Friday's Miscellany 09-29-2017

38 North

·         Chinese-North Korean Relations: Drawing the Right Historical Lessons

·         North Korea Continues Work on Second Barge Used for SLBM Testing

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Constitutional Term Limits for African Leaders

·         A Medley of Armed Groups Play on Congo’s Crisis

Air University Press

·         The Future of Remotely Piloted Aircraft in Special Operations

American Enterprise Institute

·         Classical Liberals and Foreign Policy: Time for a Rethink?

·         A New Strategic Concept for NATO?

·         Political Report—Republicans and Donald Trump:  Holding Steady?

Amnesty International

·         Creating a Paradigm Shift: Legal Solutions to Improve Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse

·         From London to Juba, a UK-Registered Company’s Role in One of the Largest Arms Deals to South Sudan

·         Thailand: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, September 2017, v. 4, no. 9

o    Review of the U.S. military's human immunodeficiency virus program: a legacy of progress and a future of promise

o    Update: Routine screening for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus, civilian applicants for U.S. military service and U.S. Armed Forces, active and reserve components, January 2012-June 2017

o    Sexually transmitted infections, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007-2016

o    Brief report: Use of ICD-10 code A51.31 (condyloma latum) for identifying cases of secondary syphilis

Army Command and General Staff College Press

·         Through the Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Lens: Linking the Strategic Environment and Operational Planning Volume 2

Asia Society Policy Institute

·        Preserving the Long Peace in Asia: The Institutional Building Blocks of Long-term Regional Security

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Your Soldier, Your Army: A Family Guide 

Atlantic Council

·         MADCOM Future: How Artificial Intelligence Will Enhance Computational Propaganda, Reprogram Human Culture, and Threaten Democracy

·         The New Russia Sanctions Law 

·         The Roots and Evolution of Iran’s Regional Strategy

·         The Ties That Bind

Australian National University – Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

·         The Economics-Security Nexus Under Trump and Xi: Policy Implications for Asia-Pacific Countries

·         Sovereign Defence Industry Capabilities, Independent Operations and the Future of Australian Defence Strategy

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Municipal Politics & Islamist Parties

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Handling the North Korean Nuclear Challenge

·         Israeli Identity: What Has Changed This Year?

·         What Parades in Pyongyang Ends Up in Tehran

·         The Wide Spectrum of North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction

Brookings

·         9 Facts about Pass-Through Businesses

·         An Ambiguous Partnership: The Serpentine Trajectory of Turkish-Russian Relations in the Era of Erdoğan and Putin

·         Can Education Innovations Help Us Leapfrog Progress?

·         The Digital Road to Safety: Public-private Knowledge Sharing to Improve City Road Safety

·         How Will the Graham-Cassidy Proposal Affect the Number of People with Health Insurance Coverage?

·         The Middle Productivity Trap: Dynamics of Productivity Dispersion

·         A Nation in Overdose Peril: Pinpointing the most Impacted Communities and the Local Gaps in Care

·         Thirteen Facts About Wage Growth

·         U.S. Development Assistance Under Challenge

Bruegel

·         A European Perspective on Overindebtedness

·         Ukraine’s Unfinished Reform Agenda

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Canada and NATO can Nudge Afghanistan Back onto the Right Track

·         NATO, Canada and the Arctic

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         India’s Post-Demonetization Policy Agenda

Center for Global Development

·         Advancing the Evidence Agenda at USAID

Center for International Policy

·         U.S. Arms Transfers to the UAE and the War in Yemen

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Countering Networks of Crime and Extremism

·         Manufacturing a Way to Career Readiness: How Industry Measures Student Readiness

·         Security and Conflict in Mali: Alternative Models for Security Cooperation

Center for Security Policy

·         Role of Select Non-Governmental Organizations in Doha’s Support for Terrorism

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 207: Mobilizing Patriotism in Russia

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Instability in the MENA Region, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Key Conflict States: A Comparative Score Card

·         PacNet #70 - North Korea is Still on a Path to Getting Nuke Missile

·         Parallel Perspectives on the Global Economic Order: A U.S.-China Essay Collection

·         Subnational Domestic Resource Mobilization, Innovation, and Development

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

·         Cyber Warfare: Between the Future Military Reality and Today’s Science-Fiction

Centre for European Reform

·         Brexit and Energy: Time to Make Some Hard Choices

·         How the ECB Should Respond to a German Fiscal Boost

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Brexit and International Trade: One Year after the Referendum

·         Closed Shops: Opening Canada's Legal Profession to Foreign-educated Lawyers

·         How Best to Protect the Right to Regulate: The WTO or ISA?

