Friday's Miscellany 03-23-2012

AEI Critical Threats Project

·         Iran News Round Up - March 23, 2012 

·         Insurgency in Yemen: The New Challenge to American Counter-Terrorism Strategy 

·         Pakistan Security Brief - March 23, 2012 

Afghanistan Analysts Network

·         The Bagram Memorandum: Handing over ‘the Other Guantanamo’

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         Gender and Economic Choice: What’s Old and What’s New for Women in Afghanistan? Results from a Rapid Qualitative Assessment in Kabul and Parwan Province

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)

·         Torture, Transfers, and Denial of Due Process: The Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghanistan 

American Physical Society (APS)

·         Energy Critical Elements—Securing Materials for Emerging Technologies 

Amnesty International

·         Libya—Forgotten Victims of NATO Strikes 

Arms Control Association

·         Nuclear Security Summit: Assessment of National Commitments  

Asian Development Bank

·         Addressing Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific  

Atlantic Council

·         Iran’s Internal Politics—The Supreme Leader Grows Ever Lonelier at the Top 

·         Transatlantic Nations and Global Security—Pivoting and Partnerships 

AUSA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Historical Lessons Applied to the Current Technical Revolution in Military Affairs 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Delivering the Goods: The ADF’s Future Battlefield Airlifter 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         India Defies Oil Sanctions on Iran 

Berghof Conflict Research

·         Norms and Premises of Peace Governance: Socio-Cultural Commonalities and Differences in Europe and India 

Berkman Center on Internet & Society

·         Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally-Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere 

·         Mapping Russian Twitter 

British American Security Information Council

·         Defense-Industrial Issues—Employment, Skills, Technology and Regional Impacts 

Brookings

·         The Future Course of the U.S.-Russia Relationship 

·         In the Wake of the Great Recession, Don’t Lose Sight of the Big Picture 

·         Prague Declaration on Governance and Anti-Corruption 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

·         Employment Situation of Veterans 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Kosovo and Serbia—Toward a Normal Relationship 

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

·         CIP Report, March 2012, v. 10, no. 9  - Critical Manufacturing Sector 

Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Progress on Securing Nuclear Weapons and Materials: the Four-Year Effort and Beyond 

Center for Security Policy

·         Faith Under Fire: The Global Threat to Religious Freedom [conference transcript and video] 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Dealing With the Growing Afghan and U.S. Tensions That Are Losing the War 

·         Hemisphere Insider: Volume II, Issue 3 - March 19, 2012 

·         Will Conflicts Over Water Scarcity Shape South Asia’s Future? 

Century Foundation

·         Ongoing Coverage of the Middle East 

Chatham House

·         Future of Globalization 

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, March 2012, v. 5, no. 3 

o    A Pre-Trial Profile of Anders Behring Breivik

o    The Rabbani Assassination: Taliban Strategy to Weaken National Unity?

o    Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya

o    U.S. Gang Alignment with Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations

o    The Emergence of the Difa-e-Pakistan Islamist Coalition

o    Attacking Drug Cartels Through Undercover Money Laundering Operations

o    Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS)

·         Security Categorization and Control Selection for National Security Systems 

Congress. House. Budget Committee

·         The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal

o    Report  

o    Facts and summary  

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Challenges to Doing Business with the Department of Defense: Findings of the Panel on Business Challenges in the Defense Industry 

·         Defense Health Program Budget Overview Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for Information Technology and Cyber Operations Program   

·         Hazing in the Military 

·         Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Tactical Aviation Program 

·         Navy Readiness Posture 

·         Recent Development in Afghanistan 

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Hearings

o    Halting the Decent: U.S. Policy Toward the deteriorating Situation in Iraq [March 21]

o    Russia 2012: Increased Repression, Rampant Corruption, Assisting Rogue Regimes [March 21]

o    The Fiscal Year 2013 Budget: A Review of U.S. Foreign Assistance Amidst Economic Uncertainty [March 20]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Building one DHS: Why is Employee Morale Low? 

·         Ensuring the Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Homeland Security Grants

·         The Implications of Refinery Closures for U.S. Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Safety

·         Iran, Hezbollah, and the Threat to the Homeland 

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Federal Regulations and Regulatory Reform under the Obama Administration

·         Secure Identification: The REAL ID Act’s Minimum Standards for Driver’s Licenses and Identification Cards

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Europe’s Sovereign Debt Crisis: Causes, Consequences for the United States and Lessons Learned 

·         FOIA in the 21^st Century Using Technology to Improve Transparency in Government 

·         New Audit Find Problems in Army Military Pay 

·         Report Card on Federal Government Efforts to Track and Manage FOIA Requests 

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Cybersecurity Research and Development in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program 

·         Department of the Air Force in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program 

·         Military Construction, Environmental, and Base Closure Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program 

·         Military Space Programs in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program 

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

·         The Homeland Security Department’s Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2013

·         Retooling Government for the 21^st Century: The President’s Reorganization Plan and Reducing Duplication 

·         New Audit Finds Problems in Army Military Pay 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         The Federal Budget Outlook and Aid to States 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Can China Change? 

·         Combating Maritime Piracy 

·         Ending the Afghan War 

·         How to Handle Oil Price Volatility 

·         The Seoul Nuclear Security Summit 

·         U.S. Education Reform and National Security 

Department of Defense Comptroller

·         National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2013 ("Green Book") 

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

·         OIG-12-50 - IT Matters Related to the ICE Component of the FY 2011 DHS Financial Statement Audit 

·         OIG_12-49 - IT Matters Related to the USCG Component of the FY 2011 DHS Financial Statement Audit 

·         OIG-12-48 - DHS’ Compliance with Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 (IPERA) 

Department of State

·         Current U.S. Foreign Policy Issues 

·         U.S. Water Partnership Fact Sheet 

Department of the Army

·         Army 2020 Generating Health & Discipline in the Force : Ahead of the Strategic Reset; Report 2012 

East-West Center

·         US Agricultural Exports to ASEAN Grow--But Face Competition 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         International Energy Statistics [updated] 

·         Sudan and South Sudan Country Analysis Brief 

Enough Project

·         What Could the Oil Shutdown Mean for South Sudan? 

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

·         Entrepreneurship and the Process of Development: A Framework for Applied Expeditionary Economics in Pakistan  

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Syria: Towards a Political Solution 

European Policy Centre

·         The Case for Renewing Transatlantic Capitalism 

·         The European Economic Area Revisited 

·         Opportunity Knocks: Can the EU Help Albania to Help Itself? 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, March 2012 

o    Protecting Cultural Heritage from Art Theft

o    Count Your Blessings [Leadership Spotlight]

o    Be a Lion [speech]

o    The Disease of Certainty

o    Training for Deadly Force Encounters

o    The Exigent Circumstances Exception After Kentucky v. King

Feinstein International Center

·         From Subjects to Citizens? Labor, Mobility & Social Transformation in Rural Nepal 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         ‘Hollow Leadership’: the Iranian Predicament 

·         “The Army of the Constitution”: the Military, American Values, and the Early Republic 

·         The Crisis in Yemen: al-Qaeda, Saleh, and Governmental Instability 

FRIDE

·         An Agenda for the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit 

·         How the EU Can Adopt a new Type of Democracy Support 

·         Revamping the G20 

·         The UK in the Middle East: Commercial Diplomacy to What End? 

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

·         Emerging Powers and Peacekeeping: An Unlikely Normative Clash 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Finding the Cases that Fit: Methodological Challenges in Peace Research 

German Institute for International and Security Affairs

·         Qatar and the Arab Spring  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training, GAO-12-537T [testimony] 

·         Defense Headquarters: Further Efforts to Examine Resource Needs and Improve Data Could Provide Additional Opportunities for Cost Savings, GAO-12-345 

·         Department of Homeland Security: Preliminary Observations on DHS's Effort to Improve Employee Morale, GAO-12-509T [testimony] 

·         DOD Financial Management: The Army Faces Significant Challenges in Achieving Audit Readiness for Its Military Pay,  GAO-12-406 

·         DOD Financial Management: The Army Faces Significant Challenges in Achieving Audit Readiness for Its Military Pay, GAO-12-501T [testimony] 

·         Electronic Waste:  Actions Needed to Provide Assurance That Used Federal Electronics Are Disposed of in an Environmentally Responsible Manner, GAO-12-74 

·         Government Efficiency and Effectiveness:  Opportunities for Improvement and Considerations for Restructuring,.  GAO-12-454T [testimony] 

·         Homeland Security: DHS Needs Better Project Information and Coordination among Four Overlapping Grant Programs, GAO-12-303 

·         IT Supply Chain: National Security-Related Agencies Need to Better Address Risks, GAO-12-361 

·         Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Added Resources and Reduced Risk, but Concurrency Is Still a Major Concern, GAO-12-525T [testimony] 

·         Managing Preparedness Grants and Assessing National Capabilities: Continuing Challenges Impede FEMA's Progress, GAO-12-526T [testimony]    

·         Pipeline Safety: Collecting Data and Sharing Information on Federally Unregulated Gathering Pipelines Could Help Enhance Safety, GAO-12-388 

·         Space Acquisitions:  DOD Faces Challenges in Fully Realizing Benefits of Satellite Acquisition Improvements, GAO-12-563T [testimony] 

Heritage Foundation

·         The 2013 Homeland Security Budget: Misplaced Priorities 

·         Boko Haram: Addressing the Threat Before It Strikes 

·         Department of Energy Budget Cuts: Time to End the Hidden Green Stimulus 

·         Federal Flight Deck Officer Program: First Line of Deterrence, Last Line of Defense 

·         Leveraging Technology to Support Free Access to Information in Cuba 

·         The Ryan Budget: Confronting the Nation’s Spending Crisis 

·         U.S. Needs Red Lines for Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations 

·         U.S.–Pakistan Reset: Still Need to Deal with Terrorist Sanctuaries 

·         U.S. Should Allow South Korea to Extend Its Missile Range 

Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI)

·         Hammami’s Plight Amidst Al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda’s Game of Thrones 

Human Rights Watch

·         The Island of Happiness Revisited: A Progress Report on Institutional Commitments to Address Abuses of Migrant Workers on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island 

·         “Untold Miseries”: Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State 

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Afghanistan: Bad Options, Worse Outcomes 

·         Boko Haram’s Persistent Threat In Nigeria 

·         Is China Edging Towards Political and Economic Uncertainty? 

·         Ghazi Force: Pakistan’s Nemesis Strikes Again 

·         India's Cyber Security Challenges 

·         India’s Iran Defiance 

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         The New National Intelligence Estimate on Iran: A Step in the Right Direction 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq Post-Withdrawal Crisis, Update 13, March 9-16, 2012 

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence

·         Toulouse Gunman’s Link to UK Extremists 

International Crisis Group

·         Burundi: A Deepening Corruption Crisis 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Serbia: A Step Closer to the EU 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Assessing DSGE [Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium] Models with Capital Accumulation and Indeterminacy 

·         Determinants of Corporate Investment in China: Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data 

·         "Fiscal Devaluation" and Fiscal Consolidation: The VAT in Troubled Times 

·         Fiscal Policy Response to External Crises The Case of Moldova 1998-2010 

·         Global Food Price Inflation and Policy Responses in Central Asia 

·         The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change 

·         Institutional Transformations, Polity and Economic Outcomes: Testing the North-Wallis-Weingast Doorsteps Framework 

·         Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility: Evidence from Brazil 

·         Managing Volatility in Low-Income Countries - The Role and Potential for Contingent Financial Instruments 

·         Trade and Financial Spillover on Hong Kong SAR from a Downturn in Europe and Mainland China 

·         West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU): Staff Report on Common Policies for Member Countries 

International Peace Institute

·         Spotting the Spoilers: A Guide to Analyzing Organized Crime 

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, March 9, 2012, v. 10, no. 5 

o    Gulf States Consider Political and Military Union to Counter Iranian Security Threat

o    The Looming Storm in Pakistan’s Kurram Ag ency

o    Array of security challenges face Yemen’s new leader - Abd Rabbu Mansur al-Hadi

·         Terrorism Monitor, March 22, 2012, v. 10, no. 6 

o    Losing the Initiative: The PKK’s Crumbling Strategy

o    Oil Conflict Brings North and South Sudan to the Brink of War

o    Predators, Reapers and Ravens: The Drone Revolution

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Gen. Martin Dempsey - PBS Interview With Charlie Rose 

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The Agreement from the 3rd Round of US-DPRK Denuclearization Talks and the Outlook for the North Korean Nuclear Issue 

·         International Law and the Inhumanity of Repatriating North Korean Escapees 

Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

·         Iranian and Hezbollah Terrorist Attacks against Israeli Targets Abroad The Situation on the Ground and Background Information 

National Academies Press

·         Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response 

National Assembly of Pakistan

·         Report of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (20th March 2012) [calling for an end to drone strikes]   [slow to open]

·         Main site link 

National Defense University (NDU)

·         Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ), April 2012, no. 65 

o    Resiliency: The Main Ingredient in a Military Household

o    The Real Key to Success in Afghanistan: Overlooked, Underrated, Forgotten, or Just Too Hard?

o    International Terrorism: The Case for Containment

o    Religion in the Thirty Years’ War and Peace of Westphalia: Relevant to Pakistan Today?

o    Between Democracy and Chaos: Indonesia at a Crossroads

o    A Sense of the Enemy: Refocusing Prediction in Military and Foreign Affairs

o    The Evolution of Saudi Security and Enforcement Policies on Communication

o    Global Dispersion, Global Sustainment: A Mandate for a Global Logistics Organization?

o    Counterinsurgency: Not a Strategy, But a Necessary Capability

o    National Defense University: Building Strategic Relations with Vietnam

o    Sailing the Cyber Sea

o    Sailing into the 21st Century: Operating Forward, Strengthening Partnerships

o    Building Resiliency into the National Military Strategy

o    Emerging from Behind the U.S. Shield: Japan’s Strategy of Dynamic Deterrence and Defense Forces

o    Admirals Run Amok: The Danger of Inter-Service Rivalry

National Intelligence Council (NIC)

·         Global Water Security 

National Security Archive

·         The Pursuit of Justice in Guatemala 

·         Underground Facilities: Intelligence and Targeting Issues 

NATO Defense College (NDC)

·         Who Gives the Orders in the New Russian Military? 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Islamist Mobilisation and Prospects for Change in the Upcoming Algerian Parliamentary Elections 

·         Middle East and North Africa, March 2012, Report 21 

o    Syria: The Protest Movement Lacks Appropriate Support

o    Egypt: Which Strategy for the Liberals?

o    Libya: Growing Concern and Anger at the National Transitional Council’s Passivity

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)

·         Engaging Religious Scholars for Promotion of Peace 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         The Economic Consequences of Cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program 

·         The Role of Institutional and Political Factors in the European Debt Crisis 

Rand

·         A Federal Role in Freight Planning and Finance 

·         A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey 

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         Teens, Smartphones & Texting 

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         As Gas Prices Pinch, Support for Oil and Gas Production Grows 

·         Rising Fuel Prices Top Story for Public: Interest in Afghanistan News Up Following Soldier Rampage 

Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism

·         Massacre Puts Afghanistan Back in the Headlines 

SIPRI

·         Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2011 

Small Wars Journal

·         Assessing Pacification in Vietnam: We Won the Counterinsurgency War! 

·         Assessing the New York Police Department’s Intelligence Efforts Targeting America’s Muslims 

·         Civil Resistance as a Form of Unconventional Warfare: Interview with Professor Erica Chenoweth 

·         Language, Culture, and Army Culture: Failing Transformation 

·         A Primer for the Unique Language of Arabs who Sail the Persian Gulf 

South African Institute of International Affairs

·         A 21st Century Scramble—South Africa, China and the Rare Earth Metals Industry 

Stimson Center

·         Engaging Iran on Afghanistan 

·         Iran in Perspective—Holding Iran to Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology    

Symantec

·         2011 Cost of Breach Study: United States 

Trans-Border Institute (TBI)

·         Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2011 

UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee

·         Malware and Cyber Crime

o    Volume I 

o    Volume II 

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         China's First Deployment of Combat Forces to a UN Peacekeeping Mission—South Sudan 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         The Koran Desecration and the Role of Religion in Conflict 

·         Learning from Sudan’s 2011 Referendum 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Iran, Hizballah, and the Threat to the Homeland 

·         Iran Keeps Compromise Option Open 

·         Time to Stop Incitement to Murder -- Again 

·         To Keep the Peace with Iran, Threaten to Strike 

·         Turkey's Foreign Policy Pivot 

·         Washington Quarterly, Spring 2012, v. 35, no. 2 

o    The 21st Century Force Multiplier: Public—Private Collaboration

o    Bombs Away? Being Realistic about Deep Nuclear Reductions

o    The Real Problem in U.S.—Israeli Relations

o    How to Deter Terrorism

o    To Keep the Peace with Iran, Threaten to Strike

o    Egypt's Troubled Transition: Elections without Democracy

o    A Strategy of “Congagement” toward Pakistan

o    Reassessing China: Awaiting Xi Jinping

o    The South China Sea: Oil, Maritime Claims, and U.S.–China Strategic Rivalry

o    Reversing Pakistan’s Descent: Empowering its Middle Class

o    Defining U.S. Indian Ocean Strategy

o    Have President Obama's Re-Election Prospects Brightened?

·         The Tides of Battle in Syria 

Wilson Center

·         Mexico—A Middle Class Society:  Poor No More, Developed Not Yet 

·         Post Occupation Iraq: The Brittleness of Political Institutions 

World Public Opinion.org

·         American Public Favors Safe Havens in Syria