Friday's Miscellany 12-31-2021

 38 North

• North Korea’s Signaling on Nuclear Weapons and Negotiations 
• North Korea’s Tideland Reclamation Efforts 
• Understanding Kim Jong Un’s Economic Policymaking: Pyongyang’s Views on Banking 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa’s Coups and the Role of External Actors 
• African Migration Trends to Watch in 2022 
• A Crucial Moment in Chad’s Transition 

 Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• The Crisis of the Turkish Lira:  Toward Economic Collapse or a New Economic Model?

 American Enterprise Institute

• Whatever it Takes to End it:  Iran’s Shift Toward More Oppressive Governance 

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

• Fresh Start or False Dawn?  Prospects for U.S.-German Relations in the Post-Merkel Era 
• Rebooting the U.S.-EU Defense Relationship 

 Amnesty International

• Turkey, Turn Words into Actions:  Duty-bound to End Violence Against Women 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), October 2021, v. 28, no. 10 
• Update: Cold Weather Injuries, Active and Reserve Components, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2016–June 2021
• Brief Report: The Challenge of Interpreting Recurrent SARS-CoV-2 Positive Tests among Military Service Members, Fort Jackson, SC, 2020– 2021
• Surveillance Snapshot: History of COVID-19 Vaccination among Air Force Recruits Arriving at Basic Training, 2 March–15 June 2021
• Surveillance Snapshot: Influenza immunization among U.S. Armed Forces Health Care Workers, August 2016–April 2021

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• Asymmetric WMD Threats: DPRK Nuclear, Cyber, and Bio-Chemical Weapons Capabilities 
• Cooperative Threat Reduction Plus: Breaking the Stalemate with the DPRK 

 Atlantic Council

• After the Insurrection: How Domestic Extremists Adapted and Evolved After the January 6 US Capitol Attack 
• Axis of Collusion:  The Fragile Putin-Xi Partnership 
• Beyond the Peninsula:  U.S.-ROK Cooperation on Digital Connectivity in the Indo-Pacific
  
• The Domestic Challenges That Threaten China’s Superpower Future 
• Proactively Countering North Korea’s Advancing Nuclear Threat
  

 Australian Department of Defense

• ASDEFCON and Defense Procurement Review 2021
  

 Australian National University Press

• Alliances, Nuclear Weapons and Escalation: Managing Deterrence in the 21st Century 
• Fighting Australia’s Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945–1965
  

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• The Strategic Compass as Europe's Defining Moment of Geostrategic Reorientation 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• U.S.-China Competition Enters the Decade of Maximum Danger 

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• Asylum in Lockdown: Access to International Protection and Reception in Times of COVID-19
  

 Belgrade Center for Security Policy

• A Quasi Arms Race:  Serbia and Croatia
  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Staying Ahead of the Covid Curve 

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

• Addressing Illicit Trafficking through a Crime Convergence Lens: Towards a Model for Cross-Border Cooperation in Africa 

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Stepping Stones Approach to Disarmament 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Evolution and Future of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan 
• Reimagining Nuclear Arms Control: A Comprehensive Approach 
• Role of National Parliaments in EU Defense 

 Center for Global Development

• Two Birds, One Budget: Using ODA for Influence and Development in the Indo-Pacific?  

 Center for Global Security Research (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

• Getting the Multi-Domain Challenge Right  

 Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

• Homeland Security Affairs, 2021, v. 17 
• Classical Deterrence Theory: Applicable to Maritime Counterproliferation Initiatives? 
• South of the Border: Legal and Privacy Underpinnings of Canadian and U.S. Approaches to Police Video Usage 
• Validating Deterrence Models for Scanning Technologies
  

 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)

• A Decade of the Kim Jong Un Doctrine 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• AI and Autonomy in Russia
• Issue 27  
• Issue 28 
• China AI and Autonomy Report
• Issue 4  
• Issue 5 
• Exposing the Gap Between PRC Rhetoric and Illicit Maritime Activity 
• Case Study Compilation
  
