Fridays' Miscellany 03-17-2023

 38 North

• North Korea’s Energy Sector: State Solar Electricity Research and Manufacturing 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Persistence of Cults of Personality in African Governance 

 Air University Press

• Aerospace Power: A Brazilian Multidimensional Approach 
• A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing: China’s Drift Towards an Inadvertent Nuclear Posture or Assured Destruction 

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• A Dead-End War:  Russian Failure and Ukrainian Destruction 

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

• A Transatlantic Display of Trade Policy’s Future 

 Amnesty International

• “My Eye Exploded”:  the Global Abuse of Kinetic Impact Projectiles 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2032, v. 30, no. 1 
• Incidence and management of chronic insomnia, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012 to 2021
• Changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity and in the incidence of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic, active component service members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018 to 2021
• Trends in the incidence of eating disorders among active component service members, 2017 to 2021

 Army University Press

• Military Review, 2023, v. 103  Special Issue Poetry Reader 
• Military Review, March-April 2023, v. 103, no. 2 
• Letter from the Editor in Chief: Read like Your Life and the Lives of Your Soldiers Depend upon It
• Suggested Writing Themes and Topics—2023
• Musicians of Mars in Multiple Domains: Expanding Combined Arms in the Twenty-First Century
• Reframing Operational Art for Competition
• Term of Art: What Joint Doctrine Gets Wrong about Operational Art and Why It Matters
• Mission Modeling for Commanders: Improved Operational Effectiveness through the Use of Measurable Proxy Variables
• Financial Access Denial: An Irregular Approach to Integrated Deterrence
• Through the Looking Glass: Missing the Mark by Mirror-Imaging Competitors’ Reserve Forces
• Once More unto the Breach: Air Defense Artillery Support to Maneuver Forces in Large-Scale Combat Operations
• Collaboration between Leadership and Behavioral Health: How One U.S. Army Brigade Created a Novel Approach to Suicide Prevention
• Coup d’œil and Cognition: How to Build Adaptive Tactical Experts
• Hiding in Plain Sight
• Assessing the Modern Fight
• Sustaining Multidomain Operations: The Logistical Challenge Facing the Army’s Operating Concept
• Looking Outward: Lessons in Security Force Assistance from the French Experience in Africa
• Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931–1945
• Medal of Honor: Spc. 5 Dwight W. Birdwell, U.S. Army

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• The Constructive Role of Scholarship in the China-US Relationship 

 Asia Society Policy Institute

• “Generation N”:  The Impact of China’s Youth Nationalism 

 Atlantic Council

• Future of NATO C4ISR:  Assessment and Recommendations After Madrid 
• Improving Gulf Security:  A Framework to Enhance Air, Missile, and Maritime Defenses 

 Australia Department of Defense

• The AUKUS Nuclear-Powered Submarine Pathway 

 Australian Institute of Criminology

• Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2023, no. 667 
• Crime by Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Members during Club Conflicts

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• China, Climate and Conflict in the Indo-Pacific 
• China, Climate Change and the Energy Transition 
• The Strategist
• Advances in Detection Technology Could Render AUKUS Submarines Useless by 2050  
• AUKUS Binds Britain to Australia and a Free and Open Indo-Pacific 
• AUKUS is Underway, But Key Challenges Remain 
• Australia’s North is Key to Deepening Defence Cooperation with Japan 
• Australian SSNs Will Open Up Opportunities for Advanced Undersea Operations 
• The Five-Domains Update 
• How China Lost Asia 
• The Limits of Beijing’s Middle East Diplomacy 
• Policy, Guns and Money:  Diving into the AUKUS Submarine Announcement 
• Reflections on Women in Conflict and Protest 
• Time to Take the Politics Out of Strategic Planning 
• U.S. and UK Jump-start Australia’s Nuclear Submarine Program 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Biden’s New Border Policies Will Put Further Strain on Mexico’s Struggling Asylum System 
• Expert Focus on US Immigration: Challenges and Possible Solutions 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Israel’s Energy Market and the War in Ukraine 
• The New IDF Chief of Staff Faces an Array of Challenges 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• Deficit Tracker - March 12, 2023 
• Innovation at Scale: Supporting Pilot-Scale Demonstrations 

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power the Future of Britain 
• Transparency, Accountability, Predictability: Protecting National Security Through the UK’s Foreign-Takeover Regime 

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

• Finding One's Place in Chaos. Returnees' Reintegration Experiences in Northern Iraq 
• The Role of Mobility, Networks and Reintegration Assistance after Return. Insights from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia 

 Brookings Institution

• The Federal Budget Outlook 

 Bruegel

• Artificial Intelligence Adoption in the Public Sector: A Case Study 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Semiconductors and Canadian National Security:  Causes, Consequences, and Considerations 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Phase-based Tactical Analysis of Online Operations 
• Why Does the Global Spyware Industry Continue to Thrive?  Trends, Explanations, and Responses 

 CATO Institute

• Disease Mix and How Economic Freedom Matters for Health Outcomes 
• Preferences for Firearms and Their Implications for Regulation 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Peninsula Plus: Enhancing U.S.–South Korea Alliance Cooperation on China, Multilateralism, and Military and Security Technologies 

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

• Eyes on Russia Map 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• A New Horizon in U.S. Trade Policy:  Key Developments and Questions for the Biden Administration 

 Center for Global Development

• Concessional Climate Finance: Is the MDB Architecture Working? 
• The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank: A Warning for Emerging Markets 
• Protect Incomes or Protect Jobs? The Role of Social Policies in Post-pandemic Recovery 

 Center for Global Security Research

• China’s Emergence as a Second Nuclear Peer: Implications for U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy 

 Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

• The Refugee Crisis’ Double Standards: Media Framing and the Proliferation of Positive and Negative Narratives During the Ukrainian and Syrian Crises 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Act on Prevention of Divulgence and Protection of Industrial Technology (Abbreviated: Act on Protection of Industrial Technology) [translation] 
• Leading the Charge:  A Look at the Top-Producing AI Programs in U.S. Colleges and Universities 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 

• Green Industrial Strategies: Takeaways for Transatlantic Trade 
• Reviving the Arsenal of Democracy:  Steps for Surging Defense Industrial Capacity 
• Unanswered Questions about North Korean Leadership 

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• What to Expect from Oil Markets in 2023 and Beyond: Roundtable Report 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Energy Prices, not US Subsidies, are Europe's Biggest Headache 
• Europe Needs Both Fiscal and Energy Solidarity 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Eyes on Russia: Documenting Russia's war on Ukraine 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) 

• Digital Governance in China: Data, AI and Emerging Technologies, and Digital Trade 
• Rethinking Canada’s Competition Policy in a Digital Economy 

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

• A Year of Foreign Fighting For Ukraine: Catching Fish With Bare Hands?  

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• Timeline: Extreme Right-Wing Terrorism in the UK 

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Security Nexus, 2022, v. 23  
• Mainstreaming Zoonotic Spillover Prevention at Source in National Action Planning for Health Security in Line with the Core Focus of One Health 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Most Green Funds do not have a Sustainability Impact 
• What Needs to Change for Green Funds to be Truly Green 

 Deloitte

• Understanding Generation Z in the Workplace: New Employee Engagement Tactics for Changing Demographics 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• DOD Budget Request 
• DOD Strategic Management Plan FY 2022-2026 (Updated) 
• Next Steps on Suicide Prevention in the Military [memo] 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2023-055 Evaluation of the Army’s Online Real Property Space Availability Application 
• DODIG-2023-054  Evaluation of the DoD’s Response to Anomalous Health Incidents, or “Havana Syndrome” 

 Economic Research Forum

• Thinking Politically About Money: The Changing Role of Political Finance in The Political (Un-)Settlements in Ethiopia and Sudan 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• The Management of the COVID Crisis in 2020: A Case Study on EU Governance 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• Authorities and Stakeholders Involved in Resettlement and Humanitarian Admissions 
• Identifying and Supporting Victims of Human Trafficking in the Asylum Procedure 
• Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                   

• Fragile Unity: Why Europeans are Coming Together on Ukraine (and What Might Drive Them Apart) 
• Opening the Global Gateway: Why the EU Should Invest More in the Southern Neighbourhood 
• The Politics of Dialogue: How the EU Can Change the Conversation in Kosovo and Serbia 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Has the Time Come for Excess Profit Taxes? 
• Regional Income Inequality in Germany 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Climate Adaptation: The Race to Cool Down Europe’s Cities 

 European Union (EU)

• The EU in 2022: General Report on the Activities of the European Union 
• Maritime Security Strategy 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) 

• Cloud Cybersecurity Market Analysis 
• Cybersecurity of AI and Standardisation 
• ENISA Cybersecurity Market Analysis Framework (ECSMAF) -V2.0 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Footprints in the Sand: China's and India's Low-Key but Growing Presence in the Maghreb 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Countering Ransomware Financing 
• Guidance on Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Jimmy Carter and the ‘Torture Chamber of Latin America’: Examining a Human Rights Legacy 
• Qatar’s West Asian Moment: The Geopolitics of the World Cup 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FFD)

• A Strategy to End the Systematic Theft of Humanitarian Aid in Syria 

 Friends of Europe

• The Convergence of New Technologies Endangering Human Agency 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• The EU and the Negotiations for a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights 
• The Normalisation of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia 

 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

• Green Jobs and the City: Towards a Just Transition in Developing Countries 
• How Does Globalisation Affect Social Cohesion? 
• (R)evolution? Exploring the Potential of Post-Development Approaches for Reforming Development Cooperation 
• Strengthening Social Cohesion in Conflict-Affected Societies: Potential, Patterns and Pitfalls 
• Tax expenditures in OECD countries: findings from the Global Tax Expenditures Database 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Mind the Gap: Analysis of Research on Illicit Economies in the Western Balkans 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• Supporting Civil Society in Acute Crises 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Disaster Assistance: Action Needed to Improve Resilience, Response, and Recovery GAO-23-106544 
• Electronic Health Record Modernization: VA Needs to Address Change Management Challenges, User Satisfaction, and System Issues GAO-23-106685 
• Haiti: USAID and State Should Improve Management and Assessment of Reconstruction Activities GAO-23-105211 
• Wildfire Smoke: Opportunities to Strengthen Federal Efforts to Manage Growing Risks GAO-23-104723 
• Women in the Workforce: Underrepresentation in Management Positions Persists, and the Gender Pay Gap Varies by Industry and Demographics GAO-23-106320 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Arms Control and Deterrence: The Euromissiles, Then and Now 
• Dancing In The Dark: The Seven Sins of Deterrence Assessment 
• The EU’s Naval Presence in the Indo-Pacific: What Is It Worth? 
• Structure and Contingency: War Onset in the East China Sea 

 Hudson Institute

• NATO’s Black Sea Frontier Is the Southern Shore of the Caspian Sea 
• Six Myths about China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign 

 Human Rights Watch

• “We Must Provide a Family, Not Rebuild Orphanages”: The Consequences of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine for Children in Ukrainian Residential Institutions  

 Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

• Indonesia’s Villa Mutiara. Network: Challenges Posed by One Extremist Family 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Coalition Defense of Taiwan 
• Interactive Time-lapse: Russia's War in Ukraine 
• Iran Update
• March 13 
• March 14 
• March 15  
• March 16 
• March 17 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• March 13 
• March 14 
• March 15 
• March 16 
• March 17 
• March 18 
• March 19 
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update
• March 16, 2023 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Building Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements through Data Co-production 
• The Humanitarian Response in Post-Earthquake Syria: An Urgent Need for Depoliticisation 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Defining Terrorism 
• The ‘Off-Ramp’ from al-Shabaab: Disengagement During the Ongoing Offensive in Somalia 

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

• Radiological Security in Contested Territories 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, March 17, 2023, v. 23, no. 5  
• After Two Sessions, Xi Turns Focus to U.S. Challenge
• National People’s Congress: Premier Li Keqiang Sidesteps Xi’s Economic Approach, Focuses on Reviving Modest Growth
• Why Taiwan’s 2024 Presidential Election is Wide Open
• The Chinese Steel Industry: Three Pathways to Green Steel
• How China Prolongs Myanmar’s Endless Internal Conflicts
• Terrorism Monitor, March 17,  2023, v. 23, no. 6 
• Brief: Peru Seeks to Close Door on Shining Path
• Brief: South Korea Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Transfers to Central Asian Jihadists
• Will Iran’s Conventional Army Join the Drone Export Game in Ukraine and Beyond?
• The Haqqani-Akhundzada Rift: Could Civil War Break Out in the Taliban’s Ranks?
• The Deradicalization and Parole of Indonesia’s Umar Patek - the Bombmaker of Bali

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

• Libyan Banking Sector:  A Microcosm of Global Enduring Disorder 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Crisis Prompts Record Emigration from Nicaragua, Surpassing Cold War Era 
• Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States 

 Mitchell Institute

• Back to the Future: Balloons in the Modern Security Paradigm 
• Understanding the B-21 Raider: America’s Deterrence Bomber 

 National Academies Press  

• Addressing the Long-Term Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Families 

 National Security Archive

• Filming Armageddon: Air Force Movies Depict U.S. Preparations for Nuclear War 
• What’s Up There, Where Is It, and What’s It Doing? The U.S. Space Surveillance Network 

 NATO Defense College

• "Heroes of the Information Front"? 

 New America

• Are Veterans More Prone to Political Violence than Civilians? 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Arabian Sea Dialogue Conference Report 
• Building on the Pillars of the India-US Defence Relationship in the 21st Century 
• Indonesia’s Triumphs and Limitations as It Stakes Claim to Leadership in Southeast Asia 
• Localising Globalisation in the Bay of Bengal: The Indian Imperative 
• The Perils of Tech-Utopian Thinking 

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

• Emerging Practices in Cybersecurity-Related Public-Private Partnerships and Collaboration in OSCE Participating States 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Will China’s Impending Overhaul of its Financial Regulatory System Make a Difference? 

