Friday's Miscellany 04-11-2024 & 4-18-2024

 38 North

• Kim Jong Un is Watching Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy With Interest 
• Nampho Port: Newest Naval Combatant Likely Left the Hall 
• The New Face of North Korean Sanctions Monitoring: Can the MSMT Pick Up Where the Panel of Experts Left Off? 
• North Korea’s Nuclear-Cognitive Warfare Strategy 
• Public Perceptions About What the US Would Do if North Korea Invaded South Korea 
• Wonsan-Kalma Beach Resort Progresses Towards Completion 

 ACLED

• New Frontlines: Jihadist Expansion is Reshaping the Benin, Niger, and Nigeria Borderlands 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Lessons from the Inter-Congolese Dialogue for the DRC Crisis 
• The Shifting Front of Militant Islamist Violence in the Sahel 

 AidData

• Foreign Borrowing, Sovereignty, and Public Opinion in the Global South: Traditional Lenders or China? 
• Listening to Leaders 2025: Development Cooperation over a Decade of Disruption 

 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

• Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans [with links to the case] 
• Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All 

 American Enterprise Institute

• Decentralizing the Department of Defense:  Reorganizing to Empower the Warfighters 
• Is Trump’s Golden Dome a Brilliant Idea or a Gilded Boondoggle? 
• Decentralizing the Department of Defense:  Reorganizing to Empower the Warfighters 

 Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)

• The Technologist-Economist Disconnect: Assessing AI Labor Disruption 

 Amnesty International

• Afghans in Pakistan at Risk of Unlawful Deportation  
• Death Sentences and Executions in 2024 

 Arctic Institute

• Is the White House Calculating the Cost of Taking Over Greenland? 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), March 2025, v. 32, no. 3 
• Non-Medical Risk Factors Influencing Health and Association with Suicidal Ideation or Attempt, U.S. active component, 2018–2022
• Correlation between Mean Temperature and Incidence of Tick-Borne Diseases Among Active Duty Service Members in the Contiguous U.S., 2000–2023
• Surveillance Snapshot: Mid-Season Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Laboratory-Confirmed Ambulatory Influenza among U.S. Active Component Service Members,  December 1, 2024–February 8, 2025
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities 2024 Annual Review, January 1, 2024–December 31, 2024

 Aspen Digital

• Cyber Defense Assistance and Ukraine Lessons and Moving Forward 

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Expanding the Reach of U.S. Army Recruiting:  Marketing to Former College Students 
• Harnessing the Algorithm: Shaping the Future of AI-Enabled Staff 

 Atlantic Council

• Building a Path Toward Global Deployment of Fusion:  Nonproliferation and Export Considerations 
• Imperative of Augmenting U.S. Theater Nuclear Forces Paper:  Navigating the U.S.-PRC Tech Competition in the Global South
• Navigating the U.S.-PRC Tech Competition in the Global South 
• Sovereign Remedies:  Between AI Autonomy and Control 
• Win Fast or Lose Big Against China 

 Australian Parliament Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee

• Australia’s Sanctions Regime 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Indonesia in 2035:  Climate Risks to Security in the Indo-Pacific 
• National Food Security Preparedness Green Paper 
• South Korea and Australia in Space:  Towards a Strategic Partnership Report  

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• US Needs More Munitions To Safeguard Seaborne Energy and Goods Trade 

 Brookings Institution

• How the War in Ukraine Changed Russia’s Global Standing 
• Is South Korea Ready to Define its Role in a Taiwan Strait Contingency? 
• What Are the Key Drivers of Xi’s Economic Policy in 2025? 

 Bruegel

• The Governance and Funding of European Rearmament 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• The Canadian Ballistic Missile Dilemma 
• The Case for Continuous Capability Sustainment 
• Introduction and Overview
• Study of the Canadian Army
• Study of the Royal Canadian Air Force
• Study of the Royal Canadian Navy
• Survey Questionnaire
• Projects Lists

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Beneath the Waves:  Addressing Vulnerabilities in Africa’s Undersea Digital Infrastructure 
• Forecasting Nuclear Escalation Risks:  Cloudy with a Chance of Fallout 
• A Turning Point, or Not?  Principles for a New European Order 

 Cato Institute

• Immigrants, Housing Wealth, and Local Government Finances 

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

• Building a Sustainable World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• War and Sino-Russian Partnership:  An Indispensable but Uneasy Relationship 

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• Veterans, Novices, and Patterns of Rebel Recruitment 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Top-Tier Research Status for HBCUs? The Impact of Changes to the Carnegie Classification Criteria in 2025 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 358: B and C Incidents: The Growing Importance of Forensics 
• No. 359: Disinformation: A Measured Response 
• Policy Perspectives - v 13, no.  3
• Swiss Good Offices in Space 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 325: Russia's International Allies and Partners 

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Space Warfighting Center: Colorado Springs 
• Factsheet 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Peaceful Resolution: Reframing U.S. Defense Strategy Toward Taiwan 
• To Preserve Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Europe an American Should be SACEUR 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Asking AI How to Respond to a Foreign Policy Decision 
• China’s Underwater Power Play:  The PRC’s New Subsea Cable-Cutting Ship Spooks International Security Experts 
• Down But Not Out: The Russian Economy Under Western Sanctions 
• Future of Military Power Is Space Power 
• Possible European Response to Trump’s “Reciprocal” Tariffs 
• Securing the Digital and Orbital Frontiers in Ukraine 
• Trump Restructures the Pentagon Budget:  Two Views 
• Understanding the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology Report           
• Unpacking the White House’s Executive Order on Restoring the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry 
• What Is Happening to U.S. Humanitarian Assistance? Will the United States Continue to Save Lives? 

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Improving the Efficiency of NRC Power Reactor Licensing: Environmental Reviews 

 Center on U.S.-China Relations 

• Memo on U.S. Policy to China 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Will EU Enlargement Create New Models for the EU-UK Relationship? 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Digital Governance in China: Trends in Generative AI and Digital Assets 
• Geneva, We Have a Problem: Space Diplomacy Goes Nuclear 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Plurality of Russians Support Military Withdrawal from Syria 
• Russian Public Makes Fewer Demands of Government During Wartime 

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• TRUMP SUBURBAN RAGE:  The Conclusive findings on Who Stormed the US Capitol and Why It Matters 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• PLA Information Support to the Battlefield:  UAV Employment Concepts and Challenges 
• Research on Intelligent Planning of On-Orbit Servicing Tasks (Translation) 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Connecting the Dots: Linking Digital Global Gateway to Local Sector-Specific Needs 
• From Sudan to Stockholm: Legal Developments in Responsible Business Conduct 

 Congress. House Select Committee on the CCP

• DeepSeek Unmasked: Exposing the CCP’s Latest Tool For Spying, Stealing, and Subverting U.S. Export Control Restrictions 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Britain’s Gas Dependency:  A Growing Vulnerability 

 Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

• The Role of Antisemitism in the Mobilization to Violence by Extremist and Terrorist Actors 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Denmark Needs to Rethink Its Multilateral Engagement 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Continuing Elimination of Wasteful Spending at the DoD 
• Workforce Acceleration & Recapitalization Initiative Organizational Review 
• Workforce Acceleration & Recapitalization Incentive Implementation 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-082 Air Force Actions to Identify and Respond to Harassment of Service Members  
• DODIG-2025-084 Evaluation of DoD Roles and Processes Leading up to the July 2023 Basing Decision for the U.S. Space Command 
• DODIG-2025-085 Evaluation of the U.S. Navy’s Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Incidents of Deaths by Suicide, Suicide Attempts, and Suicidal Ideation 
• DODIG-2025-086 The DoD’s FY 2024 Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 

 Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

• Analysis of Fentanyl-Related Threat Patterns and Trends in Bank Secrecy Act Reports 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Silence in the Sahel does not Equal Stability 

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

• Social Identities and Democratic Vulnerabilities: Learning from Examples of Targeted Disinformation 

