Friday's Miscellany 10-12-2012

American Peace Society

·         World Affairs Journal, September-October 2012 

o    Mexico’s Massacre Era

o    In Russia, Politics in Spite of Putin

o    The Sufis’ Choice: Egypt’s Political Wild Card

o    America in Decline? It’s a Matter of Choices, Not Fate

o    Tibet’s Transition: Will Washington Take a Stand?

o    Blaming China’s Currency Manipulation is Tempting—but Wrong

o    Confront China’s Currency Manipulation Now

o    Learning from Sadat: The Dividends of American Resolve

o    Mocking Justice in Norway

American Security Project

·         Critical Nuclear Choices for the Next Administration   

·         India in the Indian Ocean Region: Re-calibrating U.S. Expectations

·         The National Security Need for Public Diplomacy 

Amnesty International

·         Colombia—Impunity for Conflict-related Sexual Violence: A Follow-up Report  

·         Rwanda—Illegal Detention and Torture by Military Intelligence  

·         Universal Jurisdiction—Preliminary Survey of Legislation Around the World: 2012 Update  

·         Universal jurisdiction—Strengthening This Essential Tool of International Justice 

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Conflict Trends (No. 7): Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, October 2012 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity 

·         Internationalization of Tertiary Education Services in Singapore 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Irregular Warfare: Counterterrorism Forces in Support of Counterinsurgency Operations 

Atlantic Council

·         Economic Policies in Egypt—Populism or Reform?  

·         India's Water Challenges 

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Price of Inaction—An Analysis of Energy and Economic Effects of a Nuclear Iran  

Brookings Institute

·         Americans on the Middle East—A Study of American Public Opinion  

·         Latin America Macroeconomic Outlook: A Global Perspective  

·         Old Problems, New Solutions: Harnessing Technology and Innovation in the Fight Against Global Poverty [collection of briefs - ninth annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty, held in Aspen, Colorado on August 1–3, 2012] 

·         Updated Federal Budget Outlook—No News Is Bad News 

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

Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies

·         Crowded, Connected, and Contested—Security and Peace in the Eurasian Sea and What It Means for Europe 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Beyond Treaties—Immediate Steps to Reduce Nuclear Dangers   

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

·         Homeland Security Affairs Journal, October 2012, v. 8 

o    Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security: Opportunities and Challenges

o    Network Fusion: Information and Intelligence Sharing for a Networked World

Center for Naval Analyses

·         The Long Littoral Project: East China and Yellow Seas 

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 118: Russia's Evolving Political System 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Hemisphere Insider, v. 2, no. 25, October 8, 2012 

·         Mental Health Service Reform Post-Disaster 

·         PacNet #63 - Leveraging Leverage 

·         Reassessing the Gulf Military Balance—Conventional and Asymmetric Forces    

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Enforcement in the EU Single Market 

·         Securing EU Growth from Services 

Congress. House. Appropriations Committee

·         Effects of Sequestration on Major Military Weapons Programs  

Congress. House. Permanent Committee on Intelligence

·         U.S. National Security Issues Posed by Chinese Telecommunications Companies   

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Monthly Budget Review, September 2012    

·         Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—October 2012    

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Drone Politics in Pakistan 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoDD 3115.06, DoD Intelligence Interrogations, Detainee Debriefings, and Tactical Questioning, October 11, 2012 

·         Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta “Defending the Nation from Cyber Attack” Business Executives for National Security, New York, NY Thursday, October 11, 2012 

Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program

·         17th International command & Control Research & Technology Symposium (ICCRTS) (2012): Proceedings 

·         The Agility Advantage: A Survival Guide For Complex Enterprises and Endeavors 

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2012-140, An Unreliable Chart of Accounts Affected Auditability of Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System Financial Data 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         OIG-12-133 - Department of Homeland Security Compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation Revisions on Proper Use and Management of Cost-Reimbursement Contracts 

·         OIG-12-132 CBP’s Strategy to Address Illicit Cross Border Tunnels 

·         OIG-12-131 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Penalty Process – Statute of Limitations 

·         OIG-12-127 - FEMA’s Efforts To Recoup Improper Payments in Accordance with the Disaster Assistance Recoupment Fairness Act of 2011 (3) 

·         OIG-12-125 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program Issues 

·         OIG-12-120 Transportation Security Administration Has Taken Steps To Address the Insider Threat But Challenges Remain (Redacted) 

·         OIG-12-119 Annual Review of the United States Coast Guard’s Mission Performance (FY 2011) 

·         OIG-12-118 FEMA’s Management of Corrective Actions and Lessons Learned From National Level Exercises 

·         OIG-12-115 - Review of DHS' Information Security Program for Intelligence Systems for Fiscal Year 2012 Spotlight 

·         OIG-12-107 - Adherence to Acquisition Management Policies Will Help Reduce Risks to the Technology Integration Program (Revised) 

East-West Center

·         Sri Lanka's Ongoing Struggle for Democracy 

·         Terrorism in Perspective: An Assessment of 'Jihad Project' Trends in Indonesia 

Enough Project

·         Sudan-South Sudan Field Dispatch—Good News and Bad News from Negotiations in Addis Ababa  

·         UPDATE—United Nations Security Council Resolution 2046 Compliance Tracker    

European Policy Centre

·         EU Enlargement to the Balkans: The Show Must Go On 

Foreign Policy

·         Not All That It Can Be [American Military] 

·         Red Lines in the Sand [Israel and Iran] 

·         A Tale of Two Moroccos 

·         Work More, Make More? 

·         Worst. Prize. Ever. [Nobel Prize] 

FRIDE

·         Results, Regrets and Reinvention: Premier Wen’s Last China-EU Summit 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Drivers of Strategic Contestation in South America 

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Air Supremacy: The Surprisingly Important Dogfight over Climate Pollution from International Aviation 

·         The Arab Spring and Regional Integration: Can the EU and Turkey Cooperate? 

·         Cyprus – a Future Energy Hub? 

·         Erdoğan’s Way: Turkish Politics in the Wake of the AKP Congress 

·         The Rise and Fall of Turkey’s Middle East Policy 

·         A Transatlantic Partnership — Agricultural Issues 

·         Ukraine Between Two Paths of Integration 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Mobile Device Location Data: Additional Federal Actions Could Help Protect Consumer Privacy. GAO-12-903 

·         Oil and Gas: Information on Shale Resources, Development, and Environmental and Public Health Risks. GAO-12-732 

·         Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Key Environmental and Public Health Requirements. GAO-12-874 

Heritage Foundation

·         China’s New Aircraft Carrier Joins the Fleet 

·         The Complicated History of U.S. Relations with China 

·         Full-Spectrum Air Power: Building the Air Force America Needs 

·         Global Entry Reciprocity: Creating a Trusted Travel Superhighway 

·         Travel Promotion: Brand USA Marked by Waste and Abuse 

·         The U.S. and China: Jobs, Trade, and More 

·         U.S. Should Hold the Line on U.N. Salaries 

Human Rights Watch

·         Growing Up Locked Down: Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons Across the United States 

·         Spiraling Violence: Boko Haram Attacks and Security Force Abuses in Nigeria 

·         Toxic Tanneries—The Health Repercussions of Bangladesh’s Hazaribagh Leather  

Infinity Journal

·         Infinity Journal, 2012 Special Edition - Strategic Misfortunes 

o    An Introduction to Strategic Misfortunes

o    Clipping the Eagle’s Wings: Explaining Failure and Success in the Battle of Britain, 1940

o    El Alamein, 1942: Rommel’s Anti-Climax

o    Israeli Strategy in the First Lebanon War

o    The Accidental Coindinista: A Historian’s Journey Back From the Dark Side of Social Science

o    Vietnam and After: Failure in the Vietnam War and the Enduring Defects in US Strategic Culture

o    Strategy and the Chinese Civil War

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Corruption in Administration: Evaluating the Kautilyan Antecedents 

·         The Franco-Indian Quest for an Independent Nuclear Policy, 1950‐1974 

·         India and China: 50 Years after 1962 

·         India’s Disarmament Myths and Political Realities  

·         Indian Army: Internal Challenges In Capability Building And Retention 

·         Insight Southeast Asia, September 2012, v. 1, no. 4 

·         Is Arab Spring Part-2 Unravelling? 

