Friday's Miscellany 05-31-2019

38 North

·         North Korea’s Food Situation: Bad but not Catastrophic

·         Wonsan’s Beach Resort: New Construction Underway

AidData 

·         Autocratic Aid and Governance: What We Know, Don’t Know, and Need to Know

·         Does Private Aid Follow the Flag? An Empirical Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance

·         The Effects of Foreign Aid on Rebel Governance: Evidence from a Large-Scale U.S. Aid Program in Syria

·         Evidence on Wealth-Improving Effects of Forest Concessions in Liberia

Air Force Research Institute (AFRI)

·         Strategic Studies Quarterly, Summer 2019, v. 13, no. 2

o    The Missile Defense Review:  Insufficient for Complex and Integrated Attack

o    Space Force Déjà Vu

o    Security in Northeast Asia:  Structuring a Settlement

o    The INF Treaty:  Pulling Out in Time

o    Industrial Age Capacity at Information Age Speed

o    The INF Treaty:  A Spectacular, Inflexible, Time-Bound Success

Air University

·         Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2019, v. 33, no. 2      

o    Great Leaders Follow First:

o    Nine Rules for Dynamic Followership

o    A Commander’s First Challenge: Building Trust

o    Aligning Air Force Leadership Roles: The Limitations of Enlisted Empowerment

o    Rescuing Icarus: The Problems and Possibilities of “Air-Mindedness”

o    The Potentiality of Space Enterprise Force Reconstitution: Nationalizing Civilian Satellites during Kinetic Conflicts

o    Fortifying Remote Warriors: Addressing Wellness Issues among Intelligence Airmen

o    Insider Attack, Strategic Impact: Kabul, 27 April 2011

American Enterprise Institute

·         Assessing the Trump Team’s Afghanistan Peace Plan

·         Beyond 2030: Economic Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

Amnesty International

·         “No One Can Protect Us”: War Crimes and Abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Arab Gulf States Institute

·         Dominance versus Disruption: Asymmetry in Gulf Security

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), May 2019, v. 6, no. 5

o    Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Hospitalizations, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Ambulatory Visits, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens, Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens, Recruit Trainees, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Medical Evacuations out of the U.S. Central Command, Active and Reserve Components, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, Deployed Active and Reserve Component Service Members, U.S. Armed Forces, 2018

o    Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, Non-service Member Beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2018

Asan Institute for Policy Studies

·         Assessing ROK-U.S. Relations and Its Prospects

Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Trade in Trouble: How the Asia Pacific Can Step Up and Lead Reforms

Atlantic Council

·         Hacking Corruption: Tech Tools to Fight Graft in the Americas

·         When the Friend of My Friends is Not My Friend

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Promoting the Right to Housing at EU Level

·         Remunicipalisation of Local Energy Provision: The Role of Cities and Bottom-up Initiatives

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         Annexing Parts of the West Bank Area C: An Israeli National Interest

·         Finally, from Gaza, a Ray of Light

·         Israel’s Tourism Triumph

·         The Persecution of Christians in the Palestinian Authority

·         The Prospect of an Iran-Israel Escalation

·         Young Arabs Say Religion Plays Too Big a Role in the Middle East

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         The Geopolitics of Information

Brookings Institute

·         Grow Green China Inc.: How China’s Epic Push for Cleaner Energy Creates Economic Opportunity for the West

·         Keys to Success for the AfCFTA Negotiations

·         The U.S. Labor Market in 2050: Supply, Demand and Policies to Improve Outcomes

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Anatomy of a Buy: The Four Dimensions of Procuring a Future Fighter for Canada

·         Breaking the Ice Curtain? Russia, Canada, and Arctic Security in a Changing Circumpolar World

·         Zelinskiy’s Inauguration: A New Era in Ukrainian Politics

CATO Institute

·         Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Strategy to Ask: Analysis of the 2020 Defense Budget Request

Center for Climate Security (CCS)

·         Climate Change Lessons from the US Military: What Japanese Industry Can Learn from Another Global Enterprise (Japan Series Report 2)

