Thursday, December 16, 2021

Friday's Miscellany 12-03-2021 & 12-10-2021

 38 North

 Airwars

 Al Jazeera Center

 American Enterprise Institute

 Amnesty International

 Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

 Army University Press

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

 Asia Policy Institute

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Defence College (ADC)

  • Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, v. 3, no. 2, 2021 
    • What Type of Revisionist is China (and Why Does It Matter)?
    • Future All-Volunteer Force: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Recruitment and Retention Strategies
    • Cybersecurity and sovereignty
    • Can Asians Fight? Organisational-Cultural Impediments to the Conduct of Asian High-Tech Conventional Warfare
    • Where to from Here? The Australian Defence Force's Pursuit of National Security and the 2020 Defence Strategic Update
    • Australia's Polar Attraction: Antarctic Strategy 2001-2021, an Element of Australia's Grand Strategy
    • Trust, but Verify? The Shaky Foundations of Sino-Russian Cooperation
    • Proverb Inspired Versus Evidence Driven: In Support of a Constructive Debate in Defence and Strategic Studies

 Australian Institute of Criminology

 Australian National University Press

 Australian Navy

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Bipartisan Policy Center

 Blair Institute for Global Change

 Brookings   

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy [Harvard]

 Cato Institute

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

 Center for Global Development

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Center for the Study of Intelligence

  • Studies in Intelligence, December 2021, v. 65, no. 4 
    • Voice of Experience: Principles of Intelligence Analysis
    • Intelligence History: Cuba’s Strategy in Latin America: Intelligence Estimates and the Historical Record
    • Looking for More “Imagination”: Fostering Creativity in the IC: Insights from Four Decades Ago
    • From an Oversight Perspective: Interview with Former US Senator Gary Hart
    • Intelligence and Congress: The Nomination of George H. W. Bush as DCI
    • Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf—December 2021

 Center on Global Energy Policy

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chatham House

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations

 Congo Research Group & Human Rights Watch

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)  

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

  • DODIG-2022-042 Department of Defense Progress on Implementing Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA Section 554 Requirements Involving Prohibited Activities of Covered Armed Forces
  • DODIG-2022-041 Audit of the DoD’s Use of Cybersecurity Reciprocity Within the Risk Management Framework Process
  • DODIG-2022-040 Management Advisory: DoD Support for the Relocation of Afghan Nationals at Ramstein Air Base

 Department of State

 Department of State Inspector General

  • AUD-CGI-22-13 Information Report: Department of State 2021 Charge Card Risk Assessment 

 Department of Veterans Affairs, Inspector General

  • REPORT #21-01508-32 Comprehensive Healthcare Inspection Summary Report: Evaluation of Women's Health Care in Veterans Health Administration Facilities, Fiscal Year 2020
  • REPORT #21-00913-267 Systems and Tools Implemented to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Data
  • REPORT #20-01099-249 VHA Improperly Paid and Reauthorized Non-VA Acupuncture and Chiropractic Services
  • REPORT #21-01807-251 VHA Risks Overpaying Community Care Providers for Evaluation and Management Services

 Economic Research Forum

 Egmont Institute

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

 European Defence Agency (EDA)

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 European Union Chamber of Commerce in China

 European Union CT MORSE

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 European Values

 EUROPOL

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  • FBI Law Enforcement December 2021
    • Manhunts: A Role for Crisis Negotiators
    • The Threat of Disinformation
    • Leadership Spotlight: Patience in Development
    • Perspective: The Threat of Disinformation
    • Community Outreach Spotlight: Fresno Fight Girls

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies

 Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Araştırmaları Vakfı)

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

 George Washington University Program on Extremism

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

 German Development Institute

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

 Global Health Security (GHS)

