Friday's Miscellany 01-23-2026 & 01-30-2026

 38 North

• Assessing North Korea’s Five-Year Effort to Develop 13 New Nuclear and Missile Systems 
• Assessing the Impact of the US’ New Foreign Policy Approach on North Korea’s Arms Trafficking Activity 
• North Korea’s 2025 Health Revolution 
• North Korean Cellular Coverage in 2026 
• The Northeast Asian Security Dilemma: Does European Experience Show the Way Out? 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Adapting Benin’s Battle with Violent Militant Groups 
• China’s Military Footprint in Africa Deepens with People’s Liberation Army-led BRICS Naval Drills 
• What to Expect from Africa-China Relations in 2026 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Steady, Not Soaring, Chinese Investment in 2025 

 Americans for Responsible Innovation

• Competitive Compliance: Why Uniform Screening Standards Support Innovation and Thwart Regulatory Capture 

 Arctic Institute

• Dispatch from Guangzhou: Stabilizing US-China Relations in the Arctic 

 Arms Control Association

• Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention:  Recommendations from Civil Society for Addressing Challenges Over the Next Five Years 

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

• Cyber Defense Review, 2025, v. 10, no.3 
• What Comes Next? Alternative Futures for U.S. Cyber Forces
• Answer This Before Changing U.S. Cyber Command or Adding a Cyber Service
• A New Cyber Service is Not the Answer
• Beyond the Uniform: Reconnecting the Nation’s Cyber Force
• Evolution of U.S. Cyber Command since 2018
• ”Go Big”: Cyber Force Large
• Military Function, Form, and History’s Lessons for Cyber Forces
• Gaming Campaigning in Cyberspace
• Support and Leverage Auxiliaries for Stronger Cyber Defense
• U.S. Cyber Command Evolution and the Increasing Role of the Private Sector
• Evaluating Alternative Models for Organizing U.S. Cyber Forces
• Built for Land, Not Cyber
• Why Culture Matters: Organizational Culture and Force Generation for the Cyber Domain
• Reclaiming the Cyber Domain: Revising U.S. Doctrine to Treat Cyberspace as Battlespace and Not a Function
• Breaking the "Cyber" Cage: Reinventing Cyber Command for Great Systems Conflict
• Bring Cyber to the Tactical Edge: The Case for Decommissioning USCYBERCOM
• Reform or Replace: The Strategic Dilemma of U.S. Cyber Forces

 Asia Society Policy Institute

• ‘Trade is in our Blood’:  Momentum Builds in Asia for Expanding Rules-based Economic Cooperation 

 Atlantic Council

• Countering Russian Escalation in Space 
• In Iraq, China’s Long Game Unfolds 
• A Three-Billion-Person Challenge: The Rising Global Market for Financial Leaders 

 Australian Government Defence

• Defence Corporate Plan 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• China’s Role in the USMCA Review 
• What Comes Next for Gaza and Trump’s Board of Peace 

 Brookings

• AI Risks from Non-State Actors 
• Even in ‘Business-Friendly’ States, Federal Policy Shocks are Hurting Latino-Owned Firms 
• How Industry is Keeping Clean Energy Alive in an Era of Policy Chaos 
• Assessing President Trump’s Second-Term Staffing Record 
• Pro-Productivity Policies for the US Economy 
• Three Potential Pathways for US-China Relations under Trump 
• Tracking Trade Amid Uncertain and Changing Tariff Policies 

 Bruegel

• European and Chinese Exports Kept Growing Despite the 2025 Trump Trade Shock 
• Growth Without Profits: How Will ‘Involution’ in China End? 

 Canada. Department of National Defence

• Canadian Military Journal, Spring 2025,  v. 25 no. 2 
• Conceptualizing Human Security
• Human Security in an Age of Great Power Competition: Implications for the Canadian Armed Forces
• NATO Research Task Group 382: Human Security and Military Operations
• Implementation of the Vancouver Principles
• Culture Wars: Towards a Formal Cultural Heritage Protection Capability for the Canadian Armed Forces
• NATO Article 5 and Human Security Interventions
• Keep them Out: The European Union’s Externalization Policies on Refugees
• A Durable Solution for Haiti: Rebuilding with Human-Centric Security
• Human Security Expertise in Civil-Military Cooperation
• International Approaches to Human Security
• Human Security and CAF Senior Leader Professional Development
• The Future of Peace and Security: An Interview with Lieutenant-General (retired) The Honourable Roméo Dallaire

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• “All Options Are on the Table”:  Assessing the International Legality of Nuclear Threats 
• Navigating Responsible Stewardship of Nuclear-Powered Submarines 
• A New Era of Nuclear-Powered Submarines Is Making Waves in Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones  

 Cato Institute

• Immigrant and Native Consumption of Means-Tested Welfare and Entitlement Benefits in 2023 
• Minimum Wages and Racial Disparities 
• Trade Policy Uncertainty and Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from “Liberation Day” 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Sanctions by the Numbers: 2025 Year in Review 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• High Stakes in the High North: Harnessing Uncrewed Capabilities for Arctic Defense and Security 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• When AI Builds AI:  Findings from a Workshop on Automation of AI R&D 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Breaking the Final Frontier: Cyber Operations Against the Space Sector. Evidence from the Gaza War and Beyond 
• Caucasus Analytical Digest
• No. 145: Disinformation in Georgia 
• Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
• No. 16: Journalists, Social Media and News Consumption 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The 2026 National Defense Strategy by the Numbers:  Radical Changes, Moderate Changes, and Some Continuities 
• AI and Grand Strategy: The Case for Restraint 
• Lost in Definition:  How Confusion Over Agentic AI Risks Governance 
• Russia’s Grinding War in Ukraine: Massive Losses and Tiny Gains for a Declining Power  
• Securing Africa’s Future Water Needs 
• Understanding China’s Quest for Quantum Advancement  
• When to Use (and Not Use) “As a Service” for Government Space Requirements 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Can Hungary's Opposition Win and Restore Democracy? 

 Centre of Excellence Defence Against Terrorism (COE-DAT)

• Defence Against Terrorism Review, v. 2, 2025 
• Impact of the Cryptocurrencies and FinTech Innovations on Terrorist Financing Risks
• Brand Archetypes and the Terrorist Organizations: The Case of Daesh
• Beyond the Euro-Atlantic: Colombia’s Path to NATO Global Partnership

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Documenting the Israel–Gaza War: Reflections and the Future 
• Five Years On: Myanmar Under Military Rule 
• From Ballots to Bullets: Tanzania's Deadly Post-Election Crackdown 
• “Grok’d”: Five Emerging Lessons On Limiting Abuse of AI Image Generation 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Rethinking TikTok Regulation in Canada 
• Trade Conflicts and Competition Policy in Canada’s Digital Economy 

 Chatham House

• A Roadmap for Security and Governance Reform in Haiti 
• Securing Justice for Cyber-Enabled International Crimes 
• Why Renewables and Electrification Hold the Keys to EU Energy Security 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Growing Partisan Divide on U.S. Foreign Policy 

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• When Law Enforcement Looks Like Occupation:  How Federal Immigration Surge in Operation Midway Blitz Impacts Chicago (Testimony Slides) 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• U.S. Revolution in Military Affairs and Japan:  The Case of Japan Acquiring the Joint Direct Attack Munition 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Everything on the Table - Three part series on US security and trade policy under Trump 2.0 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Estimating the Costs of Troop Deployments to U.S. Cities 

 Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)

• Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2025 Update 
• Prior Years 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• America Revived:  A Grand Strategy of Resolute Global Leadership 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• Assembling A Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Team 
• Product Categories for Technologies That Use Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards 

 Danish Defence Intelligence Service

• Intelligence Outlook 2025 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• American Ambitions in Greenland Pose Key Dilemmas for the Kingdom of Denmark in NATO 

 Defense Priorities

• An Armed Nonalignment Model for Ukraine’s Postwar Security 
• Move on from Washington’s Outdated Cuba Policy 

 Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• Artificial Intelligence Compliance Plan 

 Department of Defense/War

• 2026 National Defense Strategy 
• JIATF 401 Guide for Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructure 
• Personal Property Activity Implementation Memorandum 
• Revised Cyber Force Generation Model : Implementation Overview 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2026-045 Immediate Attention Required to Protect DoD Covered Assets Against Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) 
• DODIG-2026-044 Audit of the DoD’s Procedures to Ensure the Accuracy of the Pay to Remote Work Employees 
• DODIG‑2026‑043 Audit of the Army’s Administration of Noncompetitive Contracts in Support of Ukraine 
• DODIG-2026-041 Annual Report to Congress as Required by Section 554 of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory Library 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-26-02 Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security (MMPC) 

 Department of Labor

• Artificial Intelligence Use Case Inventory 

 Department of State Inspector General

• ISP-I-26-03 Review of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs’ Efforts to Advance United Nations Management Reform 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Beyond the Jihadist Label: Understanding the ADF’s Multilayered Violence 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• Nuclear Plants Reported Few Outages in the First Three Weeks of January 2026 
• Status of U.S. Nuclear Outages 

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

• Carbon Bargain: How Europe Can Adapt to Africa’s New Energy Alliances 
• Don’t Look Down: How Europeans Can Escape China’s Clean-Tech Gravity 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Living with Friction: Three Anchors of the EU-India Partnership 

 EUROPOL

• Diversification in Maritime Cocaine Trafficking Modi Operandi 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• British Virgin Islands' Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Maldives' Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Suriname's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Leveraging the Kurdish National Council and Roj Peshmerga to Break the Deadlock in Syria 
• The Origin of the US-UK Intelligence “Special Relationship” 
• Trump and the Special Operations Panacea 
• The Trump-Class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out Over Combat Power 
• The US AI Acceleration Plan vs China’s Diffusion Model 

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

• China’s Strategy Toward Pacific Island Countries:  Countering Taiwan and Western Influence  
• Merz’ European Policy-Making:  The End of the ‘German Vote’? 
• Placing the EU on a Warfare Footing: Energy and Raw Materials Priorities for 2026 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• The Egyptian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in America: Yesterday and Today 

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

• When Home Becomes Uninhabitable:  Planned Relocations as a Global Challenge in the Era of Climate Change 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Carceral Capture: Criminal Governance in Ecuador's Prison System 
• A Climate of Insecurity: Climate Change and Organized Crime in Cities 
• Deadly Democracy: Lethal Political Violence in Brazil 
• Disappearances By Organized Crime: A Guide to Responses and Strengthening Resilience 
• Feeding the Furnace: Tracing Opaque Gold Supply Chains and Deals in Central Africa 
• Frontiers of Plunder: Environmental Crime in Northern Mexico's Logging and Mining Sectors 
• The Somali Gold Rush: Milxo and the Ungoverned Mining Frontier 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Addressing Youth Radicalisation and Mobilisation > Escape The Void: Responding to Youth-Led Nihilistic Violence 
• “Agentic Smurfing”: How AI-Autonomous Micro-Laundering is Outpacing Traditional Terrorist Financing Detection 
• Escaping the Void: Responding to Youth-Led Nihilistic Violence 
• From Defence to Offence: How Anti-Drone Technologies Are Empowering Militants in a New Era of Coordinated Drone Warfare 
• The Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Digital Rehearsal, Gaming Communities, and Youth Pathways to Violence 
• The Moscow Oblast School Stabbing: Understanding Hybrid Radicalisation and Transnational Online Subcultures 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Accessing Airports: Available Public Transit Options and Efforts to Promote Their Use GAO-26-107817 
• Border Security: Improvements Needed to Increase Vehicle Scanning at Land Ports of Entry GAO-26-108767 
• Coast Guard: Inspector General Oversight of the Coast Guard and Other Military Services GAO-26-108639 
• Coast Guard Oversight: Actions Needed to Strengthen Collaboration on Investigations GAO-26-107341 
• Defense Budget: Effects of Continuing Resolutions on Selected Activities and Programs Critical to DOD’s National Security Mission GAO-26-107065 
• DOD Systems Modernization: Further Action Needed to Improve Travel and Other Business Systems GAO-26-107663 
• Federal Prisons: Improvements Needed to the System Used to Assess and Mitigate Incarcerated People’s Recidivism Risk GAO-26-107268 
• Federal Telework: Social Security Administration Needs a Plan to Maintain a Workforce with the Skills Needed to Provide Timely Service GAO-26-107645 
• Homelessness: Agency Actions Could Improve Data on Shelter Program Use GAO-26-107502 
• Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Oversight and Prevent Instructor Sexual Misconduct GAO-26-107524 
• Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: DOD and DHS Should Update Guidance to Evaluate Instructor Recruitment and Pay GAO-26-107709 
• Missile Warning Satellites: Space Development Agency Should Be More Realistic and Transparent About Risks to Capability Delivery GAO-26-107085 
• National Institutes of Health: Assessing Efforts to Improve Animal Research Could Lead to Greater Human Health Benefits [Reissued with revisions on Jan. 29, 2026] GAO-25-107140 
• Research Security: Agencies Should Assess Safeguards Against Discrimination GAO-26-107544 
• Small Business Research Programs: Additional Actions Needed to Incorporate Best Practices for Addressing Foreign Risks GAO-26-107972 
• Southwest Border: CBP Should Improve Oversight of Medical Care for Individuals in Custody GAO-26-107425 
• Supply Chain Security: Actions Needed to Improve CBP Management of the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Program GAO-26-107893 
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Actions Still Needed to Improve Planning and Management of Its Native American Law Enforcement Unit GAO-26-108546 
• Ukraine: U.S. State Department Has Taken Steps to Enhance Monitoring and Evaluation of Assistance GAO-26-107860 
• Weather Safety: Agencies Face Challenges Related to Multilingual Weather Alerts, and AI Project Needs Better Planning GAO-26-107680 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Shields and Spears: Nuclear-Conventional Force Balancing and the European Deterrence Architecture 
• Win-win Partnerships for Critical Raw Materials: Advancing Europe-West Africa Cooperation 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Harnessing AI to Move from Threat to Threat Reduction 

