Friday's Miscellany 01-31-2020

Aerospace

• Large Constellation Disposal Hazards 

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Assessing Africa’s 2020 Elections

AidData

• Comparative Effects of Foreign Direct Investment from China and Other Sources on Africa’s Economic Growth
• Target at the Right Level: Aid, Spillovers and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Who Gets the Goodies? Overlapping Interests and the Geography of Aid for Trade Allocation in Bangladesh

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• Uzbekistan’s New Parliament: Real Reform or Just the Will of the ‘President’s Men’?

American Enterprise Institute

• Iran’s Reserve of Last Resort: Uncovering the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces Order of Battle  

Aspen Strategy Group

• The Struggle For Power: U.S. China Relations in the 21st Century

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• A Strategy for the Development of Principled Professionals
• The Strategy of a Great Power Competitor

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Violent Extremism in the Sahel

Baker Institute for Public Policy

• Mexico's Anti-Poverty Overhaul

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

• Barcelona and the Mediterranean, a Second Chance
• War and Peace in the 21st Century 2020: A World of Two or Three? The US, China and the EU in a New Global Order

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) 

• Are the US and Iran Headed Toward War?
• China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu 
• Gulf Security: China Envisions Continued US Military Lead
• A Historic Opportunity That Must Be Seized 
• How Labour’s Antisemitism Changed the Attitudes of British Jewry
• The Jordan Valley Is Not Up for Negotiation
• A Realistic Two-State Solution
• Sports: A Battlefield for Freedom of Expression and Political Change
• Trump Peace Plan Unlikely to Lead to Major Escalation, But IDF Is Taking Precautions 
• Trump’s Realpolitik Approach to Middle East Peace

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• Technology Factsheet: Artificial Intelligence
• Technology Factsheet: Blockchain
• Technology Factsheet: Gene Drives

Brookings

• Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, and Information Integrity
• The Dark Side of Consensus in Tunisia: Lessons from 2015-2019

Bruegel

• A Post-Brexit Agreement for Research and Innovation

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Canada’s Campaign for a Seat on the United Nations Security Council: The Historical Context

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Assuring Taiwan’s Innovation Future

CATO Institute

• Short‐Sale Constraints and Stock Price Crash Risk: Causal Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Rebooting Congressional Cybersecurity Oversight
• Rising to the China Challenge: Renewing American Competitiveness in the Indo-Pacific 
• Veteran Pathways to Employment: Hurdles and Opportunities

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

• Strengthening NATO’s Eastern Flank: A Strategy for Baltic-Black Sea Coherence

Center for Global Development

• From Principles to Practice: Strengthening Accountability for Gender Equality in International Development
• The Index Ecosystem and the Commitment to Development Index
• International Development Cooperation After Brexit: Oral Evidence
• A Post-Brexit Trade Policy for Development and a More Integrated Africa
• Revisiting Aid Effectiveness: A New Framework and Set of Measures for Assessing Aid “Quality”

Center for International Policy

• Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America 
• Ukraine Military Aid Suspension at the Heart of Impeachment

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

• Great Power Relations: What Makes Powers Great and Why Do They Compete?

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Cybersecurity and the Problem of Interoperability
• Data Governance
• Getting to Less? The Progressive Values Strategy
• Gone Fishing: Tracking China’s Flotilla from Brunei to Indonesia
• Ongoing Goings On: A News Update on WTO

Center for Strategic Studies  (CSS)

• The Israeli Unit 8200: An OSINT-based Study
• A One-sided Affair: Japan and the People's Republic of China in Cyberspace
• Russian Analytical Digest no. 245 Russian Youth

Centre for European Reform (CER)

• Bulletin Issue 130 - February/March 2020 - Brexit edition 
• Who needs the CER?
• Priorities for 'Global Britain'
• UK foreign and security policy after Brexit 
• The EU and US must work together to end the siege of Tripoli

Chatham House

• Net Zero and Beyond: What Role for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage?

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• A Vital Midwest: The Path to a New Prosperity

Clingendael Institute

• Strategic Monitor 2019-2020

Conflict Armament Research

• Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Conflict

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

• DOD’s Role in Competing with China
• Security Update on the Korean Peninsula

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Ending Global Religious Persecution 
• Escalation with Iran: Outcomes and Implications for U.S. Interests and Regional Stability
• Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Policies on Iran, Iraq and the Use of Force 
• Resisting Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in Europe

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

• Courts in Crisis: The State of Judicial Independence and Due Process in U.S. Immigration Courts
• Fentanyl Analogues: Perspectives on Classwide Scheduling

Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee

• 75 Years After the Holocaust: The Ongoing Battle Against Hate
• Ending Global Religious Persecution
• Examining the Trump Administration’s Afghanistan Strategy
• Protecting Those Who Blow the Whistle on Government Wrongdoing

Congress. House. Science, Space & Technology Committee

• Losing Ground: U.S. Competitiveness in Critical Technologies

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

• GSA Outleases and the Trump Old Post Office Hotel

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

• United States Africa Command and United States Southern Command

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

• Examining the Root Causes of America’s Unsustainable Fiscal Path

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2020 to 2030

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Refuge From Disease: Mitigating Communicable Diseases in Refugee Populations
• A Silent Crisis: The Rise of Noncommunicable Diseases in Refugee Settings

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Democratisation in Tanzania: No Elections Without Exemptions
• Domestic Pension Funds in Africa: Can They Finance the SDGS?

Department of Defense (DOD)

• Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies
• Coronavirus Fact Sheet
• DoD Policy on Landmines
• DODI 5000.02 Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework

Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2020-047 Audit of Surge Sealift Readiness Reporting
• DODIG-2020-055 Evaluation of U.S. European Command's Warning Intelligence Capabilities [redacted]

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

• 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment 

East West Center

• Four Factors that Could Shape Southeast Asia in the Coming Decade

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

• Firearms Acquisition by Terrorists in Europe  

European Leadership Network (ELN)

• Europe, Iran and the United States: A Roadmap for 2020  

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Revitalising the NPT: Preparing the EU for the Tenth RevCon

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Bermuda's Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• The Republic of Belarus' Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing 
• Slovenia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Turks and Caicos Islands' Measures to Combat Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• EU Sanctions and Brexit: Losing the Hard Edge of European Foreign Policy?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Iraq: Asking the Right Questions about Civil Disorder

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

• Occupied Elsewhere: Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes

French Institute of International Relations

• China and the New Geopolitics of Technical Standardization

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

• Socio-Economic Challenges and the Impact of Regional Dynamics on Jordan

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Time for a Complete Makeover in Turkish-U.S. Relations 

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

• Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa - Risk Bulletin #4

Govini

• America's Eroding Technological Advantage: National Defense Strategy RDT&E Priorities in an Era of Great-Power Competition with China

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Countering Illicit Finance and Trade: U.S. Efforts to Combat Trade-Based Money Laundering GAO-20-314R
• Defense Management: More Progress Needed for DOD to Meet Outstanding Statutory Requirements to Improve Collaboration GAO-20-312
• Democracy Assistance: State Should Improve Information Sharing with Embassies GAO-20-173
• Drug Control: Actions Needed to Ensure Usefulness of Data on Suspicious Opioid Orders GAO-20-118
• Military Depots: DOD Can Benefit from Further Sharing of Best Practices and Lessons Learned GAO-20-116
• National Nuclear Security Administration Contracting: Review of the NNSA Report on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Contract Competition GAO-20-292R
• Ocean Carrier Bankruptcies: Federal Agencies Have a Limited Role in Addressing Effects on Cargo GAO-20-353R
• Public-Safety Broadband Network: Network Deployment Is Progressing, but FirstNet Could Strengthen Its Oversight GAO-20-346
• U.S. Ports of Entry: Update on CBP Public-Private Partnership Programs GAO-20-255R

Heritage Foundation

• Brexit’s Three Key Implications for U.S. Policymakers

Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

• China Leadership Monitor, Winter 2019, no. 62
• The Relocation of Supply Chains from China and the Impact on the Chinese Economy
• Beijing’s All-Out Crackdown on the Anti-Extradition Protests in Hong Kong
• How China’s Defense Establishment Views China’s Security Environment: A Comparison between the 2019 PRC Defense White Paper and Earlier Defense White Papers
• Ideological Indoctrination Under Xi Jinping
• Intelligentsia in the Crosshairs: Xi Jinping's Ideological Rectification of Higher Education in China

Human Rights Watch

• “As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us” Rwanda’s Abusive Detention of Children

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• The Iran Cyber Panic: How Apathy Got Us Here, and What to Do Now

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Air Defence Command – A Bold Test Case

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• The Trump Plan: What’s Next?

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

• The European Union’s Permanent Structured Cooperation: Implications for Transatlantic Security
• The PLA Beyond Asia: China’s Growing Military Presence in the Red Sea Region

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• Taking Back Control: South Korea and the Politics of OPCON Transfer 

Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Emerging Giant: Potential Pathways for Ethiopia to 2040
• Open for Business? Appraisal of FDI in Zimbabwe

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

• The Real Culprit – The PLA’s Strategic Support Force

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

• Mental Health for Sustainable Development: A Topic Guide for Development Professionals

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Avoiding the Trap of Another Paper Exercise
• China's Quest for Global Clean Energy Leadership
• Energy Union Watch, No. 16 (Special Issue, January 2020)

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

• Legal Hurdles to Insider Threat Information Sharing

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• ISIS and Their Use of Slavery

International Crisis Group

• Averting Proxy Wars in the Eastern DR Congo and Great Lakes
• The Price of Peace: Securing UN Financing for AU Peace Operations

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

• Towards a Just Lebanon: Mapping the Demands and Goals of the October Uprising [infographic]

Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)

• Mapping China’s Global Future: Playing Ball or Rocking the Boat?

Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief, January 29, 2020, v. 20, no. 2
• The “Democratic Life Meetings” of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo
• The CCP Response to the Wuhan Coronavirus: A Preliminary Assessment
• The Future of Chinese Foreign Economic Policy Will Challenge U.S. Interests, Part 1: The Belt-and-Road Initiative and the Middle Income Trap
• The Vatican Stays Away from the Hong Kong Crisis Due to Fears of Beijing's Retaliation
• New Wine Into New Wineskins: The Evolving Role of the PLA Navy Marine Corps in Amphibious Warfare and Other Mission Areas
• Terrorism Monitor, January 28, 2020, v. 18, no. 2
• Is the ‘Bakura Faction’ Boko Haram’s New Force Enhancer Around Lake Chad?
• Magufuli’s Reign and Tanzania’s Creeping Radicalization Issue
• Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent’s Propaganda Campaign Continues Despite Digital Disruptions and Stifled Operational Capability

Martens Centre for European Studies

• The EU and the Prospect of a New Migration Wave from Turkey

Mercator Institute for China Studies

• Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Migration Policy Institute

• Rebuilding Community after Crisis: Striking a New Social Contract for Diverse Societies

National Academies Press

• Safeguarding the Bioeconomy: Finding Strategies for Understanding, Evaluating, and Protecting the Bioeconomy while Sustaining Innovation and Growth

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

• NIDS Journal of Defense and Security No. 20 (December 2019) 
• Replacement of the Military's Intellectual Labor Using Artificial Intelligence —Discussion about AI and Human Co-existence
• Nuclear Weapon States, Nuclear Umbrella States, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
• The Rise of China and Strengthening of Security Cooperation Between Japan, the United States, and Australia: With a Focus on the 2000s
• Strengthening Public-Private Partnership in Cyber Defense: A Comparison with the Republic of Estonia
• Tracing Criticisms of the "Basic Defense Force Concept" During the Second Cold War —Controversies over Japan's Defense Policy in the 1980s

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Decoding Crimea. Pinpointing the Influence Strategies of Modern Information Warfare

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

• What Business Can Do for the European Green Deal

Observer Research Foundation

• Financing India’s Green Transition
• India in the final frontier: Strategy, policy and industry
• Life in Kashmir after Article 370
• Twitter Diplomacy: A Brief Analysis

Office of Victims of Crime (OVC)

• "Faces of Human Trafficking" Video Series

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

• 2019 Trends and observations from the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine 
• Guidelines for the Implementation of NGO Quality Standards 
• Non-custodial Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism: A Guidebook for Policymakers and Practitioners in South-Eastern Europe 
• OSCE-UNODC Training Programme on Countering Terrorist Financing
• Transitional Justice in Albania

Oxford Research Group

• Who Benefits? Trump, Iran and the Bigger Picture

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• Central Bank Policy Sets the Lower Bound on Bond Yields

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

• An Oasis of Bipartisanship: Republicans and Democrats Distrust Social Media Sites for Political and Election News

Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends

• Women Make Gains in the Workplace Amid a Rising Demand for Skilled Workers

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

• As Voting Begins, Democrats Are Upbeat About the 2020 Field, Divided in Their Preferences

RAND Corporation

• Cross-Agency Evaluation of DoD, VA, and HHS Mental Health Public Awareness Campaigns: Analysis of Campaign Scope, Content, and Reach
• Deterrence in the Age of Thinking Machines
• The End of the Beginning: Assessing the Potential Economic Implications Of Prolonged UK–EU Trade Policy Uncertainty
• Escalation with Iran: Outcomes and Implications for U.S. Interests and Regional Stability [testimony]
• Evaluating Public Awareness Campaigns to Promote Military and Veteran Mental Health 
• The Frequency and Economic Impact of Musculoskeletal Disorders for California Firefighters: Trends and Outcomes over the Past Decade
• Research Brief: Veterans Crisis Line Findings and Recommendations
• What Provokes Putin's Russia? Deterring Without Unintended Escalation

Small Wars Journal

• Could Colombia Provide a Roadmap for Afghanistan
• Cyberwar to Kinetic War: 2020 Election and the Possibility of Cyber-Attack on Critical Infrastructure on the United States
• Does the Trump Administration’s Israeli-Palestinian Plan Offer a Path to Peace?
• A Grunt at Work
• Iraq: Time for A Different Approach
• The Middle East’s Complicated Engagement in the Horn of Africa
• Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: Contradictory or Complementary? 
• To Reunify a Polarized Peninsula: Complex Warfare with Korean Characteristics 
• United States Nuclear Strategy: Deterrence, Escalation and War
• USAJFKSWCS Needs New Nerds: Dungeons and Dragons, SCI-FI/Fantasy Writers, and an Unconventional Way to Consider Irregular Warfare Training
• Who Used ISIS Tactics to Behead an Air Force Academy Cadet in the July 15th Military Uprising in Turkey?

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

• Japan and China’s Summit: Competition in Africa

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• January 30, 2020 46th Quarterly Report to Congress

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Estimating the Arms Sales of Chinese Companies 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

• Professionalizing the Iraqi Army: US Engagement after the Islamic State

Strategic Trade Research Institute (STRI)

• Strategic Trade Review, Winter/Spring 2020, v. 6, no. 9  
• Used Goods, New Risks: Mitigating Proliferation Impacts of the Global Secondary Market
• Disrupting Export Controls: “Emerging and Foundational Technologies” and Next Generation Controls
• Emerging Technologies and Competition in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Need for New Approaches to Export Control
• Leveraging Cheminformatics to Bolster the Control of Chemical Warfare Agents and their Precursors
• An Institutional Blockchain as a Tool to Control the Export of Dual-Use and Military Goods
• Emerging Technologies and Export Control Law: Challenges and Compliance Mechanisms for Research Institutions from a European Perspective
• Emerging Technologies and the Challenges of Controlling Intangible Technology Exports

Swisspeace

• Beyond the Tracks? Reflections on Multitrack Approaches to Peace Processes

Taylor & Francis

• Global Crime, February 2020, v. 21, no. 1 [open access articles]
• Brokering between (Not So) Overt and (Not So) Covert Networks in Conflict Zones [open access]   
• Poisonous Connections: A Case Study on a Czech Counterfeit Alcohol Distribution Network [open access]  

United Nations University - Centre for Policy Research  (UNU - CPR)

• Conflict Prevention in the Sahel: Emerging Practice Across the UN

US  Institute of Peace (USIP)

• The India-Pakistan Rivalry in Afghanistan
• Understanding Pakistan’s Deradicalization Programming

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

• Import Entry Following a Tariff Reduction: Estimating an Upper Bound 
• Modeling Tariff Policy in Concentrated Markets with Cross Border Ownership

US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

• Special Operations Forces Culture and Ethics Comprehensive Review - Letter to the Troops
• United States Special Operations Command Comprehensive Review

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Arab Reactions to Trump’s Peace Plan: An Analysis and Recommendation
• Egypt’s Public Backs Israeli-Palestinian Compromise, Wants Good Ties with United States
• The New Status Quo in Northeast Syria: Humanitarian and Security Implications 
• Shia Militias in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon Post-Soleimani
• Syria’s Economic Crisis Sparks Rare Protests in Regime Territory
• Tunisia Turns a Corner Against the Jihadist Movement