Thursday, January 30, 2020

Friday's Miscellany 01-24-2020



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Aerospace

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

American Enterprise Institute

Amnesty International

Atlantic Council

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

Baker Institute for Public Policy

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

Brookings

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CATO Institute

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Center for Global Development

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Center for Strategic Studies  (CSS)
·         Caucasus Analytical Digest, no. 113: Pension Reform

Center on Global Energy Policy

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Chatham House

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
·         CTC Sentinel, January 2020, v. 13, no. 1
o    Soleimani Is Dead: The Road Ahead for Iranian-Backed Militias in Iraq
o    Lessons from the Islamic State’s ‘Milestone’ Texts and Speeches
o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Rob Saale, Former Director, U.S. Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell
o    After Soleimani: What’s Next for Iran’s Quds Force?
o    Piety Is in the Eye of the Bureaucrat: The Islamic State’s Strategy of Civilian Control

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)
·         PERSEREC-TR-19-07 A Personnel Security Training Program for Clinicians: Phase III

Department of Defense (DOD)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Dialogue

East West Center

Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON)

European Council on Foreign Relations

European  Think-tank Network on China (ETNC)

European Union

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
·         What If...? 14 Futures for 2024

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

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

George Washington University Program on Extremism

German Development Institute

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning in Drug Development GAO-20-215SP
·         Department of Defense: Actions Needed to Reduce Accounting Adjustments GAO-20-96
·         Military Construction: Cost Increase Reports Submitted in Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 GAO-20-261R
·         Opioid Use Disorder: Barriers to Medicaid Beneficiaries' Access to Treatment Medications GAO-20-233
·         U.S. Secret Service: Investigative Operations Confer Benefits, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Prioritize Resources GAO-20-239
·         VA Health Care: Improved Communication about Available Data Needed to Enhance the HIV Screening Process GAO-20-186

Heritage Foundation

Hoover Institution

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy (ISPSW)
·         Putins "Januar-Revolution"

Institute for the Study of War
·         Iraq Situation Report: January 17 - 22, 2020
·         Syria Situation Report: January 8 - 21, 2020

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) 

International Centre for Defence and Security

International Crisis Group

International Peace Institute (IPI)

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

Korea Institute for National Unification

Lowy Institute
·         Taiwan’s 2020 Elections

Marine Corps History Division
·         Marine Corps History Magazine, Winter  2019, v. 5, no. 2
o    General Pershing and the U.S. Marines
o    Stability or Disruption: The U.S. Marine Occupation  21 and the Voodoo Trials in Haiti, 1926–30
o    The Birth and Early Years of Marine Corps Intelligence
o    “Tree Hugging Work”: The Shifting Attitudes and Practices  54 of the U.S. Marine Corps Toward Peace Operations in the 1990s
o    The Triptych of Modern Combat: Joe Sacco’s Reporting on Iraq
o    Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America and In Command: Theodore Roosevelt  and the American Military

National Center for Health Statistics

National Security Archive

NATO Defense College
·         NATO at 70: No Time to Retire

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

RAND Corporation

Ronald Reagan Institute

Small Wars Journal
·         Afghanistan at an Impasse

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

Stanley Foundation

Taylor & Francis [open access articles]
·         Critical Studies on Terrorism, March 2020, v. 13, no. 1
o    The End of Emancipation? CTS and Normativity [open access article]   
·         Policing & Society, February 2002, v. 30, no. 2
·         Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020, v. 43, no. 3

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Wilson Center
·         Cyber Security
·         Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2020
o    Why Protest?
o    Postcards from the Edge
o    The Step-by-Step Revolution
o    Protest Tech: Hong Kong
o    Protests and Principles
o    Speech in a Low Dishonest Decade
o    Protest and the Muse

World Bank

World Economic Forum
·         Shaping a Multiconceptual World