Friday's Miscellany 03-08-2019

38 North

·         After Hanoi: Lessons Learned

·         Dodging Catastrophic Success and Failure in Hanoi

·         North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launch Facility: Normal Operations May Have Resumed

·         North Korea’s Tongchang-ri: Rebuilding Commences on Launch Pad and Engine Test Stand

Action on Armed Violence

·         When the Bombs Fall Silent: The Reverberating Effects of Explosive Weapons

Air University Press

·         Air Force Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Spring 2019, v. 2, no. 1

o    Introduction to Indo-Pacific Security Challenges

o    A Pathway toward Enhancing the US Air Force–Indian Air Force Partnership and Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific Region

o    Preparing for the Last War: Insurgency in the Era of Great Power Competition

o    The 2016 European Global Strategy, European Union Defense Integration, and Asian–European Security Cooperation in a Declining Multilateral International Order

o    Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts

·         Defending Air Bases  in an Age of Insurgency, V. II

·         Journal of European, Middle Eastern, and African Affairs, Spring 2019, v. 1, no. 1

o    The Air Force, Grand Strategy, and National Security: Toward a Better Understanding of Airpower's Enduring Utility

o    The Trilateral Strategic Initiative: A Primer for Developing Future Airpower Cooperation

o    The European Union as a Model for its Neighbors

o    Allies in Flux

o    Military Intervention in Africa: French and US Approaches Compared

o    Air Mobility Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

American Enterprise Institute

·         The US-China Economic Relationship: A Comprehensive Approach

Amnesty International

·         Give Us Respect and Justice! Overcoming Barriers to Justice for Women Rape Survivors in Denmark

Arms Control Association

·         Chronology of U.S.-North Korean Nuclear and Missile Diplomacy

Army University Press

·         Military Review, March-April 2019, v. 99, no. 2

o    Zimbabwe’s Coup: Net Gain or No Gain?

o    Love Ballads, Carnations, and Coups

o    Time, Power, and Principal-Agent Problems: Why the U.S. Army is Ill-Suited for Proxy Warfare Hotspots

o    Leveraging the Force: Rapid Transformation for a Combined Support Area Command Post

o    Thriving in Uncertainty: From Predictive- to Probability-Based Assessment

o    Recruiting, Vetting, and Training Police Forces in Postconflict Environments

o    We’re Confused, Too A Historical Perspective for Discussion of “Land Ahead”

o    Integrating Information Warfare: Lessons Learned from Warfighter Exercise 18-2

o    Where Field Grade Officers Get Their Power

o    Social Cybersecurity: An Emerging National Security Requirement

o    The Return of the Bear? Russian Military Engagement in Latin America: The Case of Brazil

o    The End of Grand Strategy: U.S. Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century

o    Contours of the New “Cold War”?

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Operational Energy: A Decisive Enabler and Critical Liability in21st Century Warfare

·         The U.S. Army, the Nuclear Posture Review and Nuclear Deterrence:A European Historical Context

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Counterterrorism Yearbook 2019

·         Preparing for the Era of Disasters

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         NOPEC’s Extraterritorial Overreach Would Harm Core U.S. Economic and Energy Interests

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Imagining Future(s) for the Middle East and North Africa

·         Interregnum: The Regional Order in the Middle East and North Africa after 2011

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         American National Security and the Imperative Primacy of  “Mind”

·         Avoiding the Politicization of Intelligence and Policy-Making

·         The End of “Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok”

·         The Failure of Palestinian Nationalism

·         Hamas Is Willing to Risk War to Avoid Economic Collapse

·         Iran’s Unwavering Israel-Hatred

·         Iranian Kurds: Between the Hammer and the Anvil

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Data, Not Documents: Modernizing the Regulatory State

Beyond Parallel

·         After Hanoi Summit: Rebuilding of Sohae Launch Facility

·         Donald Trump's Statements/Tweets on Troop Commitments to the ROK since 1990

·         Sohae Launch Facility Update: North Korean “Snapback” After Hanoi

Brookings Institute

·         Vital Statistics on Congress: Data on the U.S. Congress, Updated March 2019

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         Does Canada Need a Foreign Policy Review?

·         Emerging Lessons from the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy

CATO Institute

·         Criminal Immigrants in 2017: Their Numbers, Demographics, and Countries of Origin

Center for Complex Operations (CCO)

·         Prism, March 2019, v. 8, no. 1

o    Defending Democracy and Human Rights in the Western Hemisphere

o    The Strategic Price of Neglect

o    The U.S. Military in Support of Strategic Objectives in Latin America and the Caribbean

o    The Venezuelan Crisis and Salvador Allende's Glasses

o    The Evolution of the Most Lethal Criminal Organization in Brazil—the PCC

o    Great Expectations and Grim Realities in AMLO’s Mexico

o    Security Challenges of the New Colombian Administration

o    Extra-regional Actors in Latin America: The United States is not the Only Game in Town

o    Only Connect: the Survival and Spread of Organized Crime in Latin America

o    The New Opium War: A National Emergency

Center for Global Development

·         The Principles on Commercial Transparency in Public Contracts

·         A Short-Sighted Vision for Global Britain

Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM)

·         Dazed and Confused : Russian “Information Warfare” and the Middle East – The Syria Lessons

·         Human Security & Climate Change. Vulnerabilities in the Sahel

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         PESCO Armament Cooperation: Prospects and Fault Lines

·         Rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CBSA)

·         National Security Contributions of the U.S. Maritime Industry

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

·         China’s Pursuit of Semiconductor Independence

Center for Strategic Studies (CSS)

·         Permanent Deterrence: Enhancements to the US Military Presence in North Central Europe

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         Energy and Development in a Changing World: A Framework for the 21st Century

·         Interactions between a Federal Carbon Tax and Other Climate Policies

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Analyzing the Challenges

·         Resolving Refugee Situations: Seeking Solutions Worthy of the Name

Chatham House

·         US–EU Trade Relations in the Trump Era: Which Way Forward?

Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael)

·         Strategic Monitor 2018 - 2019

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         National Security Challenges and U.S. Military Activities in the Greater Middle East and Africa                

·         Outside Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Posture

·         U.S. Transportation Command and Maritime Administration: State of the Mobility Enterprise

Congress. House. Energy & Commerce Committee

·         Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access

·         Wasted Energy: DOE’s Inaction on Efficiency Standards and Its Impact on Consumers and the Climate

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         The Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen: Addressing Current Political and Humanitarian Challenges

·         The Status of American Hostages in Iran

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         CBP Workforce Challenges: Exploring Solutions to Address Recruitment and Retention

·         The Way Forward on Border Security

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Diagnosing the Problem: Exploring the Effects of Consolidation and Anticompetitive Conduct in Health Care Markets

·         Protecting Dreamers and TPS Recipients

·         Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act

Congress. House. Oversight & Reform Committee

·         Examining PFAS Chemicals and their Risks

·         Trump Administration's Response to the Drug Crisis

Congress. House. Science, Space, & Technology Committee

·         The Energy Water Nexus: Drier Watts and Cheaper Drops

·         Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Science and Technology

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

·         The Clean Water State Revolving Fund: How Federal Infrastructure Investment Can Help Communities Modernize Water Infrastructure and Address Affordability Challenges

·         U.S. Maritime and Shipbuilding Industries: Strategies to Improve Regulation, Economic Opportunities, and Competitiveness

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Chain of Command’s Accountability to Provide Safe Military Housing and Other Building Infrastructure to Servicemembers and Their Families

·         Military Services’ Prevention of and Response to Sexual Assault

·         United States European Command and United States Transportation Command

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee

·         China: Challenges for U.S. Commerce

·         The State of the American Maritime Industry

Congress. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee

·         Hearing to Examine the Electricity Sector in a Changing Climate

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         U.S.-Venezuela Relations and the Path to a Democratic Transition