·         Moving Toward a Trade and Indigenous Peoples' Chapter in a Modernized NAFTA

·         NAFTA 2.0 and Intellectual Property Rights: Insights on Developing Canada's Knowledge Economy

·         Operationalizing the Blue Economy in Small States: Lessons from the Early Movers

·         Puerto Rico Update: PROMESA, Population Trends, Risks to the Fiscal and Economic Plan — and Now Maria

Chatham House

·         Post-ISIS Governance in Jarablus: A Turkish-led Strategy

·         Supporting the U.S. Economy by Improving the Mobility of High-skilled Labor Across the Atlantic

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         National Risk Profile 2016

·         Syrian Militias Supporting Assad: How Autonomous are They?

·         Towards a Successful Non-Proliferation Treaty 2020 Conference

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         The Army’s Tactical Network Modernization Strategy

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         Powering America: Technology’s Role in Empowering Consumers

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Burma’s Brutal Campaign Against the Rohingya

·         The Department of State Redesign

·         Rwanda: Democracy Thwarted

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         DHS Financial Systems: Will Modernization Ever Be Achieved

·         Raising the Standard: DHS’s Efforts to Improve Aviation Security Around the Globe

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Examining America’s Nuclear Waste Management and Storage

·         Recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-based Policymaking

Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

·         The Great American Eclipse: To Totality and Beyond

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

·         Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Water Stakeholders’ Perspectives

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

·         TSA Modernization: Improvements to Aviation Security

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Managing Security Assistance to Support Foreign Policy

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Threats to the Homeland

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Cost Estimate: Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018

·         An Evaluation of Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Impute Nonfilers to the Population of Tax Return Filers

·         Did Treasury Debt Markets Anticipate the Persistent Decline in Long-Term Interest Rates?

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Ethnography of the Dossier: North-South Discrepancies in International Negotiations

·         The Evolution of the EU's and Turkey's Security Interests, Threat Perceptions and Discourse

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Ongoing DoD Support to Hurricane Relief Efforts

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         OIG-17-111 - Individuals with Multiple Identities in Historical Fingerprint Enrollment Records Who Have Received Immigration Benefits

·         OIG 17-110 - FEMA Needs to Improve Management of Its Flood Mapping Programs

Department of the Navy

·         Department of the Navy Strategy for Data and Analytics Optimization

East-West Center

·         China Balances Uncertain Gains with Potentially Big Payoffs in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

·         On Your Mark, Get Set...Tourism's Take-Off in Micronesia

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Reforming Rules of Origin in Greater Arab Free Trade Area for Effective Economic Integration

Enough Project

·         Breaking Out of the Spiral in South Sudan: Anti-Money Laundering,Network Sanctions, and a New Peacemaking Architecture

·         Strategic Pressure: A Blueprint for Addressing New Threats and Supporting Democratic Change in the DRC

European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)

·         2017 IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook

·         Post-Conflict Re-Construction in MENA: Previous Experiences and Stakeholder's Inclusive Involvement in the Future Reconstruction of Libya,Syria and Iraq

European Parliament

·         “Global Trends to 2035” Geopolitics and International Power

·         State of Play of Negotiations with the UK

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         New Pact for Europe - National Report - FRANCE

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         The Cybridisation of EU Defence

·         Minilateralism and Norms in Cyberspace

Europol

·         2017 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         2016 Crime in the United States

·         Law Enforcement Bulletin, September 2017

o    Enforcing the Laws of Wildlife and Recreation (Part One)

o    Everything They Said It Would Be

o    Remember to Focus on What Really Matters

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Labor Clauses in Trade Agreements: Worker Protection or Protectionism?

·         The Same, Only Different: Estimating the Magnitude of Bribery in Business Surveys

·         Trade Related Institutions and Development

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

·         German Politics Towards Turkey under Merkel: A Critical Assessment

·         Strategies of African National Oil Companies

German Development Institute

·         Environmental Provisions in Trade Agreements: Promises at the Trade and Environment Interface

German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

·         Russia Pulling Strings on Both Sides of The Atlantic

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

·         Examining the Nexus between Organised Crime and Terrorism and Its Implications for EU Programming

·         Organised Crime in Africa Africa’s Changing Place in the Global Criminal Economy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Aviation Security: TSA's Efforts to Assess Foreign Airports and Inspect Air Carriers GAO-17-808T [Testimony]

·         Coast Guard: Status of Polar Icebreaking Fleet Capability and Recapitalization Plan GAO-17-698R

·         Costs of Crime: Experts Report Challenges Estimating Costs and Suggest Improvements to Better Inform Policy Decisions GAO-17-732

·         Defense Health Reform: Steps Taken to Plan the Transfer of the Administration of the Military Treatment Facilities to the Defense Health Agency, but Work Remains to Finalize the Plan GAO-17-791R

·         Defense Management: DOD Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Executive Agents GAO-17-601

·         Defense Supply Chain: DOD Needs Complete Information on Single Sources of Supply to Proactively Manage the Risks GAO-17-768

·         DHS Financial Management: Better Use of Best Practices Could Help Manage System Modernization Project Risks GAO-17-799

·         DHS Financial Management: Improved Use of Best Practices Could Help Manage System Modernization Project Risks GAO-17-803T [Testimony]

·         Federal Contracting: Additional Management Attention and Action Needed to Close Contracts and Reduce Audit Backlog GAO-17-738

·         Federal Information Security: Weaknesses Continue to Indicate Need for Effective Implementation of Policies and Practices GAO-17-549

·         Human Trafficking: Investigations in Indian Country or Involving Native Americans and Actions Needed to Better Report on Victims Served GAO-17-762T [Testimony]

·         Iran Sanctions: U.S. Agencies Continue to Implement Processes for Identifying Potentially Sanctionable Entities GAO-17-779R

·         Navy and Marine Corps Training: Further Planning Needed for Amphibious Operations Training GAO-17-789

·         Nuclear Nonproliferation: NNSA Needs to Improve Its Program Management Policy and Practices GAO-17-773

Haas Institute

·         Legalizing Othering; The United States of Islamophobia

Heritage Foundation

·         Streamlining the Alien Removal Process and Lifting an Unnecessary Burden from Federal Appeals Courts

Households in Conflict Network

·         War and Social Attitudes: Revisiting Consensus Views 

Human Rights Watch

·         All Feasible Precautions?: Civilian Casualties in Anti-ISIS Coalition Airstrikes in Syria

·         “They Are Not Our Brothers”: Hate Speech by Saudi Officials

·         “They Forced Us Onto Trucks Like Animals”: Cameroon’s Mass Forced Return and Abuse of Nigerian Refugees

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         High Fuel Prices: Does the End Justify the Means?

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Public Safety and Emergency Management Communications Information Models Gap Analysis

·         Public Safety and Emergency Management Communications Ontology

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Most Nuclear Ban Treaty Proponents are Lagging in Implementing Sound Export Control Legislation

·         Transfer of Firearms on U.S. Control Lists Raises Proliferation,Terrorism Concerns

Institute for Security Studies

·         Reducing Violence in South Africa: From Policing to Prevention

Institute for the Study of War

·         Syria SITREP Map: September 14 - 27, 2017

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Effectiveness and Potential of European Trade and Assistance Policies in the South Mediterranean Neighbourhood in the Fields of Agriculture,Water and Rural Development

·         The Security-Migration-Development Nexus in the Sahel

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         The Rohingya Crisis – A Challenge for India and Bangladesh

·         Towards a 'People's SAARC': The ISAS-COSATT-KAS Joint Workshop on"Re-Energising the SAARC Process"

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         What Types of Media do Terrorists Collect? An Analysis of Religious, Political, and Ideological Publications Found in Terrorism Investigations in the UK

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalisation that Lead to Terrorism: Ideas, Recommendations, and Good Practices from the OSCE Region 

International Crisis Group

·         Avoiding the Worst in Central African Republic

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         The Adjustment to Commodity Price Shocks in Chile, Colombia, and Peru

·         FX Intervention in the New Keynesian Model

·         Interconnectedness of Global Systemically-Important Banks and Insurers

·         Quantitative Easing and Long-Term Yields in Small Open Economies

·         Settling the Inflation Targeting Debate: Lights from a Meta-Regression Analysis

·         Uncertainty, Financial Frictions and Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation

Intersection: Russia/Europe/World

·         A Successful Failure: Russia After Crime(a)

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         North Korea’s Sixth Nuclear Test: Evaluation and Future Outlooks

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Choosing Openness: Why Global Engagement is Best for Australia

·         Neither Friend nor Foe: Pakistan, the United States and the War in Afghanistan

McAfee Labs

·         McAfee Labs Threat Reports - September 2017

National Academies Press

·         Improving Understanding of the Roots and Trajectories of Violent Extremism: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief

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

·         Advancing Understanding of Tornado Warnings, False Alarms, and Complacency

National Defense University Press

·         Chinese Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic Rationales, Risks, and Implications

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

·         NISO TR-06-2017 - Issues in Vocabulary Management

National Security Archive

·         National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – “Questionable Practices” from 1960s & 1970s  

NATO Defense College

·         Rethinking Deterrence and Assurance: Western Deterrence Strategies:  At an Inflection Point?

Nautilus Institute

·         Current Status of the Insider Threat in the Nuclear Installations in the ROK

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

·         Building Bridges for Success: Rethinking Peace Operations Training for Complex Environments

Overseas Development Institute

·         Politics of the Results Agenda in the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development:  1997-2017

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

·         Junk News and Bots during the German Parliamentary Election: What are German Voters Sharing over Twitter?

·         Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content Concentrated in Swing States?

