Friday's Miscellany 04-19-2019

38 North

·         EU Support for North Korean Denuclearization: Brussels May Help Pay for Implementation If It Can Play

·         North Korean Defense Conversion: New Opportunities for Inter-Korean Cooperation?

·         The North Korean Parliamentary Session and Budget Report 2019:Signs of Economic Stagnation and an Open Claim to Leadership on the Korean Peninsula

AI Now Institute

·         Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI

Amnesty International

·         Executions of Juveniles Since 1990 (as of April 2019)

·         Indonesia: Rights Now: 9-point Human Rights Agenda for Indonesia's Election Candidates

Army University Press

·         Journal of Military Learning, April 2019, v. 3, no. 1

o    Tacit Knowledge Cultivation as an Essential Component of Developing Experts

o    Military Education as a Dimension of Security in the Western Hemisphere

o    Motivating and Educating Millennials

o    Impacting Student Veteran Success through Military Credit Articulation

o    The Learning Enterprise Assistance Program

o    The Institutional Research and Assessment Division of Army University

o    School Leaders as Educators

o    Being in Uncertainty: Cultivating a New Sensibility in Military Education

Asia Society / Center on U.S. China Relations

·         Course Correction: Toward an Effective and Sustainable China Policy

Asia Society Policy Institute

·         Future Scenarios: What To Expect From a Nuclear North Korea

·         Strength in Numbers: Collaborative Approaches to Addressing Concerns with China’s State-led Economic Model

 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Military Personnel Policy: An Untapped Modernization Opportunity

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Huawei and Telefunken: Communications Enterprises and Rising Power Strategies

·         Mapping China's Tech Giants

·         Taking Australian Diplomacy Digital

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         The Case for Marijuana Decriminalization

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         The False “Nakba” Narrative

·         Israel’s Information Campaigns: An Alternative to Kinetic Strikes

·         The Labour Party Is Institutionally Antisemitic

·         Protests Challenge Gulf Counterrevolution

·         Russia’s Military Should Leave Venezuela Immediately

·         The West Bank’s Area C: Israel’s Eastern Line of Defense

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs  

·         Profile of a Prince: Promise and Peril in Mohammed bin Salman’sVision 2030

·         The Role of Electric Vehicles in Decarbonizing China’s Transportation Sector

Beyond the Parallel

·         Yongbyon: Movement of Specialized Railcars May Indicate Transfer of Radioactive Material

·         Yongbyon Update: Movement of Specialized Railcars May Indicate Transfer of Radioactive Material

Brennan Center for Justice

·         AVR Impact on State Voter Registration

Brookings

·         Can Fintech Increase Lending? How Courts are Undermining Financial Inclusion

·         China’s Belt and Road: The New Geopolitics of Global Infrastructure Development

·         Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2019

Bruegel

·         Taking Stock of the Single Resolution Board: Banking Union Scrutiny

Canada. Minister of National Defence

·         2018 Report on Suicide Mortality in the Canadian Armed Forces(1995 to 2017)

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         The Ever-Lasting Brexit -- What's Next?

·         Protecting Minority Rights to Undermine Russia’s Compatriots Strategy

·         The Ukrainian Election Run-Off

CATO Institute

·         Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley

Center for Global Development

·         The Dos and Don’ts of USG Humanitarian Reorganization

·         The Quality of UK Aid Spending, 2011–2018: An Analysis of Evaluations by the Independent Commission on Aid Impact

Center for International Policy

·         The Saudi Lobby in 2018

·         Trends in Major Arms Sales in 2018: Fact Sheet

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

·         Improving Cybersecurity Awareness in Underserved Populations

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Piercing the Fog of Peace: Developing Innovative Operational Concepts for a New Era

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Acquisition Trends, 2018: Defense Contract Spending Bounces Back

·         Challenges, Changes, and Continuity: The United States and a Fragmented Regional Order

·         Delivering Prosperity in the Indo-Pacific: An Agenda for Australia and the United States

·         Rethinking Taxes and Development: Incorporating Political Economy Considerations in DRM Strategies

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         A Changing Global Gas Order 3.0

·         Energy Innovation and Climate Change

·         Making Sense of the Trump Administration's Fuel Economy Standard Rollback

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         From Start-up to Scale-up: A Report on the Innovation Clinic in Canada

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Perceptions of Dutch Interest Promotion Inside the EU

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Social Security Replacement Rates and Other Benefit Measures: An In-Depth Analysis

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Trump's Foreign Policies Are Better Than They Seem

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Transparency in Denmark's OpenAid.dk: A Mixture of Light and Darkness

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Establishment of the Sexual Assault Accountability and Investigation Task Force

Department of Justice (DOJ)

·         Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks on the Release of the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016Presidential Election

·         Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016Presidential Election [2 vols. Mueller report]

Department of State

·         2019 Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control,Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments

Department of Transportation. Office of the Inspector General

·         Report No. ZA2019048 - FTA Has an Opportunity To Further Promote Lessons Learned  To Enhance the Protection of  Rolling Stock at Transit Agencies

East West Center

·         Millennial+ Voices in Okinawa: An Inquiry into the Attitudes of Young Adults toward the Presence of U.S. Bases

Economic Research Forum

·         Winners and Losers in Industrial Policy 2.0: An Evaluation of the Impacts of the Tunisian Industrial Upgrading Program

Egmont Institute

·         The Democratic Republic of Congo: The Great Electoral Robbery (and How and Why Kabila Got Away With It)

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Brazil Country Analysis Brief - April 2019

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         What Europeans Really Want: Five Myths Debunked

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Brexit: No Stable Equilibrium

European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

·         Cybersecurity Culture Guidelines: Behavioural Aspects of Cybersecurity

·         ENISA Maturity Evaluation Methodology for CSIRTs

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         China's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Finland's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         FATF Ministers Give FATF an Open-Ended Mandate

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         The Concepts of Parliamentarism in the EU's Political System:Approaching the Choice Between Two Models

·         The Sinification of China: How the Minorities are Being Merged Into One Nation

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Indonesia Votes—Why We Should Pay More Attention

·         Intelligence Oversight in Congress: Perilous Times

·         Lowering the ‘Barr’: The Attorney General’s Disappointing and Disrespectful Dissing of the U.S. Intelligence Community

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

·         Japan and Central Asia: Do Diplomacy and Business Go Hand-in-Hand?

·         Russia’s "Great Return" to Africa?

·         Russia-Ukraine Gas Relations: The Mother of All Crises or a NewStart to 2030?

German Development Institute

·         South Africa’s Changing Role in Global Development Structures: Being in Them But Not Always of Them

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)

·         The Donbas Conflict Opposing Interests and Narratives, Difficult Peace Process

·         The “Deal of the Century” for Israel‑Palestine

·         Land Reform in South Africa: Sense of Frustration

·         Turkey: March 2019 Municipal Elections

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         The Implications of Eastern Mediterranean Gas for Turkey

·         Toward Inclusive Economies in Transatlantic Cities: Navigating Labor Market Change at the Local Level

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         2017 Hurricane Season: Federal Support for Electricity Grid Restoration in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico GAO-19-296

·         National Nuclear Security Administration Contracting: Review of the NNSA Report on the Nevada National Security Site Contract  Competition GAO-19-349R

·         Truck Underride Guards: Improved Data Collection, Inspections, and Research Needed GAO-19-264

Henley Putnam University

·         Journal of Strategic Security, 2019, v. 12, no. 1

o    NATO Under Pressure

o    The Changing Dynamics of Twenty-First-Century Space Power

o    Conflict and the Need for a Theory of Proxy Warfare

o    Halting Boko Haram / Islamic State's West Africa Province Propaganda in Cyberspace with Cybersecurity Technologies

Homeland Security Advisory Council

·         Final Emergency Interim Report of the Homeland Security Advisory Council’s CBP Families and Children Care Panel Subcommittee

