Friday's Miscellany 05-26-2017

38 North

·         North Korea’s New Hwasong-12 Missile

·         The Potential Institutional Consequences of Deeper UN Actions Against North Korea

·         The Pukguksong-2: Lowering the Bar on Combat Readiness?

African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes

·         Mapping Opportunities for the Consolidation of Peace in Liberia

Air University

·         Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2017, v. 31, no. 2

o    Social Media and the DOD: Benefits, Risks, and Mitigation

o    Improving Resource Management in the Afghan Air Force

o    The Coming Close Air Support Fly-Off: Lessons from AIMVAL-ACEVAL

o    Break the Paradigm: Prepare Airpower for Enemies' "Most Likely Course of Action"

o    Critical Thinking Skills in USAF Developmental Education

o    Toward a US Air Force Arctic Strategy

o    The Last Prop Fighter: Sandys, Hobos, Fireflies, Zorros, and Spads

o    Data You Can Trust: Blockchain Technology

o    Defeating Small Civilian Unmanned Aerial Systems to Maintain Air Superiority 

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Iran's Foreign Policy Following the Nuclear Agreement and the Advent of Trump: Priorities and Future Directions

·         The Meaning of Macron’s Victory

·         No Roosevelt Moment: Trump’s Saudi Visit and the End of a ‘Bitter’ American Era

Amnesty International

·         Americas: State Protection Mechanisms for Human Rights Defenders

·         In the Line of Duty: Harassment, Prosecution and Imprisonment of Lawyers in Tajikistan

·         Purged Public Sector Workers Denied a Future in Turkey

·         USA: Policing Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs in the USA

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

·         A Dark & Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States

Atlantic Council

·         The Kremlin’s Gas Games in Europe: Implications for Policy Makers

·         NATO and Trump

·         Why Africa Matters to US National Security

Australian Department of Defence

·         Naval Shipbuilding Plan

Australian Strategic Policy Institute(ASPI)

·         The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence Budget Brief 2017-2018

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Assad’s Survival Is in Israel’s Best Interest

·         A Border as a Dynamic Space

·         The Over-Dramatization of Israel’s “Dilemma”

·         Strategic Consensus: DOA in 1981; Resurrected in 2017?

·         Turkey’s Indigenous Weapons Industry: A Rover with Rolls-Royce Ambitions

·         Turkey’s Rants, Raves, and Ramifications

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         By Any Means Necessary: Privacy Implications of Intelligence Support to Domestic Security

·         Too Connected to Fail: How Attackers Can Disrupt the Global Internet, Why it Matters, And What We Can Do About It

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Patient Safety and Information Technology: Improving Information Technology’s Role in Providing Safer Care

Brennan Center for Justice

·         Racism & Felony Disenfranchisement: An Intertwined History

Brookings

·         Actualising East: India in a Multipolar Asia

·         Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated May 25, 2017]

·         The Unprecedented Expansion of the Global Middle Class

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         A Primer to the Brussels NATO Summit

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         U.S. Policy in Afghanistan: Changing Strategies, Preserving Gains

CATO Institute

·         The Deep Roots of Economic Development in the U.S. States

Center for Climate and Security (CCS)

·         The Alliance in a Changing Climate: Bolstering the NATO Mission Through Climate Preparedness

Center for Global Development

·         Gender Matters in Economic Empowerment Interventions: A Research Review  

·         The Labor Market Effects of Refugee Waves: Reconciling Conflicting Results  

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

·         North Korea Missile Test Database

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Why Is the World So Unsettled? The End of the Post-Cold War Era and the Crisis of Global Order

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         The Afghan War: Key Developments and Metrics

·         Issues & Insights - Vol. 17 No. 9 - The Third Meeting of the CSCAP Study Group on Nonproliferation and Disarmament in theAsia-Pacific

·         PacNet #42 - How Trump is Reimagining America’s Role

·         Southeast Asia in Global Energy Markets

Center for Transatlantic Relations

·         Against the Odds: Driving Defense Innovation in a Change-Resistant Ecosystem

