Friday's Miscellany 01-10-2025 & 01-17-2025

 38 North

• Half A Loaf: Third Hwasong-16 Solid IRBM Test Shows Booster is Ready but HGV Payload Needs Work 
• Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol: Impact on US-Japan-ROK Cooperation 
• K-Coup and its Limits: Popular Sovereignty, Civic Virtue, and Political Science Blind Spots 
• Kim Jong Un Welcomes Donald J. Trump to Second Term 
• Quick Take: Kim’s New Year’s Greetings to Putin 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Africa’s 2025 Elections:  A Test of Credibility to Uphold Democratic Norms 
• What to Expect from Africa-China Relations in 2025 

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• AI-Generated Regulation:  Not Ready for Prime Time (Yet) 
• Dollars and Sense:  America’s Interest in a Ukrainian Victory
• Power of Demography and the Fate of East Asia 
• Rebalancing Trade with China Requires a More Diverse Electronics Supply Chain 

 Amnesty International

• What Do We Get in Return?  How the Philippines Nickel Boom Harms Human Rights 

Andrew Marshall Foundation 

• The New Gap in America’s R&D Funding Landscape 

 Arctic Institute       

• Rising Tensions and Shifting Strategies: The Evolving Dynamics of US Grand Strategy in the Arctic 

 Army University Press

• Military Review, January-February 2025, v. 105, no. 1 
• Cyber Considerations of a Resistance Operating Concept: The Subversive Potential of Persuasive Technology
• Lessons in Reconstitution from the Russia-Ukraine War: Gaining Asymmetric Advantage through Transformative Reconstitution
• Meeting Expectations: Failure in Ukraine Will Not Change the Russian Aerospace Defense Force
• Classical Methods of Influence Applied to Contemporary Military Leadership
• Toward a Leadership Theory for Mission Command
• Reconstituting Partner Forces in Conflict: A Global Unity of Effort
• Black on Ammunition, Green on Forecasting: Ammunition Lessons Learned from a DIVARTY in a Division Warfighter Exercise
• Achieving Decision Dominance: The Arduous Pursuit of Operationalized Data
• Operating in a Multidomain Environment: Combat Support Training Exercise 86-24-02
• The Problem with Convergence: Dispelling the Illusion Surrounding the Tactical Application of Offensive Space and Cyberspace Capabilities
• Homeland Joint Interagency Task Force: Can It Better Deliver Planning, Coordination, and Information Sharing Protocols to Counter Transnational Criminal Threats?
• Can the President Federalize the National Guard?
• Preparing for Hot Conflicts: Army Training and Operations in a Warming World
• Flowers On His Grave [Poem]
• The U.S. Military Risks Mineral Shortages in a U.S.-China War: Lessons from World War I, World War II, and the Korean War

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Assessment of North Korea’s Regional Development Policy 
• Evaluating the Nature of North Korea’s Policy Shift toward South Korea 
• Evaluation and Implications of the Indo-Pacific Regional Security Environment 
• North Korea’s Hostile Policy Toward South Korea and Its Link to Foreign Policy Strategies 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• ASPI Notes for the Trump Administration 
• China’s Views on Escalation and Crisis Management and Implications for the United States 
• Petrodollar to Digital Yuan: China, the Gulf, and the 21st Century Path to De-Dollarization 

 Atlantic Council

• “First, We Will Defend the Homeland”:  The Case for Homeland Missile Defense 
• Kurdistan’s Share of the 2024 Iraqi Budget:  More Than Meets the Eye 
• Morocco’s Government must Foster Greater Economic Competition 
• The Next Decade of Strategic Competition: How the Pentagon Can Use Special Operations Forces to Better Compete 
• Recalibrating the Use of Individual Sanctions in Venezuela 
• Sanctioned Kleptocracy: How Putin’s Kremligarchs Have Survived The War—And Even Prospered 
• Securing a Free and Open World: A US-EU Blueprint to Counter China and Russia 
• Syria’s Energy Sector and Its Impact on Stability and Regional Developments 
• Venezuela’s 2024 Stolen Election Compounds Challenges to Stability and Democratic Renewal 