Human Rights Watch

·         “We Know Our Lives are in Danger”: Environment of Fear in South Africa’s Mining-Affected Communities  

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         Software Security is National Security: Why the U.S. Must Replace Irresponsible Practices with a Culture of Institutionalized Security

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         India-Africa Cooperation in Human Resource Development:Education,Training and Skills

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Evaluation of a Human Mission to Mars by 2033

·         A New Approach to Building a 21st Century Defense Acquisition Workforce

·         Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Policy, Evolving Ecosystem, and Agency Efforts

·         What the 809 Panel Didn’t Quite Get Right

Institute for Energy and the  Environment, Vermont Law School

·         Improving the Cybersecurity of the Electric Distribution Grid

Institute for International Political Studies [Italian]

·         Making Up for Lost Ground: Japan and the Indo-Pacific

Institute for National Strategic Studies

·         China's Other Army: The People's Armed Police in an Era of Reform  

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         The Changing United States: Implications for Israel

·         In North African Unrest, Competing Visions of a Post-Arab Spring Order

·         Turkey’s Local Elections: A Blow to the AKP

Institute for Security Studies - Africa

·         Power and Influence: Identifying Champions of Change in SADC

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

·         Escalation – Iran Against the Regional Order

Institute for the Study of War 

·         ISIS Resurgence Update - April 2019

·         Russia in Review: Ukraine Elections Update

·         Turkey's Erdogan Files to Annul Istanbul Election

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

·         Empowering Women Politicians in Pakistan: Views from Within

·         How Does the World Bank Build Citizen Engagement Commitments into Project Design?

·         Inequalities in Maternal and Child Health in Mozambique: A Historical Overview

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         The Emergence of a European Political Space

·         EU Approach to Gender Equality in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region

·         Italy and Russia: New Alignment or More of the Same?

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         An Assessment of the PM-Kisan and the NYAY

·         Bangladesh: A Prognosis for Economic Potentials and Pitfalls

·         Bangladesh among the Five Fastest Growing Economies

·         The Impact of the Hambantota Oil Refinery on Sri Lankan Politics

·         Is India Becoming Less Democratic?

·         South India: Possible Key to India’s Next Government

·         Swacch Social Media: Cleaning Up Online Spaces During India’s General Elections

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

·         Germany and its Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters: New Loss of Citizenship Law and the Broader German Repatriation Landscape

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Haftar’s Calculus for Libya: What Happened, and What is Next?

International Crisis Group

·         Ending the Yemen Quagmire: Lessons for Washington from Four Years of War

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Death and Taxes: Does Taxation Matter for Firm Survival?  

·         The Financial Inclusion Landscape in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Dozen Key Findings

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Financing UN Peacekeeping: Avoiding Another Crisis

·         A Necessary Voice: Small States, International Law, and the UN Security Council

Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

·         Hiroshima Report 2019

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Political Strategy in Unconventional Warfare: Opportunities Lost in Eastern Syria and Preparing for the Future

Mitchell Institute

·         Ensuring the Common Defense: The Case for Fifth Generation Airpower

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         Answering China's Economic Challenge: Preserving Power, Enhancing Prosperity

·         The China-Russia Entente and the Korean Peninsula

·         A Concise Guide to the Belt and Road Initiative

National Security Archive

·         Redactions: The Declassified File

New America Foundation

·         Insurgency in 2030: A Primer on The Future of Technology and COIN

Observer Research Foundation

·         Election 2019: Free Vote without Free Speech?

·         Examining the Potential of India–Australia Partnerships in Mining

·         Indonesia General Elections 2019: An Assessment of Potential Post-Poll Impact on Foreign Policy

·         Towards a Cyber-Security Roadmap for Digital Payments

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office)

·         Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act: Report to Congress

·         Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Programs: Eleven Case Studies

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

·         U.S. Defense Spending Compared to Other Countries

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) h

·         Efforts of Oil Exporters in the Middle East and North Africa to Diversify Away from Oil Have Fallen Short

·         For the United States, More Digital Privacy Would Mean More National Security

·         How the Brexit Extension Could Scramble British and European Political Party Fortunes

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         Sharp Rise in the Share of Americans Saying Jews Face Discrimination

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Informality, Inequality, and Feminization of Labor

·         The Persistence of Racial Inequality: The Earnings Gap Among Women from 1979-2016

RAND

·         The Criminal Justice System and More Lenient Drug Policy: Three Case Studies on California's Changes to How Its Criminal Justice System Addresses Drug Use

·         Deterring Russian Aggression in the Baltic States Through Resilience and Resistance

·         Effects of the Blended Retirement System on United States Army Reserve Participation and Cost

·         Human Smuggling from Central America to the United States: What Is Known or Knowable About Smugglers' Operations and Revenues?

·         National Health Spending Estimates Under Medicare for All

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Closing the Crypto Gap: Guidance for Countering North Korean Cryptocurrency Activity in Southeast Asia

·         Which Rules? Why There is No Single ‘Rules-Based International System’

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), April 2019, v. 11, no. 4

o    South Asian Militant Landscape in the Context of the Pulwama Attack and its Aftermath

o    Profile of Jaish-e-Muhammad and Leader Masood Azhar

o    The Pulwama Attack: Significance, Implications and Way Forward

o    Can Kashmir Turn into Another Marawi? An Assessment

o    Implications of Possible United States Withdrawal on the South Asian Militant Landscape

Service Women's Action Network (SWAN)

·         2019 - Women in the Military: Where They Stand (10th ed)

Small Wars Journal

·         AvFID: Achieving the Peace in Colombia Through Aviation Foreign Internal Defense

·         Indo-Pacific Terrorism: What to Expect for the Foreseeable Future

·         Needed: A Comprehensive History of the War on Terror

·         RPA Ethics: A Focused Assessment

·         Space Safety Coordination: A Norm for All Nations

·         Treasury Designates Key Nodes of ISIS’s Financial Network Stretching Across the Middle East, Europe, and East Africa

Stanley Foundation

·         The Business Case for Building Resilience and Pursuing Peace

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         The Foreign Military Presence in the Horn of Africa Region

USAFacts

·         The U.S. Government 10-K: A Comprehensive Report on the State of Our Nation

US Air Force (USAF)

·         Science and Technology Strategy: Strengthening USAF Science and Technology for 2030 and Beyond

US Coast Guard (USCG)

·         Arctic Strategic Outlook

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Myanmar’s 2020 Elections and Conflict Dynamics

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics. March 2019

o    East Asia-Pacific’s Participation in the Global Value Chain for Electronic Products 

U.S.-Mexican Studies

·         U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation 2018-2024

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After the Palestinians Reject Trump’s Peace Plan, Then What?

·         An Economic Roadmap to Humanitarian Relief in Yemen

·         For Syrians, the Golan Question Is a Deferred Issue

·         How Sanctions Are Affecting Iran’s Airline Industry

·         How Trump’s Decision on the Golan Helps Assad, Iran, and Russia

·         Israel and Bahrain’s Normalization Setback

·         Netanyahu’s Win Gives Him Leeway on Annexation and Gaza

·         New Palestinian Cabinet Faces Governance and Fiscal Challenges

·         Sudan: The End Comes for Bashir

·         Trump has–Inadvertently–Provided a Fix to America’s Kurdish Problem with Turkey

·         Understanding Israel's Election Results

White House

·         Presidential Veto Message to the Senate to Accompany S.J. Res. 7[remove US troops from Yemen]

o    S.J. Res. 7

Wilson Center

·         Mexico's Migrant Issues Expose Trump's Faulty Border Logic

·         A Snapshot of the Status of Women in Brazil: 2019

World Bank

·         Inflation in Emerging and Developing Economies: Evolution, Drivers, and Policies