Friday's Miscellany 12-08-2023 & 12-15-2023

 38 North

• North Korea’s De-risking Strategy and Its Implications 
• North Korea’s Energy Sector 
• Nuclearization Debates: What Can South Korea Learn from South Asia? 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa-India Cooperation Sets Benchmark for Partnership 

 Air University Press

• AEther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower, Winter 2023, v. 2, no. 4 
• Dynamic Space Operations: The New Sustained Space Maneuver Imperative
• To the Moon: Strategic Competition in the Cislunar Region
• Space Weaponization: Reexamining the Historical Air Analogy to Space
• Responsiveness is not Operational: Aligning Strategy in the Newest Service
• The Cost of Space System Classification
• Decision Support Systems for Critical Space Infrastructure Assets
• Deterrent and Defense Applications of Orbital Antisatellite Weapons
• Terrestrial Responses to Space Aggression
• US Space Command's Deterrent Role
• Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Jan-Feb 2024, v. 7, no. 1 
• Navigating New Realities: The Future of US-Thai Relations
• Characterizing Chinese Influence in Thailand
• An Uncreconciled Gap: Thailand's Human Rights Foreign Policy versus Its Lèse-Majesté Crisis
• Creating Balance: The Evolution of Thailand's Defense Diplomacy and Defense Relations
• Hedging, Alignment, and Unintended Consequences: The Geopolitical Meaning and Outcomes of Thailand's Procurement of Chinese Submarines
• Thailand's Indo-Pacific Adrift? A Reluctant Realignment with the United States and China
• Can Thailand's Military Evolve? Moving beyond Domestic Interference, Institutional Corruptions, and Personal Gain
• "Thailand's Foreign Policy Does Not Exist": Windy Times Call for Better Roots, Not Just More Bending

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• American Deterrence Unpacked 
• Civic Thought:  A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education 

 Amnesty International

• Trapped by Automation:  Poverty and Discrimination in Serbia’s Welfare State 

 Arctic Institute

• The Arctic in China’s Subnational 14th Five-Year Plans 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), November 2032, v. 30, no. 11 
• Cold Weather Injuries among the Active and Reserve Components of the U.S. Armed Forces, July 2018–June 2023
• Clinically Diagnosed Sunburn among Active Component Service Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2014–2022
• Influenza Immunization among U.S. Armed Forces Health Care Workers, August 2018–April 2023
• The Role of Vaccines in Combatting the Potential “Tripledemic” of Influenza, COVID-19 and RSV
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 39, Ending September 30, 2023

 Army Center of Military History

• Army History Magazine, Fall 2023, no. 129 
• “We are Coming, Nineveh”: The Liberation of Mosul, 2016–2017
• “Your Exploits Will Rank among the Greatest of Military Achievements”
• The Helmuts of General George S. Patton

 Army University Press

• Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal, October-December 2023, v. 1, no. 4
• Filing in the Blanks
• I, Warrant Too: Analysis of the Occupational Identity of Warrant Officers
• Big Heros Come in Small Packages: Recollections of Charon Swartworth, a Five-foot-two Gian
• Hypermedia Microlearning Hybrid Publications
• Army War College Opportunities for Warrant Officers
• Alternate Afghanistan—A Case Study for Small COIN
• A Long and Obstinate Resistance: Staff Ride Handbook for the Charleston Campaign, 1776-80 

 Asia Society Policy Institute

• Assessing Chinese Influence in the Pacific Islands States:  A Media Analysis 
• The New Domestic Politics of U.S.-China Relations 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• The New Domestic Politics of U.S.-China Relations 

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Training Outside "The Box" 

 Atlantic Council

• Charting Energy Transitions in the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabian Peninsula 
• Community Watch:  China’s Vision for the Future of the Internet 
• EV Adoption could Drive Collaboration for Renewable Energy in Turkey and GCC 
• Forging a Collaborative Energy Transition between GCC and Turkey  
• Galvanizing Spain’s Presidency for the Next Chapter 
• Getting Back on Track:  Unlocking Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic and Development Perspective 
• How GCC and Turkey Can Go Together Toward a Sustainable Future 
• An Introduction to Regional Perspectives on Climate Change: Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey 
• Prospects for Cooperation in Energy Transition for a Sustainable Future: GCC, Turkey, and Regional Perspectives 
• A Security Strategy for the Black Sea 

 Australian National University Press

• After the Coup: Myanmar’s Political and Humanitarian Crises 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• North of 26 Degrees South and the Security of Australia 
• Shadow Play:  A Pro-China Technology and Anti-U.S. Influence Operation Thrives on YouTube 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Aging and Immigration Nexus: Health Ramifications for Older Adults with Undocumented Legal 
• Brain Capital’s Role in US-China Competition 
• Israel’s Mass Displacement of Gazans Fits Strategy of Using Migration as a Tool of War 
• Mandated Drug Treatment in the Aftermath of Recreational Cannabis Legalization 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• China and the Global South: Old Friends, New Dynamics 

