Friday's Miscellany 05-25-2018

38 North

·         Destruction at North Korea’s Nuclear Test Site: A Review in Photos

Air University Press

·         Developing Your Full Range of Leadership: Leveraging a Transformational Approach

·         Discourse on Winning and Losing

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         What is Trump’s Real Policy in Syria?

Alliance for Peacebuilding

·         Snapshot of Adaptive Management in Peacebuilding Programs

American Enterprise Institute

·         Defense Budget Peaks in 2019, Underfunding the National Defense Strategy

Amnesty International

·         Attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army on Hindus in Northern Rakhine State

·         Australia’s Reduced Health Care Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Papua New Guinea

·         "They Betrayed Us" Women Who Survived Boko Haram Raped,Starved and Detained in Nigeria

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, May 2018, v. 5, no. 5

o    Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    Hospitalizations, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    Ambulatory visits, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    Surveillance snapshot: Illness and injury burdens, reserve component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    Surveillance snapshot: Illness and injury burdens, recruit trainees, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    CE/CME: Morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries, deployed active and reserve component service members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2017

o    Absolute and relative morbidity burdens attributable to various illnesses and injuries, non-service member beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2017

Atlantic Council

·         Secondary Economic Sanctions: Effective Policy or Risky Business?

Australian National University – Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs

·         China's New Navy: A Short Guide for Australian Policy-makers

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Terrorism in the Indo-Pacific: Glocalism Comes of Age

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Decoding the Royal Response to the PJD

·         Strong, Simple Regulations and Financial Stability

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The HIV Crisis in Russia

·         The Implications of Mike Pompeo’s 12-Point Speech

·         Is Iran Considering Reactivating Uranium Enrichment at Fordow?

·         Israel’s Invisible Enemies

·         The Israel Defense Forces, 1948-2017

·         The Korean Peninsula: Peaceful Change or Back to Square One?

·         Malaysia: The Return of an Anti-Semitic Prime Minister

·         Summing Up the “March of Return”

·         Zionism and the Wedge Between US and Israeli Jews

Blair Institute for Global Change

·         Customs and Exiting the European Union

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

·         Renewable Energy: A Key to Enhancing the Societal Dimension of Energy Transition in Morocco

British National Audit Office

·         The Defence Nuclear Enterprise: A Landscape Review

Brookings

·         Digital Australia: An Economic and Trade Agenda

·         Rebalancing a Lopsided Global Economy

·         The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a Missed Opportunity to Establish a Sustainable Tax Code

Bruegel

·         EU Funds for Migration, Asylum and Integration Policies

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         From NORAD to NOR[A]D: The Future Evolution of North American Defence Co-operation  

·         Strong, Secure, Engaged in a Threatened Space Domain

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Russian Election Interference: Europe’s Counter to Fake News and Cyber Attacks

CATO Institute

·         Does Ride-Sharing Substitute for Ambulances?

Center for Global Development

·         Speeding Sustainable Development: Integrating Economic, Social, and Environmental Development

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon: Experience from a Danish-Lebanese Partnership

Center for Security Studies

·         Preventing Violent Extremism in Tunisia

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Cyberspace is a Consensual Hallucination

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 220: Political Economy

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         The Korean Civil-Military Balance

·         Leveraging Diversity for Global Leadership

·         Restoring the Eastern Mediterranean as a U.S. Strategic Anchor

·         Shield of the Pacific: Japan as a Giant Aegis Destroyer

·         Southeast Asia Financial Integration and Infrastructure Investment: What Role for the United States?

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Plugging in the British: EU justice and Home Affairs 

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Glasnost for U.S. Intelligence: Will Transparency Lead to Increased Public Trust? 

Chatham House

·         EU–China Innovation Relations: From Zero-sum to Global Networks

·         The Future of the United States and Europe: An Irreplaceable Partnership

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         The Growing Relevance of Geopolitics for European Business

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, May  2018, v.11, no. 5

o    The Islamic State Threat to the 2018 FIFA World Cup

o    A View From the CT Foxhole: Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times Foreign Correspondent

o    Jihadi Brides? Examining a Female Guesthouse Registry from the Islamic State’s Caliphate

o    “Trucks, Knives, Bombs, Whatever:” Exploring Pro-Islamic State Instructional Material on Telegram

o    “Deutsche Schabab:” The Story of German Foreign Fighters in Somalia, 2010-2016

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         DOE Modernization: Legislation Addressing Development, Regulation,and Competitiveness of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies

·         Examining the Olympic Community’s Ability to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse

·         Internet of Things Legislation

Congress. Home. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Advancing Effective Conservation Policy Worldwide: Successes,Challenges, and Next Steps

·         Asia’s Diplomatic and Security Structure: Planning U.S. Engagement

·         Chinese Investment and Influence in Europe

·         Combatting Transnational Criminal Threats in the Western Hemisphere

·         Geopolitics of U.S. Oil and Gas Competitiveness

·         Lebanon and Iraq: After the Elections

·         Strengthening American Diplomacy: Reviewing the State Department’s Budget, Operations, and Policy Priorities

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         ISIS-Post Caliphate: Threat Implications for America and the West

·         Stopping the Daily Border Caravan: Time to Build a Policy Wall

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Challenges to the Freedom of Speech on College Campuses: Part II

·         The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Scorecard 6.0

·         Ten Years of TARP: Examining the Hardest Hit Fund

·         Union Time on the People’s Dime: A Closer Look at Official Time

Congress. House.  Science, Space & Technology Committee

·         Empowering U.S. Veterans Through Technology

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Combating the Opiod Epidemic: Intercepting Illicit Opioids at Ports of Entry [minority staff report]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance Coverage for People Under Age 65: 2018 to 2028

Council of Europe

·         Legal Challenges Related to Hybrid War and Human Rights Obligations

Council on Foreign Relations

·         U.S.-Southeast Asia Relationship: Responding to China’s Rise

Counter Extremism Project

·         OK Google, Show Me Extremism: Analysis of YouTube’s Extremist Video Takedown Policy and Counter-Narrative Program

·         Spiders of the Caliphate: Mapping the Islamic State’s Global Support Network on Facebook

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         2017 Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea -Report to Congress

·         Pentagon Mobile Device Policy

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom's Sentinel, Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | January 1, 2018 – March 31, 2018

Economic Research Forum (ERF)

·         Ethnic Discrimination in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Survey and Field Data

·         How to Use Oil Revenues Efficiently

·         School-to-Work Transition in Jordan, 2010-2016

·         A Typology Analysis of Agricultural Empowerment Profiles in Rural Egypt with a Particular Focus on Women

Egmont Institute

·         Between Rome and Sibiu: A Trajectory for the New European Narrative

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Egypt Country Analysis Brief - May 2018

Enough Project

·         EuroPressure: EU Financial Leverage for Impact in South Sudan

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Can Europe Save the World Order?

·         Winning the Normative War with Russia: An EU-Russia Power Audit

European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

·         Transmigration in Belgium: An Issue Crossing Borders

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Competitive Shaping in World Politics: A Bibliographic Essay and Course Outline

·         Disproportionate Force in Gaza? Context Matters

·         The Middle East through Israeli and Jordanian Eyes

·         Russia’s Illusory “Third Road”

·         Winning Wars and Military Education: Crossing Both Spans of the Strategy Bridge

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

·         China in the Mediterranean: An Emerging Presence

Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

·         Perspectives in Gas Security of Supply: The Role of Greece in the Mediterranean

Future Directions International

·         The Modi Method: Words and Action

German Development Institute

·         Creating Wealth without Labour? Emerging Contours of a New Techno-economic Landscape

·         Data for Development: An Agenda for German Development Cooperation

·         Investing in the Behavioural Dimensions of Transnational Cooperation: A Personal Assessment of the Managing Global Governance (MGG)Programme

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Chechnya’s Status within the Russian Federation

·         The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         GAO-18-110 Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems: FAA Should Improve Its Management of Safety Risks

·         GAO-18-192 Warfighter Support: An Assessment of DOD Documents Used in Previous Efforts to Rebalance to the Pacific

·         GAO-18-230 Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Improve the Accuracy of Its Excess Capacity Estimates

