Friday's Miscellany 03-23-2018

38 North

·         NADA General Satellite Control Building

·         Quick Takes: Sohae Satellite Launching Station Remains Quiet

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         The Maghreb’s Fragile Edges

American Enterprise Institute

·         Economic Opportunity, Transition Assistance, and the 21st-CenturyVeteran: The Case for a Fourth VA Administration

·         National Security Council: A Tool for Decision

Amnesty International

·         #ToxicTwitter: Violence and Abuse Against Women Online

·         Negligence in the Niger Delta: Decoding Shell and ENI’S Poor Record on Oil Spills

·         “A Sword Hanging Over Our Heads”: The Repression of Activists Speaking Out Against Discrimination and Slavery in Mauritania

Arctic Institute

·         A Brief History of Lines in the Arctic

Asia Foundation

·         Advancing Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Asia – A Year in Review 2017

Atlantic Council

·         Kremlin Aggression in Ukraine: the Price Tag

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Internet of Insecure Things

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         U.S. Citizen Minors Living in Mexico

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         How the IDF Is Training for War in Gaza

·         Is Japan Considering Joining the Nuclear Arms Race?

·         Macron’s Proactive Position on Iran: Dialogue vs. Sanctions

·         The Middle East’s Nuclear Technology Clock Is Ticking

·         The Strategic Implications of Effective Population Defense Against Ballistic Missiles

·         The Trump-Kim Jong-un Summit: Nuclear Disarmament for Regime Survival?

·         Turkey’s Syrian Battleground

Brookings

·         China’s New Top Government Leaders

·         Comparing Trump to the Greatest—and the Most Polarizing—Presidents in US History

·         Does Hope Lead to Better Futures?

·         How can Developing Countries Use Their Diaspora Capital?

·         How Occupational Licensing Matters for Wages and Careers

·         Regulating for a Digital Economy: Understanding the Importance of Cross-border Data Flows in Asia

·         Rethinking the European Union’s Post-Brexit Budget Priorities

·         Spotlight Latin America

o    The Troubled State of Pension Systems in Latin America

o    How Threatening are Fiscal Deficits in Latin America and the Caribbean?

o    Will More Education Increase Growth in Mexico?

o    Innovation to Leapfrog Educational Progress in Latin America

o    5 Lessons from Recent Educational Reforms in Chile

o    Latin America in the New Asia-Pacific Trade Order

o    Why Mexico Should Not Fear Losing NAFTA’s Investment Rules

o    Chinese Investment in Latin America Continues to Expand

o    Can Latin American Countries Benefit from Their Large Emigrant Populations?

o    The Challenge of Improving Police Behavior in Latin America

o    Addressing Spatial Inequity in Latin American Cities

o    Uruguay’s Cannabis Law:Pioneering a New Paradigm

·         Work and Opportunity Before and After Incarceration

Bruegel

·         The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Easing the Pain from Trade?

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Africa: Shaping the “Canadian Way” on the Continent

·         Confusion and Opportunity: The Challenges of Canada’s Trade Negotiations

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Regional Cooperation on Democratization and Conflict Management in Africa

CATO Institute

·         Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase in Indonesia

·         How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan

Center for American Progress

·         Way Forward on North Korea-: Explained

Center for Global Development

·         Alleviating Global Poverty: Labor Mobility, Direct Assistance, and Economic Growth  

·         Does Deforestation Increase Malaria Prevalence? Evidence from Satellite Data and Health Surveys

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         The Transformation of Violent Extremist Groups: New Threats and Challenges

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Redefining Human Control: Lessons from the Battlefield for Autonomous Weapons

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest No. 216: Winter Olympics/World Cup

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Counterterrorism Measures and Civil Society

·         More Than A Nuclear Threat: North Korea’s Chemical, Biological, and Conventional Weapons

·         New Perspectives in Foreign Policy, v. 15, Spring 2018

o    Sino-Russian Convergence in the Military Domain

o    Shoot on Sight: The Politics of Indonesia’s Escalating  Anti-Drug Campaign

o    Russia and Japan on Different Wavelengths in the Kuril Islands

o    Exporting Obesity: Micronesia as  a Microcosm

o    Evolving Tech, Evolving Terror

o    Mind the Gap: Why Mental Health Care Matters for Rebuilding Syria

o    Improving Disaster Response  through Aerospace Technology

o    One Country, Two Futures? How Hong Kong’s System Will Survive

o    The Dangerous Opioid from India

o    Distribute and Conquer: Refugees in the European Union

o    Bad Neighbor? How the European Neighbourhood Policy Has Failed  in Moldova

o    Jemaah Islamiyah: Another Manifestation of al Qaeda Core’s Global Strategy?

