Friday's Miscellany 10-21-2016

38 North

·         Byungjin vs the Sanctions Regime: Which Works Better?

·         Musudan Could Be Operational Sooner Than Expected

AEI Critical Threats

·         Yemen Frontlines: October 2016

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         Civil Service Reform in Afghanistan: Roles and Functions of the Civil Service Sector

Amnesty International

·         Australia’s Regime of Cruelty Has Turned Nauru Into an Open-Air Prison Australia’s Regime of Cruelty Has Turned Nauru Into an Open-Air Prison

·         Home Sweet Home? Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador’s Role in a Deepening Refugee Crisis

·         Punished for Daesh’s Crimes’: Displaced Iraqis Abused by Militias and Government Forces

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare           

·         Is India’s Military Modernization Evidence of an Aggressive National Security Policy?

Atlantic Council

·         A New Strategy for US-Iran Relations in Transition

·         Transforming the Power Sector in Developing Countries

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Parliamentary Agenda Priorities and Responsiveness Under Authoritarianism

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         The New US President: Implications for the Middle East and North Africa

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

·         Back to turmoil: Refugee and IDP return to and within South Sudan

Brennan Center for Justice

·         New Era of Secret Law

Brookings

·        Election 2016 and America's Future [report series] 

·        The Case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership 

·        Countering Violent Extremism in America: Policy Recommendations for the Next President 

·        Dealing with a Nuclear-armed North Korea: Rising Danger, Narrowing Options, Hard Choices 

·        Deconstructing Syria: A Confederal Approach

·        Energy and Climate: Moving beyond Symbolism

·        In Support of U.S.Alliances 

·        Time for Justice:Tackling Race Inequalities in Health and Housing 

·        The Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Politics of Openness and Leadership in the Asia-Pacific 

·        US Leadership in Global Education: The Time is Now 

Bruegel

·         Currency Crises in Post-Soviet Economies: A Never Ending Story?

Center for Global Development

·         Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Facts and Obstacles

·         India’s States Increase Health Spending, But Will They Spend Effectively?

·         Responding to AIIB [Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank]: U.S.Leadership at the Multilateral Development Banks in a New Era

·         Using Financial Incentives to Increase the Number of Women in UN Peacekeeping

Center for New American Security (CNAS)

·         Increasing Prosperity, Resource Stewardship, and National Security: An Energy Policy Strategy for the Next President

·         A Ready, Modern Force: Ready for Today, Prepared for Tomorrow

Center for Security Policy

·         2015-2016 Congressional National Security Scorecard

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Civil Side of Counterterrorism

·         Gulf States’ Policies on Syria

·         Issues & Insights Vol. 16 - No. 16 - History, Politics,and Security in Northeast Asia

·         PacNet #77 - Demobilized and Disaffected: Another Roadblock for China's Military Reforms

·         Recruiting and Retaining Cybersecurity Ninjas

·         Survey Findings - Global Perceptions of Violent Extremism

·         Uncertain Metrics of War Against ISIS

Center for the Study of the Drones

·         The 2016 Presidential Candidates on Drones

Center on Privacy & Technology (Georgetown Law)

·         The Perpetual Line-up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2016, 17, no. 2

o    Revisiting Africa in Canadian Security Planning & Assessment

o    Challenges to Contemporary Peace Support Operations in Africa

o    Networked security between “restraint” and “responsibility”? Germany’s security policy towards Africa

o    Critical Perspectives on Transnational Criminality in West Africa

o    Insecurity implications of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa: from military to constitutional coups

o    Canada’s Defence Policy Consultations & Africa: What did the ‘Experts’ Say?

 

Chatham House

·         US Election Note: Energy and Climate Policy After 2016

College of Europe

·         Net Neutrality: Smart Cables or Dumb Pipes? An Overview on the Regulatory Debate about How to Govern the Network

·         ‘Pastis Power Europe’: An Assessment of the EU’s Actorness in International Investment Politics

·         Thirty Years of the Single European Market

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         Remotely Piloted Innovation: Terrorism, Drones and Supportive Technology

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY 2017 Senate

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY 2017 House

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY 2016 House  

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY 2016 Senate

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Debate Over Brexit

·         A New Approach to Thailand's Insurgency

·         Sustaining Fuel Subsidy Reform

·         The U.S.-Philippines Defense Alliance

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         France’s and the EU’s Strategies to Stabilize Niger: A Risky Balancing Act Between Security and Legitimacy

Defense Entrepreneurs Forum

·         The Force of the Future, From the Force of the Future

Defense Innovation Marketplace

·         The Warfighter's Science and Technology Needs

Department of Defense

·         Joint Communiqué of the 48th U.S.-ROK Security Consultative Meeting

Department of State

·         Beyond Autocrats and Islamists: The Future of Arab Reform

·         United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking Annual Report2016

Department of the Navy

·         Navy Civilian Workforce Framework

East West Center

·         The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on the Arctic in the Wider World (2015 North Pacific Arctic Conference Proceedings)

·         The High Stakes for Southeast Asia of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election 

·         What Happens in the South China Sea, Matters in the East China Sea: Japan’s Reaction to the South China Sea Arbitration Ruling

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         The Environment and the Economy in the Arab World

Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

·         Imagining the Nation: Identity, Nation Building and Foreign Policy in Kazakhstan

·         Policy and Institutional Change for Economic Performance and Social Justice in Pasture Management

·         The Strange Case of Jaysh al-Mahdi and Mr. ISIS: How Kyrgyzstan’s Elites Manipulate the Threat of Terrorism

Enough Project

·         Violent Kleptocracies: How They’re Destroying Parts of Africa and How They Can Be Dismantled

European Policy Centre

·         The Enemy Within: Are Modern European Democracies Afraid of Introspection?

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted Report 2015

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Guidance on Correspondent Banking

·         Guidance on Criminalising Terrorist Financing

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

·         State-led Nationalism in Today’s Russia Uniting the People with Conservative Values?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Chemistry of Syrian Lies and U.S. Credulity Revealed

·         A Major Blunder at the UN Narrowly Averted

·         Surveying Saudi Arabia’s Youthful Majority

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Does Democracy Reduce the HIV Epidemic? Evidence from Kenya

·         Media and Political Participation in North Africa

German Development Institute

·         Build towns instead of camps: Uganda as an example of integrative refugee policy

·         An executive authority for the UN Development System: why this is necessary and how it could work

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Enhancing a Continental Policy on Energy Access in Africa

·         Making Cities Better for Aging: Lessons from U.K. Age-Friendly Cities

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Global Positioning System: Observations on Quarterly Reports from the Air Force. GAO-17-162R

·         Immigrant Investor Program: Proposed Project Investments in Targeted Employment Areas. GAO-16-749R

·         Military Personnel: Performance Measures Needed to Determine How Well DOD's Credentialing Program Helps Servicemembers. GAO-17-133

·         Security Assistance: Guidance Needed for Completing Required Impact Assessments Prior to Presidential Drawdowns. GAO-17-26

·         U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Contracting for Transportation and Guard Services for Detainees. GAO-17-89R

·         Water Infrastructure: Information on Selected Midsize and Large Cities with Declining Populations. GAO-16-785

Heritage Foundation

·         Right to Arms and the American Philosophy of Freedom

·         Time to Prune the Tree, Part 2: The Need to Reassess the Federal Fraud Laws

·         The United States Should Not Back a European Union Army

Households in Conflict Network

·         Conflict and Poverty in Afghanistan’s Transition

Hudson Institute

·         Kleptocracy Curse: Rethinking Containment

·         West Iraq: The Search for Leaders and Leverage

Human Rights Watch

·         Harassed, Imprisoned, Exiled: Azerbaijan’s Continuing Crackdown on Government Critics, Lawyers, and Civil Society

·         “Tell Me Where I Can Be Safe": The Impact of Nigeria’s Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         The Importance of Passive and Active CBRN Defensive Measures

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, October 20, 2016

o    Corruption and Violence in Africa—What Does the Literature Say?

o    Turkey and Africa After the Failed Coup

o    Mali—The Deadliest of All Current United Nations Peacekeeping Missions

·         Al Sahawa—The Awakening Volume IV—Al Anbar Province, Area of Operations Topeka, Ramadi

·         Al Sahawa—The Awakening Volume IV-A—Area of Operations Topeka,East Ramadi and the Shark Fins

·         Review of Federal and Non-Governmental Methane Measurement and Monitoring

·         Science and Technology Policy Institute Report to the President, FY2015

Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence University of Bielefeld

·         International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2016, v. 10, no.1

o    Focus: Extremely Violent Societies

o    Introduction: Extremely Violent Societies

o    Cascades Across An ‘Extremely Violent Society’: Sri Lanka

o    (Re)creating Political Identity, (Re)creating Spaces: Similar Enemies, Different Victims in the Central African Republic (CAR) Conflicts

o    Violent Mexico: The Mexican Case as an ‘Extremely Violent Society'

o    Violent Caracas. A Socio-economic and Political Approach to Understand urban Violence in Contemporary Venezuela

o    Torture as Theatre in Papua

o    The Secret Islamization of Europe Exploring the Integrated Threat Theory: Predicting Islamophobic Conspiracy Stereotypes

o    Explaining Prejudice Toward U.S. Americans and Europeans in Egypt: The Role of Religion

o    A Gender Perspective on State Support for Crime Victims in Switzerland

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Civil-Military Relations in the Middle East and North Africa:Between Fragility and Resilience

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

·         Reimagining Muslim Spaces Study: Solutions for More Vibrant,Inclusive and Service Oriented Islamic Centers

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

·         Bridging Transatlantic Voices: Civic Approaches to Confronting Violent Extremism

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

·         Engaging China as a Security Actor in a Multi-Partner World

·         The History of What’s Next

·         How Egypt’s Youth Could Decide Country’s Future

·         White Helmets – US Hybrid Warfare for Regime Change Operations?

Institute for the Study of War

·         The Campaign for Mosul: October 19, 2016

·         The Campaign for Mosul: ISIS Counterattacks in Kirkuk, October 21, 2016

·         Iraq Launches the Campaign for Mosul

·         Iraq Situation Report: October 12-17, 2016 

·         ISIS Sanctuary Map: October 17, 2016

·         Syria Situation Report: October 13 - 20, 2016

Institute of Development Studies

·         The UN at 70, and the UK. Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action, and Peace and Security: Lessons from Experience and Policy Recommendations

Institute of International Affairs  (Instituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Youth Exclusion and the Transformative Impact of Organized Youth in Turkey

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Balancing or Containing China? Interpreting Chinese Views on India-US LEMOA

·         Currency-Printing: South Asia-South Korea’s Trustworthy Relations in the 1980s

·         US Presidential Election and the Indian Diaspora

·         Xi Jinping in Dhaka: Implications for South Asian Politics

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Foreign Fighters in Their Own Words: Using YouTube as a Source

·         Towards a European Position on the Use of Armed Drones? A Human Rights Approach

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)

·         5th International Report on Crime Prevention and Community Safety: Cities and the New Urban Agenda

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Benefits and Costs of Corporate Debt Restructuring : An Estimation for Korea

·         The Blind Side of Public Debt Spikes

·         Estimating Potential Output in Chile : A Multivariate Filter for Mining and Non-Mining Sectors

·         Gone with the Wind : Estimating Hurricane and Climate Change Costs in the Caribbean

·         Negative Interest Rates : How Big a Challenge for Large Danish and Swedish Banks?

·         Resolving China’s Corporate Debt Problem

·         The Role of Newly Industrialized Economies in Global Value Chains

·         Surprise, Surprise : What Drives the Rand / U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility?

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Waging Peace: UN Peace Operations Confronting Terrorism and Violent Extremism

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

·         Populism on the Rise. Democracies under Challenge?

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), 83, (4th Quarter, 2016)

o    From the Chairman: Strategic Challenges and Implications

o    Global Power Distribution and Warfighting in the 21st Century

o    Fast Followers, Learning Machines, and the Third Offset Strategy

o    Predicting the Proliferation of Cyber Weapons into Small States

o    The Danger of False Peril: Avoiding Threat Inflation

o    Wargaming the Third Offset Strategy

o    I Liked Ike . . . Whence Comes Another? Why PME Needs a Congressional Advocate

o    Is the Chinese Army the Real Winner in PLA Reforms?

o    China’s Military Reforms: An Optimistic Take

o    Chinese Military Reforms: A Pessimistic Take

o    PLA Reforms and China’s Nuclear Forces

o    What Do China’s Military Reforms Mean for Taiwan?

o    An Interview with Cecil D. Haney

o    Global Mental Health: Optimizing Uniformed Services Roles

o    Applying Smart Power via Global Health Engagement

o    NATO Nouvelle: Everything Old Is New Again

o    Fighting with Friends: Coalition Warfare in Korean Waters, 1950–1953

o    Let’s Fix or Kill the Center of Gravity Concept

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2016 [updated October 21,  2016]

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Economic Migration and Australia in the 21st Century

McKinsey & Company

·         Lions on the Move II: Realizing the Potential of Africa’s Economies

Migration Policy Institute

·         Digital Humanitarianism: How Tech Entrepreneurs Are Supporting Refugee Integration

·         Immigration to the Heartland: A Profile of Immigrants in the Kansas City Region

National Academies Press

·         A Threat to America's Global Vigilance, Reach, and Power–High-Speed, Maneuvering Weapons: Unclassified Summary

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

·         Canadian Military Journal, 2016, v. 16, no.  4

o    A Response to Climate Change: Evolving the Business of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)

o    “From a Beetle to a Porsche:” The Purchase of the Leopard C1 Tank for the Canadian Army

o    Guns, Funds and Power: Defence Spending, Regime Type and the Implications for Canada

o    China’s Re-emergence: Assessing Civilian-Military Relations in the Contemporary Era

o    Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life: Examining the Final Step in a Military Career

o    The Foundations of Inclusive Leadership

o    A Doctrine for Individual Training and Education

o    Consultation and the Defence Policy Review

New America Foundation

·         Smart City Partnerships: Smart Cities and the Internet of Things:Benefits, Risks, and Options

Oceans Beyond Piracy

·         The State of Maritime Piracy 2015

Open Society Foundations

·         Eroding Trust: The UK’s Prevent Counter-Extremism Strategy in Health and Education

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Scorecards on Honourable MNAs' Performance : 2015-2016

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         Middle East’s Migrant Population More Than Doubles Since 2005

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

·         Trump, Clinton Supporters Differ on How Media Should Cover Controversial Statements

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Clinton Says the 'Clean Energy Economy' Will Create Millions of Jobs. Can It?

·         A Theory of Economic Policy Lock-in and Lock-out via Hysterisis: Rethinking Economists’ Approach to Economic Policy

Project 2049 Institute

·         Challenges Facing Taiwan in the South China Sea

Rand

·         American Grand Strategy and the Liberal Order: Continuity, Change,and Options for the Future

·         Assessing the Training and Operational Proficiency of China's Aerospace Forces: Selections from the Inaugural Conference of the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI)

·         Building a Sustainable International Order: Summary of the First Workshop in the International Order Project Series

·         Calculating the Gross Regional Product of the Kurdistan Region —Iraq: Kurdish translation

·         The moral component of cross-domain conflict

·         Paternity and parental leave policies across the European Union

·         Understanding the Current International Order

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Building Trust and Taking Risks in the Global Effort to Tackle Financial Crime

Small Arms Survey

·         Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Somalia

·         Monitoring Trends in Violent Deaths

Small Wars Journal

·         Beyond Ender: Amplified Intelligence and the Age of the School Wars

·         The Cyber Espionage Predominant Purpose Test

·         Cyber Support to Corps and Below: Digital Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

·         ICYMI: Small Wars Journal / Military Writers Guild Writing Contest

·         Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield: An Exemplar of Joint Combined Arms Maneuver

·         Untangling the Arab-Kurdish Web in Post-ISIL Northern Iraq

·         Winning the Cyber Gage: Intelligence Dominance in the Digital Information Age

Stanley Foundation

·         Putting Environmental Stress (Back) on the Mass Atrocities Agenda

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Counterproliferation Good Practice for Freight Forwarders

·         Counterproliferation-related Information Sources for the Transport Sector

·         Export Control Compliance and the Transport Sector: Lessons for Internal Compliance Programmes

·         Proliferation Red Flags and the Transport Sector

·         Restricted Parties and the Transport Sector

·         The Role of Transit and Trans-shipment in Counterproliferation Efforts

·         Securing the Supply Chain through Transport Sector Cooperation

·         Military Capabilities in the Arctic: A New Cold War in the High North?

United States Studies Centre - University of Sydney

·         Against Complacency:  Risks and Opportunities for the Australia–US Alliance

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Addressing Fragility—A New Learning Agenda

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Beware of Muqtada al-Sadr

·         The Druze and Assad: Strategic Bedfellows

·         Economic Alternatives Could Help Split Shiites From Hezbollah

·         The Evolution of Terrorism Financing: Disrupting the Islamic State

·         The Future of Arab Reform: Beyond Autocrats and Islamists

·         How Iran's Involvement in Yemen Could Draw America into the War

·         How the Russian Military Reestablished Itself in the Middle East

·         Saudi Arabia's Virtual Quest for Citizenship and Identity

White House

·         Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States

World Bank

·         Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty