Friday's Miscellany 07-21-2023 & 07-28-2023

 38 North

• Risk Reduction and Crisis Management on the Korean Peninsula 
• Second Consecutive Flight Test Success Brings North Korea’s Hwasong-18 ICBM Closer to Deployment 
• The Unintended Consequences of NATO’s Drift toward Asia 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Attempted Coup in Niger: Backgrounder 
• Mali Catastrophe Accelerating under Junta Rule 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• AI and Gray-Zone Aggression:  Risks and Opportunities 
• The Book Ban Mirage 
• China’s Global Investment Surges, Finally 
• Dataset:  China Global Investment Tracker 
• Flaws of Defensive Realism and the False Promise of Re-engaging China 

 Amnesty International

• People’s Republic of China: Human Rights Situation at New Low—Submission to the 45th Session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2024 
• Russia:  Under the “Eye of Sauron”—Persecution of Critics of the Aggression against Ukraine 

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• How Should South Korea Respond to China’s Pressure? 

 Atlantic Council

• Call for a Federal Digital Twins Strategy:  Unlocking the Potential for Digital Twins in the Federal Enterprise 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• De-Risking Authoritarian AI 

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs 

• Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Carbon Dioxide Transport Costs and Network-Infrastructure Considerations for a Net-Zero United States 
• Case Profiles of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations 
• From the Inside Out:  Achieving Long-Term Army Sustainability through Effective Command Climate 
• Nuclear About-Face:  Examining the Role of Collective Face Concerns in Iran’s Nuclear Decision-Making 
• Outsiders Wanting In: Asian States and Arctic Governance 
• Racial Justice is a National Security Priority: Perspectives from the Next Generation 

 Brookings Institution

• America Can’t Afford to Ignore the Logistics Triad 
• How Partisan and Policy Dynamics Shape Congressional Oversight in the Post-Trump Era 
• Understanding the Growing Radical Flank of the Climate Movement as the World Burns 
• USMCA at Three:  Reflecting on the Impact and Charting the Future 
• Want Ukraine in the EU?  You’ll Have to Reform the EU, Too 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Maligned Influence and Interference in Canada 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Northwestern Syria in the Time of Cholera, Earthquakes, and Environmental Degradation 

 Carnegie Mellon University & Center for A.I. Safety

• Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models 

 Cato Institute

• 2022 Arms Sales Risk Index 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Technology Competition:  A Battle for Brains 
• U.S.-China Competition and Military AI:  How Washington Can Manage Strategic Risks Amid Rivalry with Beijing 

 Center for Climate and Security (CCS)

• Leadership In the Polycrisis:  How UK Defense Training Can Help US Navigate a Future of Unprecedented Environmental Disruption 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Export Controls:  The Keys to Forging a Transatlantic Tech Shield 
• Who is to Judge Mr. Putin? 

 Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

• Chilling Legislation: Tracking the Impact of “Fake News” Laws on Press Freedom Internationally 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Identifying AI Research 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 298: Russia's Technological Sovereignty 

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Project North Star: Strategic Foresight for U.S. Grand Strategy 
• STAR: Shining Light on Space Supply Chain Risk 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Accelerating Federal Cloud Adoption for Modernization and Security 
• After AMLO:  The Economic, Security, and Political Outlook for Mexico in 2024 
• Building Barriers and Bridges:  The Need for International Cooperation to Counter the Caribbean-Europe Drug Trade 
• Building Larger and More Diverse Supply Chains for Energy Minerals 
• Mineral Monopoly:  China’s Control over Gallium Is a National Security Threat 
• The National Security Benefits of Reallocating Federal Spectrum for 5G 
• Ensuring NGO Accountability for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Relief in Ukraine 
• Strengthening Global Health Security through Critical Immunization Programs 

 Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

• Profiles in Leadership: Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Its Predecessors, 1941–2023 
• The Soldier-Statesman in the Secret World: George C. Marshall and Intelligence in War and Peace 

 Center on U.S.-China Relations 

• Silicon Triangle:  The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Building UK-EU Bridges:  Convergent China Policies? 
• On Digital Competition, Britain could Learn from Its Regulatory Mistakes 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Canada Needs Its “New Approach” to Streamline Digital Rulemaking 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)          