 Heritage Foundation

• From Catastrophic Stability to Optimal Instability:  How a Stronger U.S. Theater Nuclear Posture Can Deter Chinese Aggression 
• Limited Nuclear War Over Taiwan: An Initial Exercise 
• TIDALWAVE: Strategic Exploitation and Sustainment in a U.S.–China Conflict 

 Hudson Institute

• Did Iran Drop a Dirty Bomb on US Forces? 
• The EU’s December 2025 Changes to CS3D: Quantifying Costs to US Industry 

 Human Rights Watch

• ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• The Case for Policy Transformation to Avoid Losing the Techno-Economic-Trade War with China 
• How the Brussels Effect Hinders Innovation in the Global South 
• Policy Reforms to Launch US Space Innovation 

 Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)

• Rethinking Political Transitions in Today’s Latin America 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• Strategic Assessment, March 2026, v. 29, no. 1 
• The IDF’s Missing Piece: Projecting Power with an Expeditionary Command
• Symposium: Iran’s Involvement in the African Continent—Regional and Global Contexts and Implications for Israel

 Institute for Science and International Security

• A Comprehensive Analytical Review of Russian Shahed-type UAVs Deployment against Ukraine in 2025 
• Imagery Update: Concrete Sarcophagus at Taleghan 2 Nears Completion 
• New Activity at the Esfahan Nuclear Complex 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy

• Balancing Engagement and Confrontation: Taiwan’s Strategic Approach to National Security 
• The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea & Renewable Energy: Potential as Trust Building Engagement? 
• Japan-Korea: Too Close to Be Close? 
• The New Leaders of DPK and PPP: What Will This Mean for Korea’s Political Future 
• Triangular Tensions and Tactical Cooperation: PRC–DPRK–Russia 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD)  

• Bridging Policy and Research under the DSA: A Structured Research Agenda for Identifying Systemic Risks 
• Landscape Briefing: Mapping Online Male Supremacist Activity in Central and Eastern Europe 
• Morocco’s Religious Diplomacy: Soft Power, Sovereignty and the Politics of Faith 

 Institute for the Study of War

• China & Taiwan Update
• January 23, 2026 
• January 30, 2026 
• The Days of the Iranian Regime Are Numbered 
• Iran Update
• January 19, 2026 
• January 20, 2026 
• January 21, 2026 
• January 22, 2026 
• January 23, 2026 
• January 24, 2026 
• January 25, 2026 
• January 26, 2026 
• January 27, 2026 
• January 28, 2026 
• January 29, 2026 
• January 30, 2026 
• January 31, 2026 
• February 1, 2026 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• January 22, 2026  
• January 27, 2026 
• Russian Occupation Update
• January 30, 2026  
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• January 19, 2026 
• January 20, 2026 
• January 21, 2026 
• January 22, 2026 
• January 23, 2026 
• January 24, 2026 
• January 25, 2026 
• January 26, 2026 
• January 27, 2026 
• January 28, 2026 
• January 29, 2026 
• January 30, 2026 
• January 31, 2026 
• February 1, 2026 
• The Syrian Government Cannot Immediately Replace the SDF as a Counter-ISIS Partner in Northeastern Syria 
• Xi Jinping’s Military Purges Leave Him Increasingly Powerful but Isolated 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• EU-Africa Digital Partnership: Strategic Pathways through the Mattei Plan and Global Gateway 
• Europe after America: A Survival Guide for Moving On 
• Last Tango in Paris: As Macron’s Presidency Is Over, What’s Next? 
• A Washington Effect? How the United States Reasserts Monetary Power through Stablecoins 
• What Lies Beneath: Hybrid Threats to Taiwan’s Submarine Cables and the Contest in the Information Domain 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• India’s Strategic Recalibration: Managing US Volatility and China’s Opportunism 
• The State of EU Enlargement at the Outset of 2026: On the Brink of Major Breakthroughs 

 International Crisis Group

• After the “Golden Era”:  Getting Bangladesh-India Ties Back on Track 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief
• January 10, 2025, v. 26, no. 1 
• Xi Projects Confidence in Shorter New Year’s Speech
• PLA Justice Mission 2025 Further Rehearses Taiwan Invasion Operations
• Beijing Accelerates Clearance of ‘Naked Officials’ from Top Ranks
• Near-Seas Force Locking Reshapes Gulf of Aden Naval Missions
• CNP Part III: Growing CNP Drove Foreign Policy Shift
• January 24, 2025, v. 26, no. 2 
• Sodium Supply Chain Emerges to Support Lithium Alternatives
• EMP Weapons Expose PRC Military Vulnerability
• Pickleball Diplomacy Links U.S. Students to CCP
• Purges, Training Reform Affected Pressure on Taiwan in 2025
• Terrorism Monitor, December 4, 2025, v. 23, no. 10 
• Militias Assist PRC-Based Ventures Mining Rare Earth Elements in Myanmar
• Nigerian Jihadists and Bandits Exploit Emerging Fintech
• New Iran-Backed Militia Assassinates TV Anchor in Pakistan
• M23 Leverages Taxes and Minerals to Sustain DRC Operations

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Syria’s Kurdish Crisis:  An Overview of Escalation 

 JFK Special Warfare Center and School

• Special Warfare, v. 38, no. 1, Summer 2025 
• Perspectives from the Force: No More Hot-Dogging
• Operators Wanted: SORB Navigating the Recruiting Challenges Facing the Army
• Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center: Transformation and Modernization
• Digital Twins for a Digital World: Data-Driven Training Optimizing the Ready Medical Force
• Austere Resuscitative and Surgical Care Teams: Supporting Far-Forward Trauma Care on the Future Battlefield
• Drop, Improvise, Win: The OSS in China
• The Algebra of Irregular Warfare: A Planning Methodology for Transregional Operations
• Understanding and Mitigating Subterranean Operational Threats on Human Health and Performance: The Fatigue-Hormone-Mood Triad
• Transforming Dental Support to the U.S. Army Special Operations Center of Excellence
• Going Above and Beyond the Battlefield: Elevating Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations in the SOFSpace-Cyber Triad
• Mission Command: Trust, Empowerment, and the Future Force
• Perspectives: Optimizing Time and Task Prioritization for Special Forces Training and Educa􀆟on
• Fractured Brotherhood: Suicide, Identity Loss, and the Crisis within U.S. Special Operations Forces
• Who We Are, What We Do: Framing the Special Forces Identity Debate
• Pursuing Higher Education: New Degree Pathways for Civil Affairs Special Operations Combat Medics

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• From Guns for Hire to Military Doctrine: Russia’s Institutionalization of Influence in Africa—Implications and Recommendations for U.S. Special Operations Forces 
• Special Operations Forces Enterprise: Strategic Intelligence and Emerging Technology 

 Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA)

• Latvian Foreign and Security Policy. Yearbook 2026 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Graduating into Uncertainty: Unauthorized Immigrant Students in U.S. High Schools 
• New Frameworks for Language Access: Tracking the Expansion & Features of State & Local Laws & Policies 

 MITRE

• It’s Time for a Data-Driven Foreign Policy Reboot 
• Spectrum Monitoring Sensor for Citizens Broadband Radio Service Sharing Ecosystem Assessment 

 National Academies Press

• Personal Protective Equipment for Influenza A(H5N1) in High-Risk Farm Settings: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Strengthening Alcohol Policies and Supporting Safety and Health in the Maritime Industry 

 National Bureau of Asian Research

• China’s Great Waiting Game in Afghanistan 

 National Defence University {Helsinki)

• Chinese-Russian Military Industrial Cooperation in the 2020s: Towards True Joint Capabilities or Merely Transactional Great Power Politics 

 Network Contagion Research Institute

• Assassination Culture: How Shifting Gender Patterns Signal a New National Instability 

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Europe's Selective Blindness on Gas - US LNG and the Limits of Supply Diversification 
• Managing Climate, Peace and Security Risks in the Borderlands of the Lake Chad Region (CPS-Lake Chad) 
• Populism and the Future of Transatlantic Relations: Challenges and Policy Options 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Fulcrum of India’s Pivot to the East 
• Enhancing the Interoperability of India’s Business Sustainability Reporting with International Standards 
• Fiscal Federalism for Climate Action in India: Expectations from the 16th Finance Commission 
• From Pacifism to Strategic Maturity: The Evolution of Japan’s Security Diplomacy 
• Introducing ‘Mountain Characteristics’ as a Conceptual Framework for the Well-Being of Mountain Communities 
• Maritime Sector Development: A Gateway to Viksit Bharat 
• The NEP 2020: Forging Pathways for India’s Next Decade of Learning 
• Nexus of Artificial Intelligence and Energy Security:  Strategic Opportunities for U.S.-India Leadership 
• Recommendations for the U.S. AI Action Plan 

 Office of Science and Technology Policy

• Trump Administration Science and Technology Highlights:  Year One 

 Our World in Data

• Could Biofuels Meet Demand for Global Aviation? 

 Oxford University Press (OUP) [open access books]

• A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity 
• Civil Society Knowledge Networks: International Development and the Globalization of Ideas 
• The Crimes of Others: Criminal Records, Publicity, and Crimes of Abuse 
• Deep Contestations of the Liberal International Order 
• Domesticated: How Cultivated Species Altered Ancient Silk Road Societies 
• Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law: When Enemies Become Victims 
• The Party Politics of Electoral System Choice: Stacking the Deck in First-Wave Democracies 
• The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements, and Hope 
• States without Armies: Why They Exist and How They Survive 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• The European Union and the War in Ukraine:  More Money, But Not More Europe 

 Pew Research Center

• Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science? 
• Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans 
• Few Americans Support Trump’s Proposed Takeover of Greenland 
• How Americans View Key Trump Administration Immigration Policies 
• Majorities of Americans Say It’s Important to Talk About the Country’s Historical Successes and Failures 

 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

• US Trusted Semiconductors and the Role of Europe 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Frequently Asked Questions About the Russia–Ukraine Negotiations 
• Restraint and Diplomacy in Arctic Policy:  Cooperation Amid U.S.-Russia-China Tensions 
• Strategic Prudence and Extending New START 

 RAND     

• Bridging Innovation: Defence-Civilian Synergies for a Resilient European Future 
• A Comparative Analysis of Choices and Trade-Offs in U.S. Department of Defense and People’s Liberation Army Military Research, Development, and Acquisition Programs 
• Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities:  Lessons from Finnish Investment in Digital Capabilities for Defense  
• Enabling NATO Digital Capabilities:  Lessons from Swedish Investment in Digital Capabilities for Defense  
• Evaluating Digital Modernization:  Enhancing Analytical and Decision Support in Department of Defense Acquisition Management 
• Exploring Duality in Space:  How Select Countries Approach Dual-Use Space Systems 
• Four Governance Approaches to Securing Advanced AI 
• How Artificial Intelligence Could Reshape Four Essential Competitions in Future Warfare 
• Improving Interoperability with Allies and Partners:  Aircraft Maintenance and Base Operating Support 
• Improving Protest Policing: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Law Enforcement and Protest Organizers 
• Living Framework and Guidelines for Information Disclosure in Biosecurity:  A Biosecurity Research Oversight Framework and Toolkit 
• Mass Shootings in the United States 
• A New Age of Nations:  Power and Advantage in the AI Era 
• Poisoning Prevention, Treatment, and Detection as Public Health Investments: Assessing the Economic and Societal Value of the U.S. Poison Center Network 
• Poland’s Digital Defense Landscape:  Lessons from Polish Investment in Digital Capabilities for Defense  
• Practical Guidance for Ensuring Peaceful Protests:  Key Considerations for Law Enforcement and Protest Organizers 
• The Science of Gun Policy:  A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States, 5th Edition 
• Small State, Digital Giant:  Lessons from Estonian Investment in Digital Capabilities for Defense 
• U.S. Psychedelic Use and Microdosing in 2025 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Leveraging Partnerships and Technology to Tackle Money Mules 
• Nuclear Deterrence in Shifting Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture 
• Prototype Warfare in the Maritime Domain:  Opportunities and Approaches 
• Rebooting the UK's Cyber Strategy 
• What Are China’s New Wolf Warriors Really Fighting For? 

 Scale AI

• The Agentic Revolution in War: The Present and Future of Decision Advantage 

 Scandinavian Military Studies

• Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 2026, v. 9, no. 1 
• An Evidence-Based Framework for NATO’s Human Security Approach
• Introduction to the Special Collection on Military Logistics: The Transformation from Peace Support Operations to Territorial Defence
• Educational Initiative Using Simulation Training for the Evolving Landscape of Hybrid Warfare and Its Devastating Impacts: A Scoping Review
• Rethinking Contemporary (Counter)Piracy: Lessons from the Western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Guinea

 Soufan Center

• The War in Sudan: The Role of External Actors and the Prospects for U.S.-Led Conflict Resolution 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Five Wars and a Funeral: How the Conflicts in Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran broke Russia’s Middle East Policy 
• Political Persecution in Russia and on the Occupied Areas of Ukraine 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Future-proofing Civilian CSDP in a Challenging Strategic Environment: Seven Questions for Debate 

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

• “Spies Among Us”: Espionage in Europe – A Study on Convicted Spies in Europe 2008–2024 

 Takshashila Institution

• High Politics in China:  Assessing Politburo Meetings and Study Sessions in 2025 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
• Comparative Analysis of Gendered Frames in Far-Right Rhetoric in the West [open access] 
• Republican Violence in Northern Ireland: A Comparative Case Study of County Tyrone [open access] 
• Was the 2019 Christchurch Attack a Black Swan Event? Understanding Far-Right Violence in New Zealand [open access] 
• Who Supports Jihadi Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq? Assessing the Role of Religion- and Grievance-Based Explanations [open access] 
• Civil Wars
• Reconciling Rebel Rule: Wartime Order and the Social Legacies of Rebel Governance in Sri Lanka [open access] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism
• Filling in the Blind Spot? Problematisations of ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ in German Federal-Level P/CVE Policy [open access] 
• The United States Proscription of Hezbollah: A Critical Discourse Analysis (1985–1997) [open access] 
• Defence and Peace Economics
• The Impact of Armed Conflicts and Forced Migration on Labour Markets: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda [open access] 
• Modernizing a Giant: Assessing the Impact of Military-Civil Fusion on Innovation in China’s Defence-Technological Industry [open access] 
• Ethics & Global Politics
• Migration and the Shared World: A Defense of Rights of Entry for Cultural Migrants [open access] 
• Global Crime
• Ideological Affinity, State Toleration and the Transnational Expansion of the Far-Right Russian Imperial Movement [open access] 
• International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
• Austria’s Eastern Trade through American Eyes: U.S. Trade Controls in Austria in the Early Cold War from an Intelligence Perspective  [open access] 
• A Piece of Theater: West German–Arab–Israeli Relations Staged by Intelligence Services, 1955–1967 [open access] 
• Policing and Society
• The Columbus Model: Crowd Psychology, Dialogue Policing and Protest Management in the U.S.A. [open access] 
• The Digital Turn in Police Image Work: Determinants of Adoption, Use and Perceived Effectiveness of Social Media Communications in Forces in England & Wales [open access] 
• Identity Fracture: A Social Identity Theory Analysis of Police Whistleblower Narratives in England and Wales [open access] 
• From Liberators to Lutys: Homemade Firearms, Right-Wing Extremism, and the Challenge to Policing [open access] 
• Police Officers’ Perceptions of Citizens and Support for Procedural Justice Policing: The Mediating Roles of Identity and Self-Legitimacy [open access] 
• Responsive Policing for Cyberfraud Prevention: An Empirical Inquiry into the Regulatory Pyramid to Protect Cyberfraud Victims in China [open access] 
• Specialist Policing Units as a Pathway Towards Procedural Justice for Domestic Abuse Victims [open access] 
• Security Studies
• Distinction Without a Difference: The UK Shift from Population to Leadership Nuclear Targeting [open access] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies
• ‘I do solemnly promise … ’ the IRA’s Green Book and its Community of Practice [open access] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
• Influences of Islamist Radicalization: A Configurational Analysis of Balkan Foreign Fighters in Syria [open access] 
• Lethal Words: An Integrated Model of Violent Extremists’ Language [open access] 
• Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism in Wonderland and the Northern Ireland Peace Process [open access] 
• TamTam: The Online Drums of Hate [open access] 
• Visible Politics and Invisible Tactics: The Use of Uniforms in Asymmetric Conflicts [open access] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• After Degradation: A Roadmap for U.S. Democratic Repair 
• Contested Future Paths in the War Against Ukraine: Conceivable Scenarios 
• Electoral Integrity and the 2026 United States Midterm Elections 
• Modi’s Monopolists: Labour and Capital in a Broken Democracy 
• Nuclear Futures: (Non)Proliferation, Dangerous Doctrines, and Arms Control Perspectives 
• Venezuela: A Loud Cheer, an Amber Light and a Soft Jeer 

 UK House of Commons Library 

• Policing in the UK: Current Structures and Proposals for Reform 
• President Trump and Greenland: Frequently Asked Questions 
• Syria One Year After Assad: Forming an Interim Government 
• UK Defence: Renewed Interest in the Arctic 

 UK Ministry of Defence

• AJP-4 Allied Joint Doctrine for Sustainment of Operations 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• The Global Prism of Military AI Governance: Reflections from the 2025 Regional Consultations on Responsible AI in the Military Domain 
• Headway and Hurdles: The Reincorporation Progress and Challenges Faced by FARC-EP Ex-combatants 
• The Use of Uncrewed Aerial Systems by Non-State Armed Groups: Exploring Trends in Myanmar 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Afghanistan Drug Use Assessment 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

• China’s Position on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 

 U.S. District Court - District of Columbia

• Brief of Amici Curiae Former Service Secretaries, Retired Senior Military officers, and Vet Voice Foundation in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion [Sen. Mark Kelly] for a Preliminary Injunction and Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705 

 United States Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

• Australia’s economic security outlook: Trends and possible responses for 2026 
• Australia’s Innovation, Science and Technology Environment: Providing a Rationale for Universities’ Contributions to AUKUS Advanced Capabilities 
• Impact and Effort:  A Menu of AI and Autonomy Options for AUKUS Pillar II 
• “Intelligent Everything”:  China’s Policy to Supercharge AI Adoption 
• Missiles and Multipolarity:  Can an Indo-Pacific Coalition Defeat China’s Missile Overmatch? 
• Securing the Indian Ocean: Elevating the India-Australia Maritime Partnership 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• After Ukraine: Prospects for a Russian Resurgence in the Middle East 
• Kazakhstan and the Abraham Accords in the Critical Minerals Hedging Game 
• Kurdish Collapse in Northeast Syria? Key Things to Watch 
• U.S. Military Options in Iran: Means in Search of an End 

World Bank

• Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition (Volume 2): Investing in Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response 
• Effective Cohesion Policies to Strengthen Social Integration in the EU 
• The Global Sanitation Crisis: A Systems Approach to Resilient Citywide Inclusive Sanitation 
• TIDES of Change: Igniting Productivity Growth in Europe and Central Asia 
• Tajikistan Country Evaluation : Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)