Friday's Miscellany 05-23-2025

 38 North

• Recalibrating US Strategy on North Korea 
• Quick Take: Final Touches at Wonsan-Kalma Beach Resort Before Opening 
• Sparrow Returns to the Peninsula: Observations on North Korea’s May 15 Air Drills 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa’s Critical Minerals at a Critical Juncture 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Knowledge, Skills, and the Global Balance of Power:  What International Standardized Achievement Tests Tell Us about National Economic Potential and Prospects 

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Submarine Cable Sabotage: International Responses and Implications for South Korea 

 Asia Foundation

• PEA in Practice: A Practical Guide to Political Economy Analysis 

 Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

• Memo on U.S. Policy to China 

 Atlantic Council

• Beyond Critical Minerals: Capitalizing on the DRC’s Vast Opportunities 
• Confronting Russia’s Cyber Power:  Reassessing Assumptions, Sizing Up the Threat, and Building a Proactive Response
• The European Union Growth Plan for the Western Balkans: A Reality Test for EU Enlargement 
• Unpacking Russia’s Cyber Nesting Doll 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Building National Preparedness:  A Road Map for Australia and What We Should Learn from Finland 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Considering South Korea as a Partner for Trade Diversification 

 Center for a New American Security  (CNAS)

• Regional and Global Responses to a Taiwan Contingency:  Gauging the Prospects for Coalition-Building Under Fire 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• 100 Days of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy:  Global Chaos, American Weakness, and Human Suffering 
• How Democracies Defend Themselves Against Authoritarianism 
• Trade, Trust, and Transition:  Shaping the Next Transatlantic Chapter 

Center for Cybercrime Investigations & Cybersecurity

• International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence and Cybercrime, 2025, v. 8, no. 1 
• Global Crossroads of Cybercrime: Youth, Enterprise and State Vulnerabilities in the Digital Age
• Cyber Offending among Adolescents: The Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision-Making and Victimization
• Cybercrime as a Threat to the Banking Sector: A Perspective from Commercial Banks in Bangladesh
• Need of Paradigm Shift in Cybersecurity Implementation for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES)

 Center for International Policy

• El Salvador, Trump, and The Transnational State of Exception 
• How the India-Pakistan Crisis Became a Profitable Spectacle Online 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Future of Corrections: Leadership and Culture 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Anticipating AI’s Impact on the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Improving Cooperation with Allies and Partners in Asia 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios 

 Clingendael Institute Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

• The BRICS and the Emerging Order of Multipolarity 

 College of Europe

• Danish Law on Public Housing Case 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Potential Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of a Bill to Provide Reconciliation Pursuant to H. Con. Res. 14, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 
• Preliminary Analysis of the Distributional Effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Science, Not ‘Sir Humphrey’:  Fixing Whitehall’s ‘Tepid Bath’ 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• Destabilization From ‘Within’:  A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• AI Data Security: Best Practices for Securing Data Used to Train & Operate AI Systems 
• Memorandum Directing Immediate Modifications to the Personal Property Program 
• Updated Physical Control Measures for Press/Media Access Within the Pentagon 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-101 Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Collect, and Integrate Observations, Insights, and Lessons Learned from the Russia/Ukraine Conflict 

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)             

• Rethinking the Role of Universities in Place-Based Innovation Policies for Sustainability Transitions 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Law of Duty: The Case for a US-Inspired EU Preparedness Act 
• Long Walk to Realism: Climate Cooperation to Reset EU-South Africa Relations 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Disaster Aid, Insurance, and Fairness: Household and Firm Perceptions of Flood Policy in Germany 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Handbook for Cyber Stress Tests 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Shifting Sands: Hedging Strategies in Sahel- Maghreb Relations 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Critical Measures Needed to Fight Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, Say Leaders of FATF, INTERPOL and UNODC 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• The Risk Society’s Stabilisation Failure? An Analysis of NATO and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• FDD Uncovers Likely Chinese Intelligence Operation Targeting Recently Laid-Off U.S. Government Employees 

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

• Rethinking EU Strategy in Central Asia:  Achieving Long-Term Success for the Middle Corridor 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Coalition of the Willing 
• EU–Türkiye Defense Cooperation:  Why Now—and How Far? 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Artificial Intelligence: Use and Oversight in Financial Services GAO-25-107197 
• Courthouse Construction: Changes to Design Standards Will Result in Larger and More Costly Future Courthouses GAO-25-108406 
• Defense Contract Audit Agency: Formal Assessment Needed to Determine Future Use of Independent Public Accountants GAO-25-107558 
• Disaster Loan Program: Enhanced Procedures and Data Needed to Address Duplication of Benefits GAO-25-107608 
• Immigration Detention: DHS Should Define Goals and Measures to Assess Facility Inspection Programs GAO-25-107580 
• Missile Defense: DOD Faces Support Challenges for Defense of Guam GAO-25-108187 
• Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Homeland Security GAO-25-108010 
• Recommendations for Congress: Action Can Produce Tens of Billions of Dollars in Future Financial and Other Benefits GAO-25-108167 
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Universal Vaccines GAO-25-108286 
• Spectrum IT Modernization: NTIA Should Fully Incorporate Cybersecurity and Interoperability Practices GAO-25-107509 

 Henry Jackson Society

• Disinformation on Campus: The Rise of Antisemitism and the Failure to Respond 
• Hamas’s Human Shield Strategy in Gaza 
• Human Rights NGOs: A Crisis of Trust – The Root Causes and Recommended Remedies 

 Heritage Foundation

• Eradicating Iran’s Nuclear Program:  Peace Through Strength Is Not a Binary Choice Between Rushing to War or a Deal at Any Cost 
• What a Success Story Looks Like:  Top U.S. Priorities for the June 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague 

 HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies

• Situating Non-Military Players in the Sudan Conflict: Assessing Their Role in the Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Sudan 

 Hudson Institute

• Testing the Sincerity of South Africa’s Claims about Wanting Better Relations 
• Trump Sends a Message: The Gulf Is No Longer China’s Playground 

 Human Rights Watch

• ‘They’re Putting Our Lives at Risk’: How Uganda’s Anti-LGBT Climate Unleashes Abuse 

 Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA)

• The Bioceanic Corridor- The Road to Development in South America 
• Breaking the Ice: India’s First Ministerial Engagement with the Taliban 
• Ideas of the Emerging New World Order: A Critical Appraisal 
• The Inspiration of Buddhism for Indian Diplomacy: Translating Principles into Action 
• PKK’s Self-Dissolution and Prospect of Peace in Turkiye 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• “Big Pharma” Is a Normal Industry 
• Underinvestment in Capital Equipment Hinders Canadian Productivity Growth 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA) 

• China’s Pursuit of Aircraft Carriers 
• The India–Pakistan Armed Conflict: Chinese Reactions 
• India’s Coastal Security Construct – A Holistic Security Perspective 
• Operation Sindoor: Japan’s Response 
• Sharp Appreciation in New Taiwan Dollar vs US Dollar: Reasons and Implications 
• The Unending Conflict: Dilemmas of Dealing with Sectarianism in Kurram 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Between a Nuclear Arrangement and Military Strike in Iran—Toward a Decision 
• Human Capital Formation as a Key Component in Europe’s Defence Build-Up 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• India’s ‘Wait and Watch’ Diplomacy: Redefining Regional Engagement in South Asia 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• The ‘Cost of Doing Politics’? Gendered Abuse and Digital Platforms’ Role in Undermining Democracy 
• Data Briefing – September to November 2024: Online Domestic Extremism in Canada 
• Mapping the GerManosphere: A Pilot Study 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• May 22, 2025: SAF Advances Across Sudan Despite RSF Drone Strikes 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• May 23 
• Iran Update
• May 19 
• May 20 
• May 21 
• May 22 
• May 23 
• Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update
• May 21 
• Russian Occupation Update
• May 22 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• May 19 
• May 20 
• May 21 
• May 22 
• May 23 
• May 24 
• May 25 

 Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

• From Mediation to Solidarity: Middle Eastern Responses to India’s Aggression Against Pakistan 
• India’s Shadow War in Pakistan 
• Navigating the Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Pakistani Exports 
• Operation Sindoor: a turning point for India in addressing terrorism in Kashmir? 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• From Conflict to Courtroom: Indonesia's Legal Response to Terrorism and Core International Crimes 
• In Their Eyes: How European Security Services Look at Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Military Mobility: A Critical Enabler 

 International Crisis Group

• Asia in Flux:  The U.S., China and the Search for a New Equilibrium 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• China in the Indian Ocean:  A Stronger Indo-Pacific Presence  [Infographic] 