 Brookings Institution

• For a Secure and Stable Europe, Put Ukraine on a Definitive Path to NATO 
• What Should Be Done About the Growing Influence of Industry in AI Research? 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• From Nascent Technology to Canadian Defence Policy: Revisiting the Merits of a Connected Battlespace 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Examining U.S. Relations With Authoritarian Countries 
• Stabilizing the Border: A Possible Way Ahead in the Post-Galwan Situation 
• Subnational Practices in AI Policy:  A Working Guide 

 CATO Institute

• Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And If So, Why? And What Is Next? 
• Measurable Relationships between Freedom and Prosperity and the Consequences for the Washington Consensus and New Economic Paradigm 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Identifying Russian Vulnerabilities and How to Leverage Them 
• Resisting China’s Gray Zone Military Pressure on Taiwan 

 Center for Climate Security (CCS)

• November 2023 Update: Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Encryption:  It’s Not About Good and Bad Guys, It’s About All of Us 
• A New Vision for the Transatlantic Alliance:  The Future of European Security, the United States, and the World Order after Russia’s War in Ukraine 

 Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)

• One Year of Sanctions:  Russia’s Oil Export Revenues Cut by EUR 34 bn 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• AI and Biorisk:  An Explainer 
• Comment on OMB RFC on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence Draft Memorandum 
• Controlling Large Language Models:  A Primer 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 333: The New Frontier of Space Militarization 
• No. 334: Geopolitical Echoes of the Karabakh Conflict 
• Cyber Rapid Response Teams: Structure, Organization, and Use Cases 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 304: Russia and the global food supply 
• Unequal Access to UN Human Rights Bodies 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Balancing Act: Managing European Dependencies on China for Climate Technologies 
• China’s Essential Role in the Gulf States’ Energy Transitions  
• Defense Acquisition Trends 2023:  A Preliminary Look 
• From the Ground Up:  Demining Farmland and Improving Access to Fertilizer to Restore Ukraine’s Agricultural Production 
• National Oil Companies, Climate Commitments, and Methane 
• The Outcompete World:  Revisiting U.S. Economic Priorities for Competition with China in Latin America and the Caribbean 
• Reforming Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for a Digital Landscape 

 Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

• “Nothing if Not Eventful” A Life’s Journey in CIA 

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• China’s Climate Disclosure Regime: How Regulations, Politics, and Investors Shape Corporate Climate Reporting 
• The Uncertain Costs of New Nuclear Reactors: What Study Estimates Reveal about the Potential for Nuclear in a Decarbonizing World 

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Essays on Law, Ethics and National Security
• No. 21 - Financial Jihad: Combating the Use of Virtual Assets in Terrorist Financing 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• In Tech, the Death of the Brussels Effect is Greatly Exaggerated 
• Why Europe Should not Worry About US Out-Performance 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Devastation in Avdiivka: Mapping Damage to Civilian Infrastructure since the Full-Scale Invasion 
• Indonesian News Outlet Promotes Russian Narratives on YouTube 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Sino-Russian Relations: The Implications of Putin’s Strategic Folly 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)          

• Autism and Extremism: The Questions That Operational Practitioners Should Be Asking 
• Neurodivergence and Violent Extremism: 18 International Case Studies 
• Practitioner Perspectives on Counterterrorism and Neurodiversity 
• A Systematic Review of Neurodivergence, Vulnerability, and Risk in the Context of Violent Extremism 

 Chatham House

• Ensuring Better Outcomes for Civilians in Armed Conflict 
• Gender, Inclusion and Humanitarian Principles in Conflict Contexts 
• Reducing Nuclear Weapons Risk: Behavioural Insights and the Human Factor in Nuclear Decision-Making 
• Rethinking the Role of Humanitarian Principles in Armed Conflict: A Challenge for Humanitarian Action 
• Russian Cyber and Information Warfare in Practice: Lessons Observed from the War on Ukraine 
• Security Actors in Misrata, Zawiya and Zintan since 2011 
• Tackling Iraq’s Unaccountable State: A Networked Approach to Mobilizing Reformers 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• American Views of Japanese Influence on the Rise 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• PLA Counterspace Command and Control 

 Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

• China’s Strategic Relevance to the Port of Rotterdam 
• Despite Military Progress, It’s Not Going Well in Northern Benin 
• Undercurrents:  Essays Below the Surface of China’s Geopolitics 

 College of Europe

• Becoming a ‘Spacifier’ – Why the European Union Needs a ‘Global Spaces’ Strategy and What it Could Look Like 
• The Effectiveness of the Trade-Labour Nexus: Pakistan in the European Union’s GSP+ 
• Reinforcing the EU’s Green Deal Diplomacy: Recommendations for the Next Commission 

 Congress. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

• Reset, Prevent, Build: A Strategy to Win America's Economic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party 

 Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Bureau of Industry and Security:  Ninety-Day Review and Report 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Accuracy of CBO’s Budget Projections for Fiscal Year 2023 
• Atlas of Military Compensation 
• CBO’s Current View of the Economy From 2023 to 2025  
• Income of Working-Age Veterans Receiving Disability Compensation 

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

• Ongoing Challenges Faced by Persons with Disabilities in the People’s Republic of China 

 Defense AI Observatory  (DAIO)

• Caught between Today and Tomorrow 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Ukraine Fact Sheet
• 6 December 2023 
• 12 December 2023 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG) 

• DODIG-2024-031 Special Report: Common Cybersecurity Weaknesses Related to the Protection of DoD Controlled Unclassified Information on Contractor Networks 
• DODIG-2024-036 Audit of Defense Health Agency Controls to Monitor Opioid Prescription Compliance with Federal and DoD Opioid Safety Standards 

 Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

• Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity 

 Department of State

• Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume X, Eastern Europe 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Charting a Green and Competitive Future for Europe 
• Gulliver Unchained? Europe’s Changing Relations with Oil and Gas Producers 
• Have African Coups provoked an Identity Crisis for the EU? 

 Emerald

• Disaster Prevention and Management, 2023
• Advancing “No Natural Disasters” with Care: Risks and Strategies to Address Disasters as Political Phenomena in Conflict Zones [open access article] 
• The C-Word: How Critical Cartography, Critical GIS and Critical Data Studies can Repoliticise Disaster-Related Maps [open access article] 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Emerging Hydrocarbon Producers in Africa Country Analysis Brief 

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law no. 4/2023 

 European Council on Foreign Relations                 

• Reformation Nation: Wartime Politics in Ukraine 
• Road to Nowhere: Why Europe’s Border Externalisation is a Dead End 

 European Defence Agency (EDA)

• Defence Data Report for 2022 

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

• Countering Russia’s Hybrid Threats in the Arctic 
• Resisting the Risks of Nuclear Mission Creep: UK Deterrence and Emerging Strategic Threats 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Disinformation ahead of the EU Parliamentary Elections: A Snapshot from Bulgaria, Germany, and Italy 
• Violence against Women: A Public Health Crisis 

 European Union (EU)

• 2030 Digital Decade: Report on the State of the Digital Decade 2023 
• Building Weapons Together (or Not): How to Strengthen the European Defence Industry 
• Comparing the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain using the Lens of the Media Pluralism Monitor 
• EU Solidarity with Ukraine 
• From Cyber to Hearts and Minds: Cyber Operations and the Battle for Global Influence 
• Homelessness in the European Union 
• Online Content Moderation: Current Challenges in Detecting Hate Speech 
• A Short Guide to the EU 
• Solar Storms: A New Challenge on the Horizon? 

 European Union CT MORSE

• Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation in the CT And P/CVE Field: What It Is, Why It Matters and How to Start 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Between a Rock and a Bullet: Security Provision and the Protection of Civilians in the Sahel 
• EU-GCC Relations: How to forge a stronger partnership? 
• A Key Victory for Ukraine, but the Storm Continues to Brew 

 EUROPOL

• Early Warning Notification - The Use of Bluetooth Trackers for Geolocation in Organised Crime 
• Online Jihadist Propaganda - 2022 in Review 
• SIRIUS EU Electronic Evidence Situation Report 2023 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Germany's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Mutual Evaluation of the Central African Republic 
• South Africa's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Suriname's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Turks and Caicos Islands’ Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti) (FIIA)

• The 2024 Elections in Russia, the EU, and the U.S.:  International Implications and Impacts on the War in Ukraine 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Attack in Western Sahara Complicates US Regional Strategy 
• Deterrence and Dissuasion in the Taiwan Strait 
• The Great Himalayan Chessboard: China, India, and the Geopolitical Gambit in Nepal 
• Managing Tensions in the Sahel 
• The Re-emergence of the Palestine Question in World Politics 
• Revisiting Coup Contagion 
• Seoul Searching: Lessons from South Korea’s Experience with Sanctions against Russia 
• Stalemate Is Not Checkmate in Ukraine 
• What’s at Stake in Upcoming Taiwan Election 
• Why Are the Houthis Attacking Now 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Radioactive:  Executives from Russia’s Rosatom Corporation May Qualify for U.S. Sanctions 
• U.S. Lawfare Options for Helping Bring Hamas to its Knees: Pressuring Qatar and Turkey to Quickly Detain Hamas Leaders 

