Friday's Miscellany 07-22-2016

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Donald Trump: The Rise of Right-wing Politics in America

·         Yemen’s Warring Parties: Formations and Dynamics

American Enterprise Institute

·         China’s Outward Investment Explodes, and Peaks?

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies

·         Immigration, Integration, and A New Transatlantic Generation: Sharing Experiences from Young Minorities in the U.S.and Germany

Amnesty International

·         Health Taken Hostage: Cruel Denial of Medical Care in Iran’s Prisons

·         Nepal: Torture and Coerced Confessions

·         Right Cause, Wrong Means: Human Rights Violated and Justice Denied in Cameroon’s Fight Against Boko Haram

·         You Don’t Exist: Arbitrary Detentions,Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Capital Inflow Surges and Consequences

·         Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People’s Republic of China

Atlantic Council

·         Arming for Deterrence: How Poland and NATO Should Counter a Resurgent Russia

Australian Defence College (ADC)

·         Time for a whole-of-government China Strategy to Build Trust between Australia and China

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         5th Circuit Rejects TX Voter ID Law

·         Climate Risks & Fossil Fuels

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         Afghanistan: Monitoring the Key Regional Powers. Report 3

·         Olympics and Cities: Opportunities, Ambitions and Failures

·         Pakistan: Monitoring the Key Regional Powers.Report 3

Begin-Sadat Center

·         A Year After the JCPoA: An Interim Report on the Nuclear Deal with Iran

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Confronting Deep and Persistent Climate Uncertainty

Bonn International Centre of Conversion (BICC)

·         The Final Round: Combating Armed Actors, Organized Crime and Wildlife Trafficking

·         Local Security-Making in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

·         Networks of Organised Violence

Brookings

·         How will China Respond to the South China Sea Ruling?

·         Minority Under-representation in City and Suburban Policing

·         The South China Sea Ruling and China’s Grand Strategy

·         What Does the South China Sea Ruling Mean,and What’s Next?

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

·         State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2013

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Preparing for Contemporary Operations in a Strategic Communications World

CATO Institute

·         Our Foreign Policy Choices:  Rethinking America’s Global Role

·         Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions

Center for Global Development

·         People, Productivity, and Policy: Product Growth Perspective in the Medium and Long Run in Brazil

·         Program for Results: The First 35 Operations

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         New Statistics: Enforcement Continues Decline in 2016

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         The Soviet Bioweapons Program and Its Legacy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Catalyzing Health Gains through Global Polio Eradication

·         Challenges of Building a National Army in Yemen

·         China’s Nuclear Forces and Weapons of Mass Destruction

·         PacNet #59 - The Curious Case of Okinotori:  Reef, Rock, or Island?

·         Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Ethics in the Internet Environment

·         An Experienced, Developed Democracy: Canada and Investor-State Arbitration

·         One Internet: An Evidentiary Basis for Policy Making on Internet Universality and Fragmentation

Centre for Security Governance (CSG)

·         Security Sector Reform, Legitimate Politics and SDG 16

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Protecting the US Economy: Responding to State-Sponsored Theft of Intellectual Property

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Europeanization of Moldova: Is the EU on the Right Track?

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Terror Gone Viral; Overview of the 100+ISIS-Linked Plots Against the West

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Glossary [budgetary and economic terms]

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY2017 House

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY2017 Senate

Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)

·         Investing in Higher Education: Benefits,Challenges, and the State of Student Debt

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games

·         Foreign Policy at the Conventions

Department of Defense

·         Department of Defense Law of War Manual (updated May 2016)   

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

Department of State

·         Briefing on the Counter-ISIL Ministerial

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         The Rise of the Street: The Population of Kinshasa as an Unpredictable Actor in the Electoral Process

Electronic Frontier Foundation

·         Who Has Your Back?  2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         After the EUGS: Connecting the Dots

·         After the EUGS: Mainstreaming a New CSDP

·         After the EUGS: Specifying the Military Tasks

·         Fellow Submarines

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

·         Zika Virus and Safety of Substances of Human Origin: A Guide for Preparedness Activities in Europe

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         The EU after Brexit, Russia and the Countries In-between

·         The Need to Re-engage Europe's Youth

·         The Polish “Good Change” – What Does It Mean for Relations with Germany and the Rest of Europe?

Folke Bernadotte Academy

·         Responsive and Responsible: Making Politics Part of UNDP’s Rule of Law Agenda

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Everything Old Is New Again: Russia Returns to Nicaragua

·         Force Planning Considerations for the Force of the Future

·         Republican Party Foreign Policy: 2016 and Beyond

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

·         Teaching Gender in the Military: A Handbook

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         DHS Management: Enhanced Oversight Could Better Ensure Programs Receiving Fees and Other Collections Use Funds Efficiently. GAO-16-443

·         Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Is Assessing Data on Worldwide Launch Market to Inform New Acquisition Strategy. GAO-16-661R

·         Federal Travel: Opportunities Exist to Improve Data and Information Sharing. GAO-16-657

·         Oil and Gas: Interior Could Do More to Account for and Manage Natural Gas Emissions. GAO-16-607

Homeland Security Advisory Council

·         The Attacks on Paris: Lessons Learned [White Paper]

Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

·         China Leadership Monitor, Summer 2016 

o    Chinese Views on the Presumptive U.S. Presidential Candidates Hillary R. Clinton and Donald J. Trump

o    Tsai Ing-wen Takes Office: A New Era in Cross-Strait Relations

o    PLA Divestiture 2.0: We Mean It This Time

o    Promoting “Young Guards”: The Recent High Turnover in the PLA Leadership (Part III—Personal and Political)

o    Two Trains Running: Supply-Side Reform, SOE Reform and the Authoritative Personage

o    “Core” Leaders, “Authoritative Persons,” And Reform Pushback

Human Rights Watch

·         Boxed In: Women and Saudi Arabia’s Male Guardianship System

·         Deaths and Disappearances: Abuses in Counterterrorism Operations in Nairobi and in Northeastern Kenya

·         ‘Growing Up Without an Education’: Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon

·         ‘You Don’t Exist’: Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Online Radicalisation: The Example of Burhan Wani

·         A Security Council for the 21st Century: Challenges & Prospects

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, July 21, 2016

o    Liberia: A Model for Security Sector Reform?

o    PM Netanyahu’s African Pilgrimage: Leveraging the Present to Overcome the Past

o    Elections in Zambia: Credibility at Stake

o    Unstable Foundations: Constitutional Insecurity and the Crisis in South Sudan

·         Application of Contagious Disease Epidemiological Models to Known Population Structure and Movement

Institute for Information Security & Privacy

·         Online Privacy and ISPS: ISP Access to Consumer Data is Limited and Often Less than Access by Others

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

·         Russia looks South

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

·         Failed Coup in Turkey: Implications for the Syrian Civil War

·         How Turkey Could Become the Next Pakistan

·         Iraq Situation Report: July 13-18, 2016

·         Moldova Warning: The Next Target for Russian Destabilization

·         Syria Situation Report: July 16 - 22, 2016

·         Ukraine Warning Update: Possible Clashes Could Trigger Snap Elections

InterAgency Board (IAB) Program Office

·         Active Shooter/Hostile Event (ASHE) Guide

International Crisis Group

·         The Eurasian Economic Union: Power, Politics and Trade

·         Ukraine: The Line

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues?

·         The Role of Fiscal Transfers in Smoothing Regional Shocks : Evidence from Existing Federations

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         The Battle at El Adde: The Kenya Defence Forces, al-Shabaab, and Unanswered Questions

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, July 22, 2016, v. 14, no. 15

o    Islamic State’s Iraq ‘Caliphate’ on the Brink of Defeat

o    Pakistan’s LeJ Baluchistan Operations Ready for Resurgence

o    Gulf States Bolster Security Initiatives to Confront Islamic State Threat

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Operating Environment 2035, 14 July 2016

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

·         On the Wrong Track?  German Climate Policy after the Paris Agreement

·         Where Putin’s Russia Ends: “Novorossija” and the Development of National Consciousness in Ukraine

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Analysis on the 4th Session of the 13th Supreme People´s Assembly of North Korea

Martens Centre for European Studies

·         Bear in Sheep’s Clothing: Russia’s Government-Funded Organizations in the EU

National Academies Press

·         Characterizing Risk in Climate Change Assessments:   Proceedings of a Workshop for the U.S. Global Change Research Program

·         Chemical Laboratory Safety and Security:   A Guide to Developing Standard Operating Procedures

National Security Archive

·         Bikini A-Bomb Tests July 1946  

NATO Defense College

·         The Framework Nations' Concept and NATO: Game-Changer for a New Strategic Era or Missed Opportunity?

·         Towards Self Sufficiency?  Economics as a Dimension of Russian Security and the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation to 2020

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

·         Defence Strategic Communications, Winter 2015, v. 1, no. 1

o    Russian's 21st Century Information War: Working to Undermine and Destabilize Populations

o    Assessing Against and Moving Past the "Funnel Model" of Counterterrorism Communication

o    The Rainbow in the Dark: Assessing a Century of British Military Information Operations

o    It’s time to Embrace Memetic Warfare

o    The Return of Khilafah: The constitutive Narratives of Daesh

o    Method for Minimizing the Negative Consequences of nth Order Effects in Strategic Communication Actions and Inactions

o    The Narrative and Social Media

o    Proactively Preserving the Inward Quiet: Public Diplomacy and NATO

·         Social Media as a Tool of Hybrid Warfare

New America Foundation

·         All Jihad is Local: What ISIS' Files Tell Us About Its Fighters

Oxfam Policy & Practice

·         Oxfam’s Work in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Currency Wars, Coordination, and Capital Controls

·         Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Overcharged: The High Cost of High Finance

Project on Middle East Political Science

·         What We Can Learn from Syrian Refugees: A Conversation with Daniel Corstange

Rand

·         Assessing the Ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to Support the Afghan Local Police

·         Authorities for Military Operations Against Terrorist Groups: The State of the Debate and Options for Congress

·         Balancing Immediate and Long-Term Defense Investments

·         How Effective Are Military Academy Admission Standards?

·         Israel's Interests and Options in Syria

·         The Millennial Generation: Implications for the Intelligence and Policy Communities

·         United States Service Academy Admissions: Selecting for Success at the Air Force Academy and as an Officer

·         What the Ghosts of Candidates Past Can Tell Us About the General Election: Mapping America's Ideological Terrain, Part 2

Refugees International

·         No Respite: Burundian Refugees In The DR Congo

Rift Valley Institute (RVI)

·         Contesting Authority: Armed Rebellion and Military Fragmentation in Walikale and Kalehe, North and South Kivu

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Russia Confronts NATO: Confidence-Destruction Measures

Small Wars Journal

·         Al-Shabaab and Market-Based Development: When Social Protection and Service Provision Go Awry

·         Building and Balancing in Burma: China, US Military Engagement, and Capacity Development

·         Civil Affairs in Denied Areas: The Challenges to Developing Networks That Support Shadow Governments

·         Combating Domestic Terrorism: Observations from Brussels and San Bernardino

·         The Continued Failure of Preventive Covert Regime Change Operations During the American Campaign Against Islamic Extremism

·         Governance as a Weapon: Advising the Shadow Government in Unconventional Warfare

·         Legally Speaking, the NATO Treaty Does Not Require the U.S. to “Automatically” Use Force to Defend Allies

·         Obama Worsening Afghan-Pak State

·         Refitting Military Forces for Future Conflicts: Applying Resiliency Governance in the Field

·         Staying Small to Stay Feasible: SOF Support in Countering Boko Haram

·         Suheil al-Hassan and the Syrian Army’s Tiger Forces

·         Understanding Endgame: The Essential Re-Shaping of Military Thinking in 21st Century Warfare

Stanley Foundation

·         UN Issues Conference: Turn Early Warning into Early Action

Transnational Institute

·         China’s Engagement in Myanmar: From Malacca Dilemma to Transition Dilemma

UK Parliament. House of Commons

·         Cyber Security: Protection of Personal Data Online

Union of Concerned Scientists

·         Shielded from Oversight: The Disastrous US Approach to Strategic Missile Defense

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         Meth Precursor Chemicals from China: Implications for the United States

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         The Current Situation in Iraq

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Inside Turkey's Failed Coup: What Happened? Why? What Next?

·         Troubling Forces Unleashed in Turkey

Wilson Center

·         Mediating the Vietnam War: Romania and the First Trinh Signal, 1965-1966