Friday's Miscellany -6-07-2024

 38 North

• North Korea’s Rural Development: Touching Every Corner of the Country
• Quick Take: Pukchang Military Airfield Modernization Progresses
• Surpass the Cutting Edge: Reflections on North Korea’s Failed May 27 Satellite Launch

 Air University Press

• One Team, One Fight: Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of the Air Force

 Amnesty International

• Death Sentences and Executions in 2023
• Russia: “Your Children Will Go to an Orphanage”: Children and the Crackdown on Protest

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Beijing’s Struggle to Control Religious Ferment

 Atlantic Council

• A New NATO Command Structure
• What Will It Take to Make the MENA Region a Renewable Energy Powerhouse?

 Australian National University Press

• China’s New Era

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• ASPI’s Submission to PM&C’s Review of Funding for Strategic Policy Work
• The Cost of Defense: ASPI Defense Budget Brief 2024-2025

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Toward Smart Sustainable Cities in the MENA Region
• UK-US States Trade Memorandums of Understanding: Law, Economics, and Politics

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Climate Vulnerability in Libya: Building Resilience Through Local Empowerment

 Center for Global Development

• The Often Overlooked “Pull” Factor: Border Crossings and Labor Market Tightness in the US

 Center for International Policy

•  Can Climate Refugees Find A Home In The Metaverse?

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Identifying Cyber Education Hotspots: An Interactive Guide

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The Evolution of Chinese Engagement in Argentina under Javier Milei
• Friendshoring the Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain: Battery Cell Manufacturing
• How China Could Quarantine Taiwan
• How China Could Quarantine Taiwan: Mapping Out Two Possible Scenarios
• A Human Rights–Centered Approach to Reconstruction in Ukraine
• Understanding Opportunistic Aggression in the Twenty-First Century
• Untapping the Full Potential of CLOUD Act Agreements

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• China and the West: The Gap is Set to Grow
• Is the Spitzenkandidat Process a Waste of Time?

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• The Challenges of Open Source Research in Conflict Zones: “What We See is the Most Violent Footage – Some Days, That’s All You See”

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2024, v. 23, no. 2
• On the Propaganda and Supply Fronts of the Russia-Ukraine War: North Korean Soldiers, Workers, and Munitions in the Donbas?
• No Modernization on their Radar: The Long Road to DEW Line Replacement
• Resistance and the Modern State: Exploring a Society-Based Resistance Capability Pathway for Sweden in the Shadow of the War in Ukraine
• Exploring the Role of International Arms Transfers in the Non-Market Environment for International Businesses across Developing Countries under Authoritarian Regimes
• Warlord-Islamist Competition: A Comparison of Support Structures
• “To Betray, You Must First Belong:” Psychological Pathways to Insider Threat and Radicalisation
• Armistice 1918 The Liberation of Mons
• Immigrants in the Canadian Armed Forces: Second Acts and New Canadians
• Personalist Dictatorship and Political Roles of the Military in North Korea

 Chatham House

• The Role of the Private Sector in Combatting Gendered Cyber Harms

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• China’s Space Capability and What This Means for the West

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Freedom Isn’t Free: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Support for Ukraine
• Stabilisation and the Central Sahel

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• The Politics of Passage: Roadblocks, Taxation and Control in Conflict

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2024-090 Audit of DoD Training of Ukrainian Armed Forces: Patriot Air and Missile Defense System and Collective Training 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

•  EU Elections: National Democracy at Its Cornerstone?

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Longer Maritime Routes Mean More Fuel Consumed in Shipping following Red Sea Attacks
• United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

•  Guidance on Contingency Planning and Preparedness in the Asylum Procedure

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Beyond Proxies: Iran’s Deeper Strategy in Syria and Lebanon

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

•  How Has Trust in the EU Changed Over Time?

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• No More Excuses: Debunking Arguments against Seizing Russian State Assets for Ukraine
• EU Elections 2024: What Do Party Manifestos Say on Key Policy Issues?
• The New Screening and Border Procedures: Towards a Seamless Migration Process?

