Friday's Miscellany 05-29-2026 & 06-05-2026

 38 North

• Building a State-Controlled Knowledge Infrastructure: The Evolution of Distance Education in North Korea 
• Paving the Way for Hostile Coexistence? What North Korea’s Constitutional Revisions Mean for Inter-Korean Ties 
• Project Anthracite: Analyzing North Korean Patents and Academic Journals for Evidence of Chemical Weapons Potential 
• Quick Take: Progress Continues at New Yalu River Bridge Crossing 

 ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)

• Iran War Updates [Including an Interactive Map] 
• Mozambique Conflict Monitor - Cabo Ligado [Including an Interactive Map] 
• Russia’s Shadow Fleet Presents a Sustained Hybrid War Threat at Sea 
• Ukraine Conflict Monitor [Including an Interactive Map] 
• The US’ Donroe Doctrine is Reshaping Conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean 

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Russia’s Deceptive War Recruitment Scheme Ensnares Thousands of Young Africans 
• UAVs in the Western Indian Ocean Forcing Adaptations in Maritime Security 

 AidData

• Navigating the Minefield: De-Risking Strategies in Chinese Aid in Response to Security Threats 

 Air University Press

• Air & Space Power, 2026, v. 36, no. 1 
• The Enduring Primacy of Air Superiority in Modern Warfare
• The New Heterogenous Air Force Model
• Reconceptualizing Strategic Attack : Implications for the Air Force
• The Lords of the New Church : Zealots, Prophets, Heretics, and the Future of Airpower
• An Emergence of Space, Cyberspace, and Special Operations Forces Synthesis: Innovating Through Cunning Domain Disruption
• The Many Restraints of Commercial Space
• Nuclear Strategic Parity in a Tripolar World
• Back to the Future: Conventional-Nuclear Integration and Regional Deterrence

 American Enterprise Institute

• How to Reform Scholarly Journals /

 Amnesty International

• “Building Up Imaginary Enemies”: Misinformation, Disinformation, and ‘Foreign Agent’ Allegations in President Prabowo’s Indonesia 
• Death Sentences and Executions 2025 
• “Only Official Sources”: Indoctrination in the Russian Educational System 
• Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI 
• Violations in the Shell: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI 

 Anthropic

• 2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership 

 Arctic Institute       

• Crisis Management in Arctic Communities: Principles of Crisis Response 
• Purchasing Greenland: Trump's Fantasy or a Real National Security Stake for the United States? 

 Arizona State University

• Inter Populum: The Journal of Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Spring 2026, v. 4, no. 1 
• Proxy Battlespaces: A New Perspective on Ukraine’s Use of Special Operations Forces in Syria, Sudan, and Mali
• The Institutional Battlefield: Why Irregular Warfare Must Contemplate Path Dependence
• Proxy Warfare: The Missing Facet of Australian Defence Policy
• Special Air Operations During the Great War: The Mindset and Legacy
• Changing Partners’ Military Norms to Build Capacity by Juan Quiroz
• Adaptive Analysis for Uncertain Environments: A Case for Inductive Thinking in Irregular War

 Army T2COM G2

• OE Watch: Foreign News & Perspectives of the Operational Environment, 2026, no. 3 
• China Advancing Stealth UAV Into Flight Testing Phase
• China Escalates Cognitive Warfare and Disinformation Campaigns Targeting Taiwan
• China and Brazil Establish Joint Space Laboratory to Deepen Space Cooperation
• China and Somalia Strengthen Ties Through Mutual Condemnation of “Breakaway” Taiwan and Somaliland
• Russian Naval Infantry Expands Capabilities for Force Projection in the Arctic
• Russia Exploits High North Populations for Military Recruitment
• Russia Deploys Shadow Fleet of Oil Tankers, Raising Tensions with NATO Members
• Russia Delivers Liquified Natural Gas Carrier Despite Ongoing Sanctions
• Russia Courts Madagascar Junta with Military Aid, Replicating Sahelian Playbook
• Kim’s New Year’s Message Signals Continued North Korean Battlefield Support to Russia
• Kim Jong Un’s Letter to Putin Highlights North Korean-Russian Ties While Revealing Limitations
• Terrorist Attack in Kabul Kills Chinese National
• Latin American Criminal Groups Expand Drone Use
• Israel’s Somaliland Recognition Likely Deepens Saudi-Turkish-Egyptian Security Coordination in Horn of Africa
• Syria Faces Military and Security Challenges One Year After Assad’s Fall
• Kazakhstan Establishes Unit to Counter Drone Threats
• Pakistan Transforms Its Military Command Structure
• PLA Theater Army Attack on a U.S. Army Corps 
• PLA Theater Army Defense Against a U.S. Army Corps 
• Russia Firmly in Lead of Emerging Adversarial Cooperation on Arctic 
• Sociocultural Exploitation in Malaysia 

 Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Global Perceptions of China: Insights from the Next Generation 
• Guided Autonomy: America Watching in Xi’s China 
• National Security Without Consensus: Taiwan’s Domestic Politics Through 2028 

 Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN)

• China and AI-Military Integration: Perspectives, Opportunities, and Challenges 

 Atlantic Council

• Atlantic Council Commission on AI Lays a Roadmap for US Leadership in the Age of AI 
• Can the EU’s Mutual-Defense Clause Replace NATO’s Article 5? 
• Countering Terrorist Propaganda in the Age of AI 
• A Framework for US-Japan Cooperation in the Arctic 
• For Homeland Missile Defense, Think Golden Zones, not a Golden Dome 
• Golden Dome is the Missile Defense the US Needs 
• Information Fires: Building C-C5ISRT Advantage in Competition 
• Innovation as Resilience: Demand-Side Strategies for Critical Mineral Supply Chain Security 
• Promote the Antidote: Reducing the Risk from Toxins 
• US-Caribbean Maritime Cooperation: Why Stronger Ports, Supply Chains, and Security Matter Now 

 Australian National Audit Office (ANAO)

• Defence’s Collins Class Submarines Life of Type Extension — Planning and Implementation 

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2026-2027 
• Lethal Humidity and the Systemic Risks of Climate Change 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• AI Investment Reshapes US Import Patterns 
• Byproduct Metals as a Constraint and Lever in Critical Minerals Finance 

 Bloomsbury Collections 

• Learning for a Just, Peaceful and Sustainable World [open access book] 

 British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Envisioning Future Pathways for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 

 Brookings

• Digital Addiction: Evidence and Policy Implications 
• An Early Retrospective on Monetary Policy in the Powell Era 
• Shock, Awe, and Economic Fallout: The Employment Effects of ICE Enforcement in US Cities 

 Bruegel  

• How to Secure the Benefits of an EU-wide Incorporation Regime 
• A Plan to Revitalise the World Trade Organization 
• Size Versus Allocation in Capital Market Development: Evidence from Pension Funds and Insurance Companies 

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Driving Canadian Defence Innovation Through the Minor Capital Portfolio 
• Institutional Command and Control 
• Reflections on the Future of Canada-U.S. Defence Relations 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Beyond the Hype: Assessing Hyperscaler Nuclear Commitments Against U.S. Energy Realities 
• China’s Police and Security Cooperation Agreements 
• A Review of India's 2023 Space Policy and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem 
• This Warming Planet Should Learn How to Talk About Migration 

 Cato Institute

• Immigration Restrictions and Natives’ Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts 
• Prosecutorial Reform and Local Crime Rates 

 Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Adversarial Distillation: China’s Campaign to Extract American AI Capabilities 
• The Entanglement Edge: U.S. Strategic Priorities in Quantum Networking 
• Invested Allies: How the Private Sector Can Boost U.S.-South Korea Economic Security Cooperation 
• Thwarting Communications Blackout: Protecting Taiwan’s Information and Communication Networks from China’s Attempts to Cut Them Off 

 Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS)  

• Hardwired Repression: Data Centers, Global Technology, and China’s Surveillance Infrastructure in the Uyghur Region 

 Center for International Policy

• Arms Without Leverage: Rethinking US Security Assistance to South Asia 

 Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)

• National Standard of the People’s Republic of China: Cybersecurity Technology – Basic Safety Requirements for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services [translation] 

 Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Caucasus Analytical Digest
• No. 147: Time, Gender, and Inequality in Georgia 
• Central Asia Analytical Digest
• No. 1: Urban Development and Transformation in Central Asia 
• Moldovan Analytical Digest
• No. 006: Relations Between Moldova and Ukraine 
• Russian Analytical Digest
• No. 341: The Ambiguities of Indoctrination in Russian Universities and Schools 

 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• The Three-Body Problem: Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications 

 Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Bitter Harvest: Diagnosing and Deterring Chinese Coercive Agricultural Trade Restrictions 
• CSIS Commission on U.S. Cyber Force Generation: Summary Report 
• Economic Warfare and Military Power: How the United States Can Win the Next Era of Strategic Competition 
• Global Terrorism Threat Assessment 2026 
• How Arab Gulf States View the Emerging Iran Deal 
• Insights into the “Pay Now, Argue Later” Mechanism 
• A New Supercarrier Emerges: Tracking China’s Fourth Aircraft Carrier 
• Rebuilding U.S. Missile Inventory: A Multiyear Project 
• Security and the Pacific Islands: Insights from Young Pacific Leaders 
• Significant Cyber Incidents [updated March 2026] 
• The Terrorist Threat to the 2026 World Cup 
• Testing the Future of Joint All-Domain Operations in Africa  Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

• Studies in Intelligence, June 2026, v. 70, no. 2 
• We Have Been Here Before: Joseph Becker’s Computer and the AI Question
• The Quiet Cognitive Coup of Generative AI: Rewriting the Rules
• Three Pillars of Identity Intelligence: A Brief History
• The Enigma of Ernst Rudolf Fischer: Nazi Germany’s Oil Expert

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Europe Has Produced Tech Champions: Here is What They Can Teach Us 