 Australian Army Research Center

• Drawing on Reserves: Assessing Civilian Employer/Manager Support for Employees’ Part-time Military Service 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• The Strategist
• China’s Big New Combat Aircraft: An Airborne Cruiser against Air and Surface Targets 
• In Dealing with China, Trump Just Needs to Step Up His First-Term Approach 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• North America’s Geopolitical and Economic Playbook Under Trump’s Second Term 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

• Deficit Tracker [updated December 2024]  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

• Russia’s Hybrid Threat: Insights From Moldova 

 Brookings Institution

• Democracy Playbook 2025: 7 Pillars to Defend Democracy in 2025 and Beyond 
• Expanding Global Partnerships to Advance Africa’s Agency and Aspirations 
• The External Wealth of Nations Database 
• External Wealth of Nations Complete Update, 2023 
• Getting the SDGs Back on Track in Africa 
• The Hidden STEM Gender Gap: Why Progress at Top Universities Masks a Growing Crisis 
• Immigration Drives the Nation’s Healthy Post-Pandemic Population Growth, New Census Data Show 
• The future of U.S.-China policy: Recommendations for the Incoming Administration [various reports] 
• Leveraging AI and Emerging Technologies to Unlock Africa’s Potential 
• Taxation, Representation, and Climate Migration
• Tracking Regulatory Changes in the Second Trump Administration 
• Turning Policy Into Action in Africa: Overcoming Policy Failures and Bridging Implementation Gaps for Real-World Impact 
• Ukraine Index: Tracking developments in the Ukraine War 
• What We Know About the 2024 Democratic and Republican Parties:  An Analysis of Congressional Candidates 

 Bruegel

• Are Bad Governments aThreat to Sovereign Defaults? The Effects of Political Risk on Debt Sustainability 
• European Public Goods: The Time for Action is Now 
• Finance for Nature: How To Improve Funding for the Protection of Biodiversity 
• Using Data as a Production Factor: Policy Ideas for a New EU Data Strategy 

 Cambridge Endowment for International Peace

• China Decoupling Beyond the United States: Comparing Germany, Japan, and India 
• Measuring Changes Caused by Generative Artificial Intelligence:  Setting the Foundations 
• Speaking in Code: Contextualizing Large Language Models in Southeast Asia 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• The Co-Evolution of the Canada-U.S. Oil Industry and Possible Implications of Donald Trump’s Re-election 
• Redesigning the Royal Canadian Navy for a More Dangerous World 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• What Does Southeast Asia Want from a New U.S. Administration? 

 Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

• Mind Control: Past and Future 

 Cato Institute

• The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the Economic Development of the Western United States 
• Why Didn’t the US Unemployment Rate Rise at the End of World War II? 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• The First 100 Days 
• Biopower:  Securing American Leadership in Biotechnology 
• The Quad Plus the Philippines: A Strategic Partnership for a Peaceful South China Sea 

 Center for China Analysis

• China’s Views on Escalation and Crisis Management and Implications for the United States 

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

• Climate Security and the New US Administration 
• Climate Security Policy Recommendations for the New Administration 
• Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker: December 2024 Update  

 Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Between Now and NATO: A Security Strategy for Ukraine 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of New-Style Research and Development Institutions [translation] 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Focused Force: China’s Military Challenge and Australia’s Response 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Advancing U.S.-China Coordination amid Strategic Competition:  An Emerging Playbook 
• Defending the North Amid Rising Geopolitical Tensions 
• Faster into the Cloud:  Accelerating Federal Use of Cloud Services for Security and Efficiency 
• Faster into the Cloud:  Accelerating Federal Use of Cloud Services for Security and Efficiency—Working Group Discussion Papers 
• Faster into the Cloud: Working Group Discussion Papers 
• How Ukraine Rebuilt Its Military Acquisition System Around Commercial Technology 
• Jihadist Terrorism in the United States 
• Silicon Island:  Assessing Taiwan’s Importance to U.S. Economic Growth and Security 
• “Tough on the Weak, Lenient on the Powerful”:  Assessing the Impact of Mano Dura Policies in Latin America 
• Understanding the Impact of Remittances on Mexico’s Economy and Safeguarding Their Future Impact 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Aftershocks: Disruptive Growth in Low Earth Orbit Creates New Policy Challenges 
• Final Submission to the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Canada 
• Human-Machine Interaction and Human Agency in the Military Domain 

