Friday's Miscellany 08-23-2018

38 North

·         North Korea’s Foundation Day Parade: Likely to be Larger than the February Army Day Parade

·         Update on North Korea’s Foundation Day Military Parade Preparations

·         Update on North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launching Station

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Climate Strategy for Producer Countries

·         Emissions, Energy, and Economic Implications of the Curbelo Carbon Tax Proposal

·         Prospects for U.S. Oil and Gas

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Amid Ethnic Protests, Iran Warns of Foreign Meddling

·         Can the US Make Iran Sanctions Stick?

·         China’s Military Base in Djibouti

·         Ibn Khaldun and the Nation-State Law

·         The US 2018 Midterms and 2020 Presidential Election: Implications for Israel

·         When Palestinian Blood Isn’t Equal

·         Why Israel Needs the Nation-State Law

Bonn International Center for Conversion

·         Practical Lessons In Civilian Disarmament And Anti-Trafficking

Brookings 

·         Financial Conditions and GDP Growth-at-risk

·         Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump - 2nd ed.

·         Principles for Managing U.S.-China Competition

·         U.S. policy and Pyongyang’s Game Plan: Will We Accept a Nuclear-armed North Korea?

Bruegel

·         The Macroeconomic Implications of Healthcare

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         India’s Answer to the Belt and Road: A Road Map for South Asia

Center for Global Development

·         How Do African Firms Respond to Unreliable Power? Exploring Firm Heterogeneity Using K-Means Clustering

·         Malawi’s Journey Towards Transformation: Lessons from its National ID Project

Center for Immigration Studies

·         Endangered at the Border: Animal Trafficking Closely Tied to Drug,Human Trafficking

·         Terrorist Infiltration Threat at the Southwest Border

Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

·         Georgetown Security Studies Review, August 2018, v. 6, no. 2

o    Trump’s First Year: Analyzing the Trump Administration’s Use of Drone Strikes as a Counterterrorism Strategy in 2017

o    Urgent Reasons to Modernize and Strengthen The Espionage Act and a Framework to Do So; A Comparative Study of Convicted Spies and Four Prominent Leaks: The Pentagon Papers, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden

o    Rationale and Information Strategy to Enable Internal Resistance in North Korea

o    A New Strategy for Syria: How Coercive Diplomacy Can Deter Assad from Using Chemical Weapons

o    Abu Musab al-Suri Goes Online: Conditions for the Success of Jihadist Online Strategies

o    Post-Apartheid Reconciliation in South Africa’s Military and Society

o    Paramilitary Financing in Northern Ireland, 1969–1998: How Arms Deals, Crime, and International Networks Fueled the Troubles

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Conflicting Assessments of the Trends in Combat in Afghanistan: 2014-2018

·         France’s Determined Struggle Against Salafi-Jihadism

·         PacNet #60 - Malaysian National Identity: Continuing Contestation  

·         PacNet #59 - The Need for Open Sea Lines of Communication in the South China Sea

·         The U.S. Defense Budget in FY2019: Underlying Trends

·         The World is Coming to Sub-Saharan Africa. Where is the United States?

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Open Data Endgame: Countering the Digital Consensus 

·         From Rhetoric to Reality: Achieving Gender Equality for Refugee Women and Girls

Chatham House

·         The Power of Flexibility: The Survival of Utilities During the Transformations of the Power Sector

College of Europe

·         How to Draw a Line between Journalism and Propaganda in the Information Wars Era?

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

·         Pipeline Safety in the Great Lakes: Incident Prevention and Response Efforts at the Straits of Mackinac

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         U.S.- Russia Relations

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Examining CMS’s Efforts to Fight Medicaid Fraud and Overpayments

·         Oversight of Efforts to Protect Unaccompanied Alien Children from Human Trafficking and Abuse

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         The Deficit Reductions Necessary to Meet Various Targets for Federal Debt

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Managing Global Disorder: Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Mosaics of Power: Syrian State Fragmentation after 2011

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DTM-18-005 Authority for Support of Special Operations for Irregular Warfare (IW)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Lead Inspector General for Operation Freedom's Sentinel |Quarterly Report to the United States Congress | April 1, 2018 – June 30, 2018

Department of Justice. Community Oriented Policing Services

·         Civilian Oversight of the Police in Major Cities

Department of the Navy

·         OPNAVINST 3060.7C  Navy Manpower Augmentation Guide

European Policy Centre

·         Brexit: Beyond the Transition

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, August 2018

o    ELEVATE: A Focus on Victim Services

o    Community Outreach Spotlight: Team G.R.E.A.T.

o    Leadership Spotlight: A Return to Civility

o    Investigating Medical Child Abuse

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         China and Russia in Global Governance: Long-term Obstacles to Cooperation  

·         India and the Geoeconomics of Climate Change: Global Responsibility as Strategic Interest  

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Cambodia: The Winner Takes It All

Heritage Foundation

·         Extreme Vetting Requires a Broader Visa Waiver Program

Human Rights Watch

·         Heed the Call: A Moral and Legal Imperative to Ban Killer Robots

·         Hiding Behind the Coalition: Failure to Credibly Investigate and Provide Redress for Unlawful Attacks in Yemen

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         Security #SquadGoals: Applying the Information Management Hierarchy to Your Talent Placement & Acquisition Strategy Will Improve Organizational Security

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Examining the Feasibility and Affordability of Raising the Share of Defence Expenditure to Three Percent of GDP

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Persistent Engagement, Agreed Competition, Cyberspace Interaction Dynamics, and Escalation  

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict

·         Update on Local Election Results in West Kalimantan and Papua

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Rejoining the High Table: South Africa and the UN Security Council

Institute for the Study of War

·         Russia in Review: August 7-13, 2018

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

·         Jobs for Ex-Militants in the Niger Delta – Why Isn’t the Private Sector Involved?

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         Exploring the Nuanced Nexus between Terrorism and Organised Crime

·         It Takes a Village: An Action Agenda on the Role of Civil Society in the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Those Associated With and Affected by Violent Extremism

·         Reflecting on: Radicalisation, De-Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Reintegrating ISIS Supporters in Syria: Efforts, Priorities and Challenges

International Crisis Group

·         Shaping a New Peace in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Fiscal Transparency, Borrowing Costs, and Foreign Holdings of Sovereign Debt

·         Foreign Direct Investment in New Member State of the EU and Western Balkans: Taking Stock and Assessing Prospects

·         Understanding Euro Area Inflation Dynamics: Why So Low for So Long?

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·         Responsibility to  Protect Civilians: International and Regional Perspective

Manhattan Institute

·         Enforcing Classroom Disorder: Trump Has Not Called Off Obama's War on School Discipline

Migration Policy Institute 

·         Deciding Which Road to Take: Insights into How Migrants and Refugees in Greece Plan Onward Movement

·         Through the Back Door: Remaking the Immigration System via the Expected “Public-Charge” Rule

National Archives Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO)

·         2017 Report to the President

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

·         Robotrolling 2018/3

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Autumn 2018, v. 71, no.4

o    Nationalism, Geopolitics, and Naval Expansionism From the Nineteenth Century to the Rise of China

o    Escalation at Sea: Stability and Instability in Maritime East Asia

o    The Great White Fleet Sails Today? Twenty-First-Century Logistics Lessons from the 1907–1909 Voyage of the Great White Fleet

o    The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Joint Chiefs: Military Operations to Meet Political Ends

o    Coalition Coordination during the Boxer Rebellion: How Twenty-Seven “Councils of Senior Naval Commanders” Contributed to the Conduct of Operations

o    “Getting Serious about Strategy in the South China Sea”: What Analysis Is Required to Compel a New U.S. Strategy in the South China Sea?

Observer Research Foundation

·         Lessons from Transboundary Waste Trade: Why India Should Focus on the Judicious Use of Its Own Waste

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         Statement for the Record Mr. Michael Moss Deputy Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Center Hearing on Cyber Threats to Our Nation's Critical Infrastructure [confirmation testimony]

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         How the United States Should Confront China Without Threatening the Global Trading System

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         Russians Say Their Government Did Not Try to Influence U.S.Presidential Election

Pew Research Center Internet &Technology

·         How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         Trump Has Met the Public’s Modest Expectations for His Presidency

Polish Institute of International Affairs 

·         “A Dynamic Visegrad for Europe” – Slovakia’s V4 Presidency

·         Energy Union Governance: Transferring Competences to the European Union

·         The Importance of the Energy and Petroleum Industries for Belarus

·         The Main Goals of China`s Politics of Memory

·         Prospects of Energy Cooperation between Russia and Bulgaria

·         Tensions in the Azov Sea

Rand

·         China Belt and Road Initiative: Measuring the Impact of Improving Transportation Connectivity on Trade in the Region

·         National Guard Youth ChalleNGe: Program Progress in 2016–2017

Recorded Future

·         Chinese Cyberespionage Originating From Tsinghua University Infrastructure

RiskIQ

·         2018 Evil Internet Minute

Small Arms Survey

·         The 2018 Small Arms Trade Transparency Barometer

Small Wars Journal

·         Beyond Human: Rise of the Super-Soldiers – A Primer

·         Defining Terrorism and Insurgency: Beyond Morality

·         ‘Fierce and Warlike’: Could the Baloch Separatist Movement Remain Pakistan’s Longest Insurgency?

·         How Our Cognitive Solipsism Made Us Limbic Captives of the Taliban– Part 3 of 3

·         Insurgent Relief and Assistance Teams: The Free Burma Rangers Organize-Train-Equip-Sustain Model

·         Is Being Called a “Man” Worse than Being Reminded Your Place is in the Kitchen?

·         Match Made in Heaven? Or Hell?: Megacities and Autonomous Systems

·         Preventing or Promoting Radicalization? - A Critical Analysis of the United Kingdom’s Newest Prevent Strategy

·         A Primer on Artificial Intelligence for Military Leaders

·         Russian Hybrid Warfare as Unconventional Warfare: Implementing a Counter-Unconventional Warfare Strategy

·         Shaping Perceptions: Processes, Advantages, and Limitations of Information Operations

·         A Test for Privatization in Afghanistan

·         U.S. Space Force – It’s a Trap! – Think Bigger

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         Picking a Bone with Captive Predator Breeding in South Africa

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         2018-20 Key Strategic Issues List

·         Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, 2nd ed.

Transit Cooperative Research Program

·         Legal Research Digest, no. 34

o    Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Gender Inclusive Framework and Theory: A Guide for Turning Theory into Practice

US International Trade Commission

·         Gender and Income Inequality in United States Tariff Burden

·         International Insurance Services

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Druze Communities Face a Regional Decline in Influence

·         Iran's Passive Defense Organization: Another Target for Sanctions

·         Responding to Iran's New Weapons and Naval Drills in the Gulf

·         Saudi Arabia’s Confusing Signals

·         Syrian Refugees in Turkey

·         Tel Aviv Protests: While Arabs and Jews Unite, Fake News Divides

·         Turkey Sanctions: Navigating a Historic Bilateral Crisis