Oxford Research Group

·         Migration and the European Political Environment

·         ORG's Collective Strategic Thinking Model

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         AFRICOM: 10 Years in the Making as a Model for Stability Activities [event documents]

Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy

·         Shatter the House of Mirrors: A Conference Report on Russian Influence Operations

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         People in the Philippines Still Favor U.S. Over China, but Gap Is Narrowing

Police Executive Research Forum

·         The Unprecedented Opioid Epidemic: As Overdoses Become a Leading Cause of Death, Police, Sheriffs, and Health Agencies Must Step up Their Response

·         U Visas and the Role of Local Police In Preventing and Investigating Crimes Against Immigrants

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Israel and the Kurdish Question

·         Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan

Policy Exchange

·         Clean Growth: How to Boost Business Energy Productivity

·         Foreign Policy and National Security in the New Parliament

·         New Netwar: Countering Extremism Online  

PONARS Eurasia

·         Qatar and Central Asia: What’s at Stake in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan?

Project 2049 Institute

·         The Framework for a U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement

·         Negotiating History: The Chinese Communist Party’s 1981

Rand

·         Design Perspectives on Delivery Drones

·         Energy Implications of Drones for Package Delivery

·         Hypersonic Missile Nonproliferation: Hindering the Spread of a New Class of Weapons

·         The Impact of Health Reform on Purchased Care Access: National Health Reform and Modernization of the Military Health System Study

·         International Mobility of Researchers: Supplementary Report:Perspectives from Industry

·         Notes on the Cuban Crisis: On the Importance of Overseas Bases in the 1960's Offense-Defense Semantics Keeping Open Possible Aid to Cuban Resistance

·         Objectives of the United States Military Posture

·         On Dealing with Castro's Cuba: Part I

·         A Reply to General Vandevanter's Critique of Proposed NATO Reorganization

·         Roadmap to Succeed in the Open for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Human Development Directorate

·         Using Ambulance Data for Violence Prevention: Technical Report

Regulatory Transparency Project

·         Repeal the Jones Act for American Energy

·         Restoring Meaningful Limits to “Waters of the United States” 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Preparing for War in Korea

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Disaster Response Regional Architectures: Assessing Future Possibilities

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

·         On the Path to a New Automotive Future in Japan and the United States

Small Wars Journal

·         Gangs in El Salvador: A New Type of Insurgency?

·         Help the Plan Survive Contact: Write Better Decisive Conditions

·         Introducing the Notion of “Type II” Mission Command

·         The Iraqi Kurdish Security Apparatus: Vulnerability and Structure

·         Military Assistance in Support of Negotiations, Defense Security Sector Reforms and Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Processes

·         The Other Side of the Wall

·         United Nations Peacekeeping Offensive Operations: Theory and Doctrine

South African Institute of International Affairs  (SAIIA)

·         South Africa and Secondary Powers: Contestation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Spearhead Research

·         Pakistan’s Sixth Population Census: Expected and Surprising Figures on Urban Growth

Stimson Center

·         Emerging and Traditional Donors and Conflict-Affected States: The New Politics of Reconstruction

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Toward a NATO of the Gulf? The Challenges of Collective Defense Within the GCC

Swiss Re

·         Industry-first Global Storm Surge Zones

Transnational Institute

·         Edging Forward: How the UN’s Language on Drugs has Advanced Since1990

United Nations

·         Situation of Human Rights in the Temporarily Occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol (Ukraine)

US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security (USCSWG)

·         Bringing Peace to Yemen by Having Women at the Table: What the U.S. Must Do and Why It Matters

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Burma’s Northern Shan State and Prospects for Peace

·         Does Reconciliation Prevent Future Atrocities?  Evaluating Practice in Sri Lanka

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act: Impact on U.S. Industries and Consumers and on Beneficiary Countries, Twenty-third Report, 2015-16

·         Shifts in U.S. Merchandise Trade, 2016

US Marine Corps (USMC)

·         Marine Corps Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment Concept

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After the Kurdish Referendum: Regional Implications

·         The Evolution of Women in the Islamic State

·         Iran's New Ballistic Missile May Have North Korean ICBM Links

·         The Urgent U.S. Role in Post-Referendum Kurdistan

Wilson Center

·         For Saudi Women, A New Day: The Right to Drive

·         Magic Weapons: China's Political Influence Activities under XiJinping

·         NAFTA Negotiations: A Mexican Perspective

·         United States Policy and the Kurdistan Referendum: Compounding the Problem

·         Waiting for the Bomb: PN Haksar and India’s Nuclear Policy in the1960s

World Bank

·         Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017

·         World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education's Promise

World Economic Forum

·         Digital Policy Playbook 2017: Approaches to National Digital Governance

·         Global Competitiveness Report 2017–2018