Friday's Miscellany 12-14-2025 & 12-19-2025

 38 North

• Alabuga: The Latest Destination for North Korea’s Drone Ambitions 
• Military Airfield Modernization Expands to Uiju 
• North Korea’s Other TV: What You Don’t See on KCTV 
• Succession at the Crossroads: Scenarios for North Korea’s Future 
• Tracking North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress Preparations 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• China’s Critical Minerals Strategy in Africa 
• Ten African Security Trends from 2025 in Graphics 

 Air University Press

• Air & Space Operations Review, Winter 2025, v. 4, no. 2 
• ACE Gets Light and Lean: Joint Concepts to Make ACE Effective in the Western Pacific
• Macro-Management in the Air Component: Learning to Love the Mission Type Order
• An Argument for Agile Autonomy in Airpower
• The Continued Evolution of Air Force Targeting
• The Space Rescue Professional: Operationalizing Guardians for the Future
• Electrifying delta-v for the Space Force
• Critiquing the US Air Force Academy’s Core: Does It Satisfy the Need?
• Diplomats in Fortresses: The 1938 “Good Will Flight” to Argentina
• The Future of Air and Space Power: Intersections of Theory and Technology 

 American Enterprise Institute

• The 2026 Defense Policy Bill Again Shows Congress Can Work Together 

 American Statistical Association (ASA)

• The Nation’s Data at Risk: 2025 Report 

 Amnesty International

• Algorithmic Accountability Toolkit:  A Guide to Uncovering and Challenging State Automation 
• Targeting Civilians:  Murder, Hostage-Taking and Other Violations by Palestinian Armed Groups in Israel and Gaza 
• Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State:  Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida 

 Arctic Institute

• China’s Adaptive Diplomacy and Economic Statecraft in a Fragmented Arctic Order 
• Towards a Svalbard Convention on Scientific Research:  Building on the ATCM Model 

 Army University Press

• Forging the Framework: Evolving Law, Policy, and Doctrine for the US Military’s Domestic Response 

 Army War College Press

• Parameters, Winter 2025-26 no. 55, no. 4 
• Responsibly Pursuing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for the War Fighter
• A Hybrid Deterrence Model for Countering China
• Security Implications of the China-Russia-North Korea Triangle
• China’s Securitization of Agricultural Imports: A Case of Economic Statecraft Mixed Successes
• Drones and the Changing Character of War
• Mission Command’s Asymmetric Advantage Through AI-Driven Data Management
• On Lethality: Toward a More Complete Definition and Formation of the Lethality Framework
• Reframing the Nature of Strategic Competition

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• China 2026: What to Watch 
• Enhancing the Quad’s Cybersecurity Cooperation to Counter Chinese Cyberattacks 
• A Stress Test for Resilience: Risks & Opportunities for the U.S.-Japan Alliance 

 Atlantic Council

• Beijing Pressures Taiwan’s Remaining Diplomatic Partners.  Here’s What the U.S. Should Do in Response  
• Democracy and Stability in Africa: Why US Leadership Still Matters 
• Engaging Generative Artificial Intelligence in African Development 
• From the DRC to Sudan, Trump’s Disruptive Moves Could Revive Stalled Negotiations 
• Inside Trump’s Peace Plans 
• It’s All About Hamas’s Disarmament 
• Middle Powers’ Game-Changing Rivalries in Africa  
• In Southeast Asia, the Promise and Pitfalls of Tariff Diplomacy are on Full Display 
• The Russian Economy in 2025:  Between Stagnation and Militarization 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Japan-Australia Defence Cooperation in the Pacific:  The Case for a Partial Division of Labor 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• AI Geoeconomics: Allied Electricity and Secure Data Centers 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Is the UAE Deepening Its Strategic Involvement Against the Houthis? 

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• A Flawed Path to Peace:  The Weaknesses of the Proposed U.S.–Russia Framework for Ukraine 

 Brookings

• Chinese Citizens’ Affection for Taiwanese May Reduce Risk of Cross-Strait Conflict 
• What Happens When the Toy Talks Back? Calling for Caution and guardrails on AI Toys 
• Will Designating Fentanyl as a WMD Misfire? 

