Friday's Miscellany 08-11-2017

38 North

·         High Levels of Activity at North Korea’s Sinpo South Shipyard

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, University of Cambridge

·         Crisis in Mindanao: Duterte and the Islamic State’s Pivot to Asia

·         Israeli Settlers Acts of Violence and Attacks in the Occupied Territory of the De Jure State of Palestine

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

·         Rules Versus Home Rule: Local Government Responses to Negative Revenue Shocks

Amnesty International

·         Moldova: Last-minute Changes to Draft NGO Law Risk Stifling Civil Society

Atlantic Council

·         Venezuela: What Are the Most Effective US Sanctions?

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Congress Debates the AUMF

·         Don’t Dismantle UNRWA; Reform Its Policies

·         Venezuela: Options for U.S. Sanctions

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Don’t Dismantle UNRWA; Reform Its Policies
·         India-US Counterterrorism Cooperation: The Way Forward

·         Is China Intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

·         It Is Time for Abbas to Take Positive Action

·         North Korean Brinksmanship on Trump’s Nuclear “Red Line”

·         Recurring Patterns: The Temple Mount Riots

·         The Strategic Answer to the Temple Mount Crisis: Settlement

Brookings

·         Indian Strategy in a Non-Strategic Age

·         U.S. Foreign Assistance Under Challenge

·         Who Is In Charge of Financial Stability, Why, and What They Can Do

Canadian Global Affairs Institute

·         North Korea: A New Great Game

·         Remaking NAFTA: Its Origin, Impact and Future

CATO Institute

·         The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations: Theory and Evidence

·         A Review of the Regional Green Gas Initiative  

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         From Reform to Revolution: A Schism in the Muslim Brotherhood and the Rise of Homegrown Jihadism in Mainland Egypt

·         The “Section 702” Surveillance Program

Center for Climate & Security

·         A Responsibility to Prepare: Governing in an Age of Unprecedented Risk and Foresight

Center for Global Development

·         The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Unconstrained Foreign Direct Investment: An Emerging Challenge to Arctic Security

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         The CNS Iran Missile and SLV Launch Database

·         Crowdsourcing Systems and Potential Applications in Nonproliferation

Center for Security Studies

·         Trump Preparing to End Iran Nuke Deal

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Analysis of the FY 2018 Defense Budget and Trends in Defense Spending

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Advancing Country Partnerships on HIV/AIDS

·         Chinese Politics Has No Rules, But It May Be Good if Xi Jinping Breaks Them

·         Patterns in Global Terrorism: 1970-2016

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

·         A Short History of Biological Warfare: From Pre-History to the21st Century

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         Slow Steaming to 2020:  Innovation and Inertia in Marine Transport and Fuels

Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR)

·         Africa and South Africa on the Right to Protection, the ICC, and UNSC Resolution 1325

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         How Has Canadian Manufacturing Fared under NAFTA? A Look at the Auto Assembly and Parts Industry

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         North Korea Now Seen as a Top Threat Facing the United States [survey results]

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         EU Role in Global Health Still Undermined by National Policies

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         Exploding Stereotypes: The Unexpected Operational And Demographic Characteristics of Boko Haram’s Suicide Bombers

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Distribution of Lifetime Medicare Taxes and Spending by Sex and by Lifetime Household Earnings

Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)

·         OEI-09-16-00260 HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement Improved Coordination and Outreach to Promote the Safety and Well-Being of Unaccompanied Alien Children

Department of Justice (DOJ)

·         Return to Rule of Law in Trump Administration Marked by Increase in Key Immigration Statistics

Department of the Navy

·         Report to Congress: The Submarine Industrial Base and the Viability of Producing Additional Attack Submarines Beyond the Fiscal Year  2017 Shipbuilding Plan in the 2017-2030Timeframe

East-West Center

·         From Poor Peasants to Entrepreneurial Farmers: The Transformation of Rural Life in Northeast Thailand

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Collusion Detection in Public Procurement with Limited Information

·         Economic Voting Under Single-Party and Coalition Governments:Evidence From The Turkish Case