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         CER Bulletin Issue 114 - June/July 2017

o    Why No Deal Would be Much Worse Than a Bad Deal

o    Macron, Merkel and the Future of the Euro

o    Europe's Forgotten Refugee Crisis

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Beyond the Grid: Examining Business Models for Delivering Community-based REPs in Developing Countries

·         CETA and the Future of Geographical Indications Protection in Canada

·         How Ontario Could Lead the World in Sovereign Debt Restructuring

Chatham House

·         Central and Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects for Sustained Re-engagement

College of Europe

·         From Economic Crisis to Identity Crisis: The Spoliation of EU and National Citizenships

Conflict Armament Research

·         Sudanese Stockpiles and Regional Weapon Diversion

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Department of the Air Force FY 2018 Budget Request for Seapower and Projection Forces

·         Department of the Navy FY 2018 Budget Request for Seapower and Projection Forces

·         Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request for U.S. Cyber Command: Cyber Mission Force Support to Department of Defense Operations

·         Fiscal Year 2018 Priorities for Nuclear Forces and Atomic Energy Defense Activities

·         Ground Force Modernization Budget Request

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         Disrupter Series: Delivering to Consumers

·         U.S. Public Health Response to the Zika Virus: Continuing Challenges

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Nuclear Deal Fallout: The Global Threat of Iran

·         Vietnam: Why Religious Freedom and Human Rights Are Critical to U.S. National Interests

·         Violence Outside the Turkish Ambassador’s Residence: The Right to Peaceful Protest

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Visa Overstays: A Gap in the Nation’s Border Security

Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

·         Examining the Overhead Cost of Research

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Cyber Posture of the Services

·         Department of Energy Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Programs

·         Industry Perspectives on Options and Considerations for Achieving a 355 Ship Navy

·         Posture of the Department of the Army

·         Worldwide Threats

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         American Leadership in the Asia-Pacific, Part 2: Economic Issues

·         Assessing the United Nations Human Rights Council

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Border Insecurity: The Rise of MS-13 and Other Transnational Criminal Organizations

·         Stopping the Shipment of Synthetic Opioids: Oversight of U.S.Strategy to Combat Illicit Drugs

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee

·         Building America’s Trust Through Border Security: Progress on the Southern Border

·         Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Across Borders: Facilitating Cooperation and Protecting Rights

Department of Defense  (DOD)

·         FY2018 Budget Justification Books

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Fiscal Year 2016 Entry/Exit Overstay Report

Department of State

·         2016 Political Violence Against Americans

East-West Center

·         China and the United States as Aid Donors: Past Trends and Future Trajectories

Egmont Institute

·         The EU in the AIIB: Taming China’s Influence from Within

European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         NATO’s Evolving Modern Deterrence Posture: Challenges and Risks

European Policy Centre

·         New Pact for Europe - National Report - FINLAND

·         Tackling Irregular Migration Through Development – a Flawed Approach?

European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center

·         The Re-Emergence of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis in Egypt Illustrates the Internal Divisions of the Is Wilayat Sinai

European Union Institute for Security Studies

·         Citizen Security in Latin America

·         The Economic Impact of Violence in LAC: Implications for the EU

·         Low Carbon Development in Latin America

·         Towards San Salvador: Where Europe Meets Latin America

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Marathon for Navalny: How Should the Russian Opposition Act in Order to Succeed?

Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI)

·         Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Poverty Eradication

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

·         Reforming Ukrainian Defense: No Shortage of Challenges

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Turkey After the Referendum

·         U.S. Unpredictability Is Not Reassuring for NATO

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Commercial Nuclear Waste: Resuming Licensing of the Yucca Mountain Repository Would Require Rebuilding Capacity at DOE and NRC, Among Other Key Steps. GAO-17-340

·         DOD Training: DOD Has Taken Steps to Assess Common Military Training. GAO-17-468

·         Emerging Infectious Diseases: Actions Needed to Address the Challenges of Responding to Zika Virus Disease Outbreaks. GAO-17-445

·         Emerging Infectious Diseases: Actions Needed to Ensure Improved Response to Zika Virus Disease Outbreaks. GAO-17-612T [Testimony]

·         Iraq: DOD Needs to Improve Visibility and Accountability Over Equipment Provided to Iraq's Security Forces. GAO-17-433

·         Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Efforts Intended to Improve Procedures for Requesting Additional Information for Licensing Actions Are Under Way. GAO-17-344

Heritage Foundation

·         President Trump’s Middle East Trip: An Opportunity to Reset Relations

Households in Conflict Network

·         Childhood Aspirations, Occupational Outcomes and Exposure to Violence: Evidence from Burundi

·         Conflict in Ethiopia: The Impact of Precipitation and Its Transmission Mechanism

Human Rights Watch

·         ‘It’s a Men’s Club’: Discrimination Against Women in Iran’s Job Market

·         No Control, No Choice: Lack of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Rebel-Held Southern Kordofan

·         ‘They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me’: Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, May 25, 2017

o    African Universities: Essential for a Higher Education and Indigenous Research Capacity

o    Indefinite Cease-Fire Announced in Mozambique

·         Department of Defense Public Safety and Emergency Management Communications: Interoperability Data Requirements

·         An Evaluation of the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award Program Finalists for Fiscal Years 2007–2009

·         On-Orbit Manufacturing and Assembly of Spacecraft

·         An Outcome Evaluation of the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award Program for Fiscal Years 2007–2009

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         America Exposed: Who’s Watching You Through your Computer’s Camera?

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         St. Petersburg Metro Bombing: Al Qaeda Redux

·         Voter’s Dilemma: Data Leaks and Electoral Interventions

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

·         Myanmar’s Rohingya Problem in Context

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Marginalization, Young People in the South and East Mediterranean,and Policy

·         The Western Balkans in the European Union: Enlargement to What,Accession to What?

·         What Happens After Finding Refuge? The Integration of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Turkey

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Actualising East: India in a Multipolar Asia

·         The Belt and Road Initiative: China Acts ‘Global’, India Plays‘Local’

·         India’s Bad Debt Problem

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Losing the Plot: Narrative, Counter-Narrative and Violent Extremism

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 

·         Debt Limits and the Structure of Public Debt

·         Disinflation, External Vulnerability, and Fiscal Intransigence :Some Unpleasant Mundellian Arithmetic

·         Riding the Energy Transition : Oil Beyond 2040

·         Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts and Maturity

·         State-Contingent Debt Instruments for Sovereigns

·         State-Contingent Debt Instruments for Sovereigns - Annexes

·         Trading with China : Productivity Gains, Job Losses

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·         Enhancing Regional Cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa Through the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 3-18, Joint Forcible Entry Operations, 11 May 2017

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         Business as Usual in Brussels? NATO’s Strategic Outlook Under Trump

Lowy Institute for International Relations

·         History of US Freedom of Navigation Operations

Martens Centre for European Studies

·         A New Transatlantic Agenda IN FOCUS: Challenges and Opportunities in the Trump Era

·         We Need to Talk about the EU: European Political Advertising in the Post-Truth Era

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Taking Stock of Refugee Resettlement: Policy Objectives, Practical Tradeoffs, and the Evidence Base

Modern War Institute

·         How NATO Endures in the Twenty-First Century

National Defense University Press

·         Like, Comment, Retweet: The State of the Military's Nonpartisan Ethic in the World of Social Media

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         East Asian Strategic  Review 2017

o    Chapter 1 Changes in the European Strategic Environment: Their Impact on East Asia

o    Chapter 2 Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Regional Responses to China’s Growing Influence

o    Chapter 3 China: Quest for a Great-Power Role

o    Chapter 4 The Korean Peninsula: North Korea’s Growing Nuclear and Missile Threat and South Korea’s Anguish

o    Chapter 5 Southeast Asia: Duterte Takes Office, South China Sea in Flux

o    Chapter 6 Russia: President Putin’s Visit to Japan

o    Chapter 7 The United States: Addressing the “Return to Great Power Competition”

o    Chapter 8　Japan: Expanding Strategic Horizons

National Security Archive

·         Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1977

National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC)

·         Draft NSTAC Report to the President on Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision Executive Summary  

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE)

·         National Cyber Security Organisation:  Israel

NATO Defence College

·         Winning Peace and Exporting Stability: Colombia as NATO's Next Global Partner?

NATO Parliamentary Assembly

·         Assessing and Mitigating the Cost of Climate Change

·         Food and Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa

Nautilus Institute

·         Manifestations of Power in Understanding the Risks of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism with Reflections for a Post-Fukushima Japan

·         Potential Impacts of Accident at or Attack on the DPRK's Yongbyon Nuclear Reactors

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Summer 2017, v. 70, no. 3

o    Maritime Trade Warfare

o    Tactics of Strategic Competition

o    Impacts of the Robotics Age on Naval Force Design, Effectiveness, and Acquisition

o    Organization and Innovation

o    Epictetus vs. Aristotle

o    Foundations of Moral Obligation

o    Remarks, Stockdale to Pilots, 1965

o    Primary-source evidence from Genda bearing on Parshall-Bennett exchange regarding Fuchida at Pearl Harbor

·         22nd International Sea Power Symposium

Observer Research Foundation

·         The Enduring Relevance of India-Russia Relations

Office of Budget and Management (OMB)

·         FY18 Budget

·         OMB Final Sequestration Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2017

Office of Naval Research

·         Future Force: Naval Science and Technology, Winter 2017

o    Arctic Invasion: How Do We Prevent the Spread of Aquatic Nuisance Species?

o    Protected Communications Go Polar

o    Coupling Atmosphere, Ice, and Ocean Modeling Improves Prediction

o    “Operationally Blended” Satellite Data Can Improve Sea Ice Forecasts

o    It’s a Ship, It’s an Iceberg, It’s a...Polar Bear?

o    “The Science in Antarctica Has Always Been Essential”

Operation Inherent Resolve

·         Executive Summary of the Investigation of the Alleged Civilian Casualty Incident in the al Jadidah District, Mosul

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

·         Internal Security and Challenges

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         NATO’s Image Improves on Both Sides of Atlantic

Potomac Institute

·         Latin America’s Strategic Outlook: Populist Politics, Health Concerns, and Other Security Challenges

RAND

·         The Future of Sectarian Relations in the Middle East

·         Mid-Term Assessment of the EU Drugs Strategy 2013–2020 and Final Evaluation of the Action Plan on Drugs 2013–2016: Final report

·         What Factors Cause Individuals to Reject Violent Extremism in Yemen?

·         What Role Can Land-Based, Multi-Domain Anti-Access/Area Denial Forces Play in Deterring or Defeating Aggression?

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Organised Crime and Illicit Trade in Europe

Small Wars Journal

·         The Circum-Caribbean (Bolivarian-Grenadine) War - Early 2017Review

·         Combating Corruption

·         Considerations for Planning Humanitarian Operations in Hybrid Warfare

·         The Good Vibrations of D-Day

·         Mexican Cartel Strategic Note No. 21

·         No More Fun and Games: How China’s Acquisition of U.S. Media Entities Threatens America’s National Security

·         Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 4

·         Trump’s Imaginary “Strategy” for Afghanistan

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Can Egypt Lead the Arab World Again? Assessing Opportunities and Challenges for U.S. Policy

·         The Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy

Transatlantic Academy

·         Countering the Islamic State in Germany and Abroad:German-American Policy Options

·         Surplus Germany

Transit Cooperative  Research Program

·         Public Transit Emergency Preparedness Against Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases: Legal Issues

UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

·         Searching for Syria

Union of Concerned Scientists

·         Limiting the President’s Ability to Start a Nuclear War

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         The Current Situation in Iran

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         A Change of Power: Morocco after Benkirane’s Ouster

·         Growing Risk of International Confrontation in the Syrian Desert

·         Has Mohammed VI Succeeded in Reining in the Islamists?

·         LBJ and the June 1967 War: Lessons from the American Role

·         Manchester Attack Highlights Foreign Fighters in Libya

·         To Stop the New Hezbollah, Think Regionally

·         The Trump Administration and Libya: The Necessity for Engagement

·         The Trump Effect in Bahrain

·         Trump Builds Rapport in Israel; Policies to Come?

·         Trump Mideast Trip Marks a Shift from Obama

Wilson Center

·         U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Prospects for Security and Economic Ties

World Economic Forum (WEF)

·         Africa Competitiveness Report 2017

·         The Future of Jobs and Skills in the Middle East and North Africa:Preparing the Region for the Fourth Industrial Revolution