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- Brown, Katherine A. and others.
Public Diplomacy and National Security in 2017: Building Alliances, Fighting Extremism, and Dispelling Disinformation. 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 17, 2017. 17 pages.
"This paper attempts to capture the lessons that the U.S. government and PD experts have learned over the past eight years in applying PD tools in order to chart an effective course for the incoming administration." (From the CSIS)
- Chanlett-Avery, Emma and others.
North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, January 15, 32 pages.
“Although the primary focus of U.S. policy toward North Korea is the nuclear weapons program, there are a host of other contentious issues, including Pyongyang’s missile programs, conventional military forces, illicit activities, and abysmal human rights record.” (From CRS report)
- Mazarr, Michael J.
The Once and Future Order: What Comes After Hegemony?
Foreign Affairs, January/February 2017 Issue, 8 pages
“Few foreign policy issues have attracted more attention in recent years than the problem of sustaining the U.S.-led liberal international order. After World War II, the United States sponsored a set of institutions, rules, and norms designed to avoid repeating the mistakes of the 1930s and promote peace, prosperity, and democracy. The resulting system has served as the bedrock of U.S. national security strategy ever since. In everything from arms control to peacekeeping to trade to human rights, marrying U.S. power and international norms and institutions has achieved significant results. Washington continues to put maintaining the international order at the center of the United States' global role.” (From Foreign Affairs)
- Theohary, Catherine A.
Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2008-2015.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, December 19, 2016, 72 pages.
"This report provides Congress with official, unclassified, quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries for the preceding eight calendar years for use in its policy oversight functions. All agreement and delivery data in this report for the United States are government-to-government Foreign Military Sales (FMS) transactions. Similar data are provided on worldwide conventional arms transfers by all government suppliers, but the principal focus is the level of arms transfers by major weapons supplying governments to nations in the developing world. (From CRS report)
- Brock, Williams R. and Ian F. Fergusson.
The United States Withdraws from the TPP.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Research Service, February 3, 2017, 2 pages.
“Because the TPP had not taken effect, U.S. withdrawal does not immediately affect U.S. tariffs or other trade commitments. The United States also has existing FTAs with six of the TPP countries (Australia, Canada, Chile,Mexico, Peru, and Singapore), which this announcement does not affect. However, the withdrawal represents a shift in U.S. trade policy, with implications for U.S. trade relations with the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. In particular, it is the Administration's first step in its stated movement from multi-party to bilateral FTA negotiations.” (From CRS report)
- Freund, Caroline and Dario Sidhu.
Global Competition and the Rise of China.
Peterson Institute For International Economics, February 2017, 33 pages.
“This paper examines how global industrial concentration has changed over the last decade in relation to the rise of China. Between 2006 and 2014, global concentration has declined in most industries and is falling on average across all industries, while firms at the top of the distribution are experiencing significant churning. The resulting enhanced industrial competition is partly attributable to the rising market shares of firms from China and other emerging markets at the expense of incumbent industry leaders. “ (From Peterson Institute For International Economics)
- Nager, Adams.
Trade vs. Productivity: What Caused U.S. Manufacturing’s Decline and How to Revive It.
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, February 13, 2017, 27 pages.
“This report parses the data and concludes that U.S. policymakers should aim to close the country’s trade deficit in manufactured goods by fighting foreign mercantilism and pursuing a national competitiveness agenda that hinges in part on boosting manufacturing productivity rates. The report finds that successfully closing the manufacturing goods trade deficit this way would create 1.3 million jobs.” (From Information Technology & Innovation Foundation)
- Newman, Katherine S. and Hella Winston.
Make America Make Again: Training Workers for the New Economy.
Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2017, 7 pages.
“Building a real system of technical education will restore Americans’ belief in the dignity of blue-collar labor and give young people in the United States the same opportunities their counterparts abroad enjoy.” (From Foreign Affairs)
- Robert D. Atkinson.
