Friday's Miscellany 04-21-2017

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·         The Games People Play: Has the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site Transitioned to Stand-by Status?

·         How to Hack and Not Hack a Missile

·         North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Back to Work We Go

American Enterprise Institute

·         The Affordability Conundrum: Value, Price, and Choice in Higher Education

·         Getting Men Back to Work : Solutions from the Right and Left

·         Public Opinion on Taxes: 1937 to Today

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Army Intelligence: Focus Areas for Science and Technology

Atlantic Council

·         Reform of the Global Energy Architecture

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         U.S. Shale Pressures OPEC Budgets

·         What Comprises "The Border"?

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The Korean Peninsula Is Waiting for Trump

·         The Turkish Referendum: A Turning Point?

·         Turkey: Divided We Stand

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         American Energy Policy

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Improving U.S. Insurance Regulation

Brennan Center for Justice

·         Crime Trends: 1990-2016

·         Criminal Justice in President Trump's First 100 Days

·         The Islamophobic Administration

Brookings

·         Combat Charities or When Humanitarians go to War: Influence of Non-State Actors on Local Order of Partially Governed Spaces

·         France: A Critical Player in a Weakened Europe

·         How Predatory Crime and Corruption in Afghanistan Underpin the Taliban Insurgency

·         Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization?

·         Making Health Care Markets Work: Competition Policy for Health Care

·         The Middle East 2017

·         Staffing Federal Agencies: Lessons from 1981-2016

CATO Institute

·         Street Prostitution Zones and Crime

Center for Global Development

·         Gender Laws, Values, and Outcomes: Evidence from the World Values Survey

·         Payouts for Perils: How Insurance Can Radically Improve Emergency Aid

·         Refugee Compacts: Addressing the Crisis of Protracted Displacement

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         Fraud in the "Credible Fear" Process: Threats to the Integrity of the Asylum System

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Role of Special Operations Forces in Global Competition

·         Sources of Resilience in the Lord’s Resistance Army

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Iranian Power Projection Strategy and Goals

·         Meeting Basic Health Needs in a Venezuela in Crisis

·         PacNet #33 - North Korea: Is a “Grand Bargain” Possible?

·         PacNet #33A - A new strategy toward North Korea: proactive, comprehensive, and productive

·         Stuck in Limbo: Refugees, Migrants, and the Food Insecure inDjibouti

·         U.S. Oil in the Global Economy: Markets, Policy, and Politics

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         Reforming electricity, water, and fuel subsidies in the United Arab Emirates

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Getting beyond Norms: When Violating the Agreement Becomes Customary Practice

·         Guaranteeing Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         The Foreign Policy Establishment or Donald Trump: Which Better Reflects American Opinion?

Climate Diplomacy

·         Climate and Conflict: Reviewing the Statistical Evidence - A Summary for Policy-Makers

·         Insurgency, Terrorism and Organised Crime in a Warming Climate

College of Europe

·         Is the French Presidential Election a Referendum on EU Membership?

·         The Trump Administration and Europe

Conflict Armament Research

·         New Sudanese Weapons in Blue Nile State

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Southern Border Wall: Soaring Cost Estimates and Lack of Planning Raise Fundamental Questions About Administration's Key Domestic Priority [minority report]

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         China in Africa

·         How Powerful Is France’s President?

·         Venezuela in Crisis

Defense Science Board (DSB)

·         Task Force on Defense Strategies for Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threats

Department of the Army

·         ATP 3-01-81 - Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Techniques

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Home and Away: DHS and the Threats to America, Remarks delivered by Secretary Kelly at George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security

East-West Center

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

·         Sri Lanka Suffers from China’s Indian Ocean Strategy

·         The Third Way: Japan’s Policy on Nuclear Energy

·         Uncertainty in ASEAN-China-US Relations on the South China Sea

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         Building (Regional) Bridges for Transitional Justice

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

·         Iran's Ballistic Missile Programme: Its Status and the Way Forward

European Parliamentary Research Service

·         Shrinking Space for Civil Society: The EU Response

·         Understanding the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure: Origin,Rationale and Aims

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Brexiting the Energy Union: What Do the Negotiation Positions Imply?

·         Germany and the Next French president: In Search of the Best Partner

·         The UK’s General Election: Mandate for a Softer Brexit or Preparation for Going Over the Cliff Edge?

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         Africa Growing? Past, Present and Future

·         Out of (and Inside) Africa: Migration Routes and Their Impacts

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Birds of a Feather: As Viktor Orbán’s Cronies Unload on President Trump, Orbán Sidles Up to President Putin

German Institute of Global and Area Studies

·         Household Welfare and CO2 Emission Impacts of Energy and Carbon Taxes in Mexico

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Cooperation in Times of Uncertain Leadership

·         Multilateralism in One Country: The Isolation of Merkel's Germany

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Amphibious Combat Vehicle Acquisition: Cost Estimate Meets Best Practices, but Concurrency between Testing and Production Increases Risk. GAO-17-402

·         Littoral Combat Ship and Frigate: Delaying Planned Frigate Acquisition Would Enable Better-Informed Decisions. GAO-17-323

Heritage Foundation

·         Case Law Concerning the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force and Its Application to ISIS

·         Independent Capability Assessment of U.S. Air Force Reveals Readiness Level Below Carter Administration Hollow Force

Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC)

·         HDIAC Journal, April 2017, v. 4, no. 1

o    LIBS Provides Potential Antidote to Increasingly Dangerous Prospect of Chem/Bio Warfare

o    Secondary Earthquakes New Madrid Seismic Zone: Response During an Ongoing Emergency

o    Host-Oriented Therapeutics as an Innovative Countermeasure Against Ebola and Other Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses

o    The Next Generation of Biofuels for the U.S. Military

o    Smarter Cameras with Edge Analytics

o    New Technologies New Risks

o    A Novel Approach to Battlefield Wound Assessment and Treatment for Forward Surgical Teams

Human Rights Watch

·         Attack on the Omar Ibn al-Khatab Mosque: US Authorities’ Failure to Take Adequate Precautions

·         Follow the Thread: The Need for Supply Chain Transparency in the Garment and Footwear Industry

·         “Going to the Toilet When You Want”: Sanitation as a Human Right

·         ‘Your Destiny is to Stay with Him’: State Response to Domestic Violence in Algeria

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         The Cyber Shield Act:  Is the Legislative Community Finally Listening to Cybersecurity Experts?

·         Sowing the Seeds of U.S. Cyber Talent: Leveraging K-12Cyber-Education to Develop the Cyber-Workforce and Improve National Security

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq Situation Report: March 20 - April 20, 2017

·         Syria Situation Report: April 14 - 20, 2017

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         The European Community Framing of the Mediterranean (1970-1990)

·         EU's Constructions of the Mediterranean (2003-2017)

·         The EU's Framing of the Mediterranean (1990-2002)

·         Trump's Foreign Policy in Asia

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         “Acting- East” via the Northeast

·         Democracy and Ethnicity in Nepal

·         Hasina’s Visit to New Delhi: An Assessment

·         The Regional Impact of South Korea’s Political Turmoil

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

·         Extremist Construction of Identity: How Escalating Demands for Legitimacy Shape and Define In-Group and Out-Group Dynamics

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, April 20, 2017, v. 17, no. 6

o    Philippines Choose Chinese Investment Over Territorial Challenge

o    China’s Power Projection in the Western Indian Ocean

o    Bhutan’s Relations With China and India

o    Political Indoctrination in Chinese Colleges

o    South Korea’s Presidential Election: Implications for China

·         Terrorism Monitor, April 21, 2017, v. 15, no. 8

o    Why Egypt’s Nationalist Hasm Movement Could Gain Greater Traction

o    NATO: Assessing the Alliance’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts

o    AQIM’s Alliance in Mali: Prospects for Jihadist Preeminence in West Africa

o    Somalia: Ramping up Action on al-Shabaab

o    Pakistan: Terror Arrest Puts Spotlight on Universities

o    Why Egypt’s Nationalist Hasm Movement Could Gain Greater Traction

o    NATO: Assessing the Alliance’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts

o    AQIM’s Alliance in Mali: Prospects for Jihadist Preeminence in West Africa

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

·         Lessons from Israel’s Response to Terrorism  

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Zika and Ebola: What We Should Learn from Health Crises

MIT Center for International Studies

·         Keeping America Safe: Toward More Secure Networks for Critical Sectors

National Academies Press

·         Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here?

·         Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response: The Ebola Experience

National Bureau of Asian Research

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

·         The Future of the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Change and Continuity in North Korea Policy

National Defense University Press

·         The Armed Forces Officer [2107 ed.] 

New America Foundation

·         After Mosul: Enlarging the Context of the Syria-Iraq Conflict(s)

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Trump Trade: More Bark than Bite?

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

·         Implementing National Action Plan

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Monitor on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan for January -February 2017

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         Peace and Stability Journal, April 2017, v. 7, no. 1

o    Migrants on the Sea

o    The Top Ten Challenges of North Korea's Collapse: Key Stabilization Tasks

o    The Corruption

o    Modern Odyssey: UN Peacekeeping and Conflict Termination Efforts in Cyprus

o    A Trend of US Long-Term Commitment in Post-Conflict Conditions 1898-2015

o    China Ignores the UN Arbitration Ruling: Where Do We Go from Here?

o    Zimbabwe on the Brink of Disaster...As Usual

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Do Digital Currencies Pose a Threat to Sovereign Currencies and Central Banks?

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         Public Dissatisfaction With Washington Weighs on the GOP

·         Top Frustrations With Tax System: Sense That Corporations, Wealthy Don’t Pay Fair Share

Policy Institute at King's College 

·         Defining the Device: The Need for International Humanitarian Standards for Improvised Explosive Device Disposal

·         The Indo-Asia-Pacific’s Maritime Future: A Practical Assessment of the State of Asian Seas

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Global Green Growth for Human Development

RAND 

·         Articulating the Effects of Infrastructure Resourcing on Air Force Missions: Competing Approaches to Inform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting,and Execution System

·         Domestic Factors Could Accelerate the Evolution of China's Nuclear Posture

·         Dominating Duffer's Domain: Lessons for the U.S. Army Information Operations Practitioner

·         Dominating Duffer's Domain: Lessons for the U.S. Marine Corps Information Operations Practitioner

·         Empowering ISIS Opponents on Twitter

·         Five Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of Children and Families in Human Service Programs

·         Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Employment: A Meta-Analysis

·         Mali's Next Battle: Improving Counterterrorism Capabilities

·         Research Brief: Domestic Factors Could Accelerate the Evolution of China's Nuclear Posture

·         Rolling Back the Islamic State

·         User's Guide for the Total Force Blue-Line (TFBL) Model

·         Why sleep matters: The economic costs of insufficient sleep

Small Wars Journal

·         After ISIL: The Conflict Following the War

·         Counterinsurgency Strategy in the Dhofar Rebellion

·         Dealing with the Arab Spring from the Combined Air Operations Center

·         The Enduring Pillars of Successful Counterinsurgency

·         Filling the Gap Between War and Peace: Creating a Stability Command

·         The Fighter

·         From Cultural Intelligence to Cultural Understanding: A Modest Proposal

·         Iraq’s Path to State Failure

·         Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #32: Ultralight Aircraft and Border Drug Smuggling

·         A Psycho-Emotional Human Security Analytical Framework: Origin and Epidemiology of Violent Extremism and Radicalization of Refugees

·         Psyched Out: Using Narrative Power to Exploit Cognitive Flaws

·         Returning Foreign Fighters in the Caribbean: Issues and Approaches

·         Telling the Brigade Story: A Case Study of U.S. Army Public Affairs as an Engine of Operational Effects, Organizational History, and Strategic Narrative

·         The Washington Face of Islamic Extremism: Saudi Arabian and Iranian Use of U.S. Lobbyists and Other Proxies to Disrupt Decisive U.S.Decision-Making

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2016

Transatlantic Academy

·         Multilateralism in One Country: The Isolation of Merkel’s Germany

Transnational Institute

·         Social Justice at Bay: The Dutch Role in Jakarta's Coastal Defence and Land Reclamation

·         TiSA and State-owned Enterprises: Lessons from Uruguay’s Withdrawal for Other Countries in the South

·         TiSA and the Threat to Public Banks

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR)

·         Understanding Nuclear Weapon Risks

UK National Crime Agency

·         Pathways Into Cyber Crime

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         Evaluation of China’s Nonmarket Economy Status

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Beneath the Saudi-Iran Proxy War in Yemen (Part 1)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After the Jihad: The U.S. Response to Foreign Terrorist Fighters

·         The Day After: What the United States Can Do

·         A Different Message to Prince Mohammad bin Salman from Another Young Saudi

·         Regional Consequences of Trump's Travel Ban

·         Rouhani Likely to Survive Election Shake-Up

·         Turkey's 'New Sultan': Prospects for Future U.S. and Regional Policy

Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

·         The Military Budget and the Costs of War: The Coming Trump Storm

William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

·         Perspectivas , March 2017

o    An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Organized Crime on Societies in Small Island Developing States:  Evidence from Five (5) Caribbean Countries