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

• The Bear Who Came to Tea: Russia, Libya and the Kremlin’s Playbook for Fragile States 
• Diversification Nations: The Gulf Way to Engage with Africa 
• Multi-Pole-arity: How Poland Can Help Europe Think Big on China 
• Strength in Members: How to Rally EU Enlargement for Defence 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Facing Off Trump’s Coercive Bargaining: Preparing Europe’s Response and Retaliation to ‘Liberation Day’ 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Getting the Information Threat Right: Systematic Analysis of Media Ecosystems Can Strengthen the EU’s fight against Information Manipulation 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Geostrategic Thinking and Quantum Technology:  How Promises of Quantum Technology Breakthroughs Shape Sino-U.S. Rivalry 
• The Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan Border Agreement: A Potential Pathway to Central Asian Integration 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Central Asian Presidents Meet, Seeking to Defuse Decades of Tensions in the Ferghana Valley 
• Green Energy in Southeast Asia: Why the US Should Invest More 
• How the UK-Mauritius Deal on Chagos Could Reshape US Military Strategy in the Indian Ocean 
• Integrating Total Defense and Military Sustainment in the New Northern Security Paradigm 
• The People Are the Key:  Irregular Warfare Success Story in the Philippines 
• Rare Earths and Global Rivalries: Burundi and the Reconfiguration of Strategic Supply Chains 
• The Trump Administration’s Pursuit of a Sino-Russian Schism 
• The US-South Africa Imbroglio, and Its Implications for US-Africa Relations 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Arsenal of Democracy: Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base 
• Turbulence Ahead:  Navigating the Challenges of Aviation Cybersecurity 

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)  

• Chinese No-First-Use: A Strategic Signaling Device, Diplomatic Tool, and Dogmatic Reality 

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

• ‘Everything About Ukraine without Ukraine’:  Peace Negotiations in Trump’s Brave New World 
• U.S.-China Tech War:  Where Does Turkey Stand? 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Media Vassalage:  How Venezuela’s TeleSUR Acts as Russia’s and China’s Information-Laundering Front 

 Global ECCO

• Combating Terrorism Exchange (CTX), April 2025, Special Issue 
• Uncrewed and Autonomous Systems: Seeking Legal Clarity
• Rogues with Robots: Malign Actors and Drones in an Age of Hybrid Conflict
• Preventing an Inevitable Threat: Dealing with Drones
• Lessons from Ukraine and the Red Sea on Autonomous Systems and the Future of the US Navy
• Strengthening Ally and Partner Collaboration in the Unmanned Systems Realm
• The CTX Interview: Colonel Omar Rabling Valdez

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Lawless Cyberspace:  Why Eastern Europe Leads Global Cybercrime 
• Smuggling, Inc.: Illicit Trade between Ukraine’s Transcarpathia and the EU 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Attack at the Pear Tree Inn: An Analysis of a British Terrorist’s Manifesto 
• Automated Recruitment: Artificial Intelligence, ISKP, and Extremist Radicalisation 

 Global Taiwan Institute

• Global Taiwan Brief, 2025, v. 10, no. 8 
• The PLA’s “Strait Thunder-2025A” Exercise Presents Further Efforts to Isolate Taiwan
• India-Taiwan Relations Under Modi 3.0: What Does the Future Hold
• Beyond Pig Guts: Behind-the-Scenes Bipartisanship in Taiwan Politics
• Tough Trade Negotiations Ahead for Taiwan
• What does South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s Impeachment Mean for Taiwan?

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Army Corps of Engineers: Communication with Users on Water Storage Fees and Cost Estimates Could Be Improved GAO-25-107242 
• Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Evaluate the Missing Migrant Program GAO-25-107548 
• Coast Guard: Documented Guidance for Notifying Congress of Investigations Needed GAO-25-107481 
• Communicable Diseases: Transportation Security Administration Developed Its Required Preparedness Plan GAO-25-107573 
• COVID-19 Relief: Consequences of Fraud and Lessons for Prevention GAO-25-107746 
• Defense Command and Control: Further Progress Hinges on Establishing a Comprehensive Framework GAO-25-106454 
• Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Address Long-Standing Management Challenges with Medical Facilities GAO-25-107432 
• Department of Defense: DEI Workforce Reductions GAO-25-107397 
• Domestic Terrorism: Additional Actions Needed to Implement an Effective National Strategy GAO-25-107030 
• Drug Control: DOD and National Guard Align Counterdrug Policies and Guidance with Federal Laws GAO-25-107590
• Federal Oil and Gas: Challenges for Providing Effective Oversight GAO-25-108130 
• Fraud and Improper Payments: Data Quality and a Skilled Workforce Are Essential for Unlocking the Benefits of Artificial Intelligence GAO-25-108412 
• Investment Management: Federal Entities' Efforts to Increase Opportunities for Minority- and Women-Owned Asset Managers GAO-25-106766 
• Military Financial Education: DOD Should Improve Oversight to Ensure Trainings Effectively Support Service Members GAO-25-107666 
• Offshore Wind Energy: Actions Needed to Address Gaps in Interior's Oversight of Development GAO-25-106998 
• Regulatory Flexibility Act: Improved Policies for Analysis and Training Could Enhance Compliance GAO-25-106950 
• Special Education: Improved Allocation of Resources Could Help DOD Education Activity Better Meet Students' Needs GAO-25-107053 
• Superfund: Many Factors Can Affect Cleanup of Sites Across the U.S. GAO-25-108408 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• A Militarily Regenerated Russia as a Future Threat to NATO? Perspectives from Russia Itself 
• Rough Seas Ahead: Maritime Trends and Scenarios until 2050 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Waypoints and Course Adjustments Towards Naval Shipbuilding Cooperation with South Korea 

 Heritage Foundation

• A Strategy to Revitalize the Defense Industrial Base for the 21st Century 

 Hudson Institute

• Afghanistan and the National Resistance Front 
• Principled, Enforceable, and Strategically Sound:  A Just Peace for Ukraine 
• The Strategic Case for Designating the Polisario Front as a Foreign Terrorist Organization 

 Human Rights Watch 

• “All Conspirators”: How Tunisia Uses Arbitrary Detention to Crush Dissent 
• “We’ll All Be Arrested Soon”: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s “Infringing on State Interests” Law 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• An IT Policy Playbook for Canada 
• Small Modular Reactors: A Realist Approach to the Future of Nuclear Power 

 Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

• ITI’s Quantum Technologies Policy Principles and Essentials for Global Policymakers 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• FY 2023 NDAA Section 707 Study:  Providing Benefits Under TRICARE Reserve Select and TRICARE Dental Program to Members of the Selected Reserve and Their Dependents 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• The Iran Threat Geiger Counter: Extreme Danger Grows 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• Challenges Faced by TSMC and Its Suppliers in Expanding to Europe 
• Going for Gold on the Tibetan Frontier 
• India-Sweden Ties as a Gateway to India-Nordic Engagement 

 Institute of the Study of War

• Africa File
• April 10, 2025: The RSF’s Northern Sudan Campaign 
• April 17, 2025: RSF War Crimes and Possible Genocide; al Shabaab Retaking Central Somalia; M23 Challenges; Algeria-Mali Spat 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• April 11, 2025 
• April 18, 2025 
• Iran Update
• April 7 
• April 8 
• April 9 
• April 10 
• April 11 
• April 14 
• April 15 
• April 16 
• April 17 
• April 18 
• The Kremlin Sentenced a Popular Russian General to Lead a Penal Assault Detachment in Ukraine 
• Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update
• April 15, 2025 
• Russian Occupation Update
• April 8 
• April 10 
• April 17 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• April 7 
• April 8 
• April 9 
• April 10 
• April 11 
• April 12 
• April 13 
• April 14 
• April 15 
• April 16 
• April 17 
• April 18 
• April 19 
• April 20 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Building a Sustainable World Bank Group Strategy for Fragility, Conflict, and Violence 
• The Domestic and International Predicament of Venezuela after the 2024 Election and Oil Sanctions 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• The White Paper for European Defence Readiness 2030 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Enabling Responsible Space Behaviors Through Space Situational Awareness 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, April 11, 2025, v. 25, no. 7 
• The PRC’s ‘Window of Opportunity’ With Europe
• He Weidong’s Possible Downfall and Xi’s Trust Deficit With the PLA
• ‘Strait Thunder-2025A’ Drill Implies Future Increase in PLA Pressure on Taiwan
• PLA Perceptions of and Reactions to U.S. Military Activities in Low Earth Orbit
• Behind the Fleet: The PLAN Reviews Logistics Development in the 13th Five-Year Plan
• Terrorism Monitor, March 25, 2025, v. 23, no. 1 
• Brief: Security Services and ISWAP May Be Pushing Nigeria’s Shia Minority Toward Iran
• How al-Sharaa’s New Syrian Regime Masks Its Islamism Behind Bureaucracy
• Pakistan Bans Iran-Backed Zainebiyoun Brigade Amid Regional Turmoil
• Interest in 3D-Printed Firearms Rising Among Islamist Militants
• What Motivated Islamic State’s Mosque Attack in Muscat?

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Developing a Special Operations Forces Multidimensional Ethics Scale 
• Reframing Homeland Defense: The Case for Restructuring an Outdated Security Construct 
• SEEC and You Will Find: The Need for a SOF Enterprise Education Catalog 
• Understanding Hybrid Warfare: Great Power Competition and Conflict in the New Era 

 Lawfare

• The Programmable State: Thee-CNY and China’s Quest for Smarter Surveillance 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• 2024 Global Diplomacy Index Key Findings 
• Hedging Bets:  Southeast Asia’s Approach to China’s Aid 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Canada at a Crossroads – Volume 4: Capital Ideas – Attracting Investment, Boosting Productivity 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• Beyond Overcapacity:  Chinese-style Modernization and the Clash of Economic Models 

 Migration Policy Institute

• International Student Mobility: A Post-Pandemic Reset or a Broader Challenge? 
• Migration Governance in Unsettled Times: How Policymakers Can Plan for Population Change 
• The Power of Passports: How Paper Booklets Became Tools of Global Stratification 
• Severe Repression in Eritrea Has Prompted Decades of Exodus 

 MITRE

• Antenna Technology Promotes National Security 
• Balancing Switching Costs and Opportunity Costs: Market-Based Architectures for Defense Acquisition 
• Industry-Engaged Mission Engineering 
• Merging Auto Technologies with Crash Data Saves Lives on U.S. Roads 
• Providing Acquisition Authority to Combatant Commands in the DoD 
• Sharing a Finite Critical Resource: Electromagnetic Spectrum Access 

 National Defense University Press

• Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ),  117, ( 2nd Quarter April 2025) 
• A New Step in China’s Military Reform
• Obstacles to Integrating Deterrence
• America Needs Bold, Visionary, and Strategic Joint Force Leaders
• Solving the Crisis: A Partnership Approach for Safe, Affordable Military Housing
• Defusing Weaponized Interdependence: A New Approach to Measuring Country Reliability
• Protecting ACE: Air Defense and Agile Combat Employment
• Developing Alternative Manning Strategies to Maintain the Combat Effectiveness of the Joint Force
• Toward a 21st-Century Medical Offset Strategy
• Both Joint and Not: Medical Support at Okinawa, 1945
• Movement and Maneuver at Leyte, October 1944

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Deterring the New Pacing Threats: Opportunistic and Coordinated Aggression 
• Nuclear Deterrence vs Nuclear Warfighting:  Is There a Difference and Does it Matter? 
• The Rise of a New Axis: Great Power Struggle and the Future of Conflict 

 National Security Archive

• JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command 

 National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

• Charting the Future of Biotechnology: An Action Plan for American Security and Prosperity 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Translations #17: Analysis of Problems with Warship Damage Control Plans and Methods for Preparing Damage Control Plans 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) Counter Terrorism Brief 
• NCRI Assassination Culture Brief 

 New Zealand Ministry of Defence

• 2025 Defence Capability Plan 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Addressing the IAF’s Fighter Engine Conundrum 
• Advancing India’s Maritime Interests Through Naval Diplomacy 
• Building National Semiconductor Capabilities:  India in the Global Value Chain 
• Challenges to China’s ‘Below the Threshold’ Military Strategy in Its Near Seas 
• China and Afghanistan’s Jousting Over the Wakhan Corridor 
• The MCC Debate and U.S.-Nepal Ties in Flux 
• The Road Ahead For U.S. Policy On Artificial Intelligence 
• U.S. AI Action Plan: Recommendations to the National Science Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology Policy 

 Office of Budget and Management (OMB)

• M-25-21 Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust 
• M-25-22 Driving Efficient Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government 

 Office of the Director on National Intelligence (ODNI)

• Declassified Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism from the Biden Administration 

 Our World in Data

• What is Foreign Aid? How “Official Development Assistance” is Measured 

 Oxford University Press

• Journal of Conflict & Security Law, 2025
• The Human Rights Obligations of Belligerent Occupiers: Israel and the Gazan Population [open access article] 
• Indirect Aggression and the North Atlantic Treaty [open access article] 
• Inherited Obstruction: The Complaint Procedure Under the Biological Weapons Convention and the Reconceptualizing the Meaning of Indirect Force and the Scope of Its Regulation Under International Law [open access article]  
• Revitalizing the Obligatory Abstention Rule in the UN Security Council: An Interpretation of the Proviso in Article 27 (3) of the UN Charter [open access article] 
• UN Charter Rule on Obligatory Abstention in the Security Council [open access article] 
• The Use of Human Shields in the Jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [open access article] 

