greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 07-08-2016

38 North

· North Korea Still Faces Significant Challenges in Developing a Sea-Launched Missile: Expert

ACLU of California

· Discharged and then Discarded: How U.S.Veterans are Banished by the Country They Swore to Protect

Action on Armed Violence

· Wide-Area Impact: Investigating the Wide-Area Effect of Explosive Weapons

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

· A Closer Look at Men and “Masculinities”:Their Proactive Contribution to Gender Equality

· The Other Side of Gender Inequality: Men and Masculinities in Afghanistan [Info page with report in English, Dari and Pashto as well as a video about the report]

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

· Yemen’s Warring Parties: Formations and Dynamics

American Enterprise Institute

· America’s Entitlements Expansion

Amnesty International

· It’s Enough for People to Feel it Exists: Civil Society, Secrecy and Surveillance in Belarus

· Our Hearts Have Gone Dark: The Mental Health Impact of South Sudan’s Conflict

· "Torture was My Punishment': Abductions, Torture and Summary Killings Under Armed Rule in Aleppo and Idleb, Syria

Asan Forum

· Is the EU on the Same Page as the United States on China?

Asian Development Bank

· Deflation in Asia: Should the Dangers Be Dismissed?

· Technology and Innovation Policies for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in East Asia

· Understanding Recent Trends in Income Inequality in the People’s Republic of China

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

· The State of the Cavalry: An Analysis of the U.S. Army’s Reconnaissance and Security Capability

· The Uncertain Role of the Tank in Modern War: Lessons from the Israeli Experience in Hybrid Warfare

Atlantic Council

· The Future of Brazilian Politics: Where We Place Our Bets

· Updating NATO’s Maritime Strategy

Australian National University – Strategic & Defence Studies Centre

· Australia and the Challenges of Weapons of Mass Destruction

· Indonesia's ‘Great Power’ Aspirations: A Critical View

· Reconstructing China: Japanese Technician sand Industrialization in the Early Years of the People's Republic of China

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

· Opportunities Abound Abroad: Optimising Our Criminal Intelligence System Overseas

Baker Institute for Public Policy

· Globalization & Organized Crime

· Wanted: Mexican Oil Workers

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

· Afghanistan: Stakeholder Perceptions & Expectations

· The Future of the Taliban

· Pakistan: Stakeholder Perceptions &Expectations

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

· The Importance of Interests in Israel-Turkey Reconciliation

· Occupation Is Not the Problem

· The Turkish-Israeli Reconciliation: A Balance Sheet

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

· Co-Offending Among Adolescents in Violent Victimizations, 2004–13

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

· 2016 Policy Review Series - Defence Collection

Center for Climate Security

· General Keys: The Military Thinks Climate Change is Serious

Center for Complex Operations (CCO)

· Prism, 2016, v. 6, no. 2

o NATO in Context: Geopolitics and the Problem of Russian Power

o NATO's Land Forces: Strength and Speed Matter

o NATO and the North Atlantic: Revitalizing Collective Defense and the Maritime Domain

o Implementing the Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority in Europe and Africa

o The Disintegration of European Security: Lessons from the Refugee Crisis

o Right-Wing Extremism and Terrorism in Europe: Current Developments and Issues for the Future

o EU Energy Policy: Sustained by Fragile Solidarity, Indispensable for Eurasian Security

o European Union and NATO Global Cybersecurity Challenges: A Way Forward

o Russia’s Contradictory Relationship with the West

o Assessing and Addressing Russian Revanchism

Center for Global Development

· Bounding the Price Equivalent of Migration Barriers

· Development Finance is the Future of US Economic Assistance

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

· Assessing Defense Reform: Creating OSD "Mission Teams"

· Assessing Defense Reform: Limiting Size of NSC Staff

· Assessing Defense Reform: Reducing Number of Four-Star Generals/Flag Officers

· Goldwater-Nichols Reform: The Way Ahead

· New Entities Designated for DPRK Human Rights Abuses

· The Obama Strategy in Afghanistan: Finding a Way to Win

· PacNet #55 - Australia, the US, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

· PacNet #54 - The Real Significance of Tsai Ing-wen’s Visit to Central America

· Smart Conditions: A Strategic Framework for Leveraging Security Assistance

· Tools and Strategies to Prevent Mass Atrocities Committed by Violent Extremist Organizations

· Women in Senate Confirmed Department of Defense PAS Positions Since 1947

Center on National Security at Fordham Law

· Case by Case; ISIS Prosecutions in the United States

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

· Carbon Taxation Information Note

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

· Misperceptions, Threat Inflation and Mistrust in China-Japan Relations

Centre for Security Governance (CSG)

· The Foundation for Defence Procurement Reform in Ukraine

· Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2016, v. 5, no. 1

o What Explains Criminal Violence in Mexico City? A Test of Two Theories of Crime

o DDR and the Internal Organization of Non-State Armed Groups

o Citizenship or Repression? Coca, Eradication and Development in the Andes

o Toward a Realistic and Responsible Idea of Stabilisation

o Mass Claims in Land and Property Following the Arab Spring: Lessons from Yemen

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

· Conflict Sensitivity: Taking It to the Next Level

Commission on Care

· Final Report [Veterans Health Care Delivery]

Conflict Armament Research

· Inside Islamic State's Improvised Weapon Factories in Fallujah

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

· Aviation Readiness

· "Goldwater-Nichols Reform: The Way Ahead"

· SPF/HFAC Hearing: South China Sea Maritime Disputes

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee

· Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Associated Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal

· A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

· Demanding Accountability: The Administration’s Reckless Release of Terrorists from Guantanamo

· Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank

· South China Sea Maritime Disputes

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

· An Examination of the Maritime Nuclear Smuggling Threat and Other Port Security and Smuggling Risks in the U.S.

· How Pervasive is Misconduct at TSA: Examining Findings from a Joint Subcommittee Investigation

· Misconduct at TSA Threatens the Security of the Flying Public

· Terror Threat Snapshot; The ISIS Terror Threat in America

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

· Assessing the Obama Years: OIRA and Regulatory Impacts on Jobs, Wages and Economic Recovery

· The Federal Government on Autopilot: Mandatory Spending and the Entitlement Crisis

· The Judicial Branch and the Efficient Administration of Justice

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

· Contracting Fairness

· Examining Billion Dollar Waste through Improper Payments

· Firearms and Munitions at Risk: Examining Inadequate Safeguards

· Oversight of the State Department

Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

· Examining the Nation’s Current and Next Generation Weather Satellite Programs

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

· An Examination of the Maritime Nuclear Smuggling Threat and Other Port Security and Smuggling Risks in the U.S.

Congress. Senate Armed Services Committee

· North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia,and European Security

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

· An Assessment of U.S. Economic Assistance

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

· ISIS Online: Countering Terrorist Radicalization & Recruitment on the Internet & Social Media

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

· Replacing Military Personnel in Some Support Positions With Federal Civilians

Council on Foreign Relations

· FARC, ELN: Colombia's Left-Wing Guerrillas

· Women in Tech as a Driver for Growth in Emerging Economies

· The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

· Islamic State Enters Al-Qaeda’s Old Hotbed: Afghanistan and Pakistan

· An Introduction to the Danish Approach to Countering and Preventing Extremism and Radicalization

· Sustaining the Development Effectiveness Agenda

Deep Cuts Project

· Deep Cuts Working Paper #8 Sub-Regional Arms Control for the Baltics

Department of Defense (DOD)

· Department of Defense Progress on Design and Implementation of the New DoD Personnel Management System and Appointment Procedures

Department of State

· Background Briefing on DPRK the Human Rights Abuser Report and Sanctions

· Background Briefing on State Department Communications With U.S. Citizens Overseas

· Remarks on the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification

· Report on Human Rights Abuses and Censorship in North Korea

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

· The EU Global Strategy: From Effective Multilateralism to Global Governance That Works?

