Friday's Miscellany 06-19-2020

38 North

• The Inter-Korean Liaison Office at Kaesong: Still Standing, Although Clearly Damaged
• Unusual Object Remains at the Sinpo South Shipyard, Possible Midget Submarine 

AidData

• Investing in Kenya's People: Valuing the Benefits of the U.S.-Kenya Relationship

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

• The Hard Chess Puzzle: Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ versus Iran’s ‘Maximum Resistance’

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• A Constitutional Right to a High-Quality Public Education
• Hardship, Anxiety, and Optimism: Racial and Partisan Disparities in Americans’ Response to COVID-19
• Hypothesis Testing Sustained Declines in COVID-19 Intensity

Arctic Institute

• ‘Prepared to Go Fully Kinetic’: How U.S. Leaders Conceptualize China’s Threat to Arctic Security

Army Center of Military History

• Army History Magazine, Summer 2020, no. 116
• Gallantry, Courage, and Devotion to Duty Devotion to Duty Merrill’s Marauders in Burma
• United in a Great Cause :U.S. and Allied Military Relations U.S. and Allied Military Relations in World War I

Asan Institute for Policy Studies

• Not Under Pressure- How Pressure Leaked Out of North Korea Sanctions

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

• Getting Multi-Domain Operations Right: Two Critical Flaws in the U.S. Army's Multi-Domain Operations Concept
• The U.S. Army and the U.S. Space Force

Atlantic Council

• An Affordable Defense of Asia
• Assessing Saudi Vision 2030: A 2020 Review 
• The Reverse Cascade: Enforcing Security on the Global IoT Supply Chain

Australian National University Press

• Dictionary of World Biography (7th ed.)

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

• Genomic Surveillance; Inside China’s DNA Dragnet 
• Thailand’s Strategic Drift: Domestic Determinants Amidst Superpower Competition

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

• Euro Policy: How will the Transatlantic Relations change after the Pandemic?

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

• Delhi Must Help Taipei Get Into the WHO
• Israel and the Precision-Guided Missile Threat 
• Post-Coronavirus Societies: Where We Are Right Now
• Red and Green Virtue-Signaling — An American “Intifada”? 
• The West Bank’s Status Quo is More Dangerous than Applying Sovereignty

Beyond the Parallel

• Kim Zeroes in on Fertilizer Production: The Latest Activity at the Hungnam Liquid Nutrient Fertilizer Factory

Blair Institute for Global Change

• How Far and How Fast? Public Debt After the Pandemic
• The Mozambique Conflict and Deteriorating Security Situation
• The Role of Face Shields in Responding to Covid-19

Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

• Refugees and Migrants between Everyday Conflict and Peace Processes

Brookings

• China’s Indian Ocean Ambitions: Investment, Influence, and Military Advantage
• Designing the Main Street Lending Program: Challenges and Options
• The Importance and Opportunities of Transatlantic Cooperation on AI
• Race Gaps in COVID-19 Deaths are Even Bigger Than They Appear
• Reopen the World: How to Save Lives and Livelihoods
• The Slowdown in Productivity Growth and Policies That Can Restore It
• Understanding Risk Assessment Instruments in Criminal Justice

Bruegel

• Long-term Transmission Rights and Dynamic Efficiency 
• Occupational Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Geography of EU Labour Markets

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

• Preferential Trade Agreements vs. Multilateralism: In the New Trump-World, Does Canada Face an Impossible Choice?
• Bill C-59, An Act Respecting National Security Matters 2017: What’s new, what’s out, and what’s different from Bill C-51, A National Security Act 2015?
• Toward Agile Procurement for National Defence: Matching the Pace of Technological Change

CATO Institute

• Global Effects of the Brexit Referendum: Evidence from U.S. Corporations

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• Sanctions by the Numbers: The Geographic Distribution of U.S. Sanctions

Center for Global Development

• Compassion, Uncertainty, Anxiety—and Hope: Africa in the Time of Coronavirus 
• Protecting Community Health Workers: PPE Needs and Recommendations for Policy Action

