greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 08-03-2018

· PacNet #52 - Losing the Political Forest for the Nuclear Trees: Denuclearizing North Korea Is Neither a Sufficient nor Necessary Condition for Peace

· Pennsylvania’s Energy Future: Energy in America

· State Practice and Precedent in Cybersecurity Negotiations

Center on Global Energy Policy

· Putting a Price on Vehicle Emissions is Better Policy Than It Seems

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

· The Emerging Model of Economic Policy Making under Xi Jinping: Literature Review, Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies

· Fiscal Space: What Is It? Who Has It? When to Use It?

Chatham House

· Artificial Intelligence and International Affairs: Disruption Anticipated

· Cybercrime Legislation in the GCC Countries: Fit for Purpose?

Clingendael, Netherlands Institute of International Relations

· How Smartphones Help Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

· Leveraging Funds & Political Capital in Lebanon’s Refugee Crisis

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

· Terror Threat Snapshot, August 2018

Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence

· Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms

Department of Defense (DOD)

· Purchases from Foreign Entities in FY2017

Department of Defense Office of the Actuary

· Fiscal Year 2017 Statistical Report on the Military Retirement

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

· OIG-18-68 Most Complaints about CBP's Polygraph Program Are Ambiguous or Unfounded

· OIG-18-70 FAMS Needs to Demonstrate How Ground-based Assignments Contribute to TSA's Mission (REDACTED)

Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

· Lessons to Advance Community Policing: Final Report for 2014Microgrant Sites

Dialogue

· Learning Latin America: China’s Strategy for Area Studies Development

European Leadership Network (ELN)

· Living in (Digital) Denial: Russia’s Approach to Cyber Deterrence

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

· Along the Road – Gwadar and China’s Power Projection

· Russia’s Return to the Middle East: Building Sandcastles?

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

· Financial Flows from Human Trafficking

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· The Brewing Battle over U.S. Troop Presence in Syria

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

· Moldova between Russia and the West: Internal Divisions behind the Commitment to European Integration

Future Directions International

· Dams in Africa: Balancing Food, Water and Energy Security

· United States in South Asia: The Afghanistan Factor

Germany Marshall Fund of the United States

· EU–Turkey Relations: Steering In Stormy Seas

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· GAO-18-93 Federal Chief Information Officers: Critical Actions Needed to Address Shortcomings and Challenges in Implementing Responsibilities

· GAO-18-493 Military Space Systems: DOD's Use of Commercial Satellites to Host Defense Payloads Would Benefit from Centralizing Data

· GAO-18-523 Aircraft Carrier Dismantlement and Disposal: Options Warrant Additional Oversight and Raise Regulatory Questions

· GAO-18-530 Defense Contracts: Improved Information Sharing Could Help DOD Determine Whether Items Are Commercial and Reasonably Priced

· GAO-18-553 Foreign Military Sales: Financial Oversight of the Use of Overhead Funds Needs Strengthening

· GAO-18-572R Nuclear Supply Chain: DOE Has Not Used Its Enhanced Procurement Authority but Is Assessing Potential Use

· GAO-18-575 North American Energy Integration: Information about Cooperation with Canada and Mexico and among U.S. Agencies

Hedayah International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism

· Undermining Violent Extremist Narratives in East Africa: A How-To Guide

Heritage Foundation

· Army Futures Command: A Move in the Right Direction

· Five Immediate Actions for Reassuring U.S. Allies in Europe

Human Rights Watch

· “Illegal Organizations”: China’s Crackdown on Tibetan Social Groups

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· Future Warfare and Artificial Intelligence: Visible Path

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

· Bayesian Methods for Comparing Army National Guard (ARNG) and General Population (GP) Suicide Rates

· Building a Lethal Workforce Cost Effectively: Helicopter Pilots as a Case Study (Conference Presentation)

· Decision Tools for Major Defense Acquisitions—Economics vs.Decision Science: Discussion (Conference Presentation)

· Total Force Mix – The Ongoing Challenge (Conference Presentation)

· Using TRICARE Reform Pilots to Inform National Healthcare Reform Discussion

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

· A Formula for the Ministry of Defense Budget in the Next Multiyear Plan

· The Ramifications of the Nation State Law: Is Israeli Democracy at Risk?

· US-Israel Bilateral Relations and Recent Developments in the UN

· Words over Missiles: Hezbollah's Cognitive Campaign in Syria

Institute for Security Studies

· Peace and Security Council Report, no. 104

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

· An ‘Arab NATO’ and America’s Militarized Mideast Policy

· The Hegemon’s Surge – China’s Grand Strategy

Institute for the Study of War

· Afghan Government on Shaky Ground Ahead of Elections

· Syria Situation Report: July 12 - July 27, 2018

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

· Getting the Most Out of Participatory Impact Assessment: Reflections from a Multi-Country Cash Transfer Impact Assessment

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

· The Challenge and Prospects for E-commerce in India

· China-Vatican Talks: Covert Negotiations Aim to End Decades of Severed Relations

· Europe's Dependence on Critical Raw Materials

· The Impact and Potential of E-commerce

· Jordan's Protests and Neoliberal Reforms: Walking on Thin Ice

· New Sea People: China in the Mediterranean

· Recasting EU Civilian Crisis Management

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

· Japanese Foreign Minister’s Bhutan Visit: Enhancing the Bilateral Relationship

· Militancy in Bangladesh

· Pakistan Elections 2018: Imran Khan and a New South Asia

· The Presidential Elections in the Maldives: The Incumbent versus a United Opposition

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

· An Assessment of Data Analytics Techniques for Insider Threat Programs

International Association of Chiefs of Police

· Police Chief, v. 85, no. 8, August 2018

o Embracing CIT and the One Mind Campaign to Make a Difference

o Building Community Trust Through Transparency: The FBI's National Use-of-Force Data Collection

o SDHP State Troopers: Strengthening Relationships

o Bringing Sides Together: Community Based Complaint Mediation

o Social Workers Embedded in Law Enforcement

o Using Research to Build Trust and Empathy: Meaningful Change through Intergroup Contact

International Crisis Group

· How to Cope with Iraq’s Summer Brushfire

· Iraq’s Paramilitary Groups: The Challenge of Rebuilding a Functioning State

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· 2018 Review of Facilities for Low-Income Countries

· Assessing the Impact of Structural Reforms Through a Supply-side Framework: The Case of Argentina

· Bunching at 3 Percent: The Maastricht Fiscal Criterion and Government Deficits

· Inflation News and Euro Area Inflation Expectations

· Predicting Fiscal Crises

· Universal Basic Income in Developing Countries: Issues, Options,and Illustration for India

Italian Institute for International Political Studies

· The Quest for Global Monetary Policy Coordination

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

· Joint Pub 3-57, Civil-Military Operations, 9 July 2018

Lowy Institute for International Relations

· Unregulated Population Migration and Other Future Drivers of Instability in the Pacific

National Academies Press

· Incorporating ADA and Functional Needs in Emergency Exercises

National Security Archive

· Eligible Receiver 97: Seminal DOD Cyber Exercise Included Mock Terror Strikes and Hostage Simulations

New America Foundation

· Idealized Internet vs. Internet Realities (Version 1.0)

NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights

· Combating Russian Disinformation: The Case for Stepping Up the Fight

Observer Research Foundation

· China’s Design to Capture Regional SatCom Markets

· U.S. Sanctions on Pakistan and Their Failure as Strategic Deterrent

Oxford Research Group

· UK-US Defence and Security Relations

Overseas Development Institute

· G7 Fossil Fuel Subsidy Scorecard: Tracking the Phase-Out of Fiscal Support and Public Finance for Oil, Gas and Coal

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

· Conflict and Peace Studies, Autumn 2018, v. 10, no. 2

o Freedom of Faith in Pakistan: Contextualizing Programmatic & Policy Orientation

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

· Conflict Trends in Africa 1946 - 2017

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute

· Peace & Stability Journal, August 2018, v. 8, no. 2

o Women as Local Guardians: Militias and the WPS Agency

o Crafting Lessons to Influence Change

o Protection of Civilians at the Brazilian Site of Viking Exercise 2018

o Internally Displaced Persons and Mediterranean Migration: A Humanitarian Crisis and the Gaps of International Law

Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

· Why Americans Go (and Don’t Go) to Religious Services

Policy Exchange

· The Border Audit: Is the UK Border Now Fit for Purpose?

Polish Institute of International Affairs

· The European Policy Instruments of the Fourth Orbán Cabinet

· The Impact of the Trump-Putin Meeting on NATO Political Cohesion

· Increased Tensions in Kashmir: Consequences for India and Internationally

Rand

· Developing Cybersecurity Capacity: A Proof-of-concept Implementation Guide

· Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe [testimony]

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

· Making Mogadishu Safe: Localization, Policing and Sustainable Security

Small Arms Survey

· Too Close for Comfort: How Algeria Faces the Libyan Conflict

Small Wars Journal

· Cutting Their Teeth or Tying Their Hands?: Northwest Frontier Tactics and World War, 1897 – 1945

· Harnessing the Power of Your Peers

· Institutional Learning in Responding to Violent Extremism

· International Security in the Post-Cold War Era: A Security Evaluation

· Leadership: Expanding the Discussion

· Lessons of Covert Action in Tibet (1950-1972)

· Making America’s Navy Great Again

· Organic Language Proficiency: A Revolutionary Opportunity

· The Rise of Displacement in Africa

· Technological Fluency 2035 – 2050

· Terrorism is Still a Problem. It Has Not Gone Away

· Thoughts on Military Education, Training and Leader Development in2050

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

· 40th Quarterly Report to Congress (July 2018)

· SIGAR 18-63-IP Wardak Prison: Inadequate Department of State Oversight and Contractor Non-Compliance Have Increased Safety and Health Risks and Resulted in Wasted U.S. Funds

Sudd Institute

· Climate Change and Gender in South Sudan

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

· Findings of Credible Fear Plummet Amid Widely Disparate Outcomes by Location and Judge

Vanderbilt University

· Journal of Transnational Law, 2018, v. 51, no. 3

o Special Issue: The Law of Armed Conflict

o We’re Not in Beersheba Anymore: Discussing Contemporary Challenges in the Law of Armed Conflict with 120 International Lawyers

o Introduction to Keynote Address: A Tribute to Yoram Dinstein

o Keynote Address: The Recent Evolution of the International Law of Armed Conflict: Confusions, Constraints, and Challenges

o The Role of Nonstate Entities in Developing and Promoting International Humanitarian Law

o The Evolution and Identification of the Customary International Law of Armed Conflict