• Key Findings 
• Summary Report
  
• Key Takeaways  
  
• Supporting documents
• Forced Indonesian Labor on Board PRC Flagged Vessels 
• Harvesting Giant Clams in Philippine Administered Waters
  
• Illegal Entering and Anchoring in Malaysia’s Territorial Waters 
• PRC Nationals Smuggled into Cambodia by Sea 
• PRC Research Vessel Operating Dark in Indonesian Waters
  
• PRC Trawler in Mauritania Restricted Area Rams Local Boat 
• PRC Vessels Allegedly Ramming Foreign Fishing Vessels 
• PRC Vessels Detained for Illegal Fishing in Vanuatu EEZ
  
• PRC Vessels Engaging in Illegal Fishing in Gabon 
• Reports of PRC Vessels Dumping Sewage in Philippine EEZ 
• Russian Media Analysis, December 2021 
• Tampering with Automatic Identification Systems
  

 Center for Security Policy

• State Department Terrorism Report Raises Questions about Priorities
  
• Why the United States, Not China, Needs to Shape Middle East Policy
  

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

• 5G and Beyond to 6G: Opportunities for the Biden Administration and 117th Congress
  
• The Biden Administration's Geopolitical Tightrope 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Scoping AI Governance: A Smarter Tool Kit for Beneficial Applications 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Infrastructure Development in Fragile Settings 
• Under the Microscope: Inside the Attacks on Porga and Keremou
  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The 2022 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding: An Uncertain Course for the Future Fleet 

 Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)

• A Handbook for Ending Catastrophic Biological Risks 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Installation Status Update December 29, 2021
  
• DODI 4165.69  Return of Overseas Sites 
• Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III
  
• Guidance on Eligibility for a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Booster Dose 
• Implementation of Measures Designed to Mitigate the Threat of the Delta and Omicron Variants to the Pentagon Reservation 
• Secretary of Defense Memo Regarding Authority to Approve District of Columbia Government Requests for District of Columbia National Guard Support Assistance 
  
• Tools to Mitigate the Threat of the Omicron Variant of Coronavirus Disease 2019 
• Updated Force Health Protection Guidance (Supplement 15) Revision 3 - Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Laboratory Testing Services 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2022-046 External Peer Review of the Defense Contract Management Agency Office of Internal Audit and Inspector General 
• DODIG-2022-045 Management Advisory:  DoD Support for the Relocation of Afghan Nationals at Rhine Ordnance Barracks 
• D2022-DEV0SR-0051.000 Project Announcement:  Evaluation of the Operation, Maintenance, Safety, and Oversight of the Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility
  

 Department of Veterans Affairs, Inspector General

• REPORT #20-03351-08 MISSION Act Market Assessments Contain Inaccurate Specialty Care Workload Data  

 Economic Research Forum

• Coping Strategies, Well-Being and Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic Period
  
• Dances with Wolves: Weather and Health Disasters and Fiscal Sustainability in MENA 
• Do Egyptian Trade Unions Have Any Bargaining Power? 
• The Effect of Primary School Construction on Later Outcomes
  
• Financial Integration, Inclusion and Stability During Crises: Insights from the MENA Region 
• Fiscal Policy Effectiveness Under Different Debt Regimes: The Case of Egypt 
• Is It Getting Too Hot to Work in the MENA Region?
  
• On Stranded Assets and Climate Risk: Are Financial Markets the Last Resort?
  
• Potential Impact of Climate Change on Food Consumption Through Price Channel: Case for Turkey 
• The Role of NGOs in Climate Policies: The Case of Tunisia 
• Stolen Dreams or Collateral Damage: Climate and Economic Growth in Time of Covid-19
  
• A Time of Great Intensity: The Pandemic Effect on Work, Care Work and Subjective Wellbeing in MENA Countries 
• The Transboundary Effects of Climate Change and Global Adaptation: The Case of The Euphrates-Tigris Water Basin in Turkey and Iraq 

 Egmont—The Royal Institute of International Affairs of Belgium

• The Eastern Mediterranean: Calm before the Storm in a Core European Strategic Zone 

 Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• “Dear Nike, Just Don’t Do It!”: A Transnational Digital Connective Action on the Issue of Forced Uyghur Labor at Nike Sweatshops in China 
• Women Forging Peace in the Ferghana Valley? An Analysis of Gender Inclusion in Peacebuilding and Transboundary Water Resource Management Projects in the Ferghana Valley 

 EU Joint Research Centre (JRC)

• Sustainable Power Sector Development in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan  

 European Asylum Support Office (EASO)              

• Consultation with Applicants for International Protection on Mental Health 

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Generic Protocol for COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Studies during Outbreaks in Semi-Closed Settings in the EU/EEA 

 European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)

• Russia’s Policy towards Belarus: Controlling More, Giving Back Less
  

 European Network for Economic and Fiscal Policy Research (EconPol)

• Investment Screening Mechanisms: The Trend to Control Inward Foreign Investment 
• A Model to Think About Crypto-Assets and Central Bank Digital Currency 
• The Recovery and Resilience Facility: A Springboard for a Renaissance of Public Investments in Europe? 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Dealing with the Neighbours: The Case for an Affiliate Membership of the European Union and a New Security Council 

 European Union (EU)

• Clusters of Social and Ecological Innovation in the European Union, Perspectives and Experiences
  
• Europol Support to Fight Migrant Smuggling
  

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Ulkopoliittinen instituutti)

• Russia and European Security:  Before the Storm 

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

• Displaced Venezuelans in Latin America: A Test of Regional Solidarity? 
• Russia’s Islam:  Balancing Securitization and Integration
  
• South Korea and France’s Indo-Pacific Strategies:  Potential Partnership and Challenges 

 George Washington University Program on Extremism 

• Moderating Extremism: The State of Online Terrorist Content Removal Policy in the United States 

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

• How Biden’s Plan to Limit the Role of Nuclear Weapons Challenges NATO 

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

• Between Change and Continuity: European Expectations towards Czech and German EU Policies After the 2021 Elections 
• Biden’s Proposal for a U.S. “Sole Purpose” Nuclear Declaratory Policy 
• Euro-Atlantic Concerns regarding a US »Sole Purpose« Policy 
• South Africa’s Social and Political Challenges 
• Supply Chain Instability Threatens Security of Supplies 
• The US “Sole Purpose” Debate: A Backgrounder
  

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• What's Next for U.S. Democracy Support in Central and Eastern Europe? 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa 
• Control, Alt, or Delete?: The UN Cybercrime Debate Enters a New Phase 
• Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe 

 Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

• UNHCR’s Engagement in Humanitarian-Development Cooperation: Final Report 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• VA Needs to Strengthen Its Approach for Addressing Resident Complaints GAO-22-105142 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Pick Your Poison: Comparing the Deterrence Problem in Asia and Europe
  
• Raising the Costs of Access: Active Denial Strategies by Small and Middle Powers against Revisionist Aggression 
• Western Proxies Through Russian Eyes 

 Heritage Foundation

• Barring Foreigners from Participating in Referenda Elections
  
• Great Power Competition is Putting Planet Earth at Risk 
• Iran Looks East:  Building Ties with China
  
• Seven Actions Russia Must Take Before Receiving Another Meeting with NATO 
• Using Public Nuisance Law to “Solve” the Opioid Crisis Sets a Dangerous Precedent
  

 Hoover Institution for War and Peace

• The Future of the Republican Party in 2022, 2024 and Beyond 

 Human Rights Watch

• Crunch Time on Killer Robots:  Why New Law Is Needed and How It Can Be Achieved 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Computer Chips vs. Potato Chips: The Case for a U.S. Strategic-Industry Policy 
• Why Including Domestic Companies on USTR’s Notorious Markets List Undermines U.S. Trade Policy 

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• 2021 CISO DDoS Handbook 
• Ransomware Weaponized: Nation States, Cryptocurrencies, and Great Power Competition
  

 Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

• What Do We Know about Cyber Operations During Crises? 

