Friday's Miscellany 06-02-2017

38 North

·        North Korea Nuclear EMP Attack: An Existential Threat

Air Force Research Institute (AFRI)

·        Strategic Studies Quarterly, Summer 2017, v. 11, no. 2

o   Remarks of Congressman Mike Rogers Chairman, House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee Presented to the 2017 Space Symposium

o   Response: Has the Air Force Been a Good Steward for Space?

o   Thinking Anew about US Nuclear Policy toward Russia

o   Much Ado about Nothing? Status Ambitions and Iranian Nuclear Reversal

o   Stalkers in Space:  Defeating the Threat

o   Toward Strategic Nuclear Funding:  The USSOCOM Model

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·        British Foreign Policy and the 2017 General Election

·        Rouhani’s Victory: A Reading of Political and Social Transformations

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

·        A Budget-Neutral Universal Basic Income

·        The Future of Iran’s Security Policy: Inside Tehran’s Strategic Thinking

·        The Impact of Social Ties on Homelessness

·        Polls on Political Correctness

Amnesty International

·        Criminal Cases Against Human Rights Defenders, and Political and Other Activists in Cambodia

·        A Right Not a Threat: Disproportionate Restrictions on Demonstrations Under the State of Emergency in France

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·        Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, May 2017, v.4, no. 5

o   Viral hepatitis A, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007-2016

o   Viral hepatitis B, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007-2016

o   Viral hepatitis C, U.S. military service members and beneficiaries,

o   2008-2016

o   Brief report: Tinea pedis, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2000-2016

o   Surveillance snapshot: Respiratory infections resulting in hospitalization,

o   U.S. Air Force recruits, October 2010-February 2017

Asia Foundation

·        Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia: The Future of the Rebalance

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·        Delhi: Disabling the Girl Child?

Atlantic Council

·        Meeting the Russian Hybrid Challenge

·        Report of the Task Force on the Future of Iraq

·        Women's Leadership in Latin America 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·        Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy:Execution & Evolution

·        Securing Democracy in the Digital Age

·        Westminster Attack, London, 22 March 2017

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·        A Pipeline for Houston's Startups

·        Reflections on Uneven Democracies: The Legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·        Tunisia’s Future Lasts a Long Time

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·        Assad Is Bad News

·        Donald Trump: The View from Jerusalem

·        Ehud Barak: Blatantly Ignoring Danger

·        The Farhoud Remembered

·        The Over-Dramatization of Israel’s “Dilemma”

·        The Summit for the Establishment of the Silk Road Forum

·        Trump’s Air Strike on al-Tanf: No to the Shiite Crescent

·        Turkey’s Indigenous Weapons Industry: A Rover with Rolls-Royce Ambitions

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·        Hacking Trident: A Growing Threat

Brookings

·        Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World

·        India – The Asian Research Network: Survey on America’s Role in the Indo-Pacific

·        More Professionalism, Less Populism: How Voting Makes Us Stupid, and What to Do About It

CATO Institute

·        Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration During the Age of Mass Migration”

·        Who Owns U.S. Infrastructure?

Center for Global Development

·        The Digital Transformation and Disruptive Technologies: Challenges and Solutions for the Electricity Sector in African Markets

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·        AI, Robots, and Swarms: Issues, Questions,and Recommended Studies

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·        Russian Analytical Digest, No.203: Russia and Ukraine

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·        Issues & Insights - Vol. 17 No. 10 - Nuclear Governance in the Asia Pacific:Challenges, Old and New

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·        Green Shift to Sustainability: Co-benefits and Impacts of Energy Transformation

·        UNDRIP Implementation: Braiding International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies

·        Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2017, v. 17, no. 4

·        Special Issue: Reflexive Military Practitioners: Design Thinking and Beyond

o   Introduction: Revolution in Military Epistemology

o   Self Disruption: Seizing the High Ground of Systemic Operational Design (SOD)

o   Design in Civvies: The Promise of Creating Degrees of Freedom in Government

o   Design: an Ethical and Moral Project Conscious Intention for the Cybernetician

o   Stumbling into Design: Radical Action Experiments in Professional Military Education at Canadian Forces College

o   Don’t forget about Boxer: Teaching Systems Thinking, Complexity and Design to NCMs

o   Critical Military Epistemology: Designing Reflexivity into Military Curricula

o   Blending Postmodernism with Military Design Methodologies: Heresy, Subversion, and other Myths of Organizational Change

o   Like Hugging Grandma: Introducing Design into a Military Organization

o   A Tale of Two Designs: Developing the Australian Defence Force’s Latest Iteration of its Joint Operations Planning Doctrine

o   Of Garbage Cans and Paradox: Reflexively Reviewing Design, Mission Command, and the Gray Zone

o   Learning through our Mistakes: the Legacy of Marxism in Colombian Counter-Insurgency Strategy

o   The Continuous Judicial and the Judiciary Wars in Colombia: Critical Dimensions of Insurgent Political Warfare

o   Legitimacy as the Center of Gravity in Hybrid Warfare: Notes from the Colombian Battlefield

o   Damascus: The Renewed Doctrine of the National Army of Colombia

o   Carl von Clausewitz and the Invention of the Conservative Nation-State: Retrieving Instrumental Reflexivity in the Strategic Tradition

o   Conclusion: Researching the Reflexive Turn in Military Affairs & Strategic Studies