 Bruegel

• EU Securitisation Needs a More Market-Based Approach 
• How Resilient is Russia’s Economy After Four Years of War? 
• The Western Balkan Energy Sector: Between Russia, the European Union and the Green Transition 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Impact of Canada’s Cybersecurity Certification Program on Defense and Canadian Security 
• Strengthening Canada-ROK Defence Industrial Partnerships 
• Synthetic Environment in Canada’s Defense Future 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Ukraine’s Regional Shift:  Realignments in Wartime and Beyond 
• The United States and the Emerging Security Order in Eastern Syria  

 Cato Institute

• Immigration and Inequality in the Next Generation 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• After the Deal:  U.S. Policy for a Postwar Gaza 
• Short Supply:  Identifying and Addressing the Root Causes of Declining Propensity for Military Service 

 Center for American Progress (CAP)

• Climate Deniers of the 119th Congress and the Second Trump Administration 
• President Trump’s AI National Policy Executive Order Is an Unambiguous Threat to States Beyond Just AI 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• High Stakes in the High North: Harnessing Uncrewed Capabilities for Arctic Defense and Security 
• War Without End:  Russia’s Shadow Warfare 

 Center for International Policy

• How Legacies of War Turns Survivor Memory into Policy 
• Trump’s Venezuela Blockade an Act of War; Congress Must Act 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Arsenal of Policy: Defense Industrial Base Wargame Final Report 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• At the 23rd Collective Study Session of the CCP Politburo, Xi Jinping Stressed:  Strengthen the Long-Term Mechanism for Online Ecosystem Governance, Continue to Create a Clean and Correct Atmosphere in Cyberspace [translation] 
• China’s Embodied AI:  A Path to AGI 
• Implementation Opinions of Seven Ministries on Promoting the Innovative Development of the Brain-Computer Interface Industry [translation] 
• Translation Snapshot: Chinese Generative AI Safety Standards 
• Work Plan Unveiling the Key Tasks for Innovation in the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry [translation] 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 370: Women, Peace, Security: Global Norms, Local Practice 
• Belarus Analytical Digest
• No. 007: Belarusian Elites after Lukashenka 
• No. 006: Belarus' Relations with Poland and China in the Context of the War in Ukraine 
• Caucasus Analytical Digest
• No. 144: Queer-Feminist Resistance and Post-Socialist Entanglements 
• Policy Perspectives, December 2025, v. 13, no. 6 
• Islamic Jurists in Conflict: Negotiating Governance
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 333: Perceptions and Experiences of War in Russia 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• China’s Third Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean: Expanding Influence and Ambitions 
• Chinese Energy Investments in Southeast Asia 
• Improving Transparency and Human Rights in Procurement: An Incentive-Based Approach 
• Outlining the Challenges to U.S. Naval Shipbuilding 
• Project on Nuclear Issues:  A Collection of Papers from the Next Generation 
• Strengthening National Security Resilience in Japan 
• Stabilizing Cobalt Markets:  A Price Floor for U.S. Minerals Security 
• Targeting State AI Laws Undermines, Rather than Advances, U.S. Technology Leadership 

 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

• The Rise of the Organization of Turkic States: Is Turkic Cooperation Filling a Geopolitical Vacuum? 
• Youth and Digital Technology in Central Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan 

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

• The New Rules of the Game in the Horn of Africa - Hedging, Rivalry, and Partnership between Turkey, Egypt, and Ethiopia 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Europe’s Clean Tech Industry Between Trump’s Policies and Chinese Pressure 
• Fixing the EU's Broken Israel-Palestine Policy 
• The Paradox of French Power 
• Resilient Growth:  Aligning Productivity and Security 
• The Ukraine Reparations Loan: How to Fix Europe's Financial Plumbing 

 Centre for Independent Studies

• Reframing an Ancient Hatred: The Intersection of Left-Wing Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• AI and Trade: The WTO’s Thoughtful but Incomplete Assessment 
• China, the PLA and Xi’s Ongoing Purges: The Corruption Conundrum 
• Platform Governance and the Political Economy of Global AI Regulation 
• Trust by Design? AI in Military Applications 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

• Understanding Disclosure Motivations and Their Linguistic Correlates 

 Chatham House

• Escaping the Cycle of Conflict in Libya 
• How the Middle East and North Africa Can Benefit from Adaptive Climate Governance 
• Securing the Future of US–Japan–South Korea Cooperation 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Americans Prioritize Using US Troops Defensively 
• How Media Habits Shape American Foreign Policy Views 
• Shared Confidence, Diverging Expectations in the Taiwan Strait 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• EU Budget Proposals:  Caught Between Ambition and Governance Failure 

 Congress. Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Part

• Containment Breach: The U.S. Department of Energy's Failures in Research Security and Protecting Taxpayer-Funded Research from Foreign Exploitation 
• Ten More for Taiwan:  Policy Recommendations to Deter Chinese Communist Party Aggression 

 Congress. Offices of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Garamendi

• Draining Defense: Trump’s Immigration Stunts Cost Billions at the Expense of Military Readiness, Morale, and National Security 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Estimated Changes in Direct Spending Under S. 1071, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 
• Maintenance Delays for Conventional Navy Ships 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Compete, Don’t Retreat:  A Smarter U.S. Response to China’s Automotive Revolution 
• Conflicts to Watch in 2026 
• The Next Taiwan Crisis Won’t Be Like the Last—How to Prepare for New Dangers 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• Food Trade Chokepoints & US National Security in 2040 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Engines of Power: The Ambitions and Realities of Turkey's Defence Industrial Experiment 
• Frontline Aid: Evolving Humanitarian Challenges in Ukraine 
• The Weight of Silence: Mapping the Mobondo Conflict Surrounding Kinshasa 