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• AI and Refugee Protection in the African Union: Smart Borders or Fortress Africa? 
• Investment Treaties as Catalysts for Technology Transfer in Africa 
• Lessons from the 2025 G7 Cycle: Quantum, AI and Science Diplomacy 

 Chatham House

• Saving Global Economic Governance from the “Trump Shock”:  Why Rules-supporting Countries Should Establish a “Third Pole” in the Global Economy, Without the U.S. and China 

 Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Most Americans Disagree with Trump and the Republican Base on Immigration Policies 

 China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

• PLA Aerospace Power: A Primer on Trends in China’s Military Air, Space, and Missile Forces 5th Edition 
• Remembering Tiananmen 37 Years Later: A Case Study in Chinese Communist Party Narrative Control 
• Tiananmen Square: The Declassified History - w/ postscript 2026 

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Elections in Armenia: Geopolitics on the Ballot 
• Ethiopia at the Polls in 2026: Managed Elections, Unmanaged Conflicts 
• The Wartime Economic Takeover of the Iranian State 

 Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• CTC Sentinel, May 2026, v. 19, no. 5 
• Developments in the Sahel: An Interview with Wassim Nasr, Journalist, France24; Senior Research Fellow, Soufan Center
• A View from the CT Foxhole: Robert Kissane, Former Special Agent in Charge, FBI NY Counterterrorism Division and NY Joint Terrorism Task Force
• Mohammad Baqer al-Saadi: Profiling an IRGC and Iraqi Militia Operative
• Will Generative AI Fundamentally Change Terrorist Threats?
• The Women Inside ISCAP: Governance, Coercion, and Insurgent Sustainability

 Conflict Armament Research

• Powering the Houthis: Analysing Houthi Missile Components 
• The Rise of the G3 Rifle on the Illicit Market in Somalia 

 Congress. House Select Committee on China

• Research Security for America’s Future in Space: NASA’s Enforcement of the Wolf Amendment 

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• An Interactive Tool for Projecting Discretionary Spending, 2026 to 2036 
• Risk Sharing in the Federal Reserve's Emergency Lending Facilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

 Congressional-Executive Commission on China

• Report on the PRC’s Transnational Repression and Malign Influence in 2025 

 Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ)

• An AI Taxonomy for Criminal Justice: Principled Use of AI in the Criminal Justice System 
• Policing: By the Numbers 

 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• The Pharma Choke Point: How to Reduce U.S. Dependence on Chinese Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Supply Chains 

 Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

• CISA and Partners Urge Hardening Automatic Tank Gauge Systems 
• Lightning Safety Guide for Sports and Special Events 

 Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies

• Beyond the Two Percent: A Practitioner Framework for Assessing Burden Sharing in the Indo-Pacific 
• Navigating the Storm: India’s Energy Security and the Strategic Pivot to the United States 
• Shaping Access Terrain: Accepting the Loan, Ceding the Terrain 
• Towards a Layered Denial Strategy: Lessons from the Black Sea for Taiwan 

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• The Hidden Crisis - Sexual Violence Crimes Along African-European Migration Routes 
• Russia's Extended War: Foreign Nationals on the Frontlines 

 Defense Priorities Foundation

• Each Side Spins a Different Story About the U.S.-Iran Peace Talks—but Tehran May Have the Last Word 

 Department of Defense/War (DOD/DOW)

• Enhancing Workforce Development Through the Department of War Project Patriot Pipeline 
• Equipping the Future: State of the U.S. Battery Equipment Manufacturing Industry  
• Fact Sheet: AUKUS Pillar II Signature Project 

 Department of Defense/War, Inspector General (DODIG/DODIW)

• DOWIG-2026-087 The DoW’s Unclaimed Funds  
• DOWIG-2026-086 Summary Report: Lessons Learned from DoW OIG Reports on Military Construction 
• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) 
• Operation Southern Guard (OSG) 
• Operation Southern Spear (OSS) 

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-26-08 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana 
• OIG-26-07 Results of an Unannounced Inspection of the ICE Washington Field Office Holding Facility in Chantilly, Virginia 

 Department of State Inspector General

• Lead Inspector General for Operation Southern Guard | Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2026 - March 31, 2026 

 Digi Americas

• Securing Critical Infrastructure in Latin America: Policy, Risk, and Resilience 

 East-West Center

• South Korea’s Trust-Building with North Korea: Failure and Outlook 

 Energy Information Administration (EIA)            

• China’s Nuclear Power Capacity Nearly Doubled Since 2016 
• The Regional Differences in Gasoline Prices This Memorial Day 
• The United States is a Major Energy Exporter and Importer, Especially for Petroleum 

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

• China’s Maritime Hybrid Warfare: How Beijing Uses Lawfare and Civilian Entities to Amplify Military Power 

 European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

• Bypassing the Straits: The India-Middle East-Europe Corridor Needs a Wartime Redesign
• Electric Collective: Europe’s Clean Energy Future Without Russia 
• Iran Nuclear Monitor: Month by Month 
• Making Defence European Again 
• Rescuing the Gaza Ceasefire: What to Do with Hamas’s Weapons 

 European Policy Centre (EPC)

• Brussels Economic Security Review, Vol. I 
• Conditional Openness, Contingent Security and Wicked Trade-Offs 
• The Critical in Critical Technologies 
• Driving Defence: The Automotive Sector’s Role as a Potential Enabler of Europe’s Defence Surge 
• The EU’s Financial Security in a Shifting Transatlantic Relationship 
• Europe’s Geo-Industrial Deal: A Path to Securing Europe’s Competitiveness Abroad 
• From Openness to Deterrence: Europe’s Doctrine of Reactive Assertiveness 
• Reframing the Reset: From Post-Brexit Stabilisation to Strategic Partnership 
• Towards Openness-Based European Preference in the Pharmaceutical Sector 
• Two Years On: Why Europe’s Far Right Keeps Growing 

 European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)

• Somalia: Displacement in Mogadishu 
• Somalia: Security Situation 

 European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Shared Threats, Shared Resilience: Integrating Enlargement Partners in EU Digital and Cyber Security 
• Why Tensions Between the US and Its Allies Are Now So Critical: Reflections on Competing Coalition Dynamics Ahead of the G7 Summit 

 Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Congo's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Democratic Republic of Congo's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Dominica's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Gabon's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Grenada's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Indonesia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Lao PDR's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Nepal's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• St Vincent and the Grenadines' Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Regulatory Momentum or Global Disconnect? 

 Finland Ministry of Defence

• Development and Resource Needs of National Defence in the 2030s: Parliamentary Working Group on Defence 

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)              

• Dark Eagle in the Desert: Considerations for Deploying LRHW to CENTCOM 
• Mnangagwa vs Chiwenga: The Existential Battle for Power in Zimbabwe 
• Russia’s War of Self-Destruction 

 Foundation for Defense of Democracies  (FDD)

• The Iran Deal: What Trump Got, What Iran Got, and What Comes Next 
• Mapping Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the United States 

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

• What Do Companies Fear? The New Geography of Geopolitical Risk 

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

• Russia’s Nuclear Signaling in 2026 and Implications for European Security 

 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• India’s Space Policy 
• Zambian Bureaucratic Practices in Chinese-Financed Digital Projects 

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• An Existential Stress Test for Türkiye’s Political System 

 Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

• Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Crime Enforcement: Insights from the Bangkok Workshop on AI and Environmental Crime 
• Uprooting Cameroon's Elite Timber Networks 

 Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET)

• Distinctive Hallmarks: Investigations into Online Subcultures of Nihilistic Violence 
• Into the Manosphere: Louis Theroux’s Documentary and How Platforms Enable the Business of Misogyny 
• Unclaimed Violence: ISIS, Bondi Beach, and Digital Mobilisation 

 Globsec

• The Lingering War in Ukraine: Security implications in Europe 
• Nine-Step Guide on How to Include Participatory and Deliberative Formats in Policymaking 
• Preparing the EU for Enlargement 

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Animal Transport: Congress Should Consider Modernizing the Law to Better Protect Livestock GAO-26-108123 
• Civilian Workforce: DOD Should Assess Lessons Learned to Better Understand Reduction Impacts GAO-26-108100 
• Commercial Aviation: Air Service to Small Communities Continues to Face Challenges GAO-26-109182 
• Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Assess Civilian Partnerships’ Contributions to Readiness GAO-26-107677 
• Electric Aircraft: FAA Is Evaluating Designs for Certification and Considering Long-Term Regulatory Approaches GAO-26-107816 
• Electronic Health Records: Better Goals and Measures Would Improve Interagency Cybersecurity Collaboration GAO-26-107673 
• Federal Law Enforcement: DHS Could Improve Data Collection and Assessment of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Programs GAO-26-107878 
• Military Health Care: Families Face Challenges Accessing Care for Special Needs, Defense Has Not Reviewed Coverage GAO-26-108086 
• Spectrum Management: DOD and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Should Improve External Collaboration GAO-26-107873 
• Veterans Affairs: Improved Oversight Could Strengthen Processes for Estimating Health Care Funding GAO-26-107950 

 Hague Centre for Strategic Studies  (HCSS)

• Bridge Over Troubled Water: Towards Effective EU Engagement in the Transboundary Politics of the Nile River Basin 
• Intersecting Futures: Global Trends Shaping and Shaped by Climate Change over the Next Century 
• The Unspoken Guardians of the Internet: Why Non-profit Cybersecurity Matters for Public Safety and Global Resilience 

 Henley Putnam University

• Journal of Strategic Security, 2026, v. 19, no. 2 
• Spying the Lie: Insider Threat Prevention in National Security 
• Escalation by Algorithm, Restraint by Architecture: Pakistan’s Military AI Divergence
• YouTube as a Tool for Digital Diplomacy and Strategic Security: A Comparative Analysis of Russia and Kazakhstan
• Human-AI Teaming Under Fire: Lessons from Ukraine’s Human-in-the-Loop Combat AI Systems
• The Role of Special Services in Providing National Information Security
• Classified Information Management in Kosovo: Lessons from NATO, the European Union, and the Western Balkans
• Public-Private Cooperation in European Cybersecurity
• Analysis of Security Concerns in India-Central Asia Relations
• Shadow Logistics: Military Vulnerability Through Civilian Dependence

 Hoover Institution

• Strategika, No. 105 Lessons Learned (So Far) About the Iran War 
• Seven Lessons of the Iran War
• The Iran War is Prelude to the Fifth War
• Lessons of the Iran War

 Hudson Institute

• Putin Invaded Ukraine at Russia’s Expense 
• Iran and the Path Forward: Trump Should Embrace His Leverage and Pursue Peace Through Strength 

 Human Rights Watch

• ‘Casting Us Aside to Die:’ Cuban and Other Third-Country Nationals Deported from the US to Mexico 
• From Bogotá to El Fasher: The UAE’s Role in the Deployment of Colombian Fighters and Other Backing to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan 

 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Advanced Geothermal Energy Is Widely Available, Clean, and Maybe Cheap Enough to Make a Big Impact 
• The Aftermath of the 2025 U.S. Tariffs: How Countries Are Adapting to an Uncertain Global Trade System 
• Balkan Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 
• Comfortable Decline: How Canada Chooses Stability Over Dynamic Prosperity 
• How Personalization Drives Consumer Choice and Autonomy 
• The State of Privacy: Lessons from State Laws for a National Framework 
• Targeted Pressure: How Chinese Manufacturing Competition Impacts US States 

 Institute for Science and International Security

• Fast 16 Malware Aimed at Undermining Proliferant State Nuclear Weapons Programs, Iran was a Credible Target 

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)  

• Blue Economy, Strategic Seas: China’s Maritime Statecraft in Southeast Asia and Bay of Bengal 
• The DPRK’s War Dividend in Ukraine: Capabilities Gained, Trajectory Shifted, and the Long-Term Strategic Impact 
• Growing Intersection between Research, Technological Development, and National Security: A Report of ISDP’s Research and Innovation Series 
• NATO’s Strategic Engagement with Religious Landscapes: Navigating Sovereignty, Hybrid Warfare, and Sacred Spaces in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans 

 Institute for the Study of War

• Africa File
• May 28, 2026: Fano Disrupts Ethiopian Elections; IS Resurgence in Northern Somalia 
• June 4, 2026 Ethiopia Holds Elections; IS in Northwestern Nigeria 
• China & Taiwan Update
• May 22, 2026 
• May 29, 2026 
• June 5, 2026 
• Gasoline Shortages in Occupied Ukraine Show the Synergy of Ukraine’s Long-Range and Mid-Range Strike Campaigns 
• How Iran Hopes to Control the Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not Just About Fees 
• Iran Update
• May 25, 2026 
• May 26, 2026 
• May 27, 2026 
• May 28, 2026 
• May 29, 2026 
• May 30, 2026 
• May 31, 2026 
• June 1, 2026 
• June 2, 2026 
• June 3, 1016 
• June 4, 2026 
• June 5, 2026 
• June 6, 2026 
• June 7, 2026 
• Korean Peninsula Update
• May 27, 2026 
• June 2, 2026 
• Russian Occupation Update
• May 29, 2026 
• June 4, 2026 
• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment
• May 25, 2026 
• May 26, 2026 
• May 27, 2026 
• May 28, 2026 
• May 29, 2026 
• May 30, 2026 
• May 31, 2026 
• June 1, 2026 
• June 2, 2026 
• June 3, 1016 
• June 4, 2026 
• June 5, 2026 
• June 6, 2026 
• June 7, 2026 
• Ukraine’s Intermediate-Range Strike Campaign and New Mechanized Attacks Herald the Start of a New Phase of the War 
• Ukraine’s Strike Campaign Marks a New Phase of the War 

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Beyond the European Chips Act: EU Supply Chain Dependencies on China, Taiwan and the United States 
• Common Challenges, Complementary Strengths: Italy, the EU and the UK in the Clean Energy Transition 
• Crusade Against Norms that Prohibit the Use of Force 
• From Closeness to Strategic Partnership 
• Italy, Europe and the Iran-US Confrontation: Managing Escalation without Illusions 
• On Strategic Communications 
• What NATO Can Learn from Nigeria’s Complex Crisis 

 International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• EU Defence Series: European Autonomy in Orbit 
• Germany’s New Military Concept: Responsibility for Europe 

 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

• Taiwan and Europe Trade Relations and Economic Security 
• Understanding Jordan’s Armed-Forces Reforms 

 International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Are Missions Delivering on Gender-Responsive Peace Operations? Lessons from South Sudan and Somalia 
• Peacekeeping Transitions during Crisis 

 Irregular Warfare Center

• Drone Warfare’s Next Frontier: Is Pakistan Ready? 
• U.S. Diplomacy Plays Critical Role in Irregular Warfare 

 Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, May 2,9 v. 26, no. 11 
• Beijing’s Hukou Reform Is Not Welfare-Oriented
• PRC Cognitive Warfare Targets Japan’s Security Normalization
• Taiwan Weighs HIMARS for PRC Counterstrikes
• The Chinese ‘Rules and Future’ of Global Trade

 Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) Press

• 2026 Special Operations Research Topics: Academic Year 2027 Addendum 
• Operation LOCK-IN 

 Marine Corps University Press

• Aspects of Leadership: An Enlisted Primer on Leading Marines 

 Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)

• Chinese Investment Rises to 7-Year High - Chinese FDI in Europe: 2025 Update 

 Middle East Institute (MEI)

• The Impact of the Iran War on the Gulf’s Grand AI Plans 

 Mitchell Institute

• Military Human Spaceflight: A Key Component to U.S. Space Superiority 
• The Tactical C2 Imperative: Building a Resilient, Mobile Command and Control Grid 

 MITRE

• Leveraging SBOMs Throughout the Enterprise SDLC  

 National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

• Factors Shaping China’s LNG Import Strategies in a Challenging Context 
• The New Geopolitics of LNG: Asia’s Energy Security in a Divided World 
• The Geopolitics of LNG and the Implications for Japan’s Energy Security Strategy 
• Tracking the Next Generation of Leaders in Sri Lanka 

 National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP)

• Deterrence, Extended Deterrence, Arms Control and Allies 
• A New Latin American Policy: The Trump Doctrine or a Trump Corollary? 
• The New Trump-Class Battleship 

 NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

• Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cyber Conflict: Securing Tomorrow 

 NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Assessing PRC Media Framing and Narratives in Arabic-Language Media Environments 
• Defence Strategic Communications, Spring 2026, v. 17 
• How the Term FIMI Took Shape: Told by Those Involved
• From Declarations to Practice? Institutional Constraints on Europe– IP4 Cooperation against Foreign Information Manipulation
• Global Reorientation: A Very Short Description of the State of World Affairs
• The Rupture of the International Rule of Law and the Rise of Tech Sovereignty
• When Disruption Is a Goal in Itself: Constructing Hybrid Threat Actors in Wargaming
• What Does It Take to Release a Political Prisoner?
• Witness
• Tyranny’s Temptation
• LEGO: How Should States Communicate in the Attention Economy?
• Strategic Communications in Government: Putting Principles into Practice 

 Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI)

• China Maritime Report #54: Chairman Xi's Navy 

 Naval War College Stockton Center for International Law

• International Law Studies, 2026, v. 108, no. 1 
• What’s in a Name? Much Ado About “War-Sustaining” Objects 
• International Law Situations: Economic Warfare at Sea 
• International Law Situations: Blockade 
• International Law Situations: Belligerent Straits 

 Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI)

• Beijing’s Dark Money Pipeline 
• Evangelizing Murder: How Assassination Culture Made Charlie Kirk’s Widow a Target 

 Niskanen Center

• Washington, D.C.'s Crime Decline and Its Lessons for American Policing 

 Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• From Spending to Delivery: Coalition-Based Governance to Scale Europe’s Defence Industry at Speed 
• Geo-Economic Resilience: Collective Measures Against the Weaponisation of External Dependencies in the NB8 Region 

 Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)              

• Rising to the Challenge: Emerging Leaders in Nuclear Security 

 Observer Research Foundation

• AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity 
• Breaking Convention: How CareEdge Global Ratings is Redefining Global Credit Risk Assessment 
• The Case for India-France Cooperation in the South-Western Indian Ocean 
• Digital Africa: Tales of Transformation 
• An Equity-Driven Adaptation Framework for Urban Flooding in India 
• Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Towards the Promise of Inclusive Cities 
• The Impact of India–China Border Conflicts on the Changpa Community of Ladakh 
• India and Southeast Asia: Mapping Strategic Convergence in an Era of Great-Power Competition 
• Making the Taxonomy Work for India: From Framework to Climate Action 
• Pathways to Green Steel: Trilateral Opportunities for India, Japan, and South Korea 
• A Proposed ‛Classical Plus’ Approach to the Grand Strategy Conceptual Debate 
• Remodelling Maritime Finance in India 
• Securing India's Midstream Capacity by Processing Critical Minerals Overseas 
• Supply, Strategy, and Statecraft: India’s China Policy in an Era of Economic Rebalancing 

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

• Hate Monitor, April 2026 [Infographic] 

 Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• The Global Political Economy in Local Violence: Exploring the Role of Corporations, Trade and Loans in the Killings of Social Activists 

 Pew Research Center 

• Americans Are Increasingly Pessimistic About Avoiding the Worst Effects of Climate Change 
• How Much Do You Know About NATO? Take Our Quiz 
• Right-Wing Populism in the Decade Since Brexit 
• What Political Issues Do Americans Hear About in Church? 

 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft 

• The Disappearing Aid Check: The Future of US–Israel Defense Support 

 RAND Corporation

• Battle Damage Repair for Arleigh Burke–Class Destroyers: Tabletop Exercise Results 
• Challenges When Collaborating with China on Space Research and Technology: Common Practices and Risks 
• Investigating the Potential Use of Frontier AI Models for Offensive Cyberattacks: A Human Uplift Study 
• Verified Machine Learning Infrastructure: Formal Methods for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Deployment 

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing 
• As US Scales Back Forces Earmarked for NATO, Opportunity Opens for Europe 
• Fast-Jet Pilot Training Modernisation Choices 
• Hollowing Out Lebanon: How Pressure on Hezbollah Could Save It 
• Illegal High Street Enterprise. Closed for Business, Open for Crime 
• The Inextricable Link Between Geopolitics, Security and Humanitarian Impact 
• Order Missiles and Bombs to Increase European Combat Air Mass, Not Drones 
• Reforming Defence: Lessons from the UK Defence Restructuring History 
• Re-Establishing Japan’s Intelligence Capability – ‘Spy Paradise’ Lost? 
• Turkey’s Iraq Gambit Amid the Strait of Hormuz Crisis 
• Winning Without Technological Advantage 

 Sasakawa Peace Foundation

• Policy Recommendations "Toward Improving the Effectiveness of Extended Deterrence in the Japan-U.S. Alliance": To Make the "Nuclear Umbrella" be Real 

 Small Arms Survey

• New Methodology for Tracking Civilian Firearms Dynamics 

 Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

• Fading Power? The EU’s Strategic Dilemmas in the South Caucasus 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Developments and Trends in Multilateral Peace Operations, 2025 
• The Growth of Dual-Use by Design Research in Europe: Export Control Risks and Challenges 
• Madrasas, State Regulation and Governance in West Africa: A Comparative Perspective [open access book] 

 Strauss Center

• Migration Dynamics and Conditions at the U.S.-Mexico Border: February 2026 
• Migration Dynamics and Conditions at the U.S.-Mexico Border: May 2026 

 Swedish Defence Research Agency

• Reinforcing NATO's Southeast: France in Romania – Leadership, Interoperability, Flexibility 
• Strategic Outlook 11: Wide Awake in a World of Disorder 

 Swedish Institute of International Affairs

• Critical Minerals: Technological Development and Strategic Autonomy for Sweden and Europe 
• Less Demand or Less Supply? Winding Roads Away from Fossil Fuels and Inequality 

 Swedish National China Centre

• Can Sweden’s New Public Procurement Legislation Mitigate “China Risk”? 
• Chinese Government Efforts to Influence Swedish Media 

 Taylor & Francis

• Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
• Militant Extremist Mindset: A Comparative Study of Arab and Australian Youth [open access article] 
• Civil Wars
• Militia Infiltration of the State: Loyalist Paramilitary Strategy in Northern Ireland [open access article] 
• Unanswered Prayers: Do the Ideas of Forgiveness and Justice Promote Pro-Peace Attitudes? [open access article] 
• Critical Studies on Terrorism
• Hamas is ISIS? Comparisons of Hamas to Islamic State and the Designation of ‘Terrorist’ Groups [open access article] 
• Israeli State Terrorism: Knowledge, Power and the “Public Secret” [open access article] 
• Open Letters by Academics on the Israel–Gaza Conflict: Pitfalls of Urgent Appeals [open access article] 
• Palestinian Resistance: Reflections on Violence and the Right to Resist [open access article] 
• Terrorism Discourse and Genocide: Foucault and Agamben on Palestine [open access article] 
• Uhud, Kairouan and the Battle of Ben Gardane: Situating Salafī-Jihādist Militancy in Context [open access article] 
• Defence Studies
• Dual Use Innovation Systems – Building Industrial Resilience in An Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty [open access article] 
• From Demonstrated Agency to Structural Integration: Security-Trained Women and the Role of Assignment and Competence Registries in Crisis Preparedness and National Defense  [open access article] 
• The Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO): The Post-Communist versus Democratic Europe [open access article] 
• A Strategy for the Weak: The Role of Information Confrontation in Russia’s Grand Strategy [open access article] 
• Terrorist Groups, Advanced Armed Drones, and Nonstate Warfare [open access article] 
• Turning to Gender Analysis in Times of Upheaval: An Intervention Piece [open access article] 
• Defense & Security Analysis
• Forecasting the Readiness of Drone Racing Technology for Wider Autonomous Use [open access article] 
• Ethnic and Racial Studies
• How Integration Policies Relate to Perceptions of Discrimination and Feelings of Belonging Among Immigrants and Children of Immigrants. A Multilevel Perspective [open access article] 
• Insurgent Bureaucrats in Local Government: The Fight for Immigrant Rights and Racial Equity [open access article] 
• Ethics & Global Politics
• Between Openness and Resilience: Rethinking Citizenship in Times of Polycrisis [open access article] 
• Boundaries of Citizenship: Federal Perspectives and Democratic Minimum Standards in the EU [open access article] 
• Broadening Through Blurring? Rethinking Citizenship Across the ‘Us’/‘Them’ Divide [open access article] 
• Climate Cosmopolitanism: Broadening and Deepening Citizenship in Response to the Climate Crisis [open access article] 
• Damaging Democratic Citizenship: The Ideology of Digital Empowerment [open access article] 
• Good Citizenship in an Unequal Society: The Value of Political Organizing [open access article] 
• Immigration and Social Citizenship in Times of Crisis: Deepening and Broadening Citizenship [open access article] 
• Geopolitics
• The Beguiling Familiarity of Popular Geopolitical Imaginaries: Mission Impossible and Politics of Intelligence [open access article] 
• Bordering the Heterogeneity: Revisiting the Internal Borders in Early Modern Northeast China [open access article] 
• Climatising the Law of the Sea: Small Island Developing States and the ITLOS Advisory Opinion [open access article] 
• Global Change, Peace & Security
• Multilateral Global Governance and Peace from the Perspectives of Agonistic and Confucian Relationality: China, BRICS, and the ASEAN Regional Forum [open access article] 
• Pleading for Peace: Sri Lanka, Kosovo, and the Press Releases of Ceasefire Monitors [open access article] 
• Journal of Risk Research
• An Archaeology of Risk: A Bibliometric Analysis of Risk Research [open access article] 
• Connecting Social Impacts and Social Capacities for Flood Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction [open access article] 
• To Fear or Not? The Impact of Internet Use on Chinese Public Safety Perception [open access article] 
• Journal of Strategic Studies
• The Evolution of China’s Ballistic Missile Defense [open access article] 
• Implausible Deniability and Escalation in the Gray Zone [open access article] 
• Minding the Commitment Gap: Alliance Reassurance and the Image of the Imperial Presidency [open access article] 
• Security Studies to Fear or Not? The Impact of Internet Use on Chinese Public Safety Perception [open access article] 
• Strategy in the New Missile Age [open access article] 
• Small Wars & Insurgencies
• Intelligence Penetration, Counterintelligence, and the Iran–Israel Covert Struggle [open access article] 
• The Invisible Front: Exploring the Dynamics of Afghan Resistance Movements in the Shadow of the Taliban’s Second Authoritarian Rule [open access article] 
• Visible Politics and Invisible Tactics: The Use of Uniforms in Asymmetric Conflicts [open access article] 
• The Water and the Fish: Counterinsurgency Models for Climate-Induced Violence [open access article] 
• Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
• Confluences of War and Crime: Trajectories into Paramilitary Groups in Colombia [open access article]   
• From Prevent to Protect and Prepare: The Manchester Arena Attack and Shifting Priorities in the United Kingdom’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy (CONTEST) [open access article] 
• Jihad after the Fall of IS – Reframing the Apocalyptic Narrative [open access article] 
• Of Heroes and Mothers: Locating Gender in Ideological Narratives of Salafi-Jihadist and Extreme Right Propaganda  [open access article] 
• Warriors and Weak Women: Identifying Central Discourses of Masculinity in Neo-Nazi Telegram Channels [open access article] 

 Toda Peace Institute

• China–US Relations After Trump’s Beijing Visit: Shifting Stabilizers in an Era of Great Power Competition 
• Non-Nuclear Weapons for First Strike Missions: Assessment of Current Conventional Weapons for Strategic Counterforce and Mutual Reassurance 
• A Parallel World Amid Diplomatic Stalemate: The Current State and Challenges of Japan–China Relations 

 UK Parliament House of Lords Library

• Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and Society 

 UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

• Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Trends in the Middle East: Report of the Middle East WMD-Free Zone Project (2023–2026) 
• Small Arms and Light Weapons Flows and Transfer Controls 
• Toolkit: Addressing Weapons-Related Risks in Women, Peace and Security National Action Plans 

 UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)

• Progress Without Compass: Rethinking Crime, Justice and Rights in an Algorithmic World 

 United States Studies Centre (USSC)

• The Roadmap to Sovereign Capability: The Industrial Workforce and Australia’s Missile Manufacturing Effort 
• US-Australia Relations and the Future of Missilery: Long-Range Strike, Missile Defence and Export Controls 

 US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

• Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process [Green Card] 
• Press Release 

 US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)

• China's Codification and Escalation of the "Sinicization of Religion"

 V-Dem Institute

• Coalitions of Regime Supporters and Regime Survival 
• Mass Mobilization and Incumbent-led Regime Changes 

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Beyond Disarmament: How the IRGC Keeps Hezbollah in Power Despite Its Military Losses 
• Countering Iran’s Latest “Smart Control” Gambit in the Strait of Hormuz 
• Iran’s Drone Strategy (Part 1): Wartime Performance and Adaptations 
• Iran’s Drone Strategy (Part 2): Preventing Postwar Rebuilding and Advancements 
• The Politics Blocking Syria’s Energy Recovery 
• Syria’s Protest Wave: A Governance Stress Test 
• Turkey’s Limited Role in the Iran War 

 White House

• Executive Order: Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security 
• Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Promotes Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security 

 Wire Screen

• How the PLA Continued Procuring Nvidia AI Chips After U.S. Export Controls [registration required to access]