Friday's Miscellany 10-31-2014

38 North

·         North Korea: Test Stand for Vertical Launch of Sea-Based Ballistic Missiles Spotted 

Air University

·         Air & Space Power Journal, November-December 2014, v. 28, no.6 

o    Space Situational Awareness Difficult, Expensive-and Necessary

o    Space Separatism Degree of Separation

o    Policy of Us Cybersecurity

o    The Search for Space Doctrine's War-Fighting Icon

o    A Global Space Control Strategy

o    Space Combat Capability...Do We Have It?

o    Have Adversary Missiles Become a Revolution in Military Affair?

o    What Happens If They Say No? Preserving Access to Critical Commercial Space Capabilities during Future Crises

o    Space Sustainment: A New Approach for America in Space

o    Space Resilience and the Contested, Degraded and Operationally Limited Environment

American Enterprise Institute

·         “Whatever It Takes” Breaks Down 

Amnesty International

·         Forced Returns to South and Central Somalia,Including to al-Shabaab Areas: A Blatant Violation of International Law 

·         Sweeping Repression in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia 

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), October 2014, v. 21. no. 10 

o    Suicides and suicide attempts among active component members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 2010-2012:

o    methods of self-harm vary by major geographic region of assignment

o    Risk of type II diabetes and hypertension associated with chronic insomnia among active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 1998-2013

o    Update: cold weather injuries, active and reserve components, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2009-June 2014

o    Surveillance snapshot: influenza immunization among U.S. Armed Forces healthcare workers, August 2008-April 2014

o    Surveillance snapshot: manner and cause of death, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 1998-2013

Arms Control Association

·         The Unaffordable Arsenal: Reducing the Costs of the Bloated U.S. Nuclear Stockpile 

Asia Development Bank

·         Fiscal Policy and Growth in Developing Asia 

Asian Development Bank

·         Fiscal Policy and Growth in Developing Asia 

·         Industrial Policy in Indonesia: A Global Value Chain Perspective 

·         Trade Policy Challenges in a Small, Open,Fragile, Postconflict Economy: Cambodia 

Atlantic Council

·         Reforming Tunisia's Troubled Security Sector 

·         The Shale Revolution and the New Geopolitics of Energy 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Working as One: A Road Map to Disaster Resilience for Australia 

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Land Ownership and Use Under Mexico’s Energy Reform 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Ties Between Israel and Azerbaijan 

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Big Bank Theory: Breaking Down the Breakup Arguments 

Brookings

·         Building a Better Syrian Opposition Army: How and Why 

·         The Character Factor: Measures and Impact of Drive and Prudence 

·         Cutting off ISIS' Cash Flow 

·         The U.S.-Turkey-Israel Triangle 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         A New Ambition for Europe: A Memo to the European Union Foreign Policy Chief 

CATO Institute

·         Opening the Skies: Put Free Trade in Airline Services on the Transatlantic Trade Agenda 

·         Public Attitudes toward Federalism: The Public’s Preference for Renewed Federalism 

·         Will Nonmarket Economy Methodology Go Quietly into the Night? U.S. Antidumping Policy toward China after 2016 

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Robotics on the Battlefield Part II: The Coming Swarm 

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)

·         The CIP Report, October 2014,v. 13, no. 3 

o    Cybersecurity

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         CNA Corporation’s Integrated Ship Database

o    First Quarter CY 2013 Update 

o    Second Quarter CY 2013 Update 

o    Third Quarter CY 2013 Update 

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Beyond Coast Artillery: Cross-Domain Denial and the Army 

·         Estimating the Cost of Operations Against ISIL 

·         Toward a New Offset Strategy: Exploiting U.S.Long-Term Advantages to Restore U.S. Global Power Projection Capability 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         The Air War Against the Islamic State: The Need for An “Adequacy of Resources” 

·         FYSA: For Your Situational Awareness, October 2014, Issue 12 

·         The Imploding U.S Strategy in the Islamic State War? 

