Friday's Miscellany 11-18-2016

38 North

·         Sohae Satellite Launching Station: Test Unlikely in the Near Future

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Future of Turkish Engagement in Africa: The Question of Hizmet

·         India Pakistan Conflict: What is Next for the Historic Foes?

American Enterprise Institute

·         Art of the Trade Deal: Priorities for Policy

·         A Closer Look at Health Insurance Coverage Estimates

·         Second Service: Military Veterans and Public Office

Amnesty International

·         Broadcasting Injustice, Boasting of Mass Killing - A Case Study of the August 2016 Execution of 25 Sunni Men in Iran  

·         Nowhere Else To Go—Forced Returns of Somali Refugees from Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya

Asian Development Bank

·         Identity for Development in Asia and the Pacific

·         Mapping Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations in Asia and the Pacific: The ADB Experience

·         Sanitation and Sustainable Development in Japan

Asia Foundation

·         Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia: The Future of the Rebalance

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Characteristics of Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader Development

Atlantic Council

·         The Kremlin's Trojan Horses

·         A Path to US Leadership in the Asia-Pacific

·         Toward a More Flexible NATO Nuclear Posture

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Countering Daesh Extremism - European and Asian Responses

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         PDVSA: Weathering the Collapse

·         A Perspective on the Department of Energy’s Energy-Water Nexus2017 Budget Justification

·         Will India's Rupee Exchange Work?

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The US Must Bolster its Global Credibility

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Rebalancing the Federal–State Partnership: Recommendations of the BPC Governors’ Council

Brookings

·         Aid Effectiveness: Reform in the New Administration and Congress

·         China’s Global Rise: Can the EU and U.S. Pursue a Coordinated Strategy?

·         Protecting and Promoting the Use of Evidence in the Regulatory Process

·         The United States and Mexico: Moving Beyond the Election’s Vitriol and Strengthening a Multifaceted Partnership

Bruegel

·         Reform of the European Union Financial Supervisory and Regulatory Architecture and its Implications for Asia

C4ADS

·         Sticks and Stones:  Hate Speech Narratives and Facilitators in Myanmar

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         The Trouble(s) with Turkey: Turkey and NATO

CATO Institute

·         Apprenticeships: Useful Alternative, Tough to Implement

·         Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act: Myth and Reality

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Counterbalance: Red Teaming the Rebalance in the Asia-Pacific

·         Onward and Upward: Understanding Veteran Retention and Performance in the Workforce

·         Power and Order in the South China Sea

·         Remodeling Partner Capacity: Maximizing the Effectiveness of U.S.Counterterrorism Security Assistance

Center for Global Development

·         Cash on Delivery for Energy

·         Is There a Goldilocks Solution? “Just Right” Promotion of Labor Mobility

·         Nigeria Will Become Polio-Free: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned for the Quest to Eradicate Polio

Center for International Policy (CIP)

·         Future of Pentagon Spending in the New Political Climate

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 192: Russia-Iran Relations

·         Syria and the Chemical Weapons Ban

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Advancing Beyond the Beach: Amphibious Operations in an Era of Precision Weapons

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         PacNet #85 - China's Alliance Blindspot

·         Turning Point: A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         The Paris Agreement and Market Signals: A Survey

Centre for Conflict Resolution

·         War and Peace in the Great Lakes Region

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Trump and Europe: The Sun Sets on the West

Chatham House

·         Aiding and Assisting: Challenges in Armed Conflict and Counterterrorism

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB)

·         Promises and Price Tags: A Fiscal Guide to the 2016 Election - An Update

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         The ISIS Terror Threat in America

Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

·         Intelligence Community Support to the Department of Defense

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Federal Cybersecurity After the OPM Data Breach: Have Agencies Learned their Lesson?

·         Oversight of the Secret Service

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee

·         Exploring Augmented Reality

Conflict Armament Research

·         Investigating Cross-Border Weapon Transfers in the Sahel

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Pressures on DoD’s Budget Over the Next Decade 

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Repairing the U.S.-Israel Relationship

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         How to Deal with China’s Interest in Sensitive Industries:Examples from Nuclear Power and Telecommunication Industries

·         Survival of the Fittest: Trump’s Not-so-simple Nationalism

·         The Uncertainty of US-Russian Relations: Trump and Putin are Preparing to Feel Each Other Out

·         With Trump, US-China Relations are No Longer Business as Usual:China May Stand to Gain from a Trump Presidency

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Directive 5210.56, Arming and the Use of Force, November 18, 2016  

·         DoD Directive 6055.09E, Explosives Safety Management (ESM), November 18, 2016

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2017-014 - Acquisition of the Navy Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (Knifefish) Needs Improvement (Redacted)

·         DODIG-2017-022 Independent Attestation Review on the DoD’s Progress to Comply With the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - November 15, 2016

·         OIG-17-08 - Major Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security

·         OIG-17-09 - DHS Drug Interdiction Efforts Need Improvement

·         OIG-17-10 - The Secret Service Has Taken Action to Address the Recommendations of the Protective Mission Panel

·         Principles Related to the Protection of Medical Care Provided Impartial Humanitarian Organizations During Armed Conflict

·         Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things (loT)

Department of State

·         2016 To Walk the Earth in Safety (15th ed.)  

Department of Veterans Affairs

·         VAOIG -14-02890-72  - Review of Alleged Wait-Time Manipulation at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System

East Asia Institute

·         From "Look East" to "Act East": India as a Security Actor and Security Provider

Enough Project

·         Five Lessons from a Sanctions Practitioner

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         After Brexit: Learning to be Good Neighbours

·         EU Migration Policies after the US Elections: Pushing the Limits?

·         What to Expect from the New President of Moldova

·         Rethinking the EU’s Investment Strategy: EFSI 2.0 Needs a Social Pillar to Address Economic Insecurity

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         Hate Crime Statistics, 2015

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

·         The Role of the European Parliament: Between External and Internal Challenges

·         Russia's 2016 Duma Elections: Ambiguous Triumph and New Challenges for the Regime

FireEye

·         Questions and Answers: the 2017 Security Landscape

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Conference Report – New Dawn: Russia and the West after the U.S.Presidential Elections

·         Implications of Emerging Chinese Surveillance and Strike Complexes

·         Searching for a Trump Grand Strategy

·         Suspend the Iran Nuclear Agreement, Mr. Trump

·         You Can’t Argue with Geography

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Breaking Down Barriers when Analyzing Data to Support Customs Modernization: A Case Study in Gabon

French Institute of International Relations - Institut Français des Relations Internationals (IFRI)

·         America First… and Europe Last? What Will the Trump Presidency Mean for Europe

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

·         The Military, the Media and Public Perceptions in Egypt:Communication and Civil-Military Relations

·         Practice Guide: Domestic Violence

Georgia Tech Institute for Information Security & Privacy

·         2017 Emerging Cyber Threats, Trends & Technologies Report

German Development Institute

·         Ensuring SDG-sensitive Development Cooperation

·         The Mobilisation of Sub-national Revenues is a Decisive Factor in the Realisation of the 2030 Agenda

·         Taxing Carbon as an Instrument of Green Industrial Policy in Developing Countries

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Turkey–U.S. Relations: How to Proceed after Obama?

Global Political Trends Center

·         The Path to Normalization between Israel and Turkey

·         Turkish-Israeli Relations: Crises and Cooperation

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Army Pacific Pathways: Comprehensive Assessment and Planning Needed to Capture Benefits Relative to Costs and Enhance Value for Participating Units. GAO-17-126

·         Asylum: Variation Exists in Outcomes of Applications Across Immigration Courts and Judges. GAO-17-72

·         Defense Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Strengthen Utility Resilience Planning. GAO-17-27

·         Defense Infrastructure: DOD Efforts to Prevent and Mitigate Encroachment at Its Installations. GAO-17-86

·         Hazardous Materials Rail Shipments: Emergency Responders Receive Support, but DOT Could Improve Oversight of Information Sharing. GAO-17-91

·         Highlights of a Forum: Preventing Illicit Drug Use. GAO-17-146SP

·         Student Loans: Oversight of Servicemembers' Interest Rate Cap Could Be Strengthened. GAO-17-4

·         Weapon System Requirements: Detailed Systems Engineering Prior to Product Development Positions Programs for Success. GAO-17-77

Heritage Foundation

·         2017 Index of U.S. Military Strength

·         Allow Energy Tax Credits to Expire

·         An Economic and Humanitarian Case for Pressing China to Rescind the Two-Child Policy

·         Eleven Priorities on International Organizations for the Trump Administration

·         How the Obama Administration’s New Rule to Create State-Based Retirement Savings Could Hurt Savers and Cost Taxpayers

Hudson Institute

·         India's Health Under Modi: Agenda for the Next Two Years

Human Rights Watch

·         Marked With An "X": Iraqi Kurdish Forces' Destruction of Villages, Homes in Conflict with ISIS

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         Demonetisation and Beyond: Addressing the Finance of Terrorism

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, November 17, 2016

o    Zuma Survives Latest No-Confidence Vote: What’s Next?

o    Soldiers Without Borders: The French Military in the Sahel

o    Lesotho’s Governing Coalition Collapses

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS-NDU)

·         The NSC Staff: New Choices for a New Administration

·         The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         Analysis of the IAEA’s Fourth Iran Deal Report: Time of Change

Institute for Security & Development Policy

·         Kazakhstan 2041: the Next Twenty-Five Years

Institute for Security Studies

·         EU Defence Research in Development

·         The Military and the Machine

Institute for the Study of War 

·         The Campaign for Mosul: November 8-15, 2016

·         Iraq Situation Report: November 9-17, 2016

·         Syria Situation Report: November 10 - 18, 2016

Institute of Economics and Peace

·         Global Terrorism Index 2016

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         European Security Governance and Transatlantic Relations

·         EU-Turkey Deal and Its Implications for the Asylum Capacities of EU Border Countries

·         Mapping Member States' Stances in a Post-Brexit European Union

·         Who Needs Whom? Turkey and Israel Agree on Normalization Deal

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Demonetisation – Is This Time Different?

·         Follow-Up Reforms Needed for a Demonetisation Dividend

·         UP’s Ruling Party a Divided House

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Lighting the Path: the Evolution of the Islamic State Media Enterprise (2003-2016)

International Crisis Group (ICG)

·         Cameroon: Confronting Boko Haram

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Arrears to the IMF – A Ghost of the Past?

·         Copper Price Uncertainty and Investment in Chile

·         Quantifying the Spillovers from China Rebalancing Using a Multi-Sector Ricardian Trade Model

·         Securitization and Credit Quality

·         Stock Market Liquidity in Chile

·         A Tale of Two Sectors : Why is Misallocation Higher in Services than in Manufacturing?

·         Trade Costs of Sovereign Debt Restructurings : Does a Market-Friendly Approach Improve the Outcome?

·         Whose Credit Line is it Anyway : An Update on Banks' Implicit Subsidies

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         The State of UN Peace Operations Reform: An Implementation Scorecard

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, November 11, 2016, v. 16, no. 17  

o    Xi Jinping Uses New “Leadership Core” Status to Boost His Faction

o    Downsizing the PLA, Part 2: Military Discharge and Resettlement Policy, Past and Present

o    China’s Influence in Uzbekistan: Model Neighbor or Indifferent Partner?

o    The Cultural Revolution at 50

·         Terrorism Monitor, November 11, 2016, v. 14, no. 22

o    Karachi’s Security Crackdown a Boost for Pakistan’s Islamists

o    Jund al-Aqsa: The Disappearance of a ‘Third-Way’ Faction in Syria’s Conflict

o    An Unwinnable War: The Houthis, Saudi Arabia and the Future of Yemen

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Countering Daesh Extremism: European and Asian Responses

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Are South Koreans Going Numb to Security Threat?

Los Angeles Police Department

·         Report of the Los Angeles Police Department on the Prevention and Elimination of Biased Policing

Lowy Institute for International Policy

·         The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Crisis of US Foreign Policy

Migration Policy Institute

·         A Study of Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes among African-Born Women Living in Utah

Minority Rights Group International

·         Under Threat: The Challenges Facing Religious Minorities in Bangladesh

National Academies Press

·         The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle

National Iranian American Council (NIAC)

·         Maximizing the  Opening with Iran: How President Trump Can Secure American Interests in the Middle East

National Security Archive

·         Echoes of the 1956 Hungarian Revolt in Romania, 60 Years After

NATO Defense College

·         When Hybrid Warfare Supports Ideology: Russia Today

New America Foundation

·         Professor Cy Burr’s Graphic Guide to International Cyber Norms

·         War and Tweets: Terrorism in America in the Digital Age

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

·         Does the Eurozone need a Parliament?

·         France and Germany in the Refugee Crisis: United in Diversity?

Oxford Research Group

·         Remote Control Project: The Remote Warfare Digest

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Monitor on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan for August 2016

·         Monitor on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan for October 2016

·         Monitor on Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan for September 2016

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Making US Trade and Investment Policies Work for Global Development

·         TPP Could Go Forward without the United States  

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         In Key African Nations, Widespread Discontent With Economy,Corruption

Pew Research Center Internet Science & Tech

·         Gig Work, Online Selling and Home Sharing

·         Social Media Update 2016

Ploughshares Fund

·         10 Big Nuclear Ideas for the Next President

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         African Capacity Building Workshop: Inclusive Finance for Equitable and Sustainable Economic Development

RAND

·         Continuity and Contingency in USAF Posture Planning

·         Defining the Roles, Responsibilities, and Functions for Data Science Within the Defense Intelligence Agency

·         Education of EU migrant children in EU Member States

·         The Justice Innovation Center: Identifying the Needs and Challenges of Criminal Justice Agencies in Small, Rural, Tribal, and Border Areas

·         Regional Implications of an Independent Kurdistan

·         Shaping the Future of Autonomous Vehicles: How Policymakers Can Promote Safety, Mobility, and Efficiency in an Uncertain World

·         Timelines for Reaching Injured Personnel in Africa

·         Turning Policy Promises into Blue Skies: Mixed-Method Assessment of China's Past and Future Air Pollution–Reduction Efforts

Small Arms Survey

·         Monitoring UN Arms Embargoes: Observations from Panels of Experts

Small Wars Journal

·         “Tactically Engaged, Strategically Adrift”

Stanley Foundation

·         A Multistakeholder Governance Agenda—What Are the Opportunities?

·         The Power of the Private Sector in Preventing Atrocities and Promoting the Responsibility to Protect

Stimson Center

·         Military Budgets in India and Pakistan: Trajectories, Priorities, and Risks

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Special Treatment: UK Government Support for the Arms Industry and Trade

Transparency International

·         People and Corruption: Europe and Central Asia 2016

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         2016 Annual Report to Congress

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Applying the Compact Model of Economic Assistance in Fragile States

·         Fostering a State-Society Compact

·         Islamist Groups in Afghanistan and the Strategic Choice of Violence

US Travel Association

·         Transforming Security at Airports: An Update on Progress and a Plan for the Future of Aviation Security

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Beyond Syria and Iraq: Examining Islamic State Provinces

·         The Day After Mosul: Lessons from Kirkuk

·         Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

·         Israel's Brewing Settlements Law Could Stir Problems in Washington

·         Lebanon’s Presidential Elections: How Shifting Power Dynamics Delivered a Win for Iran

·         A New President and the Middle East

·         The Role of Missiles in Iran's Military Strategy

·         Syrian Kurds as a U.S. Ally: Cooperation and Complications

·         Two Paths for Turkey

·         Turkey’s Policy Hinders the War on Terror

·         What Does the Dissolution of the Kuwaiti Parliament Mean for the Next Election?

World Bank

·         Unbreakable : Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters

Yale Law School

·         Unfinished Business: Correcting “Bad Paper” for Veterans with PTSD