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Fact vs. Fiction: Understanding Russia’s Influence in the Western Balkans 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, May 23, 2025, v. 25, no. 10 
• White Paper Offers Chinese Wisdom at the Crossroads of History
• PRC and Russia Operationalize Strategic Partnership
• Encircling the West: The PRC Gains Ground in Legacy Chips
• Latest PLA Anti-Corruption Campaign Enhances Xi Jinping’s Control Over the Military
• Desertification Control Drive Focuses on Food Security and Soft Power Influence

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Peak Repayment: China’s Global Lending 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• Unleashing AI: Canada’s Blueprint for Productivity, Innovation, and Workforce Integration 

 National Academies Press  

• Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025): Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure  

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• The PLA in a Complex Security Environment:  Preparing for High Winds and Choppy Waters 

 National Security Archive

• JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• From State Actors to Western Influencers: The Transnational Surge of “False Flag” Disinformation After Terror Attack in India 
• The May 21 Embassy Attack: Indicators of Foreign Influence in U.S.-Based Extremist Networks 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Building Corridors of Influence: India’s and China’s Infrastructure Initiatives in Myanmar and Thailand 
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in India: A Well-Being Perspective 
• India Think Tank Forum 2025: Shaping a Resilient Global Order 
• ‘Xintralisation’ and ‘Politics in Command’ Loom Large in China’s Two Sessions 

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• Fast-tracking Net Zero by Building Climate and Economic Resilience: A Summary for Policymakers 

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

• Simulation-Based Training for Actors Involved in the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Toolkit on Data and Information Exchange in Transboundary Basins 

 Our World in Data

• Measles Vaccines Save Millions of Lives Each Year 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Stopping the Flow:  The Effects of U.S.-China Cooperation on Fentanyl Markets and Overdose Deaths 

 Pew Research Center

• How Much Discrimination Do Americans Say Groups Face in the U.S.? 
• What Web Browsing Data Tells Us About How AI Appears Online 

 RAND Corporation

• China’s Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine War:  Perceived New Strategic Opportunities and an Emerging Model of Hybrid Warfare 
• Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War 
• Dispersed, Disguised, and Degradable:  The Implications of the Fighting in Ukraine for Future U.S.-Involved Conflicts: The Implications of the Fighting in Ukraine for Future U.S.-Involved Conflicts 
• Implications of Russia’s War on Ukraine for the U.S. and Allied Defense Industrial Bases 
• Insights from Nuclear History for AI Governance 
• National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2023–2024 
• Supporting Coast Guard Readiness with Strategic Gaming 
• Understanding Escalation: A Framework for Evaluating the Escalatory Risks of Policy Actions 
• Will Europe Rebuild or Divide?  The Strategic Implications of the Russia-Ukraine War for Europe’s Future 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Defense Pound in National and Local Prosperity 

 Sol Foundation

• The UFO Enigma: A Call for US Government Disclosure 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• The European Offer for Democratic Belarus: A Strategic Agenda for the EU 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Lessons from the EU on Confidence-building Measures Around Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain 

 Taylor & Francis

• Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025
• At the Gate to Australia’s Heavenly Peace: Asian Racialization and Australia’s Tiananmen Chinese [open access article] 
• Comparative Moves: The Pursuit of Value and Belonging in Transnational Migration Toward a “Better Life” [open access article] 
• Notting Hill Carnival and Rock Against Racism: converging cultures of resistance during late 1970s Britain [open access article] 
• “Outsiders on the Inside”: How Minoritised Elites Respond to Racial Inequality [open access article] 
• Racism and Food Delivery Platforms: Shaping Migrants’ Work Experiences and Future Expectations in the United Kingdom and Chile [open access article] 
• Geopolitics, 2025
• States of Un/Knowing: The Un/Making of the European Deportation Regime [open access article] 
• Journal of Military Ethics, 2025
• Loyal Wingmen, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Enhancement: A Warning Against Cyborg-Drone Warfare [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025
• Governing the Impact of Emerging Technologies: Actors, Technologies, and Regulation [open access article] 
• Navigating the AI Frontier: Insights from the Ukraine Conflict for NATO’s Governance Role in Military AI [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2025
• Leading Police Organisations in Crises: How Changing Customary Police Leadership Responses Impacts on Frontline Officers’ Senses of Ontological Security [open access article] 
• Security Studies, 2025
• How the Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators [open access article] 
• Militarism and the Gender Gap Beyond Wars: Evidence from Brazil [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• A New Normal in India-Pakistan Relations in the Age of Cross-border Terrorism 