• How Robust is the Evidence Base for the Human Ability to Recognise Suspicious Activity/Hostile Reconnaissance?  
• Lived Experiences of Contact with Counter-Terrorism Policies and Practices 
• Online Radicalisation: A Rapid Review of the Literature 
• Public Mitigation of Terrorism Risk: A Rapid Review of the Literature 
• Secondary Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Interventions: A Rapid Review of the Literature 

 Chatham House

• China’s New Scientists: The Emerging Leaders behind Beijing’s Drive for Technological Self-Reliance 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Assessing the UN’s Conflict Mediation Strategy for Syria from 2019 to 2023 
• From a China Strategy to No Strategy at All 
• Unravelling Turkish involvement in the Sahel 
• The War in Ukraine 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, July 2023, v. 16, no. 7 
• Guns, Drugs, and Smugglers: A Recent Heightened Challenge at Israel’s Borders with Jordan and Egypt
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Ravi Satkalmi, Director of Intelligence, United States Capitol Police
• The General Directorate of Provinces: Managing the Islamic State’s Global Network

 Conference of Defense Associations Institute

• Canada’s Future Submarine Capability 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Alternative Ways to Provide Fuel Within the Department of Defense 
• DECKPLATE and AMSRR:  Comparing Two Ways to Measure the Availability of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Aircraft 
• The Long-Term Budget Outlook Under Alternative Scenarios for the Economy and the Budget 
• Purposes and Uses of Special and Incentive Pay for Military Personnel 
• An Update to the Economic Outlook: 2023 to 2025 

 Cross-Border Data Forum

• A Framework for Assessing U.S. Data Policy toward China 

 Defense AI Observatory  (DAIO)

• Cautious Data-Driven Evolution: Defense AI in Finland 

 Defense Innovation Board (DIB)

• An Innovation Strategy for the Decisive Decade 
• Terraforming the Valley of Death: Making the Defense Market Navigable for Startups 

 Department of Defense (DOD) 

• Consolidated Department of Defense Coronavirus Disease 2019 Force Health Protection Guidance 
• Ukraine Fact Sheet
• July 19 
• July 25 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2023-094 Special Report: Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports to Inform the DoD’s Ukraine Response 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-23-33 ICE Should Improve Controls to Restrict Unauthorized Access to Its Systems and Information 
• OIG-23-36 United States Coast Guard Instituted Controls for the Offshore Patrol Cutter Extraordinary Relief Request, But Guidance Could Be Improved 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Kuwait Country Analysis Brief 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• Rolling Out Psychoeducational Material on Psychological Distress to Parents and Children 

 European Commission

• Ukraine's Population Future after the Russian Invasion 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                   

• Power Couple: How Europe and Algeria Can Move beyond Energy Cooperation 

 EUROPOL

• EUROMED POLICE V National Assessment Mission with Palestinian Civil Police 
• Europol Analysis System (EAS) – Analytical Capabilities Evolution (ACE) – Update from Europol 
• Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Dominica's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Kazakhstan's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Mutual Evaluation of Algeria 
• Mutual Evaluation of North Macedonia 
• Mutual Evaluation of Romania 
• Türkiye's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Turkmenistan's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Uzbekistan's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Finnish-US Negotiations for a Defense Cooperation Agreement: First Steps as a NATO Ally 
• Less Exotic Spitzenkandidaten: European Lead Candidates are Just a Normal Part of Parliamentary Democracy 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

• Autonomy Curbed? Kurdish Oil Exports Hit Snags from Turkey and Baghdad 
• China, Afghanistan, and the Allure of ‘Green Mineral Development’ 
• Geography, Bureaucracy, and National Security: The New Map 
• Government Push for Champions Could Have Firms Champing at the Bit 
• Off the MAP: Ukraine and the Problems of Expanding NATO 
• The Primacy Trap 
• Wagner Mutiny Ex Post Facto: What’s Next in Russia and Africa? 
• Water and Climate Change Will Shape Iraq-Turkey Relations 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations 
• The Order of Nine Angles: Its Worldview and Connection to Violent Extremism 

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism 

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Building Alliances: Stories of Inclusion, Climate Action, and Equity: Advancing Resilience through Partnership and Storytelling

French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

• China’s Weaponization of Gallium and Germanium: The Pitfalls of Leveraging Chokepoints 
• France’s Place Within NATO:  Toward a Strategic Aggiornamento? 
• From a China Strategy to No Strategy at All: Exploring the Diversity of European Approaches 
• Moldova, a Political System Under Pressure:  Between European Aspirations and War in Ukraine 

 French Military School Strategic Research Institute (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire)

• Use of Reservists in the Ukrainian Conflict: Between Mass and High Technology, Hard Lessons for Western Armies 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs

• Destructive Ambiguity Hampers Progress in UN Climate Process 
• Human Rights Dialogue with Arab States 
• Jihadism as a Driver of Local Conflicts in Tillabéri (Niger) 
• Libya’s Militias Have Become the State 
• “One Health” and Global Health Governance 
• Turkey’s New Cabinet: A Wind of Change in Turkish Politics? 
• U.S. Arctic Security Policy 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Cash is King:  Impact of the Ukraine War on Illicit Financial Flows in South Eastern Europe 
• Disruption or Displacement?  Impact of the Ukraine War on Drug Markets in South Eastern Europe 
• Human Smuggling and Trafficking Ecosystems in North Africa and the Sahel 
• Illicit Economies and the UN Security Council 
• Labour-Trafficking in ASGM: Assessing Risks in the Sahara-Sahel Goldfields 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Cults and Online Violent Extremism 
• Europe’s Thin Blue Line: How the Far-Right Imposes Its Ideology on the Police 
• Extremist Violence against the Trans and LGBTQI+ Community in Australia: A Review of Recent Events 
• Fanboys or the Frontline?: How al-Shabaab’s Social Media Influencers are Controlling the Narrative 
• Schrödinger’s Joke: The Weaponisation of Irony and Humour in the Alt-Right 

 Globsec

• The Future of Digital Deterrence in Central and Eastern Europe 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Blockchain in Finance: Legislative and Regulatory Actions Are Needed to Ensure Comprehensive Oversight of Crypto Assets GAO-23-105346 
• Capitol Attack: Federal Agencies Identified Some Threats, but Did Not Fully Process and Share Information Prior to January 6, 2021 [Reissued with revisions on Jul. 21, 2023] GAO-23-106625 
• Climate Change: Summary of GAO's Work on Federal Climate Resilience Projects GAO-23-106362 
• Coast Guard: Clarifying Emergency Policies and Assessing Needs Could Improve Unit Disaster Preparedness GAO-23-106409 
• Coast Guard Acquisitions: Polar Security Cutter Needs to Stabilize Design Before Starting Construction and Improve Schedule Oversight GAO-23-105949 
• Coast Guard Recapitalization: Actions Needed to Better Manage Acquisition Programs and Address Affordability Concerns GAO-23-106948 
• Conflict Minerals: 2022 Company Reports on Mineral Sources Were Similar to Those Filed in Prior Years GAO-23-106295 
• Cybersecurity Workforce: National Initiative Needs to Better Assess Its Performance GAO-23-105945 
• Defense Management: DOD Challenges with Travel Programs and Business Process Reforms GAO-23-106945 
• Defense Software Acquisitions: Changes to Requirements, Oversight, and Tools Needed for Weapon Programs GAO-23-105867 
• Defense Workforce: Opportunities for more Effective Management and Efficiencies GAO-23-106966 
• Federal Fleets: Zero-Emission Vehicle Implementation GAO-23-105350 
• Hanford Cleanup: DOE Should Consider Including Expedited Nuclear Waste Treatment Alternatives in Upcoming Analysis GAO-23-106151 
• Law Enforcement: DHS Should Strengthen Use of Force Data Collection and Analysis GAO-23-105927 
• Leading Practices: Iterative Cycles Enable Rapid Delivery of Complex, Innovative Products GAO-23-106222 
• Merchant Mariner Credentialing: Coast Guard Performance Measures Could Better Address Mariners' Needs GAO-23-106629 
• Military Housing: Army Should Improve Inspection Oversight and Long-Term Capital Investment Projections GAO-23-105983 
• Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Needs to Address Weaknesses in Program and Contractor Management at Los Alamos GAO-23-105665 
• Over-the-Counter Drugs: Status of FDA's Implementation of Exclusivity Provisions in the CARES Act GAO-23-106570 
• Personnel Vetting: DOD Should Improve Management and Operation of Its Background Investigation Working Capital Fund GAO-23-105812 
• Southwest Border: Award and Management of Barrier Construction Contracts GAO-23-106893 
• Transit Security: FEMA Should Improve Transparency of Grant Decisions GAO-23-105956 
• VA Disability Benefits: Actions Needed to Further Examine Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Compensation GAO-23-106097 
• VA Disability Exams: Opportunities Remain to Improve Program Planning and Oversight GAO-23-106939 
• VA Health Care: Office of the Medical Inspector Should Strengthen Oversight of Recommendations and Assess Performance GAO-23-105634 
• Veterans Affairs: Information on Professional Services Contracting Data and Conflict of Interest Regulations GAO-23-106961 

Govini

• The National Security Scorecard: Critical Technologies Edition [registration required to access]  

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Accelerating Cross-Border Cooperation on Hydrogen Infrastructure: North Rhine Westphalia – The Netherlands 
• The Socio-Political Instability Observer: May 2023 

 Henry Jackson Society

• Britain’s New Blasphemy Police? Understanding Islamist Anti-Blasphemy Action in the UK 
• A Duty to Protect: The Failure of UK Sanctions Against Iran and the Necessity of Proscribing the IRGC 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Options for Reconfiguring the UN Presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

 Heritage Foundation

• Congress in Limbo:  A Brief Survey of the History of the U.S. Congress 

 His Majesty's Government (UK)

• The United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering Terrorism 2023 

 Hudson Institute

• Eritrea’s Growing Ties with China and Russia Highlight America’s Inadequate Approach in East Africa 
• Niger’s Coup Is a West African Disaster in the Making 
• Xi Jinping’s Vision for the Middle East 
• Why a Ukrainian Victory Matters to Americans 

 Human Rights Watch

• “The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes”: Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation 
• “They Can Harass Us Because of the Laws”: Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 
• “We Must Ask for What Is Already Ours”: Afro-descendant Women and Access to Land in Alto Mira y Frontera, Colombia 

 IBM

• Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 [login required] 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• How the G7 Can Use “Data Free Flow with Trust” to Build Global Data Governance 
• Innovation Wars: How China Is Gaining on the United States in Corporate R&D 
• The National Economic Council Gets It Wrong on the Roles of Big and Small Firms in U.S. Innovation 
• Restoring US Leadership on Digital Policy 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

• India's Arctic Endeavours: Capacity Building and Capability Enhancement 
• Khalistan Movement: Recent Activities and Indian Response 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• IDA Space Forum:  Utilizing Commercial Space Capabilities in Government Systems, May 2, 2023 
• Legal, Moral, and Ethical Implications of Machine Learning for Personnel Management 
• Retention Prediction Model - Army, WEAI 2023 Defense Sessions 
• Return on Investment in Graduates of the DOD Service Academies: Assessment and Improvements 
• Using the Defense Industrial Base Optimization Model (DIBOpt) to Improve Readiness and Procurement in DOD 

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

• Russia’s War against Ukraine: A New Impetus for the Harmonisation of European Arms Export Policies? A Trilateral Perspective from France, Germany, and Sweden 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• AUKUS, Advanced Capabilities and Defense Integration in the Indo-Pacific 
• China in Eurasia: Revisiting BRI amidst the Russia-Ukraine Crisis 

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Climate-Linked Mobility: A Key to Development 

 Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School (IRSEM)

• Use of Reservists in the Ukrainian Conflict:  Between mass and High Technology, Hard Lessons for Western Armies 

