Friday's Miscellany 11-17-2017

38 North

·         Between Sanctions, Drought and Tensions: How Bad is North Korea’s Food Situation?

·         Did North Korea Conduct A Solid-Fuel Rocket Engine Test at Magunpo?

·         North Korea’s Submarine Ballistic Missile Program Moves Ahead:Indications of Shipbuilding and Missile Ejection Testing

Action on Armed Violence

·         Improvised Explosive Device Monitor 2017

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         Truly Unprecedented: How the Helmand Food Zone Supported an Increase in the Province’s Capacity to Produce Opium

·         Understanding Control and Influence: What Opium Poppy and Tax Reveal about the Writ of the Afghan State

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Economic Imperatives and the New U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia

·         Iran and its Sovereign Right to Nuclear Capabilities

·         The New Rulers of the Middle East

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

·         Japanese Internationalism in the 21st Century: Reshaping Foreign Policy in an Era of Upheaval

·         Rethinking Prison: A Strategy for Evidence-Based Reform

·         Strategy for Success in Libya

·         You Get What You Measure: Internet Performance Measurement as a Policy Tool

Amnesty International

·         Cuba's Web of Control over Free Expression and Its Chilling Effect on Everyday Life

·         Forced Displacement Under Syria’s “Reconciliation” Agreements

·         Human Cost of a Megacity: Forced Evictions of the Urban Poor in Lagos,Nigeria

·         USA: Intent to Kill, Intent to Die: First Execution in Nevada Since 2006 Imminent

Asan Institute for Policy Studies

·         Israel’s Missile Defense and Some Implications for South Korea

Asia Foundation

·         Afghanistan in 2017: A Survey of the Afghan People

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·         Odisha: The State of Female Foeticide

Atlantic Council

·         Asia in the "Second Nuclear Age"

·         The Kremlin’s Trojan Horses 2.0

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Australia's Management of Strategic Risk in the New Era 

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         State-building, the Modernization of the Legal System, and Institutional Effectiveness in Mexico: Notes on the 2013–2014 Energy Reform

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Environmental Factors in the MENA Region: A Swot Analysis

·         Wise Cities & the Universal Basic Income: Facing the Challenges of Inequality, the 4th Industrial Revolution and the New Socioeconomic Paradigm

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The British Political Crisis and European Politics: A Dystopian Scenario

·         The Desperate Saudi Bid to Prepare the State for All-Out War

·         Erdoğan’s Kurdish Gambit

·         In Shadowy Covert Wars, Iran Takes Center Stage

·         The Kurdish and Catalan Referenda

Blue Star Families

·         2017 Military Families Lifestyle Survey

Brennan Center for Justice 

·         Extreme Vetting and the Muslim Ban

·         Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Brookings

·         Did Technology Kill the Truth?

·         Digitalization and the American Workforce

Bruegel

·         Central Asia: Twenty-five Years After the Breakup of the USSR Central Asia—Twenty-five Years After the Breakup of the USSR

·         The Economic Effects of Refugee Return and Policy Implications

·         Sovereign Concentration Charges: A New Regime for Banks’ Sovereign Exposures

Call of Duty Endowment

·         Challenges on the Home Front: Underemployment Hits Veterans Hard

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         40 Years of ASEAN-Canada Partnership, and a Strategic Agenda for Tomorrow
·         Brexitand the Shifting Pillars of NATO

CATO Institute

·         Policy Uncertainty in Japan

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Energy, Economic Growth, and U.S. National Security: The Case for an Open Trade and Investment Regime

·         Taming Sea Dragons: Maintaining Undersea Superiority in the Indo-Asia-Pacific Region

Center for Climate & Security

·         Working Group of Climate, Nuclear and Security Affairs

Center for Cyber & Homeland Security (CCHS)

·         Israel: The Making of a Cyber Power - Case Study

·         Trends in Technology and Digital Security

Center for Global Development

·         Billions to Trillions? Issues on the Role of Development Banks in Mobilizing Private Finance

·         When Do Subsidy Reforms Stick? Lessons from Iran, Nigeria, and India

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         Sahel and Security in the Mediterranean

Center for Security Policy

·         The Perfect Storm: Project Pelican’s Gulftainer, Russia’s Club-K,KGB’s Primakov, North Korea, and the Architects of the Islamic Bloc and the Iran Nuclear Deal

Center for Security Studies

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 210: Political Mobilization in the Run-Up to the Presidential Elections

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Assessing Navy Readiness Funding

·         Development Finance in Asia: U.S. Economic Strategy Amid China's Belt and Road

·         Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a National Security Threat

·         Instability in the MENA Region, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Key Conflict States: A Comparative Score Card

·         Morning Keynote: “Implications of China's Growing Power for the U.S.”

·         PacNet #84 - Opposition Collapse: Opportunity for Rationality?

·         Policy Priorities in U.S.-Russia Relations

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Information Please: A Comprehensive Approach to Digital Trade Provisions in NAFTA 2.0

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Development Finance in Asia: U.S. Economic Strategy Amid China’s Belt and Road

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Looking North: Assessing the Current Threat at the U.S.-Canada Border

·         Maximizing the Value of Cyber Threat Information Sharing

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Oversight of the Department of Justice

Congress. House. Oversight &Government Reform Committee

·         The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Scorecard 5.0

·         Recommendations and Reforms from the Inspectors General

·         Regulatory Reform Task Forces Check-In: Part II

Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

·         Bolstering the Government’s Cybersecurity: A Survey of Compliance with the DHS Directive

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

·         Coast Guard Readiness: How Far Can We Stretch Our Nation’s Only Multi-Mission, Military Force?

·         Technology in Agriculture: Data-Driven Farming

Congress. Senate. Energy &Natural Resources Committee

·         Hurricane Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         American Leadership in the Asia-Pacific, Part 4: View from Beijing

·         Authority to Order the Use of Nuclear Weapons

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Eminent Domain: Administration Lacks Plans or Cost Estimates for Land Seizures Necessary to Construct Border Wall

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Effects of Legislation That Would Raise Deficits by an Estimated $1.5Trillion Over the 2018-2027 Period

·         Trends in the Distribution of Household Income

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         State-building in Puntland, Somalia: Urban Taxation and Claims Makingin Garoowe, Puntland

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Cost of War Update as of June 30, 2017

·         FACT SHEET:   U.S. Government Support to United Nations (UN) Peace Operations

·         Reports of Sexual Assault Received at Military Installations and Combat Areas of Interest

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2018-018 Implementation of the DoD Leahy Law Regarding Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse by Members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         OIG-18-12 Special Report: Lessons Learned from Previous Audit Reports on Insurance under the Public Assistance Program

Department of State

·         Report to Congress on Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016 PL 114-231, Sec. 201

Department of the Navy

·         Comprehensive Review of Recent Surface Force Incidents

East Asia Institute

·         Incomplete Democratization in Asian Democracies

East West Center

·         The 2017 APEC Summit: A Game Changer for the Asia-Pacific?

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Determinants and Macroeconomic Impact of Parallel Market For Foreign Exchange in Sudan

·         Marriage, Fertility, and Women’s Agency in Tunisia

·         Public-Private Wage Differentials In Tunisia: Consistency and Decomposition

Egmont Institute

·         EU Global Strategy: Implications for Russia

Enough Project

·         Demand the Supply: Ranking Consumer Electronics and Jewelry Retail Companies on their Efforts to Develop Conflict-Free Minerals Supply Chains from Congo

·         Ominous Threats Descending On Darfur

European Institute of the Mediterranean

·         The Mediterranean as an Open Living Lab

European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         From an Isolated Iran to an Isolated US

·         Leaning in or stepping back? British Strategy Towards CSDP post-Brexit

·         Support for the Iran Nuclear Deal Brings the EU and Russia Closer Together  

European Policy Centre

·         European Social Rights Need More Than a Proclamation: Recommendations for an Ambitious Social Summit

·         New Pact for Europe - National Report - POLAND

·         US Trade Policy in the Age of Trump: What Role for Europe in the “New Nationalism”?

European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

·         Radicalization, Polarization and Xenophobia: The Growing Influence of the Nordic Resistance Movement in Sweden and Finland

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         Permanent Structured Cooperation: what’s in a Name?

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, November 2017

o    Residential Child Abduction Cases

o    Heroes

o    Have We Lost Civility?

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Consolidated Assessment Ratings

·         FATF Methodology for Assessing Compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the Effectiveness of AML/CFT Systems

·         The FATF Recommendations

·         Procedures for the FATF Fourth Round of AML/CFT Mutual Evaluations

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         What Non-alignment? Finland’s Security and Defence Policy Stems from Partnerships

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Policy Responses to Terms of Trade Shocks

Freedom House

·         Freedom of the Net 2017 - Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy

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

·         Diplomacy as Diaspora Management: The Case of India and the Gulf States

German Development Institute

·         Drought Adaptation and Resilience in Developing Countries

·         Policy Options for Improving Drought Resilience and Its Implication for Food Security: The Cases of Ethiopia and Kenya

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Prioritise Greenhouse Gas Neutrality

·         Revised Cybersecurity Strategy

·         The River Congo: Africa’s Sleeping Giant

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Commercial Aviation: Pilots' and Flight Attendants' Exposure to Noise aboard Aircraft GAO-18-109R

·         Department of Defense: Telehealth Use in Fiscal Year 2016 GAO-18-108R

·         Information Technology: Further Implementation of FITARA Related Recommendations Is Needed to Better Manage Acquisitions and Operations GAO-18-234T  [Testimony]

·         Improper Payments: Most Selected Agencies Improved Procedures to Help Ensure Risk Assessments of All Programs and Activities GAO-18-36

·         Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Determine Critical Skills and Competencies for Its Strategic Materials Programs GAO-18-99

·         Plutonium Disposition: Observations on DOE and Army Corps Assessments of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility Contract GAO-18-122R

·         Preventing Drug Abuse: Low Participation by Pharmacies and Other Entities as Voluntary Collectors of Unused Prescription Drugs GAO-18-25

·         Tobacco Trade: Duty-Free Cigarettes Sold in Unlimited Quantities on the U.S.-Mexico Border Pose Customs Challenges GAO-18-21

Heritage Foundation

·         Enact Fiscal Controls Before Raising The Debt Ceiling [graph]

·         A Tale of Two Tax Bills: Comparing the House, Senate Reform Plans

·         Turning America’s Energy Abundance into Energy Dominance

Human Rights Watch

·         “All of My Body Was Pain”: Sexual Violence against Rohingya Women and Girls in Burma

·         “Have You Considered Your Parents’ Happiness?”: Conversion Therapy Against LGBT People in China

·         Running out the Clock: How Guatemala’s Courts Could Doom the Fight against Impunity

·         “Working Like a Robot”: Abuse of Tanzanian Domestic Workers in Oman and the United Arab Emirates

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, November 9, 2017  

o    The Indigenous People of Biafra: Another Stab at Biafran Independence

o    Eritrea: Will Declining Remittances Lead to Domestic Unrest?

·         Force Management Decision Process

·         Recommendations for Improving Agility in Risk Management for Urgent and Emerging Capability Acquisitions – Quick Look Report

Institute for Economics & Peace

·         Global Terrorism Index 2017

Institute for International Affairs

·         Material Factors for the MENA Region: Energy Trends

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Analysis of the IAEA’s Eighth Iran Nuclear Deal Report:  The JCPOA Two Years After Adoption Day (ISIS)

·         Verification and Monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in Light of UNSCR 2231 for Nov 13, 2017

Institute for Security Studies

·         Violent Extremism in Kenya: Why Women Are a Priority

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

·         The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road – A View from Europe

·         Maritime Power Politics in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR)

·         Navies Role in Migration Operations

Institute for the Study of War

·         ISIS Plotting Attacks from Afghanistan

·         Russia: Iran’s Air Force in Syria

·         Southern Syria Deal Fails to Constrain Iran, al Qaeda

·         U.S. Ceding Syria to Russian Designs

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

·         A Trapeze Act: Balancing Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work by Women in Nepal

·         ‘You Cannot Live Without Money’: Balancing Women’s Unpaid Care Work and Paid Work in Rwanda

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Challenges and Stakes of State and Societal Resilience in Tunisia

·         Europe and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Call for Coherence

·         Imposing Middle East Peace: Why EU Member States Should Recognise Palestine

·         Material Factors for the MENA Region: Energy Trends

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         China’s ‘New Era’ Vision: Implications for South Asia

·         Donald Trump’s ‘Indo-Pacific’ and America’s India Conundrum

·         India and the Resurrection of the Quad

·         India’s Job Creation Challenge

·         ISAS-ADRI Roundtable: Political Economy of Development in Eastern India

·         ISAS-KIEP Joint Symposium “India, Japan and South Korea: Political and Economic Cooperation”

·         The Maldives: On a Complex Political Trajectory

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Uighur Foreign Fighters: An Underexamined Jihadist Challenge

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Is Islamic State Losing Control of Its ‘Virtual Caliphate’?

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Assessing China’s Residential Real Estate Market

·         Assessing Loss of Market Access: Conceptual and Operational Issues

·         Bank Lending in the Knowledge Economy

·         Basel III and Bank-Lending: Evidence from the United States and Europe

·         Booms, Crises, and Recoveries: A New Paradigm of the Business Cycle and its Policy Implications

·         Corruption, Taxes and Compliance

·         Does Import Competition Induce R&D Reallocation? Evidence from the U.S.

·         Enforcing Public-Private Partnership Contract: How do FiscalInstitutions Matter?

·         Fear Thy Neighbor: Spillovers from Economic Policy Uncertainty

·         Fiscal Spillovers in the Euro Area: Letting the Data Speak

·         The Global Banking Network in the Aftermath of the Crisis: Is There Evidence of De-globalization?

·         The Global FDI Network: Searching for Ultimate Investors

·         Global Trade and the Dollar

·         Hollowing Out: The Channels of Income Polarization in the United States

·         The Macro-Fiscal Aftermath of Weather-Related Disasters: Do Loss Dimensions Matter?

·         Potential Growth in Colombia

·         The Sectoral Effects of Real Depreciations in Latin America

·         The Slowdown in Global Trade: A Symptom of A Weak Recovery

·         Taxing Telecommunications in Developing Countries

·         Unconventional Policies and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Kennedy Center for International Studies

·         Journal of International Organization Studies, Fall 2017, v. 8, no. 2

o    The United Nations at the Country Level: Reassessing Operational Activities for Development

o    The “Amazon Moment”—A New Business Model for the United Nations at the Country Level

o    The Norm Life Cycle of UN Reform: “Delivering as One and UN System-Wide Coherence”

o    The “Delivering as One” UN Initiative: Reforming the United Nations System at the Country Level

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         'The End of the Vasco da Gama Era'

·         The Fourth Industrial Revolution and International Migration

Marine Corps History Division

·         Camp Pendleton-The Historic Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores and the U.S. Marine Corps in Southern California: A Shared History

·         Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh 1967

·         Marine Corps History Magazine, Summer 2017, v. 3, no. 1

o    The Last to Fall: The 1922 March, Battles, and Deaths of the U.S. Marines at Gettysburg

o    The Legend of Suicide Charley: Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, and the Battle for Henderson Field, 24–25 October 1942

o    Royal Marines Commandos at Limbang, 1962

o    The “Afloat-Ready Battalion”: The Development of the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Amphibious Ready Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1898–1978

o    National Museum of the Marine Corps: The Final Phase

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Beyond Transactional Deals: Building Lasting Migration Partnerships in the Mediterranean

Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

·         The Airpower Edge: Revolutionizing How the U.S. Defeats Conventional Armies'

National Academies Press

·         Defending Forward-Deployed U.S. Navy Platforms from Potential Enemy Missile and Rocket Attacks:  Abbreviated Version of a Classified Report

·         Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime and Communities

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

·         American Deaths in Terrorist Attacks, 1995-2016

·         Ideological Motivations of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2016

·         Recasting and Repositioning CVE as a Grand Strategic Response to Terrorism

National Immigration Forum

·         For Love of Country: New Americans Serving in Our Armed Forces

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         Security Situation of the Middle East Fallen Into a Complex Crisis

·         The U.S. Rebalance to the Asia-Pacific: Development and Prospects

National Network of Fusion Centers

·         Real-Time and Open Source Analysis (ROSA) Resource Guide

NATO Defense College

·         NATO in the Black Sea: What to Expect Next?

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Democratic Crises in the EU: Towards "New Frontiers"

Observer Research Foundation

·         An Inconsistent United States, an Assertive China and Asia’s Hobbesian Order

·         Common Responses to Maritime Security Threats in the Bay of Bengal

·         The Forgotten History of Indian International Relations

·         Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy and Emerging Alignments in the Region:Implications for India

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Will Corporate Tax Cuts Cause a Large Increase in Wages?

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         Three Years In, Modi Remains Very Popular

Policy Exchange

·         Global Britain, Global Solutions: How British R&D Can Transform International Development

PONARS Eurasia

·         The Kremlin’s Ideological Ecosystems: Equilibrium and Competition

Rand

·         Accelerating the Transition of Technologies Created through the U.S.Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research Program

·         Estimating Air Force Deployment Requirements for Lean Force Packages

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         High-Tech Plant Factories: Challenges and Way Forward

Small Wars Journal

·         From Proxy Wars to Direct War Between Iran and Saudi Arabia: America’s Options

·         A Governance Advising Framework for the Security Force Assistance Brigade

·         The Haqqani Network: International Friends, Local Enemies

·         Iraqi Kurdistan: Post-Independence Referendum

·         Social Media Field Manual: The Iraqi Ministry of Defense Learned to Take the War to Facebook

·         The Strategic Implications of America’s Coming Choice on the Korean Peninsula

·         Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 6 - Holy War in Rio’s Favelas: Bandidos Evangélicos (Evangelical Bandits)

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         Exploring Collaboration Between MDBs and National Entities on Environmental and Social Safeguards: The Case of South Africa and Ethiopia

·         From Dependency to Partnership: Where are AU–EU Relations Heading?

·         Valletta 2015 to Abidjan 2017: Recent Trends in AU–EU Migration Relations

Spearhead Research

·         Growth Trajectory: Pakistan Automotive Sector

·         Saudi Arabia Challenging the Status Quo: Streamlining Power and Economics Part I

Stanley Foundation

·         Setting an International Policy Agenda for Just Transitions

·         Taking Stock of the Evidence: What Works to Reduce Violence and Prevent Atrocities?

·         Three Tweets to Midnight: Nuclear Crisis Stability and the Information Ecosystem

Stimson Center

·         An Industry-Led Governance Framework for Demonstrating Strong Security

·         Re-Energizing Nuclear Security

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Mapping the Development of Autonomy in Weapon Systems

Strategic Studies Institute

·         Armed Robotic Systems Emergence: Weapons Systems Life Cycles Analysis and New Strategic Realities

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

·         Immigration Judge Reports — Asylum

Union of Concerned Scientists

·         Whose Finger Is on the Button? Nuclear Launch Authority in the United States and Other Nations

UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)

·         Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Context of the Ninewa Operations and the Retaking of Mosul City

UN Development Programme (UNDP)

·         Journey to Extremism in Africa

UN Office of Drugs and Crime  (UNODC)

·         Afghanistan Opium Survey 2017: Cultivation and Production

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         2017 Annual Report to Congress

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Bahrain Pipeline Explosion Seen as a Warning from Iran

·         Beyond Deconfliction in Syria

·         Competing Visions for the Arab Future

·         From CVE to 'Terrorism Prevention': Assessing New U.S. Policies

·         Hezbollah and Iran in Syria

·         Iranian Military Doctrine

·         Recent Trends in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: National Practices in Countering Violent Extremism

·         Reflections on the Radicalization of Young Moroccans

·         Saudi Arabia's War on Lebanon

White House

·         Improving and Making the Vulnerability Equities Process Transparent is the Right Thing to Do

Wilson Center

·         Artificial Intelligence: A Policy-Oriented Introduction

·         A Comparative Study: The Approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection in the U.S., E.U., and China

·         The Kingdom's Capital: An IPO and an Ambitious Prince

World Bank

·         Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2017/2018: Foreign Investor Perspectives and Policy Implications

·         Migrating to Opportunity: Overcoming Barriers to Labor Mobility in Southeast Asia