38 North
- The 2026 Window: Can the “Ember” of US-North Korea Diplomacy Still Catch Fire?
- Inspector O and the Name Game
- AI and the Future
- Global Foresight 2036
- Global Foresight 2036 Survey: Full Results
- The Marine Corps Presence in Okinawa is Critical to Deterring China and North Korea
- Mining Corridors as Catalysts: Building on the Lobito Model
- Mining without Rules: The Risky US Bet on the Deep Sea
- Negotiating with Putin’s Russia
- Putin’s Next Move? Five Russian Attack Scenarios Europe Must Prepare For
- Six “Snow Leopards” to Watch for in the Decade Ahead
- A Year Into Its Post-Assad Era, Syria Needs a ‘Rules-First’ Reset
- Littoral Operations for the Australian Army: Theory and Principles
- Surf and Turf Operations: Cavalry’s Role in Delivering Asymmetric Effects in the Littoral Domain
- Clearing the Path for Treasury Market Resilience
- Is AI Sovereignty Possible? Balancing Autonomy and Interdependence
- Reduced Immigration Slowed Population Growth for the Nation and Most States, New Census Data Show
- Robotization and Occupational Mobility
- Rowing Together: Lessons on Policy Coordination from American History
- Escalation Dynamics Under the Nuclear Shadow—India’s Approach
- European Democracy Support Annual Review 2025
- Legacy or Liability? Auditing U.S. Alliances to Compete with China
- U.S. Peace Mediation in the Middle
East: Lessons for the Gaza Peace
Plan
- Laboratories of
Autocracy: Centralized Versus
Decentralized Policymaking in China
- Politically Motivated
Killers: 51 Years of Terrorist
Murders on US Soil, 1975–2025
- Tariffs as Fiscal Policy
- China’s Military AI Wish List: Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (C5ISRT)
- Proposal of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on Drawing Up the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development [translation]
- Analyses in Security
Policy
- No. 371: The EU’s
Security Partnerships: A Stocktake
- Critical Minerals Ministerial Introduces New International Cooperation Strategy
- CSIS European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues
- How Russia Is Reshaping Command and Control for AI-Enabled Warfare
- Northern
Connections: The European Arctic by
2035
- The Rise of “Watt’s Law” and Why Power Could Put a Ceiling on American Innovation
- Satellite Imagery Analysis of China’s Alleged 2020 Nuclear Test at Lop Nur
- How Middle Powers Can Weather US and Chinese AI Dominance
- US Military Base on Diego Garcia: What Is Its Strategic Importance?
- CTC Sentinel, February 2026, v. 19, no. 2
- From Insurgency to
Statecraft: Al-Sharaa and Syria’s Foreign Fighters Test
- A View from the CT
Foxhole: Naureen Chowdhury Fink, Executive Director, Global Internet
Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)
- True Crime
Community: Understanding the Depths of Digital Fandom and Performative
Violence
- Crime and
Punishment: How International Cooperation Led to the Landmark Conviction
of Two Islamic State Brothers in Portugal
- Climate Intervention
at High Latitudes: A 2030 Security
Scenario
- Protecting Korea’s National Security with Renewable Energy
- Fact Sheet - C-UAS Policy in the U.S. Homeland
- Unifying the
Department's Arms Transfer and Security Cooperation Enterprise to Improve
Efficiency and Enable Burden-Sharing
- DODIG-2026-057
Evaluation of the DoD Military Working Dog Program’s Management of Canine
Welfare
- DODIG-2026-056 The
DoD Should Standardize Terminology for Targeting and Adopt Other Targeting
Best Practices
- DODIG-2026-052
Lessons Learned from DoD OIG Reports on Military Housing
- Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR)
- Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
- Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | July 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
- Lead Inspector General for Operation Inherent Resolve | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | July 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, American Republics, Volume V
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics
- The Disruption of
Arctic Exceptionalism: Managing
Environmental Change in Light of Russian Aggression
- European ¬Cohesion
for Security and Defense: Unpacking
the North-South Divide
- Cyber Activity Balance 2025: The EU in Focus
- A Fourth Saudi
State: The Crown Prince’s Reforms
in Politics, Society and the Economy
- Geopolitical Tensions and EU-Southern Mediterranean Shipping
- Limits of
Multilateral Climate Policy: COP30
and the Conflict Between Petrostates and Electrostates