 Defense AI Observatory  (DAIO)

• Bonds That Separate: Defense AI in the Arab Gulf States 
• A Careful Walk on Thin Ice: Defense AI in Indonesia 
• Guarding the Alliance’s Eastern Frontiers: Defense AI in Poland 

 Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

• Defense Acquisition, v. 54, no. 6, November-December 2025
• A Systems Approach to Sustainable Innovation
• The Value of Warfighting Innovation
• Revolutionizing Planning and Operations With AI  
• Artificial Intelligence—Trust but Verify
• Doers, Not Reviewers—Leadership Role in Agile Software Development
• Spectrum Certification and Supportability Risk Assessments— Not Just Radio Red Tape
• Contract Disputes and Their Resolution
• Contracting Officer Procurement Integrity Act Investigations

 Department of Defense/War

• Changing the Term Military Information Support Operations Back to Psychological Operations 
• Current Combatant Commands 
• Guidance to Restore Honor to Service Members Separated Under the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine 
• Restoring Honor to Service Members Separated Under the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Mandate 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2026-038 Evaluation of the Navy’s Future Sailor Preparatory Course 
• DODIG-2026-035 Impact of Protecting DoD High-Risk Personnel on the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations 
• DODIG-2026-034 Inadequate Housing of Soldiers Supporting the Southern Border Mission 
• DODIG‑2026‑033 Audit of DoD's Enhanced End-Use Monitoring in Israel 
• DODIG-2026-031 The DoD’s Calculation and Reporting of Future Servicemember Preparatory Course Graduates for Recruiting Metrics 
• DODIG-2026-030  Evaluation Directed by the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Classified Annex to the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act, Enclosure 11 
• DODIG-2026-025 Audit of the Defense Health Agency’s Management of Military Medical Treatment Facilities Outside the Continental United States in Meeting Access to Primary Care Standards 
• DODIG-2026-024 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation: U.S Army Reserve, U.S Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 

 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• Worst Case Housing Needs: 2025 Report to Congress 

 Department of State Office of Inspector General

• ISP-I-26-02 Evaluation of the Department’s Efforts to Improve Oversight of Its Funding to International Organizations 

 Egmont—The Royal Institute for International Relations

• From the Donbas to Africa:  How Returning Fighters Could Fuel a New Mercenary Wave 
• The (In)Auspicious Number Four: An Assessment of the Fourth Plenum of the Twentieth National Congress of the CCP 
• Will Uganda’s ‘Open-Door’ Refugee Policy Hold? Aid Cuts and Rising Anti-Immigration Sentiments 

 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

• Benchmarking Large Language Models for the Electric Power Sector 

 EMDE Investor Taskforce

• EMDE Climate Transition and Financial Stability: How Far Will Delayed Transitions in EMDEs Lead to Local and Global Financial Stability Risks? 

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

• Handbook on the Role of Non-State Actors in Russian Hybrid Threats 
• Hybrid Threats in High Latitudes: Facing Russia on Svalbard 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Accelerate the Accessions: Why Faster is Better in EU Enlargement Policy 
• The Bear in the Baltics: Reassessing the Russian threat in Estonia 
• Get Over Your X: A European Plan to Escape American Technology 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• Colombia: Country Focus 
• Comparative Overview of Legal Assistance and Representation in the Asylum Procedure 
• Practical Guide on the Management of a Reception Centre 
• Practical Guide on the Registration and Lodging of Applications for International Protection 
• The Russian Federation: Country Focus 

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) 

• NIS Investments 2025 
• Voices of EU Cybersecurity Certification 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Southern Currents: Mapping the Geopolitics of the South Atlantic 
• Tech War 2.0: The Dangers of Trump's 'G2' Bargaining with an Emboldened China 
• Women as Agents of Change in the MENA Region? 

