Friday's Miscellany 04-20-2012

38 North

·         Human Rights Progress In North Korea: Is It Possible? 

·         Party Time in Pyongyang 

Afghanistan News Network

·         Legal Aid in Afghanistan—Contexts, Challenges and the Future  

American Enterprise Institute

·         Quds Force Commander and Candidate—Gholamreza Baghbani  

Amnesty International

·         Bahrain Fails to Achieve Justice for Protesters 

·         Colombia—The Victims and Land Restitution Law 

Armed Forces Journal

·         AFJ, April 2012

o    More on Truth, Lies and Duty

o    Truth, Lies and Duty

o    A Better Way to Fight IEDs

o    Air-Sea Battle: Something’s Missing

o    Acquisition Reform ... for Real

o    Perspectives: Harness Wartime Lessons Now

o    Evaluating Humanitarian Ops

o    Our Veterans Deserve Better

Army War College

·         Parameters, Winter 2011-12, v. 41, no. 4

o    Future Warfare and the Decline of Human Decisionmaking

o    What Not to Learn from Afghanistan

o    Chaos as Strategy

o    Soldiers of the State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations

o    In Praise of Attrition

o    The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army

o    Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War

o    Neo-Classical Counterinsurgency?

o    New Challenges and Old Concepts: Understanding 21st Century Insurgency

o    A Strategy of Tactics: Population-Centric COIN and the Army

o    Integrating Civilian and Military Activities

o    The Vatican—Two Accounts

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Exchange Rate Coordination in Asia: Evidence using the Asian Currency Unit

Atlantic Council

·         The EU's Misguided Move to Fight Pirates Onshore

·         The US Cyber Policy Reboot

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Mind the Gap—Getting Serious About Submarines 

·         Trade, Investment and Australia’s National Security… or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Chinese Money 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Is Turkey Getting Dragged Into War with Syria? 

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Falling Prey to Cybercrime: Implications for Business and the Economy

·         Nuclear Collisions: Discord, Reform & the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

·         Power Outage: Syrian Armed Group Alliances in the Balance

Brookings Institute

·         April 2012 Update for TIGER: Tracking Indexes for Global Economic Recovery

·         Beyond Guns and Butter—A US-Egyptian Relationship for a Democratic Era

·         Options for U.S. Policy in Syria

·         An Updated Federal Budget Outlook: No News Is Bad News

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Looking Beyond the Chicago Summit—Nuclear Weapons in Europe and the Future of NATO

Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict in Northwest Africa: Rising Dangers and Policy Options Across the Arc of Tension

·         Strengthening America’s Options on Iran: 10 Key Questions to Inform the Debate

Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies

·         Disposition of Excess Russian Weapon HEU and Plutonium 

·         Russian Non-Proliferation Efforts 

Center for Democracy and Technology

·         Analysis of Senate Cybersecurity Bills 2012 

Center for Security Studies

·         The OSCE: Fighting for Renewed Relevance

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Geostrategic Return of the Philippines 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition

·         Arguing Over Blocks: Do China and the Philippines Both Have a Claim?

·         Biodefense: When Technology Goes Global

·         Combatting Al Qaeda After Bin Laden

·         The End of the Golden Era of Global Health?

·         Foreign Assistance in a Time of Austerity

·         Forging a Consensus on a Sustainable U.S. Nuclear Posture

·         Hemisphere Insider: Volume II, Issue 7 - April 16, 2012

·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) - No. 55, 16 April 2012

·         Middle East Notes and Comment: Getting Syria Right

·         Nuclear Challenges in 2013

·         Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise

·         Options for Dealing with Iran's Nuclear Program

·         PacNet #27 - Concert or Cacophony? Searching for the Foundations of a New International Order

·         PacNet #26 - Lessons Learned? Responding to North Korea's Latest Provocations

·         Playing a New Geoeconomic Game

·         The Role of Unconventional Oil and Gas: A New Paradigm for Energy

·         Russia Drifts Eastward?

·         Will America Defeat Itself? Ideas and National Power

·         Will Food Prices Drive Instability?

Chatham House

·         Arctic Opening—Opportunity and Risk in the High North 

CNA

·         Science and Technology for Communication and Persuasion Abroad: Gap Analysis and Survey

Congress. House. Armed Forces Committee

·         Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Budget Request for Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Nuclear Forces Programs

·         National Defense Priorities from Members for the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act

·         The Navy’s 30 Year Shipbuilding Plan—Assumptions and Associated Risks to National Security

·         Recent Developments in the Middle East: The Security Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic

·         Sequestration Resource Kit

Congress. House. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Hearings

o    The Increasing American Jobs Through Greater Exports to Africa Act [April 17]

o    North Korea after Kim Jong-il: Still Dangerous and Erratic [April 18]

o    Bureau of Counterterrorism: Budget, Programs, and Policies [April 18]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Boots on the Ground or Eyes in the Sky: How Best to Utilize the National Guard to Achieve Operational Control

·         Building Secure Partnerships in Travel, Commerce, and Trade with the Asia-Pacific Region

·         The DHS and DOE National Labs: Finding Efficiencies and Optimizing Outputs in Homeland Security Research and Development

·         Taking Measure of Countermeasures (Part 3): Protecting the Protectors

·         Using Technology to Facilitate Trade and Enhance Security at Our Ports of Entry

Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology

·         Growing the Wireless Economy through Innovation

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Financial Management and Business Transformation at the Department of Defense

·         Health and Status of the Department of Defense Science and Technology Laboratories and Enterprise in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program

·         National Nuclear Security Administration Management of its National Security Laboratories

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

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Examining The U.S. Policy Response to Entrenched African Leadership

·         Syria: U.S. Policy Options

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

·         The Comprehensive Contingency Contracting Reform Act of 2012 (S.2139)

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         New Infographics About the Federal Budget

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Armed Clash in the South China Sea 

·         France's High Stakes Presidential Vote

·         Incentives for Life—Cash-on-Delivery Aid for Tobacco Control in Developing Countries 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         2011 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military

Department of Defense (DOD) and State

·         Risk Assessment of United States Space Export Control Policy - Report to Congress

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2012-072 A Joint Audit by the Inspectors General of U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Defense: DoD's FY 2010 Purchases Made Through the Department of the Interior, April 13, 2012

Department of State

·         Examining the U.S Policy Responses to Entrenched African Leadership

·         International Counter-piracy Update

·         Kazahstan's Place on Central Asia's New Silk Road

East West Center

·         Burma/Myanmar’s By-Elections: Will Personalities Trump Institutions?

Enough Project

·         Democratic Republic of Congo—Taking a Stand on Security Sector Reform 

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         China Analysis: Taiwan After the Election

European Policy Centre

·         Comitology Reform: Setting the Record Straight

Federal Emergency Management Agency / IACP

·         A Resource Guide to Improve  our Community’s Awareness and Reporting of Suspicious Activity

Foreign Policy

·         Afghanistan the Beautiful

·         Any Given Friday (How a battle over a Facebook page became a war for the soul of the Syrian revolution)

·         He's Not Alone (The trial of Norway's alleged mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is only the tip of the iceberg in a rising sea of radical Islamophobia in Europe)

·         Patriot Games (How the FBI spent a decade hunting white supremacists and missed Timothy McVeigh)

·         The Pickers of Dandora (Nairobi's mountainous waste land)

FRIDE

·         Why Germany is not Becoming Europe's Hegemon

German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2012, v. 41, no. 1

o    Latin America's Response to China's Rise

o    China and Latin America: Complementarity, Competition, and Globalisation

o    China and Brazil: Economic Impacts of a Growing Relationship

o    Economic Liberalization and Trade Relations between Mexico and China

o    The Political Economy of Sino-Peruvian Relations: A New Dependency?

o    Chile’s Economic and Political Relationship with China

o    China, Global Governance and the Future of Cuba

o    Data Supplement

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         The Iranian Nuclear Crisis as Seen from Central Asia

·         Russia’s Spreading Nationalist Infection

·         Transformational Partnerships: Innovative Approaches To Addressing Food Security In Africa

·         North Caucasus Turmoil Intensifies on Europe’s Doorstep

·         Russia’s Spreading Nationalist Infection

·         Turkey: A Global Swing State

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Border Security: Observations on Costs, Benefits, and Challenges of a Department of Defense Role in Helping to Secure the Southwest Land Border, GAO-12-657T [testimony]

·         DOD Financial Management:  Challenges In Attaining Audit Readiness and Improving Business Processes and Systems, GAO-12-642T [testimony]

·         FBI Counterterrorism: Vacancies Have Declined, but FBI Has Not Assessed the Long-Term Sustainability of Its Strategy for Addressing Vacancies, GAO-12-533

·         Federal Telework: Program Measurement Continues to Confront Data Reliability Issues. GAO-12-519

·         Military Education: Improved Oversight and Management Needed for DOD's Fellowship and Training-with-Industry Programs, GAO-12-367

·         Missile Defense: Opportunity Exists to Strengthen Acquisitions by Reducing Concurrency, GAO-12-486

Heritage Foundation

·         Advancing Economic Freedom Through the World Bank: A Worthy Goal for Jim Yong Kim

·         A Federal Republic: Lincoln’s First Inaugural and the Nature of the Union

·         The JOLT Act: Right on Visa Waiver Program, Wrong on Travel Promotion

·         Supreme Court Immigration Showdown: Why States Can Enforce Immigration Laws

Hudson Institute

·         Energy Policy—Lots of Heat, No Light 

·         Thinking About a Korean Denuclearization Treaty 

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         China’s Territorial Claim on India’s Eastern Sector: Tibet as Core

·         Russia-India-China Strategic Triangle: Signalling a Power Shift?

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         Internal IAEA Information links the Supreme Leader to 1984 Decision to Seek a Nuclear Arsenal

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Kenya's New Constitution and Conflict Transformation

Institute for the Study of War

·         Afghanistan Order of Battle April 2012 

·         Iranian Efforts to Bypass Oil Sanctions 

·         Iraq's Post-Withdrawal Crisis, Update 17 April 5, 2012-April 13, 2012

International Crisis Group

·         Iraq and the Kurds: The High-Stakes Hydrocarbons Gambit

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Iraq: Maliki Power Grab Risks Fresh Civil War

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         An End To China’s Imbalances?

International Relations and Security

·         American Grand Strategy: Renewal or Decline?

·         Narratives of Humiliation: Chinese and Japanese Strategic Culture

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Chairman's Remarks, Question & Answer at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         North Korea’s Rocket Launch and Additional UNSC Sanctions

National Academies Press

·         Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into International Disaster Response Plans: Workshop Summary

·         Building a Resilient Workforce: Opportunities for the Department of Homeland Security: Workshop Summary

National Security Journal

·         2012 symposium: The Law and Policy of Covert Operations: Current & Future Challenges - Dana Priest's Keynote

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Review [latest update April 17, 2012]

·         The Peace Process & Afghanistan's Women

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         The Politics of a Korea-Japan NWFZ

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         The “Dark Side” of the Syrian Transition and Its Potentially Dire Regional Consequences

Observer Research Foundation

·         After Attacks, Afghan Endgame Seems More of a Mirage

·         The BRICS View on Iran: India's Motivations

·         China Military Watch, April 16, 2012, v. 1, no. 4

·         Pakistan Military Watch, April 22, 2012, v. 1, no. 22

·         Will the New Check-Post at Attari Enthuse India-Pakistan Trade?

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

·         Most Swing Voters Favor Afghan Troop Withdrawal

Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism

·         What Happened to Coverage of the “Arab Spring?”

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Ukraine’s First Year in the Energy Community: Restart Needed

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Portugal and Turkey: Surprisingly Friendly Relations

Project 2049 Institute

·         Chinese Reactions to Taiwan Arms Sales 

Rand

·         Assessing the Benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulatory Actions to Reduce Terrorism Risks

·         Assessment of the Content, Design, and Dissemination of the Real Warriors Campaign

·         Assessment of the Implementation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005—2012 and its Action Plans

·         Improving Army Basic Research: Report of an Expert Panel on the Future of Army Laboratories

·         Medical Readiness of the Reserve Component

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)

·         Indonesia’s Democratic Politics and Foreign Policy-Making: A Case Study of Iranian Nuclear Issue, 2007-2008

Second Line of Defense

·         Bold Alligator 2012—Future of Power Projection; Emergence of the “New Age” Expeditionary Strike Group 

·         New Pacific Strategy—Future of Power Projection; Honeycombing the Pacific 

·         Turkey at the Crossroads—What Role in the Decade Ahead? 

Small Arms Survey

·         Arms Flows and Holdings in South Sudan

Small Wars Journal

·         The Case of Mexico: A Hard Pill to Swallow

·         Disruptive Thinkers: The Disruptive Poets Society: How The Dead Poets Society Advocated Disruptive Thinkers, Why DoD Shouldn't Encourage More Disruptive Thinkers, and 10 Principles for Those That do Think Disruptively

·         Flynn and the Prospects for Defense Intelligence Reform

·         Malaya: The Myth of Hearts and Minds

·         The Strategic and Operational Dynamics of Limited War

·         Water and Sanitation: Decisive Effects in Modern Operations

·         Yemen: Always on the Brink?

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

·         Worldwide Military Expenditures—2012 

Truman National Security Project

·         2012 Truman Security Briefing Book

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

·         Afghanistan Opium Survey—2012 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Conducting Track II Peace Making: Peacemaker's Toolkit

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Are Syrian Alawites and Turkish Alevis the Same?

·         Assad Continues Violent Attacks on the Opposition

·         Assad Must Be Forced to Allow Peaceful Assembly

·         Back from the Threshold: The Last Chance for Diplomacy to Stop Iran

·         Could the Gulf States Intervene in Syria?

·         Don't Throw Iran's Democrats under the Bus

·         Russia's Position on Iran's Nuclear Program

·         Russian Energy Strategy Makes Partners of Rivals

·         Taking Exception: Abu Zubaida's Clear Ties to al-Qaeda

·         Will Syria's Sectarian Divisions Spill Over into Turkey?

Washington Office on Latin America

·         Beyond the Border Buildup; Security and Migrants along the U.S. –Mexico Border 

White House

·         National Drug Control Strategy 2012 

World Bank

·         Biotechnology Innovation for Inclusive Growth