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

• Georgia:  Another Russian Front 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik) (GISSA)

• Chad Navigates Multipolar Disorder 
• Global Health Governance and Geopolitics 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• IUU Fishing Risk Index 2023 
• Learnings from West Africa's Regional Experiences in the Gold Sector 
• Monitoring the Evolution of the Illicit Economy in Afghanistan 
• Sanctions and Organized Crime 
• South Africa's Illicit Copper Economy 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Artificial Intelligence as a Terrorism Enabler? Understanding the Potential Impact of Chatbots and Image Generators on Online Terrorist Activities 
• Exploit and Evade to Remain and Expand: The Cross-Platform Evasion Toolbox of Islamic State Supporters 
• Hezbollah’s Online Battleground: Military Media Unit’s Narratives on Telegram 
• Learning from the Leavers? The Promise (and Perils) of r/IncelExit 
• Women or Tool?: How the Tech Community Can Shape Robust Standards and Norms for AI, Gender, and Peacebuilding 
• The Woman Question in Online Extremism and P/CVE in Kenya: Toward a New Gendered Approach 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Armed Forces Retirement Home: Congress and Agency Management Should Take Actions to Improve Financial Sustainability GAO-24-106171 
• Artificial Intelligence: Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Workforce Management GAO-24-105645 
• Artificial Intelligence: Agencies Have Begun Implementation but Need to Complete Key Requirements GAO-24-105980 
• Artificial Intelligence in Natural Hazard Modeling: Severe Storms, Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfires GAO-24-106213 
• Commercial Space Transportation: FAA Should Improve Its Mishap Investigation Process GAO-24-105561  
• COVID-19 Relief: Treasury Could Improve Its Administration and Oversight of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds GAO-24-106027 
• Cybersecurity: Federal Agencies Made Progress, but Need to Fully Implement Incident Response Requirements GAO-24-105658 
• Economic Downturns: Effects of Automatic Spending Programs and Taxes GAO-24-106056 
• Economic Sanctions: Agency Efforts Help Mitigate Some of the Risks Posed by Digital Assets GAO-24-106178 
• F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: More Actions Needed to Explain Cost Growth and Support Engine Modernization Decision GAO-24-107177 
• Federal Contracting: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Reporting of Waivers to Domestic Preference Laws GAO-24-106166 
• GAOverview: Understanding Abuse of Federal Programs: Challenges Identifying and Determining Abuse of Federal Programs GAO-24-106458 
• Information Technology: Federal Agencies Are Making Progress in Implementing GAO Recommendations GAO-24-106693 
• Low-Dose Radiation: Agency Leadership and Collaboration Are Needed to Set the Direction of Future Research GAO-24-106317 
• National Institute of Standards and Technology: Strengthening Disclosure Requirements and Assessing Training Could Improve Research Security GAO-24-106074 
• Nuclear Materials: DOE Plans for Savannah River Site's H-Canyon Facility GAO-24-106494 
• Quantum Technologies: Defense Laboratories Should Take Steps to Improve Workforce Planning GAO-24-106284 
• Special Operations Forces: DOD Should Slow Acquisition of Armed Overwatch Aircraft Until It Conducts Needed Analysis GAO-24-106283 
• Technology Modernization Fund: Although Planned Amounts Are Substantial, Projects Have Thus Far Achieved Minimal Savings GAO-24-106575 
• Troubled Asset Relief Program: Lifetime Cost GAO-24-107033 
• VA Health Care: Actions Needed to Improve Information Reported on Mobile Medical Units GAO-24-106331 
• Veterans Health Administration: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Control Weaknesses and Related Risks in Employee Screening Processes GAO-24-107188 
• West Bank and Gaza Aid: USAID Generally Ensured Compliance with Anti-terrorism Policies and Addressed Instances of Noncompliance GAO-24-106243 
• Work Arrangements: Improved Collaboration Could Enhance Labor Force Data GAO-24-105651 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2023, v. 16, no. 4 
• Creating Light at Tunnel’s End: Ukraine’s Post-war Urban Recovery
• The Information Technology Army of Ukraine and Cyber Warfare Doctrine
• Russian Disinformation on NATO Expansion and the War in Ukraine
• Russian and U.S. News Media Coverage of Ukrainian Biological Laboratories, February – March 2022
• Taiwan’s Asymmetrical Defense: Policies and Alternatives
• Distinguishing Principled Beliefs from Causal Beliefs in American Foreign Policy
• Promoting Cognitive Complexity Among Yezidi Youth Impacted by ISIS in Kurdistan, Iraq
• Cyber Rollback: Popular Resistance in the Cyber Age
• Proposing Unique and Effective Policy Recommendations for Achieving a Lasting Two-State Solution