·         What the Chinese White Paper Says on Diao Yu Dao?: An Opportunity to Revisit the Issue  

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)

·         Ten Years Later—Insights on a-Qaeda's Past & Future through Captured Records  

Institute for Science and International Studies (ISIS)

·         Iran’s Evolving Breakout Potential    

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Leadership Required: Drug Trafficking and the Crisis of Statehood in West Africa 

·         South African Crime Quarterly, September 2012, no. 41 

International Crisis Group

·         Afghanistan: The Long, Hard Road to the 2014 Transition 

·         Assessing Turkey’s Role in Somalia 

·         Pakistan: No End to Humanitarian Crises 

·         Tentative Jihad: Syria’s Fundamentalist Opposition 

International Energy Administration (IEA)

·         Iraq Energy Outlook 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Eurozone Crisis Recedes, but Risks Remain 

·         Japan's Elections Unlikely to End Political Uncertainties 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Exploring the Dynamics of Global Liquidity 

·         Natural Disasters: Mitigating Impact, Managing Risks 

·         To Cut or Not to Cut? That is the (Central Bank’s) Question In Search of the Neutral Interest Rate in Latin America 

·         The Role of Risk and Information for International Capital Flows: New Evidence from the SDDS 

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Combating Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, Horn of Africa and Southeast Asia [event video] 

International Relations and Security Network

·         Energy Infrastructure Attacks Return in Nigeria 

·         Energy Self-Sufficiency: A Realistic Goal or a Pipe Dream? 

·         The Geopolitics of Energy Security 

·         The Geopolitics of Pipeline Diplomacy 

·         Oil and Gas by the Numbers 

JFK Special Warfare Center and School

·         Special Warfare, October-December 2012, v. 25, no. 4 

o    ARSOF in Colombia: 50 Years of Persistent Engagement

o    OEF-CCA: Irregular Applications for SOF Efforts

o    Ahead of the Guns: SOF in Central America

o    Fuerzas Comando 2012

o    Out of the Andean Ridge

o    Lessons Learned and the Implications of Plan Colombia and Coca Production

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         How Should Jang Song-thaek’s Visit to China be Evaluated? 

·         The Meaning of North Korea’s Participation in the Paralympics and North Korean Human Rights as Well as the Future Challenges for the Development of Inter-Korean Relations 

·         Opening the Pandora’s Box? The Introduction of a New Economic Management System in North Korea 

·         Will North Korea’s “6.28 Directives” Be a Prelude toward “Reform and Opening”? 

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2012 [updated Oct 11, 2012] 

·         Green-on-blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated Oct 10, 2012] 

Lowy Institute for International Policy

·         The Audacity of Reasonableness—Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, U.S. Foreign Policy and Australia 

National Academies Press

·         Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary 

·         The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary 

·         Corps of Engineers Water Resources Infrastructure: Deterioration, Investment, or Divestment? 

·         Meeting Global Challenges: U.S.-German Innovation Policy 

·         Monitoring HIV Care in the United States: A Strategy for Generating National Estimates of HIV Care and Coverage 

National Defense University Press

·         Building Future Transatlantic Interoperability Around a Robust NATO Response Force 

·         Public-Private Cooperation in the Department of Defense: A Framework for Analysis and Recommendations for Action

·         Toward the Printed World: Additive Manufacturing and Implications for National Security 

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         U.S. Rebalancing towards the Asia-Pacific Region and the U.S.-Australia Alliance 

National Security Archive

·         Cuban Missile Crisis Revelations: Kennedy's Secret Approach to Castro 

·         The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Missiles of November 

·         Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: A Case of Mission Creep 

·         U.S.-Iran: Lessons from an Earlier War 

NATO/Harvard Medical School

·         The Haiti Case Study

·         Towards a Comprehensive Response to Health System Strengthening in Crisis-affected Fragile States 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Afghanistan and the Regional Powers: History not Repeating Itself? 

·         Crucial Reform of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Remains a Distant Dream 

·         The Rule of Law in Peacebuilding Contexts: Lessons from Somalia 

Oxford Research Group

·         Jihadist Element in Syria and its Implications 

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         SOLLIMS Sampler, October 2012, v. 3, no. 4 [focus on medical assistance  health services] 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Developing the Services Sector as Engine of Growth for Asia: An Overview 

Ploughshares Fund

·         What Nuclear Weapons Cost Us  

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         Visegrad’s Winding Road to the EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2014 

Rand

·         An Assessment of the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project 

·         Bridging the Gap: Prototype Tools to Support Local Disaster Preparedness Planning and Collaboration 

·         Dissemination and Adoption of Comparative Effectiveness Research Findings When Findings Challenge Current Practices 

·         Managing Adverse and Reportable Information Regarding General and Flag Officers 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Reflections on Industry's Contributions to Smart Defense 

Saferworld

·         Still Time to Act: Rising Conflict Fears in Kosovo 

Small Arms Survey

·         After the Fall: Libya’s Evolving Armed Groups 

·         Armed Groups in Libya: Typology and Roles 

Small Wars Journal

·         Approaches to Effective Service in Afghanistan 

·         NATO: ‘Victory Has Defeated You’ 

·         War on Terror: Radicalization and Expansion of the Threats 

·         We Have Encountered the Enemy... And it is Us 

·         Winning Hearts and Minds During COIN Campaigns: Policy Implications from Stathis Kalyvas’ Concepts of Attitudinal and Behavioural Support 

Stanley Foundation

·         Improving Nuclear Security Regime Cohesion: Summary Report & Initial Policy Recommendations 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         The Future of American Landpower: Does Forward Presence Still Matter? The Case of the Army in Europe 

·         A "Hollow Army" Reappraised: President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness 

Terrorism Research Initiative

·         Perspectives on Terrorism, v. 6, no. 4-5 

o    Terrorist Decision-Making: Insights from Economics and Political Science

o    Turning to and from Terror: Deciphering the Conditions under which Political Groups Choose Violent and Nonviolent Tactics

o    Why Terrorists Overestimate the Odds of Victory

o    Exploring Agreements of Convenience Made among Violent Non-State Actors

o    Exploring the Iran-Hezbollah Relationship: A Case Study of how State Sponsorship affects Terrorist Group Decision-Making

o    Terrorist Group and Government Interaction: Progress in Empirical Research

o    The Decision Calculus of Terrorist Leaders

o    Terrorism in North America (Canada, United States, Mexico), 1970 - 2010: a Research Note

o    Bibliography: Inside Terrorist Organisations 

Transparency International UK

·         Defense Companies Anti-Corruption Index 2012  

US Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)

·         Our Story - 2013-2017 [strategic plan] 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Defining Our Red Lines 

·         The Future of the Palestinian Authority: Is Collapse an Option?  

·         How the Arab Spring's Prisoner Releases Have Helped the Jihadi Cause 

·         Netanyahu Calls for Early Elections 

·         A Red Line Iran Would Take Seriously 

·         The Right Way for Turkey to Intervene in Syria 

White House

·         Presidential Policy Directive (PDD) 19 - Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information  

Wilson Center

·         Relations with China from the Perspectives of Brazil, U.S. and Canada Global Businesses [webcast and documents] 

Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

·         Getting the Facts right on Iran 

World Public Opinion

·         Most Americans Believe Majorities in Egypt, Libya, Did Not Support Attacks