 EUROPOL

• The Unmanned Future(s): The Impact of Robotics and Unmanned Systems on Law Enforcement 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Belgium's Measures to Counter Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing 
• Malaysia's Measures to Counter Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• European Union’s Crisis Management Efforts:  Evolution Amid a Shifting International Order and the War in Ukraine  
• Faltering Ceasefires as Substitutes for Peace Agreements: The Cases of Gaza, Ukraine and Myanmar 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Irregular Warfare 
• From Front Line to Fault Line: Russia’s Challenge Managing Veteran Reintegration 
• The New US National Security Strategy: A Transactional Document that Marginalizes Africa 
• The Present and Future of the KMT in Taiwan 
• Right Assessment, Wrong Tactics: Europe in the New National Security Strategy 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• U.S. Blockades Sanctioned Oil Tankers in Venezuela. Iran Deserves the Same Treatment 
• Winning the Race of the Red Queen:  How U.S. Sanctions Can Outpace Russia’s Evasion 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• Approaching the War on Terror in the Sahel 
• How the DOJ is Prosecuting Nihilistic Violent Extremism as Domestic Terrorism 

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

• The Geopolitics of Batteries: How Europe Can Reclaim Energy Storage Sovereignty Before It’s Too Late 

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

• ‘Golden Dome’ and the Illusory Promise of Invulnerability:  U.S. Missile Defense Under Trump—Risks and Opportunities for Europe 
• India’s Engagement with Mauritius amid the New Maritime Geopolitics 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Behind the Blockchain: Cryptocurrency and Criminal Capture in the Central African Republic  
• Collateral Circuits:  The Impact of the Sudan’s War on Arms Markets and Mercenary Networks in Chad and Libya  
• Human Smuggling and Trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel 
• Minimizing Risks of Criminal Exposure to Scam Compounds in Corporate Supply Chains 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Could Chatbots Seduce Us into Extremism? Radicalisation Risks in an Age of AI Companions 
• Digital Weaponisation: Taliban Propaganda and Narrative Warfare on X 
• The Feed That Shapes Us: Extremism and Adolescence in the Age of Algorithms 
• Monetising Misogyny: Engagement Farming and the Tactics Behind Incendiary Online Content 
• Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence 
• You Talkin’ to Me? Algorithmic Mirrors and Chatbot Radicalisation 
• The Weaponisation of Femininity: Gendered Realities in ISIS’s Digital Caliphate 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Traffic Control Workforce: FAA Should Establish Goals and Better Assess Its Hiring Processes GAO-26-107320 
• Coast Guard: Approaches to Autonomous Ship Regulation GAO-26-108762 
• Coast Guard: Monitoring of Disability Evaluation System Could Be Improved GAO-26-107161 
• Commercial Aviation: Certain Nonhub Airports Face Significant Challenges in Securing and Maintaining Air Service GAO-26-107751 
• Cybersecurity: Independent Assessment and VA Response Generally Met Requirements GAO-26-107980 
• Digital Surveillance: Potential Effects on Workers and Roles of Federal Agencies [Reissued with revisions on Dec. 10, 2025] GAO-25-107126 
• Disaster Assistance High-Risk Series: State and Local Response Capabilities GAO-26-108599 
• Excess Defense Articles: DOD Needs to Better Assess the Program GAO-26-107627 
• Federal Home Loan Banks: Role During Financial Stress and Members' Borrowing Trends and Outcomes GAO-26-107373 
• Federal Law Enforcement: Status Update with Regard to Criminal Sexual Acts while Serving in Official Capacity (Fiscal Year 2025) GAO-26-108616 
• Financial Management Shared Services: Progress and Identified Challenges GAO-26-107895  
• Government Performance: Confronting High Risks and Fiscal Challenges Is Crucial to a More Effective and Sustainable Government GAO-26-108824 
• Health Care Accessibility: Further Efforts Needed to Address Barriers for People with Disabilities GAO-26-107120 
• Human Trafficking: Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Anti-Trafficking Projects in Conflict-Affected Countries GAO-26-107406 
• Humanitarian Parole: DHS Identified Fraud Risks in Parole Processes for Noncitizens and Should Assess Lessons Learned GAO-26-107433 
• Illicit Synthetic Drugs: Trafficking Methods, Money Laundering Practices, and Coordination Efforts GAO-26-107918 
• K-12 Education: Administration of DOD Schools in Bahrain GAO-26-108077 
• Navy Ship Maintenance: Fire Prevention Improvements Hinge on Stronger Contractor Oversight GAO-26-107716 
• Osprey Aircraft: Additional Oversight and Information Sharing Would Improve Safety Efforts GAO-26-107285 
• Personnel Security Clearances: Actions Needed to Address Significant Data Reliability Issues That Impact Oversight GAO-26-107100 
• Science & Tech Spotlight: Malicious Use of Generative AI GAO-26-108695 
• Semiconductors: Information on Projects Funded to Strengthen U.S. Supply Chain GAO-26-107882 
• Service Academies: Clarifying Guidance Would Enhance Effectiveness of Honor and Conduct Systems GAO-26-107049 
• Supplemental Material for GAO-26-107049: Questionnaires for Survey of Service Academy Students GAO-26-108179 
• U.S. Postal Service: Action Needed to Fix Unsustainable Business Model GAO-26-107336 
• U.S. Postal Service Primer: Updated Answers to Key Questions About Reform Issues GAO-26-107657 
• VA Electronic Health Record Modernization: Critical Actions Needed to Support Accelerated System Deployments GAO-26-108812 
• Weapon Systems Testing: DOD Needs to Update Policies to Better Support Modernization Efforts GAO-26-107009 