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Examining Private Sector Data Breaches

·         High Risk List 2019: Recommendations to Reduce Risk of Waste,Fraud, and Mismanagement in Federal Programs

·         How Equifax Neglected Cybersecurity and Suffered a Devastating Data Breach [staff report]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Legislation Enacted in the 115th Congress That Affects Mandatory Spending or Revenues

·         Overseas Contingency Operations: Trends and Issues

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Defending America From Foreign Election Interference

·         The Tech-Enabled Energy Future: Transition by Design

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Latin Americas Evolving Migration Crisis

Dialogue

·         Unfulfilled Promises: Latin America Today

East-West Center

·         Global Warming in Round Numbers--Toward a Zero-Carbon Economy

·         Israel in the Sino-US Great Power Competition

Economic Research Forum

·         A Decade of Competition Policy in Arab Countries: A De Jure and Defacto Assessment

·         The Division of Ownership and Control in Listed Jordanian Firms

·         Factors Influencing Informal Workers’ Participation in Health Insurance in Sudan: Evidence from Khartoum and Kassala States

·         Firm Performance and Agglomeration Effects: Evidence from Tunisian Firm-level Data

·         Is Oil Wealth Good for Private Sector Development?

·         A New Dawn for MENA Firms: Service Trade Liberalization for More Competitive Exports

Egmont Institute

·         American Leadership and Grand Strategy in an Age of Complexity

·         The Belt and Road Initiative – The ASEAN Perspective

·         What Justice for Belgian Jihadi Fighters?

European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         A Roadmap to Pragmatic Dialogue on the Iranian Missile Programme  

Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA)

·         The Changing Global Order and Its Implications for the EU

·         Managing Transatlantic (Mis)Trust: The Trump Era in Perspective

·         What’s Next for UN Climate Negotiations? The UNFCCC in the Era of Populism and Multipolar Competition

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Not At All Autonomous Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: An International Human Rights Embarrassment and Pothole on China’s Belt and Road

·         A Political ‘Roller Coaster’ toward Elections in Israel

·         Russia’s Tragic Great Power Politics

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

·         Russia’s Relations with Southeast Asia

German Council on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V.)

·         Armenia Needs a New Opposition: How the EU Can Help Institute Checks and Balances

·         Security First, Technology Second: Putin Tightens his Grip on Russia’s Internet – with China’s Help

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Preventive Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Germany's Triple Asylum Roulette

·         Improving EU-U.S. Cooperation in Civil Society Support in Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

·         The Next North American Election: How Canada Is Protecting Itself and What Can Still Be Done

·         What Role for EU Institutions in Confronting Europe's Democracy and Rule of Law Crisis?

Global Zero

·         The End of Nuclear Warfighting: Moving to a Deterrence-Only Posture

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Chemical Assessments: Status of EPA's Efforts to Produce Assessments and Implement the Toxic Substances Control Act GAO-19-270

·         Department of State: Integrated Action Plan Could Enhance Efforts to Reduce Persistent Overseas Foreign Service Vacancies GAO-19-220

·         DOD Training: U.S. Cyber Command and Services Should Take Actions to Maintain a Trained Cyber Mission Force GAO-19-362

·         Drug Policy: Preliminary Observations on the 2019 National Drug Control Strategy [testimony]  GAO-19-370T

·         Economic Adjustment Assistance: Federal Programs Intended to Help Beneficiaries Adjust to Economic Disruption GAO-19-85R

·         Fees, Fines, and Penalties: Better Reporting of Government-wide Data Would Increase Transparency and Facilitate Oversight GAO-19-221 

·         High-Risk Series: Substantial Efforts Needed to Achieve Greater Progress on High-Risk Areas GAO-19-157SP

·         Internet Privacy and Data Security: Additional Federal Authority Could Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Flexibility [testimony]   GAO-19-427T

·         Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Centers Cite Benefits from Funding Change, but Impacts Hard to Distinguish from Other Factors GAO-19-219

·         Nuclear Waste Cleanup: DOE Could Improve Program and Project Management by Better Classifying Work and Following Leading Practices GAO-19-223

·         U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Progress and Challenges in Recruiting, Hiring, and Retaining Law Enforcement Personnel [testimony]  GAO-19-419T

·         Whistleblower Protection: Analysis of DOD's Actions to Improve Case Timeliness and Safeguard Confidentiality GAO-19-198

Heritage Foundation

·         The Trump Administration Should Hold Former ISIS Members Accountable Regardless of Gender

Hoover's China Leadership Monitor

·         China Leadership Monitor, Spring 2019, no. 59

o    China Reacts: Assessing Beijing's Response to Trump's New China Strategy

o    Domestic Security in China Under Xi Jinping

o    The Spectre of Insecurity: The CCP’s Mass Internment Strategy in Xinjiang

o    A Tale of Three Speeches: How Xi’s Speech Marking the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Differs from those of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao

o    The Private Sector: Challenges and Opportunities During Xi’s Second Term

Hoover Institution

·         Job-Finding and Job-Losing: A Comprehensive Model of Heterogeneous Individual Labor-Market Dynamics

·         Karl Brunner and Allan Meltzer: From Monetary Policy to Monetary History to Monetary Rules

Human Rights Watch

·         “Everyone Must Confess”: Abuses against Children Suspected of ISIS Affiliation in Iraq

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

·         The Clean Energy Dividend: Military Investment in Energy Technology and What It Means for Civilian Energy Innovation

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

·         Did China Just Legalize Espionage?: Recent Provisions to Chinese Law Increases Risk to Multinational Organizations Operating in China

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         Border is the Core of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         A Sample Security Assurance Case Pattern

·         The Need for Higher Education in Cyber Supply Chain Security and Hardware Assurance

·         Ten Years Later: Can Piecemeal Reform of the Civilian Employment System Succeed Where the National Security Personnel System Failed?

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         Hamas’s "New Campaign" in Gaza, One Year Later

·         Tourism to Israel and National Security

·         What Remains of al-Qaeda’s Ambitious Vision for Syria?

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

·         The Jolo Bombing and the Legacy of ISIS in the Philippines

Institute for Security Studies

·         Guinea-Bissau: Priorities for Long-term Stability

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

·         The Trump-Kim Summit: Xi Jinping’s Victory

Institute for the Study of War

·         ISIS Re-Establishes Historical Sanctuary in Iraq

·         Russia's Influence Grows After Moldovan Elections

·         Syria Situation Report: February 18 - March 5, 2019

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

·         Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Eastern Mediterranean Hydrocarbons Prospects: In Need of a Pragmatic Geopolitical Assessment

·         Empowering Africa

·         Engaging Civil Society in Turkey and the EU: Can They Break Through the Deadlock?

·         Imagining Future(s) for the Middle East and North Africa

·         The International Impact of Brexit

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Boost for India’s Realty Sector before the Elections

·         Foreign Policy and Voting Pattern in India

·         Implications of a New “Normal” Indian Ocean Economy for Sri Lanka

·         Japan as the Chair of the G20 – Implications for South Asia

·         Japan’s Foreign Aid to South Asia: Addressing a Strategic Need

·         The Maldives: Resolution of Constitutional Conundrum? Not Just Yet!

·         Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Andamans: India ends the Neglect of the Strategic Island Chain

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

·         The Repatriation of Foreign Fighters and Their Families: Options,Obligations, Morality and Long-Term Thinking

International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect

·         "Day of Judgement" The Role of the US and Europe in Civilian Death, Destruction, and Trauma in Yemen

International Crisis Group

·         Gold and Grief in Venezuela’s Violent South

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         China’s Evolving Exchange Rate Regime

·         More Work to Do? Taking Stock of Latin American Labor Markets

·         Policy Trade-Offs in Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: The Case of St. Lucia

·         The Russian State’s Size and its Footprint: Have They Increased?

Italian Institute for International Political Studies

·         The Future Of Terrorism: The "Syraqi" Security Nexus

·         Iran in Iraq and Syria: Be Careful What You Wish For

·         Jihadist Radicalization in Italian Prisons: A Primer

·         Reconstructing Iraq: Where Do We Stand?

·         Reconstructing Syria: Assad’s Goals and Interests

·         Russia and China: Forced Cohabitation over Syraq Energy?

·         Russia in the Middle East: The Biggest Challenge is Yet to Come

·         Syraq: What Is It?

·         The "Syraqi" Chessboard: Who Leads the Play?

·         Turkey in Syria: The Kurdish Factor and the Imperative of Security

·         A Welcome Delay: The US Withdrawl [sic] from Syria

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, March 5, 2019, v. 19, no. 5

o    “Dramas Must Feature Goodness”: The CCP Launches Renewed Efforts to Control Themes in Popular Culture

o    Xi Jinping Warns Against the “Black Swans” and “Gray Rhinos” of a Possible Color Revolution

o    Islamic Countries Engage with China Against the Background of Repression in Xinjiang

o    Rivalries and Relics: Examining China’s Buddhist Public Diplomacy

o    “Triad” Military Education and Training Reforms: The PLA’s Cultivation of Talent for Integrated Joint Operations

·         Terrorism Monitor, March 12, 2019, v. 17, no. 5

o    Saudi Arabia and the UAE in al-Mahra: Securing Interests, Disrupting Local Order, and Shaping a Southern Military

o    Internal Threats to Tunisian Security—From the Borders to the Cities

o    A Revolution Not Like the Others: Directions in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in a Post-Bashir Sudan

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 4-10, Operational Contract Support, 04 March 2019

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)

·         International Reports, Issue 1, March 2019 

o    Looking West: An Assessment of the Transatlantic Partnership

o    Germany in the Indo-Pacific: Securing Interests Through Partnerships

o    A Transatlantic Relic? The Future of the WTO and Its Role in the Transatlantic Economic Relations

o    America Alone: Transatlantic Challenges with Regard to Climate Change and Energy Policy

o    Between Innovation and Regulation: The Necessity of Transatlantic Cooperation in the Digital Sphere

o    Dasher of the Liberal World Order?: Trump’s Unilateralism and Its Implications

o    Disenchantment: The European View of Transatlantic Relations

o    Less Trump, More Europe!: America’s Tilt Away from the Middle East Requires Stronger European Commitment

Marine Corps History Division

·         The Legacy of American Naval Power: Reinvigorating Maritime Strategic Thought  - An Anthology

Martens Centre for European Studies

·         Catharsis, Not Compromise, Is What Brexiteers Want

Middle East Institute (MEI)

·         Origins of the Libyan Conflict and Options for Its Resolution

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Credentials for the Future: Mapping the Potential for Immigrant-Origin Adults in the United States

Mitchell Institute

·         Bombers for Maritime Strike: An Asymmetric Counter to China’s Navy

·         Building a Fifth Generation Coalition: Advancing Allied F-35 Interoperability

·         The Force We Need: Key Factors for Shaping the Air Force for the Future

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         The Impact on Japan from Mine Warfare during the Korean War

National Security Archive

·         Understanding the CIA: How Covert (and Overt) Operations Were Proposed and Approved during the Cold War

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

·         The Role of Communicators in Countering the Malicious use of Social Media

New America Foundation

·         The “Consensual Straitjacket”: Four Decades of Women in Nuclear Security

·         Essay: Reframing the U.S.-China AI “Arms Race”

Open the Books

·         The Federal Government's Use-it-or-Lose-it Spending Spree

Oxford Internet Institute Computational Propaganda Research Project

·         Polarisation and the Use of Technology in Political Campaigns and Communication

Oxford Research Group

·         Caliphate Interrupted: Towards a Stateless IS

·         Neither MAD Nor Even: Looking Beyond Trump’s Missile Defense Review

Palm Center

·         Pentagon Officials Misled Congress on Transgender Troops by Asserting Falsehoods that DoD’s Own Data Contradict, and by Calling Equal Treatment “Special” Treatment

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Brexit: Everyone Loses, but Britain Loses the Most

Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends

·         Americans and Germans Disagree on the State of Bilateral Relations, but Largely Align on Key International Issues

Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends

·         Latinos’ Incomes Higher Than Before Great Recession, but U.S.-Born Latinos Yet to Recover

Pew Research Center Internet & Technology

·         Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies

Rand

·         Evaluation of Technology-Enabled Collaborative Learning and Capacity Building Models: Materials for a Report to Congress

·         Life as a Private: Stories of Service from the Junior Ranks of Today's Army

·         A Survey System to Assess Abuse and Misconduct Toward Air Force Students in Occupational Specialty Training

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies 

·         Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA), February 2019, v. 11, no. 2

o    Geographically Diverse, Organisationally Complex and Gender Inclusive Islamist Terrorist Landscape

o    Does Boko Haram Pose a Threat to the US?

o    A Study of Al-Qaeda’s Propaganda Narratives in Bangladesh

o    Women in Terrorism: Evolution from Jemaah Islamiyah to Islamic State in Indonesia and Malaysia

·         Assessment of IS Ideological Threat

·         Democracy in Crisis: It’s the Next Disruption

·         India-Pakistan Crisis: A New International Factor

·         Interreligious Relations (IRR) Issue 2 – Living in a Religiously Plural Society: A Muslim Perspective on Being Inclusive Today

·         New Pro-Islamic State Magazine: A Persistent Ideological Threat

·         The Pulwama Attack’s After Effects: Fake News and Rumours

·         The SAF After Next Incarnation

·         Sri Lanka’s Drug Scourge

Small Wars Journal

·         Border Security: A Realistic Approach

·         From Partisan to Policeman: Roy Farran and Carte Blanche in Western Europe and Palestine 1943-48

·         Great Power Failure in the ‘Hot Wars’ of the Cold War: A Strategic Theory Analysis

·         Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #39: GoPro Video Social Media Posting of  Cártel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) Tactical Action against Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) in Guanajuato - Indications & Warning (I&W) Concerns

·         Rehabilitating the Children of ISIS: A Comparative Case Study of Armed Groups and Child Soldier Reintegration

·         Supporting a Venezuelan Insurgency

·         Vietnam War History: Orthodox Versus Revisionist

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         G20-Africa Engagement: Finding a Roadmap to Shared Development

Stanley Foundation

·         Regional Responses to the Crisis in Venezuela: Strengthening Civil Society Capacity and Multilateral Initiatives

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2018

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Conventional Deterrence and Landpower in Northeastern Europe

·         Two Case Studies of Successful Strategic Communication Campaigns

UN in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

·         DPR Korea Needs and Priorities

UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee

·         Gender Dimensions of the Response to Returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Research Perspectives

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Algeria on the Brink?

·         Can Assad’s Demobilization, Demilitarization, and Rehabilitation Strategy Actually Consolidate Syria’s Paramilitary Forces?

·         Cyprus Gas Discovery Could Be an East Mediterranean Game-Changer

·         Kuwaitis Dislike Trump, but Favor the United States over Iran Despite Sectarian Mix

·         Organizational Split and Radicalization Within Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

·         Though Hamas Is Interested in Negotiations, Gaza's Future Remains Uncertain

·         A Turkish ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria: Prospects and Policy Implications

·         U.S. Sanctions Are Hurting Hezbollah

White House

·         Executive Order on Revocation of Reporting Requirement

World Bank

·         Global Economic Prospects, January 2019