Friday's Miscellany 07-07-2017

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·         North Korea’s Hwasong-14 Missile Launch Site Identified: The Panghyon Aircraft Factory

·         Should the United States Try to Cut Tourism to North Korea?

·         Still on Standby: Continued Lack of Significant Observable Activity at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

Amnesty International

·         A Perfect Storm: The Failure of European Policies in the Central Mediterranean

·         South Sudan: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's Breadbasket into a Killing Field

·         Zambia: Rising Impunity and Lack of Accountability

Army University Press

·         Military Review, July-August 2017, v. 97, no. 4

o    Multi-Domain Battle: Driving Change to Win in the Future

o    Curbing the “Helicopter Commander”: Overcoming Risk Aversion and Fostering Disciplined Initiative in the U.S. Army

o    The Collapse of Venezuela and Its Impact on the Region

o    The Evolving Nature of Russia‘s Way of War

o    North Korean Cyber Support to Combat Operations

o    Advancing Security Cooperation through Executive Education

o    The Role of Forward Presence in U.S. Military Strategy

o    The American Motor-Rifle Brigade: Issues with the Stryker Brigade Combat Team Concept

o    Understanding Japan’s Role in Securing the Western Pacific

o    Professional Military Education: Proven in Combat during the Mexican War

o    The Military Moral Education Program: Checking Our Ethical Azimuth

o    Navigating through the Challenge of Culture and Law in Postconflict Stability Operations

o    Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain’s Cold War Spy Master

Atlantic Council

·         Journey to the West: Chinese Opportunities in European Infrastructure Expansion

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Australia and Germany: A New Strategic Energy Partnership

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Migration and Refugees at the United Nations. Toward New Global Compacts and the Emergence of an International Migration Regime

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Erdogan’s “Language Revolution” Epitomizes His Anti-Western and Cultural Islamism

·         Gaza’s Inhabitants Share the Blame with Hamas

·         How Can Greece Pay Back China?

·         Indo-Israeli Security Cooperation: Onward and Upward

·         Iran Flexes Its Missile Muscles

·         What Trump Can Learn from Oliver Stone’s “Putin Interviews”

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Freedom of Navigation in the South China Sea: A Practical Guide

Brookings

·         A New Way of Working with States and Localities

Bruegel

·         Challenge of China’s Rise as a Science and Technology Powerhouse

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         A Canadian Primer to the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7-8,2017

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         First Strike: China's Missile Threat to U.S. Bases to Asia

·         Higher, Heavier, Farther, and now Undetectable? Bombers—Long-Range Force Projection in the 21st Century

Center for Global Development

·         What's In, What's Out: Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Joint U.S.-China Think Tank Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations

·         The Next Frontier: Stop New HIV Infections in Adolescent Girls and Young Women

·         PacNet #50 - Trump and Southeast Asia: going through the motions

·         PacNet #49 - Don’t go ballistic! The least bad agenda after North Korea’s ICBM test

·         Protecting the United States from the Health Security Risk of Global Tuberculosis

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Brexit Maze: The Role of EU Institutions in the Negotiations

·         Ulster's Fight, Ulster's Rights? Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Threat to British-Irish Relations

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         A G20 Infrastructure Investment Program to Strengthen Global Productivity and Output Growth

·         Restructuring Sovereign Debt: An English Law Opportunity

Chatham House

·         Cybercrime and the Digital Economy in the GCC Countries

·         Iraq After the Fall of ISIS: The Struggle for the State

College of Europe

·         Can Brexit Lead to Further Integration? The Case of Economic and Monetary Union

·         An Economic Analysis of Liability of Hosting Services: Uncertainty and Incentives Online

·         Towards a New Way to Finance the EU Budget? Reflections on the Monti Report

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Reform Committee

·         State Secrets: How an Avalanche of Media Leaks is Harming National Security

Egmont Institute

·         The Blurring of Belgium's Security: Deliberate or Unintended?

·         Europe’s “New” Jihad: Homegrown, Leaderless, Virtual

European Parliament Directorate-General for Internal Policies

·         Review of EU-third Country Cooperation on Policies Falling Within the ITRE Domain in Relation to Brexit

European Policy Centre

·         Brexit: No Ordinary Third Country

·         New Pact for Europe - National Report - ITALY

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         Cuba and Trump: The Power of Symbols

·         EUPOL Afghanistan 2007/16: Mission Impossible?

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         FATF Report to G20 Leaders’ Summit

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Time for Decisions on North Korea

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Integration Along the Abuja Road Map - A Progress Report

German Development Institute

·         The G20 and the “Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project”

·         Negotiating the Implementation of Peacebuilding: A Challenge for the Transition to Peace and Democracy

·         Should China join the GPEDC? The Prospects for China and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Containing Illicit Flows at African Borders

·         Last Exit Basel III

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         METROS: Strengthening Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Southern European Metro Regions

·         NATO Cybersecurity: A Roadmap to Resilience

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Chemical and Biological Defense: DOD Has Identified an Infrastructure Manager and Is Developing the Position's Roles and Responsibilities. GAO-17-522R

·         Inter-American Organizations: Efforts Ongoing for Quota Reform at the Organization of American States, but Reaching Agreement Will Be Difficult. GAO-17-572

Henry Jackson Society

·         Foreign funded Islamist Extremism in the UK

·         The Homegrown Threat In Brief [Infographic]

Heritage Foundation

·         Strategic Cyber Deterrence: The Active Cyber Defense Option [webcast]

·         The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program: A Roadmap for Reform

Human Rights Watch

·         Killing Without Consequence: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic

·         “We Don’t Have Him”: Secret Detentions and Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         EMBRAER: Brazil’s Aviation Success Story

·         Hypersonic Weapons

·         Unpacking China’s White Paper on Maritime Cooperation under BRI

Institute for Security & Development Policy

·         The State of Swedish East Asia Research

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Israel’s Discourses and Practices in the Mediterranean Since 2001

·         Macron's Foreign Policy: Not a Zero Sum Game

·         Why Europe Matters More Than Ever

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         The Abolition of Australia’s 457 Visa: Impact on India’s Skilled Labour Mobility

·         Challenging Times in Sri Lanka: A Reality Check for Maithripala Sirisena

·         Farm Loan Waivers in India: Good Politics but Poor Economics?

·         The Goods and Services Tax in India: Impressions and Realities

·         India-Israel Relations under Narendra Modi: A Robust Partnership in the Making

·         Nature without Borders: Reconciling the Needs of Wildlife and People in India

·         The Shaping of the ‘Trumpian’ World Economic Order

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Increasing Resilience to Large and Volatile Capital Flows—The Role of Macroprudential Policies

·         Panama’s Growth Prospects : Determinants and Sectoral Perspectives

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, July 7, 2017, v. 17, no. 9

o    China-Qatar Relations in Perspective

o    China, Russia Commit to “Dual Track” Approach Toward Korean Peninsula Issues

o    Nuclear Bomber Could Boost PLAAF Strategic Role, Create Credible Triad

o    Xi Jinping and China’s Traditionalist Restoration 

o    Swarms at War: Chinese Advances in Swarm Intelligence

o    The United Front Work Department: “Magic Weapon” at Home and Abroad

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 4-08, Logistics in Support of Multinational Operations, 05 July 2017

Just Security

·         ISIS AUMF Proposals in 115th Congress (2017-18)

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The US Foreign Policy and Agenda for ROK-US Cooperation

NATO Defense College

·         Enhancing NATO-EU Cooperation: Looking South and Beyond

Nautilus Institute

·         Metal Cask Storage as Compared with Pool Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Japan

Naval War College

·         China's Evolving Surface Fleet [no longer draft]

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Are the Spending Priorities of Euro-area Countries Converging?

·         European Public Opinion and the EU Following the Peak of the Migration Crisis

·         A Watchdog Over Europe's Policemen: The New Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group for Europol

Observer Research Foundation

·         Coal Beneficiation: Policy Priorities for India

Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response

·         Report to Congress on the Security Inspection Program for Commercial Power Reactors and Category I Fuel Cycle Facilities: Results and Status Update: Annual Report for Calendar Year 2016

Oxford Research Group

·         In Afghanistan, More Is Not the Answer

Peterson Institute for International Economics

·         An Aging Population Explains Most—But Not All—of the Decline in the US Labor Force Participation Rate Since 2007

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         China’s Plans to Strengthen Relations with Germany

·         The Palestinian Political Crisis

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Liar’s Loans, Mortgage Fraud, and the Great Recession

RAND Corporation

·         Strengthening Strategic Stability with Russia

Small Wars Journal

·         Complex Cyber Terrain in Hyper-Connected Urban Areas

·         Enabling Smart City Resilience Through Center of Gravity Analysis

·         The End of Afghanistan’s Spring Fighting Seasons and the Demise of the Afghan National Security Forces?

·         Marketing to Extremists: Waging War in Cyberspace

·         Meeting Demand: Making Maneuver Relevant to the 21st Century

·         Narco-Drones: A New Way to Transport Drugs

·         Transborder Crime, Corruption, and Sustaining Illegal Armed Groups in Latin America

·         A Twist in the Quest for an AUMF Against the Islamic State

South African Institute of International Affairs

·         Climbing the Inclusion Ladder: Artisanal Gold Mining in Tanzania

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         China, Russia and the Shifting Landscape of Arms Sales

·         A Fresh Perspective on Security Concerns Among Malian Civil Society

Strategy Bridge

·         Beyond Checkers and Chess: What Junior Leaders Can Do to Develop Strategic Thinking

·         The Passion of General James Longstreet

·         Towards Unity of Effort: Reforming the U.S. National Security Enterprise

·         Vicksburg: The Past and Future of Amphibious Operations

Third Way

·         AUMF Statement for the Record

·         Comparing the Major AUMF Proposals [infographic]

·         The Last Straw: Responding to Russia’s Anti-Western Aggression

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         A Half-Million Syrian Returnees? A Look Behind the Numbers

·         The Kurdish Referendum and the Status of Kirkuk

·         Managing Escalation Dynamics with Iran in Syria -- and Beyond

·         Simmering Trouble in Oil-Rich Shia Area Complicates Riyadh's Concerns

·         The Trump-Putin Sideline and the Syria Conflict

·         Turkey and the Failed Coup One Year Later

Wilson Center

·         Sault Ste. Marie’s Alternative Energy Transformation: A Canadian City Thinking Outside the “Grid”

WorldPublicOpinion.org

·         Sharp Drop in World Views of US, UK: Global Poll