Friday's Miscellany 08-31-2012

ActionAid

·         Condemned Without Trial: Women and Witchcraft in Ghana 

Air University

·         Air & Space Power Journal, September-October 2012, v. 26, no. 5 

o    Driving towards Success in the Air Force Cyber Mission: Leveraging Our Heritage to Shape Our Future

o    The Air Force's Individual Mobilization Augmentee Program: Is the Current Organizational Structure Viable?

o    An Evolution in Intelligence Doctrine: The Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Mission Type Order

o    Joint Targeting and Air Support in Counterinsurgency: How to Move to Mission Command

o    Building Partnership Capacity: Operation Harmattan and Beyond

o    Toward a Superior Promotion System

o    Geopolitics versus Geologistics

o    An Airman's Perspective on Mission Command

o    Seeing It Coming: Revitalizing Future Studies in the US Air Force

o    A Misapplied and Overextended Example: Gen J. N. Mattis's Criticism of Effects-Based Operations

o    Airmen Need to Prepare for a Post-Atlantis World

·         Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2012, v. 6, no. 3 

o    America's Air Force: Strong, Indispensable, and Ready for the Twenty-First Century

o    Claiming the Lost Cyber Heritage

o    Depleted Trust in the Cyber Commons

o    Escalation Dynamics and Conflict Termination in Cyberspace

o    Sharing the Cyber Journey

o    The Specter of Non-Obvious Warfare

o    Internet Governance and National Security

o    The Customary International Law of Cyberspace

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         The Phenomenal Defections of the Syrian Regime 

American Security Project (ASP)

·         FACT SHEET: North Korea’s Nuclear Program 

Amnesty International

·         India—Vedanta’s Perspective Uncovered:  Policies Cannot Mask Practices in Orissa  

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Islamist Militias and Rebel Groups across Africa 

Arthur D. Simons Center

·         InterAgency Journal, Summer 2012, v. 3, no. 3 

o    Radiological Nuclear Detection Task Force

o    The Interagency Role in Conflict Prevention

o    Interagency Collaboration by Design

o    Whole of Government is Half an Answer

o    The Role of the Military Chaplain in the “3D” Process

o    The National Counterterrorism Center and

o    the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series

o    Risk Culture Similarities & Differences between State and DoD

o    Interagency Coordination to Employ Veterans

o    Validating a Whole-of-Government Approach and Redefining the Civil-Military Operations Cell

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia 

·         Central Banking for Financial Stability: Some Lessons from the Recent Instability in the United States and Euro Area 

·         Managing Capital Flows in an Economic Community: The Case of ASEAN Capital Account Liberalization 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Calming Troubled Waters: Global and Regional Strategies for Countering Piracy 

·         Educating for the Profession of Arms in Australia 

·         Fuelling the dragon: Natural Resources and China's Development 

·         The Sharp Downside of Success: How a Third North Korean Nuclear Test Could Change the Strategic Dynamic in Northeast Asia 

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Update on Iran’s Nuclear Program 

Brookings Institute

·         Egypt, Israel, Palestine 

·         Understanding “The Loop”—Regulating the Next Generation of Drones  

Bruegel

·         Challenges of Europe’s Fourfold Union 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         China's Evolution on Ballistic Missile Defense 

Center for American Progress

·         The Networked Energy Web: The Convergence of Energy Efficiency, Smart Grid, and Distributed Power Generation as the Next Frontier of the ICT Revolution 

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

·         The CIP Report: Smart Grid Security [August 2012] 

Center for Security Policy

·         Making the U.S. Military Submit to Shariah 

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Analysis of the FY2013 Defense Budget and Sequestration  

·         Cyber Warfare—A “Nuclear Option”?  

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Avoiding Creeping Defeat in Afghanistan—The Need for Realistic Assumptions, Strategy, and Plans  

·         Further Moves toward an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Breakout Capability: The New IAEA Report on Iran 

·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER)- No. 60, 31 August 2012 

·         PacNet #55 - Cultivating Tomorrow's Asia Hands 

·         PacNet #54 - Chinese Westward FDI: Take It or Lose/Skip It? 

·         PacNet #54A - Who's Afraid of China Inc., and Why? 

·         Prospects for Shale Gas Development in Asia  

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         The Court of Justice of the European Union as a Fundamental Rights Tribunal: Challenges for the Effective Delivery of Fundamental Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 

·         The Roadmap to Banking Union: A Call for Consistency 

·         Romanian Politics: Struggling with the Grass Roots and Digging for Democracy 

·         A Sovereign Wealth Fund to Lift Germany’s Curse of Excess Savings 

CNA

·         CNA Maritime Asia Project: Workshop One: The Yellow and East China Seas 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Trends in U.S. Military Spending       

Defense Business Board (DBB)

·         Linking and Streamlining the Defense Requirements, Acquisition, and Budget Processes  

Defense Science Board (DSB)

·         Task Force report - The Role of Autonomy in DoD Systems 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military  

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2012-114  Intelligence and Special Program Assessments DODIG-2012-114 Assessment of Security Within the Department of Defense - Security Policy 

Department of Homeland Security

·         OIG-12-103 Efficiency and Effectiveness of TSA's Visible Intermodel Prevention and Response Program Within Rail and Mass Transit Systems (Redacted) 

Department of the Navy (DoN)

·         OPNAV 3400.10G - Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense Requirements Supporting Operational Fleet Readiness  

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Norway Country Analysis Brief 

Enough Project

·         Ending the LRA 

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         The Periphery of the Periphery: The Western Balkans and the Euro Crisis 

Foreign Policy

·         America, the Insecure 

·         China's One Percent 

·         A Dangerous Mind [Mitt Romney's foreign policy] 

·         Everything You Think You Know About China Is Wrong 

·         Leading from the Front 

·         Lions on the Move [Africa's economy] 

FRIDE

·         The EU and Pakistan’s Turbulent Democratization 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the “Arab Spring” 

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Battle on Top of the World: Rising Tensions in Tajikistan’s Pamir Region 

·         Factoring the Regional Impact of Uzbekistan’s Withdrawal from the CSTO 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Coast Guard: Legacy Vessels' Declining Conditions Reinforce Need for More Realistic Operational Targets. GAO-12-741 

·         Freedom of Information Act: Additional Actions Can Strengthen Agency Efforts to Improve Management. GAO-12-828 

·         Oil and Gas Management: Interior's Reorganization Complete, but Challenges Remain in Implementing New Requirements. GAO-12-423 

Harvard Law School, National Security Journal

·         Featured, Features, Online — August 16, 2012 9:03 am Blurring the Civilian-Combatant Line: Legal Implications of Deploying U.S. Civilian Mariners in the Libyan Theater 

Heritage Foundation

·         10 Immigration Agents Challenge ICE's Non Deportation Policy 

·         Congressional Report on Operation Fast and Furious: The Buck Stops…Well…Somewhere Else 

·         How Arms Controllers Would Reach a Budget Agreement 

·         Hydraulic Fracturing—Critical for Energy Production, Jobs, and Economic Growth  

·         International Security Advisory Board’s Misplaced Focus a Cause for Concern 

·         Not Looking for Work: Why Labor Force Participation Has Fallen During the Recession 

·         The U.S. Should Withdraw from the U.N.'s "Programme of Action" on Small Arms 

Human Rights Watch

·         Codifying Repression: An Assessment of Iran’s New Penal Code  

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         Don’t Shoot the Messenger: The ‘Un-Social’ Strategy 

·         Japan-China stand-off over Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands 

·         Japan, South Korean War Memories and Territorial Disputes: A Dangerous Mix 

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran 

·         IAEA Safeguards Report on North Korea 

·         IAEA Safeguards Report on Syria 

·         Iran’s heading of the Non-Aligned Movement: Lead up to more confrontation? 

·         ISIS Analysis of IAEA Iran Safeguards Report 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq's Post-Withdrawal Crisis, Update #34 August 15, 2012-August 22, 2012 

·         Rebel Groups in Northern Aleppo Province  

International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence (ICSR)

·         Intractable Issue—Palestinian Refugees and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations  

·         Let Us Include Them in Our Civil Peace 

International Crisis Group

·         Indonesia: Defying the State 

·         Nepal's Constitution (I): Evolution not Revolution 

·         Nepal's Constitution (II): The Expanding Political Matrix 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Effects of Culture on Firm Risk-Taking: A Cross-Country and Cross-Industry Analysis 

·         Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: Estimation and Back-testing 

·         Exchange Rate Fluctuations and International Portfolio Rebalancing in Thailand  

·         Global Housing Cycles 

·         Measuring Systemic Risk-Adjusted Liquidity (SRL) - A Model Approach 

·         A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks: Application to Stress Testing 

·         Private Information, Capital Flows, and Exchange Rates 

·         What (Really) Accounts for the Fall in Hours After a Technology Shock? 

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Preventing Conflicts in Africa: Early Warning and Response 

·         UN Peacekeeping Transitions: Perspectives from Member States 

International Relations and Security Network

·         An Act of Faith: Building the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers 

·         China's 'Significant Others' 

·         Civilian and Private Security Contractors – Yes, They’re Here to Stay 

·         Cost Before Hearts and Minds – Private Security in Afghanistan 

·         Geopolitics, Nationalism and Dual Citizenship 

·         Iraq: A Turning Point for Private Security 

·         Israeli Identity and its Security Dilemmas 

·         Negative Views of Civilian and Private Security Contractors 

·         Reshaping Political Identity in Egypt 

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

·         The Future of Kirdistan: Between Turkey, the Iraq War, and the Syrian Revolt 

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The Background to North Korea’s Outdated Aggressive Propaganda toward South Korea 

Moshe Dayan Center

·         Media in the Wake of the Arab Spring 

National Academies Press

·         Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas 

·         Remediation of Buried Chemical Warfare Materiel 

National Defense University Press

·         Preparing the Pipeline: The U.S. Cyber Workforce for the Future 

·         Trust, Engagement, and Technology Transfer: Underpinnings for U.S.-Brazil Defense Cooperation 

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update August 28, 2012] 

Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Soldering the Link: The UN Global Focal Point for Police, Justice, and Corrections 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         International Cooperation to Reduce Inequality 

·         Jerusalem, Netanyahu and the Two-State Solution 

·         Sinai Moves to Centre-Stage 

Observer Research Foundation

·         India and the ASAT Weapon 

·         Japanese PM's Political Woes 

·         Maldives: CoNI Report Holds Power-Transfer Legal 

·         South China Sea Monitor, September 2012, v. 1, no. 9 

·         US Presidential Elections and India 

Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations in New York

·         End Polio Now Dinner [remarks by Ambassador H.E. Zahur Tanin]  

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Why the Euro Will Survive: Completing the Continent's Half-Built House 

Pew Social & Demographic Trends

·         The Lost Decade of the Middle Class 

Rand

·         Aviation Security: After Four Decades, It's Time for a Fundamental Review 

·         New Challenges to U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts: An Assessment of the Current Terrorist Threat: Addendum 

·         Optimizing the Defense Language Institute English Language Center 

·         Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 2: Excalibur Artillery Projectile and the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Program, with an Approach to Analyzing Complexity and Risk 

Security Council Report

·         Cross-Cutting Report: Children and Armed Conflict [August 2012] 

Small Wars Journal

·         The Costs of War with Iran: An Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield 

·         Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: When CONOPs Replace OPORDs 

·         Guadalajara: The Next Epicenter of Violence in Mexico? 

·         Revelations on the Killing of Osama bin Laden 

·         U.S. Amphibious Forces: Indispensible Elements of American Seapower 

·         War: Each of Us Students 

·         The War on Terror - Over? 

·         Why Lebanon Will Not Fall 

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Verifying a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty—Technical and Organizational Considerations 

Strategic Studies Institute

·         2012-13 Key Strategic Issues List 

·         The Promise and Pitfalls of Grand Strategy 

United Nations Country Team

·         Gaza in 2020: A Livable Peace?  

United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur

·         ERW Risk Education in Darfur: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, Beliefs Survey 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         "The Day After" Project: Supporting a Democratic Transition in Syria 

U.S. Office on Colombia

·         Impunity: Has Implementation of the Accusatory Legal System Been an Effective Response to the Fight Against Impunity in Colombia? 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The End of Pax Adana 

·         Fresh Concerns about Health of Saudi King 

·         Iran Struggles Unsuccessfully for Influence in Central Asia 

·         Iran's Confidence Bolstered by Non-Aligned Summit 

·         Nuclear Iran: A Glossary of Terms 

World Public Opinion

·         Americans, Britons and the French Support Multilateral Action on Syria But Don't Want to Send Troops 

·         Most Americans See Afghan War as Not Reducing Threat of Terrorism