Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Friday's Miscellany 12-27-2019


38 North
·         38 North DPRK Reference Portal

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

Amnesty International

Air University Press
·         The Command of the Air [This 2019 edition builds on a 1942 Italian-to-English translation and includes an index]

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)
·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), December 2019, v. 6, no. 12
o    Case Report: Hansen’s Disease in an Active Duty Soldier Presenting with Type 1 Reversal Reaction
o    Update: Gallbladder Disease and Cholecystectomies, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2014–2018
o    Prevalence of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, U.S. Armed Forces, May 2004–September 2018
o    Positive Predictive Value of an Algorithm Used for Cancer Surveillance in the U.S. Armed Forces

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)
·         EU-Trends in 2020

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)
·         The Law Is Only a Scaffolding

Belfer Center

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

CATO Institute

Center for Global Development

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

Center for Terrorism and Security Studies
·         Perspectives on Terrorism, December 2019, v.13, no.6
o    Terrorism and Ideology: Cracking the Nut
o    The Crime and State Terrorism Nexus: How Organized Crime Appropriates Counterinsurgency Violence
o    Political Violence from the Extreme Right in Contemporary Portugal
o    Civil Liberties, National Security and US Courts in Times of Terrorism
o    Southeast Asian Fighters from Islamic State Document Leaks: A Historical Snapshot
o    Converging Patterns in Pathways in and out of Violent Extremism: Insights from Former Canadian Right-Wing Extremists
o    Effectiveness in Counter-Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism: A Literature Review
o    Counterterrorism Bookshelf: 20 Books on Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism-Related Subjects
o    Bibliography: Terrorism Prevention
o    Bibliography: Terrorism by Country – Mali
o    Recent Online Resources for the Analysis of Terrorism and Related Subjects

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
·         Fentanyl as a Chemical Weapon

Center of Military History (CMH)

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies
·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2019, v. 20, no. 1
o    Israel and the Permanent Siege: The People Have Spoken - Who Will Find an Answer to the Needs of the Voters?
o    The Global Expansion of China’s Military – 2019
o    Geostrategy and Canadian Defence: From C.P. Stacey to a Twenty-First Century Arctic Threat Assessment
o    The Economic forces of victory versus those of defeat: An analysis of the Greek Economic and Military Mobilization of the 1909-1923 Period
o    The Devil is in the Details: An Examination of Hybrid Cyber Operations and International Law
o    Vergennes’ Grey Zone: Grappling with the Grey Zone and Hybrid War through French Strategy 1774–1783
o    Women on the Home Front: Gender Roles and IODE Contributions to the War Effort in Winnipeg, Manitoba
o    Can Information Displace Mass? Armour In The Future Operating Environment
o    The PLAN’s Anti-Piracy Missions in the Gulf of Aden, Africa
o    The Role Of Artificial Intelligence In Facilitating Military Innovation
o    The State Of Strategic And Security Studies In Canada: Workshop Report

College of Europe

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
·         The Way Forward in Iraq

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee
·         FITARA 9.0

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)
·         PERSEREC-TR-19-06 Personnel Security Underreporting: Establishing Rates and Estimating the Problem

Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)
·         DODIG-2020-043 Audit of Jordan Border Security Program Oversight

East Asia Forum

Economic Research Forum

Electronic Frontier Foundation

European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
·         Russia’s Long Pivot East

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

German Development Institute

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Henley Putnam University
·         Journal of Strategic Security, 2019, v. 12, no. 4
o    Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
o    Profiling Lone-Actor Terrorists: A Cross-Sectional Study of Lone-actor Terrorists in Western Europe (2015–2016)
o    Can Volunteer Forces Deter Great Power War? Evidence from the Baltics
o    The Future of Strategic Information and Cyber-Enabled Information Operations
o    Delegated Interstate War: Introducing an Addition to Armed Conflict Typologies

Heritage Foundation

Hudson Institute

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)
·         Cyber, Intelligence, and Security, October 2019, v. 3, no. 2
o    The Space Arms Race: Global Trends and State Interests
o    Sectoral Ability to Manage Cyber Risks in the Supply Chain
o    Technology and Intelligence: Changing Trends in the IDF’s Intelligence Process in the Post-Information Revolution Period
o    Cyber Influence Campaigns in the Dark Web
o    Social Change Through Computerized Accessibility of Legal Rules
o    The Use of Biometric Technologies—Normative and Legal Aspects

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for Security Studies [Africa]
·         Peace and Security Council Report No. 120

Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)
·         China’s Year of Europe
·         Hezbollah in Germany and Europe

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)
·         On European Power

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

International Crisis Group

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
·         Cross-Border Currency Exposures

International Panel on Fissile Materials

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Lowy Institute
·         China’s Economic Choices
·         The US-China Trade War: Who Dominates Global Trade? [interactive]

Martens Centre for European Studies

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces
·         Canadian Military Journal, Winter 2019, v. 20, no.1
·         Military Commanders’ Responsibility for Members’ Health
·         Future Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV) and the Ethics of Responsibility
·         “A Truly Global Approach”: Opportunities for Increased Internationalization in Professional Military Education
·         Devil Copper: War and the Canadian Nickel Industry, 1883–1970
·         When Johnny (Canuck) Comes Marching Home Again: Canadians in the American Civil War, 1861–1865
·         “Parallel Warfare” in Conflicts with Limited Political Aims
·         Legal Implications of Canadian Foreign Fighters
·         Strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces Capacity to Address Child Soldiers
·         Missing in Action: The Troubling Case of Defence and the Election of 2019

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Nuclear Threat Initiative

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

RAND Corporation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
  • The 2019 UK PONI Papers 
    • Nuclear Power in a Changing UK
    • Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia
    • Britain’s Weapons Establishment and Tacit Knowledge: Selling Skills
    • Could Generation IV Nuclear Reactors Strengthen Russia’s Growing Sphere of Influence?
    • Deterrence Goes Orbital
    • New Futures for Nuclear Arms Control: Hypersonic Weapons
    • Conventional and Nuclear Applications of Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Examination of India and Pakistan
    • The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability, Escalation and Nuclear Security
    • A Troubling Forecast: Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence
    • UK Political Understanding of the Term ‘Nuclear Deterrence’: Addressing a Deficiency
    • More than a Mission: Simulating a Support Solution to Achieve Submarine Availability, Cost and Safety
    • Betwixt and Between Transformation? India and Nuclear South Asia
    • The UK and the Ban Treaty
  • An Outline for UK–China Cooperation on Afghanistan 
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
·         Arms Flows to South East Asia

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Wilson Center
·         How Islamists Fared in 2019