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel) 

• The National Security Index: The Cognitive Campaign in the Digital Age 
• Whoever Flees from Maneuver Warfare Will Not Win

 Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

• Diminished Autonomy and the Risk of New Flashpoints in Papua 

 Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• A Way Out from the US-DPRK Deadlock: Toward North Korea’s Denuclearization 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Turkey in Review: December 7 – December 27 

 Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Building Back Better: Sustainable Development Diplomacy in the Pandemic Era 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Multi-Layered Actions? Sustaining Partnerships in the EU Integrated Approach to Conflicts and Crises 

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• India-China Space Race: The Role of Private Sector 
• Nepal’s Contributions to UN Peacekeeping 
• Sri Lanka-China Chemical Fertiliser Spat: Reflections 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Changing Alliance Structures 

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• "Next Generation EU" Cities: Local Communities in a Post-Pandemic Future 

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

• Australia, India and the Indo-Pacific:  The Need for Strategic Imagination 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

• No Other Option:  Politics, Policy and Industrial Considerations in the Canadian Surface Combatant Program 

 Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

• MES Insights, December 2021, v. 12, no. 6
• Lebanon's Total Collapse: Challenges, Implications, and Recommendations for U.S. Foreign Policy

 Middle East Institute

• Is the Black Sea European?  The European Union is Still Hesitating 
• Sudan-Russia Relations After the October Coup:  The View from Moscow
  

 Modern Warfare Institute

• Getting Oversight Right:  Lessons from Fort Hood and West Point’s Gender Integration   
  
• Promise of Hydrogen:  An Alternative Fuel at the Intersection of Climate Policy and Lethality
  
• Sticks and Stones:  Realism, Constructivism, Rhetoric, and Great Power Competition 

 National Academies Press

• Ensuring an Effective Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise 
• Human-AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs 
• Integrating Effective Transportation Performance, Risk, and Asset Management Practices 
• Mid-Term Assessment of Progress on the 2015 Strategic Vision for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research 
• Necessary DoD Range Capabilities to Ensure Operational Superiority of U.S. Defense Systems: Testing for the Future Fight 
• Offshore Situation Room: Enhancing Resilience to Offshore Oil Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings of a Workshop 
• Strengthening U.S. Coast Guard Oversight and Support of Recognized Organizations: The Case of the Alternative Compliance Program 
• Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation 

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

• Extremism in the Ranks and After [updated Dec 2021] 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Post-Truth and National Security: Context, Challenges, and Responses 

 National Institute of Justice

• Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System: An Overview of Chatbots and Their Underlying Technologies and Applications 

 NATO Defense College 

• What Role for NATO in the Sahel? 

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• Development Assistance and Root Causes of Migration: A Risky Road to Unsustainable Solutions 
  

 NSI's Strategic Multilayer Assessment (SMA) Program

• Evaluating China’s Road to Cyber Super Power 
• Outer Space in the Media Space: How Russian and Chinese News Media Present the Commercialization and Militarization of the Space Domain 

 Observer Research Foundation

• Digital Banks: A Proposal for a Licensing & Regulatory Regime for India 
• The ‘Green’ in Delhi’s Draft Master Plan: Weighed and Found Wanting 
• Reflections on the Indo-Pacific:  Perspectives from Africa
  
• Stocktaking and Recommendations for Consolidation: Joint Academic Paper by ORF and RIS 
• Water-Scarce Economies and Scarcity Values: Can Water Futures Trading Combat Water Scarcity?
  
