Friday's Miscellany 11-08-2024

 38 North

• Construction Expands at Nampho Port 
• North Korea Tests New Solid ICBM Probably Intended for MIRVs 
• North Korean Non-kinetic Attacks: A Problem for Incheon Airport 
• Sohae Satellite Launching Station: No Observable Indications of Launch Preparations 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• The Regional Security Imperative to Protect the Congo Basin 

 Amnesty International

• Instantly Killed!  How Law Enforcement Failures Exacerbate Nigeria’s Wave of Mob Violence 

 Atlantic Council

• How Sweden and Finland’s membership in NATO affects the High North 
• Iraq’s 2024 Budget:  Not What it Appears When it First Meets the Eye 
• NATO Needs a ‘Hellscape’ Defense at ‘Replicator’ Speed 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• AIES-Alpbach Security Track Report No. 1: Moment of Truth for Austria 
• Reviving the Jakarta Informal Meeting: A Case for Indonesia to Mediate Ukraine & Russia 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• Immigration in the 2024 US Presidential Election Campaign: Policy Stalemate, Disinformation, and a Call for Mass Deportation 
• Presidential Elections in the United States and the Transatlantic Agenda 

 Brookings Institution

• Vital Statistics on Congress 
• Will the EU Agree to Use Economic Sanctions Against China? 

 Bruegel

• A Special Historical Analysis: Europe’s 35-Year Journey Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall 
• Updating the EU Strategy on China: Co-Existence While Derisking Through Partnerships 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• China Through a Southeast Asia Lens 
• More Than the Sum of its Parts:  Developing a Coordinated U.S.-Australian Response to Potential Chinese Aggression 

 Cato Institute

• Drug Decriminalization, Fentanyl, and Fatal Overdoses in Oregon 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Analyses in Security Policy
• No. 351: Government Trust in Times of Crisis 
• Caucasus Analytical Digest
• No. 139: Georgia's Civic Sphere in Times of Fundamental Rupture 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 318: Agriculture 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Inflection Point:  Selecting Trusted Technology for Digitalization and Connectivity 
• Is the Global Workforce Ready for the Energy Transition? 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Can Europe Navigate Trump 2? 
• European Common debt: Is Defence Different? 

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

• Investigating Police Violence in the Deadly Bangladesh Quota Protests 

 Chatham House

• Azerbaijan’s Climate Leadership Challenge: What’s at Stake at COP29 and Beyond 

 Chennai Centre For China Studies

• BRICS Counters Western Isolation of Russia: Modi-Xi Dialogue Marks Major Milestone 
• Modi - Xi Bilateral Meeting: Takeaways 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Why Renewable Energy Matters in the Context of Peace and Stability 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget: 2024 to 2034 

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• The Future of Trade in an Era of Disruption 

 Council on Geostrategy

• The Strategic Defence Review, Britain and Sea Power 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Military Libraries Week 2024 

 East-West Center

• Asia Navigates Uncertainty and Continuity of U.S. Regional Policy in the 2024 Elections 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• The Politics behind the EU-Rwanda Deal(s) and its Consequences 

 European Commission (EC)

• Safer Together:  Strengthening Europe’s Civilian and Military Preparedness and Readiness 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Material World: How Europe Can Compete with China in the Race for Africa’s Critical Minerals 

 European Institute of the Mediterranean

• IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook 2024 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Defense Spending for Europe’s Security – How Much Is Enough? 

 European Parliament Think Tank

• EU Trade Policy Implications on Third Countries’ Domestic Policies 
• Russia's 'Shadow Fleet': Bringing the Threat to Light 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• The Chips are Down: Trump 2.0, the EU and Ukraine 
• From Washington to Brussels: The US Election and EU Foreign Policy  

EUROPOL

• Documents from the Europol Innovation Lab Concerning Artificial Intelligence 
• Policy on the Development and Use of Machine Learning Tools for the Purpose of Supporting Operational Analysis at Europol 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Côte d'Ivoire's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Guidance 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Double Standards on Palestine or Pressure on Israel: ICJ Ruling Forces EU to Rethink Its Passive Two-State Policy 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Beyond the Revolution: Building a New Bangladesh 
• Fighting Ideologies:  Lessons Learned from the War on Terror and Their Application to Strategic Competition 
• Ideological Agenda of Russian Information Influence in Africa 
• Iraqi Kurdistan’s Parliamentary Elections: Resilience, Challenges, and US Policy Stakes 
• Narrative Intelligence:  Detecting Chinese and Russian Information Operations to Disrupt NATO Unity 
• Who is the Kremlin’s Favored Candidate in the US Presidential Election? 

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

• Thirty-Five Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: What’s New in the East? 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

• How Hamas’ Early Ties with Iran Were Brokered from the US 
• What is Samidoun? 

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

• Influencers and Their Ability to Engineer Collective Online Behavior:  A Boon and a Challenge for Politics 

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

• Escalations Risks in the Horn of Africa 
• Legacy of the UN Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement 
• Pragmatic, Strategic and Wide-Reaching:  The CCP’s Party Diplomacy in Africa 

 Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• After the War on Drugs: The Impacts of Cocaine and Cannabis Regulation in Rio de Janeiro 
• Gangsters at War:  Russia's Use of Organized Crime as an Instrument of Statecraft 
• Integrity and Independence of Criminal Justice Institutions in the Western Balkans: Police and Prosecution 
• Iran’s Criminal Statecraft:  How Tehran Weaponizes Illicit Markets 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• 3D-Printing in Conflict Zones: A Game-Changer?  
• 30 Years of Trends in Terrorist and Extremist Games 
• Amplifying Extremism: White Supremacists and Far-Right Groups on Spotify 
• Blocking the Blueprint: Technological Barriers Against 3D-Printed Firearms 
• A Digital Megaphone: The Far Right’s Use of Podcasts for Radicalisation 
• Digital Warfare: The Baloch Liberation Army’s Tactical Use of Social Media in the Herof Attack 
• Goyim Defense League: White Supremacist Hate, Conspiracy, and Influence Ahead of the US Presidential Election 
• In Sweden, a Domestic Troll Farm Tests Democracy 
• Northern Spirits: Gamification and Youth Recruitment in the Nordic Region 
• Telegram’s Hate Memes: A Visual Analysis in the German Extremist Online Sphere 
• Wagner PMC Recruitment: The Strategic Link Between Combat Sports and Online Propaganda 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Red Hill Fuel Storage: DOD's Contract Approaches and Oversight before and after the 2021 Fuel Leaks GAO-25-106572 

 Guy Foundation

• The Health Hazards of Space Travel: Novel Insights from Quantum Biology 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Augmentation, Not Substitution: HCSS Manual for the Responsible Use of Generative AI 
• The Dutch Tank Storage Sector: Navigating Uncertainty in the Energy Transition 
• Far Seas, Hard Choices: Aligning Ambitious European Objectives with Capabilities and Coalitions for the Indo-Pacific 

 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

• U.S. Elections and European Cohesion:  Scenario Implications for Ukraine and Transatlantic Security 

 Human Rights Watch

• Beyond Burning: The Ripple Effects of Incendiary Weapons and Increasing Calls for International Action 

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Afghans in Need: Positing India's Continued Engagement with Afghanistan 
• Evolution of African Maritime Security: Imperatives, Governance and Challenges 
• History and Geopolitics in South Korea–Japan Relations: The Sado Mine Issue 
• India and Africa: Deepening the Security Engagement 
• India's Internal Security: Role of State Governments 
• ISIS: An Enduring Threat 
• Strategic Rebalancing: China and Us Engagement with South Asia 
• THINK20@G20: Towards A Resilient South Asia 

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• Political Priorities, Poor Intelligence Tradecraft and the Suppression of Dissenting Views: Why Israel Failed to Warn of Hamas’s October 7 Attack 
• Trends in Russian Space Development 

 Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH)

• European Security in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from Peace Research 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Going for the Bomb
• Part I, Pathways and Timelines 
• Part II, Tasks to Make a Crude Nuclear Weapon Going for the Bomb: Part II, Tasks to Make a Crude Nuclear Weapon 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)  

• Russian and DPRK Military Cooperation in Ukraine – A Win-Win? 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

• Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• November 7, 2024: Niamey Threatened; Boko Haram Fallout in Chad; M23 Marches on Eastern DRC; Somalia-Jubbaland Tensions 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• November 6, 2024 
• Iran Update
• November 4  
• November 5   
• November 6  
• November 7 
• November 8 
• November 9 
• November 10 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• November 4  
• November 5 
• November 6  
• November 7 
• November 8 
• November 9 
• November 10 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• The Crucial Nexus between the Stability and Growth Pact and the Transmission Protection Instrument 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• Divide and Conquer: The Strategy and Enduring Legacy of Islamic State’s Governance of Civilian Women 
• “Say It’s Only Fictional”: How the Far-Right is Jailbreaking AI and What Can Be Done About It 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• New Russian Immigration to the EU: The Case of the Baltic States, Finland, Germany & Poland 

 Irregular Warfare Center

• American Irregular Warfare in Latin America 
• Reframing the Term “Irregular Warfare” in Times of Peace into the Contemporary Idea of “Defense Support to Strategic Competition” 
• Stealth Surgery: Mitigating Signature Detection Risks for Special Operations Surgical Teams 

 Marine Corps University Press

• Always Faithful: 250 Years of Remarkable Stories from the Collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps 

 Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies

• European Security Seminar - North 2023 A Cooperative Future: Opportunities for the Arctic 7 
• Russian Civil-Military Relations (CMR) and the Long Open-Ended War 

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

• Harris vs. Trump on the War and Crisis in the Middle East 
• How Donald Trump Might Tackle the Middle East in 2025 
• Middle East’s Changing Strategic Landscape  
• Ukraine’s Role in the Black Sea:  Navigating a Geopolitical Crossroads 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• President-Elect Trump and Extended Nuclear Deterrence:  Whither Germany? 

 NATO Defense College

• Controlling the Danger: Managing the Risks of AI-Enabled Nuclear Systems 

 Naval War College - China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• Study No. 8, Chinese Amphibious Warfare: Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion 

 New America

• Navigating the Landscape of Misinformation and Disinformation: An In-Depth Examination of Existing Frameworks 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Role of India’s Private Sector in Economic Relations with Russia (1991-2024) 
• Strengthening CBRN Security in India: Domestic Strategies and Global Collaborations 

 Office of Naval Research

• Future Force: Naval Science and Technology, 2024, v. 10, no. 1 
• Bringing Production to the Tactical Edge
• The Story of Swarming Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Battling a Blue Arctic
• New Lab in Quantico Enhances Marine Corps Teaming
• Expanding Our Capability to Rapidly Prototype
• Swedish and American Marines Train Together in the "Extreme Littorals"
• A Daughter's Story: 2037

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

• Consolidating the Democratization Process in the Security Sector in Serbia 

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

• Europe and the New World Order: An Updated Approach to Foreign Engagement 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• China's Export Controls on Critical Minerals Aren't Starving the United States—At Least So Far 

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• Frantz Fanon in the Middle East 

 RAND Corporation

• China-Russia Relations in the Arctic:  What Are the Northern Limits of Their Partnership? 
• Evaluating the U.S. Military’s Progress Toward an Integrated Primary Prevention Workforce 
• Global Catastrophic Risk Assessment 

 Special Inspector General Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• October 30, 2024 Quarterly Report to Congress 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Look Before We Leap: Peace, Security and the Second Quantum Revolution 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2024
• A Systematic Integrative Review of Counter-Messaging Communication Campaigns Targeting Terrorism or Violent Extremism [open access article] 
• Conflict, Security & Development, 2024
• ‘The End of the ‘Revolution’ (al-Thawra) but not Revolutionaries (thuwwār)’*: Insights from Syrian Fighters [open access article] 
• Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2024
• Linguistic Models of Abusive Language [open access article] 
• Journal of Military Ethics, 2024
• Delivering Military Ethics Education to the Colombian Armed Forces: Centre for Military Ethics’ Collaboration with Colombian Military Educational Facilities [open access article] 
• In Between Digital War and Peace [open access article] 
• Soldiers and Courage: An Afghan Case [open access article] 
• Towards a Reflective Stance of Honor and Dignity – An Inquiry into the Use of Force by Analyzing the US Navy’s Crossing the Line Ritual [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research, 2024
• Risk Perception and Trust in Autonomous Vehicles: A Case Study of Ground Handling Employees at an International Airport [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2024
• The War against Ukraine Through the Prism of Russian Military Thought  [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2024
• Mosaic; Counter-Insurgency Approaches and the War against the Islamic State in Mozambique [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Arms Control in the Indo-Pacific Region: What Role for the Arms Trade Treaty? 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Large Language Models and International Security: A Primer 
• Securing the Seas: A Comprehensive Assessment of Global Maritime Security 

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Afghanistan Drug Insights Volume 1, Opium Poppy Cultivation 2024 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• Looking to the Skies: The Importance of Satellite Cybersecurity 

 US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

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

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• Many Ways to Fail:  The Costs to China of an Unsuccessful Taiwan Invasion 

 US Marine Corps

• 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Releases Command Investigation into F-35B Lightning II Mishap in South Carolina on Sept. 17, 2023 

 Wilson Center

• Navigating US-Canadian Relations Through Stormy Waters 

Friday's Miscellany 11-01-2024

 38 North

• North Korea Construction at the East and West Border Crossings 
• Quick Take: Large Trenches Across Former Border Links 
• Russia-DPRK Relations: Strategic Partnership or Opportunistic Alliance? 

 ACLED

• Controversy over Electoral Reform Sparks Debate in Somalia Amid al-Shabaab Operation 
• Q&A: Behind the Data on the Israel-Hezbollah War 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Black Axe—Nigeria’s Most Notorious Transnational Criminal Organization 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Official Acts and Presidential Immunity:  Reflections on Trump v. United States 

 American Immigration Council

• Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy 

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

• Transatlantic Cooperation in the Next U.S. Administration  

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), October 2024, v. 31, no. 10 
• Routine Screening for Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the U.S. Armed Forces, Active and Reserve Components, January 2019–June 2024
• Health Policy Analysis: Improving HIV PrEP Implementation to Help End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. Military
• Prevalence of Hepatitis A and B Antibodies Among Enlisted Accessions, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, 2023
• Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 35, Ending August 31, 2024

 Army University Press

• Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal. July - September 2024 v. 2 no. 3 
• Resident Professional Military Education at the US Army Warrant Officer Career College
• Everything Old is New Again: Defeating Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems in the Next War
• The Impact of Emerging Technologies
• The Hydroponic Garden Experiment
• Transforming the Traditional Guard Routine
• GEOINT Production on the Unclassified Domain: Progression of the Tradecraft
• Trimming the Fat
• Addressing The Recruitment And Attrition Challenges In The U.S. Army: A Qualitative Study On Manning The Force
• Progress on the Evolution of the Warrant Officer Education System and an Uncertain Future

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• North Korea’s Troop Deployment to the Ukraine War and Fomenting Hostility Toward South Korea: Escaping the Dilemma of the ‘Relationship between two belligerent States’ Doctrine 
• South Korea’s Pacific Islands Strategy and Cooperation with Like-minded Partners 

 Asia Foundation

• Critical Issues for the United States in Southeast Asia in 2025 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Building Sustainable Futures: Advancing Climate Resilience in South Asia 
• Who Briefs Xi Jinping?  How Politburo Study Sessions Help to Decode Chinese Politics 

 Atlantic Council

• The Economic and Social Costs of the War in Gaza 
• Finding Security in Digital Public Infrastructure 
• Global DPI Models: Lessons from India, Brazil, and Beyond 
• How Digital Public Infrastructure Can Support Financial Inclusion 

 Australian Institute of Criminology

• Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2024, no. 702
• An Experimental Study of Support for Protest Causes and Tactics and the Influence of Conspiratorial Beliefs 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Restore Vaccine Confidence for US Public and Economic Health 
• The Struggle for a Just Energy Transition in a Turbulent World Order 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Increasing American Diplomatic Power 

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

• Climate Change & Crime: A Big, Bad, Largely Overlooked Nexus 
• Preparing for Ecological Disruption: Strategic Foresight and a Futures Approach to Ecological Security 

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Europe 2029: Eight Policy Priorities for the New European Commission 
• Lost in Translation: Western Misconceptions about Putin’s Russia 

 Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

• Foggy Bottom and the Border:  Harnessing the State Department to Lead U.S. a Foreign Policy That Fights Illegal Immigration and Promotes Border Security  

 Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

• Breaking Barriers: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Gender Equality in Media Development 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Cybersecurity Risks of AI-Generated Code 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• The AI Safety Institute International Network: Next Steps and Recommendations 
• The Burgeoning Regional Appeal of Mano Dura Crime-Fighting Strategies 
• Cockpit or Command Center?  C2 Options for Collaborative Combat Aircraft 
• Crossing the Deepfake Rubicon: The Maturing Synthetic Media Threat Landscape 
• Mali:  Untangling the Politico-Security Knot 
• Operationalizing Japan-U.S. Cooperation on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and Resilience 
• Powering the Commanding Heights:  The Strategic Context of Emergent U.S. Electricity Demand Growth 
• Responding to China’s Growing Influence in Ports of the Global South 
• Staying Ahead in the Global Technology Race:  A Roadmap for Economic Security 
• U.S. Investment in the Philippines:  More Than Meets the Eye 
• U.S. Investment in the Philippines:  The Next Era of Economic Partnership & Opportunity 

 Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC)

• U.S. Geotech Policy: Taking Stock and Looking Beyond 2024 

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

• Turkey’s Reconciliation Efforts in the Middle East: Ambitions and Constraints in a Changing Regional Order 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The EU's Drive on China: What EV Tariffs Mean for Europe 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Bytes and Battles: Inclusion of Data Governance in Responsible Military AI 

 Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2024, v. 23, no. 3 
• Canada and Indo-Pacific cooperation: the Quadrilateral Military Dialogue (Quad)
• Making Sense of Multinational Cooperation
• The Exploratory Case Study of Improving the Nigerian Defence Academy Cadets’ Training Effectiveness
• Acts of State in the Grey Zone
• “No Sense in Military Terms:” Reconsidering the Surprising Use of Force in a Gray Zone Conflict
• Perspectives on Western and Russian Approaches to Counterinsurgency

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• America’s Foreign Policy Future: Public Opinion and the 2024 Election 
• Russians are Indifferent Toward 2024 US Presidential Election  

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• Our Own Worst Enemies: The Violent Style in American Politics 

 Clingendael Institute - Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, EU Reciprocity Standards in Agri-Food as a Solution for All? 

 College of Europe

• Quo Vadis EU Peace Mediation? Maintaining the Skill of Peaceful Intervention in the Era of Strategic Competition 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Information Sources for Policymakers: Congressional Budget Office 101 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Foreign Influence and Democratic Governance:  Defining and Countering Malign Influence 

 Council on Geostrategy

• Crises and Challenges in the First Island Chain: A British Response 
• Why Should Britain Invest in Military Spacepower? 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• The Next Administration’s Nuclear Posture 
• Nuclear Energy and National Security: Emerging Technologies and Their Roles in a Nuclear Future 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• ‘Escaping Isn’t for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran 
• Power Moves East: Poland's Rise as a Strategic European Player 

 Deep Cuts Commission

• Deterrence, Reassurance and Military Self-Restraint 
• Inadvertent escalation risks of Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicles 
• Nuclear Sharing in Europe 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• National Defense Industrial Strategy Implementation Plan 
• Ukraine Fact Sheet 1 November 2024 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-25-01 FPS Protective Security Officers Did Not Always Have Knowledge, Equipment, and Authority to Respond to Physical Threats 
• OIG-25-02 DHS Did Not Justify Its Decision to Cancel Its Cost-Saving Talent Development and Training Acquisition Program 
• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) 

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

• Geopolitics and Geography: A Realigned EU Strategy for Stability in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean 

 European Council on Foreign Relations               

• Better firefighting: Readying Europe for an age between war and peace 

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Geoeconomics and Foreign Economic Policy – Quo Vadis EU? 
• Who’s Afraid of Trump in the White House? How German Firms View the US Election 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Security and Eastern Enlargement: Bridging the Gap for Wartime EU Accession 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Back with a Vengeance? Trump, Brussels and the World: Five steps the EU Should Take to Deal with the New US Administration 
• The Changing Submarine Cables Landscape: Expanding the EU’s Role in the Indo-Pacific 
• From Washington to Brussels: The US Election and EU Foreign Policy 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Korea's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• South Africa's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Priorities of the New EU Commission: Struggling to Balance Long-Term Goals with Sort-Term Needs 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Foreign Malign Election Meddling Persists but Struggles to Gain Traction 