Chatham House

·        Local Community Resistance to Extremist Groups in Syria: Lessons from Atarib

College of Europe

·        NEAR or FEAR: The Security Aspects of EU Enlargement         

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·        Projecting Demand for the Services of Primary Care Doctors

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·        Mexico’s Drug War

·        U.S. Temporary Foreign Worker Programs

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·        Approaching the German Federal Election: The Traditional Parties Break the Trend and Stay in Front

East-West Center

·        Japan-India Development and Security Cooperation Should be Steady, not Rushed

Egmont Institute

·        EU-South Korea Security Relations: The Current State of Play

·        The European Investment Bank: An Overlooked (f)actor in EU External Action?

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

·        Phosphate Fertilizers as Proliferation-relevant Source of Uranium

European Policy Centre

·        Achieving Social Triple A: What Role for EU Cohesion Policy?

·        An Australian ‘Model’ for the EU’s Migration Crisis?

·        Brexit: Time for Plan B

·        Europe's Reform Opportunity

·        The ‘Macron effect’ on European Defence: EnMarche, At Last?

European Union Institute for Security Studies

·        After the EU Global Strategy – Building Resilience

·        Haiti: What Resilience for the Least Resilient

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

·        The Cyber-enabled Information Struggle:Russia's Approach and Western Vulnerabilities

·        Trade Liberalization at a Crossroads: The US and China Play Key Roles

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

·        Does Improved Irrigation Technology Save Water? A Review of the Evidence

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·        From Baghdad to Riyadh: A New Regional Security Pact?

George Washington University Program on Extremism

·        Conspiracy Theories in the Patriot/Militia Movement

·        GW Extremism Tracker: Terrorism in the U.S.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·        Immigration Courts: Actions Needed to Reduce Case Backlog and Address Long-Standing Management and Operational Challenges. GAO-17-438

·        Military Personnel: Observations on the Department of Defense's Career Intermission Pilot Program. GAO-17-623R

·        Missile Defense: Some Progress Delivering Capabilities, but Challenges with Testing Transparency and Requirements Development Need to Be Addressed. GAO-17-381

Heritage Foundation

·        A GI Bill for Children of Military Families: Transforming Impact Aid into Education Savings Accounts

·        Withdraw from Paris by Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change

Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

·        China Leadership Monitor, Spring 2017, no. 53

o   Chinese Views on the Trump Administration’s Asia Policy

o   Cross-Strait Relations: Marking Time

o   “Safeguarding the Core and Following Commands”: Party-Army Relations Before the 19th Party Congress

o   The Regulatory Storm: A Surprising Turn in Financial Policy

o   The National People’s Congress in 2017: Security, Ideology, and Experimentation

o   How to Read Xi Jinping’s 19th Party Congress Political Report

Households in Conflict Network

·        The Reach of Radio: Defection Messaging and Armed Group Behavior

·        Security, Trade, and Political Violence

Human Rights Watch

·        ‘Not Worth The Risk’: Threats To Free Expression Ahead of Kenya’s 2017 Elections

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·        The Geopolitics of Gas: Common Problems,Disparate Strategies

Institute for Defense Analyses

·        Africa Watch, June 1, 2017

o   The Roots of Conflict over Land in Kenya

o   Rwanda Elections Will Likely Reinforce the Status Quo

o   A Review of the BUILDER Application for Assessing Federal Laboratory Facilities

Institute for Science and International Security

·        Is Iran Mass Producing Advanced Gas Centrifuge Components? Can We Even Know with the Way the Iran Deal Has Been Structured and Implemented So Far?

Institute for Security & Development Policy

·        Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum and Erdogan’s Faded Democratic Credentials

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)

·        South China Sea and ASEAN-China Relations:Joint Development in the South China Sea?

·        Terrorism and Counter-terrorism – A View from Europe

Institute for the Study of War

·        Syria Situation Report: May 19 - June 1, 2017

Institute of International Affairs  (Instituto Affari Internazionali)

·        Explaining Youth Participation and Non-Participation in Morocco

·        An Intersectional Analysis of the Micro-level Factors of Youth Economic and Political Exclusion/Inclusion in the South and East Mediterranean (SEM) Region

·        Youth in the South East Mediterranean Region and the Need for a Political Economy Approach

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·        The Case of Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav: Legal,Political and Diplomatic Implications

·        The ‘Electoral Bond Initiative’ in India:Prospects for Authorised Campaign Finances

·        Goods and Services Tax in India – Tax Reforms for a Brighter Future?