- Sovereign Wealth
Funds and Foreign Policy: How Saudi
Arabia, the UAE and Qatar Invest in Their Power
- Strategic Raw
Material Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Making EU External Instruments Fit for
African Industrial Drive and European Resilience
- Biosafety and
Biosecurity: Comparing the U.S. and Selected G20 Members GAO-26-107338
- Coast Guard:
Additional Actions Needed to Address Reports of Community Discrimination
Against Service Members GAO-26-107875
- COVID-19 Relief: IRS
Can Use Lessons Learned to Address and Prevent Improper Payments in Future
Tax Programs GAO-26-107456
- COVID-19 Relief:
States’ and Localities’ Fiscal Recovery Funds Spending Update for 2025
GAO-26-108587
- Department of Energy:
Plan Needed to Meet Statutory Requirements for Clean Energy Demonstration
Projects GAO-26-107997
- DOD Systems
Modernization: Further Action Needed to Improve Travel and Other Business
Systems [Reissued with revisions on Feb. 9, 2026] GAO-26-107663
- National Security
Snapshot: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Faces Critical
Risks and Opportunities GAO-26-108755
- Osprey Aircraft:
Additional Oversight and Information Sharing Would Improve Safety Efforts
GAO-26-108905
- Puerto Rico:
Information on Air Cargo Infrastructure and Operations GAO-26-107762
- Service Member
Absences: Actions Needed to Improve Response Process GAO-26-107505
- U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services: Implementing GAO's Recommendations Would Help Manage
Fraud Risks in Immigration Benefit Programs GAO-26-108903
- U.S. Customs and
Border Protection: Resources Deployed and Challenges Faced in Securing the
Northern Border GAO-26-107501
- Imagery Update: All Entrances to Esfahan Tunnel Complex are Now Completely Buried
- Imagery Update: New Developments at Pickaxe Mountain Tunnel Entrances
- Imagery Update: Taleghan 2 Facility is Now Being Buried
- Iran Threat Geiger Counter: A Probabilistic Approach; What is the Probability That Iran Will Build Nuclear Weapons?
- Monthly Analysis of Russian Shahed 136 Deployment Against Ukraine
- Africa File
- February 12, 2026
Military Buildup in Northern Ethiopia; US-Linked Personnel in the DRC and
Nigeria; South Sudan’s Slide to Civil War
- February 19, 2026
Madagascar Juggles Russia, US, France; Stuttering US Peace Efforts in
Sudan
- China & Taiwan
Update
- Iran Update
- February 9, 2026
- February 10, 2026
- February 11, 2026
- February 12, 2026
- February 13, 2026
- February 16, 2026
- February 17, 2026
- February 18, 2026
- February 19, 2026
- February 20, 2026
- Korean Peninsula
Update
- Russia’s FPV Drone Campaign in Ukraine Institutionalizes Intentional Civilian Harm as a Tool of War
- Russian Occupation
Update
- Russian Offensive
Campaign Assessment
- February 9, 2026
- February 10, 2026
- February 11, 2026
- February 12, 2026
- February 13, 2026
- February 14, 2026
- February 15, 2026
- February 16, 2026
- February 17, 2026
- February 18, 2026
- February 19, 2026
- February 20, 2026
- February 21, 2026
- February 22, 2026
- Weakening Hezbollah Requires Faster International Support to Lebanon
International Crisis Group
- CMSI Quarterly Review, 2026, v. 1, no. 3
- CMSI Archive
Translation: From Yan’an to the United Nations: The Diplomatic Career of
Ling Qing
- CMSI Archive
Translation: The UNCLOS Conferences and China’s Safeguarding of Its
Maritime Rights and Interests
- CMSI Archive
Translation: The Provisional Constitution of Seapower: China’s
Participation in UNCLOS Negotiations from Beginning to End
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Accelerate the Formulation of a National Maritime Strategy
and Maritime Basic Law
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Drawing up a Maritime Basic Law / Protecting Maritime Rights
and Interests in Accordance with the Law
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Thoughts on Advancing Ocean Defense Construction Work in the
New Situation
- CMSI Archive
Translation: New Thinking on Joint Development and Freedom of Navigation
in the South China Sea: Paths for Resolving the South China Sea Dispute
Based on International Law
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Philippines Violates Declaration on the Conduct of Parties
in the South China Sea
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Summary of the Workshop on “The Current Legal Struggle for
Rights and Interests in the South China Sea
- CMSI Archive
Translation: A Maritime Legal Contest
- CMSI Archive
