Friday's Miscellany 12-23-2011

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)

·         Defense Acquisition Reform: Moving Toward an Efficient Acquisition System 

American Enterprise Institute

·         Yemen Crisis Situation Report [latest update] 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Channels of Interprovincial Consumption Risk Sharing in the People's Republic of China 

·         Leveraging Environment and Climate Change Initiatives for Corporate Excellence 

·         Mainstreaming the Adaptations and Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor due to Climate Change 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         U.S. Army North/Fifth Army: Building Relationships for a Secure Homeland 

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         The Exaggerated Threat of American Muslim "Homegrown" Terrorism 

·         Nuclear Policy Gridlock in Japan 

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Iran Update, no. 154 

Brookings

·         Interpreting the Arab Spring 

·         Iran and International Pressure: An Assessment of Multilateral Efforts to Impede Iran’s Nuclear Program 

·         Understanding the Iraq Crisis 

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Securing South Korea: A Strategic Alliance for the 21st Century 

Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         The Pakistan Aid Dilemma: Historical Efforts at Conditionality and Current Disputes Converge in the U.S. Congress 

·         U.S. Military Strategy Shifts Focus: New Approach Is More Sustainable than Occupations and Counterinsurgencies 

·         Why Durban Matters: International Climate Process Strengthened at South Africa Talks 

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         Cheap Labor as Cultural Exchange: The $100 Million Work Travel Industry 

·         Part One: The Globalization of the Summer Job 

·         Part Two: Young Americans 'Don't Know How the System Works' 

·         Part Three: SWT in Alaska: Fish Sliming as Cultural Exchange 

·         Part Four: A Cavalier Attitude': The State Department's Legacy of SWT Failure 

·         Epilogue: An open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)

·         CIP Report December 2011, Natural Disasters 

               

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         North Korea after Kim Chong-il - Leadership Dynamics and Potential Crisis Scenarios 

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Swiss Foreign Policy 2012: Challenges and Perspectives 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Challenges for Korean Unification Planning: Justice, Markets, Health, Refugees, and Civil-Military Transitions 

·         Cyber Events Since 2006 

·         Energy and Development Trends: The Role of Rapidly Emerging Countries 

·         Issues & Insights Vol. 11 - No. 14 - The Alliance Rebounds, But Expectations Remain a Problem: The Fourth US-Japan Strategic Dialogue 

·         Issues & Insights Vol. 11 - No. 13 - A Strong Alliance under Stress: The Third US-ROK Strategic Dialogue 

·         PacNet #70 - The Kim is Dead! Long Live the Kim? 

·         Operation Tomodachi in Miyagi Prefecture: Success and Homework 

·         The Real Outcome Competition in Iraq 

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center (CBRNIAC)

·         CBRNIAC Newsletter, 2011, v. 12, no. 4 

o    Advance by Lawrence Livermore Scientists Makes Possible Near-Instantaneous DNA Analysis

o    Building Trust through Verification:  NNSA’s Office of Nonproliferation and International Security Plays Key Role in the New START Treaty

o    Office of Science and Technology Policy, in Collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Commerce, Released the National Strategy for CBRN Standards

o    Hands-On Training Showcases CDP Mass Casualty Exercise

o    Eminent MRICD Scientists Retires After 41 Years of Service

o    A Site to See in the History of CBRN Defense:  Dugway Proving Ground, Utah

o    CBRNIAC Success Story:  Risk Communication Guide for Air Force Bioenvironmental Engineers

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Dispelling Myths and Misinformation About NDAA
·         NDAA - National Defense Authorization Act information 

Congress. Senate. Armed Forces Committee

·         Central Asia and the Transition in Afghanistan [Majority Staff report] 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Campaign 2012: The Candidates on Homeland Security 

·         Campaign 2012: The Candidates on North Korea 

·         Campaign 2012: The Candidates on U.S. Policy toward China 

·         Can Washington Fix Its Deficits? 

·         Eleven Foreign Policy Insights from 2011 

·         North Korea After Kim 

·         Weighing a European Fiscal Compact 

Department of Defense (DoD)

·         Department of Defense (DoD) Information Technology (IT) Enterprise Strategy and Roadmap 

Department of the Army

·         Army Weapon Systems 2012 

               

European Policy Centre

·         Achieving Sustainable Austerity 

·         Thinking Beyond a Fiscal Union 

Feinstein International Center

·         Addressing Integrated Coordination in Food Security Crises 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         From Burning Bodies To Burning Books: Egypt Is Becoming A "House Of Dust" 

·         Muslim Brotherhood Organizations In America: Goals, Ideologies, And Strategies 

·         The New Nexus Of Narcoterrorism: Hezbollah And Venezuela 

·         North Africa’s Democratic Prospects 

·         Risk, Military Ethics And Irregular Warfare 

·         Risk And Re-Org: Infrastructure Protection In The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, Executive Summary 

FRIDE

·         Challenges for European Foreign Policy in 2012. What Kind of Geo-Economic Europe? 

·         What Does 2012 Hold for the Arab-Israeli Conflict? 