 Chatham House

• An Agenda for UK–China Climate Cooperation: Why Joint Action Can and Should Transcend Political Challenges 
• As the UK Government Seeks Greater Engagement with China, a Clearer Strategy is Crucial – and Long Overdue 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Russians Rally Around Putin's Foreign Policy 

 Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST)

• Bystanders or Active Participants:  The Surprisingly Violent “Non-Violent” Offenders in the Capitol Hill Siege 
• Not Just Oath Keepers and Proud Boys: Meet the “Ordinary” Violent Offenders of January 6, 2021 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• CASI Quarterly update #4 for 2024 
• PLA Views on the Information Domain 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

• China in Iraq 
• Dirty Deals, Done Dirt Cheap? Implications of a Trump-Brokered Deal to End the Russia-Ukraine War 
• Food, Power and Politics 
• The Integration of IDPs into Host Communities in Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso 
• Polar Connections: Exploring the Potential for Indigenous Contributions to a Secure Arctic 

 College of Europe

• Paying without Playing? Assessing the European Union’s Actorness in the Middle East Peace Process 
• When the Bottom Does not Reach the Top: The Limits of the EU’s Civil Society Promotion in the Western Balkans 

 Commander, Naval Surface Forces

• Surface Warfare: The Competitive Edge 2.0 

 Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee

• The Lights Are On, But Everyone Is at Home:  Why the New Administration Will Enter Largely Vacant Federal Agency Offices 

 Congress. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

• Interim Report:  Coast Guard Efforts to Conceal the Operation Fouled Anchor Investigation from Congress and the Public  

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The 2025 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding 
• An Analysis of the Navy’s 2025 Shipbuilding Plan 
• The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2025 to 2035 

 Council on Foreign Relations

• Conflicts to Watch in 2025:  Preventive Priorities Survey Results  

 Council on Geostrategy

• The Assimilationist Turn in Tibet Policy in the Xi Jinping Era 
• Clean Power 2030: Too Fast, Too Furious? 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• 8 Old and New Challenges for UN Peacekeeping 
• Future-Proofing Peacekeeping: Denmark on the UN Security Council, 2025-2026 
• The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group 

 Defense Business Board (DBB)

• Supply Chain Illumination in the Department of Defense  

 Defense Innovation Board (DIB)

• Pathway to Scaling Unmanned Weapon Systems
• Study 
• Terms of Reference 
• Scaling Nontraditional Defense Innovation
• Study 
• Terms of Reference 

 Defense Priorities

• Allies Balancing:  A Safer Strategy for the U.S. in Asia 

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• 14th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation 
• prior years 
• DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform Implementation Plan 
• Entities Identified as Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States 
• FY2024 Annual Performance Report for the DOD Strategic Management Plan for FYs 2022–2026 
• Key Achievements and Facts: U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine 
• Ukraine Fact Sheet – Jan. 9, 2025 

 Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2025-058 Review of Responsibilities and Actions Related to the Secretary of Defense’s Hospitalizations and the DoD’s Policies and Procedures for Notification and Transfer of Functions and Duties 
• DODIG-2025-056 Audit of the DoD’s Process for Authorizing Third Party Organizations to Perform Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 Assessments 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

• DHS Playbook for Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence Deployment 

 Department of State

• Demographic Baseline Report  
• U.S. National Adaptation and Resilience Planning Strategy  

 Department of the Air Force

• The Department of the Air Force in 2050 

 Department of the Treasury

• Treasury Disrupts Russia’s Sanctions Evasion Schemes 
• Treasury Intensifies Sanctions Against Russia by Targeting Russia’s Oil Production and Exports 

 Europol

• EU Internet Referral Unit Transparency Report 2023 

 Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)

• Wrestling with Complexity:  How the PLA Assesses Combat Capability 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Biotech Battlefield:  Weaponizing Innovation in the Age of Genomics 

 Freedom House

• No Way In or Out:  Authoritarian Controls on the Freedom of Movement 

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

• Commanders of Putin's Long War:  Purged, Reshuffled and Disgruntled 
• How Geopolitical Tensions Reshape Trade Patterns:  Geoeconomic Fragmentation, or China’s Big Manufacturing Push? 

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

• End of Russian Hegemony:  A New Transactional Order Arises in the South Caucasus 
• Prohibited Force:  The Meaning of “Use of Force” in International Law 

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

• “Demo-Conomics” in African Youth Politics:  Youth Bulge and Unemployment Meet Political Attitude and Participation 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• China:  From Systemic Rival to Systemic Threat 
• Western Balkans and China’s Digital Silk Road 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Cybersecurity Workforce: Departments Need to Fully Implement Key Practices GAO-25-106795 
• Food Safety: FDA Should Strengthen Inspection Efforts to Protect the U.S. Food Supply GAO-25-107571 
• Fusion Energy: Additional Planning Would Strengthen DOE's Efforts to Facilitate Commercialization GAO-25-107037 
• Wearable Technologies: Potential Opportunities and Deployment Challenges in Manufacturing and Warehousing GAO-25-107213 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

• Top 10 Global Risks 

 Heritage Foundation

• America Must Prepare to Test Nuclear Weapons 
• An Open Letter to the Next Defense Department Comptroller 
• China 2035: Three Scenarios for China’s Nuclear Program 
• How the Nukes Were Queered:  A Case Study in DEI as a Political and Bureaucratic Weapon 
• Liberal Education’s Antidote to Indoctrination 

 Hudson Institute

• Concrete Sky: Air Base Hardening in the Western Pacific 
• Past Lessons and Future Action:  Policies for a Successful Free and Open Indo-Pacific 
• The Real Deal for US Steel: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Nippon Steel–US Steel Purchase 
• Three Policy Resets to Promote U.S. Innovation Leadership 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• New Information on Shenyang Machine Tool Company’s Illicit Sales to North Korea and Russia 
• Response to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Article on Iran’s Short Timeline to a Bomb 
• Russian Decoy Drones that Depend on Western Parts Pose a Great Challenge to Ukrainian Defenses 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• January 9, 2025: Islamic State Suicide Attack in Somalia; AUSSOM Dysfunction; M23 Captures District Capital in Eastern DRC 
• January 16, 2025: SAF Advances in Central Sudan en Route to Khartoum; Canadian Gold Mining Company Leaves Mali with Russia on Standby; JNIM’s Deadliest-Ever Attack in Benin; DRC Launches Counteroffensive Against Rwandan-backed M23 
• China-Taiwan Weekly Update
• January 9, 2025 
• January 16, 2024 
• Iran Update
• January 6 
• January 7 
• January 8  
• January 9 
• January 10 
• January 11 
• January 12 
• January 13 
• January 14 
• January 15 
• January 16 
• January 17 
• January 18 
• January 19 
• The Islamic State’s Global Long Game and Resurgence in Syria Poses an Evolved Threat to the West 
• Russia's Quiet Conquest: Belarus 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• January 6 
• January 7 
• January 8  
• January 9 
• January 10 
• January 11 
• January 12 
• January 13 
• January 14 
• January 15 
• January 16 
• January 17 
• January 18 
• January 19 

 International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• 2025 New Orleans Truck Attack: The Role of Electric Vehicles and Peer-to-Peer Platforms 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Transformation Under Fire – An Analysis of Ukraine’s Security Sector Since 1991 

 Irregular Warfare Center (IWC)

• The Need for a Taxonomy of Hybrid Warfare: Population-Centric vs. Enemy-Centric Approaches 
• OSS 2.0: Emphasizing the Importance of Human Intelligence in Irregular Warfare for Great Power Competition 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, January 17, 2025, v. 25, no. 1 
• Dreams Deferred in Xi’s New Year’s Speech
• Assessment of PLA Leaders at the End of 2024
• The Four Main Groups Challenging Xi Jinping
• Military Implications of PLA Aircraft Incursions in Taiwan’s Airspace 2024
• The Leninist Leash: Control and Mobilization in Beijing’s Global Order

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

• Holding the Line:  A Strategy for Securing the Philadelphi Corridor 

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• Navigating the Transition: The Role of Purpose, Tribe, and Excitement for U.S. Special Operations Forces Veterans 
• SOF Effectiveness in Strategic Competition: Insights for West Africa and Beyond 

 Martens Centre for European Studies

• A Digital Euro: Balancing Innovation, Autonomy and Trust 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies

• China’s Long View on Quantum Tech Has the U.S. and EU Playing Catch-Up 

 Michael Bloomberg

• Strategic Edge: A Blueprint for Breakthroughs in Defense Innovation 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• No One-Size-Fits-All: Outreach and Counselling for Irregular Migrants 