 US Bomb Data Center

• 2024 Report on Firearms Commerce in the U.S. 
• 2024 Summary: Firearms Reported Lost and Stolen 

 US Coast Guard (USCG)

• Force Design 2028 

 US Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER)

• 2024 Cyber Trends and Insights in the Marine Environment 

Friday's Miscellany 05-16-2025

 38 North

• Assessing North Korea’s Wage Reform: 18 Months Later, Has It Improved Lives or Reinforced State Control? 
• Pyongyang-Moscow Ties Are a Force Multiplier to Pyongyang-Beijing Relations 
• Quick Take: Second New Naval Vessel Close to Launch 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa’s Unprecedented Urbanization is Shifting the Security Landscape 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Space Force Personnel Reform:  Costs, Impact, and Implementation 

 American Security Project (ASP)

• National Security Implications of Foreign Third-Party Litigation Financing 

 Amnesty International

• Dehumanized by Design: Human Rights Violations in El Paso 
• Human Rights in the Life Cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals 

 Army University Press

• Journal of Military Learning, April 2025 
• Investigating U.S. Army Unit-Specific Psychological Skills Training Through Soldier and Embedded Performance Expert Perspectives: A Mixed Method Exploratory Evaluation
• Enhancing Professional Military Education with AI: Best Practices for Effective Implementation
• Tacit Knowledge Cultivation as an Essential Component of Developing Experts
• Storytelling as an Instructional Technique: Recommendations for Military Instructors

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Controversy Surrounding China’s Structures in the West Sea (Yellow Sea) and Their Implications under International Law 
• Recommendations for ROK’s North Korea Policy in a Time of Turbulence 

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Systems and Escalation Risks 

 Atlantic Council

• A Rising Nuclear Double-Threat in East Asia:  Insights from Our Guardian Tiger I and II Tabletop Exercises 
• The United States’ Role in Managing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Syria Post-Asad: “Power Vertical” or Consociational Covenant? 

 Bruegel

• How Much Research Talent Could Europe Grab from the US? 
• Radical Novelties in Critical Technologies and Spillovers: How Do China, the US and the EU Fare? 
• Sovereigns on Thinning Ice: Debt Sustainability, Climate Impacts and Adaptation 
• Understanding Serbian Youth Discontent Through the Lens of the Labour Market 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The EU’s AI Power Play: Between Deregulation and Innovation 
• The Second Republic:  Remaking Egypt Under Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi 

 Cato Institute

• Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Democracy in South Asia amid U.S. Aid Cuts:  What’s at Stake for Great Power Competition 

 Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)

• Moderating Tamil Content on Social Media 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Deterring China's Use of Force in the Space Domain 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Promoting AI Innovation Through Competition:  A Guide to Managing Market Power 
• Wuhan’s AI Development: China’s Alternative Springboard to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 360: Europe’s Semiconductor Strengths and Strains 
• No. 361: Orbit of Dependence: Ukraine’s Space Challenge 
• European Resilience in Global Semiconductor Supply Chains: Opportunities, Risks, and Strategic Options 
• Moldovan Analytical Digest
• No. 002: Parties and Energy Crisis 
• Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
• No. 12: Education 

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Space Policy Archive 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• No Dominant Strategy for Air Dominance: Collaborative Combat Aircraft Employment, Basing, and Sortie Generation in a Taiwan Scenario 
• Ready Player None? An End-to-End Assessment of the Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Can Ukraine Fight Without U.S. Aid? Seven Questions to Ask 
• Drone Saturation:  Russia’s Shahed Campaign 
• Identifying Pathways for U.S. Shipbuilding Cooperation with Northeast Asian Allies 
• Scenarios That Could Define 2035 
• China Stalls 
• Trust Fails 
• U.S. Global Leadership Falters 
• What Allies Want:  European Priorities in a Contested Security Environment 

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• Assessing the Policy Ecosystems and Scaling Pathways of Direct Lithium Extraction 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Not a Summit of Ambition 
• On Europe, Labour Should Reconsider Its 'Red Chains' 
• A Perfect Storm: Britain's Trade Malaise, Weak Growth and a New Geopolitical Moment 

 Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT)

• Climate Change and Terrorism Research Project Book 

 Chatham House

• Securing the Space-Based Assets of NATO Members from Cyberattacks 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Americans Grow More Divided on US Support for Israel 

