Friday's Miscellany 11-09-2012

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Islamic Militancy in Africa

Air University Library Bibliographies

·         Space Bibliography (2012)

American Enterprise Institute

·         Italian Hard Power—Ambitions and Fiscal Realities

Amnesty International

·         Nigeria—Trapped in the Cycle of Violence 

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Conflict Trends (No.8): Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, November 2012

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Regional Financial Arrangements and the International MonetaryFund

Atlantic Council

·         Strategic Cyber Early Warning: A Phased Adaptive Approach for NATO

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Preparing for the Helsinki Conference on a Middle East Nuclear andWMD-free Zone

Brookings

·         Between Interference and Assistance: The Politics of InternationalSupport in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

·         Religion and Political Civility: The Long Conversation

·         Water Challenges and Cooperative Response in the Middle East andNorth Africa

Campaign Against Depleted Uranium

·         Managing Acceptability—UK Policy on Depleted Uranium Weapons

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Reactions to the Syrian National Initiative

 CATO Institute

·         Grading the Government's Data Publication Practices

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Countdown to Sequestration: Why American Leaders Could Jump Offthe Fiscal Cliff

·         Upholding the Promise: A Strategy for Veterans and MilitaryPersonnel

Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         Federal Judicial Emergencies

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Israeli Perspectives on the Arab Uprisings

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Global Health as a Bridge to Security: Interviews with U.S.  Leaders

·         Hemisphere Insider: Volume II, Issue 29 - November 9,2012

·         Issues & Insights, v. 12 , no. 12

·         National Security and China’s Information Security Standards ofButtons, Shoes and Routers

·         PacNet #70 - Australia's Asian Century White Paper: A Goer or aBeat Up?

·         PacNet #69 - Next Generation Biosecurity for Asia: Keeping up withthe Biotechnology Boom

·         U.S.-India Insight, October 2012, v. 2, no. 10

o    U.S.-India Military Engagement: Steady as She Goes

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Europe’s New Post-Trade Infrastructure Rules

·         Outlook for Oil and Gas in Southern and Eastern MediterraneanCountries

·         The Prize is More Peace: The EU Should Consolidate Its EnlargementProcess

·         What Distinguishes the Euro Crisis from a ‘Normal’ FinancialCrisis?

Chatham House

·         Brazil in Africa: Just Another BRICS Country Seeking Resources?

Conciliation Resources

·         Memories Without Borders [Turkish-Armenian-Azerbaijani documentary]

 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Economic Effects of Policies Contributing to Fiscal Tightening in2013

·         Technical Challenges of the U.S. Army’s Ground Combat VehicleProgram

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Chinese Communist Party

Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security

·         Critical Technology Assessment—Night Vision Focal Plane Arrays,Sensors, and Cameras

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Biosurveillance

·         DoD Instruction 5200.44, Protection of Mission Critical Functions to Achieve Trusted Systems and Networks (TSN), November 5, 2012

·         Timeline for Benghazi Response

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2013-019 Defense Institution Reform Initiative Program Elements Need to Be Defined, November 9, 2012 November 8, 2012

Department of Homeland Security

·         Human Trafficking Awareness Training

·         OIG-13-05 Personnel Security and Internal Control at TSA’s Legacy Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing Office

Department of the Navy

·         OPNAV 3440.15C Department of the Navy Nuclear Weapon Incident Response Management

Enough Project

·         Not Just Mediation—UN Security Council’s Role in Supporting Peacein the Two Sudans 

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Pakistan: The End of Exceptionalism?

 EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

·         Regional Arrangement on Securing Radiological Agents as a CSBM—Common Interest in Preventing Radiological Terrorism

European Parliament

·         Report on the Role of the Common Security and Defence Policy in Case of Climate-Driven Crises and Natural Disasters

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Can Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) Lever Investment to getEurope out of Economic Crisis?

 

Feinstein International Center

·         Tradition in Transition: Customary Authority in Karamoja, Uganda

 

Foreign Policy

·         China Decides - FP's Definitive Guide to China's Once in a DecadeLeadership (S)election

·         Covert Affairs: A Short History of Spies and Their Sex Scandals

·         Kafka in Beijing

·         Why the World Can't Have a Nate Silver

·         Worst Predictions: Election Edition

·         Xi Jinping's Challenge

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Georgia's Elections: Lessons for Democratic Transitions

·         The Long Shadow of “Nord Ost”

·         USMC 237: Austerity, Adaptation, and Innovation

FRIDE

·         Can the Crisis Unlock Euro-Mediterranean Relations?

·         Quick Fix or Quicksand? Implementing the EU Sahel Strategy

German Development Institute

·         Short-Term Effects of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis onHouseholds in Three Developing Countries: The Cases of El Salvador, Tajikistanand Cambodia

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         What Friends Are Made Of: Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Driversof Foreign Policy Alignment with China

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt's Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011 Schedules of Federal Debt. GAO-13-114

·         Financial Audit: Office of Financial Stability (Troubled Asset Relief Program) Fiscal Years 2012 and 2011 Financial Statements. GAO-13-126R  

Heritage Foundation

·         MANPADS on the Loose: Countering Weapons Proliferation in North Africaand the Sahel

·         Syrian Uprising: U.S. Inaction Contributes to a Wider RegionalConflict

Hudson Institute

·         Iran, Nonproliferation, and the IAEA—A Legal History 

Human Rights Watch

·         “The Law Was Against Me”: Migrant Women’s Access to Protection for Family Violence in Belgium

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Mali: Making Peace While Preparing for War

·         The Somali Diaspora Options for Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

·         What To Do About Islamophobia: Why the Election Counts     

Institute for the Understanding of War

·         The Campaign in Northern Syria, November 2012

·         Northern Syria Map Nov 2012

·         Weekly Iraq Update #45 - November 2, 2012-November 7,2012

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Customs Administration Reform and Modernization in FrancophoneSub-Saharan Africa, 1995–2010

·         FX Funding Risks and Exchange Rate Volatility–Korea’s Case

·         Investment-Led Growth in China: Global Spillovers

·         Long-Run and Short-Run Determinants of Sovereign Bond Yields inAdvanced Economies

·         Measures of Fiscal Risk in Hydrocarbon-Exporting Countries

·         On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks: the Role ofStorage

·         Shock Therapy! What Role for Thai Monetary Policy?

·         The Spillover Effects of a Downturn in China’s Real EstateInvestment

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         A Good Office? Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar

·         Mitigating the Consequences of Violent Conflict: What Works andWhat Does Not?

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, November 6, 2012, v. 12, no. 21

o    Professionalism and Factionalism in the PLA Leadership Selection

o    China Evaluates the U.S. Presidential Race

o    China and Brunei: Ties that Bind?

o    Shifts in Beijing’s Afghan Policy: A View From the Ground

Lexington Institute

·         Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S. Electrical Grid

o    Part I—Fixing It Before It Breaks

o    Part II—Managing the Chaos and Costsof Shared Risks

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2012 [updated Nov 8, 2012]

·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated Nov 11,2012]

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         US Rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific and Japan-US DynamicDefense Cooperation

National Security Archive

·         Declassified 1964 National Intelligence Estimate Predicts India'sBomb But Not Israel's 

 NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre

·         Report Update: Unsecured Libyan Weapons – Regional Impact andPossible Threats 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         Regional Framework for a Comprehensive Security Settlement: DoesIt Work?

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Winter 2013, v. 66, no. 1

o    The Perils of History [Hattendorf Prize Lecture]

o    The Secretary and CNO on 23-24 October 1962: Setting the Historical Record Straight

o    Globalization, Security, and Economic Well-Being

o    Replacing Battleships with Aircraft Carriers in the Pacific in World War II

o    Sea Control through the Eyes of the Person Who Does It: A Theoretical Field Analysis

o    For Want of a Timely Call [Commentary essay]

o    Parshall's "Whoppers" Examined [Research & Debate essay]

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Decentralisation in Pakistan: The Lost Opportunity of the 18thAmendment

·         Ending 50 Years of Military Rule? Prospects for Peace, Democracyand Development in Burma

 

Observer Research Foundation

·         The US Presidential Election: Implications for East Asia

 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

·         Growth, Aid and Policies in Countries Recovering from War

·         International Markets for Security and Military Assistance

·         Transnational Organised Crime and Fragile States

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         Ground Truth in Building Human Security

PeaceOps

·         Stability Operations, November-December 2012, v. 8, no. 3

o    Strategy, National Security, and Social Change: Exploring an Evolving Security Environment

o    Mentoring with the Goal of Stability: Lessons from Afghan National Army Training

o    Sandhurst in the Sand: Bringing British Training to Afghanistan

o    Post-Conflict Law and Order: Short Takes from a Recent Stimson Study

o    Ending Human Trafficking in U.S. Government Contracts: Implications for Federal Contractors

o    A West African Time Bomb: Islamic Jihadists Establish an Al-Qaeda Franchise in Northern Mali

o    A conversation with Mark Kroeker: Police Training in an Evolving United Nations

 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         China's Currency Rises in the US Backyard

·         How Can Trade Policy Help America Compete?

·         Performance of the Services Sector in Korea: An EmpiricalInvestigation

·         The Services Sector in Asia: Is It an Engine of Growth? 

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         United States’ Foreign Policy Under Obama: What Could a SecondTerm Bring?

·         Waiting for the Fifth Generation of Chinese Leaders

Rand

·         Labor Force Reentry: Issues for Injured Service Members andVeterans

·         National Guard Special Forces: Enhancing the Contributions ofReserve Component Army Special Operations Forces

·         Unemployment Among Post-9/11 Veterans and Military Spouses Afterthe Economic Downturn

·         Working with Allies and Partners: A Cost-Based Analysis of U.S.Air Forces in Europe

Refugees International

·         Somalia’s Displaced Population at Risk  

Refugees Studies Centre

·         Humanitarian Innovation and Refugee Protection

·         Refugee Livelihoods and the Private Sector: Ugandan Case Study

Small Arms Survey

·         Internal Control: Codes of Conduct within Insurgent Armed Groups                 

Small Wars Journal

·         American Military Decline? Not When Force Is Used Properly

·         Chairman Mao vs. President Assad: People’s War in Syria

·         Competitive Engagement: Upgrading America’s Influence

·         Dual Use? The Iranian Nuclear Program

·         Embedded Staff Officer Survival on an Asymmetric Battlefield

·         Predicting the Next Army Transformation: From the BCT to the SmallUnit of Action

Ubiquity Press

·         Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, October/November 2012, v. 1, no. 1

o    Slip-Sliding on a Yellow Brick Road: Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan

o    From Insurgency to Bureaucracy: Free Aceh Movement, Aceh Party and the New Face of Conflict

o    Interim Stabilisation in Fragile Security Situations

o    What if the FARC Demobilizes?

o    Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Prevention: Obstacles and Opportunities

o    Reviewing the Justice and Security Hub Modality as Piloted in Liberia

o    Catalysts and Networks for Stability

o    Globalisation with a Twist: Stability, Volatility and Fragility All in One

UNESCO Pakistan

·         Situation Analysis of the Education Sector

Union of Concerned Scientists

·         CMRR-Nuclear Facility—Why a Delay Makes Sense 

 UK House of Commons

·         The Referendum on Separation for Scotland: Terminating Trident -Days or Decades?

 

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

·         Refugees and the Rashaida: Human Smuggling and Trafficking fromEritrea to Sudan and Egypt

 

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

·         An Analysis of Chinese Investments in the U.S. Economy

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics, 2012

o    Services Liberalization and Computable General Equilibrium Modeling: Beyond Tariff Equivalents

o    China’s Vision for Renewable Energy: The Status of Bioenergy and Bioproduct Research and Commercialization

o    The U.S. International Trade Commission's High-Technology Trade Roundtable

o    Can We Apply Lessons from the German Trade Balance with China to the United States?

o    Comment on “Innovation and Job Creation in a Global Economy: The Case of Apple's iPod

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After the Election: Implications for U.S. Middle East Policy   

·         Brotherly Love

·         Friends with Benefits: Why the U.S.-Israeli Alliance Is Good forAmerica

·         The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy

·         The New Administration: Impact on the Middle East [video]

·         Relationship Advice

·         Saudi Resignation Prompts Fresh Succession Debate

·         Shiite Clergy's Silence toward Syrian Crisis

·         Who's Who in Turkey's Justice and Development Party?

White House

·         Remarks by the President on Veterans Day