 French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

• China's Quest for a Quantum Leap  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• TikTok Tactics:  2024 U.S. Candidates Dance Around Security Risks 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Coast Guard: Additional Actions Needed to Guide Training and Assessment Efforts GAO-25-107025 
• Federal Research Centers: DHS Actions Could Reduce the Potential for Unnecessary Overlap among Its R&D Projects GAO-25-106394 
• Military Housing: DOD Should Address Critical Supply and Affordability Challenges for Service Members GAO-25-106208 
• U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund: 1983 Beirut Barracks and 1996 Khobar Towers Bombing Claimants Due $614 Million GAO-25-107564 

 Heritage Foundation

• South Korea Cannot Afford to Sit Out Taiwan Contingencies 
• Strengthening the U.S.-Australian Alliance 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• October 31, 2024: Africa and BRICS; Sudan Fighting Fuels Humanitarian Disaster 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• October 30, 2024 
• A Defense of Taiwan with Ukrainian Characteristics: Lessons from the war in Ukraine for the Western Pacific 
• Iran Update
• October 28  
• October 29  
• October 30  
• October 31 
• November 1 
• November 2 
• November 3 
• North Korea Joins Russia's War Against Ukraine: Operational and Strategic Implications in Ukraine and Northeast Asia 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• October 28  
• October 29  
• October 30  
• October 31 
• November 1 
• November 2 
• November 3 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Reforming by Hope, Will or Necessity? 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• New Russian Immigration to the EU: The Case of the Baltic States, Finland, Germany & Poland 

 International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• Migration Governance Indicators Data on the Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in Africa 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• American Irregular Warfare in Latin America 
• Reframing the Term “Irregular Warfare” in Times of Peace into the Contemporary Idea of “Defense Support to Strategic Competition 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, November 1, 2024, v. 24, no. 21 
• The Art of War: PRC Weaponizes Culture to Galvanize the People
• Joint Sword-2024B: Quarantining Key Ports and Seizing Comprehensive Superiority
• The PRC’s Overcapacity Problem Depends on Who You Ask
• PRC Adapts Llama for Military and Security AI Applications
• PRC-Manufactured Weapons Abound Among African Militant Group

 Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

• By Itself, With U.S.:  The Case for a U.S.-Israel Mutual Defense Treaty Post-10/7 

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

• Gun Violence in the United States 2022 
• Provisional Data 
• State by State Data 

MITRE

• Behavioral Economics in Space: Steering the Future of Space Governance for Security and Sustainability 
• Informing Threat Awareness at the Nexus of Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology 
• Innovating Spectrum Management for National Security and Economic Prosperity 
• Intelligence After Next: Open Source Intelligence for Counterterrorism 
• Leveraging a Circular Economy for Space Sustainability: Government Roles and Economic Impacts 

 National Academies Press  

• Law Enforcement Use of Probabilistic Genotyping, Forensic DNA Phenotyping, and Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy Technologies: Proceedings of a Workshop 

 National AI Advisory Committee

• Website and Reports 

 National Security Archive

• Investigating the ClimateImpacts of Nuclear War 

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

• Space Domain Awareness as a Foundational National Security Issue 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Cybersecurity Governance and Normative Frameworks: Non-Western Countries and International Organizations Perspectives 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Climate- and Environmentally Based Information Activities by PRC and Russian Media 
• Social Media Manipulation for Sale: Experiment on Platform Capabilities to Detect and Counter Inauthentic Social Media Engagement 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• CMSI Translations #9: Mine Countermeasure Operations in a Cross-Strait Island Landing Campaign 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• The Botification of the American Mind 

 Observer Research Foundation

• The Case for a Quad Mineral Security Partnership 
• International Cyber Incidents: On the Question of Public Attribution 

 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition

• The National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS): Enabling a Modernized Defense Industrial Ecosystem 

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

• Navigating Networks: A Roadmap for the Creation and Operation of Women- led Peacebuilding Networks in Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus 
• New Frontiers: The Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Trafficking in Persons 

 Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

• Quantum Sensing for Position, Navigation, and Timing Use Cases 

 RAND Corporation

• Cost Trade-Offs Between Accessing and Retaining Uniformed Mental Health Providers 
• Global Catastrophic Risk Assessment 
• Understanding and Managing Global Catastrophic Risk 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Airborne Electromagnetic Warfare is Critical for NATO’s Airpower Edge 
• The UK's Role in Advancing Responsible Transition Minerals Supply Chains 

 Small Wars Journal

• Drones Are Not Artillery Yet 

 Stanley Center

• Disinformation and Identity-Based Violence 
• Through the Sands of Time: The Enduring Legacy of the India-Pakistan Non-Attack Agreement 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Unveiling Challenges and Gaps in Climate Finance in Conflict Areas 

 Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics

• Moldova’s EU Integration and the Special Case of Transnistria 
• The Russian Economy in the Fog of War 

Swedish Defense Research Agency

• Security Policy in Moldova ahead of the Presidential Elections 
• When the People's Republic turns 100: Assessing China's development and relations with the United States towards 2050 [summary, main report in Swedish] 

 Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump

• Interim Staff Report: Investigating the Stunning Security Failures on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania 
• Task Force statement on the Secret Service Mission Assurance Review 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2024
• Conflict Exposure and Expected Victimization in Nigeria [open access article] 
• Mobilizing Extremism: An Examination of the Travel Patterns of Right-Wing Extremists in the United States  [open access article] 
• Civil Wars, 2024
• Why Do Peasants Fight Rebels? The Cases of Civilian Defence Forces Against the FARC in Southern Tolima, Colombia  [open access article] 
• Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 2024
• A Gathering Storm: Offensive and Defensive Accelerationism in an Online Far-Right Community [open access article] 
• “If You Don’t Have Rapport, You Haven’t Got Anything Really”: Affective Intensities, Relationality and Rapport Building in the Work of CVE Intervention Practitioners  [open access article] 
• Global Change, Peace & Security, 2024
• When Religious Beliefs Become an Ideology to Motivate a War [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2024
• Aligning Tactics with Strategy: Vertical Implementation of Military Doctrine [open access article] 
• Hidden hands: The failure of population-centric counterinsurgency in Afghanistan 2008-11 [open access article] 
• Unpacking the Varying Strategic Logics of Total Defence [open access article] 
• What We Disagree About When We Disagree about Doctrine [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2024 
• ‘A Clash of Cultures’: Varying Perspectives on the Rhodesian Incorporation Into the South African Special Forces [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2024
• The Gangster and the Bride: The Media Representation of Masculinity and Femininity in News Coverage of Jihadi Terrorists [open access article] 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Honduras against the Corporate Goliath: An Impoverished Country Resisting Foreign Investors’ Claims  

 UK Ministry of Defense

• UK-Germany Trinity House Agreement on Defense 
• UK Voluntary Report on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law at Domestic Level (Second Edition) 2024 

 U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

• United States Coast Guard Operational Posture 2024 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Egypt’s Economic Reforms Must Continue 
• Egypt’s Economy Amidst Regional Conflicts 
• How to End the Third Lebanon War—and Prevent the Fourth 
• How to Judge Iranian Response Options Against Israel 
• Iraqi Militias Try to Obfuscate Their Role in Anti-U.S. Attacks 

 Wilson Center

• Boosting US-Japan Cooperation with Latin America in Critical and Frontier Sectors 
• Executive Summary - Challenges and opportunities in water provision in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras 
• A Final Collective Push for Democratic Change in Venezuela 

 World Bank

• The Changing Wealth of Nations: Adding Water to the Changing Wealth of Nations 
• The Changing Wealth of Nations: Revisiting the Measurement of Comprehensive Wealth 
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) 2024 Annual Report 
• The Journey Ahead: Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia 
• Paraguay Poverty and Equity Assessment: Strategies to Boost Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction 
• Poland Country Climate and Development Report 
• Senegal Country Climate and Development Report 
• Sierra Leone Economic Update: Unlocking the Potential of the Power Sector in Sierra Leone Breaking the Crisis Cycle