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• May 2025 Survey: How Americans Think About Antisemitism on Campus Today 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• Deterring China's Use of Force in the Space Domain 
• Taking Flight:  China’s Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Industry 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Defending Europe’s Skies: Challenges and Prospects 
• Overcoming Inertia in Kosovo 

 College of Europe

• Scientific and Political Narratives: Discursive Strategies in EU Agrifood Policies and Legislation 
• Tax the Rich? A Proposal for a New Wealth-Based Own Resource to Finance the EU Budget 

 Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB)

• House Reconciliation Bill Would Massively Increase Near-Term Deficits 

 Congress. Senate. Elizabeth Warren

• TRANSCOM Reveals 30+ Missions to Guantanamo Bay, Costing Over $20 Million since January 2025, In Break from Precedent 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• North-Eastern Flank: Militarisation of the Baltic Frontier 
• Northern Horizon: Strengthening Security in the Baltic Sea Region 

 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

• ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Threat Assessment 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Departmental Review of the U.S. Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 
• Memorandum Directing Immediate Modifications to the Personal Property Program 
• Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness: Implementation Guidance [gender dysphoria] 

 Department of Defense Inspector General [DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-095 Summary Report: Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on Prepositioned Stocks 
• DODIG-2025-096 Summary Report: Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on Contract Oversight 
• DODIG-2025-097 Summary Report: Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on Burden‑Sharing with International Partners 
• DODIG-2025-100 Evaluation of the Spare Parts Onboard U.S. Navy Ships in the Indo-Pacific Region 
• Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR) 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Best Practices for Resilient PNT Supporting Critical Infrastructure 

 Department of State Inspector General

• AUD-GEER-25-19 Information Report: Oversight Observations to Inform Department of State Realignment of U.S. Agency for International Development Functions 
• Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2025 - March 31, 2025 

 Department of the Army

• FM 1, The Army: A Primer to Our Profession of Arms 

 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

• 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Financial Influence Operations in the Hybrid Threats Spectrum 
• The Geopolitical Impact of USAID’s Retreat on Humanitarian Aid: Towards a Complementary Approach between China and the EU? 
• NATO: The Damage Is Done – So Think Big 
• Semiconductors and Statecraft: Belgium’s Role in Europe’s Technological Sovereignty 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA) 

• China Country Analysis Brief 
• China Dominates Global Trade of Battery Minerals 
• EIA Forecasts World Oil Consumption Growth to Slow Amid Less Economic Activity 
• Refining Industry Risks from 2025 Hurricane Season 
• U.S. Hydropower Generation Expected to Rise in 2025 Following Last Year’s Relative Low 

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• Cloud Labs and Other New Actors in the Biotechnology Ecosystem: Export Control Challenges and Good Practices in Outreach 
• Lessons from the EU on Confidence-Building Measures around Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain  

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Electric Shock: The Chinese Threat to Europe’s Industrial Heartland 
• Too Clean to Compete: Why Strict Standards Keep Europeans Out of African Minerals 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Disaster Aid, Insurance, and Fairness: Household and Firm Perceptions of Flood Policy in Germany 
• Working from Home in 2025: Five Key Facts 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Resilience by Design: A New EU Foreign Economic Policy to Counter Global Disorder 
• Unpowering Russia: How the EU Can Counter and Undermine the Kremlin 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) 

• NATO and the Middle East: Turkey’s Threat Conceptions and Attempts at Stability in Post-Assad Syria 
• Trump’s First 100 Days: Unmistakable Steps toward Autocracy 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

• US Anti-Terrorism Cases Against MTN Group Put Multinationals in Peril 
• Will ECOWAS Survive Until 2030? 
• The Wrong Russia-Ukraine Deal Could Undermine US Security 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Trump’s Russia Sanctions Toolkit:  Options to Increase Leverage to End Putin’s War Against Ukraine 

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)  

• New tech, new threats: drones, 3D-printed guns, artificial intelligence and violent extremism 

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

• Trump's Trade War: What Answers for the European Union? 

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

• The “Donbasisation” of Russia 
• Russian Nuclear Weapons in Space? 
• The Strategic Raw Material Partnership between the EU and Zambia:  Industrial Cooperation is Key to Value Creation and Long-Term Collaboration 
• Turkey on the Path to Autocracy:  Economic Consequences and Policy Options for the EU and Germany 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Crime and Peace: The Future of Organized Crime Beyond the Russo-Ukrainian War 
• Deporting to Danger: How Potential US Migrant Expulsions to Libya Could Feed Into the Country's Criminal Economy and Instability 
• Fentanyl and Border Lines: Unpacking the Challenges of the North American Market 
• Resilience in Action: Civil Society's Role in Preventing and Combating Organized Crime 
• Third Security and Development Dialogue on Environmental Crime: Advancing Multilateral and Multi-Stakeholder Responses 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Cash Flow: Breaking Down the Houthis’ Multibillion-Dollar Financial Networks 
• In Translation: The Digital Growth of Bengali-Language At-Tamkeen Media 
• Modern-Day Lynchings: The Long History of Gamified White Supremacist Terrorism 
• ‘Welcome Spring, Burn a Tesla’: The Insurrectionary Anarchist Campaign Against Tesla 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Coast Guard: Enhanced Data and Planning Could Help Address Service Member Retention Issues GAO-25-107869 
• Coast Guard: Progress Made to Address Recruiting Challenges but Additional Actions Needed GAO-25-107224 
• Defense Health Care: Information on DOD's Processing of TRICARE Claims from Behavioral Health Providers GAO-25-107484 
• Disaster Assistance: Updated FEMA Guidance Could Better Help Communities Apply for Individual Assistance GAO-25-106768 
• Federal Aviation Administration: Key Provisions in the 2024 Reauthorization Act and Related GAO Work GAO-25-108502 
• Federal Rulemaking: Potential Effects of Legislation to Offset Direct Spending Resulting from Regulations GAO-25-107642 
• K–12 Education: DOD Needs to Assess Its Capacity to Provide Mental Health Services to Students GAO-25-107247 
• Military Generals and Admirals: Information on the Effects of Senate Nomination Blanket Holds GAO-25-107679 
• Older Workers: Employment Rates Rebounded and Personal Finances Remained Steady Following Pandemic GAO-25-106962 
• Presidential Drawdown Authority: Guidance Should Reflect Expanded Use GAO-25-107475 
• Women in Aviation: Options Available to Lactating Crewmembers and Barriers to Expressing Breast Milk on the Job GAO-25-107525 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Acquisition Reform, at a Crossroads:  Examining Recent Executive and Legislative Efforts to Reform the Defense Acquisition 

 Heritage Foundation

• North American Security:  U.S.–Canadian Defense Priorities 

 Human Rights Watch

• The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US 
• ‘The Strategy Is to Break Us’: The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Costa Rica 

 IJ Infinity Group

• Military Strategy Magazine, Spring 2025, v. 10, no. 2 
• Civil War Comes to the West, Part II: Strategic Realities
• Strategy for a Complex Age: To Frame or Solve?
• Political Obedience as a Military Strategic Asset: From Cyrus to the 2023 War in Gaza
• A New Fight: Deception, Adaptation, and Regeneration
• Distributed Maritime Operations, Logistics, Industry, and American Strategy in Asia
• Multi-Dimensional Game-Theory Analysis of North Korean Nuclear Threat

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Short-Circuited: How Semiconductor Tariffs Would Harm the U.S. Economy and Digital Industry Leadership 
• South Korean Policy in the Trump and China Era: Broad-Based Technological Innovation, Not Just Export-Led Growth 

 Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS)

• Trump’s Crypto Ambition 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• May 2025 Updated Analysis of Russian Shahed 136 Deployment Against Ukraine 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)  

• China’s Techno-Military Modernization in Tibet and its Impact on Climate 
• Proxy Wars and Silent Partners: The Pahalgam Attack a Stress Test for India–China Stability 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• May 15, 2025: JNIM Seizes Burkinabe Provincial Capital in Latest Blow to Traoré; IS West Africa Regains the Advantage in Lake Chad; IS Sahel Operationalizes Support Networks in Nigeria; Tripoli Clashes  
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• May 17 
• Iran Update
• May 12 
• May 13 
• May 14 
• May 15 
• May 16 
• Russian Force Generation and Technological Adaptations Update
• May 14   
• Russian Occupation Update
• May 12 
• May 15 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• May 12 
• May 13 
• May 14 
• May 15 
• May 16 
• May 17 
• May 18 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Italian Job: Navigating between the UK, the EU and Trump 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Defending Europe Without the United States: Costs and Consequences 
• On Proposed Countermeasures Against Russia to Compensate Injured States for Losses Caused by Russia’s War of Aggression Against Ukraine 

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• Accessibility of Protection Systems for Children in the Context of Migration in South-East Asia 
• Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Disaster Risks 
• IOM Digital Identity Toolkit⁠ 
• Local Migration Governance in Ukraine: Well‑developed Areas and Opportunities for Development 