 Henry Jackson Society

• Studying Abroad to Serve China: Research on the Systematic Threats of CSSAs in the UK 
• Ukraine’s Nuclear Shadow: National Security Implications for NATO and the UK 

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

• China Leadership Monitor, Winter 2023, no. 78 
• New Leaders in “National” Security after China’s 20th Party Congress
• Who’s Afraid of Chizuko Ueno? The Party’s Ongoing Counteroffensive against Feminism in the Xi Era
• How China Responded to its Economic Slowdown in 2023
• Tech War or Phony War? China’s Response to America’s Controls on Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment
• Coercion Cul-de-Sac: Upcoming Taiwan Elections and Beijing’s Broken Cross-Strait Relations Approach
• CLM Insights Interview with Zongyuan Zoe Liu
• CLM Insights Interview with Yasheng Huang

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, no. 88 - Proxy Wars 
• The Peril of Ukrainian Attacks against Nuclear Russia?
• Putin’s Legitimacy Is the Strategic Target
• Avoiding Strategic Traps—Key to Prevailing in Great Power Competition

 Hudson Institute

• America’s B-21 Raiders:  Deterring and Assuring in the New Cold War 
• Helping Ukraine Is Forcing the United States to Produce More Weapons 
• Reinforcing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific:  Diplomacy and Deterrence in the Pivotal Year of 2022 

 Human Rights Watch

• ‘Abused by Relatives, Ignored by the State’: Domestic Violence against and Neglect of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Kyrgyzstan 
• “Death is More Merciful Than This Life”: Houthi and Yemeni Government Violations of the Right to Water in Taizz 
• “Schools are Failing Boys Too”: The Taliban’s Impact on Boys’ Education in Afghanistan 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Hamilton Index, 2023: China Is Running Away With Strategic Industries 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• China Space Talent 
• Brief:  On-Premises Generative AI 
• Report [of the Science and Technology Policy Institute] to the President:  Fiscal Year 2022 
• Statistical Methods in the Multi-Laboratory Validation of a PFAS Measurement Method 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

• Building the India-Japan Partnership: Strategic Compulsions and Indo-Pacific Imperatives 
• The CSDDD Effect: Assessing the Impact of the EU’s Impending Corporate Sustainability Mandate on Japanese Companies 

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Building Comprehensive Peace in Ethiopia: Transforming the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Web of Hate: A Retrospective Study of Online Gendered Abuse in 2022 in the United States 

 Institute for the Study of War

• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• December 15, 2023 
• The High Price of Losing Ukraine 
• Iran Update 
• December 4 
• December 5 
• December 6 
• December 7 
• December 8 
• December 9 
• December 10 
• December 11 
• December 12 
• December 13 
• December 14 
• December 15 
• December 16 
• December 17 
• The Order of Battle of Hamas’ Izz al Din al Qassem Brigades, Part 1: North and Central Gaza 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• December 4 
• December 5 
• December 6 
• December 7 
• December 8 
• December 9 
• December 10 
• December 11 
• December 12 
• December 13 
• December 14 
• December 15 
• December 16 
• December 17 
• Salafi-Jihadi Movement Weekly Update
• December 15  
• Ukrainian Strikes Have Changed Russian Naval Operations in the Black Sea 

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Above and Beyond: State of the Art of Uncrewed Combat Aerial Systems and Future Perspectives 
• Between Security and Transition: Prospects for German-Italian Energy Cooperation 
• Critical Crossroads: Tunisia’s Choice between a Comprehensive EU Partnership and Economic Collapse 
• The Olympics of Discontent: Paris 2024 and Russia’s War against Ukraine 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• How to Respond to Quran Desecrations? What We Can Learn from Earlier Incidents 

 International Crisis Group

• Burkina Faso: Arming Civilians at the Cost of Social Cohesion? 
• Crisis Mounts for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh 
• A Way Out for Gaza 

 International Energy Administration (EIA)

• The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions 

 International Organization for Migration (IMO)

• Bridging the Digital Divide: Assessment of the Digital Skills of Migrant Workers and the Perspective of Employers in Thailand 
• The Digital Dynamics of Migration: Insights from the Ukrainian Crisis 
• Migration Data and Marriage Migrants in the Republic of Korea 
• Migration in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A Country Profile 2023 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, December 15, 2023, v. 23, no. 23 
• Contradictions Within The PRC’s Climate Strategy
• PLA Air Force Increases Flexibility Of Combat Support Units
• CCP Ideological Indoctrination, Part 1: The PRC’s New “Patriotic Education Law”
• Examining China’s Grand Strategy For RISC-V
• Six Months Of Germany’s New China Strategy: Old Ways Die Hard
• Terrorism Monitor, December 15, 2023, v. 21, no. 24 
• Brief: Russia Deepens Counter-Terrorism Ties to Sahelian Post-Coup Regimes
• Brief: University Catholic Service Bombing Raises Fears of Abu Sayyaf Resurgence in the Philippines
• Calibrated Escalation: The Yemen-based Houthis’ Threats Against Israel and Red Sea Shipping
• New Hizb ut-Tahirir Networks Uncovered in Southern India
• Assessing the War in Sudan: Is an RSF Victory in Sight?

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• Defending Democracy: Addressing the Dangers of Armed Insurrection 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Enhancing Australia’s Taiwan Ties 
• Timor-Leste’s Uncertain Future 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Indigenous Equity and Its Growing Role in Canadian Energy and Resource Development 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• How the BRI is Shaping Global Trade and What to Expect from the Initiative 
• In a Savvy Disinformation Offensive, China Takes Aim at Taiwan Election 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Consolidating Gains: Lessons and Priorities for Promoting Fair and Ethical Recruitment 
• What Role Could Digital Technologies Play in the New EU Pact on Migration and Asylum?  

 MITRE

• Applying Causal Analysis to Equity Assessments 
• Public-Private Collaboration: A New National Model for Advancing U.S. Global Competitiveness 
• Solving Critical Transportation Safety Challenges 
• A Sum Greater Than Its Parts: Integrated Deterrence and Strategic Competition 

 National Academies Press 

• Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins 
• Measuring Law Enforcement Suicide: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Oil in the Sea IV: Quick Guide for Practitioners and Researchers 

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

• Biosecurity in the Americas: Regional Threat Assessment in Chile 
• Biosecurity in the Americas: Regional Threat Assessment in Colombia 
• Biosecurity in the Americas: Regional Threat Assessment in Panama 

 National Defense University Press

• Solarium at 70: Project Solarium’s Influence on Eisenhower Historiography and National Security Strategy 

 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

• Deepening the Response to Authoritarian Information Operations in Latin America 

 National Security Archive

• Recent Nuclear Declassifications and Denials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  
• U.S. Foreign Policy in the Carter Years, 1977-1981 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Deterrence via Intentional Civilian Targeting: A Dangerous Cold War Anachronism 
• European Allies’ Views of Russia’s Nuclear Policy after the Escalation of Its War in Ukraine 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• A Tale of Two Draft Resolutions: A Report on the Polarizing International Law Discussions at the 2023 OEWG Substantive Session 

 NATO Defense College

• Who Controls the Past Controls the Future - How Russia Uses History for Cognitive Warfare 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Virtual Manipulation Brief 2023/2: Verified Propagandists and the Hamas - Israel War 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• The Anti-Transparency Portal: A Financial-Analytic, Data Driven Review of Obscurities, Inconsistencies and Failures of Compliance Facing Section 117 Reporting of Foreign Gifts and Donations Received by American Colleges and Universities 

 New America

• The Case for Multiparty Presidentialism in the United States 
• Terrorism in America After 9/11 [updated December 15th, 2023] 

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

• A Global Playbook for Nuclear Energy Development in Embarking Countries: Six Dimensions for Success 

 Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2022 U.S. Elections 
• Other Countries’ Activities During the 2022 Election Cycle 

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

• Understanding the Role of Women in Organized Crime 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• Views about the Sámi Truth Commission: An Analysis of Public Discourse in Swedish Media 2008-2023 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• America's Payoff from Engaging in World Markets Since 1950 Was Almost $2.6 Trillion in 2022 

 Pew Research Center

• About Half of Republicans Now Say the U.S. is Providing too Much Aid to Ukraine 
• Americans’ Views of the Israel-Hamas War 
• How People in Hong Kong View Mainland China and Their Own Identity 
• In East Asia, Many People See China’s Power and Influence as a Major Threat 
• Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023 

 Program on Extremism [George Washington University]

• Tackling Hamas Funding the West 

 RAND Corporation

• Addressing the Friction between the Army's People First Initiatives and Its Readiness Generation Process 
• Artificial Intelligence–Based Student Activity Monitoring for Suicide Risk:  Considerations for K–12 Schools, Caregivers, Government, and Technology Developers 
• Assessing the Value of Overseas Military Campaigning in Strategic Competition 
• China’s AI Exports:  Developing a Tool to Track Chinese Development Finance in the Global South — Technical Documentation 
• China’s AI Exports:  Technology Distribution and Data Safety 
• China's AI Exports Database (CAIED) 
• China's Global Energy Interconnection:  Exploring the Security Implications of a Power Grid Developed and Governed by China 
• The Cost of the Ukraine War for Russia 
• Cybersecurity and Supply Chain Risk Management Are Not Simply Additive: Implications for Directions in Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation, and Research to Secure the Supply of Defense Industrial Products 
• Democracy at Risk?  Summary of an International Conference on Challenges Facing Democracies 
• Demographic and Geographic Characteristics of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Investments in Five U.S. Cities: A Machine Learning–Based Analysis 
• Developing U.S. Space Force Organizational Culture with Future-Facing Intention 
• Disrupting the Chinese Military in Competition and Low-Intensity Conflict:  An Analysis of People's Liberation Army Missions, Tasks, and Potential Vulnerabilities 
• The Dynamic Retention Model:  Theory, Estimates, Innovations, and Extensions 
• "If Everyone Is Responsible, Then No One Is": Proceedings from a Roundtable on Factors That Affect Veterans' Transitions from Military to Civilian Life 
• Improving the Financial Resilience of Public Entities and Individuals for Natural Disasters: A Resource Guide for State and Local Government 
• Insights from the Plan Blue 21 Game:  Examining the Role of Sensing and Partner and Allied Contributions to Competition with Russia in the Arctic 
• Kicking the Tires?  The People's Liberation Army's Approach to Maintenance Management 
• Replicating Threats in Operational Test and Training Infrastructure:  The Investment Required to Keep Pace with Adversary Threat Generation 
• The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Community Recovery After Nondeclared Disasters 
• Strategic Disruption by Special Operations Forces:  A Concept for Proactive Campaigning Short of Traditional War 
• Strategies to Mitigate the Risk to the National Critical Functions Generated by Climate Change 
• User's Guide for the [Air Force] Total Force Blue Line Model 
• What Americans Think about Veterans and Military Service: Findings from a Nationally Representative Survey 

 Royal United Services Institute (RSUI)

• Central Bank Digital Currencies and National Security: Policy Considerations 
• Conflict in Gaza, Past and Present 
• Euro SIFMANet: The Role of Data in Sanctions Implementation: Barcelona Report 
• Europe Must Urgently Prepare to Deter Russia Without Large-Scale US Support 
• Exploring Mechanisms for the Return of Proceeds of Corruption 
• The Gulf and Gaza: Staying the Course Amid Renewed Crisis 
• Heavy Armored Forces in Future Combined Arms Warfare 
• Is the South China Sea Warming Up, or is it Just Business as Usual? 
• Organised Cybercrime: The Rise of Ransomware as a National Security Threat 
• Profiting from Proliferation? North Korea’s Exports of Missile and Nuclear Technology 
• The Russian Challenge to Europe’s Gas Supplies this Winter and Beyond 
• Using Closed Case Reviews in Financial Investigation of the Illegal Wildlife Trade 

 Sasakawa Peace Foundation

• Have China’s Mine Countermeasures Capabilities Eclipsed Those of Japan and the United States? 

 Sentry

• Libya’s Kleptocratic Boom 

 Small Arms Survey

• From Conflict to Consequence: Nearly Half of Ukrainian Men Would Like to Own a Firearm, Or Already Have One 
• Global Violent Deaths (GVD) Database 
• Illicit Firearms Ammunition and Other Explosive Munitions in the European Union 
• Privately Made Firearms in the European Union 

 Small Wars Journal

• Space, Missile Defense, and Irregular Warfare 
• The Venezuelan Exodus: A New Migrant Diaspora in the United States 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Africa’s Climate Champions:  Key Countries to Watch at COP28 
• Africa’s Debt Priorities: A Sustainability Perspective and Required Support from the G20 
• Global Markers in South Africa’s Just Energy Transition 
• The Global South and the Resurgence of Non-alignment: An African Perspective 
• Industrialisation in Africa: How Can the G20 Assist? 
• Kenya: Leveraging Youth for Inclusive Development and Resilience 
• Namibia’s Foreign Policy on Human Rights 
• South Africa: Realising Youth Futures by Delivering on Promised Goals 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 24-05-FA Department of the Army’s U H-60A Afghanistan Maintenance and Training Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by Science and Engineering Services LLC 

 Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEES)

• What Will Happen After the War? Historical Models for the Future of Northern Eurasia 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Advancing the Role of the European Union in Promoting Global Cyber Stability 
• Another Budget for a Country at War: Military Expenditure in Russia’s Federal Budget for 2024 and Beyond  
• Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges 
• Biosphere Security:  Understanding the Connections between Conflict and Biodiversity 
• Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Democratic Republic of the Congo (2023) 
• More Investment in Nuclear Deterrence Will Not Make Europe Safer 
• Rise in SIPRI Top 100 Arms Sales Revenue Delayed by Production Challenges and Backlogs 

 Takshashila Institution

• Impact of the Israel-Hamas War on Bioeconomy 
• Israel-Hamas War:  China’s Interests & Crisis Diplomacy 
• A Pathway to AI Governance 
• Techno-Economic Impact of the Israel-Hamas War 

 Taylor & Francis

• Civil Wars, 2023
• 100 Years of Solitude Revisited: A Critical Analysis of 25 Years of Scholarship on Colombia’s Civil Conflict [open access article] 
• Expanding the Coverage of Conflict Event Datasets: Three Proofs of Concept [open access article] 
• In Search of the Golden Formula: Trends in Peace Mediation Research and Practice [open access article] 
• Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War [open access article] 
• The Resolution of Civil Wars: Changing International Norms of Peace-Making and the Academic Consensus [open access article] 
• Responding to “The Greats”: A Problematic Lack of Tension [open access article] 
• Social Control in Civil Wars [open access article] 
• Conflict, Security & Development, 2023
• Whose Security? Whose Justice? Customary Authorities in Security and Justice Interventions in the Horn of Africa [open access article] 
• Defence Studies, 2023
• Wizards of Depth – Israel’s Area of Operations and Lessons Learned from Its Depth Dimension [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2023
• A Detailed Study of a Prominent Dark Web Fentanyl Trafficking Organization [open access article] 
• Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2023
• Conflict and Social Determinants of Health: Would Global Health Diplomacy Resolve the Afghanistan Healthcare Conundrum? [open access article] 
• Public Health Emergency Operations Center Operations and Coordination among Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Malaysia during the COVID-19 Pandemic [open access article] 
• Regional Approach to Strengthening Biosafety and Biosecurity Systems in Africa [open access article] 
• Using a Target Product Profile (TPP) to Guide Innovation for Future In Vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Developments in the United States [open access article] 
• Working beyond Health: Roles of Global Health Security Agenda, Experiences of Thailand’s Chairmanship amidst of The Uncertainty of the COVID-19 Pandemic  [open access article] 
• Intelligence and National Security, 2023
• ‘An Anarchy of Treason’: Public History, Insider Knowledge and the Early Spy Novels of John le Carré [open access article] 
• Assessing Intelligence Oversight: The Case of Sweden [open access article] 
• Cyber-Enabled Tradecraft and Contemporary Espionage: Assessing the Implications of the Tradecraft Paradox on Agent Recruitment in Russia and China [open access article] 
• ‘The Enemy Teaches Us How to Operate’: Palestinian Hamas Use of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in its Intelligence Warfare against Israel (1987-2012) [open access article] 
• Health Security Intelligence Capabilities Post COVID-19: Resisting the Passive “New Normal” within the Five Eyes [open access article] 
• The Perils of Presidential Openness: Strikes, Secrecy and Performative Opacity [open access article] 
• The Phantom Eye: New Zealand and the Five Eyes [open access article] 
• A Seat at the President’s Table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War [open access article] 
• The Yom Kippur Intelligence Failure after Fifty Years: What Lessons Can Be Learned? [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2023
• Aligning Tactics with Strategy: Vertical Implementation of Military Doctrine [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2023
• Police Station Meaning, Closure and (In)Visibility [open access article] 

 Taxpayers for Common Sense

• Congressional “Program Increases” to the Pentagon Budget Are on the Rise 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence and Democracy 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• "All Roads Lead to Jerusalem” A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex 
• Ukrainian Agriculture in Wartime Resilience, Reforms, and Markets 

 UK Ministry of Defense

• Air Operating Concept 
• The Defense Equipment Plan 2023:  Update on Affordability 
• Defense Operational Energy Strategy 

 UK National Audit Office

• The Equipment Plan 2023 to 2033 

UK Parliament, House of Lords, International Relations and Defense Committee

• Our Friends in the North:  UK Strategy towards the Arctic 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Internet Fragmentation and Cybersecurity: A Primer 
• MEAC [Managing Exits from Armed Conflict] Conflict Exits Assessment Framework 
• Reflections on Review Conferences: the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention  

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Global Study on Homicide 2023 
• Southeast Asia Opium Survey 2023 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• China’s Global Police State: Background and U.S. Policy Implications 
• Update: China’s Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 
• Women in China’s Leadership 

 US Coast Guard (USCG)

• Report on Sexual Assaults and Their Coverup 

 United States Studies Centre  (USSC)

• AUKUS Inflection Point: Building the Ecosystem for Workforce Development 
• The [Australian] Defense Strategic Review and the Defense Industry Development Statement 

 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

• Policing East Turkistan: Mapping Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• An Heir and a Spare?  How Yemen’s “Southern Hezbollah” Could Change Iran’s Deterrent Calculus 

 Wilson Center

• Kennan Cable No. 86: What the Resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Teaches Us