·         Investor - State Dispute Settlement: A Reality Check - Working Paper 

·         Korea Chair Monitor, October 16 - October 29, 2014, v. 2, no. 18 

·         Southeast Asia from Scott Circle: The Case for Holding Cobra Gold 2015 in Thailand 

Center for Terrorism and Security Studies

·         Perspectives on Terrorism, October 2014, v. 8, no. 5 

o    Say Terrorist, Think Insurgent: Labeling and Analyzing Contemporary Terrorist Actors

o    News and Entertainment Media: Government’s Big Helpers in the Selling of Counterterrorism

o    Making ‘Noise’ Online: An Analysis of the Say No to Terror Online Campaign

o    German Right-Wing Terrorism in Historical Perspective. A First Quantitative Overview of the ‘Database on Terrorism in Germany (Right-Wing Extremism)’ – DTGrwx’ Project

o    The Foreign Fighters’ Threat: What History Can (not) Tell Us

o    Bibliography: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Part 1)

o    Domestic State (or Regime) Terrorism and Repression

o    The IS-Caliphate:What Should Be Done to Prevent it from Spinning out of Control?

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (CGCC)

·         The Roles of Women in Countering Violent Extremism 

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         The Environmental Risk Disclosure Regime: Navigating Complexity in Global Financial Markets 

·         The State-Owned Enterprises Issue in China’s Prospective Trade Negotiations 

Chatham House

·         Out of the Shadows: The Treatment of Statelessness Under International Law 

Combat Studies Institute Press

·         Strykers in Afghanistan: 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment in Kandahar Province 2009 

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, October 2014,v. 7, no. 10 

o    Financing Terror Bit by Bit

o    Boko Haram: Recruitment, Financing and Arms Trafficking in the Lake Chad Region

o    Boko Haram’s Regional Cross-Border Activities

o    The Motivations of Syrian Islamist Fighters

o    Syrian and Iraqi Jihads Prompt Increased Recruitment and Activism in Southeast Asia

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         The Ebola Crisis: Coordination of a Multi-Agency Response 

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Afghanistan in Transition: U.S. Civilian Presence and Assistance Post-2014 

Department of Commerce

·         Exploring the Digital Nation: Embracing the Mobile Internet 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         2014 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap 

·         DoD Research and Engineering Enterprise Strategic Direction Presentation to TechAmerica 

·         Memo From the Secretary Requesting Implementation Plan for Supervised Monitoring 

·         Memo From the Chairman on 21-Day Post Deployment Supervised Monitoring 

·         Memo: Guidance for DOD Personnel Deployed to Ebola Outbreak Areas 

·         Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan [October 2014] 

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2015-011 Evaluation of the Defense Criminal Investigative Organizations' Defense Incident-Based Reporting System Reporting and Reporting Accuracy 

Department of State

·         2014 Midterm Elections: Analysis and Outcomes 

·         Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S.Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the German Marshall Fund on the International Response to the Ebola Crisis 

East-West Center

·         Asia’s Importance, China’s Expansion and U.S.Strategy: What Should Be Done? 

·         Contesting Buddhist Narratives:Democratization, Nationalism, and Communal Violence in Myanmar 

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         The European Semester in Belgium: A State of Play 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         International Energy Outlook 2014 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

·         Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2014 

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         China and Global Crises: The "Culture of Reluctance" 

·         Tunisia’s Elections and the Consolidation of Democracy 

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Ending the Cat-and-Mouse Embargos Game.Making Use of EU Funds to Steer West the Moldovan Agriculture Exports 

·         Low Key but not Low Impact: The Results of the EU's 'Transition' Summit | Post-Summit Analysis 

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         The EU in Myanmar: Preventive Diplomacy in Action? 

·         HR/VP to VP/HR? the Next Generation 

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Guidance on Transparency and Beneficial Ownership 

FireEye, Inc.

·         APT28—A Window into Russia’s Cyber Espionage Operations? 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Occupy Central/Sunflower: Popular Resistance in Greater China   

·         Reviving the Global Democratic Momentum 

·         Weaponizing Ebola?  

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (Ferdi)

·         The Cleansing Effect of Minimum Wages -Minimum Wages, Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Productivity in China 

FRIDE

·         Brazil: What to Expect from the New ‘Old’ Government? 

·         Tunisia’s Blessed Scarcity 

·         Will Ukraine's New Parliament Speed Up Reforms? 