 Govini

• From Factory to Fight: A Modern Framework for Defense Logistics 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Bridging Waters: Strengthening Europe’s Maritime Security Engagement Through Partnerships with Rising Middle Powers 
• Efforts to Lift the EU’s Yellow Card: Assessing Vietnam’s Legal Response to IUU Fishing 
• Egypt and the EU: Acting on the Shared Interest in Stabilising the Red Sea 
• EU-Philippines Cooperative Maritime Measures 
• The Houthi Threat in the Broader Red Sea: New Risks and Policy Options for Gulf–European Cooperation 
• Navigating Great Power Rivalry through Maritime Cooperation 
• Response and Resilience: Government Strategies for Securing Subsea Infrastructure in Europe and Asia 

 Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC)

• The Shield and the Sword: The Impact of Ballistic Missile Defence on Missile Proliferation 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2025, v. 18, no. 4 [Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine] 
• The Evolving Landscape of European Security: An Assessment of NATO’s Posture and Deterrence Strategies in Response to the Russia-Ukraine War
• Authoritarian Strategic Alignments in the Ukraine War: Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China
• Ukraine’s Proxy War Against Russia and its Lessons for Europe
• The Future of War: Kill-Chain Supremacy and Ukraine's Lessons
• Artificial Intelligence in Warfare: The Case of the Russia-Ukraine War
• Has Russian Electronic Warfare Underperformed in the Ukrainian Conflict?
• Sea Denial: The Ukrainian Case Study and the Future of Naval Warfare
• Millions of Tons, Billions in Dollars: Unexploded Ordnance in Ukraine
• Energy Weaponization in the Ukraine–Russia War: Sanctions, Rerouting Flows, and Implications for Smaller States
• Navigating Energy Transition: EU’s Lessons in the Wake of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
• Russian Resilience: Sanction Elusion Mechanisms Utilized During the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Surveying New Battlegrounds: Ukraine and the Future of Cognitive Warfare
• Sacralizing Security: Orthodoxy and Securitization in Russia’s War on Ukraine
• Slava Ukraini! Solving Ukraine’s Present with the Past
• Legal Framework for Counterintelligence Activities in Ukraine
• Ukrainian Studies on Terrorism: Contemporary Overview and Thematic Classification

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Déjà vu All Over Again:  The Risks of Historical Amnesia 
• Drone Warfare in South Asia  
• The Power of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy 

 Hudson Institute

• Adapting to Win:  Using the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office to Pioneer a New Approach to Military Acquisition 
• The Geopolitics and Risks of Data Localization in Southeast Asia 
• A New Great Game Emerges as Central Asia Drifts Away from Moscow 
• Pickets, Pouncers, and Protectors:  How the Australian Defense Force Can Use Uncrewed Systems for Twenty-First-Century Deterrence 
• The US Should Cement Its Presence in the Baltic 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Defending American Tech in Global Markets 
• Still Insignificant: An Update on Concentration in the US Economy 

 InSight Crime

• Peace Never Had a Chance: Colombia’s ELN in Venezuela 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• China’s Fujian Aircraft Carrier: A Technological Leap in Shipbuilding 
• China’s Role in Afghanistan and Pakistan Post US-Nato Withdrawal: Implications for India 
• Japan’s New Prime Minister: Domestic and Foreign Policy Impacts 
• Türkiye’s Renewed Engagement with the Gulf 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) 