 Pew Research Center

• 42% of U.S. Adults Expect Deportations to Lead to Higher Food Prices in Their Area 
• Americans Give Early Trump Foreign Policy Actions Mixed or Negative Reviews 
• How Americans View Trade between the U.S. and China, Canada and Mexico 
• How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence 
• Negative Views of China Have Softened Slightly Among Americans 
• Republican Opinion Shifts on Russia-Ukraine War 
• What We Know About Veterans Who Work for the Federal Government 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Under Primacy, Weapons Sales Will Always Supersede Human Rights 

 RAND Corporation

• Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Alien Children at Ports of Entry:  An Analysis of Processing and Processing Capacity 
• Differences in Cost of Living and Military Pay Growth for Army Personnel 
• Central Bank Digital Currency Design Choices and Effect on Law Enforcement 
• Developing Combat Support Mission Ready Airmen for Agile Combat Employment 
• Differences in Cost of Living and Military Pay Growth for Army Personnel 
• Emerging Technology and Risk Analysis:  Digital Personhood 
• Exploring the Strategic Potential of Expanded Security Cooperation Support to American Irregular Warfare 
• Identification of Potential U.S. Air Force Skill Gaps 
• Industry Insights on Digital Engineering and Defense Acquisition 
• Integrating Commercial Space Services into the DOD Architecture:  Understanding Operational and Policy Implications 
• Navigating Skills and Talent Development for Quantum Technology: Current Insights and Future Horizons 
• Potential Impact of Seabed Mining on Critical Mineral Supply Chains and Global Geopolitics 
• Preventing Veteran Suicide: A Landscape Analysis of Existing Programs, Their Evidence, and What the Next Generation of Programs May Look Like 
• Small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (SUAS) in Divisional Brigades
• Electronic Warfare and Spectrum Management Considerations 
• Options to Improve Acquisition and Accountability 
• Requirements and Findings 
• Small UAS and Counter-UAS Training 
• Survey of SUAS 
• Sources of Organizational Variability in Fatal Police Shootings in the USA 
• A Spatial Vision for Palestine:  A Long-Term Plan That Can Begin Now 
• Warrant Officers Across the U.S. Military Services 
• Why AI Projects Fail 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• AI Technologies and National Security 
• Can the Three Seas Initiative Save the U.S.-Ukraine Critical Materials and Minerals Deal? 
• Future Telecoms and National Security 
• Quantum Technologies in the UK 
• Rebalancing European Joint Fires to Deter Russia 
• Space Technologies in the UK 
• UK Sanctions Implementation and Strategy Taskforce: Ransomware Sanctions 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 25-21-FA State’s Afghan University Student Exchange Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by American Councils for International Education 

 Springer Link

• Global Maritime Military Strategy, 1980–2023 [open access book] 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Can Elections in Ukraine Help to End the Russo-Ukrainian War? The Origins and Functions of a Russian Propaganda Mirage 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Clearing the Path for Nuclear Disarmament: Confidence-building in the Korean Peninsula 
• Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet:  South Sudan  
• Preparing for a Fourth Year of War: Military Spending in Russia’s Budget for 2025 
• Recent Trends in International Arms Transfers in the Middle East and North Africa 