Georgia Institute of Technology

·         Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2015 

Georgetown Climate Center

·         Preparing Our Communities for Climate Impacts: Recommendation for Federal Action 

German Development Institute

·         Making Global Health Governance Work: Recommendations for How to Respond to Ebola 

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         The New Turkish Diaspora Policy 

Global Commission on the Economy and Climate

·         Better Growth Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Chemical Assessments: Agencies Coordinate Activities, but Additional Action Could Enhance Efforts. GAO-14-763 

·         Disability Compensation: Review of Concurrent Receipt of Department of Defense Retirement, Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Compensation, and Social Security Disability Insurance. GAO-14-854R 

·         DOD Business Systems Modernization: Additional Enhancements Are Needed for Army Business System Schedule and Cost Estimates to Fully Meet Best Practices. GAO-14-470 

·         DOD Space Systems: Additional Knowledge Would Better Support Decisions about Disaggregating Large Satellites. GAO-15-7 

·         Energy Policy: Information on Federal and Other Factors Influencing U.S. Energy Production and Consumption from 2000 through 2013. GAO-14-836 

·         Federal Real Property: More Useful Information to Providers Could Improve the Homeless Assistance Program. GAO-14-739 

·         Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Inconsistent Definitions and Information Limit the Usefulness of Federal Program Inventories. GAO-15-83 

·         VA Health Care: Management and Oversight of Consult Process Need Improvement to Help Ensure Veterans Receive Timely Outpatient Specialty Care. GAO-14-808 

Heritage Foundation

·         America’s Electricity Grid: Outdated or Underrated? 

·         Continuing Federal Cyber Breaches Warn Against Cybersecurity Regulation 

·         Cyber Attacks on U.S. Companies in 2014 

·         Ebola: Dallas and New York City Experiences Drive Governments to Change Practices 

·         Federal Reserve Performance: What Is the Fed’s Track Record on Inflation? 

·         Five Questions the Secret Service Review Panel Must Answer 

·         Free Markets Supply Affordable Energy and a Clean Environment 

·         A Fresh Start for Health Care Reform 

·         Regulation: Killing Opportunity 

·         Terror Plot 62: Lone-Wolf Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. and Canada Call for Renewed Vigilance 

·         Time to Reform FTC Advertising Regulation 

·         U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Afghanistan Fail to Deliver 

·         The U.S. Should Not Rejoin the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 

Households in Conflict Network

·         The Effect of Civil Conflict on Child Abuse:Evidence from Peru 

·         The Perception of Lethal Risks - Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment 

Human Rights Watch

·         Care When There Is No Cure:  Ensuring the Right to Palliative Care in Mexico 

·         No Way Out: Child Marriage and Human Rights Abuses in Tanzania 

·         “Those Terrible Weeks in their Camp”: Boko Haram Violence against Women and Girls in Northeast Nigeria 

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Exchange Rate Variation in Defence Contracts in India 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Control of Terrain in Iraq: October 26, 2014 

·         Control of Terrain in Syria: October 30, 2014 

·         Increased Rebel Unity Threatens Assad in Damascus and Southern Syria 

·         Iraq Situation Report

o    October 25-26,2014 

o    October 27,2014 

o    October 28-29,2014 

o    October 30-31,2014 

·         Is ISIS Expanding into Egypt? 

·         ISF Withdraws to Defensive Positions in Anbar Province 

·         Syria Update: October 17-October 29, 2014 

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         India ‘Looking East’ via Military Diplomacy

·         ‘Make in India’ – The Future of Indian Manufacturing 

·         A New Kind of Partnership: Social Media and Governance in the Modi Era 

·         Sri Lanka and Europe: Then and Now 

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

·         Operational Cyber Intelligence 

Inter-American Dialogue

·         Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala 

International Crisis Group

·         Resetting Pakistan’s Relations with Afghanistan 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Fiscal Devaluation in a Monetary Union 

·         The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Banking Globalization 

·         Non-Defaultable Debt and Sovereign Risk 

·         Official Financial Flows, Capital Mobility,and Global Imbalances 

·         Policy and Spillover Analysis in the World Economy: A Panel Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach 

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         East Africa and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development 

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 3-26, Counterterrorism, 24 October 2014 

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2014 [updated October30, 2014] 

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         China’s Foreign Policy in Afghanistan 

·         G20 Monitor: The G20’s Growth Agenda 

Marine Corps University Press

·         MCU Journal, v. 5, no. 1, Spring 2014 

o    The Bizerte Incident: 1961

o    The International Dimension of Democratization: Actors, Motivations, and Strategies

o    The Transatlantic Relationship from 1945 to the Post–Arab Spring Era

o    Maintaining Security in the South Caucasus

National Academies Press

·         Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States:   A Guide for the Legal Sector 

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

·         Exploring the U.S. Crime-Terror Nexus: Terrorist Networks and Trade Diversion Research Brief 

·         Patterns of Lone Actor Terrorism in the United States: Research Brief 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Djihadisme sans Frontiers? Boko Haram's Regional and International Links 

Novetta

·         Operation SMN: Axiom Threat Actor Group Report 

Office of Justice Programs

·         Human Trafficking Task Force e-Guide 

Office of the Victims of Crime

·         Federal Strategic Action Plan on Services for Victims of Human Trafficking in the US 2013-2017 

Oxfam

·         Even it Up: Time to End Extreme Inequality 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Official Financial Flows, Capital Mobility,and Global Imbalances 

·         What Goes into a Medal: Women's Inclusion and Success at the Olympic Games 

Pew Research Global Attitudes Project

·         People in Emerging Markets Catch Up to Advanced Economies in Life Satisfaction 

Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project

·         Latino Support for Democrats Falls, but Democratic Advantage Remains 

Pew Research Internet Project

·         Cyber Attacks Likely to Increase 

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         Can You Spare Some Food? An Assessment of Russia’s Search for Replacements of Embargoed States 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         The Last Refuge of Scoundrels: Keynes-Minsky Perspectives on the Uses and Abuses of the "Liquidity Defense" 

Rand

·         Drivers of Long-Term Insecurity and Instability in Pakistan: Urbanization 

·         Gender Equality in the Workforce: Reconciling Work, Private and Family Life in Europe 

·         Targeting Alcohol Misuse: A Promising Strategy for Reducing Military Sexual Assaults? 

Refugees International

·         Waiting for Winter: Displaced Iraqis in the KRI [Kurdistan Region of Iraq] 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         The Financial Context for the 2015 SDSR: The End of UK Exceptionalism? 

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         China’s Global Agricultural Strategy: An Open System to Safeguard the Country’s Food Security 

Small Arms Survey

·         On the Edge? Trafficking and Insecurity at the Tunisian–Libyan Border 

·         Politics by Other Means: Conflicting Interests in Libya’s Security Sector 

·         Searching for Stability: Perceptions of Security, Justice, and Firearms in Libya 

Small Wars Journal

·         An Application of Foreign Internal Defense through Civil Affairs Operations in the Upper Huallaga Valley, Peru 

·         External Support to Insurgencies 

·         Guardians of the Machine: #DEF2014 and the“Machinery of Government” 

·         “Passing it On”: Two SFAAT Teams in Afghanistan and Lessons Learned for Future Advisors 

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIPRI)

·         Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, October 2014 

·         SIGAR Audit 15-12-AR Counternarcotics Police of Afghanistan: U.S. Assistance to Provincial Units Cannot Be Fully Tracked and Formal Capability Assessments Are Needed 

Stanley Foundation

·         Strengthening International Cooperation on Nuclear Materials Security 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Maneuvering the Islamist-Secularist Divide in the Arab World: How the United States Can Preserve its Interests and Values inan Increasingly Polarized Environment 

·         U.S. Policy and Strategy Toward Afghanistan after 2014 

Ubiquity Press

·         Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 2014, v. 3, no. 1 

o    Decentralizing the State in Liberia: The Issues, Progress and Challenges 

United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC)

·         Cognitive Joint Force Entry White Paper 

·         Counter-Unconventional Warfare [white paper] 

·         Hybrid Structures White Paper 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Preventing Violent Extremism in Kyrgyzstan 

US Marine Corps (USMC)

·         2015 Marine Aviation Plan 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Bahrain's Ban on Main Opposition Prompts U.S.Policy Dilemma 

·         'Jewish and Democratic': Implications of Israel's Self-Description, at Home and Abroad 

·         The New 'Tri-Border' Region: Emerging Threats Along the Israel-Lebanon-Syria Frontier 

·         Reflections on Islamism: From the Muslim Brotherhood to the Islamic State 

·         Responding Effectively to the Military Challenges in Syria 

White House

·         Eleven Facts about American Families and Work 

·         Remarks by the President on Ebola 

·         Weekly Address: Focused on the Fight Against Ebola 

·         Women’s Participation in Education and the Workforce 

World Bank

·         Doing business 2015 Going Beyond Efficiency: Comparing Business Regulations for Domestic Firms in 189 Economies