·         Other Side of the North Korean Threat: Looking Beyond Its Nuclear Weapons and ICBMs

·         PacNet #22 - Joint Development in the West Philippine Sea: an Idea Whose Time Has Come

·         South Korea’s Civilian Vulnerabilities in War

·         Venezuela’s Crisis Is Now a Regional Humanitarian Disaster

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         Libya: Sanctions Removal Done Right? A Review of the Libyan Sanctions Experience, 1980–2006

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Canada's Role in the Relationship of Trade and Intellectual Property

·         A Historical Survey of Canadian International Treaty Diplomacy

·         Making Agricultural and Food-based Geographical Indications Work in Canada

Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Fighting an Existential Threat: Small Islands States Bring Climate Change to UN Security Council

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Assessing the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request and Acquisition Reform Progress

·         Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for Nuclear Forces and Atomic Energy Defense Activities

·         Navy Readiness Posture

·         Reviewing Department of Defense Strategy, Policy, and Programs for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) for Fiscal Year 2019

·         State and Non-State Actor Influence Operations: Recommendations for U.S. National Security

·         Submarine Industrial Base: Options for Construction

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Role in Combating the Opioid Epidemic

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Implications of a U.S.-Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement for the Middle East

·         The FY 2019 Foreign Assistance Budget

·         U.S. Responses to China’s Foreign Influence Operations

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         CDM: Government Perspectives on Security and Modernization

·         Terror Threat Snapshot - March 

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Preventable Violence in America: An Examination of Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Misguided Public Policy

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Bureaucratic Challenges to Hurricane Recovery in Puerto Rico

·         CDM: Government Perspectives on Security and Modernization

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

·         Impacts of the 2017 Wildfires in the United States

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Ballistic Missile Defense Policies and Programs

·         Challenges in the Department of Energy’s Atomic Energy Defense Programs

·         Marine Corps Ground Modernization

·         United States Strategic Command

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science,  Transportation Committee

·         Update on NHTSA and Automaker Efforts to Repair Defective Takata Air Bag Inflators

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         What's Next for Lebanon? Stability and Security Challenges

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Border Security: Analysis of Vulnerabilities Identified by Frontline Agents

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

·         The Need to Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act

Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence

·         Russian Targeting of Election Infrastructure During the 2016 Election

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Appropriation of Cost-Sharing Reduction Subsidies

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Military Service by Transgender Individuals [memo] and Department of Defense Report and Recommendations on Military Service by Transgender Persons [marked FOUO but on the DOD public site]

Department of Defense & Department of Energy

·         2017 Nuclear Stockpile 1962-2017

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2018-090 Summary Report on U.S. Direct Funding Provided to Afghanistan 

Department of State

·         2018 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

o    Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control

o    Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes

East West Center

·         New Priorities, Challenges for America's Pacific Military Command

·         What Happens to the Natural Environment When a Rural Community Joins the Global Economy?

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Sovereign Wealth Funds, Cross-Border Investment Bias and Institutions: The Case of Arab Countries

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief - March 2018

European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         Ban the Bomb? Or Bomb the Ban?

European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

·         Germany: Evolution of National Counter-Terrorism Measures to Tackle Islamist Terror Threat

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Consolidated Assessment Ratings

·         Norway's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Spain's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         Russian-Ukrainian Relations: The Farewell that Wasn’t

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Era of Urban Warfare is Already Here

·         Rallying the West: The Case for Coordinated Leadership to Counter Instability in the Balkans

·         The Taiwan Travel Act: Only as Important as Trump Makes It

·         The Trump Administration Kicks (Another) Beehive: Why Is the United States Pushing a “Kosovo Army”?  

·         Xi Jinping’s Second Coronation—and What It (May) Mean for China and the Rest of Us

·         Why So Secret? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Unique Fragility of Communications Intelligence

Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

·         Chinese Objectives in High Technology Acquisitions and Integration of Military and Civilian Capabilities: A Global Challenge

·         Testing Times for Security in East Asia: Evaluating One Year of the Trump Presidency

French Institute of International Relations (Institut français des relations internationales)

·         China’s National Carbon Market: A Game Changer in the Making?

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Smart Cities: An Answer to Social and Environment Risks?

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI)

·         Iraq After ISIL: Sub-State Actors, Local Forces, and the Micro-Politics of Control

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         GAO-18-107 Afghan and Iraqi Special Immigrants: More Information on Their Resettlement Outcomes Would Be Beneficial

·         GAO-18-188 Climate-Related Risks: SEC Has Taken Steps to Clarify Disclosure Requirements

·         GAO-18-290 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Actions Needed to Better Assess the Federal Investment

·         GAO-18-300 New Trauma Care System: DOD Should Fully Incorporate Leading Practices into Its Planning for Effective Implementation

·         GAO-18-311 Comparative Effectiveness Research: Activities Funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund

·         GAO-18-318 Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Additional Action Needed to Improve Process for Billing Licensees

·         GAO-18-319 Federal Real Property: Agencies Make Some Use of Telework in Space Planning but Need Additional Guidance

·         GAO-18-352 VA Disability Benefits: Improved Planning Practices Would Better Ensure Successful Appeals Reform

Heritage Foundation

·         Focusing on School Safety After Parkland

Households in Conflict Network

·         Givers of great dinners know few enemies: The impact of household food sufficiency and food sharing on low intensity interhousehold and community conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

·         Resistance is Futile? Institutional and Geographic Factors in China’s Great Leap Famine

HSBC Holdings, LLC

·         Fragile Planet: Scoring Climate Risks Around the World

InSight Crime and American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies

·         MS13 in the Americas: How the World’s Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction

Human Rights Watch

·         “I Have to Leave to Be Me: Discriminatory Laws Against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean

·         “I Would Like to Go to School: Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Lebanon

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         Return the Favor with a Thousand Cuts: India’s Pakistan Policy

·         Why Wait for the Elusive Tipping Point in Cyber?

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch,  March 22, 2018, v. 18

o    The Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Trade in Africa—A Compound Threat

o    Democratic Transition in Liberia—Progress, Governing Challenges, and Corruption

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Is the Facility at Qusayr, Syria an Underground Nuclear Facility? Public Evidence Remains Inconclusive

Institute for the Study of War's (ISW)

·         Syria Situation Report: March 6 - March 20, 2018

·         Turkey Threatens New Attacks in Syria and Iraq

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Australia and the EU in the Indo-Pacific: Is Cooperation towards a Rules-Based Order Possible?

·         Brexit Takes a Back Seat in Northern Ireland

·         The Open Door Swings Back: The Challenge of Chinese Investment

·         Perspectives on an Uncertain World: Japan-EU Views on the United States and Russia

·         Towards a New Thinking on the Western Balkans

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         The Belt and Road Initiative: Politics, Potentials and Partnerships

·         Bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: The Bharatiya Janata Party on the Back Foot

·         The Mahadayi River Water Disputes between Karnataka and Goa

·         Powerful yet Vulnerable: China’s Constitutional Amendments and Contemporary Political Thinking in China

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Terrorism, Diplomacy, and State Communications

International Crisis Group

·         Containing the Shock Waves from Venezuela

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Against the Odds: Civil Society in the Intra-Syrian Talks

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, March 23, 2017, v. 16, no. 6

o    Boko Haram’s Backyard: The Ongoing Battle in Cameroon

o    Saffron Scare: al-Qaeda‘s Propaganda War in India

o    Which Way Forward for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula?

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Advancing SOF Cultural Engagement: The Malinowski Model for a Qualitative Approach

Lawfare

·         Lawfare Research Paper Series, March 2018, v. 5, no. 3

o    In Search of Nuance in the Debate Over Hezbollah's Criminal Enterprise and the U.S. Response

Migration Policy Institute

·         Cracked Foundation, Uncertain Future: Structural Weaknesses in the Common European Asylum System

National Academies Press

·         In-Time Aviation Safety Management: Challenges and Research for an Evolving Aviation System  

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, December 2017,  no. 18

o    The Joint Operation Structure of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with Focus on the Reorganization of the Chain of Command and Control under the Xi Jinping Administration

o    Demographics and Security—Defense Capabilities Building and Economic Hegemony towards the 22nd Century

o    Nuclear Nonproliferation and Economic Sanctions: Can Non-Military Sanctions Stop Nuclear Proliferation?

o    Legal Assessment of Surveillance Activities in Cyberspace—From the Standpoint of Espionage, Infringement of Sovereignty, and Human Rights Laws (Violations of Privacy)

o    Without Incentives: North Korea's Response to Denuclearization

o    Population Issues in Singapore and Its Implications to National Security

National Security Archive

·         The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question Part II, 1965-1969

New America Foundation

·         From the Classroom to the Capitol: A Missing National Security Gender Link?

Office of the US Trade Representative

·         Findings of the Investigation into China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation under Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

·         Why Does Junk News Spread So Quickly Across Social Media? Algorithms, Advertising  and Exposure in Public Life

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         At Least a Million Sub-Saharan Africans Moved to Europe Since 2010

Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

·         The Science People See on Social Media

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         Positive Views of Economy Surge, Driven by Major Shifts Among Republicans

·         Wide Gender Gap, Growing Educational Divide in Voters’ Party Identification

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Austria in Central Europe: The Aspiration to Become a Bridge-Builder

·         Hungary Ahead of Parliamentary Elections

·         Latvia’s Plan to Strengthen Its International Position

·         Putin’s Elections

PONARS Eurasia

·         Russian Immigration Control: Symbol Over Substance

Project on Government Oversight

·         F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight

Rand

·         Addressing Emerging Trends to Support the Future of Criminal Justice:Findings of the Criminal Justice Technology Forecasting Group

·         Data Thieves: The Motivations of Cyber Threat Actors and Their Use and Monetization of Stolen Data [testimony]

·         System Change through Situated Learning: Pre-evaluation of the Health Innovation Network's Communities of Practice

·         Using the [U.S. Army] National Training Center Instrumentation Systemto Aid Simulation-Based [DOD] Acquisition

Royal Australian Air Force Air Power Development Centre

·         Algorithmic Warfare: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Warfighting

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Dynamic Security Threats and the British Army

·         Mind the Gap: Comparing Foreign Policy Attitudes of Security Elites and the General Public

S. Rajaratham School of International Studies

·         Addressing Digital Protectionism in ASEAN: Towards Better Regional Governance in the Digital Age

·         Integrating A Disaster Response Architecture In Timor-Leste:Opportunities And Challenges

Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

·         Testing Trilateral, U.S.-Japan, and U.S.-ROK Responses to North Korean Provocations: Tabletop Exercise Pacific Trident

Small Wars Journal

·         50 Years After the Battle of Karameh, Jordan Faces New Uncertainty

·         Adversary-Controlled Economic Assets as a Threat to National Security

·         Causes of War: A Theory Analysis

·         Manzoor Pashteen, FATA and the War Machines

·         The Marauder as an Asymmetric Operational Concept

·         My Leadership Journey and Other Observations

·         A New Way Forward on Addressing North Korea

·         Perhaps We Can Eat Soup with a Knife: Prospect Theory and the Use of Conventional Military Strategies in Counterinsurgency Operations

·         A Permanent Stability Operations Division for the US Army

·         Six Months or Forever: Doctrine to Defeat an Enemy Whose Center of Gravity is Time

·         The Threat of Street Gangs, Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, and Domestic Terrorist/Extremist Groups with Military-Trained Members

·         Virtual Recruitment of Foreign Fighters and Their Threat Upon Return:The Case of the Peshmerga and the People’s Protection Units

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         SIPRI Annual Review 2017

Swisspeace

·         Sustaining Civilian Missions in Conflict Zones: The Case of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP)

·         Mainstreaming Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         3 Steps Trump Should Take Before Meeting Kim Jong Un

·         Arab Media on Bolton, Pompeo, North Korea

·         Europol and the EU Threat Picture: Developing a Global Response

·         Evolution of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces

·         Expect Assad, Iran, and Russia to Exploit Trump's Cabinet Changes

·         Rethinking Security Force Assistance in the Middle East

·         Saudi King-in-Waiting Comes to America

·         Thomas Parker’s Comment on Maged Atef’s “Revelatory Elections – A State of Divide and Rule”

·         Trump's North Korea Talks Need to Address Syrian and Iranian Proliferation

·         The Western media misguided narrative about Al Jazeera

Wilson Center

·         Arguments to Reform Mexico’s Anti-Trafficking Legislation