·         The Impact of Major Oil, Financial and Uncertainty Factors on Sovereign CDS Spreads: Evidence from GCC, Other Oil-Exporting Countries and Regional Markets

Enough Project

·         Splintered Warfare:  Alliances,Affiliations, and Agendas of Armed Factions and Politico-Military Groups in the Central African Republic

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Consolidated Assessment Ratings

·         Denmark’s Measures to Combat Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Track II Indo-Pakistani Diplomacy (1995 – 2003): The BALUSA Group

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Transitional Justice, Recognition, and Authoritative Power

German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)

·         The Methodology of the Hamilton 68 Dashboard

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Afghanistan Security: U.S.-Funded Equipment for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. GAO-17-667R

·         Defense Logistics: Plan to Improve Management of Defective Aviation Parts Should Be Enhanced. GAO-17-588R

·         DOD Biometrics and Forensics: Progress Made in Establishing Long-term Deployable Capabilities, but Further Actions Are Needed. GAO-17-580

·         F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: DOD's Proposed Follow-on Modernization Acquisition Strategy Reflects an Incremental Approach Although Plans Are Not Yet Finalized. GAO-17-690R

·         Military Bands: Military Services Should Enhance Efforts to Measure Performance. GAO-17-657

·         Space Launch: Coordination Mechanisms Facilitate Interagency Information Sharing on Acquisitions. GAO-17-646R

·         World Trade Center Health Program: Improved Oversight Needed to Ensure Clinics Fully Address Mandated Quality Assurance Elements. GAO-17-676

Heritage Foundation

·         Conclusion: Global Threat Level

·         Recommendations for the Next Ballistic Missile Defense-and-Defeat Review

Hudson Institute

·         A New U.S. Strategy to Bolster Tunisia’s Struggling Democracy

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         TRICARE Contract Reform Could Yield Significant Savings

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

·         Analysis of an Intervention: Lesson's from U.S. Advisory Work in Afghanistan's Information and Communications Technology Sector

·         Asia and the Trump Administration: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Road Ahead

Institute for Science and International Security

·         North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities: A Fresh Look - with PowerPoint Slides

·         Potential Nuclear Weapons-Related Military Area in Baluchistan, Pakistan

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

·         While the US Debates Election Meddling, Russian Strategy Remains on Course

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

·         US Continuing Sad Record on International Agreements, Treaties

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Defence Budgets and Industry

·         Italy and France at Odds over Libya?

·         Macron's Africa "Problem"

·         Making Sense of Rising German-Turkish Tensions

·         The Time for European Defence Has Come: Rome Must Step Up to the Task

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         A High-Altitude Tussle: The Strategic Stakes of Bhutan, China and India

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Moderate Muslims and Islamist Terrorism: Between Denial and Resistance

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)

·         War of Shadows – How Turkey’s Conflict with the PKK Shapes the Syrian Civil War and Iraqi Kurdistan 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Bankruptcy Technology, Finance, and Entrepreneurship

·         Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·         Dissecting Lebanese Law 293 on Domestic Violence: Are Women Protected?

Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI)

·         The Sino-ROK-U.S. Triangle: Awaiting the Impact of Leadership Changes

Library of Congress, Law Library

·         Laws Prohibiting Investments in Controversial Weapons

Manhattan Institute

·         After Indian Point: Lights Out for New York City?

Migration Policy Institute

·         Immigration and Farm Labor: From Unauthorized to H-2A for Some?

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

·         Overview: Terrorism in 2016

·         U.S. Muslims with Radical Opinions Feel More Alienated and Depressed

National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

·         SP 800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines

National Security Archive

·         1953 Iran Coup: New U.S. Documents Confirm British Approached U.S.in Late 1952 About Ousting Mosaddeq

Nautilus Institute

·         Japan Scenarios: Vulnerability to Terrorism of Nuclear Spent Fuel Management

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Autumn 2017, v. 70, no. 4

o    German Navies from 1848 to 2016: Their Development and Courses from Confrontation to Cooperation

o    The New Time and Space: Dimensions of a Maritime Defense Strategy

o    Rebuilding the Ukrainian Navy

o    Confronting Uncertainty with Decentralized Command: British Naval Decision Making at the Outbreak of the War of 1812

o    Money, Motivation, and Terrorism: Rewards-for-Information Programs

o    Research and Debate - Strategic Culture is not a Silver Bullet

New America Foundation

·         Malware Markets: A Graphic Exploration

Observer Research Foundation

·         Hitting Refresh: Making India-U.S. Data Sharing Work

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats As Delivered Remarks at Briefing on Leaks of Classified Materials Threatening National Security

·         Fundamental Classification Guidance Review (FCGR) for fiscal year(FY) 2017

Palm Center

·         Discharging Transgender Troops Would Cost $960 Million

Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

·         The Fate of Online Trust in the Next Decade

Rand

·         3D Printing: Downstream Production Transforming the Supply Chain

·         Civic Engagement: How Can Digital Technology Encourage Greater Engagement in Civil Society?

·         Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Military Health System

·         Exploring Cyber Security Policy Options in Australia

·         Geographic and Demographic Representativeness of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps

·         Quality of Care for PTSD and Depression in the Military Health System

·         Russian Strategy in the Middle East

·         What's the Buzz? The City-Scale Impacts of Drone Delivery

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         A House Without Foundations: The North Korea Sanctions Regime and Its Implementation

Second Line of Defense

·         Leverage Allied Investments and Combat Learning Experience in Modernizing the U.S. Military

Small Wars Journal

·         The Battlefield of Tomorrow Fought Today: Winning in the Human Domain

·         Cyber Threat or Cyber Threat Inflation? - Assessing the Risk to U.S. National Security

·         Dateless Discord Dominance in Digital Dreamdorf Domain

·         How Donald Trump Used Lazy Voters to Win the Election and Why the Military Should Adopt the Same Strategy to Fight ISIS: A Mostly True Story

·         Leapfrogging: Terrorists and State Actors

·         The Mexican Cartel Conundrum: Policy Reform is More Effective Than Waging War

·         The Ongoing Challenge of Irregular Warfare: Thoughts on Responses and Intelligence

·         The Problem Statement – What’s the Problem?

·         Security Force Assistance Brigades: The US Army Embraces Antifragility

·         Sustainable UN Peacekeeping Offensive Operations: UXOs, ERW and IEDs

·         Want to Fix the Afghan Army? Take a Lesson From Some Dead Germans

Stanley Foundation

·         Respuestas Regionales a la Crisis en Venezuela

Strategy Bridge

·         Strategy Considerations Across the Spectrum of Warfare

·         What Does Victory Look Like in Afghanistan?

Transnational Institute

·         Venezuela - Perspectives from the South

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         U.S. Exposure to Forced Labor Exports from China

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Conflict Management Training for Peacekeepers

·         In Iraq's Former 'Triangle of Death,' a Decade of Stability

·         Interorganizational Tabletop Exercise (ITX)

·         The State of the Field: Gender and Peacebuilding

US Marine Corps (USMC)

·         Marine Corps Order 1500.61, Marine Leader Development

Washington Institute for Near East Policy  

·         East Jerusalem Palestinian Poll Shows Rising Nationalism, As Tensions Grow

·         Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan: Heading Towards Confrontation

·         Lone Wolf: Passing Fad or Terror Threat of the Future?

·         Looking Forward to the Independence of Iraqi Kurdistan

·         Not Money Alone: The Challenges of Syrian Reconstruction

·         Politicians Dimming the Light of Youth

·         Turkey Has Lost Its Biggest Cheerleader: The U.S. Military

·         Why Israel Should Listen to Jordan on the Temple Mount

William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

·         Perspectivas , June  2017

o    Caribbean Regional Seminar on Countering Transregional Transnational Threats

·         The United States and Central America: From Stopping Communism to Stopping Kids

Wilson Center

·         Intelligent and Connected Bio-Labs of the Future—Promise and Peril in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

·         Libya's Islamists: Who They Are - And What They Want

·         McGurk Update on Coalition to Defeat ISIS

·         Strengthening Regional Resilience in Korea: Special Report