·         “Japanese Industry in an Unstable Climate: Reducing Exposure to the Security Implications of Climate Change (Japan Series Report 1)

Center for Global Development

·         After 2020: What’s Next for Global Access to Family Planning

               

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Tightening the Chain: Implementing a Strategy of Maritime Pressure in the Western Pacific

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Driving Change: U.S.-India Subnational E-Mobility Collaboration

·         The Iranian Missile Threat

·         Significant Cyber Incidents [updated May 2019] 

Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction

·         Honey, I Shrunk the Lab: Emerging Microfluidics Technology and Its Implications for Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Weapons

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust 

·         Innovations in Responsibility Sharing for Refugees 

Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies

·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2019, v. 19, no. 3

o    Ross Ellis: A Canadian Temperate Hero

o    Military Operations Planning and Goal-management: A Philosophical Perspective, Thoughts on how decision theory and ethics can help improve military goal-management

o    Exploring the applications of U.S. Army leader development model in nonmilitary organizations: Implications for training

o    Military discourse patterns and the case of Effects-Based Operations

o    Participation in Warfare: Are we Witnessing Paradigmatic Change?

o    Securitizing the Sovereignty Stand-off: Military Efficacy and the Mohawk-Oka Crisis

Chatham House

·         The Gulf Divided: The Impact of the Qatar Crisis

·         The UK and Japan: Forging a Global and Proactive Partnership

Clingendael  Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael)

·         Turkey in the Horn of Africa

College of Europe

·         European Disintegration: A New Feature of EU Politics

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, May/June 2019, v. 12, no. 5

o    Terrorism on the Teardrop Island: Understanding the Easter 2019 Attacks in Sri Lanka

o    Options for Dealing with Islamic State Foreign Fighters Currently Detained in Syria

o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Vidhya Ramalingam, Co-Founder, Moonshot CVE

o    Terrorist Attacks Against Jewish Targets in the West (2012-2019): The Atlantic Divide Between European and American Attackers

o    The Guerrilla ‘Caliph’: Speeches that Bookend the Islamic State’s ‘Caliphate’ Era

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on Discretionary Appropriations Under the Budget Control Act Conducted by the Senate Committee on the Budget

·         The Effect of Tax-Motivated Transfer Pricing on U.S. Aggregate Trade Statistics

Counter Extremism Project (CEP)

·         The Muslim Brotherhood’s Ties to Extremists

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Ranking the Top Global Challenges

Defense Priorities

·         Disentangling from Syria's Civil War The Case for U.S. Military Withdrawal

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Indo-Pacific Strategy Report: Preparedness, Partnerships, and Promoting a Networked Region

·         Open Burn Pit Report to Congress

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

·         OIG-19-42 DHS Needs to Address Oversight and Program Deficiencies before Expanding the Insider Threat Program

·         OIG-19-43 Department of Homeland Security's FY 2018 Compliance with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 and Executive Order 13520, Reducing Improper Payments

·         OIG-19-46 Management Alert DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding Among Single Adults at El Paso Del Norte Processing Center (Redacted)

East Asia Institute

·         Are Japan and the U.S. having a China Gap?

·         Power and Motivation in China’s Foreign Policy

Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

·         Trilingual Education in Kazakhstan: What to Expect  

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Defender of the Faith? How Ukraine’s Orthodox Split Threatens Russia

·         Mapping Armed Groups in Mali and the Sahel

European Institute of the Mediterranean

·         Cooperation with Religious Institutions as a European Policy Tool

·         A Tale of Two Agreements: EU Migration Cooperation with Morocco and Tunisia

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The New Assange Indictment: Persecuting the Press or the Overdue Protection of National Security Secrets?

·         President Trump Should Not Pardon Soldiers Convicted of War Crimes

Future Directions International

·         South African Foreign Policy under the Ramaphosa Government

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Divide and Obstruct: Populist Parties and EU Foreign Policy

·         A New Alliance Between Poland, Sweden, and the United States for Baltic Security?

·         The United States and the EU Should Not Underestimate Cyber Champions like South Korea

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Hardrock Mining: Trends in U.S. Reliance on Imports for Selected Minerals GAO-19-434R

·         Military Justice: DOD and the Coast Guard Need to Improve Their Capabilities to Assess Racial and Gender Disparities GAO-19-344

Heritage Foundation

·         Ten Steps for U.S. Policy on Venezuela

Hoover Institution

·         Strategika, May 29, 2019 , no. 58

o    Current U.S.-Israel Relations

o    Trump And Israel

o    Israel’s Narrow Path To Peace

o    Trump And The Israeli-Palestinian Standoff

Households in Conflict Network

·         Education and Conflict Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Indonesia Trial 

·         Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context - The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan

·         Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies

·         The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access:Evidence from the First Indochina War

Human Rights Watch

·         If You Are Afraid for Your Lives, Leave Sinai! Egyptian Security Forces and ISIS-Affiliate Abuses in North Sinai

·         Protecting Schools from Military Use: Law, Policy, and Military Doctrine

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

·         Principles and Policies for “Data Free Flow with Trust”

Institute for International Political Studies [Italian]

·         China’s Race to Global Technology Leadership

·         Elections and Cyberspace: The Challenge of Our Democracies

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         Russia and Iran: Is the Syrian Honeymoon Over?

Institute for Science and International Security

·         IAEA Iran Safeguards Report Analysis: Iran Pushes Past an Advanced Centrifuge Limit

Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

·         Less than the Sum of Its Parts: Europe’s Fixation with Libyan Border Security

·         Peace and Security Council Report No 113

·         Returning Migrants: Europe’s Focus, but at What Cost?

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

·         Blacklisting Huawei and the New Thirty Years War

·         The Crisis in and Around the Persian Gulf: Business as Usual in a New Era

·         Zakir Musa: Death of Kashmir’s Loneliest Militant

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Blockchain: A Digital Solution for Modern Democracies?

·         Drone Attacks on Saudi Oil Infrastructure are a Calibrated Message from Iran

·         A EU Naval Mission Without a Navy: The Paradox of Operation Sophia

·         EU Reform and Climate Policies: Two Birds with One Stone

·         Europe's Green Wave and the Future of the Energy Union

·         The European Migration Crisis: A Pendulum between the Internal and External Dimensions

·         The Intra-GCC Crisis: Qatari Soft Power and International Law

·         Iran and the Intra-GCC Crisis: Risks and Opportunities

·         The Trouble with Italy's Development Cooperation

·         WTO and Geopolitical Changes

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Digital Politics: Emerging Trends in South and Southeast Asia

·         India and Indonesia in the Indo-Pacific

·         Lessons from the Sri Lankan Easter Sunday Tragedy        

·         Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Eastward Tilt Remaps India’s Neighbourhood

·         Social Media and the Indian Elections: The Good, the Bad and (How to Rein In) the Ugly

·         Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

·         Universal Basic Income in India: The Rationale and Challenges

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

·         Providing Psychosocial Care to Child Soldiers Living in Post-IS Iraq

International Crisis Group

·         Returns in Northern Myanmar

·         Speaking with the “Bad Guys”: Toward Dialogue with Central Mali’s Jihadists

·         Stopping the War for Tripoli

International Energy Administration (IEA)

·         Energy Technology RD&D Budget Database

·         World Energy Prices Database

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Do Interest Rate Controls Work? Evidence from Kenya

·         U.S. Investment Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, May 31, 2019, v. 17, no. 11

o    Sectarianism, Salafism and the Latent Terror Threat in Saudi Arabia

o    Rising Threat of Radicalization in Kerala and Connections to Sri Lanka

o    Has Islamic State Really Entered the Congo and is an IS Province There a Gamble?

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         2019 Asia Power Index

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         China-Russia Security Cooperation: Implications for Japan

·         Present and Future Sino-Russian Cooperation: Chinese Perspectives

·         Russian-Chinese Cooperation: A Russian Perspective

·         Sino-Russian Relations: Perspectives from Russia, China, and Japan

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         East Asian Strategic Review 2019 (Provisional)

NATO Defense College

·         What NATO’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy? 