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Mozambique's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
•  Uganda's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

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

• Toward an Indo-German Green Strategic Partnership

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• France’s Disruptive Zeitenwende
• The Turkish Diaspora Landscape in Western Europe

 German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

• Where to Now for Development Policy? Between Niche and Mainstream, between Charity and Self-Interest

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• The Russian Propaganda Nesting Doll: How RT is Layered Into the Digital Information Environment

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Human Smuggling and Trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)          

• More than Sports: Building Resilience against Extremism in Esports

 Government Accounting Office (GAO)

• Cybersecurity: Efforts Initiated to Harmonize Regulations, but Significant Work Remains GAO-24-107602
• DOD Financial Management: Additional Steps Needed to Guide Future Systems Transitions GAO-24-106313
• Drones: Actions Needed to Better Support Remote Identification in the National Airspace  GAO-24-106158
• Gas Pipelines: Oversight of Operators' Plans to Minimize Methane Emissions  GAO-24-106881
• Veterans Health Care: Opportunities Exist to Improve Assessment of Network Adequacy for Mental Health  GAO-24-106410

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2024, v. 17, no. 2
• How Does this End?: The Ukraine War and the Future of Russia
• Progress and Challenges in Combating Corruption in Ukraine: Pathways Forward
• Making US Security Cooperation in Fragile States Work: Organizational Capital in Aid Provision
• US Military Foreign Disaster Relief: Challenges and Proposed Mitigations
• Why Has Peace Not Come to Colombia? Between Total Peace and Armed Peace
• Video Games and Radical Movements: "EIN PROZENT" and "HEIMAT DEFENDER"

 Henry Jackson Society

• Restoring Deterrence: Destabilising the Iranian Regime

 Heritage Foundation

• Columbia Submarine Fleet Production Should Be Radically Expanded
• Ensuring America’s Maritime Security
• How the State Department’s Discriminatory DEI Programs Undermine U.S. Diplomacy and Betray American Values
• Navy Inactive Fleet Has Life Still: Expeditionary Transfer Docks Should Be Returned to Service

 Homeland Security Advisory Council  (HSCA)

• Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) Combatting Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) Subcommittee Final Report

 Human Rights Watch

•  Lebanon: Israel’s White Phosphorous Use Risks Civilian Harm: Airburst Munitions used Unlawfully in Populated Areas

 IEMed – European Institute of the Mediterranean

• Climate-Induced Internal Displacement in MENA Countries
• The Digital Transition in the EU’s Southern Neighbourhood: Progress, Obstacles and Opportunities
• Lessons Learnt from the Failure of the Mediterranean Solar Plan for the Success of a Mediterranean Green Hydrogen Partnership
• Towards a Shared, Clean Energy Space in the Euro-Med: Outlining Priorities for the next European Commission

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• How to Improve the American Privacy Rights Act

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)  

• Ukraine War: Military Perspectives and Strategic Reflections

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• India’s Position in Iran’s ‘Look to the East’ Policy

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• June 7, 2024: Russian Diplomatic Blitz; Somalia Boots Ethiopia 
• Special edition: Russian Diplomatic Blitz Highlights the Kremlin’s Strategic Aims in Africa 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• June 6
• Iran Update
• June 3
• June 4
• June 5
• June 6
• June 7
• June 8
• June 9
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• June 3
• June 4
• June 5
• June 6
• June 7
• June 8
• June 9

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• How the G7 Can Effectively Back Africa’s Twin Goal of Energy Access and Transition
• The Italian G7 Presidency: Spearheading Progress on Food Systems in Africa
• Training, Reskilling, Upskilling: How to Create Jobs through the Green Transition

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• China’s and Russia’s Aggressive Foreign Policies: Historical Legacy or Geopolitical Ambitions?
• Rapprochement Despite Strategic Divergence: The Significance of the 2024 Japan-China-South Korea Summit

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

• Rebuilding Downtown Beirut: Laying the Foundations for Division or Reconciliation?

