Friday's Miscellany 01-24-2020

38 North

·         Military Air Force Flight Activity at the Wonsan-Kalma Airfield

·         The North Korean Economy in 2019:Treading but Not Underwater in the New Year

Aerospace

·         Noninterference with National Technical Means: The Status Quo Will Not Survive

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         The Helmand Food Zone: The Illusion of Success 

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         The Challenges of Reform in Angola

·         Threat from African Militant Islamist Groups Expanding, Diversifying

American Enterprise Institute

·         Iran’s Reserve of Last Resort: Uncovering The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Ground Forces Order of Battle

Amnesty International

·         Refugees in Peru: Venezuelans Must be Protected

·         Thailand: End Harassment and Prosecutions of Opposition Members

Atlantic Council

·         PeaceGame Venezuela: Pathways to Peace

Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES)

·         Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         Israeli Settlements: Legal Status,Political Reality

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

·         The Green Swan:  Central Banking and Financial Stability  in the Age of Climate Change

·         Impending Arrival - a Sequel to the Survey on Central Bank Digital Currency

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)

·         Tunisia is the Sick Man of North Africa

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)

·         Arab Countries Say “We Miss the Jews”

·         Are the US and Iran Headed Toward War?

·         Denial of Citizenship as a Weapon of Repression in the Arab World

·         Hebzollah Chief: “Kill Every American Soldier in the Middle East”

·         Israel: A Thriving First-World Economy in a Third-World Sea

·         Israel’s Strikes in Syria Hurt Iran’s Purse

·         The Jordan Valley Is Not Up for Negotiation

·         The Killing of Soleimani Will Not Stop Iranian Aggression

·         With Putin’s Proposed Changes, Russia Begins Its Transition to One-Party Rule

Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs

·         Digital Currency Wars: A National Security Crisis Simulation

·         Weaponizing Digital Health Intelligence

Brookings

·         Averting a New Iranian Nuclear Crisis

·         The Case for AI Transparency Requirements

·         How Should We Measure the Digital Economy?

·         Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

·         Optimizing Assessment for All: Framework for Understanding Project Goals and Scope

·         Productivity Comparisons: Lessons from Japan, the United States, and Germany

·         Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2020

Canadian Global Affairs Institute (CGAI)

·         A Guide to Canadian Diplomatic Relations 1925-2019

·         Use it or Lose it: Corporate Over-Planning in the Air Force

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Russia at the United Nations: Law,Sovereignty, and Legitimacy

CATO Institute

·         Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Challenging China’s Bid for App Dominance

Center for Global Development

·         Bangladesh: Impediments to Enhanced Revenue Mobilization and Equitable and Efficient Spending

·         International Taxation and Developing Countries

·         Senegal: Making Domestic Resource Mobilization Work to Sustain Growth and Improve Service Delivery

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

·         Resilient Governance for Boards of Directors: Considerations for Effective Oversight of Cyber Risk

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Five Priorities for the Air Force’s Future Combat Air Force

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Afghanistan: “Peace” as the Vietnamization of a U.S. Withdrawal?

·         Civil Society in the North Caucasus

·         Getting to Less? The Innovation Superiority Strategy

·         Signposts of Struggle: Iran’s Enduring Protest Movement

·         Twin Pillars: Upholding National Security and National Innovation in Emerging Technologies Governance

Center for Strategic Studies  (CSS)

·         Caucasus Analytical Digest, no. 113: Pension Reform

Center on Global Energy Policy

·         It’s Not Just About Climate Change,It’s About Our Health – and the Energy Sector Is Key

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

·         Why the GAO’s Opinion About OMB’s Withholding of Ukraine Security Assistance is Problematic

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Democracy and the Rule of Law: Failing Partnership?

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         China’s Macroeconomic Policy Trifecta and Challenges to the Governance of the Global Trading System

·         Standards for Digital Cooperation

Chatham House

·         Synergy in North Africa: Furthering Cooperation

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, January 2020, v. 13, no. 1

o    Soleimani Is Dead: The Road Ahead for Iranian-Backed Militias in Iraq

o    Lessons from the Islamic State’s ‘Milestone’ Texts and Speeches

o    A View from the CT Foxhole: Rob Saale, Former Director, U.S. Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell

o    After Soleimani: What’s Next for Iran’s Quds Force?

o    Piety Is in the Eye of the Bureaucrat: The Islamic State’s Strategy of Civilian Control

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation and Water Infrastructure

Defense Personnel and Security Center (PERSEREC)

·         PERSEREC-TR-19-07 A Personnel Security Training Program for Clinicians: Phase III

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan - December 2019

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods

Dialogue

·         Reviving Venezuela’s Oil Sector: The Role of Western Oil Majors

East West Center

·         Cooperation Between the United States and Pakistan: What is the Future?

·         Has U.S. Government Angst over the China Danger Diminished?

Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON)

·         Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali / MINUSMA

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         War and Pieces: Political Divides in Southern Yemen

European  Think-tank Network on China (ETNC)

·         Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry 

European Union

·         The EU as a Maritime Security Provider

·         Gender-Sensitive Education and Training for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

·         What If...? 14 Futures for 2024

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

·         Albania's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Kyrgyzstan's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

·         Latvia's Progress in Strengthening Measures to Tackle Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

·         Hard Security Dynamics in the Baltic Sea Region: From Turbulence to Tense Stability

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Can Oman Survive Its Own Neighborhood After the Death of Sultan Qaboos?

·         Narrowing Interests in the Middle East: Planning for Great Power Competition

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)

·         War by Other Means: A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS

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

·         Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism. Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

George Washington University Program on Extremism

·         Kemal Helbawy: A Pioneer of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

German Development Institute

·         Evangelicals and Politics in Brazil

·         The Treaty of Aachen of 2019:Opportunities to Strengthen Franco-German Cooperation on Sustainable Development

·         Tunisia: A Stable Countryside for a Stable Country?

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         The Widening Military–Political Gap in Israel

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         The Berlin Conference Showed Europe’s Dwindling Influence in Libya

·         The Challenges Ahead for EU Defense Cooperation

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning in Drug Development GAO-20-215SP

·         Department of Defense: Actions Needed to Reduce Accounting Adjustments GAO-20-96

·         Military Construction: Cost Increase Reports Submitted in Fiscal Years 2018 and 2019 GAO-20-261R

·         Opioid Use Disorder: Barriers to Medicaid Beneficiaries' Access to Treatment Medications GAO-20-233

·         U.S. Secret Service: Investigative Operations Confer Benefits, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Prioritize Resources GAO-20-239

·         VA Health Care: Improved Communication about Available Data Needed to Enhance the HIV Screening Process GAO-20-186

Heritage Foundation

·         Six Key Priorities for U.S. Europe Policy in a Crucial Year

·         Stay in the Open Skies Treaty…For Now

Hoover Institution

·         Breaking Out Of The Democratic Slump

Human Rights Watch

·         “The Guerrillas Are the Police”:Social Control and Abuses by Armed Groups in Colombia’s Arauca Province and Venezuela’s Apure State

Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)

·         Accelerating Legacy System Modernization in Government

·         The Business Value of a Diverse InfoSec Team: A Discussion on How Gender, Racial, Cognitive, and LGBTQ Diversity Improves Cybersecurity Outcomes

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS - Israel)

·         A Post-Soleimani Opportunity: Removing Iran from Syria

·         The Strategic Balance between Iran and the United States after the Targeted Killing of Qasem Soleimani

·         Strategic Survey for Israel 2019-2020

·         The Trade War between the United States and China: The “Phase One” Deal is only the First Step

·         Under Mediterranean Skies: Channels for Deepening Israel-Egypt Relations

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

·         Snapshot of the U.S.-China Trade War

Institute for Strategic Dialogue 

·         Be Internet Legends and Be Internet Citizens: Impact Report

·         Mapping Hate in France: A Panoramic View of Online Discourse

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

·         Putins "Januar-Revolution"

·         Waiting for the Shoe to Fall Middle East Style

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq Situation Report: January 17 - 22, 2020

·         Syria Situation Report: January 8 - 21, 2020

·         Warning Intelligence Update: Iran Increases Pressure on U.S. Forces in Iraq

Institute of International Affairs (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

·         Climate Activism and the Friday's for Future Movement

·         A Geopolitical Commission in Africa

·         Military Innovation and Defence Acquisition: Lessons from the F-35 Programme

·         There Is No Green Deal without a Just Transition

·         What to Expect from the United States: A Look Ahead at US Foreign Policy

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) 

·         The Climate Emergency Situation in Maharashtra: A Big Challenge for Uddhav Thackeray

·         The Deeper Implications of India’s Protests Against the Citizenship Act

·         Xi Jinping in Myanmar: Complex ‘Pauk-Phaw’ Relations in Operation

International Centre for Defence and Security

·         When Russia Goes to War: Motives, Means and Indicators

International Crisis Group

·         Southern Thailand’s Peace Dialogue: Giving Substance to Form

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Sharing the Burden: Lessons from the European Return to Multidimensional Peacekeeping

Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

·         To Speak or Not to Speak: Tackling Recent Violations of Freedom of Expression in Lebanon

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Implications of the U.S.-Iran Conflict on the Korean Peninsula

Lowy Institute

·         Taiwan’s 2020 Elections

Marine Corps History Division

·         Marine Corps History Magazine, Winter  2019, v. 5, no. 2

o    General Pershing and the U.S. Marines

o    Stability or Disruption: The U.S. Marine Occupation  21 and the Voodoo Trials in Haiti, 1926–30

o    The Birth and Early Years of Marine Corps Intelligence

o    “Tree Hugging Work”: The Shifting Attitudes and Practices  54 of the U.S. Marine Corps Toward Peace Operations in the 1990s

o    The Triptych of Modern Combat: Joe Sacco’s Reporting on Iraq

o    Charging Up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America and In Command: Theodore Roosevelt  and the American Military

National Center for Health Statistics

·         Trends in Opioids Prescribed at Discharge From Emergency Departments Among Adults:  United States, 2006–2017

National Security Archive

·         Nuclear War Planning and the Challenge of Civilian Oversight

·         USCYBERCOM After Action Assessments of Operation GLOWING SYMPHONY

NATO Defense College

·         It’s That Time of the Decade Again: Some Considerations for NATO’s Eighth Strategic Concept

·         NATO at 70: No Time to Retire

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

·         Factsheet of the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation

·         Implementing Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the OSCE Region

·         A Whole-of-Society Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism:  A Guidebook for Central Asia

Pew Research Center Journalism & Media

·         U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020Election: A Nation Divided

Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life

·         What Americans Know About the Holocaust  

Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy

·         By a Narrow Margin, Americans Say Senate Trial Should Result in Trump’s Removal

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

·         5G Promises and Risks for US National Security

RAND Corporation

·         Addressing the U.S. Opioid Crisis:Using an Integrated Systems-Based Approach: Addendum [testimony]

·         Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence: Identifying Research and Practice Needs to Preserve Fairness While Leveraging New Technology

·         Systemic Risk in the Broad Economy: Interfirm Networks and Shocks in the U.S. Economy

·         Turkey's Nationalist Course: Implications for the U.S.-Turkish Strategic Partnership and the U.S. Army

·         U.S. Airport Infrastructure Funding and Financing: Issues and Policy Options Pursuant to Section 122 of the 2018Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act

Ronald Reagan Institute

·         The Contest for Innovation: Strengthening America’s National Security Innovation Base in an Era of Strategic Competition

Small Wars Journal

·         Afghanistan at an Impasse

·         After Berlin, Will Foreign Actors Back Out of Libya’s Civil War?

·         The Ayatollah’s Gathering Aerial Storm

·         Challenging Snowden: Spycraft, Ethics,and Amendments

·         Communities Not Tribes: Why Future Threats Are All Around Us

·         Displacement and the Vulnerability to Mobilize for Violence: Evidence from Afghanistan

·         Donald Trump Eliminated a Bully.Simple

·         Gangs and the Military Note 3: The Role of the West Coast in the Development of Military-Trained Gang Members

·         Iran: From American Ally to Adversary

·         Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America: Consequences for U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security

·         IRGC Threat in the Middle East: How Safe Are Americans in Turkey?

·         Uniting the Cyber Domain Stakeholders

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         G20 Compact with Africa: Consolidating and Accelerating Rwanda’s Transformation Agenda

·         Marine and Coastal EbA for Enhanced Resilience in Southern Africa Country Review: Tanzania

Stanley Foundation

·         The Gray Spectrum: Ethical Decision Making with Geospatial and Open Source Analysis

·         Making the Case for Peace in Cities

Taylor & Francis [open access articles]

·         Critical Studies on Terrorism, March 2020, v. 13, no. 1

o    Being Resilient to Radicalisation in PVE Policy: A Critical Examination [open access article]  

o    The End of Emancipation? CTS and Normativity [open access article]   

o    Marianne’s Liberty in Jeopardy? A French Analysis on Recent Counterterrorism Legal Developments [open access article]  

·         Policing & Society, February 2002, v. 30, no. 2

o    ‘Arms for Mobility’: Policing Partnerships and Material Exchanges in Nairobi, Kenya [open access article]

o    Customer is King: Promoting Port Policing, Supporting Hypercommercialism [open access article]

·         Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020, v. 43, no. 3

o    Watching ISIS: How Young Adults Engage with Official English-Language ISIS Videos [open access article]

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

·         Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans Increase in Immigration Court Backlog

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         The Challenges for Social Movements in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Expediting Evidence of Iranian Attacks: The Aramco Case

·         Hamas and Yahya Sinwar’s Tough Choice (Part 1)

·         Iranian Succession and the Impact of Soleimani’s Death

·         Israeli Recidivism Rates are High; More Resources for Arab Israeli Prisoners Could Help

·         Lifting the Arms Restrictions on Iran:What Will and Won’t Change

·         Russia’s Growing Interests in Libya

·         U.S. Do’s and Don’ts in Iraq

·         The White House Peace Plan Meeting:U.S. Goals, Israeli Repercussions

·         Who Is Mohammad Hossein-Zadeh Hejazi,the New Deputy Commander of Iran’s Qods Force?

Wilson Center

·         Chinese Migrants Versus Ordinary Zambians: Causes of Tension and Possible Peace Pathways

·         Cyber Security

·         The Role of Agricultural Extension in Peacebuilding in the Central African Republic

·         Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2020

o    Why Protest?

o    Postcards from the Edge

o    The Step-by-Step Revolution

o    Protest Tech: Hong Kong

o    Protests and Principles

o    Speech in a Low Dishonest Decade

o    Protest and the Muse

World Bank

·         Rethinking Power Sector Reform in the Developing World

World Economic Forum

·         Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New Economy

·         Shaping a Multiconceptual World