 Takshashila Institution

• Future of India-U.S. Trade:  India’s Strategic Choices Against Trump’s Trade Pressures 
• Securing the Electronic Hardware Supply Chain: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Framework 
• Space Technology Regulation:  Analyzing through the Samaaj-Sarkaar-Bazaar Framework 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2025
• Do Arrests (and Killings) Deter Violent Extremism? A Comparative Analysis  [open access article] 
• Exploring the Evolution of Posting Behavior and Language Use in a Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Forum  [open access article] 
• Far-Right Extremist Narratives in Canadian and Swedish COVID-19 Protests: A Comparative Case Study of the Freedom Movement and Freedom Convoy [open access article] 
• Humiliation and Perceived Power Loss as Drivers of Radicalisation Vulnerability in Northwestern Europe [open access article] 
• ‘Tell Them if They Race-Mix, They Will Rot in Hell’: Right-Wing Extremists’ Narratives on Children’s Ideological Socialization [open access article] 
• Civil Wars, 2025
• Understanding Change in Non-State Armed Group Behaviour: Zapatista-Rebel Interactions in Mexico [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2025
• Imaginary Geographies of Religious Terrorism: ISIS’s Popular Culture [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025
• Beyond the Book Club: White Antiracist Organizing Before and After the 2024 Election  [open access article] 
• Geopolitics, 2025
• Beyond the Internal-External Policy Divide: How the EU Communicates on Migration [open access article] 
• The Deportation Gap as a Statistical Chimera: How Nonknowledge Informs Migration Policies [open access article] 
• Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization [open access article] 
• Ignorance As Political Instrument? Integration Discourses on Migrant Welfare Recipients in Switzerland [open access article] 
• The Infrastructural Power of the Cayman Islands and the US State Power: A Financial Networks Centrality Approach [open access article]
• Mobilising Behind Trump for Democracy: The Case of Hong Kong [open access article] 
• A New Era of Vaccine Diplomacy: Navigating the US-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 2020–2022 [open access article] 
• Transnational Encounters with the Non-Human Animal as a Refugee [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2025
• Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities and Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan [open access article 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2025
• Palestine’s Post-2012 External Statehood Performativity: Diplomatic Agency and International Discourse  [open access article] 
• The Regulation of Terrorist Online Content in Africa: An Overview of the Applicable Regional Instruments and the Legal Frameworks of South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria [open access article] 
• When Trade Hits Home: Distributional Effects of Trade and Populist Voting Across Space  [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research, 2025
• Connecting Risk, Management and Organisational Goals: Integrating Risk with Organisations’ Systems to Enhance Performance and Competitive Advantage [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025
• What Contributions Do Anti-Insurgent Militias Produce During Armed Conflict? Exploring the Capabilities of Anti-Insurgent Militias in Colombia and the Philippines [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2025
• Public Perception of Algorithmic Policing in a Non-Democratic Context: Evidence from Kazakhstan [open access article] 
• United Kingdom-European Union Policing and Law Enforcement Cooperation in the Post-Brexit Era [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2025
• Conclusions, Counter-Insurgency in the Age of Geopolitics [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025
• After the Caliphate: Changing Mobilization in the Swedish Salafi-Jihadist Environment following the Fall of ISIS [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Adapting Co-operative Security: The OSCE's Challenges and Opportunities in a Fragmented World 
• Amerika: MAGA, China, Imperial Decline, Democracy 

 UK Ministry of Defense

• Defense Advanced Manufacturing Strategy 
• UK Support to Ukraine: Factsheet 

 UK Parliament

• Government Response to “Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defense” 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 

• Climate, Insecurity and Displacement: Triple Barriers to the Reintegration of Former Boko Haram Associates 
• The Lakurawa: North West Nigeria’s ‘Newest’ Threat 
• Pathways to Action: Harnessing Arms Flow Data for Conflict Early Warning 
• Regional Perspectives on the Application of International Humanitarian Law to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems 

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

• Right- and Left-Wing Violent Extremist Abuse of Digital Technologies in South America, Africa and Asia 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Global Analysis on Crimes against the Environment - Forest Crime 

 U.S. Space Force (USSF)

• Space Force Doctrine Document (SFDD) 1 - The Space Force 
• Space Warfighting: A Framework for Planners 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• A Partnership for the AJUS: Operationalising Australia-Japan-United States Defence Cooperation 
• Polishing the Diamond:  Opportunities for the Quad 

 Uyghur Human Rights Project

• DJI’s Links to Human Rights Abuses in East Turkistan 
• Twenty Years for Learning the Quran:  Uyghur Women and Religious Persecution 

 White House

• Fact Sheets: 
• Eliminating Barriers for Federal Artificial Intelligence Use and Procurement 
• President Donald J. Trump Modernizes Defense Acquisitions and Spurs Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base 
• President Donald J. Trump Reforms Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability 
• President Donald J. Trump Restores America’s Maritime Dominance 
• Executive Orders: 
• Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts 
• Ensuring National Security and Economic Resilience Through Section 232 Actions on Processed Critical Minerals and Derivative Products 
• Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base 
• Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates to Reflect Trading Partner Retaliation and Alignment 
• Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space Management 
• Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement 
• Reforming Foreign Defense Sales to Improve Speed and Accountability 
• Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance 
• National Security Presidential Memorandum
• NSPM-1 - Organization of the National Security Council and Subcommittees 
• NSPM-2 - Imposing Maximum Pressure on the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Denying Iran All Paths to a Nuclear Weapon, and Countering Iran’s Malign Influence 
• NSPM-3 America First Investment Policy 
• NSPM-4 - Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions