Weekly Update
April 22
This is a long but interesting list.
Items of Interest:
38 North
·
North Korea’s
Nuclear Test Site: Limited Activity Continues; Tunnel Excavation Resumes http://38north.org/2016/04/punggye042016/
American Enterprise
Institute
·
Comparing
Candidates’ Favorability Ratings http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Political-Report-May-2016.pdf
·
Framing a Defense
Reform Agenda for 2017 http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Framing-a-Defense-Reform-Agenda-for-2017.pdf
·
Giving States and
Localities A Voice in Washington http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Giving-States-and-Localities-a-Voice-in-Washington.pdf
Argonne National
Laboratory
·
Case Study: Idle
Reduction Technologies for Emergency Service Vehicles http://www.anl.gov/energy-systems/publication/case-study-idle-reduction-technologies-emergency-service-vehicles
Asian Development Bank
Institute (ADBI)
·
The Fiscal Risk of
Local Government Revenue in the People’s Republic of China http://www.adb.org/publications/fiscal-risk-local-government-revenue-prc
·
Housing Policies
in Hong Kong, China and the People’s Republic of China http://www.adb.org/publications/housing-policies-hong-kong-china-and-prc
·
The Status of
Financial Inclusion, Regulation, and Education in India http://www.adb.org/publications/status-financial-inclusion-regulation-and-education-india
Atlantic Council
·
After
Hub-And-Spoke: US Hegemony In a New Gulf Security Order http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/after-hub-and-spoke-us-hegemony-in-a-new-gulf-security-order
·
Ten Arguments for
TTIP and the Concerns to Address http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/ten-arguments-for-ttip-and-the-concerns-to-address
Austroads
·
Freight Movement
in Emergency Situations https://www.onlinepublications.austroads.com.au/items/AP-R512-16
Baker Institute of
Public Policy
·
Cultural
Dissonance of Mexico-Texas Relations http://bakerinstitute.org/files/9335/
Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs
·
Three Overlapping
Streams of India's Nuclear Power Programs http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/thethreesoverlappingtreamsofindiasnuclearpowerprograms.pdf
Berkman Center on
Internet & Society
·
WiredWest: A
Cooperative of Municipalities Forms to Build a Fiber Optic Network https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2016/wiredwest_case_study
Brookings
·
The Administrative
State’s Legitimacy Crisis http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/04/20-administrative-state-legitimacy-crisis-wallach
·
Do Islamists Have
an Intellectual Deficit? http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2015/07/rethinking-political-islam/other-essays/anjum_final.pdf
·
Political
Appointees as Barriers to Government Efficiency and Effectiveness http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/04/11-political-appointees-barriers-government-efficiency-effectiveness
·
Rethinking How We
Rethink Political Islam: A Conversation http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/03/rethinking-political-islam-olidort-lefevre
Center for a New
American Security (CNAS)
·
New Tools of
Economic Warfare: Effects and Effectiveness of Contemporary U.S. Financial
Sanctions http://www.cnas.org/new-tools-of-economic-warfare#.Vx2hb3onoyM
·
Reset, Negotiate,
Institutionalize: A Phased Middle East Strategy for the Next President http://www.cnas.org/reset-negotiate-institutionalize#.VxvOWKQm6M8
Center for
Counterterrorism Studies (JSOU)
·
ISIS and Social
Media: The Combatant Commander’s Guide to Countering ISIS’s Social Media
Campaign https://jsou.socom.mil/JSOU%20Publications/ISIS%20and%20Social%20Media%20-%202015%20LTG%20Wilson%20Writing%20Award.pdf
Center for European
Policy Analysis (CEPA)
·
War in Ukraine
provides new impetus for CEE energy diversification http://cepa.org/CEE-energy-diversification-ukraine
Center for Global
Development
·
Inside the
Portfolio of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation http://www.cgdev.org/publication/inside-portfolio-overseas-private-investment-corporation
Center for Immigration
Studies
·
Immigration Policy
and The Politics of Bernie Sanders http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/kammer-sanders_2.pdf
·
Immigration in the
Presidential Campaign, Part 1 http://www.cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/renshon-2016-pt1_0.pdf
Center for
Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
·
The NPT Review Process:
Time to Try Something New http://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/the-npt-review-process-time-to-try-something-new.pdf
Center for Strategic
& International Studies (CSIS)
·
Analysis of the FY
2017 Defense Budget http://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Analysis-of-the-FY-2017-Budget-final-with-cover.pdf
·
Analysis of the FY
2017 Defense Budget [briefing slides] http://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Annual-Analysis-2016-04-19.pdf
·
ChinaPower
[interactive site] http://chinapower.csis.org/
·
Indian Ocean
Region Strategic Net Assessment: The Red Sea and Horn Subregion http://csis.org/files/publication/160415_IOR_Red_Sea_Horn.pdf
·
Issues &
Insights Vol. 16, No. 7 - The Juche
Factor: North Korea’s Political Ideology and Human Rights Reform http://csis.org/files/publication/issuesinsights_vol16no7.pdf
·
PacNet #38 - Not
this time, Mr. President http://csis.org/files/publication/160420_PacNet_1638.pdf
·
PacNet #37 - Case
for “Enlightened Realism”: Reconciliation as an Imperative Task for Regional
Peace and Stability http://csis.org/files/publication/160420_PacNet_1637.pdf
·
PacNet #36 - Note
to Washington: Enjoy Abe While You Have Him http://csis.org/files/publication/160418_PacNet_1636_0.pdf
·
PacNet #35R -
Response to PacNet #35 "Rescind China's invitation to join RIMPAC" http://csis.org/files/publication/160419_PacNet_1635R.pdf
·
Prospects for
Cross-Strait Relations as Tsai Ing-wen Assumes the Presidency in Taiwan http://csis.org/files/publication/160418_Glaser_ProspectsCrossStraitRelations_Web.pdf
·
Underlying Causes
of Stability and Instability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region http://csis.org/publication/underlying-causes-stability-and-instability-middle-east-and-north-africa-mena-region
Centre for European
Reform (CER)
·
The Economic
Consequences of Leaving the EU: The Final Report of the CER Commission on
Brexit 2016 http://www.cer.org.uk/publications/archive/report/2016/economic-consequences-leaving-eu-final-report-cer-commission-brexit
Centre for Military,
Security and Strategic Studies
·
Journal of
Military and Strategic Studies, 2016,
v. 16, no. 4 http://jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/issue/view/72
o The Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic: Building
Capabilities and Connections
o The combat utility of the U.S. fleet aircraft carrier
in the post-war period
o Command Decision: Leadership Lessons from the Strategic
Air War Against Germany
o The European Union-Greenland relations after 2015 – a
partnership beyond fisheries
o Leadership development of junior Army leaders: a Dutch
perspective
o The Confederate States of America and the British
Empire: Neutral Territory and Civil Wars
o China’s Post-Cold War Challenges and the Birth of its
Current Military Strategy
Centre for Security
Governance
·
Non-State Security
Providers and Political Formation in South Sudan: The Case of Western
Equatoria’s Arrows Boys http://www.secgovcentre.org/files/www/NSSPs_in_South_Sudan_April2016.pdf
Chatham House
·
Brexit Would Be a
Further Blow to the Special Relationship https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/brexit-would-be-further-blow-special-relationship
·
Post-Paris: Taking
Forward the Global Climate Change Deal https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/post-paris-taking-forward-global-climate-change-deal
·
The US Has the
Right to Argue for Remain https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/us-has-right-argue-remain
Clingendael -
Netherlands Institute of International Relations
·
The
Unsustainability of Independent Fiscal Institutions http://www.clingendael.nl/publication/unsustainability-independent-fiscal-institutions
Combating Terrorism
Center (CTC)
·
The Caliphate’s
Global Workforce: An Inside Look at the Islamic State’s Foreign Fighter Paper
Trail https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-caliphates-global-workforce-an-inside-look-at-the-islamic-states-foreign-fighter-paper-trail
o A Caliphate under Strain: The Documentary Evidence
o A View from the CT Foxhole: The Honorable Juan C.
