Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 02-21-2025

 38 North

 ACLED

 Amnesty International

 Army War College Press

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Atlantic Council

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

 Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

 Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

 Brookings

 Bruegel

 Canada. Department of National Defence

  • Canadian Military Journal, Fall 2024,  v. 24, no. 4 
    • The UK Future Reserves Research Programme (FRRP) 2014-2018: Results Impact and Reflections
    • “Army Reserve Integration in Historical Perspective: Insights from New France”
    • Primary Army Reserve – Regular Force Integration Via Mission Tasks: Approach and A Way Ahead
    • The Role of Civilian Employment in Predicting Organizational Outcomes among Primary Reservists
    • The Challenges of Reservist Employment Programs – SITREP from the Trenches
    • ‘It Makes Me Want to Get Out’: Gender and Sexual Violence as they relate to recruitment and retention in the Army Reserve
    • Fitness Aboard a Canadian Patrol Frigate: A Case Study

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace     

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

  • Analyses in Security Policy
    • No. 354: Science, Technology, and Innovation in EU Strategy 
    • No. 355: Western Balkans: Swiss Military Peace Support 
  • Ukrainian Analytical Digest (UAD)
    • No. 11: Warfare and International Relations 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

 Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS)

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

 Centre for Information Resilience (CIR)

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

 Council on Foreign Relations

 Department of Defense (DOD)

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

 Department of State

 Egmont: The Royal Institute for International Relations

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)                          

 European Council on Foreign Relations

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

 Globsec

 Government Accountability Office (GAO) 

  • Army Corps of Engineers: Geographic Distribution of Construction Funding for Water Resources Projects GAO-25-107241 
  • DOD Reviews and Responses to GAO Reports: Fourth Semiannual Report GAO-25-107695 
  • Illicit Finance: Agencies Could Better Assess Progress in Countering Criminal Activity GAO-25-106568 
  • Illicit Finance: Treasury's Initial Safeguards for Allowing Access to Information on Corporate Ownership GAO-25-107403 
  • Veterans Health Care: Actions Needed to Improve the Foreign Medical Program GAO-25-107149 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

 Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

 Human Rights Watch

 Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

 Institute for the Study of War

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

 International Crisis Group

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

 Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

 Mitchell Institute

 National Academies Press  

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

 National Defence University (Pakistan)

  • Margalla Papers 2024, 28, v. no. 2 
    • China's Maritime Pivot: CPEC and the South China Sea Connection
    • Analysing Conventional Deterrence in a Nuclearised South Asia
    • United Nations Peace Operations on State-Building and Governance in Post-Conflict African States: A Case Study of South Sudan
    • China’s Economic Growth and Its Impact On Regionalism
    • Decoding Bots of Terrorism In Balochistan
    • Gaza Under Siege: Environmental Disaster During Israel-Palestine Conflict, Suggestions and Solutions
    • Assessing Military Necessity of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) in Armed Conflicts: A Case Study of Iran-Israel
    • Recalibrating US Policy in South Asia Post-Afghanistan: Strategic Implications for Pakistan

 Naval War College

  • Naval War College Review, Summer/Autumn 2024, v. 77, no. 3 
    • War without Surprises—Education for Command in the People’s Liberation Army Navy
    • Toward a Sea-Power Strategy—Chinese Communist Party Debates and Consensus Building under Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping
    • A Forgotten Dimension of Naval Diplomacy—The Production of Social Capital in the National Interest
    • Changes in U.S. Indo-Pacific Military Strategy and U.S. Bases in Okinawa
    • Proper Conceptualization of Naval Operational Doctrine—A Case Study of the Israeli Navy
    • A Mission in Trouble—Vietnamization and the U.S. Navy

 Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

 Observer Research Foundation

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

 Pew Research Center

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

 RAND Corporation

 Small Arms Survey

 Small Wars Journal

 Soufan Center

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

 Stimson Center

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

 Taylor & Francis

 Toda Peace Institute

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

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

 UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

 Wilson Center

 World Bank

 World Economic Forum

Monday, February 17, 2025

Friday's Miscellany 02-07-2025 & 02-14-2025

 38 North

·         New Alliance Dynamics in and Around Korea 

·         Goals, Delays and Mystery: International Football Coverage on Korean Central Television 

·         North Korea Leaving Maneuvering Room with the US While Preparing for Long-Term Confrontation 

·         North Korea’s Lethal Aid to Russia: Current State and Outlook 

·         Trump in Pyongyang? 

 ACLED

·         Conflict Watch2025 

·         Four Years After the 2021 Coup in Myanmar, Violence against Civilians is Still Increasing 

·         South Sudan’s Peace Process Stagnates as Violence Grips Greater Upper Nile Region 

 Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC)

·         Bot Automation Using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Plugins 

·         Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Test Harness for the Department of Defense (DoD) 

·         Implementing the DoD’s Digital Data Strategy for Acquisition and Sustainment: Strategic Implementation Approaches and Options 

·         Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion: Diagnosing Behaviors and Tailoring Interventions for Lasting Transformation 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         African Migration Trends in 2025 

·         Reflections on 60 Years of Strengthening Military Professionalism in Kenya 

 AidData

·         The Domestic Political Economy of China’s Foreign Aid 

·         Power Playbook: Beijing’s Bid to Secure Overseas Transition Minerals 

 Air University Press

·         Æther: A Journal of Strategic Airpower and Spacepower, Winter 2024, v. 3, no. 4 

o    Moving Beyond an ASAT Testing Ban

o    Baikonur: Space for Potential Cooperation amid Adversary Influence

o    Mitigating Cyber Vulnerability: A Proposal for an Independent Cyber Force Within the DAF

o    The Concepts of Mass and Surprise in Future Air Wars

o    Defending and Dominating the Air Littoral

·         Journal of the Americas, 2025, v. 7, no. 1 

o    Space, the New Geopolitical Arena: Satellites, Conflicts, and Space Situational Awareness

o    Airmen in the Amazon: Partnership without Limits

o    China, the Illiberal Counter-Order, and the Role of Values in the Strategic Response

o    Multinational Joint Capabilities in the Americas: How the US Marine Corps Force Design 2030 Can Pave the Way for Collective Defense

o    Center of Gravity—from Archimedes to Clausewitz

o    Twenty Years since the Integration of the Uruguayan Air Force into the United Nations’s (UN) Air Operations Service: Path to Africa

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

·         State of the Nation 

·         The Woebegone118th Congress 

 American Security Project (ASP)

·         U.S. Firms and China’s Data Regime 

 Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), January 2025, v. 32, no. 1 

o    The Association of Deployment-Related Probable Traumatic Brain Injury with Subsequent Medical Readiness Status

o    Use of Positive Predictive Value to Evaluate the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division Brain Cancer Incidence Rules, Active Component Department of the Air Force Pediatric

o    Dependent Population, January 1, 2010–December 31, 2020

o    Ovarian Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the U.S. Military Active Component, 2014–2023

o    Reportable Medical Events at Military Health System Facilities Through Week 48, ending November 30, 2024

 Army University Press

·         Strength in Knowledge: The Warrant Officer Journal, October - December 2024 v. 2 no. 4 

o    Beer and Skittles: Forrest Harding’s Warrant Officer

o    Make Aviation Fun Again

o    US Department of State Duty to Plan and Execute Evacuations

o    China’s War in the South China Sea

o    Out of Time: The Gap in Homeland Air Defense

o    The Role of US Army Warrant Officers in Re-Establishing Trust in Army Processes

o    [Argument For] Constructive or Equivalent Credit for Warrant Officer Professional Military Education

o    Warrant Officers and the Harding Project

 Asan Institute for Policy Studies

·         Analysis of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Results and Outlook for U.S. Foreign Policy 

·         Countering Malign Foreign Influence Operations: The Need for a Korean Version of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) 

·         North Korea’s Military Behavior in 2024 and Choices for 2025 

·         Outlook for China’s Global South Strategy and Its Implications for South Korea 

·         Prospects for the U.S. National Security Policies in Trump’s Second Term and the Realignment of the ROK-U.S. Alliance /

 Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

·         China Coast Guard Patrols in 2024: An Exercise in Futility? 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         The Rise of CCP Young Elites and Xi Jinping’s “Tsinghua New Army” 

 Atlantic Council

·         Deterring Chinese Aggression Takes Real-Time Intelligence 

·         Freedom and Prosperity Around the World 

·         Global Foresight 2025: The Authoritative Forecast for the Decade Ahead 

    ·         Survey 

·         ‘Maximum Pressure’ Sanctions on Venezuela Help US Adversaries, Hurt Venezuelans 

·         To Secure Taiwan, the United States Must First Secure Ukraine 

·         Toplines:  The United States and its Allies Must Be Ready to Deter a Two-Front War and Nuclear Attacks in East Asia 

·         Water Insecurity in Central Asia:  The Imperative for Regional and International Cooperation 

·         Welcome to 2035:What the World Could Look Like in Ten Years, According to More Than 350 Experts 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         The Future of U.S. Indo-Pacific Policy 

·         Pacific Cocaine Corridor:  a Brazilian Cartel’s Pipeline to Australia 

·         With US Funding Freeze, China Nonprofits are Facing Extinction. They Need Emergency Assistance 

 Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

·         Bridging Continents: The Future Trajectory of India-EU Relations 

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         The Historical Roots of President Trump’s Gaza Relocation Plan 

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         The Autonomous Arsenal in Defense of Taiwan: Technology, Law, and Policy of the Replicator Initiative 

 Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Deficit Tracker [updated January 2025]  

 Blair Institute for Global Change

·         From Meme to Machine: How the US DOGE Service Can Help Reimagine US Government for the Age of AI 

·         A Secure Future: The Price of Peace in Ukraine and Europe 

 Blue Star Families

·         2024 Military Family Lifestyle Survey 

 Brennan Center for Justice

·         A Federal Agenda to Promote Safety and Justice 

 Brookings

·         China’s Retaliatory Tariffs Will Hurt Trump-Voting Counties Most 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (Institut Canadien Des Affaires Mondiales)

·         Future of Canadian Defense Involvement in the Indo-Pacific 

·         Preserving Canada’s Connected Battlespace Ambitions 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Assessing National Information Ecosystems 

·         Rocks vs. Chips: How the U.S.-China Competition is Playing out for High-Tech Advantage 

·         Technology Federalism:  U.S. States at the Vanguard of AI Governance 

 Cato Institute

·         Does Democracy Enhance Economic Growth? 

·         The Health and Employment Effects of Employer Vaccination Mandates 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Averting AI Armageddon: U.S.-China-Russia Rivalry at the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence 

 Center for Climate & Security (CCS)

·         MiRCH Update: Military Responses to Climate Disasters Across the United States 

 Center for Global Security Research

·         The Nuclear Future of the Middle East 

 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

·         Impacts of Open Radio Access Networks for Operators, Policymakers, and Consumers 

 Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Wartime Russian Civil-Military Relations:  Dimensions, Tensions, and Disruptions 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

·         Chinese Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export [testimony] 

·         Shaping the U.S. Space Launch Market:  Extending America's Advantage 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Moldovan Analytical Digest

o    No. 001: Presidential Election and EU Referendum 

·         Russian Analytical Digest

o    No. 323: Siloviki 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CBSA)

·         The Lost Art of the Bargaining Chip? The Case for Gaining Negotiating Leverage for Nuclear Arms Control With Russia and China 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         A Competitive ICT Sector Is Key to Mexico’s Nearshoring Attractiveness 

·         Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy 

·         DeepSeek: A Problem or an Opportunity for Europe? 

·         Fueling the Future:  Recommendations for Strengthening U.S. Uranium Security 

·         Insights into the Mexican E-Commerce Competition Landscape 

·         Oh China 

·         Significant Cyber Incidents [updated January 2025

·         The Transatlantic Alliance in the Age of Trump: The Coming Collisions 

·         Ukraine’s Future Rests on Its People 

·         Where Is the Missing $100 Billion in U.S. Aid for Ukraine? 

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         It's Time to Upgrade the EU-India Relationship 

·         Trump is Back, Worse Than Last Time. Is Europe Ready? 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Applying International Human Rights Principles for AI Governance 

·         Digital Data and Advanced AI for Richer Global Intelligence 

·         Responsible AI and Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict 

·         Simple Steps Space Companies Can Take to Increase Transparency and Trust 

 Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

·         Measuring Progress in a CVE Program: A 3-Year Longitudinal Case Study 

 Chatham House

·         How Migrant Smuggling Has Fuelled Conflict in Libya 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Despite Trump Withdrawal, Americans Back Paris Climate Agreement 

·         A New Transatlantic Bargain: The Case for Building a Strong European Pillar 

·         Republican Foreign Policy Experts Signal Strong Support for Taiwan 

·         Three in Four Russians Expect Military Victory over Ukraine 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

·         2025 PLA Pilot Recruitment Cycle 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Bleak with Some Silver Linings: Scenarios for EU-Iran Relations 

·         NATO and the Need to Strengthen Resilience - The Dutch Case 

 Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         China Threat Snapshot

o   February 2025  

o  October 2024 

 Council on Foreign Relations

·         Securing Space: A Plan for U.S. Action 

·         Tariffs on Trading Partners:  Can the President Actually Do That? 

·         Ukraine, NATO, and War Termination 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Baltic States’ Synchronization with the Continental Grid 

·         Europe's Migration Block Crumbles in Niger 

·         Russian Military Thinking about the Baltic Sea and the Arctic 

 Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)

·         Targeting U.S. Technologies: A Report of Threats to Cleared Industry 

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2025-063 Whistleblower Reprisal Investigation 66th Force Support Squadron, 66th Air Base Group Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts 

·         DODIG-2025-066 Joint Audit of Security Controls over Coast Guard Systems Operating on the Department of Defense Information Network 

·         DODIG-2025-067 Management Advisory: Naval Special Warfare Command Should Relocate, Reschedule, or Cancel Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Candidate Water Training When Water Bacteria Levels Exceed State Safety Standards 

·         DODIG-2025-068 Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Protect U.S. Personnel and Operations Supporting the Ukraine Conflict 

·         Operation Atlantic Resolve 

 Department of Energy (DOE)

·         Unleashing the Golden Era of American Energy Dominance 

 Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in Practice: CP3 Prevention Resource 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

·         OIG-25-16 DHS Followed Applicable Regulations for Awarding Grants and Contracts Awarded by Any Means Other Than Full and Open Competition During Fiscal Year 2024 

·         OIG-25-15 Joint Audit of Security Controls Over Coast Guard Systems Operating on the Department of Defense Information Network - (REDACTED) 

·         OIG-25-14 Results of May 2024 Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the Tucson Area (REDACTED) 

·         OIG-25-10 DHS Has Taken Steps to Develop and Govern Artificial Intelligence, But More Action is Needed to Ensure Appropriate Use 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Caspian Sea Regional Analysis Brief 

·         China’s Crude Oil Imports Decreased from a Record as Refinery Activity Slowed 

·         India Country Analysis Brief 

·         U.S. Movements of Crude Oil by Rail 

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

·         Countering State-Sponsored Proxies: Designing a Robust Policy 

 European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Transatlantic Twilight: European Public Opinion and the Long Shadow of Trump 

 European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         Assessing the Implications of Integrating AI in Nuclear Decision-Making Systems 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         The Resistible Decline of the EU: Towards Unconventional Forms of Cooperation 

·         Resolving the Energy-Food-Nature Trilemma in Land Use: The Role of Digitalisation and EU Policies 

·         Thinking Outside the Multiannual Financial Framework: Financing Europe’s Security Priorities 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         Between Ambition and Pragmatism: The Future of Cyber Capacity-Building in a Fragmented World 

·         Power Struggle in Belgrade and Pristina: What Does Domestic Turmoil Mean for EU Integration? 

·         Shifting Alliances in West Africa: Measuring Russian Engagement to Support Counter-FIMI Strategies 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Belize's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

·         The Slovak Republic's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         The EU and NATO in Pursuit of Better Deterrence: Baltic Sea Sabotage Prompts Rethink of Current Practices 

·         Germany’s “Perfect Storm”:  A Structural Crisis for the EU’s Engine? 