North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

·         Cyber Security Supply Chain Risks: Staff Report and Recommended Actions

NSI

·         SMA TRADOC White Paper- Russian Strategic Intentions 

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

·         2018 Terrorist Assets Report - 27th Annual Report to the Congress on Assets in the United States Relating to Terrorist Countries and Organizations Engaged in International Terrorism

Oxford Research Group

·         Confronting Iran: To What End?

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Fiscal Policy Options for Japan

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

·         Men Appear Twice as Often as Women in News Photos on Facebook

Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

·         A Rising Share of Undergraduates are from Poor Families, Especially at Less Selective Colleges

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         Nearly Half of Democrats Say the Best Age for a President Is ‘In Their 50s’

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         The Democratic Party Ahead of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: An Early Review

·         The Effects of the Tensions Inside the Communist Party on China’s Foreign Policy

·         Prospects for Breaking the Deadlock in the North Korea-U.S.Dialogue

·         No Revolution: European Parliament after the Elections

·         The State of Play and Challenges for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Rand

·         An Assessment of Gaps in Business Acumen and Knowledge of Industry Within the Defense Acquisition Workforce: A Report Prepared for the U.S.Department of Defense in Compliance with Section 843 (c) of the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         A Critical Enabler for Power Projection: Options for a UK Missile Defense Capability in an Age of Escalation Control

Santa Clara University

·         Santa Clara Law Review, 2019, v. 59, no. 2

o    No Man's Sky: Utilizing Maritime Law to Address the Need for Space Debris Removal Technology

Small Wars Journal

·         D-Day 1944 - The Sausages are Stuffed

·         Dishonoring the Fallen

·         Distr/Action: The Application of One Platform, One Network (OP/ON) Geo Digital Strategy

·         Exploring the Multi-Spectrum: A Treatise on the American-Donovian War of 2030 and The Prosecution of Multi-Spectrum Warfare

·         Improvised Explosive Devices, a Near Perfect Asymmetric Weapon System of Necessity Rather than a Weapon of Choice

·         Is it Time for a Medical Readiness Availability Rating?

·         Law of War at the Lowest Tactical Level: Marines in Nasiriyah & the Difficulty of Distinction in Hybrid War

·         National Security Today Through 2028: Women Leading the Next Decade

·         Normandy Beachhead - May 2019 – With Homage to Ernie Pyle

·         Sic Transit Gloria

·         “The Only Problem with the Operations Planning Process is that We Don’t Use It!”: Why this Argument is Invalid

·         US Counterintelligence: The Big Picture of Subversion in the United States

·         “The Virtual Sixth Sense” - Transforming Soldier Lethality through Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Reality

·         War With Iran? - Error, Manipulation and President Donald Trump's"Strategy" of Incoherence

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) 

·         Business (not) for Peace: A Call for Conflict-Sensitive Policy in Fragile States

·         Challenges and Opportunities for the EU in Africa’s Extractives Sector

·         Enhancing EU Resource Governance Interventions: A Call for Prioritising Human Security

·         A Win-Win for Europe & Africa: Extractive Justice & Resource Inter-Dependency

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         SIGAR 19-38-FA USAID's Strengthening Education in Afghanistan II Project: Audit of Costs Incurred by The Asia Foundation

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Global and Regional Trends in Multilateral Peace Operations, 2009–18

·         Military Spending and Arms Imports by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE

United Nations. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR)

·         The Price is Right: The Violation of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

·         2018 USCIS Statistical Annual Report

USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) Partnership

·         ROUTES Dashboard

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Perspectives on Peace from Taliban Areas of Afghanistan

·         Ukrainian Activism for Transparency and Accountability: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After Arson in Kirkuk Against Kurdish Farmers, Kurdish Parties Remain Divided

·         Egypt Should Adopt Active Neutrality Toward the Sudanese Revolution

·         The Ends of Iran: Next Steps for Tehran and Its Neighbors

·         How Displaced Syrians Navigate Their Status in Turkey

·         Iraqi Kurdistan Chooses a New President, But Internal Rifts Deepen

·         Israel’s Election Redo: Implications for the Trump Peace Plan

William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

·         Women of the FARC