• What the Taliban–Islamic State Rivalry Means for South Asia  
• The World in 2021: An Epilogue 

 Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

• US National Security in a New Era of Intense Global Competition  

 RAND Corporation

• COVID-19 in the California Workers' Compensation System: A Study of COVID-19 Claims and Presumptions Under Senate Bill 1159
  
• Establishing Feeder-Designation Relationships with Colleges and Universities to Increase Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Air Force Officer Accessions 
• Getting to Outcomes® Handbook for U.S. Air and Space Force Community Action Planning 
• How Effective Are Blinding Concepts and Practices to Promote Equity in the Department of the Air Force? 
• Keeping the Defense Industrial Base Afloat During COVID-19:  A Review of Department of Defense and Federal Government Policies and Investments in the Defense Industrial Base 
• Supporting Parental Behavioural Change: Multichannel and Cross-Sector Campaigns in Israel: A Case Study
  

 Royal United Services Institute  (RUSI)

• Russia and Ukraine:  “One People” as Putin Claims?
  

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), January 2021, v. 14, no. 1 
• Annual Threat Assessment - 2021 Global Threat Assessment
• The Middle East: Jihadist Militancy, National and Intra-State Tensions, and State-Society Dichotomy
• Underlying The Islamic State (IS) Propaganda: Striving for Relevance and Dominance 
• Radical Ideological Narratives Following the Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan
• Extreme Right Violence In The West: In Remission?
• China’s C919 Airliner:  New Problems, More Delays 
• Cross-Strait Relations and Saving Beijing’s Face 
• Infiltration of Jemaah Islamiyah into Indonesian State and Society 
• Three Key Challenges for Cambodia’s ASEAN Chairmanship in 2022 

 Simon Fraser University

• Journal for Deradicalization, Winter 2021, no. 29  
• Politics by Other Means in the Italian ‘Years of Lead’: Armed Groups, Ideology and Patterns of Violence
• Collaboration in Hybrid Spaces: The Case of Nordic Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism
• Shame, Norms and Values as possible Resources in Preventing and Countering Radicalisation
• Broadcast Your Past: Analysis of a German Former Right-Wing Extremist’s YouTube Channel for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Crime
• Proscribing the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: Analyzing the Process and its Outcome
• A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Deradicalisation: Results from Germany and Pakistan

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Post-shipment On-site Inspections of Military Materiel:  Challenges and Responses
  
• Reform within the System: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon 

 Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC)

• Inside the Raslan Trial: An Unexpected Witness, a Missing Witness, and a Rejected Witnesses
  

 Taylor & Francis

• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2022
• Tweeting terrorism: Vernacular conceptions of Muslims and terror in the wake of the Manchester Bombing on Twitter [open access article] 
• Policing & Society, 2021 
• Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Violence and Abuse in England: An Analysis of Case Attrition and Inequalities Using Police Data [open access article] 
• Unpacking the Blue Box: Structure, Control and Education in Policing [open access article] 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Global Climate Wall:  How the World’s Wealthiest Nations Prioritize Borders Over Climate Action 
• Primer on Climate Security—The Dangers of Militarizing the Climate Crisis  

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

• Advancing Pacific Priorities 
• Mongolia’s Child Money Programme: Results from ESCAP’s Social Protection Simulation Tool 
• Pacific Perspectives 2021
  
• Space Applications for Management of Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• The 2021 Innovations Dialogue Conference Report 
• 2021 Outer Space Security Conference Report 
• Enhancing the Management and Enforcement of Compliance in the Regime Prohibiting Chemical Weapons 

 UN Women

• Gender Accountability Framework Report 2020 
• Making Parity a Reality: Advancing Gender Parity across the UN System 

 Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)

• Datasets on Organised Violence and Peacemaking 

 White House

• Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability 
• Federal Sustainability Plan: Catalyzing America’s Clean Energy Industries and Jobs 
• Statement by the President on S. 1605, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 

Wilson Center

• Partnering with Indigenous Communities: Session 4 of the Brazil-U.S. Dialogue on Sustainability and Climate Change 
• Uncovering the Deforestation and Climate Risks of Chinese and EU Soy and Beef Imports from South America 

 World Bank

• Improving the Well-Being of Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries