greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 06-03-2011

o Religious Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights in Asia: Status of Implementation of the Tibetan Policy Act, Block Burmese JADE Act, and North Korean Human Rights Act [June 2]

o European and Eurasian Energy: Developing Capabilities for Security and Prosperity [June 2]

o Preserving Progress: Transitioning Authority and Implementing the Strategic Framework in Iraq, Part 1 [June 1]

o Global Perspectives on Autism—A Growing Public Health Crisis [May 31]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

· Authorizing the Transportation Security Administration for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013

· Denying Safe Havens: Homeland Security’s Efforts to Counter Threats from Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia

· The DHS Intelligence Enterprise- Past, Present, and Future

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

· Making The Gulf Coast Whole Again: Assessing The Recovery Efforts Of BP And The Obama Administration

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

· TSA Ignores More cost-Effective Screening Model

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

· U.S. Strategic Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

· A Description of the Immigrant Population: An Update

· The Value of 30-Year Defense Procurement Plans for Congressional Oversight and Decisionmaking

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

· Closing Guantanamo?

· Justice Beyond The Hague: Supporting the Prosecution of International Crimes in National Courts

· The North Korea Food Aid Dilemma

· Why the U.S. Recovery Is Lagging

Department of Defense (DOD)

· American Enterprise Institute (Defense Spending) [Sec Gates speech]

· FY 2010 DoD Statistical Report on the Military Retirement System

· Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) Guidance 2011

· United States Naval Academy Commencement [Sec Gates]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

· D-2011-066 Incomplete Contract Files for Southwest Asia Task Orders on the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support Contract, June 1, 2011

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

· OIG-11-81 Supervision of Aliens Commensurate with Risk

Department of State

· Department of State Planning for the Transition to a Civilian-led Mission in Iraq

· Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Country Database, May 2011

Department of the Navy (DoN)

· OPNAV Instruction 1300.17B Assignment of Women in the Navy

East-West Center

· US-India: Parallel Links along China's Southern Periphery

European Interagency Security Forum (EISF)

· Risk Management in Depth

Foreign Policy

· The Hawks of South Asia

· The Lost Villages [Spring in Afghanistan]

· Pakistan's Black Pearl

· Think Again: Bob Gates

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

· Cyber Security: The Road Ahead

· Decision Making in Policing: Operations and Management

· The Privatisation of Security in Failing States: A Quantitative Assessment

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

· Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Commission on Drug Policy

· War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Government Accounting Office (GAO)

· Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Should Improve Its Reporting on Terrorist Safe Havens, GAO-11-561

· Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Strategy and Efforts to Deny Terrorists Safe Haven, GAO-11-713T [testimony]

· Defense Health Care: Access to Civilian Providers under TRICARE Standard and Extra, GAO-11-500

· Defense Health Care: DOD Lacks Assurance That Selected Reserve Members Are Informed about TRICARE Reserve Select, GAO-11-551

· Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Actions Are Needed to Increase Integration and Efficiencies of DOD's ISR Enterprise, GAO-11-465

· Managing Critical Isotopes: Weaknesses in DOE's Management of Helium-3 Delayed the Federal Response to a Critical Supply Shortage, GAO-11-472

· Nuclear Waste: Disposal Challenges and Lessons Learned from Yucca Mountain, GAO-11-731T [testimony]

· Oil and Gas: Interior's Restructuring Challenges in the Aftermath of the Gulf Oil Spill, GAO-11-734T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation

· American Energy Freedom: The Basis For Economic Recovery

· Defense Planning for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the Twentieth

· In Bed with Radical Feminists: The U.N.’s Misguided Women’s Agenda

· Lessons of WikiLeaks: The US Needs a Counterinsurgency Strategy for Cyberspace

· Libya: How Congress Should Speak to the White House

· Looming Budget Cuts at the DHS Office of Policy

· Time for U.S. Leadership at the Organization of American States

Hudson Institute

· America and the Canadian Presence

Human Rights Watch

· Global State of Pain Treatment: Access to Medicines and Palliative Care

· Just Compromised: The Legacy of Rwanda’s Community-Based Gacaca Courts

· “We’ve Never Seen Such Horror”: Crimes against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces

IAGS

· Journal of Energy Security, May 2011

o Separating Myth from Reality: A Closer Look at the Energy Efficiency Panacea

o Nuclear Energy in Asia: A Post-Fukushima Perspective

o Arctic Energy: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation in the High North?