EU Institute for Security Studies

· Space security for Europe

European Leadership Network (ELN)

· Cleared for Takeoff: Dangerous Brinkmanship and the Case for the Cooperative Airspace Initiative

European Policy Centre (EPC)

· Europe Cannot Afford People in Bad Health - Economics of Health and Care as a Guide for Investments

Flemish Peace Institute

· Armed to Kill: An Exploratory Analysis of the Guns Used in Public Mass Shootings in Europe

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· Georgia’s NATO Aspirations: Rhetoric and Reality

· If the Atlantic Ocean is the New Black Sea,What’s the Black Sea? Aegis Ashore and the Black Sea Region’s Changing Security Dynamic

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

· Emigration and Democracy

· The Welfare Impact of Global Migration in OECD Countries

German Council on Foreign Relations

· Brexit and the Shape of EU Power to Come

· Now is the Time! The Western Balkans Need a Clear EU Perspective

German Development Institute

· How are We Getting Ready? The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the EU and its Member States: Analysis and Action so Far

German Institute of Global and Area Studies

· Brutalisation as a Survival Strategy: How the"Islamic State" is Prolonging Its Doomsday Battle

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

· A “Great Wall of Sand” in the South China Sea?

German Marshall Fund of the United States

· A Deal to End “the” Deal: Why the Refugee Agreement is a Threat to Turkey-EU Relations

· New Forms of Democratic Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa: An Alternative Approach for the EU and United States

· Russian Elites are Worried: The Unpredictability of Putinism

· Stumbling Blocks to NATO’s Strategic Adaptation Initiative

· Turkey Looks East as Asia Looks West Across the Eurasian Heartland

Global Witness

· Hostile Takeover: The Corporate Empire of Cambodia's Ruling Family

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Defense Weather Satellites: DOD Faces Acquisition Challenges for Addressing Capability Needs. GAO-16-769T [testimony]

· Drug Shortages: Certain Factors Are Strongly Associated with This Persistent Public Health Challenge. GAO-16-595

· Gun Control: Analyzing Available Data Could Help Improve Background Checks Involving Domestic Violence Records. GAO-16-483

· Maritime Security: Progress and Challenges in Implementing Maritime Cargo Security Programs. GAO-16-790T [testimony]

· Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data. GAO-16-773T [Testimony]

· Troubled Asset Relief Program: Most Community Development Capital Initiative Investments Remain Outstanding. GAO-16-626

· U.S.-China Cooperation: Bilateral Clean Energy Programs Show Some Results but Should Enhance Their Performance Monitoring. GAO-16-669

Heritage Foundation

· 2017 House Financial Services and General Government Bill: Reduces Spending, But Does Not Go Far Enough on Policy Changes

· Causes of the Federal Government’s Unsustainable Spending

· Eight Essential Issues for the 2016 NATO Summit in Warsaw

· NATO Summit 2016: The Alliance Must Deepen the NATO–Ukraine Partnership

Households in Conflict Network

· Can War Foster Cooperation?

· Fear and Political Participation: Evidence from Africa

· Gender Bias in Education During Conflict Evidence from Assam

Hudson Institute

· The Patent Truth About Health, Innovation and Access

Human Rights Watch

· ‘Good Cops Are Afraid’: The Toll of Unchecked Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro

Institut Français des Relations Internationals (IFRI)

· Cyber Attacks: A New Threat to the Energy Industry

· The Taboo of the Armenian Genocide, Part One: Global Reaction and American Inaction

· The Taboo of the Armenian Genocide, Part Two:The Politics of American Avoidance

· War and Democratic Decision Making: Lessons from the Lead Up to Iraq, Libya, and Syria

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· India’s NSG Bid: Let’s Set the Record Straight

· The Terrorist Attack on Ataturk Airport –Portents and Pointers

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

· Al Sahawa: The Awakening Volume III-B—Al Anbar Province, Area of Operations Denver, Hadithah–Hit Corridor

· A Framework for Evidence-Based Licensure of Adaptive Autonomous Systems

· Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Best-Practices Badge Criteria

· Discussion: Do Joint Fighters Save Money? (Presentation)

· Incorporating Offensive Cyber Operations into Conventional and Strategic Deterrence Strategies

· Simplified Key Management for Digital Access Control of Information Objects

Institute for Science and International Security

· Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Attempted Carbon Fiber Procurement

· Previously Sanctioned Iranian Entities Doing Business in China

Institute for Security & Development Policy

· Kyrgyzstan 2010: Conflict and Context

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

· Manufacturing Torture? South Africa's Trade in Electric Shock Equipment

· South African Crime Quarterly no. 56

o Policing the private: Social barriers to the effective policing of domestic violence

o Memories of the ‘inside’: Prison conditions in South African female correctional facilities

o Risky localities: Exploring a methodology for measuring socio-economic characteristics of high murder areas

o Private prosecutions in Zimbabwe: Victim participation in the criminal justice system versus prosecutorial independence

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

· War over Water? Tibet, the Sino-Indian Power Play and Potential Consequences for Asia

Institute for the Study of War

· Iraq Situation Report: June 29 - July 6, 2016

· ISW Russian Airstrikes Maps: September 2015-June 2016

· Syria Situation Report: July 1 - 8, 2016

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

· Informality and Inclusive Growth in Latin America: The Case of Colombia

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

· India’s Recent FDI Reforms: An Analysis, and Possible Trends

· Terror in Dhaka: Fundamentalism Spreads Its Deadly Wings

· Two ‘Brexits’ – The First, 70 Years Ago

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

· Brexit and the Future of the United Kingdom

· Defence Budgets and Cooperation in Europe: Trends and Investments

· MEDRESET. A Comprehensive, Integrated, and Bottom-up Approach

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

· NATO’s Truly Enhanced Partnership

International Crisis Group

· Central Mali: An Uprising in the Making?

· Nagorno-Karabakh: New Opening, or More Peril?

· The Philippines: Renewing Prospects for Peace in Mindanao

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· An Analysis of OPEC’s Strategic Actions, US Shale Growth and the 2014 Oil Price Crash

· Did the Global Financial Crisis Break the U.S. Phillips Curve?

· Fixed Base Year vs. Chain Linking in National Accounts : Experience of Sub-Saharan African Countries

· Inflation, Financial Developments, and Wealth Distribution

· A National Wealth Approach to Banking Crises and Financial Stability

· A Network Model of Multilaterally Equilibrium Exchange Rates

· Outside the Band : Depreciation and Inflation Dynamics in Chile

· U.S. Corporate Income Tax Reform and its Spillovers

· U.S. Dollar Dynamics : How Important Are Policy Divergence and FX Risk Premiums?

· What is Keeping U.S. Core Inflation Low : Insights from a Bottom-Up Approach

Italian Institute for International Political Studies (Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale)

· A Deepening and Widening Conflict: The Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute and the Regional Context

· Kurdistan: An Invisible Nation

Jamestown Foundation

· China Brief, July 6, 2016, v. 16, no. 11

o China’s Blueprint for Sea Power

o Growing PLA Transparency as a Means of Employing Soft Power, Part 1: PLA Internal Signaling since the 18th Party Congress

o Africa: China’s Laboratory for Third World Security Cooperation

o A Force for Cyber Anarchy or Cyber Order? —PLA Perspectives on “Cyber Rules”

· Terrorism Monitor, July 8, 2016, v. 14, no. 14

o India Treads a Delicate Line With State-Sponsorship of Anti-Maoist Groups

o Kenya Gambles on Closure of Somali Refugee Camp to Halt al-Shabaab Attacks

o Foreign Assets Under Threat: Is AQIM Preparing an In Amenas-Style Attack?

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

· Joint Force Quarterly, JFQ 82 (3rd Quarter, July 2016)

o Securing the Third Offset Strategy: Priorities for the Next Secretary of Defense

o Twenty-First Century Information Warfare and the Third Offset Strategy

o Avoiding Becoming a Paper Tiger: Presence in a Warfighting Defense Strategy

o Switching the Paradigm from Reactive to Proactive: Stopping Toxic Leadership

o Measuring Strategic Deterrence: A Wargaming Approach

o A Way Ahead for DOD Disaster Preparedness

o The U.S. Pacific Command Response to Super Typhoon Haiyan

o #SocialMediaMatters: Lessons Learned from Exercise Trident Juncture

o China’s Goldwater-Nichols? Assessing PLA Organizational Reforms

o What It Means to Be Expeditionary: A Look at the French Army in Africa

o Sharpening Our Cultural Tools for Improved Global Health Engagement

o The Primacy of COG in Planning: Getting Back to Basics

o Abandon Ship: Interagency Decisionmaking During the Mayaguez Incident

o The Multinational Interoperability Council: Enhancing Coalition Operations

o The Tao of Doctrine: Contesting an Art of Operations

o Joint Engineers Launch New Knowledge-Based Management Program

o JPME II Available at Satellite Sites

Korea Institute for National Unification

· Analysis on the 7th Congress of Korean Workers’ Party(3): Unification Strategy and Inter-Korean Relations

· Analysis on the 7th Congress of Korean Workers’ Party(4): International Relations and Security

· Concern over Interim Agreement on North Korea´s Nuclear Issues

· International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, 2016, v. 25, no. 1

o Economic Reform during the First Four Years of Kim Jong-un’s Rule: An Analysis Based on the CRE Model

o North Korean Political Dynamics of the Kim Jong-un Era

o Why Did We Get China Wrong? Reconsidering the Popular Narrative: China will abandon North Korea

o China’s Evolving Nuclear Strategy and its Consistency with the Chinese Leadership’s Perception of Minimum Deterrence

o North Korean Contingency and the Determinants of its Stabilization

o An Uncertain Future for the Russia-DPRK “Rajin-Khasan” Project

o The Past, Present, and Future of North Korean Economy: An In-depth Study on the North Korean Constitution’s Economic Clauses and the Economic Reality

Manhattan Institute

· Exposed: How America's Electric Grids are Becoming Greener, Smarter - and More Vulnerable

Maryland Cybersecurity Council

· Initial Activities Report [recommending the creation of a “cyber first responder reserve”]

National Academies Press

· Modernizing Crime Statistics: Report 1: Defining and Classifying Crime

· The Nation's Medical Countermeasure Stockpile: Opportunities to Improve the Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Sustainability of the CDC Strategic National Stockpile: Workshop Summary

· Using Graywater and Stormwater to Enhance Local Water Supplies: An Assessment of Risks, Costs, and Benefits

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

· Across the Universe? A Comparative Analysis of Violent Radicalization Across Three Offender Types With Implications for Criminal Justice Training and Education

· Evaluation of a Multi-Faceted, U.S.Community-Based, Muslim-Led CVE Program

· Public-Private Partnerships to Counter Violent Extremism: Field Principles for Action

· Understanding Community Responses to Authority/Law Enforcement Minority-Outreach Intergroup Communication Frames

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

· Canadian Military Journal, 2016, v. 16, no. 3

o Operation Honour ~ The Chief of the Defence Staff Addresses Sexual Misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces

o Canadian Armed Forces Reserves – Quo Vadis?

o ‘New Wars’ in Contemporary China?

o Building the Great Community: Assessing Josiah Royce’s War Insurance Proposal in Light of the Collective Security Ideal of the League of Nations and the UN

o No. 2 Construction Battalion: The Operational History

o Humanism and the Military Conscience: A Reply to Pichette and Marshall

o The Accidental Strategic Chief Petty Officer/Chief Warrant Officer

o The Renaissance of Peacekeeping and Peace Operations

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

· East Asian Strategic Review 2016

National Intelligence University (NIU)

· Journal of Strategic Intelligence, v. 1, no. 1, Summer 2016

o Surprise! What Caused China’s Recent and Massive Land Reclamation in the South China Sea?

o South Korea’s Engagement Strategy: Indications of an Asian Imbalance?

o Legacy of an Exile: How al-Shabaab Was Inspired by and Learned From Usama bin Ladin

o Could Pakistan Lose Balochistan? Balochistan’s Insurgency and Its Implications for Pakistan and the Region