• The Rise of the Organization of Turkic States: Is Turkic Cooperation Filling a Geopolitical Vacuum? 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Imagery Update of Activities at North Korea’s Yongbyon Site 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• December 11, 2025  M23 Captures Uvira; Benin Coup; RSF Captures Key Sudanese Oil Hub 
• December 18, 2025  M23 Withdraws from Uvira; Saudi-UAE Red Sea Competition 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• December 12, 2025 
• December 19, 2025 
• Iran Update
• December 8, 2025 
• December 9, 2025 
• December 10, 2025 
• December 11, 2025 
• December 12, 2025 
• December 15, 2025 
• December 16, 2025 
• December 17, 2025 
• December 18, 2029 
• December 19, 2025 
• Russian Occupation Update
• December 11, 2025
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• December 8, 2025 
• December 9, 2025 
• December 10, 2025 
• December 11, 2025  
• December 12, 2025 
• December 13, 2025 
• December 14, 2025 
• December 15, 2025 
• December 16, 2025 
• December 17, 2025 
• December 18, 2029 
• December 19, 2025 
• December 20, 2025 
• December 21, 2025 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Beyond the Pivot: Expanding South Korea’s Global Role and G7 Cooperation in a New Era 
• Chokepoint Above and Below the Surface: The Red Sea’s Emerging Infrastructure Challenge
• A GENIUS Response? EU Digital Money: Rules, Euro Stablecoins and CBDCs 
• The Horn of Africa and the Mediterranean: Much Closer Than It Seems 
• New (Dis)Orders in the Mediterranean: Regional Dynamics 
• North Africa’s Security Landscape and Its Mediterranean Impact 
• Shifting Dynamics in Transatlantic Relations: Implications for Mediterranean Security 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Perspectives on Terrorism, 2025, v.19, no. 4 
• Wait, There’s Terrorism in The Lorax? Examining Portrayals of Eco-tage and Eco-terrorism in Influential Fiction Film, 1972-2023
• Can We Leave Ideology Behind? Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Motivational Action Frames in Tracking Radicalisation and Deradicalisation
• Why Ideology Endures in our Study of Terrorists
• A Response to "Can We Leave Ideology Behind?"
• Ideology and Motivation
• Understanding the Online Posting Behaviours of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists: A Research Note
• Bibliography: Terrorist Recruitment

 International Crisis Group

• After the “Golden Era”: Getting Bangladesh-India Ties Back on Track 
• Embracing Arms:  Securing Japan in a “New Era of Crisis” 
• Exploiting Prejudice:  LGBTQI+ People and Armed Groups in Colombia 
• The M23 Offensive: Elusive Peace in the Great Lakes 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Cloud Adoption for National-Security and Defence Purposes: Four Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific 
• The EU’s Burgeoning Defense Role and its Impact on Third-country Market Access 
• Exploring Opportunities for European Rearmament Through Ukraine’s Experience and Indo-Pacific Partnerships 
• Forward and Seaward:  Archipelagic Defense as a Military Strategy for the Philippines 
• The SAFE Regulation and Its Implications for Non-EU Defense Suppliers 
• South Korea as a Rising Defense Exporter:  Challenges and Opportunities 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, December 19, 2025, v. 25, no. 23 
• PRC–Venezuela Relations Endure During U.S. Military Operation
• New Military–Civil Fusion Body for PRC Robotics Ecosystem
• The PRC’s Expanding Arms Control Agenda
• Authorities Securitize Response to Tai Po Fire

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Key Middle East Provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act 

 Kiel Institut

• Ukraine Support Tracker: Europe Fails to Offset US Aid Drop 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Navigating the Storm:  Southeast Asia and the Global Trade Shocks 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• MERICS Top China Risks 2026 

 Middle East Institute

• Axis of Resistance  
• A New Day in Syria: Opportunities for Reconstruction and Renewal  

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Trinidad and Tobago Grapples with Venezuelan Migrants in a Complex Environment 

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

• Charting a Path to Space Superiority:  The Cross-Domain Imperative 

 MITRE

• Strengthening the Defense Industrial Base through Supply Chain Diversification and Partnerships 

 National Academies Press  

• Digital Transformation in the Department of the Air Force 2025 

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• All Railroads Lead to China:  China’s Borderlands Strategy of Integration in Laos 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• The Challenge of a Rising, Nuclear-Armed China 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Translations #25: A New Pillar for Distant Oceans: Concepts for the Chinese Navy's New Generation of General-Purpose Destroyers 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2025, v. 107, issue 1 
• Military AI and the Specter of the Limitless War 
• AI and Naval Operations 
• Legal Issues Arising from the Military Use of AI-Supported Biometrics 

 New America

• Threat Complacency and Nuclear Risk:  Addressing Old Threats in a New Era 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Beyond Global Polarization: New Cooperation Wanted 
• Embedded Finance in India: Opportunities and Challenges 
• The Enduring Challenges of Counterterrorism: Regional Perspectives from Southeast and South Asia 
• Financing Agenda 2030: Tapping into Philanthropy for Partnerships 
• Is the U.S. Economic Order Entering a Permanent Shift? 
• Kashmir in the Early-‘60s: Keeping Pro-Pakistan Elements at Bay 
• Powering Ahead: The Future of EV Battery Manufacturing in India 
• Shared Aspirations, Diverse Priorities: BIMSTEC Perspectives on Connectivity 
• Tracking Regional Disparities in Learning Outcomes 

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

• Law Enforcement Solutions by the Field, for the Field: Collaborative Reform Seventh Annual Review 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• Personality Matters: How Mayors Navigated Rodrigo Duterte’s War on Drugs in the Philippines 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Does a Weak Social Safety Net Hold Back Private Consumption in China? 
• War-induced Economic Convergence in Russian Regions 

 Pew Research Center

• Growing Shares Say the Trump Administration is Doing ‘Too Much’ to Deport Immigrants in the U.S. Illegally 
• Most Americans Say Government Has a Responsibility to Ensure Health Care Coverage 
• Trump Has Already Issued More Executive Orders in His Second Term Than in His First 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• The 2025 NSS and Restraint: Experts React 
• Costly Adaptation, Not Capitulation:  Iran’s Likely Trajectory Under the Post—JCPOA Pressure Campaign  
• How to Keep Resolution 2803 From Becoming a U.S.–Run Occupation 
• The Seizure of Russian Assets Is Not in the Interest of Peace 

 RAND Corporation

• Accelerating Puerto Rico's Disaster Recovery: A Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations 
• Clearing Up the Confusion from Misperceptions About the Security Clearance Process 
• Comparing Training Ammunition Options for Firing Ranges: Life-Cycle Costs, Market Trends, and Purchasing Strategies 
• Europe and the Geopolitics of AGI:  The Need for a Preparedness Plan 
• Evaluation of the Peaceful Connections Violence Prevention Program 
• An Initial Assessment of Opportunities for Technology-Enabled Civilian Talent Management in the Department of the Air Force 
• Passive Aggressive:  Reconsidering the Relevance of Passive Defenses in Major War 
• RAND Ontological Model for Assessing Nuclear Crisis Escalation Risk (ROMANCER):  Theoretical Introduction and Background  
• RAND Ontological Model for Assessing Nuclear Crisis Escalation Risk (ROMANCER):  User Guide for Version 1.0  
• Visions to Reality: Achieving the Middle East and North Africa's Economic Ambitions 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• The Atlantic Bastion 
• Critical Minerals Crime:  Lessons to Learn from Gold Mining 
• Disrupting Russian Air Defense Production:  Reclaiming the Sky 
• Foreign Influence in Japan:  Lessons from the UK, U.S. and Australia 
• Future of the Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture 
• Handbook on the Role of Non-State Actors in Russian Hybrid Threats 
• Reducing Global Reliance on Nuclear Deterrence 
• Tackling Dirty Money in Football 

 Small Arms Survey

• A Country for Old Men: The State of the Nuer White Armies of South Sudan 
• Making the Enemy: The War in Western Equatoria and Western Bahr el Ghazal States 
• Weapons Compass: Proliferation and Control of Arms and Ammunition in Wartime Ukraine 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Local Perspectives on Ukraine’s EU Integration 
• The Ukrainian Mobilization Challenge: Military and Society During Full-Scale War 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Can the Growth Trend in South Korea’s Arms Industry Last? 
• Navigating Green Geopolitics: Perils and Promise of Energy Transition and the Case of Ukraine 
• Risk Reduction Is Urgently Needed Amid Rising Tensions in Northern Europe 
• Support in an Age of Relapse: Assisting Security, Justice and Inclusive Governance in Restrictive Environments 
• Use Cases for Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Export Controls on Biological Items 
• Use Cases for Emerging Technologies to Strengthen High-Containment Laboratory Governance 

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

• Unmanned Surface Vessels: A Legal Analysis Based on the Use in the Russia-Ukraine Armed Conflict 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• Germany, NATO and Transatlantic Relations in Transition 
• Political Deadlock in Kosovo: Will New Elections Break It? 
• What Are the Prospects for a Global Treaty on Critical Raw Materials? 

