID-19 Restrictions Worth the Costs, Even as Large Shares Also See Downsides
  
• News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021
  
• Religious Composition of India
  

 Policy Exchange (UK)

• Central Banks and The World Economy in 2021
  

 Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

• Impact of U.S. THRIVE Program at Congressional District Levels
  

 Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

• Seven-Year Contractor Whistleblower Case Meets a Sad End  
  

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach
  

 RAND Corporation

• AI Tools for Military Readiness
  
• An Analysis of Alternative Approaches to Measuring Multinational Interoperability: Early Development of the Army Interoperability Measurement System (AIMS)
  
• Enhancing US-Finnish and Regional Defence Cooperation: An Exploratory Analysis
  
• The Growing Exposure of Air Force Installations to Natural Disasters
  
• Is the Defense Acquisition System Postured to Solve National Defense Strategy Operational Problems?
  
• Managing Intellectual Property Relevant to Operating and Sustaining Major U.S. Air Force Weapon Systems
  
• North Korean Sanctions Evasion Techniques
  
• Posttraumatic Stress in California's Workers' Compensation System: A Study of Mental Health Presumptions for Firefighters and Peace Officers Under Senate Bill 542
  
• Potential Drivers of Crises in the Arctic
  
• Readiness Implications of Coronavirus Infections on U.S. Navy Ships
  
• Reducing the Risk of Extremist Activity in the U.S. Military
  
• Supporting the Royal Australian Navy's Strategy for Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Building an Evidence Base
  

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Case for Joint Military–Industry Greyzone Exercises
  
• Russia’s Economic Pivot to Asia in a Shifting Regional Environment
  

 Small Wars Journal

• The Afghans that Fought
  
• The Art of Urban Warfare from the Deep Seas
  
• Evolution of China’s Cyber Threat
  
• Influence Mechanisms: A Framework for Integrated Operations
  
• NATO Is in a Cyberwar with Russia and Must Expand Article 5 to Include Cyberwarfare or Risk Losing and Diminishment
  
• Outweighing Communism: The Role of the Military in Land Reform
  
• PIPE DREAMS: The Taliban and Drugs from the 1990s into Its New Regime
  
• The State of Police Violence in the Americas
  
• US Security Force Assistance is Much More than Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam
  
• U.S. Strategy and Foreign Policy throughout the Balkans  

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Efficacy of COVID-19 Macro-economic Policy Responses in Uganda
  

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Enhancing South Asian Nuclear Dialogues: The Implications of Covid-19
  
• Mitigating Humanitarian Impact in a Complex Sanctions Environment: The European Union and the Sanctions Regimes against Iran
  
• Multilateral Peace Operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021
  
• Reinvigorating South Asian Nuclear Transparency and Confidence-building Measures 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• Achievements and Limitations of the OSCE ’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
  
• A Geopolitical Awakening? The Future of German Statecraft
  
• A Shared Understanding of India’s Climate Policy? Insights from a Survey of Indian Climate Experts  
  

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

• Inside the Raslan Trial
• “Impertinence!” Defense Counsel questions the role of Anwar Al-Bunni
  
• No Enforced Disappearances
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2021
• Reflection: The “War on Terror”, Islamophobia and Radicalisation Twenty Years On [open access article]  
• Policing and Society, 2021, v. 31, no. 8
• Policing Corporate Bribery: Negotiated Settlements and Bundling [open access article]   
• Understanding the Concept of ‘Demand’ in Policing: A Scoping Review and Resulting Implications for Demand Management [open access article]  

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• State of Power 2021 - Coercive World
  

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

• Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) 2021
  
• Financing the SDGs to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and the Pacific
  
• Handbook on Provisions and Options for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic
  
• Putting the National Voluntary Review in Action: Developing Practical Next Steps and Planning the Post-VNR Period
  
• Stakeholder Engagement in Voluntary National Reviews: Feedback and Follow-up
  
• Steps Taken by India to Contain the Second Wave of COVID-19
  
• Sustainable and clean energy in North and Central Asia
  
• Towards meaningful connectivity: Insights from Asia-Pacific Case Studies
  

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Applying Chapters VI and VII of the Charter of the United Nations in the Cyber Context
  

 UN Women

• Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice
  
• UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025
  

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Nurturing and Sustaining Facilitator Networks: Key Considerations for Support Organizations
  

 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

• “They Sent Her to a Concentration Camp Because She Came to Turkey”: The Persecution of Uyghurs Based on their Turkic and Muslim Identity
  
• Under the Gavel: Evidence of Uyghur-owned Property Seized and Sold Online
  

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• A New Start for the U.S. on Mideast Democracy and Human Rights
  

 William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

• Hezbollah in Latin America: A Potential Grey Zone Player in Great Power Competition
  

 Wilson Center

• Militarization a la AMLO: How Bad Can it Get?
  
• Seizing Opportunities: Four National Security Questions to Ask About the Use of Satellites in 5G Networks
  

 World Bank

• Investment in Disaster Risk Management in Europe Makes Economic Sense
  
• Understanding the Needs of Civil Protection Agencies and Opportunities for Scaling up Disaster Risk Management Investment  

World Economic Forum

• Consumers Beyond Waste: An initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Future of Consumption Platform
  
• Delivering a Climate Trade Agenda: Industry Insights
  
• Digital Traceability: A Framework for More Sustainable and Resilient Value Chains