Friday's Miscellany 12-30-2016

38 North

·         Do You Want Fries with That? Donald Trump Probably Won’t Be Inviting Kim Jong Un Over for Cheeseburgers

·         North Korea’s Musudan Missile: A Performance Assessment

·         Sinpo South Shipyard: Is the GORAE Set to Sail?

·         North Korean Missiles Can’t Actually Reach Europe

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         The U.S. JASTA (Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act): An Asset or a Liability for America Abroad?

·         U.S. Relations with Asia in the Trump Era

American Enterprise Institute

·         On the Observational Implications of Knightian Uncertainty

·         Outstate Effect: Elections, Politics and Public Opinion

·         Special Operations Forces in the Gray Zone: An Operational Framework for Employing Special Operations Forces in the Space Between War and Peace

·         Understanding Russia Today: Russia’s Many Revisions

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

·         Playing to One’s Strengths: The Implicit Division of Labor in U.S.and EU Climate Diplomacy

·         Transatlantic Relations in a Changing World Order: European and U.S. Responses to China’s Rise in Africa

Amnesty International

·         Rohingya: Persecuted in Myanmar, Neglected in Bangladesh

Army Combined Arms Center

·         Military Review, January-February 2017, v. 97, no. 1

o    Against Bureaucracy

o    Reducing the Size of Headquarters, Department of the Army: An After-Action Report

o    Producing Strategic Value through Deliberate War Planning

o    The Need for a Brigade Politics-and0Policy Staff Officer

o    Expeditionary Land Power

o    Cutting Our Feet to Fit the Shoes: An Analysis of Mission Command in the U.S. Army

o    Complex Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield in Ukrainian Antiterrorism Operations

o    Operational Surveillance and Reconnaissance Battalion

o    From Riley to Baku: How an Opportunistic Unit Broke the Crucible

o    Building Digital Lethality

o    Sleep Banking: Improving Fighter Management

o    Leadership Innovation in the Reserve Officer Training Corps and the Future of the Force

o    Crating a Resource: Helping U.S. Army Central Establish a Historical Document Collection Program

o    Writing: A Way to Maximize Returns on the Army's Investments in Education

Asia Centre

·         China and Australia

·         China - EU Relations: Where to Now?

Asian Development Bank

·         Open Windows, Closed Doors: Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services in the ASEAN Region

Atlantic Council

·         Global Energy Debates and the Eastern Mediterranean

·         Turkey's Nuclear Program

Australian Army

·         Army in a Joint Archipelagic Manoeuvre Concept

·         An Australian Doctrinal Concept for Special Warfare: Lessons and Considerations

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         After Mosul: Australia’s Strategy to Counter the Islamic State

·         Detect, Disrupt and Deny: Optimising Australia’s Counterterrorism Financing System

·         Digital Land Power: The Australian Army’s Cyber Future

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         The Reconfiguration of the Global South: Africa, Latin America and the “Asian Century”

·         War & Health. Defining the Protection of Health in War Zones

·         What Does Radicalisation Look Like? Four Visualisations of Socialisation into Violent Extremism

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         After Aleppo: Iran’s Ascendancy and Its Implications

·         Can Trump Construct a New World Order?

·         UNSCR 2334: A Disservice to the Cause of Peace

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         The 2016 Iranian Parliamentary Elections and the Future of Domestic Politics under the JCPOA

Booz Allen - Cyer4sight

·         Foresights: Cyberthreat Analysis for 2017

Brookings

·         Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States: How Bad Is It and How Can It Approve?