 Institute for the Study of War

• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• July 20 
• July 27 
• Iran Update
• July 17 
• July 18 
• July 19 
• July 20 
• July 21 
• July 24 
• July 25 
• July 26 
• July 27 
• July 28 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• July 17 
• July 18 
• July 19 
• July 20 
• July 21 
• July 22 
• July 23 
• July 24 
• July 25 
• July 26 
• July 27 
• July 28 
• July 29 
• July 30 
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update
• July 20 
• July 26 
• Ukraine’s Sustained Counteroffensive: Denying Russia’s Prolongation of the War 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Arctic within EU Strategies: A Renewed Centrality 
• The China Nuclear Taboo and Russia’s War in Ukraine 
• European Think Tanks Contact Group on Libya 
• Giorgia Meloni’s Foreign Policy and the Mattei Plan for Africa 
• Italy and Norway: Perspectives for a Further Energy Cooperation 
• Italy Punches Below Its Weight on the European Defence Fund 
• Meloni’s Visit to DC: Beware of Europe’s Smokescreen on Tunisia 
• Rebooting Food Systems and Accelerating Climate Action Must Go Hand-in-Hand 
• Reinventing Soft Power: The Strong Impact of China’s Soft Power “Shortcomings” on the Global South 
• Sinicisation, the Tribute System and Dynasties 
• Ukraine’s NATO Membership Will Strengthen Europe’s Security 

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

• Men and Psychosocial Support Services Programming 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• U.S.–India Defense and Technology Cooperation 

 Irregular Warfare Center

• The Newest Weapon in Irregular Warfare – Artificial Intelligence 

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Cracking at the Seams? Reassessing the EU’s External Migration Policies 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, July 21, 2023, v. 23, no. 13 
• Illegal Fishing in Southeast Asia: Scope, Dimensions, Impacts, and Multilateral Response
• The PLA Reconceptualizes Control of the Air
• The PRC Eyes Vietnam: Chinese Assessments of Vietnam’s Hedging Strategy
• Xi Shifts Blame as Chinese Economy Continues to Falter
• Terrorism Monitor, July 21,  2023, v. 21, no. 15 
• Brief: Benin Becomes Bulwark Against Terrorism in West Africa
• Brief: Islamic State Highlights Killings and Claimed Attacks in the Congo and Mozambique
• Jihad and Punishment: Repatriation and Criminal Accountability of Islamic State-Linked Women in the Nordic States
• Suqur al-Sham’s Allegiances in Question After US Killing of Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali in Syria
• Tanzania Faces Looming Threats from East African Jihadist Turmoil

 Japanese Ministry of Defense

• Defense of Japan 2023 

 Manhattan Institute

• Autonomous Now: Why We Need Self-Driving Technology and How We Can Get It Faster

Marine Corps History Division

• Marine Corps History Magazine Summer 2023, v. 9, no. 1 
• The Siege of Enniskillen Castle, 1594: An Object Lesson in Combat Across the Land-Water Interface
• The 4th Tank Battalion in the Pacific: A Case Study in Field-Inspired Ingenuity
• The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Where Do We Stand?

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Why Price Stability Matters 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• At the Breaking Point: Rethinking the U.S. Immigration Court System 
• ESSER: Moving the Needle on Equitable and Adequate Education Funding for English Learners 

 MITRE

• Blueprint for the Future of Grants Management 
• Intelligence After Next: The IC's Opportunity to Bolster Democracy—Strengthening Integration and Supporting Whole-of-Government Strategy 

 National Academies Press

• Educating Together, Improving Together: Harmonizing Interprofessional Approaches to Address the Opioid Epidemic  
• Federal Policy to Advance Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity 
• Future Planning for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Enterprise: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Integrating Resilience Concepts and Strategies into Transportation Planning: A Guide 

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

• Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterinsurgency from 2002 to 2022—The Information Lever of Power 

 National Defense University

• Discerning the Drivers of China’s Nuclear Force Development:  Models, Indicators, and Data 
• Integrated Deterrence and Cyberspace: Selected Essays Exploring the Role of Cyber Operations in the Pursuit of National Interest 

 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

• Defending the Global Human Rights System from Authoritarian Assault: How Democracies Can Retake the Initiative 

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• IR 8270 Introduction to Cybersecurity for Commercial Satellite Operations 

 National Security Archive

• The Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Escalation Roadmap: An Analysis Paper 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Seeking Legitimacy: Considerations for Strategic Communications in the Digital Age 

 Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute

• PLAN [People’s Liberation Army Navy] Mine Countermeasures: Platforms, Training, and Civil-Military Integration 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Polarization Pendulum 
• Bot Driven Gold Rush – Unmasking the Role of Inauthentic Social Media Activity on the Crypto Market and Beyond 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Addressing Cross-border Spillover Risks of Climate Transition Policies: The Role of the G20 and IMF 
• DPI for Improved Public Service: Lessons from Indonesia’s Integrated Smart System Platform 
• Making Global Security Governance and Architectures Context-Responsive 
• Our Uncommon Future: Intersectionality of Climate Change and SDGs in the Global South 

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Support Provided by the People's Republic of China to Russia 

 Our World in Data

• Homicides 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Korea has Increased Its Lending to Emerging-Market And Developing Economies but Faces Risks if Their Debt Problems Grow 
• The Oil Price Cap and Embargo on Russia are Working Imperfectly, and Defects must be Fixed 
• Scoring 50 years of US industrial policy, 1970–2020 

 Pew Research Center 

• Americans Name China as the Country Posing the Greatest Threat to the U.S. 
• Americans See U.S. Aid to Developing Countries as More Beneficial Than Chinese Assistance 
• Americans’ Views of Space: U.S. Role, NASA Priorities and Impact of Private Companies 
• China’s Approach to Foreign Policy Gets Largely Negative Reviews in 24-Country Survey 
• Favorable Views of Supreme Court Fall to Historic Low 
• Most Americans Favor Restrictions on False Information, Violent Content Online 
• Most Asian Americans View Their Ancestral Homelands Favorably, Except Chinese Americans 
• Which U.S. Workers Are More Exposed to AI on Their Jobs? 

 RAND Corporation

• An Assessment of Two-Year Probationary Period Usage Within the Defense Civilian Workforce:  A Report Prepared for the U.S. Department of Defense in Compliance with Section 1102 of the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act 
• Assessing Misperceptions Online About the Security Clearance Process 
• Assessment of Deployment- and Mobilization-to-Dwell Policies for Active and Reserve Component Forces:  An Examination of Current Policy Using Select U.S. Joint Force Elements 
• Department of Defense Considerations for Leveraging Commercially Developed Emerging Technologies:  Preliminary Insights from Advanced Air Mobility             
• How Do We Know Whether Federal Disaster Programs Are Equitable? An Initial Methodology for Evaluating Social Equity Performance of the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Mitigation Grant Program 
• Exploring the Use of Computational Cognitive Models to Personalize Training 
• Improving Pain Care for Service Members:  Administrator, Provider, and Patient Perspectives on Treatment, Policies, and Opportunities for Change 
• Inflection Point:  How to Reverse the Erosion of U.S. and Allied Military Power and Influence 
• Like-Minded Allies?  Indo-Pacific Partners’ Views on Possible Changes in the U.S. Relationship with Taiwan 
• National Public Defense Workload Study 
• National Security Employment:  Improving the Candidate Experience Journey Through the Personnel Vetting Process 
• Not the X-Files:  Mapping Public Reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Across America 
• A Night-Time Lighting Analysis of Tibet’s Prisons and Detention Centers 
• One- to Four-Family Properties with Multiple Losses Insured by the National Flood Insurance Program: Property Characteristics, Community Demographics, and Mitigation Strategies 
• The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer: One Year In 
• Review of Reserve Component Activation Data Quality 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Insights Workshop for the UK’s Trade-Based Money-Laundering Strategy 2023 
• Supporting Command and Control for Land Forces on a Data-Rich Battlefield 
• Waiting for Godot?  The UK’s Defense Command Paper Refresh 

 Singapore Internal Security Department

• Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2023 

 Small Arms Survey

• An Iron Fist in Lakes State: Law, Order, and Volatility on the Margins 

 Small Wars Journal

• Crime and COVID-19 in Mexico: Some Counterintuitive Results 
• How Russia’s Hybrid Warfare is Changing 
• Irregular Warfare Education “A Lifelong Process” 
• Just for Fun: How China Uses Tik Tok to Further CCP Initiatives 
• Redeveloping Regimental Combat Teams (RCTs) for Large-Scale and Mega-City Combat Operations 
• Security and Defense Medicine in a New Age of Policy 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Africa’s Governance Trajectory:  Are AU Mechanisms Working? 

 Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

• The Year in Hate & Extremism 2022 

 Takshashila Institution

• China’s Quest for Innovation and Technological Advancement 

 Taylor & Francis

• Civil Wars, 2023
• Finding the Utility of Force to Protect Civilians from Violence: Exploring Outcomes of United Nations Military Protection Operations in Africa (1999–2017) [open access article] 
• From Insurgency to Local Politics the Case of the Former FARC-EP Insurgent Guillermo Torres in Turbaco, Colombia [open access article] 
• ‘Jihad is Planted in Our Hearts’: International Aid, Rebel Institutions and Women’s Participation in the Bangsamoro  [open access article] 
• Defence and Peace Economics, 2023
• Contest Copycats: Adversarial Duplication of Effort in Contests  [open access article] 
• Demand for Military Expenditures and Security Alignment Choices in the Indo-Pacific [open access article] 
• Developments in Military Expenditure and the Effects of the War in Ukraine [open access article] 
• Political Accountability and Military Spending [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Immigration Policy Preferences [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis, 2023
• Responding to Needs: Military Aid to Ukraine during the First Year after the 2022 Invasion [open access article] 
• Ethics & Global Politics, 2023
• Acting in solidarity with the poor? Some conceptual and practical challenges [open access article] 
• Against ‘The Poor’ as a Global Category [open access article] 
• Collective Political Capabilities [open access article] 
• Introduction to Symposium: Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements [open access article] 
• On Why the Poor have Duties Too [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2023
• Transnational Trafficking Networks of End-of-Life Vehicles and e-Waste [open access article] 
• Intelligence and National Security, 2023
• Critical Intelligence Studies: A New Framework for Analysis [open access article] 
• The Politics of Intelligence Failures: Power, Rationality, and the Intelligence Process [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence, and Counter Terrorism, 2023
• Twenty Y of Countering Jihadism in Western Europe: From the Shock of 9/11 to ‘Jihadism Fatigue’ [open access article]   
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2023
• ‘Hybrid Warfare’ as an Academic Fashion [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2023
• Partnership Policing and the Dynamics of Administrative Growth [open access article] 
• Violent Encounters with Private Security Guards in Sweden: Mapping the Juncture between Public and Private Policing [open access article] 
• Strategic Studies, 2023
• Brazil’s Foreign Policy and Security under Lula and Bolsonaro: Hierarchy, Racialization, and Diplomacy [open access article] 
• Whose War is it Anyway? Explaining the Black-White Gap in Support for the Use of Force Abroad [open access article] 
• Small Wars, 2023
• Counterinsurgency as Order-Making: Refining the Concepts of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Light of the Somali Civil War [open access article] 
• Mapping Premodern Small War: The Case of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) [open access article] 

 UK Ministry of Defence

• Defense Command Paper 2023:  Defense’s Response to a More Contested and Volatile World 
• Defence’s Response to a More Contested and Volatile World 
• LGBT Veterans Independent Review 
• National Space Strategy in Action 

 UK Parliament Defence Committee

• Guns for Gold:  The Wagner Network Exposed 
• It Is Broke — and It’s Time to Fix It: The UK’s Defence Procurement System – Report Summary 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Assessing Person-Centered Outcomes in Women and Children Returning from Violent Extremist Conflict 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Reshaping the Global Arms Market:  Implications for the Middle East and Beyond 
• The Regent of Allah:  Ali Khamenei's Political Evolution in Iran 
• A Visual Guide to Understanding the Uranium Enrichment Process [Infographic] 

 Wilson Center

• Building Lebanon’s Sovereignty and the State 
• Challenging Autocracy from the Front Lines 

 Zero Emissions Transportation Association (ZETA)

• Powering the EV Market: How Electricity Providers are Planning for the Future