Translation: On the Legality of Applying Straight Baselines to China’s
Mid-Ocean Archipelagos A Perspective from Customary International Law
- CMSI Archive
Translation: PRC Coast Guard Law (Draft)
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Hainan Passes Regulation Allowing Detention of Foreign Ships
that Illegally Land on Islands Within Its Jurisdiction
- CMSI Archive
Translation: An Unforgettable Maritime Contest in the East China Sea: A
Partial Account of the Rights Protection/Law Enforcement Operation
Following an Incident Involving the Sinking of an Unidentified Foreign
Vessel in the East China Sea
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Research on Requirements and Measures in Civilian Vessel
Mobilization for Maritime Rights Protection
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Research on Civil Wharfs Construction Implementing Maritime
Strategic Projection Requirements
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Legal Problems Regarding the Use of Force in Military
Actions at Sea
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Tasks and Operations of the Maritime Militia When
Participating in Maritime Combat
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Research on Legal Issues Related to Security and Defense of
China’s Overseas Military Bases
- CMSI Archive
Translation: Grasp the New Features of Escort Missions and Strengthen the
Effectiveness of Political Work
- Closed Loop
Authoritarianism: How AI and Users
Radicalize Each Other
- Democratic Socialists
of America: Policy Advocacy and
Narrative Convergence with Hostile Foreign States
- Emergent Adversarial And Coordinated Behavior On MOLTBOOK
- Countdown to the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Insights from ORF’s Pre-Summit Engagements
- Greening Half the World: Leveraging the New Development Bank for Green Finance
- Relocating India in the ‘America First’ Grand Strategy
- Sharing the Burden: Preparing for Maritime Security Competition in the Indo-Pacific
- Awareness of Preoperational Surveillance Tactics Associated With Terrorism Offers Opportunities
- Protecting High-Profile and High-Risk Court Proceedings Against Terrorist Threats
- How Americans View Key Members of the Trump Administration
- White Evangelicals Remain Among Trump’s Strongest Supporters, But They’re Less Supportive Than a Year Ago
- Evaluating the Impact of Changes to the Air Force Officer and Enlisted Evaluation Systems
- Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems: Interagency Challenges
- Managing Systemic Supply Chain Risk to the U.S. Economy from Trade Concentration and Geopolitical Conflict
- Measuring Biological
Capabilities and Risks of AI Agents:
Generating and Interpreting Evidence from Agentic Evaluations
- Russia in the High North: Russian Strategy and Escalation Risks in the High North After the Russia-Ukraine War
- State-Level Summaries of Veteran Needs and Well-Being
- Sanctions 2.0: Thwarting the Myanmar Junta’s Rebranding
and Cutting Off Their International Enablers
- AI in Chinese, Indian and US Nuclear Postures, Norms and Systems
- Responsible Procurement of Military Artificial Intelligence
- Seeking Stability in Outer Space: Opportunities for China–UK Dialogue
- Civil Wars
- Armed Group Consolidation: Charting a Field of Inquiry [open access article]
- Critical Studies on
Terrorism
- Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: The Impact and Mitigation Of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe [open access article]
- Governing Threats Through Ambiguity: The Construction of the Dangerous Person in the German Parliamentary Discourse [open access article]
- Filling in the Blind Spot? Problematisations of ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ in German Federal-Level P/CVE Policy [open access article]
- Radicalisation and the Jurisprudence of Suspicion: Law’s Pre-Criminal Turn and the Collapse Of Evidentiary Thresholds in the UK, France and Germany [open access
article]
- Two Decades Later, Same Rhetoric: How the Discourse on Terrorism Risks Eroding Human Dignity
[open access article]
- The United States proscription of Hezbollah: A Critical Discourse Analysis (1985–1997)
[open access article]
- What Makes an Incel? An Interview Study of Current and Former Incels [open access article]
- Defence Studies
- A New Autocratic Way of War? Autocracy, Precision Strike Warfare and Civilian Victimization
[open access article]