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

  • Army Corps of Engineers: Workforce Planning Follows Most Leading Practices but Could Be Enhanced with Additional Actions GAO-22-104054
  • Behavioral Health and COVID-19: Higher-Risk Populations and Related Federal Relief Funding GAO-22-104437 
  • Combating Illegal Fishing: Clear Authority Could Enhance U.S. Efforts to Partner with Other Nations at Sea GAO-22-104234
  • Cybersecurity: Federal Actions Urgently Needed to Better Protect the Nation's Critical Infrastructure GAO-22-105530
  • Cybersecurity: NIH Needs to Take Further Actions to Resolve Control Deficiencies and Improve Its Program GAO-22-104467
  • Defense Acquisitions: DOD Should Take Additional Actions to Improve How It Approaches Intellectual Property GAO-22-104752
  • Defense Contractor Cybersecurity: Stakeholder Communication and Performance Goals Could Improve Certification Framework GAO-22-104679
  • Disaster Recovery: Better Data Are Needed to Ensure HUD Block Grant Funds Reach Vulnerable Populations GAO-22-104452
  • Drug Control Grants: ONDCP Should Document Its Process for Identifying Duplication, Overlap, and Fragmentation GAO-22-104666
  • Law Enforcement: DOJ Can Improve Publication of Use of Force Data and Oversight of Excessive Force Allegations GAO-22-104456
  • Nuclear Waste Disposal: Actions Needed to Enable DOE Decision That Could Save Tens of Billions of Dollars GAO-22-104365
  • Personnel Vetting: Actions Needed to Implement Reforms, Address Challenges, and Improve Planning GAO-22-104093 
  • Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Two Remaining Active Investment Programs GAO-22-105240

 Graphika

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Heritage Foundation

 Hoover Institution

 Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

 Hudson Institute

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) 

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

 Institute for Science and International Security

 Institute for Security Studies [Africa] 

 Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

 International Crisis Group

 International Energy Agency (IEA)

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

 Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

 James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

 Jamestown Foundation

  • China Brief, December 3, 2021, v. 21, no. 23
    • Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: Beijing’s Blueprint for Foreign Relations or Sui Generis?
    • A New Chinese National Security Bureaucracy Emerges
    • Borrowed Boats Capsizing: State Security ties to CCP Propaganda Laundering Rile Czech Public
    • Sri Lanka’s Balancing Act between China and India
    • End of the Golden Era: Sino-British Relations Enter Difficult Period
  • Terrorism Monitor, December 7, 2021, v. 19, no. 23
    • India Responds to New Kashmiri Militant Factions’ Campaign against Civilians
    • The Window for a Negotiated Settlement in Ethiopia’s War is Closing as the Country Faces Protracted Civil War
    • Pakistan's Peace Talks with the Pakistani Taliban: Insights from an Interview with Abdul Wali Mohmand (alias Umar Khalid Khurasani)

 Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies - China-Africa Research Initiative

 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LNBL)

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

 Meta (FaceBook)

 Middle East Institute

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

 Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI)

 Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

 MITRE Corporation

 Modern Warfare Institute

 National Academies Press

 National Bureau of Asian Research

 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

 National Defense University (NDU)

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

 National Security Archive

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

 New America

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

 Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program

 Observer Research Foundation

 Office of Community Oriented Policing Services  (COPS)

 One Earth Future - Stable Seas Program

 Operations and Policy Center (OPC)

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

 Our World in Data

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

 Oxford University Press

 Peoples Republic of China

 Pew Research Center

 Policy Exchange (UK)

 Polish Institute of International Affairs

 RAND Corporation

 Ronald Reagan Institute

 Reporters without Borders

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

 The Sentry

 Small Wars Journal

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stanford Internet Observatory

  • Guardians of Democracy: An Oral History of the 2020 Elections
  • Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2021, v. 1, no. 1
    • Misinformation and Hate Speech: The Case of Anti-Asian Hate Speech During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    • Moderating with the Mob: Evaluating the Efficacy of Real-Time Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
    • How Search Engines Handle Suicide Queries
    • The Accidental Origins, Underappreciated Limits, and Enduring Promises of Platform Transparency Reporting about Information Operations
    • An Overview of Perceptual Hashing
    • The Problems with Immersive Advertising: In AR/VR, Nobody Knows You Are an Ad
    • A Proposal for Researcher Access to Platform Data: The Platform Transparency and Accountability Act

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defence University Centre for Society Security

 Swisspeace

 Taylor & Francis

 Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

 United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons Defense Committee

 UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 US Institute for Peace (USIP)

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

 US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA)

 US Studies Center—University of Sydney, Australia

 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

 Vienna Center for Disarmament and NonProliferation

 Warsaw Institute

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 Wellcome Global Monitor

 White House

 Wilson Center

 Women in International Security

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum