Monday, May 6, 2019

Friday's Miscellany 05-03-2019


38 North 

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

AidData

Army University Press

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
·         Australia's Pacific Pivot

Baker Institute for Public Policy
·         Preventing Houston Flooding

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)
·         China and the Sudan Coup

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Brennan Center for Justice

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CATO Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Advanced Defense (C4ADS) 

Center for Global Development

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
·         Systems Thinking and Wargamming

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
·         Russian Analytical Digest, no. 235: Caspian Sea

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         How Web-Connected is China?

Center for Terrorism and Security Studies
·         Perspectives on Terrorism, April 2019,  v. 13, no. 2
o    A “Lunatic Fringe”? The Persistence of Right Wing Extremism in Australia
o    Mapping Transnational Extremist Networks: An Exploratory Study of the Soldiers of Odin’s Facebook Network, Using Integrated Social Network Analysis
o    The Hand that Feeds the Salafist: an Exploration of the Financial Independence of 131 Dutch Jihadi Travellers
o    The Terrorism Recidivism Study (TRS): Examining Recidivism Rates for Post 9/11 Offenders
o    The mid-February 2019 Pulwama attack in Kashmir: an Indian Perspective
o    The mid-February 2019 Pulwama attack in Kashmir: a Pakistani Perspective
o    Seeing Political Violence through Different Lenses
o    Bibliography: Terrorism and the Media (including the Internet) (Part 4)
o    Counterterrorism Bookshelf: 40 Books on Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism-Related Subjects
o    Recent Online Resources for the Analysis of Terrorism and Related Subject

Center on Global Energy Policy

Center on International Cooperation (CIC)

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations
·         70 Years of NATO

College of Europe

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
·         Countering a Resurgent Russia

Congress. House. Homeland Security Affairs Committee

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
·         Equal Rights Amendment

Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

Congress. House. Science, Space, and Technology Committee

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Council of State Government Justice Center

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Department of Defense (DOD)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

East West Center

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

European Policy Centre (EPC)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

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

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Army Corps of Engineers: Consideration of Project Costs and Benefits in Using Natural Coastal Infrastructure and Associated Challenges GAO-19-319
·         Army Modernization: Army Should Take Steps to Reduce Risk GAO-19-502T [testimony]
·         Cloud Computing: Agencies Have Increased Usage and Realized Benefits, but Cost and Savings Data Need to Be Better Tracked GAO-19-58
·         Critical Infrastructure Protection: Actions Needed to Address Weaknesses in TSA's Pipeline Security Program Management GAO-19-542T [testimony]
·         Defense Acquisitions: Observations on the F-35 and Air Force's Advanced Battle Management System GAO-19-456T [testimony]
·         Department of Homeland Security: Continued Leadership Is Critical to Addressing a Range of Management Challenges GAO-19-544T [testimony]
·         F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Action Needed to Improve Reliability and Prepare for Modernization Efforts GAO-19-341
·         Federal Workforce: Key Talent Management Strategies for Agencies to Better Meet Their Missions GAO-19-181
·         Information Technology: Effective Practices Have Improved Agencies' FITARA Implementation GAO-19-131
·         Military Depots: Actions Needed to Improve Poor Conditions of Facilities and Equipment That Affect Maintenance Timeliness and Efficiency GAO-19-242
·         Retirement Savings: Additional Data and Analysis Could Provide Insight into Early Withdrawals GAO-19-179

Hoover Institution

Households in Conflict Network

Human Rights Watch

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
·         Chemistry in Space (Presentation)

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)
·         What is Victory?

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

Institute for Security Studies [Africa]
·         Peace and Security Council Report No 112

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

Institute for the Study of War
·         Syria Situation Report: April 13 - 30, 2019

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)
·         India and the South Pacific

International Crisis Group

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Italian Institute for International Political Studies

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
·         NPT Briefing Book 2019

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

Lowy Institute for International Relations

Middle East Institute

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

National Police Foundation

National Security Archive

NATO Defense College

Naval War College
·         International Law Studies, v. 95 [issue 1, no. 4]
o    Indeterminacy in the Law of Armed Conflict

New America Foundation

Observer Research Foundation
·         ISIS’s New Target: South Asia

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Oxford Research Group

Policy Exchange

Polish Institute of International Affairs

RAND

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Small Wars Journal
·         Angry Engineer

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
·         SIGAR 19-36-IP Kang Border Patrol Headquarters: Construction Generally Met Contract Requirements, but Deficiencies Exist, and the $5.2 Million Project Has Not Been Used or Maintained

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Strategic Studies Institute

Sudd Institute

US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

White House

Wilson Center

World Bank

World Economic Forum