Friday's Miscellany 03-10-2017

38 North

·         Much Ado About Nothing: DPRK’s Latest Missile Test Reveals No New Capabilities

·         North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Analysis Reveals Its Potential for Additional Testing with Significantly Higher Yields

·         Preparations for a Future Test Continue at North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

American Enterprise Institute

·         The Trump Template: Who is “Never Trump” Now?

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         ACLED Conflict Trends Report no. 56, March 2017: Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence

Army University Press

·         Military Review, March-April 2017, v. 97, no. 2

o    The Role of the Singapore Armed Forces in Forging National Values, Image, and Identity

o    The Venezuelan Crisis: What the United States and the Region Can Do

o    Argentina at the Crossroads Again: Implications for the United States and for the Region

o    Addressing Behavioral Health Impacts: Balancing Treatment and Mission Readiness

o    Fixing the Army’s Feeding System: We Can, and Should, Do Better

o    Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures of the Islamic State: Lessons for U.S. Forces

o    The Importance of a Long- Term Self-Development Concept to Army Officers

o    Multidomain Operations and Close Air Support: A Fresh Perspective

o    “More Quaint and Subtle Ways to Kill”: The Operations Process in Future War

o    Treading the Way of Ignorance: Officer Education and Critical Thought

o    How to Hinder Unit Readiness

o    The Essence of Leadership: Trustworthiness

o    Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America

o    The Zimmermann Telegram

o    Poem of a Soldier

·         Stability Operations in Syria: The Need for a Revolution in Civil-Military Affairs

Army War College

·         Parameters, Winter 2016-17, v. 46, no. 4

o    The Army's Identity Crisis

o    Ensuring Effective Military Voice

o    The Crisis of American Military Primacy and the Search for Strategic Solvency

o    Faith in War: The American Roots of Global Conflict

o    Solving America's Gray-Zone Puzzle

o    Strategic Uncertainty, the Third Offset, and US Grand Strategy

o    Ends + Ways + Means = (Bad) Strategy

o    Turning It Up to Eleven: Belligerent Rhetoric in North Korea's Propaganda

o    Foreign Military Education as PLA Soft Power

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·         Female Foeticide in Tribal India: India’s Last Vestige Falls

               

Asian Development Bank

·         Earth Observation for a Transforming Asia and Pacific

·         Energy Storage in Grids with High Penetration of Variable Generation

Atlantic Council

·         Beyond the Headlines: A Strategy for US Engagement with Latin America in the Trump Era 

·         Charting the Future Now: European Economic Growth and Its Importance to American Prosperity

Australian Defence College (ADC)

·         Building Resilience in Japan-China Ties: A Role for Australia

·         Defence Diplomacy: The Right Ballast for Australia’s Fragile Relations with Indonesia

·         The future of the security relationship between Singapore and Australia

·         Ice Dragon: A Proposal to Forget the Supply of Methamphetamine from China to Australia

·         What are the Potential Policy Options for Australia in Dealing with a Nuclear-armed North Korea?

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         An Update on Marijuana Reform: Fears and Facts

·         Resolving Energy Reform Conflicts

·         Syringe Exchange: Sound Science, Proven Policy

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The Centenary of the Balfour Declaration

·         Decoding Flynn-gate: Russia, the Middle East, and the US Elections

·         Israel Must Choose: Enforce the Law or Lose the Negev?

·         Trade Insights, Not Barbs

·         War: The School of Life

·         Why Did Islamic State Choose to Threaten China at This Time?

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

·         Safe zones for Syria: Mitigating the Humanitarian Crisis

Brookings

·         Donald Trump and the Future of U.S. leadership: Observations on Onternational order, East Asia, and the Korean Peninsula

·         Non-proliferation Challenges Facing the Trump Administration

·         The Unprecedented Expansion of the Global Middle Class: An Update

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Capitalism in Space: Private Enterprise and Competition Reshape the Global Aerospace Launch Industry

·         Drone Proliferation and the Use of Force: An Experimental Approach

·         Transatlantic Security Cooperation in the Middle East:Recommendations for the New Administration

Center for Global Development

·         Expanding Global Liquidity Insurance through Precautionary Lending:What the IMF Can Do

·         Meeting Sub-Saharan Africa’s Frontier Market Financing Needs: More Is Better from the IMF

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         The Same, Yet Different: United States and Gulf State Interests in the Post-Arab Spring Maghreb

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         After ISIS: U.S. Political-Military Strategy in the Global War on Terror

·         Improved Conventional Munitions Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         PacNet #19 - Kim Jong Nam’s Assassination: a Pyongyang Palace Conspiracy?

·         Tackling Infectious Diseases in Nigeria: Turning the Tide on Tuberculosis and Accelerating toward Malaria Elimination

Center for the Study of Intelligence

·         Unclassified Extracts from Classified Studies v.60, no. 4, 2016

o    Another View of an Episode in “Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts”

o    “How good is your batting average?” Early IC Efforts To Assess the Accuracy of Estimates

o    The “Right to Write” in the Information Age: A Look at Prepublication Review Boards

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Contested Space: Russian and EU Relations with Eastern Europe

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI

·         Greece: Playing with Matches in the Ammunition Warehouse

Centre for Security Governance

·         Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2017, v. 6, no. 1

o    Out of Reach: How Insecurity Prevents Humanitarian Aid from Accessing the Neediest

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Re-perceiving Aid Results

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         The Threat to the United States from the Islamic State’s Virtual Entrepreneurs

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         The Current State of U.S. Army Readiness

·         The Effect of Sequestration and Continuing Resolutions on Marine Corps Modernization and Readiness

·         An Independent Fleet Assessment of the U.S. Navy

·         Military Assessment of Nuclear Deterrence Requirements

·         Nuclear Deterrence - the Defense Science Board's Perspective

·         Understanding and Deterring Russia: U.S. Policies and Strategies [2016 hearing  -final version]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Democracy Under Threat in Ethiopian

·         Undermining Democratic Institutions and Splintering NATO: Russian Disinformation Aims

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         The Current State of DHS Private Sector Engagement for Cybersecurity

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         The Department of Homeland Security’s Proposed Regulations Reforming the Investor Visa Program

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Examining IRS Customer Service Challenges

·         Reviewing ATF’s Failures in the Death of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Global Nuclear Weapons Environment

·         United States Central Command and United States Africa Command

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Resolving the Conflict in Yemen: U.S. Interests, Risks, and Policy

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Agency Use of Science in the Rulemaking Process: Proposals for Improving Transparency and Accountability

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         The 2017 Budget and Economic Outlook

·         Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Can Trump Carry Out His Foreign Policy Promises?

·         Expanding South Korea’s Security Role in the Asia-Pacific Region

·         Reducing Tensions Between Russia and NATO

Defense Science Board (DSB)

·         DSB Task Force on Cyber Supply Chain

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         FY-2016 Freedom of Navigation (FON)

Department of State

·         2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

The Dialogue

·         NAFTA in Play: How President Trump Could Reshape Trade in North America

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

·         Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Australia Country Analysis Brief - March 2017

European Commission

·         White Paper on the Future of Europe

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Ulster Says ‘Remain’ - Brexit and the Northern Irish Election Result

·         What Kind of Divorce: A Clean, Hard Brexit or a Messy,Confrontational Brexfast?

European Union Institute for Security Studies

·         Preventing Terrorism in the South

·         Trends in Terrorism

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2017

o    Supreme Court Cases: 2015-2016 Term

o    Embracing the Spiritual Dimension of Law Enforcement

o    Railroad Crime: Old West Train Robbers to Modern-Day Cargo Thieves

o    Compassion in Law Enforcement

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Keep Your Eye on the Balkans

·         President Trump’s Defense Budget: Just a Down Payment

German Council on Foreign Relations

·         Assessing the 2017 Munich Security Conference

German Development Institute

·         Cash Transfers, Food Security and Resilience in Fragile Contexts:General Evidence and the German Experience

·         The European Union Trust Fund for Africa: What Implications for Future EU Development Policy?

·         A New Climate Trilateralism? Opportunities for Cooperation between the EU, China and African Countries on Addressing Climate Change

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Nord Stream 2 – A Political and Economic Contextualisation

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         How Authoritarian Rulers Seek to Legitimise Repression: Framing Mass Killings in Egypt and Uzbekistan

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Populism, History, and Identity in German Politics and Foreign Policy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Contracting Data Analysis: Assessment of Government-wide Trends. GAO-17-244SP

·         Department of Defense: Medical Conditions and Care for End-of-Service Military Working Dogs. GAO-17-358

·         Immigrant Investor Program: Proposed Project Investments in Targeted Employment Areas. GAO-17-487T [Testimony]

·         Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Changes Planned to Budget Structure and Justification. GAO-17-294

·         Radioactive Sources: Opportunities Exist for Federal Agencies to Strengthen Transportation Security. GAO-17-58

Henley Putnam University

·         Journal of Strategic Security, 2016, v. 10, no. 1

o    China’s Cyber Initiatives Counter International Pressure

o    Redefining Hybrid Warfare: Russia’s Non-linear War against the West

o    Measuring the Popular Resonance of Daesh’s Propoganda

o    Continuity and Change in the Operational Dynamics of the Islamic State

o    From Tactical to Strategic Deception Detection: Application of Psychological Synthesis

o    Functionality of Radicalization: A Case Study of Hizb ut-Tahrir

o    Common Thread? The Role of Professional Orientation in U.S. and Non-U.S. Intelligence Studies Programs

Henry Jackson Society

·         Islamist Terrorism; Analysis of Offences and Attacks I the UK(1998-2015)

Heritage Foundation

·         How President Trump Can Improve U.S. Syria Policy

·         The Modern Feminist Rejection of Constitutional Government

Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center

·         Journal of the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center, February 2017

o    Special Nanotechnology Issue

o    Electrospun Nanofiber Electrodes and Membranes for Energy Conversion and Storage

o    National Security and the Nano Factor

o    Soft Micro-Robots for Military Medicine

o    A Timeline of Nanotechnology

o    Nanotechnology and the Human Body

o    The Impact of Culture & Religion on Nanotechnology

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, March 9, 2017

o    The Liptako- Gourma Authority’s Joint Task Force: The Solution to Rising Insecurity in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso?

o    The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali Enters Its Fifth Year

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Analysis of the IAEA’s Fifth Iran Nuclear Deal Report

Institute for the Study of War

·         Al Qaeda Resumes Offensive Operations in Syria

·         The Campaign for Mosul: March 2-8, 2017

·         Iran's Assad Regime

·         Iraq Control of Terrain Map: March 9,2017

·         ISIS Sanctuary Map: March 9, 2017

·         Syria Situation Report: March 2 - 9, 2017

Institute of International Affairs  (Instituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Differentiated Integration and the EU: A Variable Geometry Legitimacy

·         The EU and the Six-Party Talks

·         Police and Border Controls Cooperation at the EU Level: Dilemmas,Opportunities and Challenges of a Differentiated Approach

·         The Refugee Debate in Central and Eastern Europe

·         Geopolitical Dynamics and Regionalism in East Asia

·         Trust Building and Regional Identity in Northeast Asia

International Crisis Group

·         Fighting Boko Haram in Chad: Beyond Military Measures

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Composition of Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean

·         The Drivers of Capital Flows in Emerging Markets Post Global Financial Crisis

·         Evaluating Changes in the Transmission Mechanism of Government Spending Shocks

·         Revisiting the Link between Trade, Growth and Inequality : Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

·         Spillovers from U.S. Monetary Policy Normalization on Brazil and Mexico’s Sovereign Bond Yields

·         Trade Liberalization in Peru : Adjustment Costs Amidst High Labor Mobility

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

·         The Age of Uncertainty. Global Scenarios and Italy

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, March 10, 2017, v. 15, no. 5  

o    Myanmar’s Muslim Insurgency Gaining Prominence With Jihadist Groups

o    Islamic State’s Deir al-Zour Offensive Puts the Syrian Regime Under Pressure

o    Al-Shabaab: Why Somalia’s al-Qaeda Affiliate Wants Puntland

o    Somalia: One Step Closer to Defeating al-Shabaab

o    Philippines: Islamic State a Potential Unifying Factor for Militants

o    Myanmar’s Muslim Insurgency Gaining Prominence With Jihadist Groups

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Christians in Syria: Current Situation and Future Outlook

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Prospects for US-Japan Relations in the Trump Era and Implications on the Korean Peninsula

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States

National Academies Press

·         Assessment of the Department of Veterans Affairs Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry

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

·         Gray Zone Crises in MENA and Eastern Europe

NATO Defense College

·         The Future of NATO and R2P: Ten Lessons in Norm Formation

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Spring  2017, v. 70, no. 2

o    Exporting Security - China, the United States, and the Innovator’s Dilemma

o    Planning for the Kamikazes - Toward a Theory and Practice of Repeated Operational Games

o    Expanding the ROKN's Capabilities to Deal with the SLBM Threat from North Korea

o    Blunt Defenders of Sovereignty - The Rise of Coast Guards in East and Southeast Asia

o    Coming Full Circle - The Renaissance of Anzac Amphibiosity

o    Review Essay - Strategic Culture And Ways Of War Elusive Fiction Or Essential Concept?

New America Foundation

·         Predictive Analytics in Higher Education: Five Guiding Practices for Ethical Use

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Differentiated Integration and the EU: A Variable Geometry Legitimacy

·         EU Strategy: Reskilling for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Oxfam Policy & Practice

·         Human Cost of Uncontrolled Arms in Africa

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         E-Governance Initiatives by Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi, India

·         Harnessing Technology for Better Governance : The Indian Experience

·         How Technology is Transforming Governance in Pakistan

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         International Financial Cooperation Benefits the United States

Pew Research Center Fact Tank

·         Immigration projected to drive growth in U.S. working-age population through at least 2035

·         In many countries, at least four-in-ten in the labor force are women

·         Number of women leaders around the world has grown, but they’re still a small group

·         Roughly one-in-five police frequently feel angry and frustrated on the job

·         What the unemployment rate does – and doesn’t – say about the economy

RAND

·         Assessing the Use of Employment Screening for Sexual Assault Prevention

·         The Role of Special and Incentive Pays in Retaining Military Mental Health Care Providers 

·         Supporting Veterans in Massachusetts: An Assessment of Needs,Well-Being, and Available Resources

·         Supporting Veterans in Massachusetts: Interactive Data Tool and Directory of Resources

·         Supporting Those Who Served in Massachusetts: Needs, Well-Being,and Available Resources for Veterans

·         Zero Days, Thousands of Nights: The Life and Times of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and Their Exploits

Save the Children

·         Invisible Wounds: The Impact of Six Years of War on the Mental Health of Syria's Children

Small Wars Journal

·         The Adaptive Transformation of Yemen’s Republican Guard

·         Developing Military Forces to Counter Hybrid Threats: Mexico’s Marines

·         Keeping Angels on Our Shoulders: The Army’s Contributions to Air Superiority

·         Maritime Civil Affairs

·         Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #29: Vehicular Ramps Used to Bypass Border Fencing  

·         National Security in the Trump Era: Business as Usual?

·         Plutocratic Insurgency Note No. 4: Silencing the Middle Class—The Gradual Extinction of Tenure in American Universities

·         The War Has Just Begun: Boko Haram and the Coming Diffusion of Terror in Nigeria

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Is Three-dimensional (3D) Printing a Nuclear Proliferation Tool?

·         Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security to the Toolbox of 21st Century Leaders

Strategic Studies Institute

·         China's Interests and Goals in the Arctic: Implications for the United States

Transparency International

·         People and Corruption: Asia Pacific – Global Corruption Barometer

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         China and Myanmar’s Peace Process

·         Identity, Gender, and Conflict Drivers in Pakistan

Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

·         "Every Clinic is Now on the Frontline" The Impact on Children of Attacks on Health Care in Afghanistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Al-Azhar and the President: Breaking Down the Relationship

·         The Central Role of Women’s Issues in Post-Arab Spring North Africa

·         Deterring Tehran:  An Iran Policy for the New Administration

·         Iran's Economy Post-Nuclear Deal: A Misleading IMF Scorecard

·         Iran Takes Another Step Toward Fielding S-300 Missiles

·         Is Iran Attempting to Thwart U.S. Naval Surveillance of Its Missile Tests?

·         The Quiet Advance of Eastern Mediterranean Gas

·         Reassessing the Civil War in Yemen

·         Sexuality and Social Media in Lebanese Politics

·         When Women Make the Headlines

Wilson Center

·         Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout

World Bank

·         Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia