Monday, January 30, 2012

Friday's Miscellany 01-27-2012

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
·         Yemen Crisis Situation Report [latest update] 

Army War College Library
·         Energy Security Bibliography 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Atlantic Council

Australian Government

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Berghof Conflict Research

Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

Brookings
·         The Euro Crisis 
·         Prospects for Democracy in Egypt 

Center for American Progress (CAP)

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)
·         CIP Report, January 2012, v. 10, no. 7, Alternative Energy 

Center for Naval Analyses

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
·         All Roads to Myanmar 
·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) - No. 50, 25 January 2012 
·         Polio Eradication in India 

Centre for International Governance Innovation

Chatham House
·         Al Jazeera and the Arab Spring [speech by Wadah Khanfar] 

College of Europe

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
·         Hearings 
·         Examining Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Vietnam (January 24, 2012)

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
·         The Arab League 
·         Targeted Killings 

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

Department of Defense (DOD)
·         Defense Budget Factsheet 
·         Transcript  

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
·         DODIG-2012-040 Independent Auditor's Report on the Attestation of the Existence, Completeness, and Rights of the Department of the Navy's Ships and Submarines, Trident Missiles, and Satellites  
·         DODIG-2012-041 Evaluation of DoD Contracts Regarding Combating Trafficking in Persons: U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command, January 17, 2012 
·         DODIG-2012-042 Naval Air Systems Command Lakehurst Contracts Awarded Without Competition Were Properly Justified 
·         DODIG-2012-043 Army Needs to Identify Government Purchase Card High-Risk Transactions 

Department of State

East West Center

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
·         Turkmenistan Country Analysis Brief    

EU Institute for Security Studies

European Interagency Security Forum

European Policy Centre
·         Towards an Eco-Efficient Europe 

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Foreign Policy
·         Mexican Standoff 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
·         End of the Win-Win World 

FRIDE

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Arleigh Burke Destroyers: Additional Analysis and Oversight Required to Support the Navy's Future Surface Combatant Plans, GAO-12-113 
·         Arlington National Cemetery:  Actions Taken and Steps Remaining to Address Contracting and Management Challenges GAO-12-374T [testimony] 
·         Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Risk Assessments:  DHS Should Establish More Specific Guidance for Their Use, GAO-12-272 
·         Defense Health:  Coordinating Authority Needed for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Activities, GAO-12-154 
·         Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Strategic Planning Needed To Better Manage Overlapping Programs Across Multiple Agencies, GAO-12-108 
·         Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Survey of Federal Programs, GAO-12-110SP,  (an E-supplement to GAO-12-108)  

Government of Pakistan

Heritage Foundation

Hoover Institute

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)

Human Rights Watch
·         World Report 2012 

Institute for National Strategic Studies

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

Institute for Understanding War

International Crisis Group

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
·         Bank Capital Adequacy in Australia 

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

Jamestown Foundation
·         Terrorism Monitor, January 26, 2012, v. 10, no. 2 
o    The Uludere Air Raid and Systemic Gaps in Turkey’s Intelligence Infrastructure
o    Why the Arab Spring Passed by Contested Kirkuk
o    The Indigenization of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

Moshe Dayan Center
·         Egypt: The “Stolen” Revolution 

National Defense University (NDU)

National Priorities Project

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

North American Forum

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism
·         Social Media Win a Big One in Washington [Online Piracy Legislation]  

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
·         Pew Research Center Database 

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

Rand

Small Wars Journal
·         Move the Af-Pak Hands Out of DoD 
·         Risk and Transition in Afghanistan 

Securing America's Future Energy

SETA (Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research)
·         Arab Spring, Tunisia and Turkey

Strategic Studies Institute

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)

UK Defense Committee

Urban Institute

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
·         Egypt’s Great Liberal Nope  

White House
·         2012 State of the Union    

World Public Opinion.org