·         The Current and Future State of the Sharing Economy

·         Delivering on Sustainable Infrastructure for Better Development and Better Climate

·         The Economy in 2016 - and What to Expect in 2017

·         How to Fight Terrorism in the Donald Trump Era

·         What the Post-Trump Debate Over Journalism Gets Wrong

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

·         State Progress in Record Reporting for Firearm-Related Background Checks: Misdemeanor Crimes of Domestic Violence

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Calling a Spade a Spade: Canada's Use of Sanctions

·         The Evolution of Japanese Security Policy

Center for Climate & Security

·         Climate and Security 101: Why the U.S. National Security Community Takes Climate Risks Seriously

Center for Global Development

·         The Impact of Anti-Money Laundering Regulation on Payment Flows: Evidence from SWIFT Data  

·         Why Increasing Female Migration from Gender-Unequal Countries is a Win for Everyone

Center for International Policy

·         U.S. Arms Transfers to Saudi Arabia and the War in Yemen

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         Donald Trump’s Middle East Policy and the Kurds

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         #25 Outlawing State-Sponsored Nuclear Procurement Programs & Recovery of Misappopriated Nuclear Goods

·         A Non-Ideological Reframing of the US-Russian Arms-Control Agenda

Center for Security Policy (CSP)

·         “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Secret Deal Allows Company Tied to Saddam’s Nuclear Bombmaker, Iran and U.A.E. to Manage Key Florida Port Facilities 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         History Lessons for the Arctic: What International Maritime Disputes Tell Us about a New Ocean

·         Integrated Approaches to Food Security and Nutrition

·         PacNet #94 - What Next for South Korea?

·         Rethinking the Threat of Islamic Extremism: The Changes Needed in U.S. Strategy

Center for Terrorism and Security Studies

·         Perspectives on Terrorism, December 2016, v. 10, no. 6

o    Jihadi Terrorism in Europe: The IS-Effect

o    Criminal Pasts, Terrorist Futures: European Jihadists and the New Crime-Terror Nexus

o    With a Little Help from my Friends: an Exploration of the Tactical Use of Single-Actor Terrorism by the Islamic State

o    IS and the Jihadist Information Highway – Projecting Influence and Religious Identity via Telegram

o    Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq and the Socio-Economic Environment They Faced at Home: A Comparison of European Countries

o    Terrorism and Beyond: Exploring the Fallout of the European Foreign Fighter Phenomenon in Syria and Iraq

o    The French "Iraqi Networks" of the 2000s: Matrix of the 2015 Terrorist Attacks?

o    Plebeian Jihadism in Denmark: An Individualisation and Popularization Predating the Growth of the Islamic State

o    Patterns of Involvement among Individuals Arrested for Islamic State-related Terrorist Activities in Spain, 2013-2016

o    Jihadism in Norway: a Typology of Militant Networks in a Peripheral European Country

o    Countering Violent Extremism with Governance Networks

o    Why States Fail to Counter Foreign Fighter Mobilizations: The Role of Intelligence Services

o    The Future of Jihadism in Europe: A Pessimistic View

o    Bibliography: Islamist Terrorism in Europe

o    Counterterrorism Bookshelf: 12 Books on Al-Qaida and ISIS-related Subjects

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         MITCEEPR: Tight Oil Development Economics: Benchmarks, Breakeven Points, and Inelasticities

·         Vulnerability, Resilience, and Reform: The GCC and the Oil Price Crisis 2014-2016

Centre for European Reform

·         Customs Union Membership Is No Way Out of the Brexit Trap

·         Europe’s Make-or-Break Country: What is Wrong with Italy’s Economy?

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Letter from GEN Dunford to Senator Cruz regarding the Hague Tribunal Payment of $1.7 billion to Iran

·         Letter from Sen. Cruz to GEN Dunford

Chatham House

·         Economic Reform in the GCC: Privatization as a Panacea for Declining Oil Wealth?

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Europe and China's New Silk Roads

Congress. House. Freedom Caucus [Congressman Mark Meadows]

·         First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke, and Issue  

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Reviewing the Department of Homeland Security’s Intelligence Enterprise: Fighting Terrorism by Addressing Key Gaps

Congress. House.  Judiciary and Energy and Commerce Committees

·         Encryption Working Group Year-End Report

Congress. House.  Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Law Enforcement Use of Cell-Site Simulation Technologies:  Privacy Concerns and Recommendations

Congress. House. Permanent Committee on Intelligence

·         Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden (declassified/redacted)

Congress. House. Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing

·         Stopping Terror Finance: Securing the U.S. Financial Sector

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

·         DHS Headquarters Consolidation at St. Elizabeths: Better Results for Less Money

·         Four Years Later: The Federal Government's Support for Public Health Research on Gun Violence Since Sandy Hook

Congress. Senate. Senator John McCain

·         America's Most Wasted Report

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         CBO’s 2016 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information

·         Challenges in Estimating the Number of People With Nongroup Health Insurance Coverage Under Proposals for Refundable Tax Credits

·         How Does CBO Define and Estimate Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65?

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Foreign Investment and U.S. National Security

·         Preventive Priorities Survey: 2017

·         Who’s Who in Syria’s Civil War

Crowdstrike

·         Use of Fancy Bear  Android Malware in Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Unit

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         African Soldiers are in the Firing Line in Mali

·         China's Overseas Investment in Critical Infrastructure

·         Europe is Losing the Fight Against Human Smuggling in Libya

·         Guests or Trash:  Iran’s Precarious Policies Towards the Afghan Refugees  in the Wake of Sanctions and Regional Wars

·         Preparing for Protection of Civilians in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

·         A Viable Libyan Government Must be Built from the Bottom Up

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Joint Statement for the Inaugural Meeting of the Extended Deterrence Strategy and Consultation Group

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2017-033 Assessment of U.S. and Coalition Efforts to Train, Advise, Assist, and Equip the Kurdish Security Forces in Iraq

Department of State

·         Remarks on the Middle East [Sec Kerry]

·         This Is One of Our Top Strategies for Fighting Terrorism

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Norway Country Analysis Brief - December 2016

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         The EU Transparency Register: On the Right Path, But Not Quite There Yet

·         MIGRATION PANORAMA | The Western Balkans Migratory Route: Perspectives and Persisting Challenges

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

·         Developing Gender-Sensitive Value Chains: A Guiding Framework

·         FAO in South Sudan Emergency Livelihood Response Programme September 2016 to December 2017

·         Gender Equality, Social Protection and Rural Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

·         Gender, Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises: Women and Girls as Agents of Resilience

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Flawed Hope of Sufi Promotion in North Africa

·         How We Misunderstand the Sources of Religious Violence

·         Looking Back a Quarter Century after the USSR’s Collapse

·         Resolution Convolutions

·         What the Assassination of the Russian Ambassador May Be Telling Us about Erdoğan’s Turkey

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Non-tariff Measures in ASEAN: A Simple Proposal

·         Transparency in Non-Tariff Measures : An International Comparison

French Institute of International Relations (Institut Français des Relations Internationales)

·         France: Reducing Nuclear Dominance and Promoting a Low Carbon Energy System

·         The Kashmir Uprising and India-Pakistan Relations: A Need for Conflict Resolution, not Management

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

·         DDR and SSR in War-to-Peace Transition

·         Integrating SSR and SALW Programming

·         Linking Mine Action and SSR through Human Security

German Council on Foreign Relations

·         “Aid and Assistance by All Means in their Power” : The EU Mutual Assistance Clause as a Test Case for European Defense

·         Beyond Closing Mosques and Shutting Down Facebook Pages: How Tunisia Can Address the Threat of Online and Offline Terrorist Recruitment

·         Tunisia’s Postcolonial Identity Crisis: A Key to Understanding the Lure of Extremism

German Development Institute

·         Comparing structure and Organisation of Development Bureaucracies in Europe: A Pilot Study of European aid Administrations

·         Environmental Tax Reform in Developing, Emerging and Transition Economies

·         Green Bonds: Taking Off the Rose-coloured Glasses

·         Urban sewage in Brazil: drivers of and obstacles to Wastewater Teatment and Reuse. Governing the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Series

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Do Associations Support Authoritarian Rule? Tentative Answers from Algeria, Mozambique, and Vietnam  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Declining Resources: Selected Agencies Took Steps to Minimize Effects on Mission but Opportunities Exist for Additional Action. GAO-17-79

·         Dodd-Frank Regulations: Agencies' Efforts to Analyze and Coordinate Their Recent Final Rules. GAO-17-188

·         Homeless Veterans: Management Improvements Could Help VA Better Identify Supportive-Housing Projects.  GAO-17-101

Government of China

·         China's Space Activities in 2016 - White Paper

Heritage Foundation

·         Economic Freedom: The Only Way for Latin America to Escape Its Slow-Growth Path

·         National Academy of Sciences Report Indicates Amnesty for Unlawful Immigrants Would Cost Trillions of Dollars

·         A Pathway to Shutting Down the Federal Housing Finance Enterprises

·         Reducing Federal Intervention in Education and Moving Toward Student-Centered Policies: 10 Steps for the Incoming Administration

·         Stars Align for the Congressional Review Act

·         U.S. Continues to Face Cyber Threats in 2016

Hudson Institute

·         Awakening Giant: Risks and Opportunities for Japan's New Defense Export Policy

Human Rights Watch

·         “‘Bound by Brotherhood": India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody

·         “I Want To Live With My Head Held High:” Abuses in Bangladesh’s Legal Recognition of Hijras

Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

·         Overcoming the Shadow Economy

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         China’s First Cyber Security Law

·         Countering Fidayeen Attacks

·         Culture, Context and Capability: American and Indian Counterinsurgency Approaches

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, December 22, 2016

o    Libya: The Weak Link in Migration Control

o    Zimbabwe: Mugabe, 92, Selected to Run Again in 2018 Election

o    Constitutional Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Heavy Water Loophole in the Iran Deal: A Priority is Ending Iran’s Overproduction and Sale of Heavy Water

Institute for the Study of War

·         The Campaign for Mosul: December 13-19, 2016

·         Iraq Situation Report: December 7-20, 2016

·         Russian Airstrikes in Syria: November 21 - December 19, 2016

·         Syria Situation Report: December 15 - 22, 2016

·         The Virtual Caliphate: ISIS's Information Warfare

Institute of International Affairs  (Instituto Affari Internazionali)

·         EU-India: Starting a More Adventurous Conversation

·         EU-India Cooperation on Cyber Issues: Towards Pragmatic Idealism?

·         The EU-Turkey March 2016 Agreement As a Model

·         Maritime Security and Freedom of Navigation from the South China Sea and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean

·         Material Factors for the MENA Region

·         On the Importance of Ideas, Identities and Values in the MENA Region

Institute of International Relations

·         Migration: A Crisis Europe Can’t Keep Out

·         Untapped Talent: The Costs of Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Nation Building with Non-Nationals: The United Arab Republic’s Pathway to Modernity

·         Pakistan’s Involvement in the ‘Heart of Asia’ Conference

·         Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy under the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government

·         Trump, the Future of American Democracy, and the Developing World

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Trends, Dynamics and Policy Responses

International Crisis Group

·         South Sudan: Rearranging the Chessboard

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Inequality

·         Food Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa : Causes and Policy Implications

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·         The Civic Role of Arab Universities

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

·         Beyond Trump: Populism on the Rise

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, December 21, 2016, v. 16, no.19  

o    Carrier Operations on Display in the Bohai Gulf

o    The Emergence of the Wang Qishan Faction

o    The Strategic Support Force: Update and Overview

o    Modernizing Military Intelligence: Playing Catchup (Part Two)

o    Quantum Leap (Part 2): The Strategic Implications of Quantum Technologies

·         Terrorism Monitor, December 15, 2016, v. 14, no. 24

o    Islamic State in Yemen

o    Foreign Fighters and Sectarian Strikes: Islamic State Makes Gains in ‘Af-Pak’ Region

o    Why Are Egypt’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts Failing in the Sinai Peninsula?

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         IS and Cultural Genocide: Antiquities Trafficking in the Terrorist State

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Future Proofing Australia–New Zealand Defence Relations

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

·         Germany-Based Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Emerges As Jihadis' Preferred Communications Platform – Part V Of MEMRI Series: Encryption Technology Embraced By ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Other Jihadis – September 2015-September 2016: Section 2 – MEMRI Research Documents Jihadi Use Of Telegram

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         State Sociodemographic Portraits of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Parents of Young Children

·         Untapped Talent: The Costs of Brain Waste among Highly Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Military Cyber Professionals Association

·         Military Cyber Affairs, 2016, v. 2, no. 1

o    Military Cyber Professionals Have an Important Part to Play in the Obama-Trump Transition

o    Leveraging Lexical Link Analysis (LLA) To Discover New Knowledge

o    A Case for Deception in the Defense

o    People's War in Cyberspace: Using China's Civilian Economy in the Information Domain

o    Evaluating Machine Learning Classifiers for Defensive Cyber Operations

National Academies Press

·         Improving Collection of Indicators of Criminal Justice System Involvement in Population Health Data Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop

·         Transportation Resilience: Adaptation to Climate Change

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

·         Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Colombia, 2002-present

National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC)

·         National Insider Threat Policy

·         Summary of Federal Citations for the National Insider Threat Task Force

National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

·         Canadian Military Journal, 2016, v. 17, no.  1

o    Core Competencies and the Army: A Complex yet Potentially Rewarding Relationship

o    From an International Strategy to Tactical Actions: How Canada Could Run Campaigns

o    Simple Changes, Strategic Gain: The Case for Personnel Recovery in Canada

o    Reflections of a Liaison Officer

o    Canadian Infantry in North Africa, January–May 1943

o    The Missiles of Anadyr: Soviet Cold War Plans That Could Have Included the Destruction of RCAF Station Comox, 1962–1969

o    150 Years of Military History in Downtown Montreal

o    Poland’s Choice for Patriot

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

·         SP 800-184 -- Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery

National Security Archive

·         The End of the Soviet Union 1991

·         President’s Daily Brief Spotlighted Soviet Missile and Space Programs in 1960s and 1970s

·         Reagan's Nuclear War Briefing Declassified

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

·         Hedgehog in the Fog: Creating and Detecting IPv6 Transition Mechanism-Based Information Exfiltration Covert Channels

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Winter  2016, v. 70, no. 1

o    Effective Implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation

o    International Law and Search and Rescue

o    Changing DoD's Analysis Paradigm, The Science of War Gaming and Combat/Campaign Simulation

o    A Himalayan Challenge, India's Conventional Deterrent and the Role of Special Operations Forces along the Sino-Indian Border -

o    The Development of Vietnam's Sea-Denial Strategy

o    Review Essay - What Is Victory? (The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War, by James Q. Whitman)

New America Foundation

·         Internet Freedom At a Crossroads: Recommendations for the 45thPresident’s Internet Freedom Agenda

Nuclear Threat Institute

·         Outpacing Cyber Threats: Priorities for Cybersecurity at Nuclear Facilities

Oxfam Policy & Practice

·         Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: Safe Havens Needed for Refugees from Syria

Oxford Research Group

·         Limited Accountability: A transparency audit of the anti-ISIL Coalition

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         In Election’s Wake, Partisans Assess the State of Their Parties

RAND

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

·         A Focus on Cybersecurity

·         Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: A Closer Look at the Origins and Implementation of Controlled Unclassified Information Labels and Security Policy

·         NATO, Climate Change, and International Security: A Risk Governance Approach

·         What's the Buzz on Delivery Drones?

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Implementing the Iran Nuclear Deal: Balancing Proliferation Finance Risk and Economic Opportunity

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Brexit and its Aftermath: Impacts and Policy Recommendations for Asia

·         Cyber Security in Singapore

·         French Counter-radicalization Strategy

Small Wars Journal 

·         Battle of Guadalcanal: Systems and Military Culture

·         The Best Natural Defense to Psychological Warfare

·         Could Europe Fear Germany Again?

·         The Dismounted Close Combat Community and Intimate Killing: An Interpretation of ‘Scales on War’ and the Australian Context

·         Game Review: Operation Whirlwind - The Soviet Assault on Budapest,1956

·         The Importance of Diplomacy in United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)

·         The Importance of Human Factors for Joint CYBER Planning

·         The Iraqi Military, The US-led Coalition and the Mosul Operation:The Risk of Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

·         Lost Opportunities with a New SOF Career Course

·         What’s Wrong With ARSOF? Part II of IV of “What’s Wrong With SOCOM?”

·         What’s Wrong with the Rest of SOCOM?: WARCOM, AFSOC, and MARSOC

·         What’s Wrong With SOCOM?: Part I: JSOC Winning the War Against White SOF and the Problems Massive Bureaucracy Gets You in the Conduct of Irregular Warfare

·         Uncloaking the Dagger: Does Adherence to the Geneva Conventions Betray Special Operations Forces?

Stanley Foundation

·         A Multistakeholder Governance Agenda: What Are the Opportunities?

·         The Power of the Private Sector in Preventing Atrocities and Promoting the Responsibility to Protect

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Top 100 Arms-Producing and Military Services Companies, 2015

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Preparing for War? Moscow Facing an Arc of Crisis

Transnational Institute

·         Border Wars II: An Update on the Arms Industry Profiting from Europe's Refugee Tragedy 

·         The Hidden Costs of RCEP and Corporate Trade Deals in Asia

Trust for America's Health

·         Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism

·         Policy Recommendations for the Trump Administration

UK Ministry of Defense

·         The United Kingdom’s Future Nuclear Deterrent: 2016 Update to Parliament

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Dynamics of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Kosovo

·         Women in Nonviolent Movements

US Korea Institute

·         The Arab Spring and North Korea

·         Instability and Regime Change: Why and How Are Regimes Ruined?

·         Review of Previous ROK Government Policies for Reunification and Future Policy Options in View of German Reunification

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Early Implications of the UN Settlements Resolution

·         Iran's Basij Mull a Wider Domestic and Regional Role

·         Israel's Amona Compromise May Bolster the Settler Movement

·         Kerry's Speech: Some Continuity, Some Disconnect

·         The Lines That Bind: 100 Years of Sykes-Picot

·         A New Era in Egypt-Israel Relations?

·         Putin Praises Trump, Downplays Arms Race

·         Saving Kurdistan from its Political Drought

·         Sympathy for the Devil: Why Iran's Leaders Should See Reflections of Themselves in Israel

·         What's at Stake for Lebanon's New Government?

Wilson Center

·         Assessing ISIS Expansion in Southeast Asia: Major Threat or Misplaced Fear?

White House

·         Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy

·         Legal and Policy Frameworks

o    FACT SHEET: Presidential Memorandum –“Legal and Policy Transparency Concerning United States’ Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations” and Accompanying Report on Transparency in Legal and Policy Frameworks

o    Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States’ Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations

·         National Electric Grid Security and Resilience Action Plan

·         Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Pearl Harbor

·         Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

o    Executive Order -- Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities

o    Annex to Executive Order -- Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities

o    FACT SHEET: Actions in Response to Russian Malicious Cyber Activity and Harassment

o    Letter from the President -- Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities

o    Statement by the President on Actions in Response to Russian Malicious Cyber Activity and Harassment

·         Statement by the President on Signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017