 International Crisis Group

• Ethnic Autonomy and its Consequences in Post-coup Myanmar

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, June 7, 2024, v. 24, no. 12
• Taiwan’s Reform Bills Indicate Volatility
• PRC Transfer of Military and Dual-Use Technology: the Case of the International Conference on Defence Technology
• PRC Pursuit of Geopolitical and Military Objectives in the South Pacific
• Hong Kong’s Ambitious and Difficult Cryptocurrency Foray
• The Untold Psychological War in Hong Kong: Gray Media’s Influence Operation on the Legislation of Article 23

 Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC)

•  Russian Influence Efforts Converge on 2024 Paris Olympic Games

 National Academies Press  

•  Large Language Models and Cybersecurity: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

 National Defense University (NDU) Press

• PRISM, June 2024, v. 10, no. 4
• Examining the Value of a “Soft Power” Net Assessment: Comparing Chinese and U.S. Power Projection in Africa
• Demoralizing Defeat: An Assessment of the Strategic Breakthrough, from Alexander the Great to Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Preparing for a Post-Armed Conflict Strategic Environment
• Strategic Political Sabotage and How to Tackle It
• Cybersecurity on Retainer: Supporting National Incident Response Capability Through the Private Sector
• Space as Warfighting Domain: From Education to an Enhanced Global Space Strategy
• The Russia-Ukraine Crisis: How Regional Conflicts Impact the Global Economy
• A Gray Zone Option for Integrated Deterrence: Special Operations Forces (SOF)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) 

•  7 October—The Unlearning of the Lessons of 1973
• No First Use: Threatening Alliance Cohesion, Assurance, and Non-Proliferation

 National Security Archive

• Chiquita Found Liable for Colombia Paramilitary Killings

 Observer Research Foundation 

• BRI in Nepal: An Appraisal
• India’s Multilateral Commitment to Gaza through the UNRWA

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) 

• Learning about Law Enforcement: An Educator’s Resource Guide for Classroom Projects

 Office of the National Cyber Director

• Summary of the 2023 Cybersecurity Regulatory Harmonization Request for Information

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• The El Niño Southern Oscillation and Geopolitical Risk
• Why Trump's tariff proposals would harm working Americans

 RAND Corporation

• Beyond Cost-per-Unit: Economic Analysis and Metrics in Defense Decisionmaking
• Integrated Deterrence as a Defense Planning Concept
• Not Ready for a Fight: Chinese Military Insecurities for Overseas Bases in Wartime
• The Value of Environmental Surveillance for Pandemic Response

 Small Arms Survey

• Exploiting Evidence, Improving Protection: Weapons Technical Intelligence in UN Peace Operations

 Small Arms Survey

• Exploiting Evidence, Improving Protection: Weapons Technical Intelligence in UN Peace Operations

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 24-25-FA USAID Project: Audit of Costs Incurred 
• SIGAR 24-26-FA USAID’s Program in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Arms Supplies to Ukraine: Does the European Arms Export Control System Need Revision?
• Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons in Military Alliances

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2024
• Bad History: A Historian’s Critique of Rapoport’s “Four Waves of Modern Terrorism” Model [open access article] 
• International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2024
• Democratization of Intelligence: Demilitarizing the Greek Intelligence Service after the Junta [open access article] 
• The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Use of Diplomats in Its Intelligence and Terrorist Operations against Dissidents: The Case of Assadollah Assadi [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2024
• Women, Intelligence and Countering Terrorism (CT) in Indonesia: Where are the Women? [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research, 2024
• Plea for an Inclusive Approach to Risk [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2024
• Optimising Intelligence Operations for International Law Enforcement: harnessing THRIVE for National Intelligence Model Advancement [open access article] 
• Rethinking the Policing of Homelessness: Navigating the Urban ‘Game’ as Social Peacekeepers [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2024
• Pragmatism and Purism in Jihadist Governance: The Islamic Emirate of Azawad Revisited  [open access article] 
• Understanding PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah and ISIS Recruitment in Southeastern Turkey [open access article] 
• The “War on Terror” and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War: Israeli–Turkish Relations and the 1980 Military Coup [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Unpacking Affective Polarization in Afghanistan: Ethnic Politics, Elite Competition, and Online Divisive Content

 US Bomb Data Center

• 2023 Arson Incident Report

 Wilson Center

• Competition, Climate, and Resilience: Securing the EV Supply Chain in America
• The Russian Constitution at Thirty: Conference Proceedings
• Russian “Foreign Agents” Scenario: From the Weaponization of Transparency to Public Discrimination

 White House

• A Proclamation on Securing the Border
• Remarks by President Biden on Securing Our Border
• FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Secure the Border
• Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials on Additional Actions to Secure the Border Background Press Call by Senior Administration Officials