·         GAO-18-264 Data Center Optimization: Continued Agency Actions Needed to Meet Goals and Address Prior Recommendations

·         GAO-18-326 DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Adherence to Best Practices Is Needed to Better Manage and Oversee Business Programs

·         GAO-18-337 NASA Information Technology: Urgent Action Needed to Address Significant Management and Cybersecurity Weaknesses

·         GAO-18-362 Infectious Disease Threats: Funding and Performance of Key Preparedness and Capacity-Building Programs

·         GAO-18-402 Energy Storage: Information on Challenges to Deployment for Electricity Grid Operations and Efforts to Address Them

·         GAO-18-443 Emergency Management: Implementation of the Major Disaster Declaration Process for Federally Recognized Tribes

·         GAO-18-450 Mental Health: Federal Procedures to Oversee Protection and Advocacy Programs Could Be Further Improved

·         GAO-18-566T Information Technology: Continued Implementation of High-Risk Recommendations Is Needed to Better Manage Acquisitions Operations and Cybersecurity [testimon

·         GAO-18-571T Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits [testimony]

Heritage Foundation

·         Congress Should Pursue a 2019 Budget for Reconciliation

Hoover Institution

·         The Critical Role of Markets in Climate Change Adaptation

·         Perceived FOMC: The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers

Human Rights Watch

·         By Day We Fear the Army, By Night the Jihadists: Abuses by Armed Islamists and Security Forces in Burkina Faso

·         Looking for Justice: Special Criminal Court, a New Opportunity for Victims in the Central African Republic

·         They Stay Until They Die: A Lifetime of Isolation and Neglect in Institutions for People with Disabilities in Brazil Abuses by Armed Islamists and Security Forces in Burkina Faso

·         We Will Beat You to Correct You: Abuses Ahead of Burundi’s Constitutional Referendum

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         India’s Defence and Security Priorities

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, May 24, 2018  

o    Farmer-Herder Violence:  A Continent-Wide Concern

o    Intra-African Trade:  A Step in the Right Direction

Institute for Science and International Security

·         On the Question of Another North Korean Centrifuge Plant and the Suspect Kangsong Plant

·         Thermal Power Plant at the Khushab Plutonium Complex is Nearly Complete

Institute for Security & Development Policy

·         A Return to War: Militarized Conflicts in Northern Shan State

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

·         “I Left to Be Closer to Allah”: Learning about Foreign Fighters from Family and Friends

Institute for the Study of War

·         Breaking Down Iraq's Election Results

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         America’s Withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal: Implications for India

·         ASEAN-India Cooperation in Information and Communications Technology

·         Bangladesh’s Graduation and Economic Realignment within South Asia

·         Graduating from the List of Least Developed Countries: What It Means for Bangladesh?

·         Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018: An Unlikely Alliance forms the Government

·         Nepal in 2018: The Post-Conflict Situation and the State of Reconstruction

·         Nepal, India and China: A Trilateral Equation

·         Trump, Kim and Moon: Speed Bumps on the Road to Singapore

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

·         2018 Global Report on Internal Displacement

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         “That Is What the Terrorists Want”: Media as Amplifier or Disrupter of Violent Extremist Propaganda

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

·         Challenging Hate: Counter-speech Practices in Europe

International Crisis Group

·         Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Time to Talk Trade

·         Saudi Arabia: Back to Baghdad

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Australia's Linkages with China: Prospects and Ramifications of China's Economic Transition

·         Belize's 2016-17 Sovereign Debt Restructuring - Third Time Lucky?

·         The Core Principles for Islamic Finance Regulations and Assessment Methodology

·         Permanently Displaced? Increasingly Disconnected? Labor Force Participation in U.S. States and Metropolitan Areas

·         Sharp Instrument: A Stab at Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth

·         Should We Fear the Robot Revolution? (The Correct Answer is Yes)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Protection of Civilians and Political Strategies

Italian Institute for International Political Studies

·         Global Monetary Policy Coordination Meetings

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Ambitious Plans, Difficult Implementation: An Interim Review of the European Migration and Refugee Policy

Lexington Institute

·         A Competitive Strategy to Counter Russian Aggression Against NATO

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         Trump, Kim and the North Korean Nuclear Missile Melodrama

National Academies Press 

·         Changing Sociocultural Dynamics and Implications for National Security" Proceedings of a Workshop

·         Emerging Trends and Methods in International Security: Proceedings of a Workshop

·         Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop

National Security Agency (NSA)

·         Failing to Keep Pace: The Cyber Threat and Its Implications for Our Privacy Laws [speech by Glenn S. Gerstell, NSA General Counsel]

National Security Archive

·         Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1978

·         "Narcopols": Medellín Cartel “Financed” Senate Campaign of Former President Álvaro Uribe, Colombian Senators Told U.S. Embassy

·         The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Mexican Amendments:The Negotiating Record

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

·         Enhancing International Collaboration in Cyber Defence through National Cyber Security Strategy Development

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

·         Robotrolling 2018/2  

·         Virtual Russian World in the Baltics

Observer Research Foundation

·         Trump Leading West Asia to Its Next Phase of Chaos

Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

·         What Unites and Divides Urban, Suburban and Rural Communities

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Competition between Regional Powers on the Horn of Africa

·         EU Budget Plan for 2021–2027: The European Commission’s Proposals

·         The Growing Importance of the Philippines in Southeast Asia:Significance for Poland

·         A Make or Break Moment: Afghanistan Prepares for Key Elections This Fall

Rand

·         China and the International Order

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Game of Institutional Balancing: China, the AIIB, and the Future of Global Governance

·         Global Shocks and the New Global and Regional Financial Architecture: Asian Perspectives

·         Xi Jinping and PLA Transformation through Reforms

Small Wars Journal

·         Addressing the Ideological Underpinnings of Salafi Jihadism

·         The Evolving Threat to U.S. National Security Produced by Islamic Terrorist Organizations in North Africa

·         Hasty Foreign Policy Decisions Can Have Negative Effects for Decades

·         The Meaning of Memorial Day

·         Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 25: Mexico’s Presidential Election Challenged by Murders/Assassinations of Politicians

·         Missteps in Afghanistan: Let Us Count the Ways

·         Project Mentor: A Case for Broadening Within U.S. Army Cadet Command

·         Proving Ground: Iran’s Operational Strategy in Syria

·         SIGAR on Economic Growth—Good History, Flawed Policy

·         The Tricky Business of Counting the Costs of Armed Conflict in Cities

·         Turkey’s Triangular Quagmire: A Chronological Analysis

South African Institute of International Affairs

·         From Promise to Practice: Can South Africa’s Legal Framework for Mineral Resources Facilitate the Realization of the Sustainable Development Goals?

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         Private Sector Development and Economic Growth: Lessons from the US Experience in Afghanistan

o    PDF  

o    Interactive

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Global Mapping and Analysis of Anti-Vehicle Mine Incidents in 2017

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Friendly Force Dilemmas in Europe: Challenges Within and Among Intergovernmental Organizations and the Implications for the U.S. Army

·         Robotics and Military Operations

·         Strategic Insights: The Assad Regime and Chemical Weapons

Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)

·         If Crisis or War Comes

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         China’s Digital Game Sector

·         State-Owned Enterprises Megamergers Signal New Direction in China’s Economic Policy

US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security (USCSWG)

·         Women’s Role in Achieving Sustainable Peace in Syria

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Lessons from Strengthening Capacity in Countering Violent Extremism

·         Religious Engagement in Peacebuilding: A USIP Fact Sheet

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The Gulf's View on Washington's Plan B for Iran

·         Kurdish Opposition Parties Lost in May 12th Election: Does Fraud Explain It?

·         Lessons from Tunisia’s Municipal Elections

·         Libya's Election Dilemma

·         Russia’s Alarming Attempts to Establish Influence in Egypt

·         Sisi’s Supporters

·         When the Ayatollah Cried Mouse

Wilson Center

·         Mexico's New Energy Model: The Evolving Global Energy System

·         Mexico’s Renewable Energy Future

·         Of Paradigm Shifts and Political Conflict: The History of Mexico’s Second Energy Revolution