 Mitchell Institute

• A Call for a New NSC-68 and Goldwater Nichols Reform 
• Want Combat Airpower? Then Fix the Air Force Pilot Crisis 

 MITRE

• Cyber SEAL: Cyber Streaming Effects and Analytic Languages 
• Strengthening America's Transportation Resilience: Innovating to Enhance Unified Response and Recovery 
• Transit Safety Analysis: Bus Collisions and the Drivers’ Time on Shift 

 National Academies Press

• Advanced Air Mobility and Community Outreach: A Primer for Successful Stakeholder Engagement 

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

• Charting China’s Export Controls:  Predicting Impacts on Critical U.S. Supply Chains 

 National Economic Council / National Security Council / 2021-2024 Quadrennial Supply Chain Review

• 2021-2024 Quadrennial Supply Chain Review 

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

• Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa 
• Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 1: Farmer-Herder Conflict 
• Climate Security, Great Power Competition, and Adversarial Geopolitics in North and West Africa. Rapid Review 2: Russian Influence 
• Foundational Datasets: Global Chemical, Biological, Radiological, & Nuclear Data Suite & Portal 
• The Global Terrorism Database: Experiments in Machine-Assisted Data Collection 
• Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Information Operations from 2002 to 2022 
• Government Responses to Asymmetric Threats: The State of the Literature on Counterterrorism from 2010 to 2023 

 National Defense University Press

• Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 116, (1st Quarter January 2025)  
• Risk: A Weak Element in U.S. Strategy Formulation
• Preparing for Adversary Employment of Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons: Tactical Effects, Operational Impacts, Strategic Implications
• Adopting a Data-Centric Mindset for Operational Planning
• The Art of Campaigning: Joint Planners Working at the Intersections of Everything
• Being Believed: Persuasion and the Narrative in Military Operations
• The Urgency of Warfighting Renewal: Five Principles for Today’s Professional Military Education
• Celtic Security in the Atlantic: How Does Ireland Secure Europe’s Western Flank?
• Is the PLA Overestimating the Potential of Artificial Intelligence?
• Determining Political Objectives
• Updating the TACS/AAGS for Large-Scale Combat Operations 
• Bullets, Bandages, and Fairy Dust: Improving DMO Health Services Support with Wargaming
• It’s the Chain That Broke It: The Strategic Supply Chains Underpinning National Security
• Polybian Warfare: The First Punic War as a Case Study in Strategic Competition and Joint Warfighting
• The Future of Stealth Military Doctrine

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• The Biden Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Employment Guidance:  Increased Cost and Reduced Deterrent Effectiveness 
• Geopolitical Consequences of Ukraine’s Defeat 
• A Modest Proposal to Improve Joint Professional Military Education 

 National Security Bureau, R.O.C. [Taiwan]

• Analysis on China's Cyberattack Techniques in 2024 

 NATO Defense College

• NATO’s Future: A History 
• Nuclear NATO: How to Make It Credible and Efficient 

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2024, v. 104, no, 1 [special issue]
• AI Warfare and the Law 
• International Law Studies, 2025, v. 106, no. 1
• Of Duty and Distress: Addressing Sea Slavery Through the Duty to Render Assistance 
• Safeguarding Submarine Cables and Pipelines in Times of Peace and War 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• China Maritime Report No. 44: Dirty But Preparing to Fight: VADM Li Pengcheng's Downfall Amid Increasing PLAN Readiness 
• CMSI Translations #13: Mission Command Is Not The Antidote 
• CMSI Translations #12: Strengthen Command Capabilities to Win Future Naval Battles 

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• A Postliberal Global Order? Challenge(r)s to the Liberal West 
• Topos of Threat and Metapolitics in Russia’s Securitisation of NATO Post-Crimea 
• Trump II: A New Trajectory in Russia Relations for NATO Nordic States 

 Observer Research Foundation

• China and Saudi Arabia: A Deepening Strategic Partnership 
• Current Trends in India’s National Security 2025 
• Digital Public Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Private Sector Innovation 
• The Future of Climate Cooperation between the United States and India 
• India and the UK in 2025: A Primer 
• India as a Digital Powerhouse: An Assessment of Young India’s Aspirations 
• India’s AI Imperative: Building National Competencies in a New World Order 
• Privacy in Practice: Strategies for Data Management in India 
• Rebalancing Globalization: Perspectives from the Global South 
• Renewing the EU-India Strategic Compact: Doing Better, Doing More, and Key How Not To’s 
• The Role of BRICS Leadership in Forging Climate and Health Strategies for a One-Health World 
• Strategic Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific:  The Case of Japan and the Philippines 
• Triangular Partnerships:  A Preferred Modality for a World in Crisis? 
• Understanding the Link Between Food Insecurity and Negative Mental Health Outcomes 

 Open Markets

• Expert Brief - AI and Market Concentration 

 Oxford University Press

• Policing, 2024
• AI-related Data Ethics Oversight in UK Policing [open access article] 
• Assessing the Utility of a Virtual Reality Arson Crime Scene Investigation Simulation [open access article] 
• Blame Culture: The Line Between Blame and Accountability in Policing [open access article] 
• Croatian Immigrants’ Trust in the Police in Croatia and Abroad: The Roles of Police Integrity and Transnational Migration Factors [open access article] 
• Deterrence Effects Despite Lack of Prosecution: Punishment Outcomes of White-Collar Crime Investigations in Norway [open access article] 
• Embedding Critical Reflective Practice in Policing: Reflections from a Practitioner–Academic Collaboration in the Context of Technology-Facilitated Human Trafficking [open access article] 
• Enhancing Accountability for Police Use of Lethal Force: Global Monitoring and Comparative Benchmarking [open access article] 
• High Alert in the Low Countries: State-Sponsored Threat Awareness in Policing the Dutch Port and Knowledge Sectors [open access article] 
• How Far Have We Advanced in Simulation-Based Training for Policing and Law Enforcement? A Literature Review 2014–24 [open access article] 
• How the Duty to Report Prevents Reporting and Reinforces Silence Around Sexual Harassment within the Police [open access article] 
• The Landscape of Police Auditing in the USA: The State of the Art [open access article] 
• Leaving So Soon? An Analysis of Withdrawal Patterns from Academy Training [open access article] 
• “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste”: The Effects of Unanticipated Police Reform during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Perceived Community Willingness to Obey the Law and Cooperate with the Police [open access article] 
• Policing Child Abuse in Kenya—Perspectives from the Frontline [open access article] 
• Re-Defining Evidence-Based Policing  [open access article] 
• Reframing the Police Staffing Challenge: A Systems Approach to Workforce Planning and Managing Workload Demand [open access article] 
• Sexual Harassment and Psychological Distress Experienced by Women Police: The Role of Embitterment and Psychological Contract Breach [open access article] 
• Tracking Procedural Justice in Stop and Search Pedestrian Encounters with Police Body-Camera Records [open access article] 
• Why Do Police Consider Leaving the Profession?: The Interplay between Job Demand Stress, Burnout, Psychological Distress, and Commitment [open access article] 

 Pew Research Center 

• About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023 
• Economic Inequality Seen as Major Challenge Around the World: Most Say Rich People’s Compares with other Recent Presidents In Appointing Federal Judges Political Influence is a Big Contributing Factor 
• How Biden Compares with Other Recent Presidents in Appointing Federal Judges 
• Many Remote Workers Say They’d Be Likely to Leave Their Job If They Could No Longer Work from Home 
• What the Data Says about Federal Workers 

 Program on Extremism - George Washington University

• Antisemitism in the Arabic-Speaking Sphere 
• Jihadism Trends in 2024: Cases and Patterns in Review 
• Rise of Online Antisemitism in Arabic Six Months Post October 7 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

• Fiscal Implications of a Major Increase in U.S. Military Spending 

 R Street Institute

• Key Cybersecurity and AI Policy Priorities for Trump’s Second Administration and the 119th Congress 

 Rand

• Charting a Course for Emergency Management: Insights from the Literature, 2020–2023 
• Combating Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains: Is U.S. Trade Enforcement Making a Difference, and Can It Do More?  
• Competing Visions of Restraint for U.S. Foreign Policy 
• Countering Russia's 'Shadow Fleet' 
• The Denazify Lie:  Russia's Use of Extremist Narratives Against Ukraine 
• Exploring Factors for U.S.-Russia Crisis Stability in Space 
• The Fall of Assad Could Be a Turning Point for the Axis of U.S. Adversaries 
• Finding and Using Policy-Relevant Data About Veterans:  Availability, Accessibility, and Avenues for Improvement 
• Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains: Trade Enforcement Impacts and Opportunities 
• The Future of U.S. Global Health Work in Asia: How Can U.S. Civil-Military Health Assistance Enhance Asia's Health Security? 
• Ho'okele Mua II, a Wargame About Climate Change and Operational Risk in INDOPACOM 
• The L.A. Fires Show a Need to Rethink Our Wildland Firefighting Systems 
• A Modernized Enterprise Army Modeling and Simulation Concept 
• Navigating the External Environment for Military-to-Civilian Transition: Findings from the Transition Mapping Study 3 
• Political Legitimacy and the People's Liberation Army 
• Russia’s Military After Ukraine:  Potential Pathways for the Postwar Reconstitution of the Russian Armed Forces  
• Scenarios for the Future of U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability and Arms Control 
• Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Framework:  Can Export Controls Create a U.S.-Led Global Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem? 

 The Royal Society

• Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2024
• Quantifying Social Media Predictors of Violence during the 6 January US Capitol Insurrection Using Granger Causality [open access article] 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Did Wagner Succeed in the Eyes of its African and Middle Eastern Clients? 
• Old Wine, New Bottles?  The Challenge of State Threats 
• PPPs and Fighting Financial Crime in Ukraine 
• Sanctions Alliances and Synergies 

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), January 2025, v. 17, no. 1 
• Annual Threat Assessment

 Small Arms Survey

• Assessing Gender Responsiveness in the Implementation of Small Arms Control Action Plans 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Evaluating Macroeconomic Resilience:  The Case of South Africa and Botswana 

 Stimson

• Top Ten Global Risks for 2025 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 2024
• “Between the Self and the Other”: Clinical Presentation of Male Supremacy in Violent Extremists [open access article] 
• Extremist Group Exits: What Autobiographies by Male Right-Wing Formers Reveal about Identity Transformation [open access article] 
• Policy vs Reality: Comparing the Policies of Social Media Sites and Users’ Experiences, in the *Context of Exposure to Extremist Content [open access article]
• Civil Wars, 2024
• The Houthi Movement and the Management of Instability in Wartime Yemen [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2024
• French Normalisation of Exceptional Powers as a Response to Terrorism Post-Paris Attacks [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis, 2024
• Between Idealism and Pragmatism: Iran’s Approach Towards the Russian Aggression against Ukraine in 2022 [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2024
• Antiracism in Dark Times [open access article] 
• The Far and Extreme Right in Documentaries: Euphemisation, Exceptionalisation, and Humanization [open access article] 
• Once a Refugee, Always a Refugee? The Social Construction of Refugee Status after Resettlement  [open access article] 
• Revisiting the “Asian Gang” in Southern London and Eastern Oslo [open access article] 
• Re-Vitalising the Asian Gang: Animated Muslim Agency  [open access article] 
• Violence as Method: the “White Replacement”, “White Genocide”, and “Eurabia” Conspiracy Theories and the Biopolitics of Networked Violence  [open access article] 
• Global Crime, 2025
• Radical Networks and Terrorist Action: The Importance of Social Relationships and Network Positions  [open access article] 
• SexWork.DK: A Comparative Study of Citizenship and Working Hours among Sex Workers in Denmark [open access article] 
• Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2025
• Libya in Transition: Governance Challenges and Civil Society’s Prospects in Political and Economic Reforms [open access article] 
• Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 2024
• Intelligence and the ‘Heart’ of the Terrorist: Managing the System of Systems to Discover and Respond to Tactics of Fear [open access article] 
• International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2025
• An Ethical Framework for Economic Intelligence [open access article] 
• Everybody Needs Help Sometimes: Facilitators of Soviet Defectors’ Publications [open access article] 
• Russia’s Declining Satellite Reconnaissance Capabilities and Its Implications for Security and International Stability [open access article] 
• Soviet Espionage in Sweden: The Vasilii Sidorenko Case of 1942 [open access article] 
• The Triumph of HUMINT: The GDR Foreign Intelligence Services’ Collection of Defense Intelligence, 1951–1989  [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research, 2024
• Understanding Threat Appraisal and Protective Action Concerning Forest Fires in Low-Exposure Regions: An Application of the Protective Action Decision Model [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025
• The Digital Cult of the Offensive and the US Military [open access article] 
• Policing and Society, 2024/2025
• Communicating and Categorising ‘Kidnap’ Incidents in UK Police Emergency Calls: A Conversation Analytic Study [open access article] 
• Police Recruits’ Perceptions of the Utility of Viewing Body-Worn Camera Footage Following Use-of-Force Incidents [open access article] 
• Public Support for Expanding DNA Databases: Police Empowerment and the Normative and Instrumental Models of Police Legitimacy in South Korea [open access article] 
• Queering Police Legitimacy Theories: (Dis)Trust, Context, and Visibility [open access article] 
• ‘They Know to Whom They Can Do It … ’ Democratic Inequality and the Policing of Urban Peripheries in Chile [open access article] 
• ‘To Whom Am I Speaking?’; Public Responses to Crime Reporting via Live Chat with Human versus AI Police Operators [open access article] 
• ‘We Work in the Grey around Decision Making’; how ‘Thematic Discretion’ Can Help Understand Police Decision-Making in Cases of Youth Image-Based Sexual Abuse [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2024
• Rebel Group Branding and External Intervention [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025
• One or Many? Disentangling the Puzzle of Pro-Government Militia Deployment [open access article] 
• Terrorism and Political Violence, 2025
• Cognitive Distortions in Men Who Have Exited White Supremacist Group [open access article]  
• What Is It to Explain Extremism? [open access article] 

 Tibet Watch and Turquoise Roof

• Occupying Tibet’s Rivers:  China’s Hydropower ‘Battlefield’ in Tibet 

 Toda Peace Institute

• Winning Coexistence: Six New Nonviolent Tactics for Palestine and Israel 

 Transnational Institute (TNI)

• Border Imperialism in the Maghreb: Violence, Exploitation, Accumulation and Resistance 

 UK Parliament

• Developing AI Capacity and Expertise in UK Defence 
• Global Combat Air Programme 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Reintegrating Iraqis Returning Home After Conflict: Lessons from Variation Between Four Communities 

 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

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

 US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM)

• The Watch, v. 5, 2024 
• The Importance Of Trusted Defense Partners
• The Watch Interview: Commodore Raymond E. King, Commander, Royal Bahamas Defence Force
• Information Warrior: Global Engagement Center envoy fights growing wave of disinformation
• Strategic Advance: PRC forging deep economic ties with Mexico
• Mexico Targeted By Russian Information Operations After Ukraine Invasion
• PRC Influence in the Bahamas: A developing threat to homeland defense
• Building Capacity: Mexico-U.S. Bilateral Military Cooperation Roundtable
• Achieving Interoperability: The Bahamas-U.S. Biliteral Security Cooperation Framework
• Vital Partnerships: Canadian Armed Forces foster Caribbean partnerships to defend North America
• Strategic Advantage: Women, Peace, and Security program
• Trusted Partner: The William J. Perry Center
• WHINSEC: Paves Way For Security Cooperation In The Western Hemisphere
• Neighbors By Circumstance, Partners By Choice: Mexico, U.S. work on bilateral solutions to mutual security threats
• Training U.N. Peacekeepers: Mexican Joint Training Center for Peacekeeping Operations
• Eyes In The Sky: The National Center for Airspace Protection and Surveillance
• Celebrating Tradition: Heroic Military Academy Marks Bicentennial
• Defenders of the ‘Third border’
• Safeguarding Bermuda: The Royal Bermuda Regiment
• Fighting Illegal Trafficking: The Turks and Caicos Islands Regiment

 White House

• Ensuring U.S. Security and Economic Strength in an Age of Artificial Intelligence 
• National Resilience Strategy [Pres Biden]  
• Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity [Pres Biden] 
• FACT SHEET: New Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity [Pres Biden]  
• FACT SHEET: Safeguarding America from National Security Risks of Connected Vehicle Technology from China and Russia [Pres Biden] 
• Investing in America Report: Today’s Investments, Tomorrow’s Future [Pres. Biden] 
• REPORT: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Roadmap for Pandemic Preparedness and Response 
• REPORT: Record-Low Crime During the Biden-⁠Harris Administration 

 Wilson Center

• Hitting the Reset Button in the Indo-Pacific