Testimony Before U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Chinese Foreign Direct Investment.
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, January 26, 2017, 25 pages.
“To thwart harmful Chinese investment in the United States without foregoing the benefits of investments that contribute to the U.S. economy, Atkinson offers five policy recommendations: Reform the investment review process, including CFIUS; Insist on mutual access and treatment; Develop stronger analytic competence within federal government; Rethink antitrust policy to consider foreign innovation mercantilism; and Work with U.S. allies to coordinate measures to constrain mercantilist-inspired Chinese FDI.” (From Information Technology & Innovation Foundation)
- Geiger, Abigail and John Gramlich.
The Changing Face of Congress in 5 Charts.
Pew Research Center, February 2, 2017, 5 pages.
“The 115th Congress took office in January and set to work on an agenda that includes confirming President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, addressing illegal immigration and repealing and replacing the 2010 health care law signed by Barack Obama. Republicans now control both chambers of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2007, when George W. Bush was president. Apart from its political makeup and policy objectives, the new Congress differs from prior ones in other ways, including its demographics. Here are five charts that show how Congress has changed over the long term, using historical data from CQ Roll Call, the Brookings Institution, the Congressional Research Service and other sources.” (From Pew Research Center)
- The World Facing Trump: Public Sees ISIS, Cyberattacks, North Korea as Top Threats.
Pew Research Center, January 12, 2017, 27 pages.
“When he takes office next week, President-elect Donald Trump will inherit an array of global threats in the view of the public. About eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say ISIS poses a major threat to the well-being of the United States, and 71% say the same about cyberattacks from other countries.” (From Pew Research Center)
- Davis, Lynn E. and Others.
A Strategy to Counter ISIL as a Transregional Threat.
Rand, January 31, 2017, 24 pages.
“Our strategy seeks to broaden the focus to policies beyond the military dimension. Even though U.S. leverage is limited to affect the political situations in Iraq and Syria, the United States should focus on removing the underlying conditions sustaining ISIL and other violent jihadist groups, i.e., the lack of security, justice, and political representation. In addition, the United States needs to re-evaluate how to balance the aims of the counter-ISIL campaign with future territorial and political ambitions of the Kurds, given the risk of violence between Shia and Kurds in Iraq and Turkey and the YPG in Syria. In the absence of commitments on the part of the Kurds to limit their territorial ambitions, and to avoid fueling conflict across the region, the United States should be cautious in the ways it supports the YPG and peshmerga in its counter-ISIL military campaign.” (From Rand)
- Felter, Claire and James McBride.
How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work?
Council on Foreign Relations, February 6, 2017, 7 pages.
“The United States has long accepted refugees fleeing persecution or war. From taking in hundreds of thousands of Europeans displaced by World War II to welcoming those escaping from Communist regimes in Europe and Asia during the Cold War, the United States has helped define protections for refugees under international humanitarian law. Beginning in 1980, the U.S. government moved from an ad hoc approach to the permanent, standardized system for identifying, vetting, and resettling prospective refugees that is still in use today.” (From Council on Foreign Relations)
- Olmstead, Kenneth and Aaron Smith.
Americans and Cybersecurity.
Pew Research Center, January 26, 2017, 43 pages.
“Many Americans do not trust modern institutions to protect their personal data – even as they frequently neglect cybersecurity best practices in their own personal lives” (From Pew Research Center)
- Greenwald, Michelle.
How Taiwan is Reinventing its National Culture From Manufacturing Efficiency to Innovation And IP.
Forbes, February 7, 2017, 12 pages.
“Taiwan smartly communicated its increasingly nimble culture both to the world and its own population, through its Taiwan Design City 2016 slogan, Adaptive City – Design in Motion. Transforming from a capital intensive, low cost manufacturing economy, to one that is IP intensive, innovative, and less reliant on capital investment, is not easy. What Taiwan could use more of, which they have started to do, is marketing to communicate globally their great design, in addition to their great technology.” (From Forbes)
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