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• The Instrumentalization of Religion in Conflict 
• Russian Analytical Digest No. 253: US-Russian Relations

Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS)

• From the Ground Up: Getting to Space with the Right Construction Project Delivery Type

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Can Telephones Race? 5G and the Evolution of Telecom
• Covid-19 Response Update: June 12-June 19 
• The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States
• Exploring China’s Unmanned Ocean Network
• Mapping U.S.-India Partnerships in Electric Mobility 

Center on Global Energy Policy

• Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Approach to Sanctions: Venezuela
• The Greenest Stimulus Is One that Delivers Rapid Economic Recovery
• Why the United States Should Remain Engaged on Nuclear Power: Climate Change and Air Pollution

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

• Studies in Intelligence, v. 64, no. 1, March 2020
• Traditional Chinese Conceptions and Approaches to Secrecy, Denial, and Obfuscation
• The Rise and Fall of an Intelligence Discipline and Its Uncertain Future
• Secret Warriors: Thai Forward Air Guides in the US War in Laos

Chatham House

• Public Sector Reform in Iraq
• Transparency in Transition: Climate Change, Energy Transition and the EITI

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

• Can the EU and UK Cooperate on Foreign Policy and Sanctions?
• Iraq's Adolescent Democracy 

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

• Department of Defense COVID-19 Response to Defense Industrial Base Challenges
• Future Force Structure Requirements for the United States Navy
• Racial Disparity in the Military Justice System - How to Fix the Culture

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

• Diversity and Diplomacy: Why an Inclusive State Department Would Strengthen U.S. Foreign Policy
• Objectives of U.S. Arms Sales to the Gulf: Examining Strategic Goals, Risks and Benefits

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee Minority Staff

• The Origins of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Including the Roles of the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

• Business as Usual? Assessing How DHS Can Resume Operations Safely
• Climbing Again: Stakeholder Views on Resuming Air Travel in the COVID-19 Era  

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

• Oversight Hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability
• Protecting the Right to Vote During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Congress. House. Oversight and Reform Committee

• No Worker Left Behind: Supporting Essential Workers
• The Unemployment Pandemic: Addressing America’s Jobs Crisis

Congress. House. Science, Space, and Technology Committee

• Repurposing Therapeutic Drugs for COVID-19: Research Challenges and Opportunities 
• The Role of AFG and SAFER Grants in COVID-19 Response

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

• On the Front Lines: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Transportation Workers

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

• The State of Transportation and Critical Infrastructure: Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

• COVID-19 and U.S. International Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention, and Response

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

• Evaluating the Federal Government’s Procurement and Distribution Strategies in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Majority and Minority Staff Report - Threats to U.S. Networks: Oversight of Chinese Government-Owned Carriers

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

• COVID-19 Fraud: Law Enforcement’s Response to Those Exploiting the Pandemic
• Examining Best Practices for Incarceration and Detention During COVID-19
• Is the DMCA's Notice-and-Takedown System Working in the 21st Century?
• Oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation: Day 1
• Police Use of Force and Community Relations

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• The Budgetary Effects of Laws Enacted in Response to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, March and April 2020
• How CBO Analyzes Approaches to Improve Health Through Disease Prevention

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• Short-Term Responses and Long-Term Consequences: Peacekeeping in the Shadow of COVID-19 Era

Department of Defense, Inspector General (DODIG)

• DODIG-2020-093 Audit of the Department of Defense’s Processes to Identify and Clear Munitions and Explosives of Concern During Construction on Guam

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-20-37 DHS Can Enhance Efforts to Protect Commercial Facilities from Terrorism and Physical Threat
• OIG-20-38 Capping Report:  CBP Struggled to Provide  Adequate Detention Conditions During 2019 Migrant Surge

Department of State

• Fiscal Transparency Reports
• 2020 Report

Department of Veterans Affairs

• PREVENTS homepage
• PREVENTS: The Presidents Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide

East West Center

• Catching Up in a Technology War—China's Challenge in Artificial Intelligence

Elliot School of International Affairs - Central Asia Program

• Beijing Binds: COVID-19 and the China-Central Asia Relationship

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

• The Conservation of Defense: Opportunities to Promote Conservation Through Military Readiness  

European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

• EASO Practical Recommendations on Conducting Remote/Online Registration (Lodging) 

European Parliament

• Coronavirus in South-East Asia: Health, Political and Economic Impact 
• EU and UK Citizens' Rights after Brexit: An Overview 
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: During the Pandemic and Beyond
• Single Market and the Pandemic: Impacts, EU Action and Recovery

European Policy Centre (EPC)

• The Brexit Transition Extension 2.0 
• Towards an Ambitious, Broad, Deep and Flexible EU-UK Partnership?

European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center (ESISC)

• The Balochistan Insurgency: A  Major Security Issue for Pakistan and Its Impact on Chinese Interests in the Region
• The Use of Innovative Technologies in the Fight against COVID-19 and Its Political Implications 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Central Asian Gas Exports to China: Beijing’s Latest Bargaining Chip? 
• Europe as a Neutral Giant?

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

• The Belt and Road: China's "Community of Destiny" for Southeast Asia?

German Development Institute

• Information and Communication Technology in the Lives of Forcibly Displaced Persons in Kenya
• What the EU Should Do for Democracy Support in Africa: Ten Proposals for a New Strategic Initiative in Times of Polarization

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

• Beyond the Green Deal: Upgrading the EU’s Energy Diplomacy for a New Era
• The International Dimensions of Germany’s Hydrogen Policy

German Marshall Fund of the United States

• AI, Digital Identities, Biometrics, Blockchain: A Primer on the Use of Technology in Migration Management
• The Human Face of Systemic Rivalry and the Mistake of Not Speaking Out
• Strengthening Ombudspersons in Central and Eastern Europe

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Force: Enhanced Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control Assessments Could Improve Accountability over Mission-Critical Assets GAO-20-332
• Compacts of Free Association: Populations in U.S. Areas Have Grown, with Varying Reported Effects GAO-20-491
• Defense Contracting: DOD Contracts with Companies Having Employee Stock Ownership Plans GAO-20-514R
• Department of Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Management and Oversight of Dependency Determinations for Incapacitated Adult Children GAO-20-335
• Improper Payments: Improvements Needed to Ensure Reliability and Accuracy in DOE's Risk Assessments and Reporting GAO-20-442
• Military Justice: DOD and the Coast Guard Need to Improve Their Capabilities to Assess Racial Disparities GAO-20-648T [testimony]
• Public Health Preparedness: HHS Should Take Actions to Ensure It Has an Adequate Number of Effectively Trained Emergency Responders GAO-20-525
• State Department: Additional Steps Are Needed to Identify Barriers to Workforce Diversity GAO-20-515T [testimony]

Hoover Institution

• Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19

Human Rights Watch

• “They Talk to Us Like We’re Dogs”: Abusive Police Stops in France
• “We Might Call You in at Any Time”: Free Speech Under Threat in Iraq

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

• Reforming FedRAMP: A Guide to Improving the Federal Procurement and Risk Management of Cloud Services

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

• A Case for Transformational Change – Secure Intelligent Automation for Mission Readiness, Accelerating Insight and Enabling Future Readiness for Warfighters

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

• Chinese Glimmer to Pakistan’s Dam Distress

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

• COVID-19 and the Post-Truth Age: The Role of Facts in Public Policy [Summary of an Online International Conference]
• One Year until the Presidential Elections in Iran 
• The Supreme Court Ruling on the Regularization Law
• Where is the War Budget?

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

• Religion and the Secular State in Kyrgyzstan
• U.S.-North Korea Denuclearization Negotiations: An Irresolvable Issue?

Institute for Security Studies [Africa]

• Mainstreaming Youth Into AU’s Peace and Security Agenda
• Shielding Elections from Presidential Influence: Lessons from Cabo Verde, Comoros and Madagascar
• The Trade in Tools of Torture: A South African Case Study

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

• An Online Environmental Scan of Right-wing Extremism in Canada

Institute for the Study of War

• Iraq Situation Report: June 10-16, 2020

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• The Distributional Impact of Recessions: the Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

• Bringing Paris into the EU's Energy Infrastructure Policy: What Future for Gas?
• EU "Sanctions" and Russian Manoeuvring: Why Brussels Needs to Stay its Course while Shifting Gears
• EU-UK Relations After the High Level Conference

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

• Economic Impact of a Pandemic: Pakistan Grapples with COVID-19
• Impact of COVID-19 on Nepal’s Economy
• Return and Reintegration without Assimilation: South Asian Migrant Workers in the Gulf during COVID-19

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

• The Use of Small Arms & Light Weapons by Terrorist Organisations as a Source of Finance in South and Southeast Asia

International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

• Volunteers in Estonia’s Security Sector: Opportunities for Enhancing Societal Resilience

International Crisis Group

• Iraq: Fixing Security in Kirkuk
• Rebooting Myanmar’s Stalled Peace Process

International Peace Institute (IPI)

• Uniformed Women in Peace Operations: Challenging Assumptions and Transforming Approaches

Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor, June 17, 2020, v. 18, no. 12
• Operation Iraqi Heroes in Kirkuk
• The Ban on Hezbollah Activities in Germany
• Is Nigeria Losing the War Against Terrorists in Borno State?

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

• Special Operations Research Topics 2020: Revised Edition for Academic Year 2021

Martens Centre for European Studies

• Rethinking EU Crisis Management - From Battlegroups to a European Legion?
• State of Play in the Libyan Civil War

Middle East Institute (MEI)

• Dancing during the Pandemic: Despite Restrictions, Music and Dance Retain a Central Role in Iranian Society
• Nation or Religion? Iraq’s Hybrid Identity Politics
• Russia in the Black Sea
• Strategic Competitors in Search of China: The Story of Romania and Bulgaria
• The Syrian Regime’s Combat Losses in Spring 2020, and What Lies Ahead
• Syrians Respond to COVID-19 with Renewed Volunteer and Community Efforts
• Turkey, the Gulf, and Libya: The Economic Impact of a Growing Geopolitical Divide 
• Violence against Women in Turkey during COVID-19

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

• Using Evidence to Improve Refugee Resettlement: A Monitoring and Evaluation Road Map 

Mitchell Institute

• Long-Range Strike: Resetting the Balance of Stand-in and Stand-off Forces 

MITRE

• Russian Lessons Learned in Syria

National Academies Press

• 2019-2020 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory: Interim Report
• Weapons System Sustainment Planning Early in the Development Life Cycle

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)

• The Pits: Violence in Michoacán Over Control of Avocado Trade

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

• Hearing Difficulty, Vision Trouble, and Balance Problems Among Male Veterans and Nonveteran
• National Hospital Care Survey Demonstration Projects: Opioid-involved Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths 

National Security Archive

• The Bolton Book Battle
• New Evidence on Clinton Administration Negotiations with North Korea

National Taxpayers Union (NTU)

• Reforming the OCO [Overseas Contingency Operations] Account: A Better Deal for Taxpayers, Watchdogs, and the Military

NATO

• Counter-Terrorism Reference Curriculum

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

• Arctic Narratives and Political Values: Arctic States, China and NATO

Naval War College

• International Law Studies, 2020, v. 96, issue 1 [no. 5 & 6]
• DPRK Maritime Sanctions Enforcement
• Strategic Proportionality: Limitations on the Use of Force in Modern Armed Conflicts

New America

• Engaged Dads and the Opportunities for and Barriers to Equal Parenting in the United States
• The Monarchs’ Pawns?: Gulf State Proxy Warfare 2011-Today 
• The Transparency Report Tracking Tool: How Internet Platforms Are Reporting on the Enforcement of Their Content Rules

Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI)

• The Far Right Honeytrap: Georgian Media and the Mediagenic Far Right

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

• Brexit and External Differentiation in Single Market Access

Observer Research Foundation

• Developing an Effective Anti-Drone System for India’s Armed Forces
• New Space for the Future of Work: Co-working in India 
• Nutrition Gardens: A Sustainable Model for Food Security and Diversity
• SDGs, Indian Cities and Seismic Sustainability
• Strengthening the C4ISR Capabilities of India’s Armed Forces: The Role of Small Satellites

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

• Law Enforcement Solutions By the Field, For the Field: Collaborative Reform Second Annual Review 

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

• Leveraging Innovation to Fight Trafficking in Human Beings: A Comprehensive Analysis of Technology Tools

Oxford Research Group

• Writing on the Wall? The UK and the Early Warning Signs of COVID-19

Peace Research Institute of Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK)

• Nigeria’s Police Work between International Reform Ideas and National Security Arrangements

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

• COVID-19 Has not Undermined the Prospects for Europe’s Green Deal
• East Asia Decouples from the United States: Trade War, COVID-19, and East Asia's New Trade Blocs
• The Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation is Widening in China While Narrowing in Other Parts of the World
• In South Korea, Gender Diversity has Improved for Economics Degrees, but not as Much in Economics Teaching
• Regional Trade Agreements Will Reorient East Asian Economies Away from the US

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

• Majorities of Americans Say News Coverage of George Floyd Protests Has Been Good, Trump’s Public Message Wrong

 Project on Government Oversight (POGO)

• The Pentagon’s War on Transparency

Rand Corporation

• Alternatives for Reducing Army Installation Utility Bills While Enhancing Installation Readiness
• A Changing Climate: Exploring the Implications of Climate Change for UK Defence and Security
• Countering Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Criminal Justice Strategies for Combating Nonconsensual Pornography, Sextortion, Doxing, and Swatting 
• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Changing Nature of Work: Lose Your Job, Show Up to Work, or Telecommute?
• Fulfilling Clandestiny: Reframing the "Crime-Terror Nexus" by Exploring Conditions of Insurgent and Criminal Organizations' Origins, Incentives, and Strategic Pivots
• Health Care Resource Allocation Decisionmaking During a Pandemic
• Public Health and Safety Consequences of Liberalizing Drug Laws: Insights from Cannabis Legalization

Small Wars Journal

• Considering Military Culture & Values When Adopting AI
• Decapitating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and the Implication for US policy in Iraq and Beyond
• Implementing Security Cooperation Reforms: Challenges and Practical Approaches for USAFRICOM

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

• The European Green Deal: A Chance to Promote a People-Centred Take on Climate Security
• Mali: Fragmented Territorial Sovereignty and Contested Political Space

Sudd Institute

• The COVID-19 Mortality in South Sudan

Swisspeace

• Lessons for IGAD Mediation Arising from the South Sudan Peace Talks 2013-15

Taylor & Francis

• Policing & Society, May 2020, v. 30, no. 4
• Policing Nightlife Areas: Comparing Youths’ Trust in Police, Door Staff and CCTV [open access]
• ‘Taser, Taser’! Exploring Factors Associated with Police Use of Taser in England and Wales [open access]

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• A Contest of Wills–and Wagers–between Jordan and Israel 
• Iran Is Repeating Its Past Errors with the IAEA
• Iran Signals a Toughened Stance by Adding to Its Naval Arsenal 
• Mapping West Bank Annexation: Territorial and Political Uncertainties
• Qatar Without Tamim
• Regional Implications of a U.S. Pullout from Afghanistan
• Russia’s Military Activity in the East Mediterranean Echoes Its Approach to Syria
• Why the ICC Prosecutor Is Wrong on Oslo 
• Wrestling with Annexation: The Elusive Search for a Policy Rationale

World Bank

• Fostering Human Capital in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
• Global Economic Prospects, June 2020
• Learning Environments and Learning Achievement in the Russian Federation : How School Infrastructure and Climate Affect Student Success
• Tackling the World's Fastest-Growing HIV Epidemic : More Efficient HIV Responses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Women, Business and the Law 2020
• Transformative Climate Finance : A New Approach for Climate Finance to Achieve Low-Carbon Resilient Development in Developing Countries

World Economic Forum

• Exploring Blockchain Technology for Government Transparency: Blockchain-Based Public Procurement to Reduce Corruption
• Integrated Corporate Governance: A Practical Guide to Stakeholder Capitalism for Boards of Directors