 Pew Research Center

• Americans Feel More Positive Than Negative About Jews, Mainline Protestants, Catholics 
• A Look Back at How Fear and False Beliefs Bolstered U.S. Public Support for War in Iraq 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• You Can Go Home Again: A Proposal for Phased Military Withdrawal from Iraq and Normalizing U.S.–Iraq Relations 

 RAND Corporation

• America's Opioid Ecosystem: How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms 
• Organizing and Training Airfield Operations Capabilities for Emerging Expeditionary Operations: Potential Courses of Action 
• Reforming Military Health Care Costs:  Issues for Future Research 
• Russia's Asymmetric Response to 21st Century Strategic Competition:  Robotization of the Armed Forces 
• Supply Chain Interdependence and Geopolitical Vulnerability:  The Case of Taiwan and High-End Semiconductors 
• The View of the Taiwan Strait from the U.S.-Japan Alliance 

 Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute

• Report:  National Security Innovation Base:  Report Card 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Securing Integrity of Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funding Conference: Summary Report 
• SSN-AUKUS:  Opportunities, Risks and Implications 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part I: The Constitutional Impasse 
• Russia’s Military Failures in Ukraine: Causes and Consequences 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Iraq in 2023: Challenges and Prospects for Peace and Human Security 
• No Exit, Without an Entry Strategy: Transitioning UNMISS SSR Activities 
• Nuclear Security During Armed Conflict: Lessons from Ukraine 
• Nuclear Security in Ukraine and the Black Sea Region: New Threats, New Risks, New Consequences 
• Trends in International Arms Transfers 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• Consolidation of Power in Japan:  The LDP and Shinzo Abe 
• Myanmar’s Civilian Constitution Process: Challenges, Opportunities, and International Support for Domestic Transition 
• Prospects and Limitations for a Quad Plus Europe 

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2023
• Counterterrorism and Just Intelligence, an Oxymoron? The Ethical Analysis of Internment without Trial in Northern Ireland [open access article] 
• Who’s Afraid of the Vulnerable Terrorist? Framing Violent Jihadists’ Life and Intimate Relationships [open access article] 
• Journal of Military Ethics, 2023, v. 21, no. 3-4
• The AI Commander Problem: Ethical, Political, and Psychological Dilemmas of Human-Machine Interactions in AI-enabled Warfare [open access article] 
• Jus in bello Necessity, The Requirement of Minimal Force, and Autonomous Weapons Systems [open access article] 
• Moral Issues in Soldier Enhancement: Military Physicians’ Perspectives [open access article] 
• The Organisational Psychology of Ethical Military Leadership during Times of Crisis: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2023
• Engaging Non-Policing Partners to Prevent or Respond to Crime [open access article] 
• Prevalence and Patterns of Domestic Abuse Victimisation in an English Police Workforce [open access article] 

 UK Defence and Armed Forces

• Integrated Review Refresh 2023: Responding to a More Contested and Volatile World 

 UK Ministry of Defense

• Integrated Review Refresh 2023:  Responding to a More Contested and Volatile World 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Commercial Actors and Civil Society Consultation Report: How Can Non-Governmental Entities Contribute to Reducing Threats to Outer Space Systems? 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Analysis of Opiate Stamps seized in the Indian Ocean - 2017-2021 
• Global Report on Cocaine 2023 

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• China’s Paper on Ukraine and Next Steps for Xi’s Global Security Initiative 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• China’s Media Propaganda in Africa: A Strategic Assessment 
• Rethinking U.S.-Pakistan Relations in the Age of Great Power Competition 

 V-Dem Institute

• Case for Democracy: Does Democracy Promote Gender Equality? 
• Democracy Report 2023: Defiance in the Face of Autocratization 
• Varieties of Indoctrination (V-Indoc): Introducing a Global Dataset on the Politicization of Education and the Media 

 Warsaw Institute

• The Greatest Challenges to Ukraine’s Accession to the European Union 
• Policy Brief. Kremlin Watchers Movement Report 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• China’s Track Record on Middle East Diplomacy 
• Mainstreaming Hashd Commanders (Part 1): Advanced Education for Senior Militiamen 
• Mainstreaming Hashd Commanders (Part 2): Fifty-Fold Increase in Officer Training 
• Mapping the Islamic State's Activity: Implications for U.S. Counterterrorism Policy 
• Turkish Backlash: How Street Interviews Spread Anti–Syrian Refugee Sentiment 

 Watson Institute, Costs of War Project

• Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023 

 Wilson Center

• Kennan Cable No. 80: The Finland Factor in an Expanded NATO Alliance 
• Lessons Learned from State-Level Climate Policies to Accelerate U.S. Climate Action 
• Navigating Breakup: Security Realities of Freezing Politics and Thawing Landscapes in the Arctic 

 World Bank

• Digital Public Goods for Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate 
• Land Matters: Can Better Governance and Management of Scarcity Prevent a Looming Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa? 
• Towards a More Equitable Development: Constraints and Opportunities for Women in Djibouti