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Protection of Civilians by Police in UN Peace Operations 
• UN Strategic Communications and the Protection of Civilians: The Role of UN Radio 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) 

• Critical Minerals, U.S. National Security, and Africa 
• The Economy as Battlefield: The 21st Century Sino-American Cold War 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Special Forces Does Not Have an Identity Crisis, SOF Has a Special Forces Identity Problem: A Response to Colonel Croot 

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

• MES Insights, April 2025, v. 16, no. 2
• Calibrated Pressure: Exploiting Iran’s Mediterranean Setbacks while Preventing Nuclear Escalation 

 Marine Corps University Press

• Plan B: A Service-framed Examination of Economic Warfare 

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• Gaining Insights Into the Gender Gap and Orientations of Young European Citizens: An Analysis of Longitudinal Glocalities Survey Data From Eight European Countries 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• Chinese Investment Rebounds Despite Growing Frictions - Chinese FDI in Europe: 2024 Update 
• National Security White Paper + China-Latin America + US-China Relations 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Behind the Scenes: Mapping How State and Local Governments Implement Language Access Measures 
• Facing New Migration Realities: U.S.-Mexico Relations and Shared Interests 

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

• Does the Transit Industry Understand the Risks of Cybersecurity and are the Risks Being Appropriately Prioritized? 
• Evaluation of Long-Term Performance of Transportation Earthworks Prone to Weather-Driven Deterioration Under Changing Climate 
• The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area 

 MITRE

• MITRE ATT&CK 
• NATO 2027: European Leadership Will Be Key to Deterrence Against Russia 
• Past is Prologue: Creating a Civil Defense Mindset to Address Modern Cyber Threats 

 National Academies Press 

• Cyber Hard Problems: Focused Steps Toward a Resilient Digital Future  

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• China’s Transition to a War-Oriented National Defense Mobilization System 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Intelligence and the “Unknown Unknown”: How to Prepare for and Recover from Fundamental Surprise 
• U.S. Domestic Polarization and Implications for Allied Assurance 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Translations #18: Combine Wisdom and Join Efforts, Training in a Sea of Mines, "Pioneers of Breaking Obstacles" 
• CMSI Study No. 8, Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2025, v. 106, no. 1  
• Re-Envisioning Nuclear Deterrence 

 Observer Research Foundation

• A Blueprint to Advance the U.S.-India Energy Security Partnership 
• China’s Pushback Against the U.S.: Examining PRC’s Evolving Toolkit 
• General-Purpose Technology and the Dominance of Nations 
• Pathways to Integrated Multimodal Transport Systems in Indian Cities 
• Promoting South-South Partnerships: The Potential of India-Armenia Collaboration in AI Education and Research 

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• Non-Tariff Measures Affecting Environmental Goods Trade 
• Place-Based Policies for the Future 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• Challenging the Narrative of Self-Defense in Police Operations: Bulacan Province under Duterte’s War on Drugs 

 Pew Research Center

• How Much Discrimination Do Americans Say Groups Face in the U.S.? 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Current Budget Proposals Set Us on the Road to Fiscal Crisis 
• Getting Europe on Board for a Peace Settlement in Ukraine 
• A U.S. Peace Plan for Ukraine 

 RAND Corporation

• Effective Digital Capability Development:  Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities Series:  Paper 2  
• Identifying and Closing Gaps in the Federal Select Agent Program:  Opportunities for Improvement in an Era of Emerging Biotechnologies 
• Interoperability in the digital environment: opportunities and challenges: Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities Series: Paper 3 
• Lessons from the War in Ukraine for Space: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Conflicts 
• Locating AI Data Centers on DOE Land 
• Managing AI's Economic Future:  Strategic Automation Policy in an Era of Global Competition 
• Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for an Uncertain Future in Space 
• Responses to Historical Revision:  Historical Lessons 

 Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

• 2025 World Press Freedom Index Map 
• Last Check-In: The Russian Strikes on Ukrainian Hotels Silencing the Press 

Royal Australian Air Force - Air Space Power Centre

• Contemporary Issues in Air & Space Power, 2025, v. 3, no. 1 
• Redefining Recruitment in the Royal Australian Air Force
• Innovation Management: Embracing the Fantastic to Get the Military Moving in New Directions
• Securing Malaysia’s Maritime Environment Using Space-Derived Services
• Space Traffic Management Is Critical for National Security 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• New Ways to Frame Responsible Cyber Behavior Beyond the UN 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 25-23-FA USAID’s Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) Program: Audit of Costs Incurred by Public Health Institute /

