Friday's Miscellany 08-25-2017

38 North

·         Kim’s Visit to the Chemical Material Institute: A Peek Into North Korea’s Missile Future

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         Evolution of the Executive Branch in Afghanistan: A Look Back and Recommendations on the Way Forward

·         Judicial Review in Afghanistan: A Flawed Practice

Air University Press

·         Jungle Skippers: The 317th Troop Carrier Group in the Southwest Pacific and Their Legacy

·         US Policy Response to Cyber Attack on SCADA Systems Supporting Critical National Infrastructure

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies

·         Hezbollah and the Battle of Arsal: Restoration in the Lebanese Centre

American Enterprise Institute

·         Does Net Neutrality Spur Internet Innovation?

·         Leverage Ratio Is Not the Problem

Amnesty International

·         Syria - "I won't forget this carnage". Civilians Trapped in Battle for Raqqa

Australia Parliament

·         Australian Government Measures to Counter Violent Extremism: A Quick Guide

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Challenge of Energy Resilience in Australia: Strategic Options for Continuity of Supply

·         Strategic Risks of East Asia’s Slowing Economies

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Beware Media Fear-Mongering

·         China in the Red Sea: The Djibouti Naval Base and the Return of Admiral Zheng He

·         Iran and North Korea: Two Peas in a Nuclear Pod

·         Suggestion to the New Saudi Crown Prince

·         Victory, Not Deterrence, Will Be Israel’s Goal if War Breaks Out Again in Gaza

·         Why National Leaders Can Go Against Expert Advice

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Artificial Intelligence and National Security

·         A Legislator's Guide to Reauthorizing Section 702 [FISA]

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         2017 Debt Limit Analysis

·         America’s Demographic Challenge: Understanding the Role of Immigration

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         A Small Sacrifice for Security: Why Finland Gave Up Its Landmines

Brookings

·         The Century Gap: Low Economic Mobility for Black Men, 150 Years After the Civil War

·         Commercial Diplomacy and Political Risk

·         Cutting Taxes and Making Future Americans Pay for It: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Could Hurt Many Households

·         Exploring Media Sentiment Around Africa: Country Analysis

·         Exploring Media Sentiment Around Africa: Positive or Negative?

·         Export Monitor 2017

·         Still in Ruins: Reviving the Stalled Reconstruction of Gaza

·         The Wall: The Real Costs of a Barrier Between the United States and Mexico

·         Who is Out of the Labor Force?

Bruegel

·         Towards EU- Middle East and North Africa Shared Prosperity

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         NATO, Canada and the U.S. Bank of Mom and Dad

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         How the EU Needs to Manage Relations With Its Eastern Neighborhood

CATO Institute

·         All the President’s Friends: Political Access and Firm Value

·         Doomed to Repeat It: The Long History of America’s Protectionist Failures

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         Revisiting Compliance in the Biological Weapons Convention

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Doing What You Know: The United States and 250 Years of Irregular War

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         PacNet #60 - Myanmar’s Military Holds Key to Further Reform

·         PacNet #59 - Trump’s Negotiation from Strength

·         PacNet #58 - North Korea: Defining Red Lines

Center for the Study of Intelligence

·         Studies in Intelligence, June 2017, v. 61, no. 2

o    The Psychology of Leaking and Espionage in the Digital Age

o    The Psychology of Espionage

o    The Office of Naval Intelligence in World War I: Diverse Threats, Divergent Responses

o    Cold War Spy Fiction in Russian Popular Culture: From Suspicion to Acceptance via Seventeen Moments of Spring

Centre for International Governance Innovation

·         Strengthening the Debt Sustainability Framework for Caribbean Small States

Chatham House

·         Strengthening the Private Sector’s Role in UK Defence Engagement

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Heartland Hospitality: Serving the Needs of the Midwest Economy through Immigration

Conference of Defence Associations Institute

·         Canada’s Defence Policy and the New Security Challenges of Terrorism and Cyber Warfare
 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         CBO’s Objectivity and the Agency’s Estimates of the Effects of the American Health Care Act

Copenhagen Business School Maritime Initiative

·         Arctic Shipping - Commercial Opportunities and Challenges

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Russian Hybrid Warfare

Demos

·         Far-Right Extremism in the Populist Age

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Department of Defense Off-Camera Press Briefing on Elevation of Cyber Command

·         Department of Defense Press Briefing by General Jones via teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2017-111 Evaluation of the European Reassurance Initiative (ERI)

East-West Center

·         APEC as a Tool to Engage North Korea

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Oman Country Analysis Brief - August 2017

Federal Voting Assistance Program

·         Americans Can Vote Wherever They Are: 2016 Post-Election Report to Congress

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         China as a Leading Economic Power: Could China Stabilise the Global Economic System in Times of Crisis?

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

·         Revisiting Parchin: With Plenty of Evidence of Past Iranian Nuclear Weapons Activity at Parchin, the IAEA Needs to Revisit the Site

German Development Institute

·         Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Sustainable Development Under the UNFCCC: A Critical Assessment of the Clean Development Mechanism, the Green Climate Fund and REDD+

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Militarization of Russian Policy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Conflict Minerals: Information on Artisanal Mined Gold and Efforts to Encourage Responsible Sourcing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo GAO-17-733

·         Foreign Military Sales: DOD Needs to Improve Its Use of Performance Information to Manage the Program GAO-17-703

·         Navy Readiness: Actions Needed to Maintain Viable Surge Sealift and Combat Logistics Fleets GAO-17-503

Heritage Foundation

·         Construction of a New Taiwan–U.S. Partnership Based on Liberty,Democracy and Mutual Prosperity

·         Cooperation with China and Russia Is Not the Solution for Cyber Aggression

·         Why American Workers Should Care About Business Investment

Households in Conflict Network

·         First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran

·         Hunger Games: Food Security and Strategic Preemptive

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, August 24, 2017

o    African Urbanization: Demography, Not Economics

o    Kenya’s 2017 Elections

·         Medical Readiness within Inpatient Platforms

·         Non-Materiel Implications of the U.S. Army’s Approach to Tactical Electric Power Management

·         Portfolio Selection Challenges in Defense Applications

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Nuclear Infrastructure and Proliferation Risks of the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Egypt

Institute for the Study of War

·         Best Practices in Counterinsurgency: Accelerating Combat Power in Afghanistan - Originally Published December 2009

·         Iraq’s Lessons for Transition in Afghanistan - Originally Published November 15, 2010

·         Moldova Update: Kremlin Will Likely Seek to Realign Chisinau

·         Syria Situation Report: August 8 - 23, 2017

Institute of International Relations

·         Collective Defense in the Age of Hybrid Warfare

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         America’s Reset of Afghan Strategy: Potential Realignment of South Asian Geopolitics

·         The Indian Diaspora in Israel: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Israelis of Indian Origins

·         Pakistan’s Political Landscape: Potential for Change and Lessons for the Muslim World

·         Quo Vadis Pakistan? Yet It Keeps Moving!

·         The Threat of Terrorism: Bangladesh’s Context

·         Water Disputes in India: Andhra Pradesh-Telangana and River Krishna Water-Sharing Disputes

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Countering Islamic State Messaging Through “Linkage-Based”Analysis

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Special Operations Theory

Lexington Institute

·         Cyber Threat Data Sharing Needs Refinement

Migration Policy Institute  (MPI)

·         Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population

·         Quality for Whom? Supporting Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

Modern War Institute (MWI)

·         How New is the New Afghanistan Strategy?

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

·         Overview: Terrorism in 2016

National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

·         Securing Cyber Assets; Addressing Urgent Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure [draft]

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

·         Smokeless Powder Reference Collection and SWGFEX Smokeless Powders Database Expansion

·         States’ Roles in Keeping Schools Safe: Opportunities and Challenges for State School Safety Centers and Other Actors

Nautilus Institute

·         A Vulnerability Related to Dry Storage of Spent Fuels

Oxfam Policy & Practice

·         Yemen: Catastrophic Cholera Crisis

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

·         Pakistan Security Report 2016

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Are Stock Valuations Overstretched?

·         Trade and Fiscal Deficits, Tax Reform, and the Dollar: General Equilibrium Impact Estimates

Pew Research Center

·         U.S. Active-duty Military Presence Overseas is at Its Smallest in Decades

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Gas Security in the Pipeline — Expectations and Realities

·         Israel and the Gulf States—the Nature of Secret Cooperation

Rand

·         Exploring Parallel Development in the Context of Agile Acquisition: Analytical Support to the Air Superiority 2030 Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team

·         Getting To Outcomes® Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness

·         The Global Landpower Network: Recommendations for Strengthening Army Engagement

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Engaging Religion with Pragmatism: The Singapore State’s Management of Social Issues and Religious Tensions in the 1980s

Small Wars Journal

·         British Counterinsurgency: Returning Discriminate Coercion to COIN

·         The Danger of Not Supplementing Aid to Africa with Arms: The Case of the Central African Republic

·         Designing Unmanned Systems for Military Use: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Provide Augmented Intelligence

·         Evolution of the Sniper Rifle

·         Fire, Maneuver - and Fire Chat

·         From Reagan to Entropy: The Need for a U.S. National Technology Based Strategy

·         The New Era of Non-State Actors: Warfare and Entropy

·         New Rules for Advisers at the Strategic and Institutional Levels

Third Way

·         America’s Marijuana Evolution

Transatlantic Academy

·         The Militarization of Russian Policy

UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

·         Afghanistan Human Rights and Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict : Special Report Attacks in Mirza Olang, Sari Pul Province: 3 - 5August 2017

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         North Korea and the Need for a U.S.-ROK-PRC Dialogue

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The al-Abbas Combat Division Model: Reducing Iranian Influence in Iraq's Security Forces

·         Murmurs of a Second Cultural Revolution

·         On Libya Policy, Trump Defers to Europe

·         The Temple Mount: An Israeli Perspective

·         Terrorism in Europe: The Moroccan Connection

·         Trump's Afghanistan Policy and the Gulf

·         Washington's Unfocused Decision on Aid to Egypt

White House

·         Elevation of U.S. Cyber Command to a Unified Combatant Command

·         Remarks by President Trump on the Strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia

Wilson Center

·         Canadian Skies Abuzz: Canada’s Competitive Edge in the Unmanned Air Vehicles Sector

·         Kennan Cable No.25: A Wake-up Call for Ukraine’s Civil Society

World Bank

·         Use of Security Forces: Assessing and Managing Risks and Impacts: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets

World Economic Forum

·         Beyond Fintech:  A Pragmatic Assessment Of Disruptive Potential In Financial Services