Friday's Miscellany 01-20-2017

38 North

·         Is North Korea Preparing a Missile Test?

·         North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Facility: Possible Resumption of Operations at the 5 MWe Plutonium Production Reactor

AEI Critical Threats

·         Fighting Forces in Libya: January 2017

Air Land Sea Application (ALSA) Center

·         Air Land Sea Bulletin, Winter 2016

o    Assured Access to Space: An Examination of the Space Domain as a Tool for National Power

o    Countering the UAS Threat (a Joint Perspective)

o    Teaser for an … Improving Link 16 Efficiency and Providing Advanced Engagement Options for Anti-Access/ Area Denial Operations Classified Article

o    Reviving JAAT Capabilities with Existing Joint Doctrine

o    The Army and Air Force Need USAF 13L Officers, Joint Fires Integrator

o    True Impacts of Space Weather on a Ground Force

Asan Institute for Policy Studies

·         Trump Time: Koreans’ View of ROK-US Relations

Asia Foundation

·         Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia: The Future of the Rebalance

Asian Development Bank

·         Federalism, Fiscal Space, and Public Investment Spending: Do Fiscal Rules Impose Hard Budget Constraints?

·         Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Economic Growth in Developing Asia

·         Trade and Trade Policy Issues in the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·         Decoys & Mukhbirs: The Unutilised Instruments for Enforcement of the PC&PNDT Act

·         The State of the PC&PNDT Act: India’s Losing Battle Against Female Foeticide

Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO)

·         The Intellgencer, Fall 2016, no. 22, no. 2

o    Stalin’s Disciple: Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Newest “Wet Affairs”

Atlantic Council

·         Superpartner: A US Strategy for a Complex World

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Trump and Strategic Change in Asia

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Abuses along U.S.-Mexico Border

·         Bargaining with China: Exchange Rate Policy

·         Executive Summary: Employment Impacts of Upstream Oil and Gas Investment in the United States

·         The Mideast, Russia & Obama's Legacy

·         Recommendations for the New Administration

·         The Selection of Judges in Texas: Analysis of the Current System and of the Principal Reform Options

·         U.S. Energy Policy: Guidance for the Next Administration

·         Venezuela’s Oil Industry: Managing the Collapse but Increasing Opportunities

·         Whither NAFTA?

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         How Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem Can Improve Prospects for Peace

·         Jerusalem is the Center of Gravity

·         Out with the Old, In with the New

·         The Two-State Solution: A Greater Threat to Palestinians than to Israel

Beyond the Parallel

·         Information and Its Consequences in North Korea

Brookings

·         Change of Pace: Accelerations and Advances During the Millennium Development Goal Era 

·         Political Polarization and the 2016 Congressional Primaries

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Domestic Income Fairness and Strategic Global Security...Now One and the Same?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Assessing the China Challenge for Trump’s Presidency

·         Avoiding the Labors of Sisyphus: Strengthening U.S.-India Relations in a Trump Administration

CATO Institute

·         The Illegal Tenure of Civil Rights Head Vanita Gupta

·         Immigrants Assimilate into the Political Mainstream

Center for Global Development

·         The Dangers of Deal Making for Development

·         Expanding Women’s Role in Developing Technology: Increasing Productivity, Improving Lives

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         The Mosul Operation and Its Future: Risks and Opportunities

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         The Dilemma of Lawlessness: Organized Crime, Violence, Prosperity, and Security along Guatemala's Borders

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytics Digest, No. 196: Russian Security/Defense

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Preserving the Balance: A U.S. Eurasia Defense Strategy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Individual Liberty

·         Issues & Insights Vol. 17 - No. 1 - 4th US/UK-Myanmar Nonproliferation Dialogue

·         PacNet #5 - Comparative Connections Vol. 18, No. 3

·         PacNet #6 - President Tsai: Respect the Will of the People and Accept the ‘1992 Consensus’

·         Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

·         Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Activities: Procedures Approved by the Attorney General Pursuant to Executive Order 12333

Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies

·         Operation Euphrates Shield and the al-Bab Campaign: A Strategic Assessment

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         What Does Theresa May's Speech Tell Us About How Britain Will Leave the EU?

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Generating Growth from Innovation for the Low-carbon Economy: Exploring Safeguards in Finance and Regulation

Centre for Security Governance (CSG)

·         The Gradual Emergence of Second Generation Security Sector Reform in El Salvador

Chatham House

·         America’s International Role Under Donald Trump

·         The ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative and the London Market – the Next Steps in Renminbi Internationalization

·         US Election 2016

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Working with Informal Justice

Congress. Senate. Senator John McCain

·         Restoring American Power: Recommendations for the FY 2018-FY 2022 Defense Budget  

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Bolstering the UN Human Rights Council’s Effectiveness

·         Council of Councils Ninth Regional Conference: Insights From a Council of Councils Workshop  

·         The Debate Over Brexit

·         Environmental Health and China’s Rise

·         U.S. Corporate Tax Reform

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         African Peacekeepers in Mali

·         The Special Relationships of the US in Europe

Deloitte

·         Manufacturing USA Program Design and Progress: A Third-party Evaluation

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         U.S. and Chinese Joint Statement for the Defense Policy Coordination Talks 2017

Department of Homeland Security

·         Report No. 17-24 Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for FY 2016

East West Center

·         Counting Women's Work: Measuring the Gendered Economy in the Market and at Home

·         South Asia's Efforts at Regional Reintegration: Fantasy or Feasible?

Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies

·         Europe and China's New Silk Roads

Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

·         What Changes in a Post-Karimov Uzbekistan?

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         South Korea Country Analysis Brief - January 2017

European Parliament

·         EU-Philippines Relations Beyond Trade and Aid  

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         The Market Design Proposal: The Journey Has Only Begun

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

·         State of the Practice on Data Access, Sharing, and Integration

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

·         Developing an Environmental Monitoring System to Strengthen Fisheries and Aquaculture Resilience and Improve Early Warning in the Lower Mekong Basin

·         Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level Water harvesting for agriculture: Status,performance and scope assessment in Uganda, Burkina Faso and Morocco

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Tillerson the Realist

·         Trump and Taiwan: A Fresh Start or a Turn for the Worse?

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Learning for Adopting: Technology Adoption in Developing Country Agriculture

Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy

·         Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook No.20 (38) December 2016 

·         Russian Economic Developments №12, 2016

German Council on Foreign Relations

·         Russia’s Evolving South Caucasus Policy

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         President Trump, the U.S. Security Guarantee, and the Future ofEuropean Integration

Global Political Trends Center

·         The Risks and Rewards of Israeli-Turkish Energy Cooperation

·         Turkey-Israel Deal: A Key to Long-term Reconciliation?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Cuba: U.S. Policy Changes Increased Engagement with Private Sector, but Agency Information Collection Is Limited. GAO-17-201

·         Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs Clearer Guidance on Notifying Congress of Privately Financed Construction Projects. GAO-17-76

·         GAO: Summary of Performance and Financial Information, Fiscal Year 2016. GAO-17-2SP

·         Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Has Improved Environmental Cleanup Reporting but Should Obtain and Share More Information. GAO-17-151

·         National Nuclear Security Administration: A Plan Incorporating Leading Practices Is Needed to Guide Cost Reporting Improvement Effort. GAO-17-141

·         Overseas Contingency Operations: OMB and DOD Should Revise the Criteria for Determining Eligible Costs and Identify the Costs Likely to Endure Long Term. GAO-17-68

Heritage Foundation

·         $15 Minimum Wages Will Substantially Raise Prices

·         Economic Outlook for 2017

·         Labor Department Can Create Jobs by Calculating Davis–Bacon Rates More Accurately

·         The NLRB Can Protect Worker Voting Rights Administratively

·         Rolling the DICE on Environmental Regulations: A Close Look at the Social Cost of Methane and Nitrous Oxide

Households in Conflict Network

·         Communal violence in the Horn of Africa following the 1998 El Niño

·         The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa

·         Short term effects of drought on communal conflict in Nigeria

Human Rights Watch

·         World Report 2017: Events of 2016

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         China’s White Paper on Asia Pacific Security Cooperation: An Assessment

·         Destination India for Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

·         Muslim American Experience Bibliography

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

·         Will the World See an African Spring in 2017?

Institute for the Study of War

·         The Campaign for Mosul: January 10-18, 2017

·         Syria Situation Report: December 22, 2016 - January 19, 2017

Institute of International Affairs  (Instituto Affari Internazionali)

·         China's Foreign Policy in Northeast Asia: Implications for the Korean Peninsula

·         Does the EU-Turkey Migration Deal Represent a Model to be Replicated in Other Contexts?