Zarate, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism
o The Resilience of al-Shabaab
o The Kingdom's Perfect Storm: Sectarian Tension and
Terrorism in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province
o The Jihadi Threat to Scotland: Caledonian
Exceptionalism and its Limits
o The Islamic State's Pyramid Scheme: Egyptian Expansion
and the Giza Governorate Cell
Commission on Security
& Cooperation in Europe (US Helsinki Commission)
·
Update on the
OSCE: Religious Freedom, Anti-Semitism, and Rule of Law http://csce.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContentRecords.ViewDetail&ContentRecord_id=578&Region_id=0&Issue_id=0&ContentType=H,B&ContentRecordType=H
Congress. House. Foreign
Affairs Committee
·
FY 2017 Budget
Priorities for East Asia: Engagement, Integration, and Democracy http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-fy-2017-budget-priorities-east-asia-engagement-integration-and
·
Israel Imperiled:
Threats to the Jewish State http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/joint-subcommittee-hearing-israel-imperiled-threats-jewish-state
Congress. House.
Committee on Homeland Security
·
Compilation of the
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Updated through Pub. L. 114-125) http://docs.house.gov/meetings/HM/HM00/CPRT-114-HM00-D003.pdf
·
European Terror
Threat Snapshot https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/European-Terror-Threat-Snapshot-April-2016.pdf
·
Keeping Pace with
Trade, Travel, and Security: How does CBP Prioritize and Improve Staffing and
Infrastructure? https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/keeping-pace-trade-travel-security-cbp-prioritize-improve-staffing-infrastructure/
·
Pipelines:
Securing the Veins of the American Economy https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/pipelines-securing-veins-american-economy/
Congress. House.
Oversight & Government Reform Committee
·
DATA Act:
Monitoring Implementation Progress https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/data-act-monitoring-implementation-progress/
·
Document
Production Status Update, Part II https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/document-production-status-update-part-ii/
·
Federal
Cybersecurity Detection, Response, and Mitigation https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/federal-cybersecurity-detection-response-and-mitigation/
Congress. House.
Science, Space & Technology
·
The Commercial
Space Launch Industry: Small Satellite Opportunities and Challenges https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/space-subcommittee-hearing-commercial-space-launch-industry-small-satellite
·
An Overview of
Fusion Energy Science https://science.house.gov/legislation/hearings/energy-subcommittee-hearing-overview-fusion-energy-science
Congress. House.
Veterans Affairs Committee
·
A Continued
Assessment of Delays in Veterans' Access to Health Care http://veterans.house.gov/hearing/a-continued-assessment-of-delays-in-veterans-access-to-health-care
·
Evaluating VA IT:
Scheduling Modernization and Choice Consolidation http://veterans.house.gov/hearing/evaluating-va-it-scheduling-modernization-and-choice-consolidation
·
A Review of
Veterans Preference in Federal Government Hiring http://veterans.house.gov/hearing/a-review-of-veterans-preference-in-federal-government-hiring
Congress. Senate. Armed
Services Committee
·
Current State of
Research, Diagnosis, and Treatment for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and
Traumatic Brain Injury http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/16-04-20-current-state-of-research-diagnosis-and-treatment-for-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-and-traumatic-brain-injury
·
Navy and Marine
Corps Aviation Programs http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/16-04-20-navy-and-marine-corps-aviation-programs
Congress. Senate.
Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee
·
The State of the
U.S. Maritime Industry: Stakeholder Perspectives http://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/4/the-state-of-the-u-s-maritime-industry-stakeholder-perspectives
Congress. Senate.
Foreign Relations Committee
·
Central America
and the Alliance for Prosperity: Identifying U.S. Priorities and Assessing
Progress http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/central-america-and-the-alliance-for-prosperity-identifying-us-priorities-and-assessing-progress-041916
Congress. Senate.
Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
·
The Administrative
State: An Examination of Federal Rulemaking https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-administrative-state-an-examination-of-federal-rulemaking
·
Field : Examining
the Impact of the Opioid Epidemic in Ohio https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/examining-the-impact-of-the-opioid-epidemic
·
ROUNDTABLE -
Preventing Drug Trafficking Through International Mail https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/roundtable_-preventing-drug-trafficking-through-international-mail
Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR)
·
The Debate Over
'Brexit' http://www.cfr.org/united-kingdom/debate-over-brexit/p37747
·
U.S.-Saudi
Relations http://www.cfr.org/saudi-arabia/us-saudi-relations/p36524
·
The U.S. Supreme
Court and Obama’s Immigration Actions http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-supreme-court-obamas-immigration-actions/p37630
Department of Defense
(DOD)
·
Report to Congress
– Implementation Plan for Modernizing the Military Retirement System http://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/Report
to Congress on BRS March 2016.pdf
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)
·
OIG-16-64 - 2014
White House Fence Jumping Incident (Redacted) https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2016/OIG-16-64-Apr16.pdf
East-West Center
·
Domestic Forces
behind Indonesia’s Paradoxical Maritime Policy http://www.eastwestcenter.org/node/35616
Economic Research Forum
(ERF)
·
Algeria and the
Natural Resource Curse: Oil Abundance and Economic Growth http://erf.org.eg/publications/algeria-and-the-natural-resource-curse-oil-abundance-and-economic-growth/
·
Identifying
Sources of Inefficiency among Students of Five MENA Countries http://erf.org.eg/publications/identifying-sources-of-inefficiency-among-students-of-five-mena-countries/
Environment for
Development
·
How Does a Driving
Restriction Affect Transportation Patterns?: The Medium-Run Evidence from
Beijing http://www.rff.org/files/document/file/EfD-DP-16-10.pdf
EU Commission
·
EU Transport in
Figures: Statistical Pocketbook 2016 http://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/statistics/doc/2015/pocketbook2015.pdf
EU Institute for
Security Studies
·
Countering Violent
Extremism: The Horn of Africa http://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/detail/article/countering-violent-extremism-the-horn-of-africa/
·
EUISS Yearbook of
European Security 2016 http://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/detail/article/euiss-yearbook-of-european-security-2016/
·
Understanding
African Armies http://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/detail/article/understanding-african-armies/
European Leadership
Network (ELN)
·
Competing Western
and Russian Narratives on the European Order: Is There Common Ground? http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/competing-western-and-russian-narratives-on-the-european-order-is-there-common-ground_3649.html
·
Time to Decouple
European Missile Defense from Iran http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/time-to-decouple-european-missile-defence-from-iran-_3710.html
European Parliament
Think Tank
·
An Academic View
on the Role and Powers of National Competition Authorities http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU(2016)578971
·
A Practitioner’s
View on the Role and Powers of National Competition Authorities http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU(2016)578972
·
United States -
China Relations: a Complex Balance between Cooperation and Confrontation http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=EXPO_IDA(2016)570464
European Policy Centre
(EPC)
·
The Revision of
the Posted Workers Directive: Towards a Sufficient Policy Adjustment? http://www.epc.eu/pub_details.php?cat_id=17&pub_id=6475
Feinstein International
Center
·
Livelihood
recovery in post-conflict northern Uganda http://securelivelihoods.org/publications_details.aspx?resourceid=395
·
Secure Livelihoods
Research Consortium Uganda http://securelivelihoods.org/content/2260/Uganda
German Development Institute
·
Policies and
Institutions for Assuring Pro-poor Rural Development and Food Security Through
Bioenergy Production: Case Studies on Bush-to-Energy and Jatropha in Namibia https://www.die-gdi.de/en/studies/article/policies-and-institutions-for-assuring-pro-poor-rural-development-and-food-security-through-bioenergy-production-case-studies-on-bush-to-energy-and-jatropha-in-namibia/
German Marshall Fund of
the United States
·
Why Russia’s
Economic Leverage is Declining http://www.gmfus.org/file/8212/download
Government
Accountability Office (GAO)
·
Counterterrorism:
DOD Should Enhance Management of and Reporting on Its Global Train and Equip
Program. GAO-16-368 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-368
·
Elections: DOD
Needs More Comprehensive Planning to Address Military and Overseas Absentee
Voting Challenges. GAO-16-378 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-378
·
Financial Institutions:
Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures for Violations of Financial Crimes and
Sanctions Requirements. GAO-16-297 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-297
·
Foreign Aid: USAID
Generally Complied with Its Antiterrorism Policies and Procedures for Program
Assistance for West Bank and Gaza. GAO-16-442 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-442
·
High-Containment
Laboratories: Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Policies and Stronger Oversight
Mechanisms Needed to Improve Safety. GAO-16-305 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-305
·
High-Containment
Laboratories: Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Policies and Stronger Oversight
Needed. GAO-16-566T [testimony] http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-566T
·
Human Capital:
Additional Actions Needed to Enhance DOD's Efforts to Address Mental Health
Care Stigma. GAO-16-404 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-404
·
National Flood
Insurance Program: Continued Progress Needed to Fully Address Prior GAO
Recommendations on Rate-Setting Methods. GAO-16-59 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-59
·
Unaccompanied
Children: HHS Should Improve Monitoring and Information Sharing Policies to
Enhance Child Advocate Program Effectiveness. GAO-16-367 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-367
·
VA Health Care:
Actions Needed to Improve Newly Enrolled Veterans' Access to Primary Care.
GAO-16-328 http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-328
Heritage Foundation
·
Four Priorities
for President Obama’s Last Visit to Germany http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/04/four-priorities-for-president-obamas-last-visit-to-germany
·
How to Make the
State Department More Effective at Implementing U.S. Foreign Policy http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/04/how-to-make-the-state-department-more-effective-at-implementing-us-foreign-policy
·
Obama Needs to
Mend Fences at Gulf Cooperation Council Summit http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/04/obama-needs-to-mend-fences-at-gulf-cooperation-council-summit
·
The State of
Climate Science: No Justification for Extreme Policies http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2016/04/the-state-of-climate-science-no-justification-for-extreme-policies
HM Treasury, United
Kingdom
·
Action Plan for
Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Finance https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517992/6-2118-Action_Plan_for_Anti-Money_Laundering__web_.pdf
Households in Conflict
Network
·
Information and
Communication Technologies, Wartime Informing, and Insurgent Violence http://www.hicn.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HiCN-WP-215.pdf
Institut für Strategie-
Politik- Sicherheits- und Wirtschaftsberatung (ISPSW)
·
New Airliner
Threat: Arming Syrian Jihadists with US Anti-Aircraft Missiles http://www.ispsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/416_Lin.pdf
Institute for Critical
Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)
·
Combatting the
Ransomware Blitzkrieg: The Only Defense is a Layered Defense – Layer One:
Endpoint Security http://icitech.org/ransomware-endpoint-security/
Institute for Defense
Analyses (IDA)
·
Independent Review
of the Defense Logistics Agency’s Roles and Missions https://www.ida.org/idamedia/Corporate/Files/Publications/IDA_Documents/SFRD/2016/P-5210.ashx
·
Sharing Smart Card
Authenticated Sessions Using Proxies https://www.ida.org/idamedia/Corporate/Files/Publications/IDA_Documents/ITSD/2016/D-5417.ashx
