Friday's Miscellany 09-03-2016

38 North

·         The Gossip Mill: How To (SP)Read a Rumor About North Korea

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         The Sociopolitical Impact of Brexit on Africa

Amnesty International

·         Defenders of the Land, Territory and Environment in Honduras and Guatemala

·         Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on the Rise in World’s Deadliest Countries for Environmental Activists

Armament Research Services

·         Spanish C90-CR Rocket Launchers & Alhambra Hand Grenades in Yemen

Army Combined Arms Center

·         Military Review, September-October 2016, v. 96, no. 5

o    North Korean Collapse or Korean Reunification: The Importance of Preparation over Prediction

o    Strategic Acquisition for  Effective Innovation

o    How America Will Be Attacked: Irregular Warfare, the Islamic State, Russia, and China

o    The Global Spread of Arms: The Link between State Collapse, Small Arms Proliferation, and Global Conflict

o    Strategic Assessment of Bolivia’s Defense Policy

o    Commanding the Right: Islamic Morality and Why It Matters

o    The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Terrorism Threat from the Islamic State

o    Growing Army Professionals: Closing the Values Gap

o    How the Army’s Multi-Source Assessment and Feedback Program Could Become a Catalyst for Leader Development

o    Ten Lessons Learned about Host-Nation Construction in Afghanistan

o    Training for Decisive Action

o    A Financial Comparison of the Blended (New) Retirement System and the Current (Soon to Be Old) Defined Benefit System

o    Constructive Effects Focus on Capabilities

o    Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program

Asian Development Bank

·         Bangladesh: Consolidating Export-led Growth -Country Diagnostic Study

·         Gearing Up for Competitiveness: The Role of Planning, Governance, and Finance in Small and Medium-sized Cities in South Asia

·         Uncertainty about Federal Reserve Policy and Its Transmission to Emerging Economies: Evidence from Twitter

·         Water: Securing Bhutan's Future

Atlantic Council

·         Industrial Development in Latin America: What is China’s Role?

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Bastille Day Terrorist Attack in Nice, 14July 2016

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Cyberspace, the Final Frontier

·         The Middle East Will Remain a Source of Terrorism

·         The Oslo Disaster

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Rebooting African Development: Science,Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa

Berghof Conflict Research

·         Interdependency and Interference: The Wayuu’s Normative System and State-based Conflict Resolution in Colombia  

Brookings

·         Determining the Proper Scope of Climate Change Policy Benefits in U.S. Regulatory Analyses: Domestic versus Global Approaches

·         Order at Risk: Japan, Korea, and the Northeast Asian Paradox

·         What Recessions Teach Us About Preventing Traffic Deaths—and Why We Need Driverless Cars

Canada Department of Public Safety

·         2016 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         2016 Policy Review Series - Defence Collection

·         A Canadian Primer to the G20 Summit:Hangzhou, China, September 4-5, 2016

CATO Institute

·         Freedom of Speech under Assault on Campus

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Digitally-Enabled Warfare: The Capability-Vulnerability Paradox

·         Open Source Software and the Department of Defense

Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS)

·         Nazis vs. ISIS on Twitter:  A Comparative Study of White Nationalist and ISIS Online Social Media Networks

Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security

·         CIP Report, July/August2016

o    Teaching Homeland Security: A European Approach

o    Resilience Index: An Alternative in Resilience Measurement

o    Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience of the Republic of Croatia

o    NATO Article 5 and Cyber Warfare: NATO’s Ambiguous and Outdated Procedure for Determining When Cyber Aggression Qualifies as an Armed Attack

o    Lessons and Needs for Improving Critical Infrastructures’ Resilience

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         Propaganda of Terror: Konstantiniyye Magazine and The Discourse of DAESH

·         Twitter Social Network Analysis on Turkish Speaking DAESH Supporters

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         Who is Afraid of Consensus?

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Domestic Resource Mobilization: The Role of Donors

·         PacNet #64 - The Story of the 2020 Olympics is Already Taking Shape

·         Workshop Report: ISCN-CSIS Washington Workshop 2016 Nuclear Security Collaboration Between CoEs and Civil Society: Filling the Gaps

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Investor-State Dispute Settlement in US Law, Politics and Practice: The Debate Continues

Chatham House

·         U.S. Election Note: Trade Policy After 2016

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         A Conflict Sensitive Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis?