o The Prospects and the Perils of Beaufort Sea Oil: How Canada is Dealing with Its High North

o Energy Security and the Spectrum of Engagement Between China and India in the Indian Ocean

o Turning Off the Egyptian Gas Spigot: Implications for Israel

o Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs

The Independent Institute

· What Price War? Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Costs of Conflict

Institute for War & Peace Reporting

· Oiling Wheels in Afghanistan

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· Assessing China-North Korea Relations in the Wake of Kim’s China

Institute of Land Warfare (ILW)

· The 2011 National Military Strategy: Resetting a Strong Foundation

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

· The Iranian Power Struggle and its Implications for the Nuclear Crisis

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)

· International Law and the Post-2008 Status Quo in Georgia: Implications for Western Policies

· Japanese-Korean Relations: A Failure Of Tsunami Diplomacy

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

· Reintegrating Ex-Combatants in the Great Lakes Region, Lessons Learned

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

· Islamic Schools of the United States: Data-based Profiles

· Pakistan 2020: A Vision for Building a Better Future

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

· A Dangerous Mix: Militant Groups in North Waziristan

Inter-American Dialogue

· Energy Challenges in the Americas

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

· Pakistan: Returns Continue in Some Areas but Comprehensive IDP Policy Needed

International Crisis Group

· Learning to Walk without a Crutch: the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

· Eurasia Security Seminar- Prospects for NATO-Russia Cooperation on Missile Defence

· India's Role in Afghanistan

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· Inflation Dynamics and the Great Recession

· Information Rigidity in Growth Forecasts: Some Cross-Country Evidence

· Measuring Fiscal Decentralization - Exploring the IMF’s Databases

· Precautionary Savings and Global Imbalances in World General Equilibrium

International Relations and Security

· Bringing Closure to a Disruptive Decade

· Conflict and Cooperation in a Post-Nuclear World

· Cyberwar: A More Realistic Threat Assessment

· Engaging Iran: First, Break the Rules

· Facing the New Islamist Challenge

· Managing China’s Rapid Rise

Internet World Stats

· 2011 First Quarter Internet World Stats

Iran Watch

· Iran's Nuclear Timetable

· Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators

Jamestown Foundation

· China Brief, June 3, 2011, v. 11, no. 10

o Chinese Citizens Challenge the Party’s Authoritarian Tilt

o China's Adaptive Approach to the Information Counter-Revolution

o The Leadership of the PLAAF after 2012

o PLA Developing Joint Operations Capability (Part Two): Military Training Coordination Zones

· Terrorism Monitor, June 2, 2011, v. 9, no. 22

o Salafists, Copts and Sectarianism in Egypt after the Revolution

o India Pressures Pakistan on Other Terrorist Fugitives after Bin Laden's Death

o Unrest in Syria Inspires New Wave of Kurdish Activism

Lowy Institute

· Global Fiscal Consolidation

· India’s New World: Civil Society in the Making of Foreign Policy

· Policy Overboard: Australia’s Increasingly Costly Fiji Drift

National Academies Press

· National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces

NATO Defense College

· NATO's Nuclear Posture Review: Nuclear Sharing Instead of Nuclear Stationing

NATO Parliamentary Assembly

· 078 DSC 11 E - Transition in Afghanistan: Assessing the Security Effort

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

· Between Centrifugal and Centripetal World Forces: Extra-Territoriality of Resolution 1540 and Southern Perspectives

· Japan's Nuclear Crisis Sparks Concerns over Nuclear Power in China

Nordic Africa Institute

· Zangbeto: Navigating Between the Spaces of Oral Art, Communal Security and Conflict Mediation in Badagry, Nigeria

Oxford Research Group - Every Casualty

· The Drone Wars and Pakistan's Conflict Casualties, 2010

Pakistan Forum

· Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2011)

o On Improving Social Sciences Education in Pakistan

o Pakistan’s Relations with the United States During Ayub Khan’s Period Deliberative Oratory in the Darkest Hour: Style Analysis of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s Speech at the Security Council

o Crises and Reconciliation in Swat

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

· Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates, May 2011

· Revitalizing the Export-Import Bank

Pew Global Attitudes Project

· Japanese Resilient, but See Economic Challenges Ahead

Pew Internet

· 13% of Online Adults Use Twitter

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

· Portugal and Venezuela: Continuity in Times of Change? [IPRIS Viewpoints 60]

Project 2049 Institute

· Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army, and the Struggle with Nature