·         Measuring Geoeconomic Power:  An Index for 41 Major Economies 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Central Asian Migrants Face Harsh Treatment at Moscow’s Sakharovo Detention Center 

·         Iraq’s Unfinished War:  Security in the Post-Saddam Era 

·         Three Decades of Baltic Military Cooperation and the Way Ahead 

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

·         The Caspian Sea as an Emerging Energy Hub:  Potentials and Limitations 

·         United Nations Mission in Congo or the Exemplary Uselessness of the United Nations Peacekeepers 

 French Military School Strategic Research Institute (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l'Ecole Militaire)

·         The European Union and Trump 2.0: Principled Pragmatism and Strategic Patience 

·         The European Union and Trump 2.0: Transatlantic Rupture and Strategic Autonomy 

·         Smart Power: Foreign Policy Signalling of Taiwan under the Tsai Administration 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Cyber Activity Balance 2024: The European Union in Focus 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Closing the Deal or Closing the Door:  The Biden Legacy and the Trump Agenda for Transatlantic Cooperation on China 

·         A Foreign Policy Memo for the New U.S. Administration 

·         Opportunities and Challenges in the Indo-Pacific:  A Next-Generation Perspective 

·         A Reconstruction Law for Ukraine:  From Band-Aids to Lasting Solutions 

·         Russia’s Recent Emigrants:  Mobility and Engagement 

·         The State(s) of Foreign Information Operations 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

·         Mercenaries and Illicit Markets: Russia’s Africa Corps and the Business of Conflict 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

·         3D2A: The Second Amendment, 3D Printed Guns and Memed Accelerationism 

·         Scouting Uneven Terrain: Challenges for Prevention and Counter-Extremism Practitioners in Digital Gaming Spaces 

·         Sonic Hate: Examining Brazil’s NSBM Scene and Its Global Networks 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Coast Guard: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Third-Party Organizations That Help Certify U.S.-Flagged Vessels GAO-25-107139 

·         Coast Guard: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Cybersecurity Risks to the Maritime Transportation System GAO-25-107244 

·         Defense Health Care: DOD Should Improve Monitoring of TRICARE Beneficiaries' Access to Prescription Drugs GAO-25-107187 

·         Disaster Contracting: Opportunities Exist for FEMA to Improve Oversight GAO-25-107136 

·         Export Controls: Improvements Needed in Licensing and Monitoring of Firearms GAO-25-106849 

·         Food Safety: Status of Foodborne Illness in the U.S. GAO-25-107606 

·         Maritime Administration: Actions Needed to Help Address Workforce Challenges GAO-25-107460 

·         The Nation's Fiscal Health: Strategy Needed as Debt Levels Accelerate GAO-25-107714 

·         National Nuclear Security Administration: Fully Incorporating Leading Practices for Agency Reform Would Benefit Enhanced Mission Delivery Initiative GAO-25-106675 

·         United Nations: Information on Independent Human Rights Experts and Their Work GAO-25-107361 

·         Veterans Health Care: Opportunities to Improve Access to Care Through the Veterans Community Care Program GAO-25-108101 

·         Veterans Health Care: Referral Coordination Initiative for Specialty Care Needs Improved Program Direction and Guidance GAO-25-106678 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

·         From the Steppes of Ukraine to the Shores of Formosa: Lessons Learned from Contemporary War for Taiwan 

·         Lessons for Taiwan from the Russo-Ukrainian War 

·         Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine Applicable to Taiwan: Airpower 

·         Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine Applicable to Taiwan: The Land Domain 

·         The Maritime War in Ukraine: The Limits of Russian Sea Control? 

 Henry Jackson Society

·         Harnessing The Power of the Atom 

 Henry L. Stimson Center

·         Backwards Thinking on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Trafficking 

 Hudson Institute

·         Beyond the Nuclear Balance:  A Strategic Forces Net Assessment 

·         Required to Fail—Beyond Documents:  Accelerating Joint Advantage through Direct Resourcing and Experimentation 

 Human Rights Watch

·         “Kids You Throw Away”: New Jersey’s Indiscriminate Prosecution of Children as Adults 

·         “The Land of OurPeople, Forever”: United States Human Rights Violations against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lit United States Human Rights Violations Against the Numu/Nuwu and Newe in the Rush for Lithium 

 Independent Anti-Corruption Commission / Nezalezhna Antikorruptsiyna Komissia (NAKO)

·         Wings of War: Analysing the Western Parts in Russian Fighter Jets 

 Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP)

·         Assessing the Effectiveness of China’s Military Exercises in Restraining Taiwan’s Leadership 

·         Taiwan’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry and Its Role in the International Supply Chain 

 Institute for Science and International Security

·         No, Israel Did Not Use a Nuclear Weapon in Syria: Institute Fact Check 

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) 

·         Online Safety Regulation & Private Online Communications: The State of Play and Ways Ahead for Addressing Terrorism, Extremism, Hate, and Disinformation 

·         Recommending Hate: How TikTok’s Search Engine Algorithms Reproduce Societal Bias 

·         Toxic Tips: Misogynistic Narratives on TikTok in Hungary 

 Institute for the Study of War

·         Africa File

o    February 13, 2025: SAF Announces Government Plan and Russian Naval Base; DRC Concedes to Direct Talks with M23; Turkey’s Growing Defense Partnerships in Africa 

·         China-Taiwan Weekly Update

o    February 13, 2025 

·         Iran Update

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·         Lessons of the Minsk Deal: Breaking the Cycle of Russia's War in Ukraine 

·         Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment

o    February 3 

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·         Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion: Six Month Assessment 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         The European Screening Mechanism and Its Implications for Chinese FDI 

·         Italy’s Foreign Policy in the ‘Super-election Year’ 2024 

·         Trump’s Call with Putin Raises Great Concerns, Few Hopes 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

·         The Enemy Within: Russians in Ukrainian Army Ranks and the Fracturing of Post-Soviet Identity 

·         A Mountain to Climb: Russia’s Influence in the South Caucasus and EU Policy Options 

·         A New but Ambiguous Momentum in EU Enlargement 

·         The Role of Russia In the Political Transition of the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood 

 International Crisis Group

·         Eight Priorities for the African Union in 2025 

·         Finding a Way Out of Festering Conflict in India’s Manipur 

·         Ukraine and Beyond:  Shaping Europe’s Security Future 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies

·         China’s Taiwan-related Legal Initiatives:  Actors and Strategic Implications 

 Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, February 14, 2025, v. 25, no. 3 

o    Military Content Restrictions Could Indicate Trouble Ahead

o    Europe Could Be Supporting Russia’s War via ‘Seven Sons’ Partnerships

o    Five Key Factors Behind Irregular Leadership Changes in the People’s Liberation Army

o    Strangers on a Seabed: Sino-Russian Collaboration on Undersea Cable Sabotage Operations

o    DeepSeek’s Background Raises Multiple Concerns

 Jewish Institute for National Security of America

·         International Arms Transfers to Israel 

 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

·         Wizard Warfare: Ukrainian Technological Developments Overview 

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

·         The Nuclear Future of the Middle East  

 Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         China Versus America on Global Trade 

 Macdonald-Laurier Institute

·         From Trade Wars to Trade Wins:  Securing Canada’s Economic Security in the Trump Era 

 Microsoft Threat Intelligence

·         The BadPilot Campaign: Seashell Blizzard Subgroup Conducts Multiyear Global Access Operation 

 Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Norway: Rising Immigration in a Welfare State 

·         Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States 

 National Academies Press  

·         Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research: Proceedings of a Workshop 

·         Veterans, Prescription Opioids and Benzodiazepines, and Mortality, 2007–2019: Three Target Trial Emulations  

 National Endowment for Democracy (NED)

·         Data-Centric Authoritarianism: How China’s Development of Frontier Technologies Could Globalize Repression 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

·         Deterrence and Arms Control: Ending the Deceptive “Holiday from History” 

·         Next Steps in Homeland Missile Defense 

·         Terrible Idea:  Buying From Our Adversaries 

 National Security Archive

·         Disappearing Data: Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites 

·         The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified 

 National Security Institute (NSI)

·         A Standalone OSINT Agency for Stronger National Security 

 National Security Space Association (NSSA)

·         Securing the "Space Canal" to the Moon and Mars 

·         Space Systems and the "Iron Dome for America" 

 NATO Defense College

·         Playing the Long Game - Russia in the Mediterranean 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

·         China Maritime Report No. 45: The PLA Navy's Hospital Ship Fleet: Concerns, Developments, and Future Prospects 

·         CMSI Translations#14: Manual for Developing Ship Captains 

 Naval War College

·         International Law Studies, 2025, v. 106, issue 1 

o    Options for Sustainable High Seas Fisheries Management in the Southwest Atlantic 

 Navy League

·         2025-2025 Maritime Policy 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

·         Flash Report: TikTok’s Selective Censorship: A Comparative Analysis of Election-Related Hashtags Across Platforms 

 Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC)

·         Senseless Secrecy:  Controlled Unclassified Information 

 Observer Research Foundation

·         Charting a Course for Deeper India-Taiwan Cooperation 

·         A Comparative Study of the Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea and Japan 

·         Creating Effective Sustainable Finance Taxonomies 

·         A Decadal Review of Russia-China Economic Relations 

·         A Decade of‘ Neighbourhood First’: Perspectives from South Asia 

·         Facilitating India-Myanmar Trade Through Sittwe Port: Opportunities and Challenges 

·         The India-U.S. Story:  Biden’s Legacy and Trump 2.0 

·         Tracing the Origins of India’s Special Frontier Force 

 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

·         Roads and Conflicts in North and West Africa 

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

·         Making Vulnerability Analysis Useful for Humanitarian Response: Lessons from Somalia and Ukraine 

 Palantir

·         Defense Reformation:  A Blueprint for the Resurrection of the American Industrial Base 

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Trump’s Threatened Tariffs Would Raise Prices for Toys, Electronics, Footwear, and Other Chinese Imports [Chart] 

 Pew Research Center

·         5 Years Later: America Looks Back at the Impact of COVID-19 

·         Americans’ Views of the War in Ukraine Continue to Differ by Party 

·         Most Americans Say It Would Be ‘Too Risky’ to Give Presidents, Including Trump, More Power 

·         Public Anticipates Changes With Trump but Is Split Over Whether They Will Be Good or Bad 

·         What Americans Think about Trump’s Immigration Actions Early in His Second Term 

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

·         Debating American Primacy in the Middle East 

 Quincy Institute

·         Big Ideas and Big Money: Think Tank Funding in America 

·         Defending Without Provoking:  The United States and the Philippines in the South China Sea 

·         The Lesson of TikTok 

·         Think Tank Funding Tracker 

 RAND Corporation

·         An Analysis of the U.S. Department of Defense's Military Health Readiness Assessments 

·         Artificial General Intelligence's Five Hard National Security Problems 

·         Hate and Dehumanization in Russia's Narrative on Ukraine 

·         How Might the United States Engage with China on AI Security Without Diffusing Technology?

·         Improving the Efficiency of the Military Compensation System:  Insights from the Literature 

·         Operational and Policy Implications of Integrating Commercial Space Services into U.S. Department of Defense Operations 

·         An Operational Reserve for New Domains: Designing a Selected Reserve Augmentee System for the21st Century 

·         Specialist or Technical Career Track Officers in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy 

·         Toward Comprehensive Benchmarking of the Biological Knowledge of Frontier Large Language Models 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Extremism in Gaming Spaces:  Policy for Prevention and Moderation 

·         Implementing Positive Gaming Interventions:  A Toolkit for Practitioners 

·         RUSI European Economic Security Taskforce Meeting 2:  Systems and Structures 

·         Securing Cyberspace Conference 2024:  Responsible Cyber Behavior in Practice 

·         Tactical Developments During the Third Year of the Russo–Ukrainian War 

·         Wagner’s Business Model in Syria and Africa:  Profit and Patronage 

 South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         BRICS Expansion: Redefining Global Structural Power in a Changing World Order

 Special Competitive Studies Project

·         Memos to the President: National Robotics Strategy 

 Stimson Center

·         Are We in a Pentagon Wars 2.0? 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

·         The Farce of the2025 Belarusian Elections: Power, Repression, and the Struggle for Legitimacy 

·         The Hard Security of EU Enlargement 

·         A Redynamised EU Enlargement Process, but Hovering Between Accession and the Alternatives 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Addressing Fragility through Integrated Peacebuilding 

·         Solar Power and Environmental Peacebuilding in South-central Somalia 

 Swedish Defense Research Agency

·         China first for the US Marine Corps: Fast-Paced Adaptation and Reform 

·         Ukraine's Law on Mobilisation: Positive Effects and Remaining Dilemmas 

 Taylor & Francis

·         Civil Wars, 2025

o   Intimacy, Progressive Politics and Maoist Insurgencies in South Asia [open access article] 

o    When Separatists Secure the Homeland: The Neglected Role of Securitisation in Ethnonationalist Violence in Southeastern Nigeria  [open access article] 

·         Contemporary Politics, 2025

o    Actors and Structures in International Relations. The US, the EU, and West Africa: From Indifference and Development to Promotion of Security  [open access article] 

o    ‘Civic’ vs.‘Non-Civic’: A Comparison of Individual-Level Support for the UK’s Pro-Brexit and Scotland’s Pro-Independence Nationalism [open access article] 

o    International Organisations as Policy Bricoleurs: An Analysis of the World Bank's Healthcare Financing Recommendations for Argentina and Croatia [open access article] 

o    It’s the State, Indeed! How State Capacity Facilitates Social Equality in Authoritarian Regimes [open access article] 

·         Conflict, Security & Development, 2025

o    The Conjugal Order and Long-Term Reintegration in Northern Uganda: How Ideas of Sexuality and Patrilineality Shape Reintegration Processes of Men, Women and Children Born in Captivity [open access article] 

o    Potential Tensions and Synergies between DDR and Transitional Justice in Relation to Pro-Government Militias: The Case of the PMF in Post-IS Iraq [open access article] 

o    Testing the Boundaries of Conflict Systems: The Case of La Frutera, Philippines and the Possibilities and Limitations of Localised Peace-Positive Action [open access article] 

o    ‘We are Creating Peace’: Everyday Peace Practices of Displaced Women in Kenya and Germany [open access article] 

·         Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2025

o    The Middle East: Terrorism, International Law, and the Cosmopolitan Myth [open access article] 

·         Defence and Peace Economics, 2025

o    Forecasting Costs of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Against a Major Nuclear Strike [open access article] 

o    Relative Power and Costly Signals of Civilian Loyalty: Protest Behavior Against Armed Actors in the Colombian Civil War, 1990–2004 [open access article] 

·         Defense & Security Analysis, 2025

o    Nuclear Chess on the Korean Peninsula: Analysing North Korea’s “Second Mission” and Strategic Implications [open access article] 

o    Reassessing NATO’s Deterrence and Defence Posture in the Baltics: Rebalancing Strategic Priorities to Counter Russian Hybrid Aggression [open access article] 

·         Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2025

o    Navigating Racist Encounters in the Workplace: Experiences of Young People in Birmingham,Melbourne and Toronto [open access article] 

·         Ethics & Global Politics, 2025

o    The Ethics and Politics of Military Withdrawal [open access article] 

·         Geopolitics, 2025

o    Geopoliticisation of Belonging: The Russo-Ukrainian War and Spatial Narratives of Finnish Researchers Studying Russian Literature [open access article] 

o    ‘It Is Not Down on Any Map’: Sovereignty, Territory, and Jurisdiction on an Arctic Ice Island[open access article] 

o    Self-Care, Experiences of Protection and Continuous Crisis in the Everyday of Refugees in Norway and Switzerland [open access article] 

·         Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2025

o    Capitalizing on Cleavages: Transnational Jihadist Conflicts, Local Fault Lines and Cumulative Extremism [open access article] 

o    Redefining Global Jihad and Its Termination: The Subjugation of al-Qaeda by Its Former Franchise in Syria [open access article] 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

·         The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Regional Security, Threat Perceptions and the Middle East WMD-Free Zone 

·         Universalizationand Effective Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty in Africa Lessons Learned from the 2024 Monrovia Workshop 

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         China’s Rhetoricon Myanmar Doesn’t Match Reality 

·         I2U2:  India’s Diplomatic Tool for a Changing World Order 

·         A Pivotal Partner:  Renewing the US Role in Global Peacemaking 

·         Peacemaking in Crisis:  Amid More Wars, Fewer Peace Agreements 

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

·         2025 Marine CorpsAviation Plan 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Building onMomentum in U.S.-Turkey Relations 

 Wilson Center

·         Make Your Mark (On“Deepfakes”) 

·         “No Shortcut to Freedom”: India, the UNFICYP, and the Cyprus Question, 1960-1974 

·         Workers in Mexico’s Export Agriculture: From Research to Action Agreements and Recommendations 

 World Bank

·         The Journey Ahead: Supporting Successful Migration in Europe and Central Asia