Friday's Miscellany 03-27-2020

38 North

• The North Korean Economy: Coronavirus Measures Causing Economic Anxiety 
• Preliminary Assessment of the KN-24 Missile Launches 

 Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

• Afghan War Crimes Trials in the Netherlands: Who Are the Suspects and What Have Been the Outcomes?

 Africa Center for Strategic Studies

• Coronavirus Spreads Through Africa (updated Infographic)
• COVID-19 and Africa’s Displacement Crisis

 Air University

• Air & Space Power Journal, Spring 2020, v. 34, no. 1 
• First Sergeant: Weak-Tie of the Air Force Leadership Triad
• Air and Space Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Military Revolution
• An Argument against Satellite Resiliency: Simplicity in the Face of Modern Satellite Design
• Quiet Giant: The TITAN Cloud and the Future of DOD Artificial Intelligence
• Getting out of Our Tactical Comfort Zone: Leveraging the Joint Planning Process to Prepare Airmen for Joint Duty
• On Implementing a Space War-Fighting Construct: A Treatise on Applied Frameworks from Other Domains
• A Culture of Military Spacepower

 American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• AEI Political Report: Coronavirus Concerns—What the Polls Show 
• Advancing Treatments to Save Lives and Reduce the Risk Of Covid-19 
• Breaking Out: Brazil’s First Capital Command and the Emerging Prison-Based Threat
• The Evolution of the Revolution: The Changing Nature of Iran’s Axis of Resistance

 American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

• Lost in Translation: The Meaning of Sanctuary for Immigrants in the U.S. and Germany

 Amnesty International

• Thailand: "We Were Just Toys to Them”: Physical, Mental and Sexual Abuse of Conscript in Thailand’s Military

 Army Center of Military History

• Army History Magazine, Spring 2020, no. 115
• The Race for Kuwait: Operation Vigilant Warrior, October-December 1994
• "Get the Boys Home Toot Sweet" A Private's Eye View of World War I Demobilization

 Army Cyber Institute (ACI)

• Cyber Defense Review, Spring 2020, v. 5, no. 1
• A Framework of Partnership
• Civilians ‘Defending Forward’ in Cyberspace: Aligning Cyber Strategy and Cyber Operations
• Norms and Normalization
• Operational Decision-Making for Cyber Operations: In Search of a Model
• Overview of 5G Security and Vulnerabilities
• A Quest for Indicators of Security Debt
• Wargaming and the Education Gap: Why CyberWar: 2025 Was Created

 ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Civil Affairs Issue Papers, Volume 6: Integrating Civil Affairs

 Atlantic Council

• AI, Society and Governance: An Introduction
• Making the Most of Prosper Africa: Leveraging US Competitiveness in African Markets

 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Counterterrorism Yearbook 2020 

 Baker Institute for Public Policy

• The Future of Pemex

 Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• 50 European Political Has-Beens Oppose Trump’s Peace Plan 
• Coronavirus Delivers Another Devastating Blow to the Iranian Regime
• Coronavirus, God, and Science
• Coronavirus in the Eyes of Muslim Clerics 
• The Coronavirus Pandemic: Israel Is America’s Friend In Deed
• Has Syria Reactivated Its Chemical Weapons Program? 
• Iran Looms Large in Central Asia Despite Sanctions and Saudi Financial Muscle 
• Saudi Arabia and Iran Both Persecute Religious and Ethnic Minorities 
• Turkey and Coronavirus: Devout Muslims Will Defeat the “Jewish Plot”
• Turkey and Russia: Not Friends After All
• Turkey vs. Syria: A Culture of Enmity
• Turkey’s Syria Intervention Serves Israeli Strategic Interests

 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

• Defense Playbook for Campaigns
• The Strategic Postures of China and India: A Visual Guide

 Beyond the Parallel

• “Fire and Fury 2?”: Q1 2020 Provocations Reminiscent of Q1 2017

 Brookings

• The Places a OVID-19 Recession Will Likely Hit Hardest
• The Rise of Sweden Democrats: Islam, Populism and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism
• State Policies to Promote Shared Prosperity in Cities
• What’s the Fed Doing in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis? What More Could It Do?
• Where is the US Government Getting All the Money It’s Spending in the Coronavirus Crisis?

 Bruegel

• Facing the Lower Bound: What Will the ECB Do In the Next Recession?
• How has the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure Worked in Practice to Improve the Resilience of the Euro Area?

 Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• The G20 Emergency Meeting: Addressing the COVID-19 Crisis – March 26, 2020 

 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Breaking the Cycle of Gender Exclusion in Political Party Development
• Russian Perspectives on Syrian Military Reform 
• Trilateral Arms Control? Perspectives From Washington, Moscow, and Beijing

 CATO Institute

• Border Walls and Crime: Evidence from the Secure Fence Act

 Center for Global Development

• Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
• What to Do When You Can’t Prove DFI Additionality

 Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• Continuous Production Agility: Adapting at the Speed of Relevance 

 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Guyana: Elections and the Imperatives of Geopolitical Neighborhoods
• The Ice Curtain: Bringing Transparency to the Arctic
• Hunting for Russia’s Newest Military ‘Treasures in the Far North’
• Modernization on the Kola Peninsula
• Protecting the Arctic Motherland
• Russia’s Arctic Military Presence
• Tiksi Airbase—Many Russian Announcements, Little Equipment
• Why Is There a New Russian Military Facility 300 Miles from Alaska?
• Iran and the Changing Military Balance in the Gulf - Net Assessment Indicators
• The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China
• The Right-wing Terrorism Threat in Europe

 Center on Global Energy Policy

• China and the Oil Price War: A Mixed Blessing
• Reconsidering US Nuclear Cooperation Agreements
• Sorry, but the Virus Shows Why There Won’t Be Global Action on Climate Change

 Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

• Chase Gunnell on “From Ally to Bitter Enemy: Secretary Pompeo’s Comments Add Another Layer to the Complex US-ICC Relationship”
• Podcast: Dean Mary-Rose Papandrea on “Whistleblowers and National Security”
• Why Militarizing the Coronavirus Response is a Bad Idea…for Now Anyway

 Centre for European Reform (CER)

• The COVID-19 Pandemic: The EU Must Think and Act Globally

 Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

• Competing in Artificial Intelligence Chips: China’s Challenge amid Technology War

 Chatham House

• Chinese Investment and the BRI in Sri Lanka
• Coronavirus Pandemic
• Seventy Years of the Geneva Conventions: What of the Future?

 Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Nuclear Risk Reduction: How Could the EU Contribute

 College of Europe

• Limits of Co-mediation: The EU’s Effectiveness in the Geneva International Discussions

 Congress. House. Rules Committee

• Majority Staff Report Examining Voting Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—March 2020

 Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• ‘No Place or Me Here’: The Challenges of Ethiopian Male Return Migrants
• Small States Can Take Small but Important Steps to Improve UN Peacekeeping: Action Needed for Peacekeeping in Distress
• The Sovereignty Paradox: Brexit's Territorial Consequences for Gibraltar, Scotland and Northern Ireland
• The Traumas of Ethiopian Male Migrants: Re-Integration Efforts Must Put Vulnerabilities at the Centre

 Defense360, Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Securing U.S. Access to Rare Earth Elements 

 Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS)

• 2019 Annual Report

 Department of Defense (DOD)

• Message to the Force on COVID-19 Response
• Military Personnel Guidance for Department of Defense Components in Responding to Coronavirus Disease 2019

 Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2020-068 Audit of Security Controls Over the Department of Defense’s Global Command and Control System–Joint Information Technology System
• DODIG-2020-069 Audit of the Army’s Base Life Support Contract for Camp Taji, Iraq 
• DODIG-2020-071 Audit of the Department of Defense’s Ground Transportation and Secure Hold of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives in the United States
• DODIG-2020-072 Audit of DoD Hotline Allegations Concerning the Defense Microelectronics Activity
• DODIG-2020-073 Evaluation of the Department of Defense’s Handling of Incidents of Sexual Assault Against (or Involving) Cadets at the United States Military Academy
• DODIG-2020-074 Evaluation of the United States Air Force Enterprise Ground Services (redacted)

 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-20-18 United States Secret Service Expenses Incurred at Trump Turnberry Resort (REDACTED)
• OIG-20-20 FEMA’s Advance Contract Strategy for Disasters in Puerto Rico

 Department of State Inspector General

• ESP-20-03 Management Assistance Report: Foreign Service Institute Wireless User Access Controls

 Dudley Knox Library

• A Sampling of NPS Theses & Research Reports: Pandemics, Epidemics & Influenza

 East-West Center

• Can Technology Offset the Effects of Population Aging on Economic Growth? New Report from the Asian Development Bank

 Egmont Institute

• Coronavirus and Power: The Impact on International Politics 
• The EU’s Just Transition: Three Challenges and How to Overcome Them

 European Council on Foreign Relations

• Digital Stability: How Technology Can Empower Future Generations in the Middle East

 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

• Cybersecurity Skills Development in the EU

 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Coronavirus Rumor Control

 Federal Reserve Bank of New York

• Oil Price Dynamics Report

 Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

• China After the Pandemic: Insecurity Spills Over to Contradictory Foreign Policy Actions
• Italy and the Covid-19 Emergency: Tackling an Unprecedented Crisis, with Limited EU Solidarity
• The Politicization of Covid-19 in Iran: Domestic and International Power Play Hampers the Response

 Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) 

• The Effect of COVID-19 on the U.S. Economy
• France Wants a Western Reset with Russia. What Should That Look Like?
• How the U.S. Department of Defense Is Fighting COVID-19
• Making Sense of the Sadrists: Fragmentation and Unstable Politics 

 Foundation for Strategic Research (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique)

• French Nuclear Deterrence Policy, Forces, And Future: A Handbook

 Future Directions International

• Could China’s Messaging on CPEC Prompt a Rethink in Pakistan’s External Outreach?

 German Marshall Fund of the United States

• Italy’s Coronavirus Experience and the Challenge of Extreme Crises to Liberal Democracies 
• Safeguarding Democracy Against Disinformation

 Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aviation: FAA Needs to Better Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Fraud and Abuse Risks in Aircraft Registration GAO-20-164
• Defense Nuclear Enterprise: Systems Face Sustainment Challenges, and Actions Are Needed to Effectively Monitor Efforts to Improve the Enterprise GAO-20-296
• Department of Justice: ATF and U.S. Marshals Service Can Further Strengthen Controls over Employee Misconduct Processes GAO-20-200
• Drug Misuse: Sustained National Efforts Are Necessary for Prevention, Response, and Recovery GAO-20-474
• Intergovernmental Issues: Key Trends and Issues Regarding State and Local Sector Finances GAO-20-437
• Military Housing: DOD Needs to Strengthen Oversight and Clarify Its Role in the Management of Privatized Housing GAO-20-281
• Navy Shipbuilding: Increasing Focus on Sustainment Early in the Acquisition Process Could Save Billions GAO-20-2           
• Science & Tech Spotlight: 5G Wireless [Reissued with revisions on March 27, 2020] GAO-20-412SP

 The GREVD Consortium

• GReVD - A Global Registry of Violent Deaths

 Heritage Foundation

• China’s Defense Budget in Context: How Under-Reporting and Differing Standards and Economies Distort the Picture
• How the U.S. Should Respond to the ICC’s Decision to Investigate Americans 
• How the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and the Defense Appropriations Act Can Prepare the U.S. for Great Power Competition
• Oil and Gas Exports from Central Asia Should Bypass Russia and Iran—What the U.S. Can Do 
• U.S. Taxpayers Should Not Pay for Legal Counsel for Illegal Aliens

 Hudson Institute

• Combating China’s COVID-19 Propaganda Offensive to Undermine the United States on the Global Stage

 Human Rights Watch

• Egyptian Security Forces’ Abuse of Children in Detention

 Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• ICIT Bright Minds: Deconstructing Vendor AI Exaggerations  

 Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Best Practices in Financial Management: Accrual Accounting for Defence
• NPT@50: The Genesis of a Flawed Bargain

 Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• America amidst Coronavirus: Implications for the Future
• The Calm before the Storm? Coping with Corona in the Middle East
• The Campaign over Idlib: The Dilemmas Facing the Salafi-Jihadist Organizations in Syria
• Contagion, War, and Strategy: Lessons from Military Campaigns for Coping with Coronavirus
• The Coronavirus Crisis: A Failing Grade (So Far) for the International System
• IDF Involvement in the National Management of the Coronavirus Crisis
• Iran’s Efforts to Promote its Interests in the Shadow of the Coronavirus 
• Saudi Arabia: Not Your Father's Kingdom
• Syria: A War in the Times of Corona
• The System-Wide Campaign to Battle the Corona Crisis in Israel

 Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

• Covid-19 Disinformation Briefing No.1

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

• Afghanistan’s Fragile Political Transition & Peace Deal: Shifting Goal Posts 
• Safety Lapse in U.S. and Chinese Germ Labs Give Rise to Covid-19 Conspiracies

 Institute for the Study of War

• Iraq Situation Report: March 18 - 24, 2020
• Putin Accelerates Ukraine Campaign Amid Converging Crises

 Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Algeria: Between Popular Protests, Political Uncertainty and Regional Turmoil
• Beyond Europe's AI Strategy: Global Governance for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Can the EU Stand Up to Trump's "Deal of the Century"? 
• China, Italy and COVID-19: Benevolent Support or Strategic Surge?
• Is Coronavirus Good for Our Sick Planet?
• Italian Military Operations: Coping with Rising Threats and Declining US Leadership
• Technology: An Exit Strategy for COVID-19?
• The Threats of Dual-use Drones and the Implications for Italy: Executive Summary

 Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Maharashtra’s Fight against COVID-19
• Pakistan Grapples with COVID-19 
• Rebooting Bangladesh-Malaysia Relations
• Scindia’s Switch and the Role of Ideology in Indian Politics

 International Crisis Group

• COVID-19 and Conflict: Seven Trends to Watch 

 Italian Institute for International Political Studies

• Covid-19 and Italy’s Case Fatality Rate: What’s the Catch?
• Shuyyukh, Policemen and Supervisors: Yemen’s Competing Security Providers 

 Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor, March 20, 2020, v. 18, no. 6
• The Houthis’ War to Lose: The Battle for Marib
• Terrorist Threat as a Pre-Text: Russia Strengthens Ties with G5 Sahel
• Islamic  State  in  West  Africa Province  and  the  Battle  with Boko Haram

 Korea Economic Institute of America

• South Korea's 5G Ambitions              

 Migration Policy Institute

• Immigrant Workers: Vital to the U.S. COVID-19 Response, Disproportionately Vulnerable
• Which English Learners Count When? Understanding State EL Subgroup Definitions in ESSA Reporting

 National Academies Press

• Assessment of Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs When Used for Prophylaxis
• Final Review of the Study on Supplemental Treatment Approaches of Low-Activity Waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• Identification of Factors Contributing to the Decline of Traffic Fatalities in the United States from 2008 to 2012
• Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic
• A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute
• Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World: The Need for Increased Reliance Among Regulators
• Review of the Department of Defense Biokinetic Modeling Approach in Support of Establishing an Airborne Lead Exposure Limit
• Safeguarding the Bioeconomy

 National Commission on Military, National and Public Service

• Inspired to Serve

 NATO Defense College

• A Framework for the Justification of the Future Structure of The Force Components of the Military Organization of the Russian Federation

 Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2020, v. 96, no. 1  
• Smart Language: How to Address an Inherent Weakness Undermining the Implementation of U.N. Sanctions on North Korea
• The Unlawfulness of a “Bloody Nose Strike” on North Korea
• The (Erroneous) Requirement for Human Judgment (and Error) in the Law of Armed Conflict
• Urban Outbreak 2019 Pandemic Response: Select Research & Game Findings
• Urban Outbreak 2019 Pre-Analytic “Quick Look”

 New America

• Why Am I Seeing This?: How Video and E-Commerce Platforms Use Recommendation Systems to Shape User Experiences

 Observer Research Foundation

• Securing Peace in Afghanistan: A Primer on Japan’s Role

 Oxford Research Group

• Austerity in the Age of COVID-19: A Match Made in Hell?

 Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• EU Limits on Medical Gear Exports Put Poor Countries and Europeans at Risk

 Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

• Americans Who Primarily Get News Through Social Media Are Least Likely to Follow COVID-19 Coverage, Most Likely to Report Seeing Made-Up News

 Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

• Worries About Coronavirus Surge, as Most Americans Expect a Recession – or Worse

 Policy Exchange

• Policing a Pandemic: The Challenges Of Maintaining Law and Order During the Coronavirus Response

 Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)

• Challenges to the Middle East North Africa Inclusionary State 
• Sectarianism and International Relations

 RAND Corporation

• Enhancing Deterrence and Defence on NATO's Northern Flank 
• Fostering Innovation Across the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Identifying Opportunities to Improve Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Fairness
• Measuring Cybersecurity and Cyber Resiliency
• Optimizing the Contributions of Air Force Civilian STEM Workforce

 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

• Defence and the Integrated Review: A Testing Time

 S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

• Cases of Foreign Interference in Asia
• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), March 2020, v. 12, no. 2
• Killing of Iranian General: US Reaps More Than It Wished For
• Soleimani's Assassination: Could Jihadist Groups Benefit?
• The Implications of Soleimani's Killing for South and Southeast Asia
• The Unique Legacy of the 'Islamic State' in Indonesia
• The Sahel: A New Theatre for Global Jihadist Groups?
• Securing Elections and Beyond – Lessons from Canada’s 2019 Federal Election 

 Small Wars Journal

• Coronavirus Crisis: U.S.-China Media War Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time 
• Coronavirus Poses Yet Another Challenge to the Afghan Peace Process
• Covid-19: A Blindside for National Defense and a Failure of International Diplomacy
• Dulce Bellum Inexpertis – “War is Sweet to Those Who Have Never Experienced It”
• From Foreign Interference to Failed Diplomacy, Libya’s Conflict Drags On
• Informatizing Operations: The Other Half of All-Domain Warfare
• Nonviolent Action in the Time of Coronavirus

 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

• SIGAR 20-31-FA USAID's Assessment of Learning Outcomes and Social Effects of Community-Based Education Program in Afghanistan: Audit of Costs Incurred by New York University

 Stanley Foundation

• Global Financial Crisis and Climate Change: A Playbook for Action

 Stimson Center

• IAEA Safeguards in North Korea: Possible Verification Roles and Mandates 

 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• Annual Review 2019 

 US Marine Corps (USMC)

• United States Marine Corps.  Force Design 2030

 US Institute of Peace (USIP)

• The Current Situation in Libya: A USIP Fact Sheet 
• Taliban Fragmentation: Fact, Fiction, and Future
• Understanding Resistance to Inclusive Peace Processes

 Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The Egyptian Response to Coronavirus: Denial and Conspiracy
• Gantz’s Gamble
• Idlib May Become the Next Gaza Strip
• Israel’s Political Battle Goes to Court
• Khamenei Securitizes the Pandemic as the IRGC Mulls Regional Action
• Khamenei’s Nowruz Speech in a Time of Coronavirus 
• Most Palestinians Want to Work With Israel Against Coronavirus, Though Nearly Half Think it Is Deliberately Spread
• Operating in the Gray Zone: Countering Iran's Asymmetric Way of War
• The Outlook for Turkish Democracy: 2023 and Beyond
• With COVID-19, Iran’s Dependence on China Grows 
• A Year Since Baghuz, the Islamic State Is Neither Defeated nor Resurging (Yet)

 Wilson Center

• Ready to Lead: Understanding Women's Public Leadership in the Middle East and North Africa

 World Economic Forum

• How Can Trade Rules Support Environmental Action?
• Known Traveller Digital Identity Specifications Guidance
• Mobilizing the Private Sector in Peace and Reconciliation