Institute for Science
and International Security
·
Iran Deal
Procurement Channel: Overcoming Post-Implementation Day Issues http://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/JCPOA_Procurement_Channel_Post_Implementation_Day_21April2016_Final1.pdf
Institute for Security
Studies (ISS)
·
Peace and
Security Council Report No 79 https://www.issafrica.org/publications/peace-and-security-council-report/peace-and-security-council-report-no-79
Institute for the Study
of War
·
Iraq Control of
Terrain Map: April 21, 2016 http://post.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iraq-control-terrain-map-april-21-2016
·
ISIS-Linked
Activity in Southeast Asia: March 2 to
April 21, 2016 http://post.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis-linked-activity-southeast-asia-march-2-april-21-2016
·
ISIS Sanctuary
Map: April 22, 2016 http://post.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis-sanctuary-map-april-22-2016
·
Russian
Military Activity in Syria March 15 -
April 18, 2016 http://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-military-activity-syria-march-15-%E2%80%93-april-18-2016
·
Syria Situation
Report: April 16-22, 2016 http://post.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/syria-situation-report-april-16-22-2016
Institute of Development
Studies
·
Cost and Returns
of Renewable Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparison of Kenya and Ghana http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/123456789/11297/1/ER190_CostandReturnsofRenewableEnergyinSubSaharanAfricaAComparisonofKenyaandGhana.pdf
Institute of South Asian
Studies (ISAS)
·
H-1B Visas, India
and the US: Trade Tussle Intensifies http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/ISAS%20Reports/ISAS%20Insights%20No.%20326%20-%20H-1B%20Visas,%20India%20and%20the%20US%20Trade%20Tussle%20Intensifies.pdf
·
India-Myanmar
Relations: Context of Contemporary Geographical Routes and Linkages http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/ISAS%20Reports/ISAS%20Insights%20No.%20327%20-%20India-Myanmar%20Relations%20Context%20of%20Contemporary%20Geographical%20Routes%20and%20Linkages.pdf
·
The Roots of
Citizen Welfare in India: Reflections on Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/ISAS%20Reports/ISAS%20Working%20Paper%20No.%20%20232%20-%20The%20Roots%20of%20Citizen%20Welfare%20in%20India%20-Reflections%20on%20Andhra%20Pradesh%20and%20West%20Bengal.pdf
·
West Bengal Assembly
Elections: Despite Setbacks Trinamool Congress has the Edge http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/ISAS%20Reports/ISAS%20Brief%20No.%20420%20-%20West%20Bengal%20Assembly%20Elections.%20Despite%20Setbacks%20Trinamool%20Congress%20has%20the%20Edge.pdf
Instituto Affari
Internazionali (IAI)
·
The EU and the
Global Development Framework http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/eu-and-global-development-framework
·
Somalia: A Long
Road Ahead http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/somalia-long-road-ahead
·
Why Youth
Empowerment Can Sustain Tunisia's Democratic Consolidation http://www.iai.it/en/pubblicazioni/why-youth-empowerment-can-sustain-tunisias-democratic-consolidation
International Centre for
Defence and Security (ICDS)
·
Strengthening the
Strategic Balance in the Baltic Sea Area http://www.icds.ee/publications/article/strengthening-the-strategic-balance-in-the-baltic-sea-area-1/
International Centre for
the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)
·
Pain, Confusion,
Anger, and Shame: The Stories of Islamic State Families http://icsr.info/2016/04/icsr-report-pain-confusion-anger-shame-stories-islamic-state-families/
International Monetary
Fund (IMF)
·
Dispelling Fiscal
Illusions : How Much Progress Have Governments Made in Getting Assets and
Liabilities on Balance Sheet? http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1695.pdf
·
Effective
Macroprudential Policy : Cross-Sector Substitution from Price and Quantity
Measures http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2016/wp1694.pdf
Jamestown Foundation
o In a Fortnight: Chinese Signaling in the South China
Sea
o Pushback against Xi Jinping’s One-Upmanship Strengthens
o Chinese Hypersonic Weapons Development
o Taiwanese Navy Plans to Enhance Fleet Air Defense
o The PLA’s Forthcoming Fifth-Generation Operational Regulations—The
Latest “Revolution in Doctrinal Affairs”?
Konrad Adenauer
Foundation (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)
·
Greek Pension
Tragedy: A Case of Failure in Governance http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_44877-544-2-30.pdf?160415140444
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On the Path from
Failed State to OECD Member? http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_44735-544-2-30.pdf?160404161623
Martens Centre for European
Studies
·
The Long March
Towards the EU: Candidates, Neighbours and the Prospects for Enlargement http://www.martenscentre.eu/publications/long-march-towards-eu-candidates-neighbours-and-prospects-enlargement
National Academies Press
·
Analytic Research
Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21919/analytic-research-foundations-for-the-next-generation-electric-grid
National Bureau of Asian
Research
·
U.S.-China
Relations in Strategic Domains http://nbr.org/publications/issue.aspx?id=333
National Security
Archives
·
Concerned About
Nuclear Weapons Potential, John F. Kennedy Pushed for Inspection of Israel
Nuclear Facilities http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb547-Kennedy-Dimona-and-the-Nuclear-Proliferation-Problem-1961-1962/
Norwegian Institute of
International Affairs
·
External
Governance as Security Community Building. The Limits and Potential of the
European Neighbourhood Policy http://www.nupi.no/en/Publications/CRIStin-Pub/External-Governance-as-Security-Community-Building.-The-Limits-and-Potential-of-the-European-Neighbourhood-Policy
·
Holding the
Borders, Holding the Centre: the EU and the Refugee Crisis http://www.nupi.no/en/Publications/CRIStin-Pub/Holding-the-borders.-holding-the-centre-the-EU-and-the-refugee-crisis
·
The New Russian
Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000-15 http://www.nupi.no/en/Publications/CRIStin-Pub/The-new-Russian-nationalism-Imperialism.-ethnicity-and-authoritarianism-2000-15
Norwegian Peacebuilding
Resource Centre
·
Stability and
Vulnerability in the Sahel: The Regional Roles and Internal Dynamics of Chad
and Niger http://www.peacebuilding.no/Regions/Africa/Publications/Stability-and-vulnerability-in-the-Sahel-the-regional-roles-and-internal-dynamics-of-Chad-and-Niger
Peace and Security
Funders Group (PSFG)
·
Peace and Security
Funding Index: An Analysis of Global Foundation Grantmaking [website] http://peaceandsecurityindex.org/
·
Report - Peace and
Security Funding Index: An Analysis of Global Foundation Grantmaking http://peaceandsecurityindex.org/wp-content/themes/peaceandsecurity/images/PSFG-report.pdf
Pew Research Center
Hispanic Trends
·
Statistical
Portrait of the Foreign-Born Population in the United States http://www.pewhispanic.org/2016/04/19/statistical-portrait-of-the-foreign-born-population-in-the-united-states-key-charts/
Political Economy
Research Institute (PERI)
·
Inequality and
Growth in Neo-Kaleckian and Cambridge Growth Theory http://www.peri.umass.edu/236/hash/2e927a07062bbab7d16e85f2f407a4b4/publication/703/
Protect Our Defenders
·
Debunked:
Fact-Checking the Pentagon’s Claims Regarding Military Justice http://www.protectourdefenders.com/debunked/
PWC Analysis
·
Defense
Prioritization and Posture: Which Countries Spend the Most on Projecting Their
Power... [bubble chart] http://ec.militarytimes.com/static/pdfs/DFN-Global-Defense-Map-Bubble-Chart-03-21-16.pdf
·
Global Defense
Perspectives: Mapping Prioritization and Posture in a Challenging World http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/government-public-services/public-sector-research-centre/publications/global-defense-perspectives.html
Rand
·
Assessment of the
Politico-Military Campaign to Counter ISIL and Options for Adaptation http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1290.html
·
Can the Air Force
and Airlines Collaborate for Mutual Benefit? An Exploration of Pilot and
Maintenance Workforce Options http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1412.html
·
Characteristics
and Treatment Patterns of Service Members with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9889.html
·
ENGAGED Toolkit:
Improving the Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Disaster Response and
Recovery http://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL202.html
·
Extending Depot
Length and Intervals for DDG-51-Class Ships: Examining the 72-Month Operational
Cycle http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1235.html
·
The Fires of
Spring: A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB548.html
·
Good Seeing: Best
Practices for Sustainable Operations at the Air Force Maui Optical and
Supercomputing Site http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1097.html
·
Initiatives to
Improve Quality of Education in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Administration,
School Monitoring, Private School Policies, and Teacher Training
(Arabic-language version) http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR960z1.html
·
Introducing
Value-Based Purchasing into TRICARE Reform http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE195.html
·
Policy Options for
Better Service Outcomes from the Future Electric Grid: A Stakeholder Symposium http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF342.html
·
A Saudi-Led
Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism: Welcome Muscle in the Fight Against
Terrorism, Desert Mirage, or Bad Idea? http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE189.html
·
Understanding
Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Military Health System http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR844.html
Reporters without
Borders
·
2016 World Press
Freedom Index - Leaders Paranoid About Journalists https://rsf.org/en/news/2016-world-press-freedom-index-leaders-paranoid-about-journalists
Royal United Services
Institute (RUSI)
·
Targeting Security
Threats Using Financial Intelligence: The US Experience in Public–Private
Information Sharing since 9/11 https://rusi.org/publication/occasional-papers/targeting-security-threats-using-financial-intelligence-us-experience
S. Rajaratnam School of
International Studies
·
New Global
Economic Architecture: An Asian Perspective http://www.rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publication/cms/new-global-economic-architecture-an-asian-perspective/
Security Scorecard
·
2016 U.S.
Government Cybersecurity Research Report http://info.securityscorecard.com/2016-us-government-cybersecurity-report
Small Wars Journal
·
The Case for James
N. Mattis for President http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44008
·
A Critique of the
Obama Administration’s Approach to Counterterrorism, as Outlined in the 2015
National Security Strategy http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44335
·
Hacking for Defense:
Week 2 http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44099
·
History of
Regionalism and Tribalism in the Current Political Struggle for Libya: Key
Reflections and Recommendations http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44174
·
On ISIS: The
Reality of the 21st Century Battlefield http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44005
·
Time to Bring
Counterinsurgency to Molenbeek http://smallwarsjournal.com/printpdf/44261
Transatlantic Academy
·
Why Russia’s
Economic Leverage is Declining http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/publications/why-russia%E2%80%99s-economic-leverage-declining
Transnational Institute
·
7th GIZ/TNI Asian Informal
Drug Policy Dialogue https://www.tni.org/en/publication/7th-giztni-asian-informal-drug-policy-dialogue
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Cannabis
Regulation and the UN Treaties https://www.tni.org/en/publication/cannabis-regulation-and-the-un-treaties
·
Land Politics,
Agrarian Movements and Scholar-activism https://www.tni.org/en/publication/land-politics-agrarian-movements-and-scholar-activism
Transparency
International
·
The Benefits of
Anti-Corruption and Corporate Transparency http://files.transparency.org/content/download/1977/12920/file/2016_WP1_CorporateTransparency_EN.pdf
UK Parliament
·
Shifting the
Goalposts? Defence Expenditure and the 2% Pledge http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmselect/cmdfence/494/49402.htm
UN Assistance Mission in
Afghanistan (UNAMA)
·
Assessment of
Afghanistan Prison Health Services http://unama.unmissions.org/afghanistan%E2%80%99s-prison-health-services-improving-face-challenges-new-un-report-indicates
·
Key Trends and
Incidents affecting Children's Access to Healthcare and Education in
Afghanistan https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/education_and_healthcare_at_risk.pdf
Washington Institute for
Near East Policy
·
Hamas Is Testing
Israel Once Again http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hamas-is-testing-israel-once-again
·
Hezbollah's
Transnational Organized Crime http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/hezbollahs-transnational-organized-crime
·
Israel and Turkey
Approaching Reconciliation Amid Policy Challenges http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/israel-and-turkey-approaching-reconciliation-amid-policy-challenges
·
Limiting
Incursions in Area A: The Next Step for Israeli-Palestinian Security
Coordination http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/limiting-incursions-in-area-a-the-next-step-for-israeli-palestinian-securit
·
Mixed Messages:
Abbas and Palestinians on Israel, 2014-16 http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/mixed-messages-abbas-and-palestinians-on-israel
·
The U.S. Role in
Addressing New Threats to Israel: Progress and Pitfalls http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/the-u.s.-role-in-addressing-new-threats-to-israel-progress-and-pitfalls
White House
·
American
Leadership in the World https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/achievements/whitehouse_the_record_foreign_policy_03062016.pdf
·
Federal
Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan; Ensuring Prosperity and
National Security https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/2016_Federal_Cybersecurity_Research_and_Development_Stratgeic_Plan.pdf
