Sunday, August 18, 2019

National Security

banking while an important part of U.S. innovation and culture, bankruptcy proceedings have nonetheless become a unique way through which foreign adversaries can acquire sensitive U.S. national security technologies and intellectual property. Through a detailed analysis of the existing gaps in the Federal rules governing foreign investment and bankruptcy procedures in the United States, Camilla Stewart provides the reader with an in-depth look at how foreign companies were able to circumvent these rules of foreign investment in the United States.

Full Court Press: Preventing Foreign Adversaries from Exfiltrating National Security Technologies Through Bankruptcy Proceedings

Journal of National Security Law & Policy


Nord Stream 2 Sanctions A Miss?

Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy news

Although sanctions against the Russian Nord stream 2 gas pipeline project will be very well accepted in Central and Eastern Europe, they can make the already tense relations between the US and its Western European allies even more complex

Online Jihadist propaganda – 2018 in review

Europol news

report based on open sources about the terrorist propaganda of Jihad in 2018

Online Jihadist propaganda – 2018 in review

how social media platforms have been instrumentalized for various purposes by terrorist organizations in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, and how these governments have addressed this issue

       Given the scale of inter-communal violence in the region, it is essential to conduct further research on this connection.
      The use of end-to-end encrypted communications by terrorists is a common feature of all three case studies in the present document: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. However, the government's response to this in South Asia has so far been futile, as their proposals were not feasible and social media blocks were of limited effectiveness.

RUSI news

Transnational Lessons from Terrorist Use of Social Media in South Asia
13 August 2019

ロシア軍機・中国軍機の竹島周辺飛行

レビューで提示された事実は、日本の安全保障を脅かすものではないと私は信じています

NIDS Commentaryロシア軍機・中国軍機の竹島周辺飛行

DIIS - New article about the contested state-building in periods of cease-fire

DIIS news

New article about the contested state-building in periods of cease-fire


INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE SECRET SERVICE

RIEAS news

sharp and very necessary in the present discussion article about democratic control over the security services

INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND THE SECRET SERVICE, MYTHS IN EUROPE

Counterintelligence Threat Brief for Turkey

a summary of the threat of counterintelligence about traditional and non-traditional counterintelligence threats to individuals who fail a security check who travel to Turkey as business travelers or for personal reasons.

Counterintelligence Threat Brief for Turkey

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2019/08/15/counterintelligence-threat-brief-for-turkey/
Modern Diplomacy is an invaluable platform for assessing and evaluating complex international issues that are often outside the boundaries of mainstream Western media and academia.

Friday, March 8, 2019

The Bajwa Fence: The Pakistani Military Seals the Afghan Border

The UK's EU Withdrawal Agreement

The UK's EU Withdrawal Agreement
Published Friday, March 8, 2019 | Commons Briefing papers CBP-8453
This briefing looks in detail at the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and UK and finalised on 14 November. 

Saudi Arabia and the UAE in al-Mahra: Securing Interests, Disrupting Local Order, and Shaping a Southern Military

Saudi Arabia and the UAE in al-Mahra: Securing Interests, Disrupting Local Order, and Shaping a Southern Military

The ongoing war in Yemen has wreaked havoc on much of the country, crumbling centuries old buildings, destroying critical infrastructure and leaving countless civilians dead. Fighting has extended to many corners of the country. Some areas, however, have managed to avoid the brunt of the... 
The Jamestown Foundation news 

Huawei’s fate is inseparable from Europe’s geostrategy

Invitation: Climate Change Film Screening at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital

Pulitzer Center news


Invitation: Climate Change Film Screening at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital


https://pulitzercenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1e0daa892d0fd84e520a9c9af&id=2acfadbc49&e=ddcfa635da

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

OSINT news - Russia: what is happening? (the second decade of January 2019 - the second decade of February 2019 review)


OSINT news - Russia: what is happening? (the second decade of January 2019 - the second decade of February 2019 review)

Online Homeland security

blog about business intelligence, political news and analysis, business news, osint, osint analyst, osint tools, osint intelligence, competitive intelligence - Research Center Viktora Voksanaeva

 

1. Fight against corruption

The gas king of the Caucasus stole billions and eliminated the unwanted. His countrymen knew, but were silent (ru)

https://news.mail.ru/incident/36188010/

 

 

2. Local government

May calculation: Russia's spending on national projects will be more than 25 trillion rubles (ru) https://russian.rt.com/business/article/601619-rossiya-natsionalnye-proekty

 

СПБ ГУП «СПБ ИАЦ»  - analytical materials about St. Petersburg (ru)

http://iam.iac.spb.ru/

 

бюджетное учреждение Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа – Югры «Региональный аналитический центр»

Social and economic development of the Autonomous Okrug (ru)

http://racugra.ru/monitoring-socekonomrazvitiya

 

 

3. Economy

Экспертно-аналитический центр агробизнеса"АБ-Центр"

Food exports from Russia by year, commodity groups (ru)

http://ab-centre.ru/news/ob-eksporte-selhozsyrya-i-prodovolstviya-iz-rossii-v-2001-2018-gg

 

The International Center for Innovations in Science, Technology and Education (ICISTE)

Southern Perspectives on Science and Technology Cooperation.
ITEC Report on Science Diplomacy. Published in 2019 by RIS (Research and Information System for Develophing Countries), New Delhi, India

 

AO «Institute of Environmental Survey, Planning & Assessment», OOO «MSU Analytical Centre» and OOO «Lomonosov MSU Oil and Gas Engineering Center»

Oil spills: full cost

http://acmsu.ru/press/media/rbk/

 

 

4. Politics

Basil’s Analytics Center


https://stbasil.center/2019/02/12/todorov-ukrainian-geopolitics-and-theopolitics/

 

 

КИАЦ

On the forecast of the situation in Donbas (ru)

http://kazak-center.ru/news/o_prognozakh_razvitija_situacii_na_donbasse_govorili_v_sdd_i_skvriz/2019-02-15-3836

 

 

5. Spforces

the National Antiterrorism Committee

A meeting of the National antiterrorist Committee was held in Moscow (ru)

http://nac.gov.ru/nak-prinimaet-resheniya/v-moskve-proshlo-zasedanie-nacionalnogo-15.html