Monday, June 6, 2022

Friday's Miscellany 05-27-2022 & 06-03-2022

 38 North

 Afghan Analysts Network (ANA)

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

 Air University Press

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

 Amnesty International

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

  • Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), April 2022, v. 29, no. 04  
    • Exertional heat illness at Fort Benning, GA: Unique insights from the Army Heat Center
    • Update: Heat illness, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2021
    • Update: Exertional rhabdomyolysis, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017–2021
    • Update: Exertional hyponatremia, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2006–2021

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

  • Cyber Defense Review, Spring 2022, v. 7, no. 2 
    • So…Anything Interesting Going On?
    • Cyber Crime and Geostrategic Clash Over the Internet: Deputizing the Private Sector to Assist
    • Conceptualizing Cyberspace Security Diplomacy
    • America’s Cyber Auxiliary: Building Capacity and Future Operators
    • AI, Super Intelligence, and the Fear of Machines in Control
    • Information as Power: Evolving US Military Information Operations and Their Implications for Global Internet Governance
    • “Explicit” Bargains are Essential to Forming Desired Norms in Cyberspace
    • Timing Influence Efforts with Information Processing
    • The Global Engagement’s Center’s Response to the Coronavirus Infodemic

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Foundation

 Atlantic Council  

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Brookings

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

 Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

  • CER Bulletin, no, 144 - June/July 2022 
    • Will the EU Rethink Enlargement?
    • Can the UK Keep Up with Europe on Digital Competition?
    • Europe Needs a China Strategy

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, May 2022, v. 25, no. 5 
    • Going Viral: Implications of COVID-19 for Bioterrorism
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Shmuel Shapira, Former Director General, Israel Institute for Biological Research
    • Biology’s Tectonic Shifts and Novel Risks
    • Preventing Catastrophic Bioterrorism: Guarding Against Exploitation of the Life Sciences and Biotechnology

 Conflict Armament Research

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Priorities

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

  • AUD-MERO-22-28 Audit of Department of State Actions To Prevent Unlawful Trafficking in Persons Practices When Executing Security, Construction, and Facility and Household Services Contracts at Overseas Posts  

 Department of the Navy

 Economic Research Forum 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 European Values

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) 

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

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

 German Development Institute

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Broadband: National Strategy Needed to Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Digital Divide GAO-22-104611 
  • Coast Guard IT: Actions Needed to Improve Processes for Overseeing Non-Major Acquisition Programs GAO-22-104707 
  • Defense Health Care: Prevalence of and Efforts to Screen and Treat Mental Health Conditions in Prenatal and Postpartum TRICARE Beneficiaries GAO-22-105136 
  • Energy Resilience: DOE's Northeast Petroleum Product Reserves GAO-22-105404 
  • Global Food Security: Coordination of U.S. Assistance Can Be Improved GAO-22-104612 
  • International Development Association: Additional Information Sharing Could Enhance U.S. Treasury Oversight of Key Risks GAO-22-104657  
  • International Trade: Trade Agreements Increasingly Promote Women's Rights and Economic Interests, but Barriers Remain GAO-22-104711 
  • Pandemic Learning: Teachers Reported Many Obstacles for High-Poverty Students and English Learners As Well As Some Mitigating Strategies GAO-22-105815 
  • Private Health Insurance: Limited Data Hinders Understanding of Short-Term Plans' Role and Value During the COVID-19 Pandemic GAO-22-104683 
  • Sexual Harassment and Assault: The Army Should Take Steps to Enhance Program Oversight, Evaluate Effectiveness, and Identify Reporting Barriers GAO-22-104673 
  • U.S. Space Command: Air Force Should Develop Guidance for Strengthening Future Basing Decisions GAO-22-106055 
  • Workplace Safety and Health: Data and Enforcement Challenges Limit OSHA's Ability to Protect Workers during a Crisis GAO-22-10571

 Henley Putnam University

  • Journal of Strategic Security, 2022, v. 15, no. 2 
    • Temporal Theory and US-China Relations
    • Balancing Grand Strategy for America to Offset Thucydides’s Trap with China
    • Strategy in an Uncertain Domain: Threat and Response in Cyberspace
    • On Income, Democracy, Political Stability, and Internal Armed Conflicts
    • Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate Change and Power Transition Theory

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor, Summer 2022, no. 72  
    • China’s Strategic Straddle: Analyzing Beijing’s Diplomatic Response to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
    • Strategic Partner or Strategic Player? Russian Asia Experts Assess China’s Ukraine Policy : The Ukrainian Challenge to China’s Leadership Politics: An Emerging Divergence in Foreign Policy and Its Impact on the 20th Party Congress 
    • Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media
    • China’s Propaganda on the War in Ukraine

 Hoover Institution

  • Strategika, no. 79, June 3, 202
    • Borders and National Security
    • National Insecurity at the Border
    • The Erosion of Border Control and Its Threat to National Sovereignty

 Human Rights Watch

 IJ Infinity Group

  • Military Strategy Magazine, Summer 2022, v. 8, no. 1 
    • The Strategy of the Mind: Maoism and Culture War in the West
    • The Persistence of America’s Way of Battle
    • Flexible Response and Integrated Deterrence at Sea in the 21st Century: Implications for the U.S. Navy
    • Practice Makes Perfect for Battlefield Coalitions
    • Towards Better Civilian Strategic Education: A Case for Tabletop Wargames
    • What is the Utility of the Principles of War?

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for the Study of War 

 Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

 International Crisis Group

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, May 27, 2022, v. 22, no. 10 
    • China Closes its Windows to the World: When Will They Reopen?
    • Xi Jinping is Poised to Become “Leader for Life” in Exchange for Sharing Politburo Seats with Rivals
    • China and Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis: Belt and Road Initiative Blowback
    • China’s “Dynamic Zero-COVID” Policy Weighs on a Weak Global Economy
    • Mongolia’s Currency Crisis: Made in China?
  • Terrorism Monitor, June 3, 2022, v. 20, no. 11 
    • Sri Lanka Struggles to Deliver Justice for Easter Sunday Terror Victims
    • Islamic State in Khorasan Province’s Rocket Attack in Tajikistan
    • Libya’s Persistent Political Polarization Amid Islamic State’s bid to Remain Relevant

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Marine Corps University Press

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Military Family Advisory Network

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

 MITRE

 Naming Commission [Military Bases]

 National Academies Press  

 National Defense University Press

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 NATO Defense College

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

 Naval War College 

 New America

 Newlines Institute

 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment  

                 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

 Our World in Data

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Pew Research Center

 Radicalisation Awareness Network Centre of Excellence

 RAND Corporation

 Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

 Swisspeace

 Taylor & Francis

UK Parliament

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

 UN Women

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

 V-Dem Institute

 Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

 Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 White House

 Wilson Center

  • Essays on China and U.S. Policy 
    • Changing State-Business Relations under the U.S.-China Tech War
    • China’s Outward Investments and Global Sustainability
    • Common Prosperity and China's State Capitalist Welfare State
    • Desperate Times, Desperate Measures:  Slowing Growth Is Making China More Dangerous
    • Domestic Sources of China's Maritime Assertiveness Under Xi Jinping
    • Evidence-based Policymaking or Epistemic Manufacturing?  U.S.-China Geopolitics, Politicized Water Scholarship and the Fight for Narrative Control Along the Mekong
    • Finding a Balanced China Policy: Constraints and Opportunities for Southeast Asian Leaders
    • Green Cooperation:  Environmental Governance and Development Aid on the Belt and Road
    • Hong Kong’s Political Economy and the Crisis of Democracy
    • Impact of China’s Trade Policies on Global Development:  Agriculture and Fisheries Subsidies
    • Influence Nodes:  China’s High-Profile Global Development Projects
    • Is Rights Advocacy Civil Society in China Dead? How the United States Should Navigate People-to-People Exchange in a New Era
    • Key Role of Multilateral Coordination in the U.S.-China Health Relationship
    • Knowing the PRC:  America’s China Watchers between Engagement and Strategic Competition
    • Learning Diplomacy: China’s South-South Dance Exchanges of the 1950sand 1960s and Their Relevance Today
    • Peaceful Minefields:  Environmental Protection or Security Risks?
    • The Diaspora and China’s Foreign Influence Activities
    • TikTok, Mulan, and the Olympics: Contesting Content Control through Trade in the U.S.-China Relationship
    • Understanding Hawkishness in Chinese Public Opinion
    • Understanding the #MilkTeaAlliance Movement
    • The U.S.-China Trade War and the Tariff Weapons
    • Xi Jinping and Ideology

 World Economic Forum