 Swedish National China Centre

• China’s Mineral Export Restrictions: Market Impacts and Implications 

 Taylor & Francis

• African Security
• Brothers in Arms? Vigilantism and Ambivalent State Responses in West Africa [open access article] 
• Children of the Soil: Parallels Between Vigilantes and Boko Haram in Hybrid Security-Governance of the Lake Chad Basin Region [open access article] 
• Militarisation and Political (In)security in Contemporary Zimbabwe [open access article] 
• Pillorying Expansion Over Invasion: Africa’s New Neutralism, Politics of Non-Alignment, and the Global (Re)Balancing of Power from the Russian-Ukrainian War [open access article] 
• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
• The Community Impact of Terrorism: The Case of the 2022 Pride Terrorist Attack in Norway [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism
• AI as a Tool for Settler-Colonial Projects: How Israel Employs AI to Intensify Colonial Dominance Under the Pretext of Counterterrorism [open access article] 
• Defence and Peace Economics, 2026
• Can Sanctions Backfire? [open access article] 
• Explaining the Ammunition Shortage: The Show vs. Have Military Power Game [open access article] 
• Defence Studies, 2025
• EU-NATO Cooperation Reloaded: The Impact of European Strategic Autonomy [open access article] 
• The Event-Agency-Structure Framework for Explaining Continuity and Change in Foreign and Defence Policy in Europe: The Case Of Germany Prior to and After the Zeitenwende [open access article] 
• Transatlantic Solidarity in the Shadow of the Russian–Ukrainian War: A Neorealist Explanation [open access article] 
• Understanding the European Union’s Response to the Russian War on Ukraine: The Role of the European External Action Service [open access article] 
• Ethics & Global Politics, 2025
• Should Transgender Individuals Serve in the Armed Forces? [open access article] 
• Intelligence and National Security, 2025
• A Country With “Its Own Special Problems”: Domestic Surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War [open access article] 
• Invisible Bodies of War: British Servicewomen on Covert Operations in Northern Ireland [open access article] 
• Overcoming Anglocentrism in Covert Action Scholarship [open access article] 
• Striking the Empire: The Rome Embassy Bombing and the Irgun Campaign Against Britain in Europe, 1946–1947 [open access article] 
• Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2025
• Domestication of the African Regional Biosafety and Biosecurity Legislative Framework – Lessons Learned from the First Four Countries: Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, and Sierra Leone [open access article] 
• The Health Silk Road in China’s Governance and Multilateralism: Towards a Role Adjustment [open access article] 
• Legacy Electronic Health Record Systems as Culprit behind Cybersecurity Risks in Public Healthcare facilities of South Africa [open access article] 
• Libya in Transition: Governance Challenges and Civil Society’s Prospects in Political and Economic Reforms [open access article] 
• Reconstructing the Medical Intelligence Framework: An Integration of the Health-Risk Approach into the Process of Intelligence Analysis [open access article] 
• Reimagining Biosecurity: The ‘One Life’ Framework for Pandemic Response in the Caribbean [open access article] 
• Scaling Back Aid for Africa is a Strategic Misstep for the United States [open access article] 
• The UAE’s Niche Diplomacy in the Middle East: Authoritarian Strategies of a Middle Power [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies
• Toward a Global History of Bombing in the Second World War: Taking Japan Seriously [open access article] 
• Security Studies, 2025
• Creeds and Contestation: How US Nuclear and Legal Doctrine Influence Each Other [open access article] 
• Dictatorships and Western Public Relations Firms: Evidence from the United States [open access article] 
• The Effect of Historical Analogies on Foreign Policy Attitudes [open access article] 
• Military Medicine and Military Effectiveness [open access article] 
• Stumbling out of the Gates: Security Strategy and Military Weakness after Revolutionary Victory [open access article] 

 UK Government

• Russia Financial Sanctions: List of Asset-Freeze Targets 
• UK Security Export Statistics 2024 

 UK Parliament House of Commons

• Taiwan: Relations with the United States 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Rebuilding Lives: Understanding Economic Well-being After Exiting an Armed Group in the North East of Nigeria 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Bolivia Coca Survey 2024 - Fact Sheet and Executive Summary 
• From Paper to Practice: the United Nations Convention against Corruption 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Allies and Partners Poll 2025:  Where the Quad Countries Stand on Trump, Security and the Future of the Indo-Pacific 
• Beyond Alignment: Moving the NATO–IP4 Partnership Forward 
• Canada and the National Technology and Industrial Base 
• Paradigm Shift: The End of the Washington Consensus and the Future of Australian Economic Statecraft 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The Hamas-Israel War: An Early Assessment 
• Institutions and Governance in the New Syria: Continuity and Change from the Idlib Model 

 World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS)   

• Cadmus Journal, December 2025, v. 5,  no. 5 
• The Climate Challenge as a Catalyst for Global Social Evolution
• Homo sapiens: An Endangered Species
• Thoughts on Repeated Past Major Climatic Events
• The Forgotten Why
• Cultural Code of Evolution: Spirituality, Creativity, Morality, Ethics
• Advancing a Planetary Arts Movement: A Manifesto for X-ART
• Reliable Knowledge through the Integration of Art & Science
• American Hegemony at a Critical Juncture, Lessons from History’s Great Powers
• Reconcentration Around Empires
• Suggestions for Financing a Better & More Secure World: On Reciprocal Relations within Tax and Taxation
• Bridging the Gap: The Role of Green Quantitative Easing and Central Bank Digital Currencies in Managing, Funding and Hedging Our Common Future
• Reconceptualizing Leadership and Reeducating Collaborators in the Twenty-first Century
• Science, Society, and Sustainability: Toward a New Paradigm of Integrated Knowledge for Human Security
• A Global Roadmap towards inclusive Human Security
• Turbulent Times: A Framework for Navigating Global Crisis Through Conscious Transformation
• Transforming Increasingly Complex Earth Systems During Times of Accelerating Global Change
• Basic Laws of Development – Part II
• Social Development Theory

 World Bank

• Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations 
• A Healthy Future: Primary Health Care and the Chronic Disease Epidemic in East Asia and Pacific 
• International Debt Report 2025