- The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO): The Post-Communist Versus Democratic Europe [open access article]
- Recruitment to the Swedish All-Volunteer Force – Impact on Quantity and Quality of Recruits
[open access article]
- Reluctant Middlemen: The Imaginary of Defense Requirements Engineering [open access article]
- Defense &
Security Analysis
- Biodefence as a Challenge to the Global Norms Against Biological and Toxin Weapons: Five Problems and a Potential Solution [open access article]
- Ethnic and Racial
Studies
- Beyond Myanmar’s Borders: The Use of Transnational Repression and Creation of New State Spaces Within ASEAN [open access article]
- Neither from Within nor from Without: How States Securitize Diasporas [open access article]
- “Offending the Audience: A Normative Account of Democratic Audience Costs” [open access
article]
- Racial Sensemaking and International Student Mobility: Mainland Chinese Students in Singapore and Malaysia Navigating Multiculturalism and Multiracialism
[open access article]
- Reframing the Lens: Transnational Youth, Lived Religion and Rethinking Mobility and Transnationalism [open access article]
- “They are Paying Taxes.” Local Politicians’ Attitudes Toward Noncitizen Voting in Maryland and Washington, D.C. [open access article]
- Transnational Repression in an Age of Global Authoritarianism: Experiences of Uyghur Diaspora Activists in Sweden [open access article]
- Geopolitics
- Attributes of Digital Sovereignty: A Conceptual Framework [open access article]
- The Geopoliticisation of International Organisations and Strategic Technologies: Exacerbating Global Rivalries? [open access article]
- Islands of Solidarity? Migration and Activism in Malta [open access article]
- The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border [open access
article]
- Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Reception and Settlement [open access article]
- Researching Border Violence in an Indefensible Europe [open access article]
- Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland [open access article]
- Speaking Racism – Raciolinguistic Frontiers, Worth and Belonging in the Governing of Refugees in Norway [open access article]
- The Spectacle of Invisibility: Vanishing Points and the Spatialised Legal Violence of the UK’s Expanding Quasi-Carceral Geography of Immigration Control [open access article]
- ‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence [open access article]
- Torture Survivors in Asylum – Ignoring the Obvious [open access article]
- Ultimate Concessions? Why States Agree to Independence Referendums After Long Wars
[open access article]
- Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts [open
access article]
- Journal of Applied
Security Research
- Public Support for the Use of Facial Recognition Technology to Prevent Credit Card Fraud [open access article]
- Journal of Political
Ideologies
- France and Algeria: Ideas of the Nation in the French Political Elite Discourse 1954–1956
[open access article]
- Security Studies
- Other than Law: Legitimizing China’s Nuclear Strategy
[open access article]
- Small Wars &
Insurgencies
- Ahmed Sharif as-Sanūsi and irregular warfare in North Africa, 1902–1917 [open access
article]
- Studies in Conflict
& Terrorism
- The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars [open access article]
- Pathways of Foreign Fighters: An In-Depth and Comparative Study Based on Dutch Probation Files [open access article]
- Rebel Legal Order, Governance and Legitimacy: Examining the Islamic State and the Taliban Insurgency [open access article]
- The Arab Spring Rollback and Varieties of Arab ‘Autocratization’
- Arab Women’s Inclusiveness: Navigating Terrains of De-Democratization and Conflict
- An Eye on Moroccan Democratisation: Towards an Adaptation?
- Policy Challenges to Democratization in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- When Growth Becomes a Peace and Security Risk
- Conflict in Ukraine: A Parliamentary Reading List (2014 – Present)
- Conflict in Ukraine: A Timeline (Current Conflict, 2022 – Present)
- Finland: Domestic Politics and the Orpo Government since 2023
- Finland: New Security Outlook
- History of Asylum Appeals in the United Kingdom
- Unauthorised Migration: UK-France Border Cooperation
- Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Iran
- Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy
- Modifying Duties to Address Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation
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