Friday's Miscellany 09-15-2023

 38 North

• The Sleeper Has Awakened: Six Key Takeaways From the Rollout of North Korea’s “Tactical Nuclear Attack Submarine” 
• What Do Weapons Sales to Russia Mean for North Korea’s Economy? 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Oversight and Accountability to Improve Security Sector Governance in Africa 

 Air University Press

• Operation Inherent Resolve 

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• A War Over the City:  Exploring Kirkuk’s Multi-layered Conflict 

 American Enterprise Institute

• Engineering a Solution:  Elevating STEM Teacher Quality 

 Amnesty International

• Rape, Sexual Slavery, Extrajudicial Executions, and Pillage by Eritrean Defense Forces 

 Army Science Board

• An Independent Assessment of the 2040 Battlefield and its Implications for the 5th Generation Combat Vehicle (5GCV) 

 Army University Press

• Whose Role Is It Anyway? The Inter-Service Race to Develop Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missiles 

 Army War College Press

• Future Role of Strategic Landpower

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) 

• Jump-starting U.S. Trade and Economic Engagement in the Indo-Pacific 

 Atlantic Council

• The Draft Ended Fifty Years Ago.  Can the All-Volunteer Force Survive Another Fifty? 
• Empowering Pakistan’s Youth to Address Climate Change Risks 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• 7 Steps for Igniting the Brain Capital Industrial Strategy 
• Why Is Europe Not Replacing Russian Pipeline Gas With Long-term LNG Contracts? 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• How Dangerous Is the Crisis Within the IAF? 
• Managing the Promise and Threat of Emerging Technologies 

 Brookings

• As Disasters become More Costly, the US Needs a Better Way to Distribute the Burden 

 Bruegel

• European Union Debt Financing: Leeway and Barriers from a Legal Perspective 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Rules of Order:  Assessing the State of Global Governance 

 CATO Institute

• Man versus Machine: Technological Promise and Political Limits of Automated Regulation Enforcement 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Strengtheningthe Shield: Japan’s Defense Transformation and the U.S.-Japan Alliance 

 Center for Climate and Security (CSS)

• Feeding Resilience:  A Review of Policies at the Intersection of Climate Change, Food Security and National Security Policy 
• New Analysis of Climate Security Risks in Iran and Türkiye 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 300: Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination and Violence 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Agile and Adaptable:  U.S. and NATO Approaches to Russia's Short-Term Military Potential 
• Aligning Ambitions: State Strategies for Offshore Wind 
• Arctic Geopolitics: The Svalbard Archipelago 
• Cooperation Amidst Great Power Rivalry:  The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 
• Electric Shock:  Interpreting China’s Electric Vehicle Export Boom 
• How China and Russia Facilitate North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses 
• Inflection Point:  The Challenges Facing Latin America and U.S. Policy in the Region 
• Leaders at the Table:  Improving Global Food Security Through Public-Private Partnerships 
• Manufacturing beyond Shores:  The Taiwanese Checklist Approach to Intellectual Property Protection 
• Using Unclassified U.S. Government Reporting in America’s Global Battles of Influence 

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Bridging the Divide: Making Action on the Energy Transition a Reality 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The EU Still Needs to Build Its De-Risking Toolkit 
• How Europe Can Make the Most of AI 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• One Year On from the Discovery of Mass Graves in Izium, We Identify the “Enablers” of Torture 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Enhancing Compliance with Privacy Legislation through Standardization 
• State-Centric Data Governance in China 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• LARPocalypse: Part One - Siege as a Subculture 

 Chatham House

• The Consequences of Russia’s War on Ukraine for Climate Action, Food Supply and Energy Security 
• Navigating the Regionalization of Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• 2022 Public Attitudes on US Intelligence 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• NATO’s Vilnius Summit:  Consequences for the Allies 
• The New Iraqi Opposition:  The Anti-Establishment Movement After the 2021 Elections 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, August 2023, v. 16, no. 8 
• Calibrated Counterterrorism: Actively Suppressing International Terrorism
• The Enduring Duel: Islamic State Khorasan’s Survival under Afghanistan’s New Rulers
• Caliphs of the Shadows: The Islamic State’s Leaders Post-Mawla
• The Russian Imperial Movement in the Ukraine Wars: 2014-2023

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Rethinking International Rules on Subsidies 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• Ecological Risk in a Future Southeast Asia: An Ecological Security Policy Game 
• Looming Climate Security Crises in Iran 
• Türkiye’s Confluence of Climate and Security Risks 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Export Controls Effectively Constrain China's Advance in Microchip Production 
• Three Frontlines in Africa's Resource Conflicts 

 Defense Priorities

• Overreach in Africa:  Rethinking U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• 2023 DOD Cyber Strategy 
• Guidance For Continuation of Operations During a Lapse in Appropriations 
• Space Policy Review and Strategy on Protection of Satellites 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• 2024 Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA) 

 Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General

• OIG-23-47 Migrants Can be Located Once Released into the United States (REDACTED) 

 Department of State

• Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement 

 Economic Research Forum

• Assessing the Sustainability of Jordan’s Public Debt: The Importance of Reviving the Private Sector and Improving Social Outcomes 
• Digitalization and the UAE Economy: A New Driver of Sustainable Development 
• Lebanon at Risk: The Uncertain Road from A Debt Overhang to A New Growth Path 
• The Past and the Future Trade Patterns of the MENA Region: The Pursuit of Growth 
• Public Debt, Growth, and Stabilization in Tunisia: A New Narrative for A Structural Reform Agenda 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Masters of Grand Strategy 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, 2023, no. 3 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• House in Disorder: How Europeans Can Help Palestinians Fix Their Political System 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Is the European Health Union Ready for the Challenges of the 21st Century? 

 European Union (EU)

• The EU’s Response to the War in Ukraine 
• Guidance for Resilience Analysis 
• Metaverse: Virtual World, Real Challenges 
• Promoting Migrant Integration: Strengthening EU Law on Long-Term Residence 
• Reference Foresight Scenarios on the Global Standing of the EU in 2040 
• Strategic Foresight Report 2023: Sustainability and People’s Wellbeing at the Heart of Europe’s Open Strategic Autonomy 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Foresight 2030 Threats 

 EUROPOL

• Cyber-Attacks: The Apex of Crime-as-a-Service (IOCTA 2023) 
• Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) 2023 
• The Other Side of the Coin: An Analysis of Financial and Economic Crime 
• U.S.-EU Pilot Program on systematic CT-Related Information Exchange 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

• Climate Change and Security:  Preparing for Different Impacts 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)                

• China Continues to Deepen its Political Influence in Georgia 
• The Eagle in the South Caucasus: Armenia Tests Alternative Geopolitical Waters 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• After the Attack:  A Playbook for Continuity of the Economy Planning and Implementation 

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

• How to Curb Investments in Chinese Technology:  Initiatives and Debates in the United States 

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

• The Transformative Role of AI in Reshaping Electoral Politics 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• The Crisis Governance of the European Union 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Transatlantic Trends 2023:  Public Opinion in a Shifting Global Order 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Bad Pharma: Trafficking Illicit Medical Products in West Africa 
• Human Smuggling and Trafficking Ecosystems in North Africa and the Sahel 
• Measuring Organized Crime 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Authoritarian Platforms: Far-right Radicalisation Amidst Economic Precarity in Brazil 
• Mapping Extremist Discourse Communities on Telegram: The Case of the Russian Imperial Movement 
• QAnon, Political Radicalisation and January 6th: A Gendered Perspective 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• CARES Act: Experts Identified Safeguards to Help Selected HHS Agencies Protect against Potential Political Interference GAO-23-106529 
• Chemical Weapons: Status of Forensic Technologies and Challenges to Source Attribution GAO-23-105439 
• DOD Software Licenses: Better Guidance and Plans Needed to Ensure Restrictive Practices Are Mitigated GAO-23-106290 
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Drone Swarm Technologies GAO-23-106930 
• Unemployment Insurance: Estimated Amount of Fraud During Pandemic Likely between $100 Billion and $135 Billion GAO-23-106696 
• Violent Extremism: Agencies' and Financial Institutions' Efforts to Link Financing to Domestic Threats GAO-23-105928 
• White House Spending: FY 2022 Certificated Expenditures of the President and Vice President Were for Authorized Purposes GAO-23-106450 
• Violent Extremism: Agencies' and Financial Institutions' Efforts to Link Financing to Domestic Threats  GAO-23-105928 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Why Should Europe Guard the Indo-Pacific Maritime Commons: Order, Access, or US Hegemony? 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• 2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures Report  

 Heritage Foundation

• 2023 Camp David Summit Strengthened Allied Cooperation Against Indo–Pacific Threats 
• Russia and China Are Running in a Nuclear Arms Race While the United States Is Jogging in Place 
• The Best Outcome for the U.S. Military and U.S. Security:  Recommendations for the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act 

 Hudson Institute

• Archipelagic Defense 2.0 
• The Mate 60 Pro Proves American Export Bans Are Working 
• The Top Myths about US Aid to Ukraine 

 Human Rights Watch

• “I Felt So Stuck”: Inadequate Housing and Social Support for Families Seeking Asylum in the United Kingdom 
• “If We Raise Our Voice They Arrest Us”: Sri Lanka’s Proposed Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Latin American Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 
• Transatlantic Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 2.0 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

• Maldives Presidential Elections: Fragmented Campaign 
• Military Applications of Virtual Reality and Beyond 
• Oppenheimer and the Indian Knowledge Tradition 
• Taliban’s Systematic Apartheid against Afghan Women and Girls 
• Turkiye and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• State Programs Annual Report:  National Guard Bureau Warrior Resilience and Fitness 

 Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

• The Shangri-La Dialog 2023: Toward the Cold War 2.0 and Its Dynamics 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• Amid Reports on Chinese Expansion of Bases, Sri Lanka Unveils SOP:  Need for a Reality Check? 
• South Korea’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, Atmanirbhar Bharat, and the IPEF: Convergence and Commonality 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Emerging Platforms and Technologies: An Overview of the Current Threat Landscape and its Policy Implications 
• Misogynistic Pathways to Radicalisation: Recommended Measures for Platforms to Assess and Mitigate Online Gender-Based Violence 
• Policy Approaches to Addressing Data Access Challenges in the Evolving Online Ecosystem 

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

• Between Civil Disobedience and Militancy. The Radial Climate Protection Protest Movement and Its Extremist Potential 

 Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD)

• The Ripple Effect: A U.S. Diplomatic Strategy for a Changing World Order 

 Institute for the Study of War

• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• September 15, 2023 
• Iran Update
• September 11 
• September 12 
• September 13 
• September 14 
• September 15 
• Russia and China Look at the Future of War 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• September 11 
• September 12 
• September 13 
• September 14 
• September 15 
• September 16 
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Update
• September 13, 2023 
• The Syrian Democratic Forces’ Arab Coalition is Crumbling, Creating Opportunities for ISIS, Iran, and Turkey 
• Ukraine’s Operations in Bakhmut Have Kept Russian Reserves Away from the South 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Can Regional Governance Help Safeguard Guatemala’s Democracy? 
• Future Military Helicopters 
• Gas Crisis in Europe: A Harbinger of Sustainable Cooperation with North Africa 
• Giorgia Meloni’s Italy and Europe: Ambitions and Realities 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Trends in the Return and Prosecution of ISIS Foreign Terrorist Fighters in the United States 

 International Crisis Group

• Treading a Rocky Path:  The Ta’ang Army Expands in Myanmar’s Shan State 
• UNRWA’s Reckoning: Preserving the UN Agency Serving Palestinian Refugees 

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• New Technologies and the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations 

 Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor, September 15,  2023, v. 21, no. 19 
• Brief: Drug-Trafficking and Jihadist Nexus Possibly Behind Terror Attack in Southern Thailand
• Brief: JNIM Consolidates Control Around Gao, Timbuktu
• Nigerian Concerns Suggest ECOWAS Unlikely to Invade Niger
• ISKP Attacks Pakistan’s Religious Political Parties for Participating in Elections
• Islamic State in Somalia Province: Before and After the Death of Bilal al-Sudani

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

• Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, v. 37, no. 1, 2023 
• New Horizons: Completing the Initial Reconnaissance of the Solar System—Guest Editors’ Introduction
• New Horizons and Planetary Exploration
• The New Horizons Spacecraft: Past Performance, Future Potential
• The New Horizons Instrument Suite
• New Horizons Mission Operations and Encounter Planning
• Encounter Design, Planning, and Navigation—Getting to Pluto
• Science Highlights from NASA’s New Horizons Mission
• Extreme Exploration and Outreach: Taking the World on a Voyage to Pluto and Arrokoth
• Not Even Halfway There: New Horizons’ Future Exploration of the Heliosphere, the Outer Solar System, and Beyond

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI)

• Artificial Intelligence: How Big a Threat to Middle-Class, White-Collar Jobs? 

 MITRE

• Decentralized Innovation: Approach to Building Multilateral Collaborations in Science and Technology 
• Identity Fraud Victim Redress Processes and Systems 

 National Academies Press 

• Artificial Intelligence to Assist Mathematical Reasoning: Proceedings of a Workshop  
• Homelessness: A Guide for Public Transportation  
• Improving Access to High-Quality Mental Health Care for Veterans: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism  
• Telecommuting, Remote Work, and Hybrid Schedules: Managing the Shift to a Flexible Work Future  

 NASA

• Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Independent Study Team Report 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• The Rejection of Intentional Population Targeting for “Tripolar” Deterrence 

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2023, v. 100, issue 1 
• China’s New Law on Foreign Relations: Transforming the Rules-Based International Order with Chinese Characteristics 
• The Legal Boundaries of (Digital) Information or Psychological Operations Under International Humanitarian Law 

 New America

• Army Logistics in the Pacific 

 Niskanen Center

• Is the U.S. Really a Global Leader in Low-Carbon Industry? 

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)                  

• Reducing Cyber Risks to Nuclear Weapons: Proposals from a U.S.-Russia Expert Dialogue  

 Observer Research Foundation

• Indian Ocean Seabed Defense:  Lessons from Europe 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• U.S.-Led Effort to Diversify Indo-Pacific Supply Chains Away from China Runs Counter to Trends 

 Pew Research Center

• Buddhism, Islam and Religious Pluralism in South and Southeast Asia 
• Key Facts About Americans and Guns 
• Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Common Good Diplomacy: A Framework for Stable U.S.–China Relations 
• Competition Versus Exclusion in U.S.–China Relations: A Choice Between Stability and Conflict 

 RAND Corporation

• Battle of Gettysburg:  The Impact of Alternative Technologies on Civil War History 
• Climate Adaptation Strategies for National Critical Functions 
• Evaluating Department of Homeland Security Component Colocation for Field Efficiency and Performance:  Framework and Methods 
• Prevalence of Veteran Support for Extremist Groups and Extremist Beliefs:  Results from a Nationally Representative Survey of the U.S. Veteran Community 
• Rise of Generative AI and the Coming Era of Social Media Manipulation 3.0:  Next-Generation Chinese Astroturfing and Coping with Ubiquitous AI 
• Using Quality Measures and Measurement-Based Care to Improve Behavioral Health Care for Veterans and Service Members 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Decoding Emerging Threats:  Ransomware and the Prevention of Future Cyber Crises 
• ‘Goodbye, Mr Chips?’ Modernising Defence Training 

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), September 2023, v. 15, no. 4 
• Digital Vacuum: The Evolution of IS Central's Media Outreach in Southeast Asia
• Afghanistan-Pakistan’s Radical Social Media Ecosystem: Actors, Propaganda Comparison and Implications
• “Death to the Grid”: Ideological Narratives and Online Community Dynamics in Encouraging Far-Right Extremist Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

 Soufan Center

• Citizens for Leverage: Navigating State Hostage-Taking in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape 

 Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)

• Department of Defense Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence 
• Generative AI: The Future of Innovation Power 
• Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for the U.S. Intelligence Community 

 Springer Link

• Procurement and Politics: Strategies of Defence Acquisition in Canada and Australia [open access book] 

 Stanford Internet Observatory

• Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2023, v. 2, no. 1 
• Trust and Safety Research Conference Proceedings 2023

 Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEES)

• EU Defense Cooperation with Ukraine 
• Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce.  Part IV:  Two Strategic Challenges 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• The Arctic is Hot: Addressing the Social and Environmental Implications 
• Tensions on the Belarus Border: A Look at Military Spending and Arms Import Patterns 

 Taiwan Ministry of National Defense

• Taiwan National Defense Report – 2023 
• Prior years 

 Taylor & Francis

• International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2023
• Complexity in Military Intelligence [open access article] 
• Hunters and Gatherers: The Evolution of Strike and Intelligence Functions in Special Operations Forces [open access article] 
• “If You Have a Hammer…”: Shaping the Armed Forces’ Discourse on Information Maneuver [open access article] 
• Security Studies, 2023
• Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2023
• Intercommunal Violence, Insurgency, and Agropastoral Conflict in the Lake Chad Basin Region [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2023
• British Troops on British Streets: Defence’s Counter-Terrorism Journey from 9/11 to Operation Temperer [open access article] 
• How the “Internal Brakes” on Violent Escalation Work and Fail: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Intra-Group Processes of Restraint in Militant Groups [open access article] 
• Setting the Strategic Cat among the Policy Pigeons: The Problems and Paradoxes of Western Intervention Strategy [open access article] 

 UK Defence and Armed Forces

• Defence Equipment & Support Strategy 
• Global Support Organisation Overseas Guides: Scandinavia 

 UK Parliament

• Defense Committee:  Report:  Aviation Procurement:  Winging It? 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Agent Orange Victims in Vietnam:  Their Numbers, Experiences, Needs, and Sources of Support 
• China and the Reshaping of Global Conflict Prevention Norms 
• US Assistance to Vietnamese Families Impacted by Agent Orange 

 World Bank

• The Commons: Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa 
• Tangled Seas: A Snapshot of Abandoned, Lost, or Otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear in South Asia