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces

·         The Security Sector and Gender in West Africa: A Survey of Police, Defence, Justice and Penal Services in ECOWAS States 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Border Security:  Additional Steps Needed to Ensure That Officers Are Fully Trained, GAO-12-269 

·         Coast Guard:  Security Risk Model Meets DHS Criteria, but More Training Could Enhance its Use for Managing Programs and Operations, GAO-12-14 

·         DOD Financial Management:  Ongoing Challenges with Reconciling Navy and Marine Corps Fund Balance with Treasury, GAO-12-132 

·         International Climate Change Assessments:  Federal Agencies Should Improve Reporting and Oversight of U.S. Funding, GAO-12-43 

·         Port Security Grant Program:  Risk Model, Grant Management, and Effectiveness Measures Could Be Strengthened, GAO-12-47 

·         Strategic Sourcing: Office Supplies Pricing Study Had Limitations, but New Initiative Shows Potential for Savings, GAO-12-178 

Grenatec

·         Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure 2011 

Heritage Foundation

·         Online Piracy and SOPA: Beware of Unintended Consequences 

·         An Unacceptable Squeeze on Defense Modernization 

Infinity Journal

·         Infinity Journal, Winter 2011, v. 2, no. 1  [Registration is free]

o    Strategy, Resources and Reality

o    The Futile Decade: The U.S. Failure in Afghanistan and Its Lessons

o    Covert Operations and Policy

o    Is there a Future for Targeted Killings

o    Transforming Counterinsurgent Strategy: Using the Topography of Intelligence

o    Covert Operations and Strategy

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         India’s Lukewarm Response to Australia’s Quest for a Trilateral Dialogue 

·         Kim Jong-Il’s Death - A Prospect for Change or Instability?   

·         The Libyan Operation and Europe’s Role in Defence and Security 

International Crisis Group

·         Sri Lanka: Women’s Insecurity in the North and East 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Developments in Financial Supervision and the Use of Macroprudential Measures in Central America 

·         Do Loan-to-Value and Debt-to-Income Limits Work? Evidence from Korea 

·         The Impact of the Global Crisis on South-Eastern Europe 

·         The New Economics of Capital Controls Imposed for Prudential Reasons 

International Relations and Security Network

·         The ECB's High-Wire Act 

·         North Korea After Kim Jong Il 

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, December 21, 2011, v. 11, no. 23 

o    DPP’s Cross-Strait Policy Consistent with “Status Quo”

o    The Last Year of Hu’s Leadership: Hu’s to Blame?

o    China Assesses President Obama’s November 2011 Asia-Pacific Trip

o    Parsing China’s Policy Toward Iran

·         Terrorism Monitor, December 22, 2011, v. 9, no. 47 

o    Former Pakistan Army Chief Reveals Intelligence Bureau Harbored Bin Laden in Abbottabad

o    The Twitter War: A New Battleground for Kenya and al-Shabaab

o    “The Notion of Spring Does Not Exist in the Arab world”: Djibouti’s President Ismail Guelleh Wards off the Arab Spring

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Direction of North Korea Strategy after Kim Jong Il’s Death: Calmly Making Arrangements for the Future 

·         Nuclear Security 2012: Challenges of Proliferation and Implication for the Korean Peninsula 

·         US-China Relations and Korean Unification 

Mitre Corp - JASON

·         Impacts of Severe Space Weather on the Electric Grid 

National Committee on North Korea

·         An Overview of North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Program 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         Kim Jong Il’s Death Suggests Continuity Plus Opportunity to Engage 

·         Nothing Succeeds Like Succession: Chinese Language Perspectives on Kim Jong-Un’s Transition to Power 

·         The Party as the Kingmaker: The Death of Kim Jong Il and its Consequences for North Korea 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         North Korea's Uncertain Transition: Time for a Conciliatory Gesture? 

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

·         A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Christian Population 

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         Texting, Social Networking Popular Worldwide 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Credit Constraints And Productive Entrepreneurship In Africa 

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         The Aftermath of the 2011 Duma Elections: Moving to Russia 2.0 

·         CPLP and Equatorial Guinea: Chronicle of a Foretold Membership? 

·         Thailand Floods: Not Enough to Destroy the Government 

Rand

·         A Cyberworm that Knows No Boundaries 

Research Centre for East European Studies

·         Russian Analytical Digest Newsletter - Duma Elections 2011, 21 December 2011/No. 106 

Search for Common Ground

·         A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones 

Small Wars Journal

·         COIN- A Culture of Entitlement? 

·         FM 3-24 and Legitimacy: A Failure of Concept 

·         Increase Military Professionalism: Extend the Voluntary Retirement Age 

·         Towards a Counterterrorism Net Assessment 

Smart Global Health.org

·         Terra Nova: How to Achieve a Successful PEPFAR Transition in South Africa 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Organizational Change in the Russian Airborne Forces: The Lessons of the Georgian Conflict 

·         The United States and China in Power Transition

USAID and others

·         Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Stakeholders of Libya’s February 17 Revolution 

·         Traditional Dispute Resolution and Afghanistan’s Women 

US-Korea Institute at SAIS

·         Missile Negotiations with North Korea: A Strategy for the Future    

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots against the West 

·         Bashar Assad in the Balance  

·         Breaking Assad's Hold on Russia 

·         Challenges Facing the Libyan Government 

·         Death of a Proliferator: North Korea in Transition

·         Egypt's Growing Economic Crisis 

·         Iraq's Political Crisis: Challenges for U.S. Policy 

·         Israel Is Wide Awake as Decision Time Approaches on Nuclear Iran 

·         Minding the Gaps: Territorial Issues in Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking 

·         Portuguese Lessons for Turkey's Role in the Arab Spring

·         Recent Natural Gas Discovery off Cyprus Tests Diplomacy

·         The Rocket Campaign against Southern Israel: Challenge and Response 

·         Spring Break: How Egypt's Liberals Lost Control of Their Revolution

·         Why Syria's Regime Is Doomed 

White House

·         Fact Sheet on the Successful Conclusion of the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention