Friday's Miscellany 02-24-2012

Amnesty International

·         Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan 

·         Guatemala—Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee 

·         Militias Threaten Hopes for New Libya 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Lessons of the European Crisis for Regional Monetary and Financial Integration in East Asia 

·         Regional and Global Monetary Cooperation 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Applying Natural System Metaphors to the Force Modernization Process 

·         Breaking the Faith 

Atlantic Council

·         Beyond Attribution: Seeking National Responsibility in Cyberspace 

Australian Defence College

·         Australian Defence Force Journal, November/December 2011, no. 186 

o    You Can’t Ride a Concept to the Beach: The Gaps in Australia’s Envisaged Amphibious Capability

o    What’s Next in the Indian Ocean?

o    Air Power’s Contribution to Coercion

o    Military Retention Bonuses: Fact and Fiction

o    Human Systems Integration in Defence and Civilian Industries

o    Air Power and ISR: the RAAF Approach

o    ‘Sense and Respond’ and ‘Autonomic’ Logistics: A Review of US and UK Developments

o    ‘From Black to Black’: A Reform Veteran’s Perspective of the Black Review

o    The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Stopping Iran—Still Too Much Noise and Too Little Action 

Brookings Institute

·         Addressing the Budget Deficit: The Next President Must Solve the U.S. Deficit Crisis 

·         Cybersecurity and U.S.-China Relations 

·         How We’re Doing Amid Policy Gridlock 

·         Lessons from Colombia for Mexico? Caveat Emptor 

·         Meet the Press at Brookings: Why the World Needs America 

·         Scaling Up Development Interventions—A Review of UNDP’s Country Program in Tajikistan 

·         Why Does Manufacturing Matter? Which Manufacturing Matters? 

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Asia-Pacific—Let’s Get Back in the Ring
   

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Egypt’s Judges in a Revolutionary Age 

·         Understanding China’s Rising Coal Imports 

Center for a New American Security

·         Pressure Not War—A Pragmatic and Principled Policy Towards Syria 

Center for American Progress

·         Time for the Oil Reserves? President Obama Should Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Lower Gasoline Prices 

Center for Court Innovation

·         Law Enforcement and Public Health: Sharing Resources and Strategies to Make Communities Safer 

Center for Global Development

·         Credit at Times of Stress: Latin American Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis 

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

·         Homeland Security Affairs (HSA) Journal, 2012, v. 3 

o    The All Needs Approach to Emergency Response

o    The Next Meltdown? Responding to a Nuclear Accident in the Developing World

o    Dispensing Mass Prophylaxis - The Search for the Perfect Solution

o    Pandemic Vaccine Policy for the Twenty-first Century

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         REAL ID Implementation Annual Report 

Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)

·         An Explosion of News: The State of Media in Afghanistan

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         A Free North Korea 

·         India and the New U.S. Defense Strategy 

·         Iran and the Gulf Military Balance I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions 

·         Iran and the Gulf Military Balance II: The Missile and Nuclear Dimensions 

·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) - No. 52, 17 February 2012 

·         PacNet #12 - Xi Visit Underscores Rising Mutual Expectations 

·         PacNet #12A - Washington and Beijing Need Straight Talk on Containment 

·         South Manchuria Railway Company as an Intelligence Organization 

·         Toward More Efficient Protection: The DHS FY 2013 National Preparedness Grant Program 

·         US Government Engagement with the Private Sector on International Development 

Center for the Study of Intelligence

·         50 Years in Langley: Recollections of the Construction of CIA's Original Headquarters Building 

·         Archangel: CIA's Supersonic A-12 Reconnaissance Aircraft 

·         FOIA Annual Report to Congress 

·         Studies in Intelligence, December 2011, v. 55, no. 4 

o    Capturing the Potential of Outlier Ideas in the Intelligence Community

o    OSS and Free Thai Operations in World War II

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies

·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Summer 2011, v. 13, no. 4 

o    Development of Operational Thinking in the German Army in the World War Era

o    “Military Doomsday Machine”? The Decisions for War 1914

o    Politics by Other Means: Canadian "Strategy" and the Italian Campaign, 1943

o    “Let Them Make SOUP:” The Essential Ingredients of Euro-American Grand Strategy and the Amerindian Conquest

o    The Evolution of Strategic Thinking in World War I: A Case Study of the Second Battle of the Marne

o    Strategy "In a Microcosm": Processes of Tactical Learning in a WWI German Infantry Division

o    Grand Strategy, Culture, and Strategic Choice: A Review

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)

·         America's Military: A Profession of Arms
   

Chatham House

·         Angola’s External Relations in Africa (transcript)    

·         Breaking the Cycle of Continued Impunity for War-time Abuses in Sri Lanka 

·         British Government Consultation with the UK-based Somali Diaspora 

·         Pakistan in a Changing Regional and Global Environment 

·         Senegal’s Elections—Towards Dictatorship or Consolidating Democracy? 

CNA

·         Criminal Organizations and Illicit Trafficking in Guatemala’s Border Communities 

Col. Arthur D. Simons Center

·         Interagency Journal, Winter 2012, v. 3, no. 1 

o    The Need for Interagency Reform: Congressional Perspective and Efforts

o    Implementing the QDDR

o    “Uribismo”: How Colombia Tamed Fifty Years of Violence

o    Navigating Civil-Military Relations in Kabul

o    Departments of State and Defense Relations: Are Perceptions Important?

o    Achieving Unity of Effort

Committee to Protect Journalists

·         Attacks on the Press 2011: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists 

Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)

·         The Economic Benefits of New Spectrum for Wireless Broadband 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Iran Diplomacy Puzzle 

·         Rescue or Risk for Greece? 

·         Securing U.S. Cyberspace 

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         What Does Religion Have to Do with Violence? (DIIS Religion and Violence papers)

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Directive 6490.02E, Comprehensive Health Surveillance, February 8, 2012 

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

·         OIG-04-02 National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS) Access Control System 

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

·         2010 National Vaccine Plan 

Department of State

·         Arms Control in the Information Age: The "Getting to Zero" Toolbox 

·         Briefing on Bilateral Meeting with Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Khar of Pakistan 

·         Keynote Address at Global Business Conference [Sec Clinton] 

·         Promoting U.S. Economic Engagement with Asia 

·         Remarks at the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) 2012 Substantive Session 

·         Qu'ran Desecration in Afghanistan 

Department of the Army

·         2012 Army Posture Statement 

Department of the Navy

·         SECNAV 4101.3 Department of the Navy Energy Program for Security and Independence roles and Responsibilities   

East-West Center

·         The Economic Consequences of Population Aging: Report on a Technical Policy Seminar 

·         India, Thailand and the Burma Connection 

Enough Project

·         Time Works Against Justice—Ending Impunity in Eastern Congo

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Humanitarian Crisis as a Fresh Justification for International Action in Syria 

Eurostat & Statistics Korea

·         European Union and the Republic of Korea—A Statistical Portrait 

·         Iran: A Revolutionary Republic in Transition

FAZD Center

·         Recommendations for Establishing Policies and Concepts of Operations for Use of Agricultural Screening Tools in a Disease Outbreak 

Foreign Policy

·         Being Strong: Why Russia Needs to Rebuild its Military 

·         How Hollywood Conquered the World (All Over Again) 

·         'The Juice Ain’t Worth the Squeeze': Lies, Damn Lies, and the War in Afghanistan 

·         The New Asian Tiger? Ten Things You Didn't Know About Vietnam's Rise 

·         Portraits of a Massacre Foretold [Syrian regime's assault on Homs] 

·         What Would John Adams Do About Iran? 

FRIDE

·         Regional Implications of NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan: What Role for the EU? 

·         Religion and Politics in Arab Transitions 

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

·         Protecting Migrants in Complex Crises 

George C. Marshall Institute

·         Do We Need a Code of Conduct for Space?: Considering Recent Developments in the Effort to Change Behavior in Space 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP's Quest for Legitimacy

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         The Dynamics of Transatlantic Negotiations in Services

·         Your Pain is Our Pain: The United States and the European Debt Crisis

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Afghanistan Security: Department of Defense Effort to Train Afghan Police Relies on Contractor Personnel to Fill Skill and Resource Gaps, GAO-12-293R 

·         Defense Management: Guidance and Progress Measures Are Needed to Realize Benefits from Changes in DOD's Joint Requirements Process, GAO-12-339 

·         The Department of Energy's Office of Science Uses a Multilayered Process for Prioritizing Research, GAO-12-410R 

·         Emergency Communications: Various Challenges Likely to Slow Implementation of a Public Safety Broadband Network, GAO-12-343 

·         National Preparedness:  Countermeasures for Thermal Burns, GAO-12-304R 

·         Warfighter Support:  DOD Needs Strategic Outcome-Related Goals and Visibility Over Its Counter-IED Efforts, GAO-12-280 

·         Whistleblower Protection:  Actions Needed to Improve DOD's Military Whistleblower Reprisal Program, GAO-12-362 

Henley Putnam University

·         Journal of Strategic Security, Winter 2011, v. 4, no. 4

o    Rethinking Radicalization

o    Radicalization into Violent Extremism I: A Review of Social Science Theories

o    Radicalization into Violent Extremism II: A Review of Conceptual Models and Empirical Research

o    Disarming Youth Combatants: Mitigating Youth Radicalization and Violent Extremism

o    Radical Islamism and Migrant Integration in Denmark: An Empirical Inquiry

o    Radicalism within the Context of Social Movements: Processes and Types

o    Four Lessons from the Study of Fundamentalism and Psychology of Religion

o    Gangs, Terrorism, and Radicalization

o    Radicalization and the Use of Social Media

Heritage Foundation

·         High Gas Prices: Obama's Half-Truths vs. Reality 

·         Homeland Security: The Latest Research and Analysis 

·         Interposition and the Heresy of Nullification: James Madison and the Exercise of Sovereign Constitutional Powers 

·         Shrinking America's Global Reach: U.S. Military Bases in Europe Remain Vital 

·         Syrian WMD: Counter-proliferation Contingency Planning Needed 

·         Tax Extenders and the AMT Patch—Time to Pull the Plug on Congress’s Annual Dance 

·         The U.K. Governing Coalition: The Challenges Ahead and Why America Has a Stake in Britain’s Success 

·         U.S. Must Stand Its Ground on the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty 

·         White House Takes Wrong Step with Immigration Enforcement 

Human Rights Watch

·         No Place for Children: Child Recruitment, Forced Marriage, and Attacks on Schools in Somalia 

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         As Pakistan observes Kashmir Solidarity Day… 

·         The Rafale : An Opportunity Towards Indigenous Aircraft Design And Manufacture 

·         Sticky Bomb Creates A Sticky Situation For India 

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran 

·         ISIS Analysis of IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Production of 20% Enriched Uranium Triples; Iran Increases Number of Enriching Centrifuges at Natanz FEP by Nearly 50% and Signals an Intention to Greatly Expand the Number of Centrifuges at Both Natanz and Fordow; Advanced Centrifuge Program Appears Troubled

·         The Physics Research Center and Iran’s Parallel Military Nuclear Program

·         Appendix of PHRC telexes 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         International Law and the Self-Determination of South Sudan 

·         Kenya and the Pest of Piracy: A Prospective Partner for Peace 

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

·         Palestine, Israel, & the United States: Reframing the Dominant Narrative

·         Towards a Peaceful Democratic Transition in Syria 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq's Post-Withdrawal Crisis, Update 10 (February 18 to February 24, 2012) 

Inter-American Dialogue

·         Citizen Security in Latin America 

·         The New Banks in Town—Chinese Finance in Latin America 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

·         Fukushima Daiichi Status Report 

International Crisis Group

·         In Heavy Waters: Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey 

·         Somalia: An Opportunity that Should Not Be Missed 

·         Timor-Leste’s Elections: Leaving Behind a Violent Past? 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         The MTCR: Staying Relevant 25 Years On 

·         Streamlined US Military Looks Towards Asia 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Can Institutional Reform Reduce Job Destruction and Unemployment Duration? Yes It Can 

·         Coincident Indicators of Capital Flows 

·         India’s Growth Spillovers to South Asia 

·         An Integrated Framework for Financial Positions and Flows on a From-Whom-to-Whom Basis: Concepts, Status, and Prospects 

·         Revisiting the Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries 

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         UN Mediation and the Politics of Transition after Constitutional Crises 

International Relations and Security Network

·         China, Corporations and Internet Censorship 

·         From Dictatorship to Democracy 2.0 

·         The Iran Conflict Comes to the Caucasus 

·         Social Democracy and Europe's Crisis 

·         Wresting Power from the Few? 

·         Twitter: A Scientific Treasure Trove 

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

·         Twenty Years After Madrid: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward for Arab-Israeli Peacemaking 

·         Will the Greece bailout work?; Middle East policy recommendations

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, February 22, 2012, v. 12, no. 4 

o    China’s Persian Gulf Diplomacy Reflects Delicate Balancing Act

o    Civilian UAV Production as a Window to the PLA’s Unmanned Fleet

o    A Model Company: CETC Celebrates 10 Years of Civil-Military Integration

o    Mekong River Patrols in Full Swing but Challenges Remain

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         China’s Obligations under International Law to Protect North Korean Escapees 

·         The Gas Pipeline connecting South Korea, North Korea, and Russia: Effects, Points of Contention, and Tasks 

·         Implications of Iran’s Success in Developing Fourth-Generation Centrifuge Technology 

·         Kim Jong Il’s Birthday and the Kim Jong Eun Regime 

·         The Six-Party Talks and Inter-Korean Relations: Prospects and Strategies 

·         Study of the Status of North Korea´s Official Economy for Estimation of Unification Costs/Benefits 

Lowy Institute

·         China Could be Slowing Faster Than We Think 

MITRE Corp

·         An Analytic Environment for Systemic Risk: Risk Modeling Support for Financial Policy Makers 

·         Comparison of Data Classification Methods for Predictive Ranking of Banks Exposed to Risk of Failure 

·         Database as a Service: A Marketplace Assessment 

·         Enabling Data Analysis for Addressing Systemic Risk 

·         Face Recognition Performance: Role of Demographic Information 

·         Methodology for Assessing Tradeoffs Between Operational and Environmental Performance in the National Airspace System 

·         Software Assurance Findings Expression Schema (SAFES) Overview 

National Academies Press

·         Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax 

National Defense University (NDU)

·         Prism, March 2012, v. 3, no. 3 

o    No More Adhocracies: Reforming the Management of Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations

o    Lost in Translation: The Challenge of Exporting Models of Civil-Military Relations

o    Taking Stock: Interagency Integration in Stability Operations

o    After 2015: The Next Security Era for Britain

o    Libya: The Transition Clock

o    Hearts, Minds, and the Barrel of a Gun: The Taliban’s Shadow Government

o    CERP in Afghanistan: Refining Military Capabilities in Development Activities

o    The Expanded Nontraditional Role of the AFP: A Reassessment

o    Who Should Lead U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts?

o    The Civilian Uplift and Unified Action: Organizing for Stability Operations in Regional Command–East

o    Libya’s Operation Odyssey Dawn: Command and Control

o    An Interview with Donald Steinberg

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         The TAPI [Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India] Natural Gas Pipeline: Status & Source of Potential Delays 

NATO Defense College

·         NATO - India: Prospects of a Partnership  

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Iranian Nuclear Weapons: A Self-fulfilling Prophecy? 

·         Regional Courts and Prisons: Developing Local Capacity to Prosecute Somali Pirates 

·         Relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic 

Observer Research Foundation

·         Spatial Issues and Maoist Insurgency in India 

Oxford Research Group

·         Marginalisation of the Majority World: Drivers of Insecurity and the Global South 

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Need for Federal Mandate on Industrial Relation Laws 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Chinese Investment in Latin American Resources: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 

·         Using US Strategic Reserves to Moderate Potential Oil Price Increases from Sanctions on Iran 

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

·         Islam and Politics Dominate Religion Coverage in 2011 

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         Privacy Management on Social Media Sites 

·         A Snapshot of E-reader and Tablet Owners

President’s Council of Economic Advisers

·         2012 Economic Report of the President 

Rand

·         Analysis of Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections over the Past Two Decades 

·         Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections: Evidence and Options 

·         Government Accountability Office Bid Protests in Air Force Source Selections: Evidence and Options — Executive Summary 

·         Options for and Costs of Retaining C-17 Aircraft Production-Only Tooling 

Resolve

·         Peace Can Be—President Obama’s Chance to End LRA Atrocities in 2012 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Poland, NATO and Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         How Indonesia Sees ASEAN and the World: A Cursory Survey of the Social Studies and History textbooks of Indonesia, from Primary to Secondary Level 

·         The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations: Overview and Prospects 

Security & Defense Agenda

·         Improving Global Cyber-Governance 

·         Public-Private Cooperation in Cyber-Security 

Small Wars Journal

·         Co-Opting the Afghan Taleban 

·         The Quest for Legitimacy 

·         We Own the Night: The Role of Night Direct Action Missions in the Afghan Counterinsurgency Campaign, 2008-2011 

·         Why COIN Principles Don't Fly with Drones 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Maritime Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows 

·         Overseas Citizen Protection: A Growing Challenge for China 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Busting the Myths About the North Korea Problem 

·         Categorical Confusion? The Strategic Implications of Recognizing Challenges Either as Irregular or Traditional 

·         Once Again, the Challenge to the U.S. Army During a Defense Reduction: To Remain a Military Profession 

United Kingdom Defense Committee

·         Developing Threats—Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP) 

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

·         Stop Disasters! - A Disaster Simulation Game 

·         Towards a Palestinian Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction: Workshop Report 

·         Towards a Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Friendship Under Fire 

·         Indirect Intervention in Syria: Crafting an Effective Response to the Crisis

·         In War's Wake: The Struggle for Post-Qadhafi Libya 

·         Is Egypt's Government Malicious or Incompetent?

·         Is the Iranian Regime Rational? 

·         Libya's Floundering Transition 

White House

·         Fact Sheet: Plan to Protect Privacy in the Internet Age by Adopting a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights 

·         Fact Sheet: The United States and Denmark – NATO Allies and Global Partners 

·         Fact Sheets on American Energy 

·         We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration Unveils Blueprint for a “Privacy Bill of Rights” to Protect Consumers Online 

World Politics Review

·         Data vs. Borders: Information-Sharing in Transnational Security 

·         Why Crisis Footing With U.S. Serves Iran's Interests