·         The EU and the Korean Peninsula: Diplomatic Support, Economic Aid and Security Cooperation

·         The Migration Paradox and EU-Turkey Relations

·         Northeast Asia's Evolving Security Order

·         Supporting NAPCI and Trilateral Cooperation: Prospects for Korea-EU Relations

·         Which Crisis? Understanding and Addressing Migration

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Bilateral Economic Interests of India and China: Rethinking Respective Roles in an Evolving World Economy

·         China and the Trump Presidency: Some Implications for the World, and South Asia

·         Conflict in Balochistan

·         Dealing with Trump’s America

·         Forthcoming Assembly Elections in India’s Punjab: A Challenge to the Ruling Coalition

·         GST Implementation in India: A Solution with Complications

·         India’s Demonetisation: The Pain-Gain Imbalance

·         Recent Trends in India’s China Policy: The imperative for Greater Room to Manoeuver

·         Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections: Pivotal State braces formulti-cornered contest

InterAgency Board (IAB)

·         A Proposed Model for Bioterrorism Response: Initial Operations and Characterization

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Why “Amnesty” Should Not Be Considered for Returning Foreign Fighters: A Response to Wells and Gurski

International Crisis Group

·         Implementing the Iran Nuclear Deal: A Status Report

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Benefits of Global and Regional Financial Integration in Latin America

·         Korea’s Challenges Ahead—Lessons from Japan’s Experience

·         Why Do Bank-Dependent Firms Bear Interest-Rate Risk

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 3-25, Countering Threat Networks, 21 December 2016

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Preventing Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation–LeveragingSpecial Operations Forces to Shape the Environment

National Academies Press

·         Innovations in Federal Statistics: Combining Data Sources While Protecting Privacy

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         Asia’s Energy Security amid Global Market Change

·         The Dilemma Confronting the U.S.-Thailand Relationship

National Security Archive

·         Operation Condor: Condemned to Life!

Noblis

·         Power Begins at Home: Assured Energy for Military Bases

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Brexit and the EU budget: Threat or Opportunity?

·         The Europeans and Uncle Trump: A Risk and An Opportunity

·         Terrorist Threat and Refugee Crisis: French and German Answers

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         Bin Laden's Bookshelf

·         DNI Letter to IC Leadership on Promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the U.S. Intelligence Community

·         Domestic Approach to National Intelligence

·         Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities

Oxford Research Group

·         Special Measures: Donald Trump and Trans-Atlantic Relations

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         On Eve of Inauguration, Americans Expect Nation’s Deep Political Divisions to Persist 

Rand

·         The Air Force Deployment Transition Center: Assessment of Program Structure, Process, and Outcomes

·         Developing Senior Leaders for the Reserve Components

·         Exploring America's Role in a Turbulent World: Strategic Rethink

·         Russia and the West After the Ukrainian Crisis: European Vulnerabilities to Russian Pressures

·         Strategic Choices for a Turbulent World: In Pursuit of Security and Opportunity

Small Wars Journal

·         Ayatollah Rafsanjani’s Death and Trump Policy on Iran

·         The Coming “Day One” Challenge to Trump’s Foreign Policy

·         Little Known Facts about the First Barbary War

·         The New Security Force Assistance Units May Be The Vanguard We Were Looking For…  

·         Tensions in the South China Sea National Intelligence Estimate: The Next Two to Three Years

·         Why a DNI? Why an ODNI?

·         Why No One Remembers the Arab Spring of 2010

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         Emerging Trends in Africa’s Electoral Processes

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         High- Risk List

Stanley Foundation

·         Risks and Fragmentation: Challenges and Strategies for Nuclear Policy Advocacy  

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Arms Trade Treaty Database [now includes activities in Latin America and the Caribbean]

·         Factoring Russia Into the US–Chinese Equation on Hypersonic Glide Vehicles

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Emerging Powers and Future Threats: Implications for the U.S. and Global Defense Industry

Swedish Defence Research Agency

·         The Assertive Kingdom - Saudi Arabia’s Threat Perception, Capabilities and Strategies

·         China’s Acquisitions in Europe -European Perceptions of Chinese Investments and their Strategic Implications

Transnational Institute

·         Keep the Farm TTIP- and CETA-free!

UK Prime Minister

·         The Government's Negotiating Objectives for Exiting the EU: PM Speech

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)

·         National Cyber Incident Response Plan

·         National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Iran Appoints Seasoned Qods Force Operative as Ambassador to Iraq

·         Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem: From Campaign Promise to Policy Challenge

·         Shifting International Support for Libya's Unity Government

·         Trump's First Foreign Policy Win Could Be in Syria

·         Will Astana Displace Geneva in the Syrian Peace Process?

White House

·         Inaugural Address

William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

·         Regional Insights, December 2016, no. 3

Wilson Center

·         Africa: Year in Review 2016  

·         Do We Want to Live in China's World?

·         The Jihadi Threat: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and Beyond

World Bank

·         Global Solar Atlas

·         Learning from Disaster Simulation Drills in Japan