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Cloud Labs and Other New Actors in the Biotechnology Ecosystem: Export Control Challenges and Good Practices in Outreach 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs 

• 6G: Cybersecurity and Defence Implications 
• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): An Evolving Platform That Should not be Overlooked 

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2025
• Imaginary Geographies of Religious Terrorism: ISIS’s Popular Culture [open access article] 
• Leadership Failings: The Irish Republican Socialist Party, the Irish National Liberation Army and the Irish People’s Liberation Organisation, 1974–1992 [open access article] 
• The Middle East: Terrorism, International Law, and the Cosmopolitan Myth [open access article] 
• Pain & Power: What the Pains of Counterterrorism Tell Us About the Workings of Counter-Terror Power [open access article] 
• Transcending Counterterrorism Discourse: Metaphors, Identity Politics and Ideological Security in Xinjiang [open access article]  
• Unintended Consequences of Public-Facing Counter-Terrorism Training and Vigilance Campaigns on Minority Groups [open access article]  
• Defence and Peace Economics, 2025
• Building a Defence Manpower Planning Tool Using Survival Analysis Models [open access article] 
• Defence Studies, 2025
• Abu Dhabi’s Drive for Defence Industrialization: Paramountcy of the Economic Diversification Agenda [open access article]  
• Balancing Aspiration and Reality: Autarky in Turkish Defence Industrial Policy [open access article]  
• Beyond Survival … [open access article]  
• Defence Industry Policies of Small and Medium Powers: An Introduction to the Challenges and Prospects [open access article]  
• Ensuring Security of Supply: Pragmatic Defence Autarky and Finland’s Defence Industry [open access article]   
• The European Union’s Role in European Defence Industry Policy [open access article]  
• Israel’s Defence Industry: Adaptation and Growth in a Changing Arms Market [open access article]  
• Japan’s Defence Industrial Strategy and Fighter Aircraft Production: Striving for Tier-One Status and the GCAP Project [open access article]  
• Ethics & Global Politics, 2025
• Why Grateful Refugees are Epistemically Harmed [open access article] 
• Geopolitics, 2025
• Reversing the Gaze in EU Trade Policy: Communities, Hierarchies and Agency under Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters [open access article] 
• Global Change, Peace & Security, 2025
• From piracy to development in the Western Indian Ocean: securing a blue economy space [open access article] 
• Journal of Applied Security Research, 2025
• Autonomous Weapons Systems in Africa: Emerging Realities, Prospects, and Risks [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025
• Know Thy Enemy? Generating, Negotiating and Codifying Knowledge of Insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine, 2004–2006 [open access article] 
• Security Studies, 2025
• Remembering Perpetrators, Victims and Heroes: The Mnemonic Legacy of Violence [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2025
• Capturing Calabria? ‘Ndrangheta, Corruption, and Maladministration in Local Public Institutions in Southern Italy [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025
• From Control to Conflict: A Spectrum and Framework for Understanding Government-Militia Relationships [open access article] 
• Is There a Language of Terrorists? A Comparative Manifesto Analysis [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Afghanistan’s Climate Crisis: A Call for Decentralised and Inclusive Finance 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Global Military Spending at Record High, New Data Shows [Infographics] 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• From Casualties to Care: Implementing Age- and Gender-Sensitive Victim Assistance 
• A Novel Approach to the 11 UN Norms for Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• The Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment: Part 2b – Minerals Crime: Illegal Gold Mining 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Allied extended deterrence: Towards a collective framework in the Indo-Pacific 

 University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute 

• Mutual Trust and Reciprocity: Strengthening the Australia-Indonesia Defence Partnership Through Cooperative Training Exercises 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Assessing the Gaza Death Toll After Eighteen Months of War 
• Disarming Palestinian Factions in Lebanon Means Disarming Hezbollah 
• Seizing the Moment of Opportunity in Syria: Guidelines for U.S. Action 

 World Bank

• 21st-Century Africa: Governance and Growth 
• Future Jobs: Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Platforms in East Asia and Pacific 
• Nature's Paradox: Stepping Stone or Millstone? 

 World Economic Forum

• Growing Cyber Talent Through Public–Private Partnerships 
• Targeted Action and Financing the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance in Asia