Cluster Munition Coalition

·         Cluster Munition Monitor 2016

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         The ISIS Terror Threat in America

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         America’s Insatiable Demand for Drugs: The Public’s Health and Safety Implications for Our Unsecure Border

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         ASEAN: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations

·         Can Malaria Be Eradicated?

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2016-127 DoD Officials Did Not Take Appropriate Action When Notified of Potential Travel Card Misuse at Casinos and Adult Entertainment Establishments

·         DODIG-2016-131 Designation of Contracting Officer’s Representatives and Oversight Framework Could Be Improved for Contracts in Afghanistan

Department of the Air Force

·         DoD Plan to Meet JROC Meteorological and Oceanographic Collection Requirements

Dudley Knox Library

·         Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG): A Brief Bibliography [updated August 2016]

East Asia Institute

·         The First Step toward Participatory Budgeting in Myanmar

Enough Project

·         Khartoum’s Economic Achilles’ Heel: The Intersection of War, Profit, and Greed

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Turkish Stream Back on the Agenda?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Taking Stock of U.S. Policy Options in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Beyond Representative Households: The Macro–micro Impact Analysis of VAT Designs Applied to Niger

·         Regulatory Harmonization, Profits, and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence from Morocco

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Export-Import Bank: Status of Dual-Use Exports as of August 2016. GAO-16-844R

·         Federal Hiring: OPM Needs to Improve Management and Oversight of Hiring Authorities. GAO-16-521

Hedayah

·         Counter-Narratives for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) in Southeast Asia

·         A Man's World? Exploring the Roles of Women in Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism

Heritage Foundation

·         2017 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom

·         An Approaching Transition in Zimbabwe Requires a U.S. Game Plan

·         The Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia: Remembering a Conservative Legal Titan’s Impact on the Law

·         Money and Banking Provisions in the Financial CHOICE Act: A Major Step in the Right Direction

·         Reforming Intelligence: A Proposal for Reorganizing the Intelligence Community and Improving Analysis

·         Time to Unlock America’s Vast Oil and Gas Resources

Hoover Institute

·         China Leadership Monitor, Fall 2016, no, 51

o    Chinese Views on the South China Sea Arbitration Case between the People’s Republic of China and the Philippines

o    The First 100 Days: Crossing the River While Feeling the Stones

o    The Road To The 19th Party Congress

o    Supply-Side Structural Reform at Mid-year: Compliance, Initiative, and Unintended Consequences Supply-Side Structural Reform at Mid-year: Compliance, Initiative, and Unintended Consequences

o    Xi Jinping Has a Cool New Nickname: “Commander-in-Chief”

Human Rights Watch

·         "Like Walking a Minefield": Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia’s Chechen Republic

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         The Energy Sector Hacker Report:  Profiling the Hacker Groups that Threaten our Nation’s Energy Sector

·         Hacking Elections is Easy! Part One:  Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         A French Solution to India’s Defence Acquisition Problem

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, September 1, 2016, v. 12 

o    Somali Refugees in Dadaab: There To Stay?

o    East African Oil and Gas: The Future Is Not Now

o    Securing the Virtual Savannah: Global Implications of African Cybercrime

Institute for Economics and Peace

·         Positive Peace 2016

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

·         Anatomy of an Indonesian Oil Palm Conflict

Institute for Science and International Security

·         JCPOA Exemptions Revealed

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Mali's Young 'Jihadists': Fueled by Faith or Circumstance?

Institute for the Study of War

·         Al-Qaeda is Gaining Strength in Syria

·         Iraq Situation Report: August 23-30, 2016

·         ISIS's Campaign in Europe: July 16-August 18, 2016

·         Russian Airstrikes in Syria: July 28 – August 29, 2016

·         Syria Situation Report: August 25 - September 1, 2016

·         Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria Signals Turning Point in Anti-ISIS Fight

Institute of Development Studies  (IDS)

·         Inclusive Land Governance in Mozambique: Good Law, Bad Politics?

·         ‘Traditional Peoples’ and the Struggle for Inclusive Land Governance in Brazil

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         The New Jio Network – A Game Changer

·         Terrorism in Balochistan: Shift towards Soft Targets?

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         China’s Financial Interlinkages and Implications For Inter-Agency Coordination

·         Smoke Screen : Estimating the Tax Pass-Through to Cigarette Prices in Pakistan

·         Unlocking Pakistan’s Revenue Potential

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Insights and Best Practices: Geographic Combatant Commander (GCC) Command and Control Organizational Options, August 2015

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Training Surrogate Forces in International Humanitarian Law: Lessons from Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, and Iraq

Lawfare

·         Lawfare Research Paper Series, v. 4, no. 3,September 2016

o    Presidential Elections: A Perilous Time for U.S. Intelligence

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Reforming the International Protection Regime: Responsibilities, Roles and Policy Options for Australia

Migration Policy Institute

·         Funding an Equitable Education for English Learners in the United States

MITRE

·         Thinking Forward About Federal Civilian Cybersecurity: Bringing Mission Execution and Cybersecurity Closer Together

National Academies Press

·         Data Breach Aftermath and Recovery for Individuals and Institutions:  Proceedings of a Workshop

National Park Service

·         Responding to the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

·         I Accidentally Malware - What Should I Do...Is This Dangerous? Overcoming Inevitable Risks of Electronic Communication

Oxford Research Group

·         A World after ISIS – Part II

Peacekeeping &  Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         Peace and Stability Journal, August 2016, v. 6, no. 4

o    Work Group 1: Develop a Training Strategy for Humanitarian Assistance

o    Work Group 2: Preparing Senior Leaders to Succeed in Peace Operations

o    Work Group 3: Analyzing and Mitigating Transnational Organized Crime in UN Peacekeeping Operations

o    Work Group 4: Organizing the Generating Function of a Security Force Institution

o    Work Group 5: Developing a Common Curriculum to Improve Interagency Planning and Collaboration

o    Work Group 6: Lessons Learned for Developing a Civilian-Military Relations Course

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         China's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth

Rand

·         Israel's Iran Policies After the Nuclear Deal

·         Maritime Tactical Command and Control Analysis of Alternatives

·         Training the People's Liberation Army Air Force Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) Forces

·         U.S.–Japan Alliance Conference: Strengthening Strategic Cooperation

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Public–Private Security Cooperation: From Cyber to Financial Crime

·         Understanding Iran's Role in the Syrian Conflict

Small Wars Journal

·         Big Data, Local Advantage: Why ‘Economic Media’ Networks Matter

·         Buffalo Soldiers in Angola: 32 Battalion Operations in the South African Border War

·         Business, Crime, or Crazy: Toward Understanding Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations’ Rationality

·         Cyber Specialists and Future Force Structure: “Jemes” & “Soldier 2040”

·         Falling Short in Measures of Effectiveness

·         Heading Upriver: The Mobile Riverine Force as an Example for Riverine Operations in the 21st Century

·         Not Cleared for Takeoff: Lessons Learned from the AWG’s Efforts to Counter the Use of Commercially Available UAS

·         Processing Leader Development

·         The South China Sea: Containing a Regional Conflict

·         We Need a Stakeholder-Centric Counterinsurgency Doctrine

·         Whither the UN’s War in Congo?

Stanford University, One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence

·         Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030

Stimson Center

·         The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

·         Federal Criminal Prosecutions Down Sharply in July 2016

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Atrocity Prevention through Dialogue

·         Prisons and Detention in Libya

·         Tribe, Security, Justice and Peace in Libya Today

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After the Jarabulus Offensive: How Far Will Turkey Shift Its Syria Policy?

·         An Inside Look at Israeli National Security Strategy

·         The Military Campaign against the Islamic State: An Assessment

·         Non-Iranian Shiites Paying the Price in Aleppo

·         Prince Muhammad's Pakistan Detour

·         U.S.-Iran Competition: Prospects and Limits of Cooperation

White House

·         FACT SHEET: U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change

·         Fact Sheet: U.S.-China Economic Relations

·         President Obama: The United States Formally Enters the Paris Agreement

·         Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on the Removal of Chemical Weapons Precursors from Libya

·         U.S.-China Climate Change Cooperation Outcomes

·         U.S. Fact Sheet for President Obama’s Bilateral Meeting with President Xi Jinping