Friday's Miscellany 03-30-2018

38 North

·         New Building Construction Near North Korea’s Experimental Light Water Reactor

·         Not So Fast: A Closer Look at What’s Really Going on with North Korea’s Experimental Light Water Reactor

·         The US-DPRK Summit: Assessing Chinese Anxieties

Air University Press

·         Brothers in Berets The Evolution of Air Force Special Tactics,1953-2003

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

·         A Pound of Flesh: The Criminalization of Private Debt

American Enterprise Institute

·         Chinese State Funds Belt and Road But Does Not Have Trillions to Spare

Amnesty International

·         Human Cost of Chinese Mining in Nagonha, Mozambique

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, March  2018, v. 5, no. 3

o    Mental health disorders and mental health problems, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2016

o    Incidence rates of diagnoses of cardiovascular diseases and associated risk factors, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2007–2016

o    Herpes zoster, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2000–2016

Army Center of Military History

·         Army History Magazine, Spring 2018, no. 107

o    "The Coming of Modern War": The Coalition War in North Burma, 1944

o    Opening Moves: Battles North and West of Saigon

Atlantic Council

·         Direction of Russian Politics and the Putin Factor

·         Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation

·         U.S. Nuclear-Power Leadership and the Chinese and Russian Challenge

Australian Department of Defence

·         Australian Defence Force Journal, March 2018, no. 204

o    My Fifth Generation

o    Contesting ideas: the importance of encouraging critical discussion to the future of Australian air power

o    Air power in the 21st century: enduring trends and  uncertain futures

o    Fifth-generation air warfare

o    Is relying solely on smart weapons a smart approach?

o    Open system architectures for the ADF: opportunities and challenges

o    The current crisis in the Persian Gulf in the context of hybrid warfare

o    Bridging the gap between cyber strategy and operations: a missing layer of policy

o    Australia’s petroleum supply and its implications for the ADF

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Counterterrorism Yearbook 2018  

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Trump Policy in the Middle East: Iran

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Hamas Is an Abysmal Failure

·         Improving Israeli Military Strategy Through Avant Garde Analysis

·         The Nascent Russia-Lebanon Alliance and Israel

·         The Palestinian Way of War: The March of Return in Gaza

·         Three Objectives for the Trump-Kim Summit

·         The Trump-Kim Summit: The View from Seoul

·         Water, Trump, and Israel’s National Security

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Evidence Use in Congress: Challenges for Evidence-Based Policymaking

Blair Institute for Global Change

·         Balanced Migration: A Progressive Approach

Brookings

·         Black and Hispanic Underrepresentation in Tech: It’s Time to Change the Equation

·         The Fire Next Time: Stabilization in the Middle East and North Africa

·         Germany and Turkey: The Unavoidable Partnership

·         The Ironic Politics of Regulatory Reform

·         Regulating for a Digital Economy: Understanding the Importance of Cross-border Data Flows in Asia

·         Tracking Turnover in the Trump Administration

Bruegel

·         Cash Outflows in Crisis Scenarios: Do Liquidity Requirements and Reporting Obligations Give the SRB Sufficient Time to React?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Preventing Escalation in the Baltics: A NATO Playbook

·         Sociopolitical Undercurrent of Lebanon’s Salafi Militancy

Carnegie Middle East Center

·         The Sociopolitical Undercurrent of Lebanon’s Salafi Militancy

Cato Institute

·         Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Building the Future Force: Guaranteeing American Leadership in a Contested Environment

Center for Global Development

·         Illicit Financial Flows, Trade Misinvoicing, and Multinational Tax Avoidance: The Same or Different?

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         The Eastern Mediterranean: New Dynamics and Potential for Cooperation  

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Great Power Competition in the Indian Ocean: The Past As Prologue?

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytic Digest, No. 217: Russian Presidential Elections

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Blended Finance and Aligning Private Investment with Global Development

·         PacNet #25 - On Strengthening US-Taiwan Relations

·         PacNet #24 - With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

·         PacNet #23 - The Coming Crisis in US-China Relations

·         A Tale of Three Coal Markets

·         U.S. National Security Strategy and the MENA Region

·         U.S. Strategy, the JCPOA Iranian Nuclear Arms Agreement, and the Gulf: Playing the Long Game

Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI)

·         Voices from the Station: The Evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         Libya: Sanctions Removal Done Right? A Review of the Libyan Sanctions Experience, 1980–2006

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

·         Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch Enters A New Phase  

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Pursuing Deep Decarbonization in Canada: Advice from Canadian Scholars

Chatham House

·         Putin and Russia in 2018–24: What Next?

·         Yemen’s Southern Powder Keg

College of Europe

·         The European Union in its Neighbourhood: An Accidental Regional Hegemon

·         Is the Bank-Sovereign Link Truly Severed?

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, March  2018, v. 11, no. 3

o    The Terrorist Calculus in Kidnapping Girls in Nigeria: Cases from Chibok and Dapchi

o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Lieutenant Colonel Kent Solheim, Commander, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group

o    Black Banners in Somalia: The State of al-Shabaab’s Territorial Insurgency and the Specter of the Islamic State

o    Ansaroul Islam and the Growing Terrorist Insurgency in Burkina Faso

o    Islamic State Chemical Weapons: A Case Contained by its Context?

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

·         Making It Safer: A Study of Law Enforcement Fatalities Between2010-2016

Conflict Armament Research

·         Radio-Controlled, Passive Infrared-Initiated IEDs

Defense Science Board (DSB)

·         Design and Acquisition of Software for Defense Systems

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         The Lead IG Special Report: Observations from Travel to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Qatar - March 27, 2018  

Department of Veterans Affairs, Inspector General

·         Audit of the Personnel Suitability Program

·         Review of Timeliness of the Appeals Process

East-West Center

·         Australia-Fiji Relations in 2018: Finding a New Normal

·         Follow that Fish: Assessing the Scope and Value of Nearshore Fishing in Hawai'I

·         Japan's Oceania Engagement and Maritime Security

·         Mariana Islands - US Military Strategy 'On Hold'

·         The Role of the French Military on Key Issues for Oceania

·         Strategic Overview of Oceania

·         The United States is Losing the Pacific

Egmont Institute

·         Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Europe 2017

Enough Project

·         EuroPressure: EU Financial Leverage for Impact in South Sudan

European Policy Center

·         Germany’s Comeback: Worth the Wait?

·         Last Chance for an Exit from Brexit?

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

·         Bad Cop, Bad Cop : la nomination de Mike Pompeo et John Bolton

·         From Chechnya to Syria: The Evolution of Russia’s Counter-Terrorist Policy

German Development Institute

·         A European Peace Facility Could Make a Pragmatic Contribution to Peacebuilding Around the World

·         From Damage Control to Sustainable Development: European Development Policy Under the Next EU Budget

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Assessing the U.S. Commitment to Allies in Asia and Beyond

·         Defense Innovation and the Future of Transatlantic Strategic Superiority: A German Perspective

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         GAO-18-101 Defense Infrastructure: Action Needed to Increase the Reliability of Construction Cost Estimates

·         GAO-18-314 Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Performance Management and Planning for Expansion of DHS's Visa Security Program [Reissued with Revisions Mar. 29, 2018]

·         GAO-18-142SP Technology Assessment: Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications

·         GAO-18-314 Border Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Performance Management and Planning for Expansion of DHS's Visa Security Program

·         GAO-18-330 DOD Contracted Services: Long-Standing Issues Remain about Using Inventory for Management Decisions

·         GAO-18-350 Ebola Recovery: USAID Has Initiated or Completed Most Projects, but a Complete Project Inventory Is Still Needed for Evaluating Its Efforts

·         GAO-18-361 Defense Health Care: TRICARE Surveys Indicate Nonenrolled Beneficiaries' Access to Care Has Generally Improved

·         GAO-18-388 2017 Lobbying Disclosure: Observations on Lobbyists' Compliance with Disclosure Requirements

Heritage Foundation

·         White House Needs Better Guidance on Its New China Trade Policy

Hudson Institute

·         Breaking the Defense Trade Barrier: Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties and the Future of the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Human Rights Watch

·         Amazonians on Trial: Judicial Harassment of Indigenous Leaders and Environmentalists in Ecuador

·         “You Can't See Them, but They’re Always There”  Censorship and Freedom of the Media in Uzbekistan

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, v. 18, March 29

o    Tanzania:  Crackdown on Dissent Continues

o    Growing Regional Conflict Highlights Trend in Democratic Republic of the Congo

·         Orbital Debris Momentum Transfer in Satellite Shields Following Hypervelocity Impact, and its Application to Environment Validation

·         Software Productivity Trends and Issues

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Case Study: Two Plead Guilty in Pakistan Illicit Procurement Case

·         Iran Nuclear Deal Procurement Channel Update: Is It Being Bypassed?

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

·         U.S.-ROK Military Exercises: Provocation or Possibility?

Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

·         Mainstreaming Mussolini: How the Extreme Right Attempted to ‘Make Italy Great Again’ in the 2018 Italian Election

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

·         Afghanistan: Battle of Narratives, Power Contestations & Cycles of Violence

·         Redefining Extremism in Central Asia

Institute for the Study of War

·         Regime Gains in Damascus, Syria: March 12 - 26, 2018

·         Russia Eyes Latvia Ahead of Election

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Japan's View of the North Korean Threat

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities

Italian Institute for International Political Studies (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale)

·         Cooperation in Eurasia: Linking Identity, Security, and Development

·         Jihadist Madrasat in Italy: A Background

·         Russia: Maduro's "Savior" Sets Limits?

·         The US and Venezuela: Time To Act, but How?

·         Venezuela, Regional Actors and a Compromised West

·         Xi and Kim: What's Behind a Meeting?

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, v. 18, no. 5, March 23, 2018

o    At China’s ‘Two Sessions’, Xi Jinping Leaves His Mark on the Party State

o    In a Fortnight: The End of the ‘Singapore Model’

o    Lost in the Shuffle: China’s New, Overlooked Financial Regulatory Commission

o    China’s New Counterintelligence “Trinity” and Its Implications for Foreign Business

o    The Belt and Road Initiative: Is China Putting Its Money Where its Mouth Is?

Marine Corps History Division

·         The Legacy of Belleau Wood, 100 Years of Making Marines and Winning Battles: An Anthology

Martens Centre for European Studies

·         Education in Europe IN FOCUS: Towards a True Education Area by2025  

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Evolution of the H-1B: Latest Trends in a Program on the Brink of Reform

Mitchell Institute

·         Interdependent Warfare: Combined Effects Power in the 21st Century

Modern War Institute (MWI)

·         Analyzing the Russian Way of War: Evidence from the 2008 Conflict with Georgia

·         Search for the Philosopher’s Stone: Improving Interagency Cooperation in Tactical Military Operations  

·         Understanding Cyberwarfare: Lessons from the Russia-Georgia War

National Academies Press

·         Modernizing Crime Statistics: Report 2 New Systems for Measuring Crime

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

·         Canadian Military Journal, 2017, v. 18, no.2

o    Scholars and Soldiers: Some Reflections on Military Academe

o    Modelling Command from a Balanced Perspective

o    Canadian Search and Rescue Puzzle: The Missing Pieces

o    Decision Making in the Capability Development Process: Organizational Issues within the Department of National Defence

o    Brotherhood of the Damned: Shabqadar, Pakistan and the (Re) Making of the Taliban in Afghanistan

o    An Exposition of the Links between Resilience, Ethics, and Leadership

o    Fundamentalist Religious Discourse in the Process of Radicalization to Violence

o    Canada and Peace Operations: Walking Back, Looking Forward

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         Discussion on the Reconsideration of "No First Use" in India's Nuclear Doctrine

·         International Laws on Cyber Attacks that Do Not Constitute an Armed Attack

·         The Proceeding of International Forum on War History 2017

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         2016 Report on Security Clearance Determinations

·         ICD 107 - Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency

Oxford Research Group

·         Defining Remote Warfare: The Rise of the Private Military and Security Industry

·         ORG Explains #2: The UK Military in the Arabian Peninsula

·         Trump and Bolton: Making a Greater American Century?

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Can a Country Save Too Much? The Case of Norway

·         The Case for Raising de minimis Thresholds in NAFTA 2.0

·         Five Reasons Why the Focus on Trade Deficits Is Misleading

·         The Search for a Euro Area Safe Asset

Pew Research Center

·         Most Poles Accept Jews as Fellow Citizens and Neighbors, But a Minority Do Not

·         Putin Remains Overwhelmingly Unpopular in the United States

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Directions of the Debate on Reform of EU Institutions in the Next Term

·         Rosatom Goes Green: New Areas of Russia’s Foreign Cooperation

·         Unionism in the Politics of the Republic of Moldova and Its Relations with Romania

PONARS Eurasia

·         The Enigmatic Connection Between Education and Civic Apathy in Azerbaijan

·         Russian Foreign Election Interventions Since 1991

Project 2049 Institute

·         White Warships and Little Blue Men: The Looming "Short, Sharp War" in the East China Sea over the Senkakus

RAND

·         China’s Pursuit of Overseas Security

·         Emerging Technology Trends and Their Impact on Criminal Justice

·         Understanding the Drivers of Organizational Capacity

·         Vector Check: Prospects for U.S. and Pakistan Air Power Engagement

Royal Australian Air Force

·         Algorithmic Warfare: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Warfighting

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Defining Dialogue: How to Manage Russia–UK Security Relations

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         China and Global Norms

·         Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, March 2018, v. 10, no. 3 

o    Threat of Urban Jihadism in South Asia

o    Using Theology to Legitimise Jihadist Radicalism

o    Analysing Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

·         U.S.-Japan Nuclear Cooperation: The Significance of July 2018

Small Wars Journal

·         Adapting Ike: The Case for a Reserve-Centric U.S. Military

·         Assessing Assumed Italian Exceptionalism Vis-à-Vis Jihadi Terrorism

·         Douhet, Brodie, & Cyberspace

·         E² (Embedding Effects): How to Enable Enduring Change in Partner Military Forces

·         Full-Auto Teddy Bear: Non-Lethal Automatons and Lethal Human Teaming to Increase Overall ‘Lethality’ in Complex Urban Environments

·         Henry David Thoreau Versus the Plutocratic Insurgency

·         Overcoming the Death of Moore’s Law: The Role of Software Advances and Non- Semiconductor Technologies in the Future Defense Environment

·         Paradigm Shift in Syria After Afrin

·         A Tale of Two Interventions: Russia and the U.S. Face Off in Syria

·         Transnational Non-Governmental Organizations in High Risk Environments: A Case Study of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         China in the Era of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’: Five Key Trends for Africa

Spearhead Research

·         Pakistan-US: Developing Ties

Stanley Foundation

·         Regional Responses to the Crisis in Venezuela: Safeguarding the Human Rights of Refugees and Migrants  

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·        The Land, Space, and Cyberspace Nexus: Evolution of the Oldest Military Operations in the Newest Military Domains

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

·         Taxpayers Referred for Criminal Prosecution by IRS Reach New Low

·         Tracking Immigration Court Outcomes by County of Immigrant's Residence

United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons

·         Brexit: A Reading List of Post-EU Referendum Publications by Parliament and the Devolved Assemblies

·         Brexit: The Draft Withdrawal Agreement

·         Chemical Weapons Convention

·         National Security and Russia

·         Somalia: March 2018 Update

US Chamber of Commerce

·         Partnering With Law Enforcement to Combat Cybercrime

US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

·         Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority: Command Vision for US Cyber Command

US  Institute for Peace (USIP)

·         To Defeat Terrorism, Use “People Power”

·         Devolution of Power in Pakistan

·         North Korea-China Summit: The “Strategic Choice” by Both Sides

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics 2018

o    Does Trade Promote State Capacity in Ghana? A Synthetic Control

o    China Climbs the Global Value Chain for Medical Devices

o    China's Changing Medical Device Exports

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         2018 Iraqi Elections: Three Observations Doubts the Effectiveness of the Next Government

·         Beyond Security: Steps Toward Warmer Egypt-Israel Relations

·         A China-Pakistan Base Deal Could Put Iran on the Back Foot

·         Defeating Iran's Roadside Bombs in Yemen

·         Do We Need an Arab Index of Terrorism?

·         Mismanagement Leaves Iran's Economy Vulnerable

·         Muhammad bin Salman Deserves Support — “Whether He is Right or Wrong”

·         Promoting Political Pluralism in the Middle East

·         State with No Army, Army with No State: Evolution of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces, 1994–2018

Wilson Center

·         European Prospects for the Western Balkans: Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

·         Turkish War on Afrin Jeopardizes Progress Made Since the Liberation of Raqqa