·        Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercises2017: Why They Matter

International Crisis Group

·        Kenya’s Rift Valley: Old Wounds, Devolution’s New Anxieties

·        Nagorno-Karabakh’s Gathering War Clouds

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·        Financial Frictions and the Great Productivity Slowdown

·        Inclusive Growth Framework

·        Policy Uncertainty in Japan

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·        The Changing Ecologies of War and Humanitarianism

Jamestown Foundation

·        Terrorism Monitor, June 3, 2017, v. 15, no. 11

o   Russia a Fair-Weather Friend for Syria’s Kurds

o   Learning and Adapting: al-Qaeda’s Attempts to Counter Drone Strikes

o   Libya’s Military Wild Card: The Benghazi Defense Brigades and the Massacre at Brak al-Shatti

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·        Digital: Growing the Best, not the Worst

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·        Can Russia Afford to Be a Great Power?

·        Strengthening Australia’s Assisted Voluntary Return Migration Program

Manhattan Institute

·        On the Chopping Block: Rising State Pension Costs Lead to Cuts in Higher Education

MeriTalk

·        Inside Job: The Sequel - 2017 Federal Insider Threat Report [free registration required]

Migration Policy Institute

·        New Brain Gain: Rising Human Capital among Recent Immigrants to the United States

National Academies Press

·        Foundational Cybersecurity Research:Improving Science, Engineering, and Institutions

·        Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security: Proceedings of a Summit

National Association for Corporate Directors (NACD)

·        Cyber-Risk Oversight

National Security Archive

·        The White House, the CIA and the Pike Committee, 1975

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

·        National Cyber Security Organization: Israel

NATO Defense College

·        Deterrence through Resilience - NATO, the Nations and the Challenges of Being Prepared

Nautilus Institute

·        Japan's New Regulatory Standards for Nuclear Power and Reprocessing Plants: Technical, Social and Political Aspects

Observer Research Foundation

·        Examining the Limitations of India’s Online Visa Regime

·        India-Japan-Australia Minilateral: The Promise and Perils of Balancing Locally

Omega Research Foundation

·        China North Industries Corporation

Oxford Research Group

·        Manchester, the General Election and Britain’s Security Narrative

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·        Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates, May 2017

·        The Financial Stability Oversight Council: An Essential Role for the Evolving US Financial System

·        Manufacturing and the 2016 Election: An Analysis of US Presidential Election Data

Poland Ministry of National Defence

·        The Concept of Defence for the Republic of Poland

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·        Job Opportunity Cost of War

Project on Managing the Atom

·        When Did (and Didn’t) States Proliferate?

Rand

·        Improving the Air Force Small-Business Performance Expectations Methodology

·        Serious Analytical Gaming: The 360° Game for Multidimensional Analysis of Complex Problems

·        Stateless Attribution: Toward International Accountability in Cyberspace

Refugees International

·        "Hell on Earth": Abuses Against Refugees and Migrants Trying to Reach Europe from Libya

RTI International

·        Understanding Demand for Cyber Policy Resources

Small Wars Journal

·        Carry a Big Stick or Be Quiet: A Case for Conscription

·        Considerations for Planning Humanitarian Operations in Hybrid Warfare

·        Countering Threat Networks: A Standard Lines of Effort Model

·        Defining the Model: Understanding Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Models to Develop a Path Forward in Afghanistan

·        From Precedent, Possibility: New Models for“Whole of Society” Foreign Policy

·        The Gray Zone in Africa

·        The Left, Islamism, and a Moment of Truth?

·        Strategic Futures and Intelligence: The Head and Heart of ‘Hybrid Defence’ Providing Tangible Meaning and Ways Forward

·        The Threat from Western Volunteers in Kurdish Groups

·        Treating Islamic Violent Extremism as a Pandemic Super-Infection: Inverse Darwinist Operations Line of OperationExplained

·        "Vietnam"

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·        China–Russia Relations and Regional Dynamics:from Pivots to Peripheral Diplomacy

·        Engagement on Nuclear Disarmament Between Nuclear Weapon-possessing States and Non-nuclear Weapon States

·        The European Union and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Follow-on to the Global Strategy?

·        Global Mapping and Analysis of Anti-vehicle Mine Incidents in 2016

·        Multilateral Peace Operations 2017

·        Translating Climate Security Policy into Practice

 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·        21st-Century Challenges of Command: A View from the Field

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·        Industrial-Scale Looting of Afghanistan’s Mineral Resources

Vision of Humanity

·        2017 Global Peace Index

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·        Contain Iran? Fine, But Answer These Questions First

·        Preventing Allies from Fighting Each Other in Iraq's Disputed Areas

·        Syria’s Christians: A Personal Story of a Stolen Legacy