Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 11-28-2025

 ACLED

 Amnesty International

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

 Atlantic Council

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

 Bruegel

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace     

 Center for Data Innovation

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

  • CTC Sentinel, November/December 2025, v. 18, no. 11 
    • Rise of the E-Militias: Designated Terrorist Groups Infest Iraq’s Digital Economy
    • Danger Zone: Terrorism Risk – Theory, Practice, and Evolution
    • A View from the CT Foxhole: Admiral Frank Bradley, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
    • The Changing Character of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism
    • The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Repressed Islamic State Affiliates
    • Burden-Sharing with Non-Traditional Counterterrorism Partners
    • Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis

 Council on Strategic Risks

 Council on Geostrategy

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

 Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2026-013 Audit of the DoD’s Management of Data Remaining After the Retirement of DoD Financial Management Systems 
  • DODIG-2026-014 Audit of the U.S. Army’s Processes for Providing Supplies and Equipment Funded Through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative 
  • DODIG-2026-016 Audit of DoD Efforts to Remediate Financial Statement Material Weaknesses Related to Government Property in the Possession of Contractors 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense

  • Space & Defense Journal, Fall 2025, v. 16, no. 2 
    • Costly Signals in Space: Increasing Credibility via Strategic Disclosure
    • Raising Public Awareness on Space Themes: Analysis of Brazilian Space Policy Using Data from Google Trends
    • In Defense of Space Offense
    • Allied Abandonment and Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Korea’s Secret Nuclear Program
    • Space, Law, and National Security
    • Enabling the Decisive Advantage
    • Earth’s Orbital Prison: Codifying Customary Law to Prevent Environmental Catastrophe in Space
    • Plan to Fail by Failing to Plan: Deterring PRC Nuclear Force Expansion

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 ENSURED Project

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Policy Centre (EPC) 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

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

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

 German Federal Ministry of Defence [Bundesministerium der Verteidigung]

 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Digital Surveillance: Potential Effects on Workers and Roles of Federal Agencies GAO-25-107126 
  • Defense Budget: Clearer Guidance Is Needed to Improve Visibility into Resourcing of Pacific Deterrence Efforts GAO-26-107698 
  • Offshore Patrol Cutter: Coast Guard Should Gain Key Knowledge Before Buying More Ships GAO-26-107583 
  • VA Leasing: VA Should Systematically Identify and Address Challenges in Its Efforts to Lease Space from Academic Affiliates GAO-26-107821 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

  • China Leadership Monitor, Winter 2025, no. 86 
    • Punching Down: Beijing’s Playbook for Unwinding “Involutionary Competition”
    • Same Strategy, But Different Emphasis: Main Takeaways from the Central Committee’s Proposals for the 15th Five-Year Plan
    • China’s Middle-Income Class, Macroeconomic Growth, and Common Prosperity
    • The Dictator’s Dilemma toward the 21st Party Congress: Elite Reshuffling and Power Restructuring
    • China’s National Security: The People’s Liberation Army’s Shrinking Role in Protecting the Nation’s Core Interests
    • CLM Insights Interview with Minxin Pei

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)  

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, November 3, 2025, v. 25, no. 21 
    • Talent Policies Drive Tech Race While Party Courts Sinologists
    • PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism
    • Political Purification and Strategic Realignment in the PLA
    • China’s Foreign Affairs Apparatus Grapples with Succession Challenges
    • A Five-Year Plan for Managed Confrontation
  • Terrorism Monitor, November 20, 2025, v. 23, no. 9 
    • RSF Establishes Rival Government as Sudan’s War Spirals
    • Cameroon Rattled by Twin Insurgencies Amid Presidential Elections
    • Iraqi Militia Releases Israeli Hostage Following U.S. Pressure
    • JNIM Edges into Nigeria Through Bandit Collusion

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

 Mitchell Institute

 MITRE

 National Academies Press 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

  • Journal of Policy & Strategy, 2025, v. 5, no. 3 
    • Responsive Infrastructure
    • Why Does America Need a Golden Dome?
    • Why Arms Control Must Fail
    • A “One-War” Warfighting Construct No Longer Applies to U.S. Nuclear Strategy
    • Tailoring Deterrence: What and Why?
    • Assessing China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Societal Framework
  • Tailoring Deterrence: What and Why? 

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

 Niskanen Center

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)  

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

 Pew Research Center

 RAND Corporation

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 Small Arms Survey

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

 UK National Audit Office (NAO)

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 University of Western Australia (UWA) Defence and Security Institute 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy