Friday's Miscellany 11-23-2012

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Conflicting Agendas Approaching DecisiveDialogue in Yemen

·         Hezbollah’s Role in Syria and theImplications for Lebanon

·         The Tunisian Troika: Regaining Initiativewith a New Deadline

American Peace Society

·         World Affairs Journal, November-December 2012

o    Could Australia Tilt Toward China?

o    Hedging Bets: Washington’s Pivot to India

o    The Kurds’ Evolving Strategy in Turkey

o    Libya’s Year One: Life After Qaddafi

o    A Tilt Toward China? Australia Reconsiders Its American Ties

o    Washington’s Pivot to India

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

·         The Lawless Ones: The Resurgence of theSovereign Citizen Movement [2nd edition]

 Arms Control Council/BASIC/IFSH

·         Modernizing NATO’s Nuclear Forces:Implications for the Alliance’s Defense Posture and Arms Control

Atlantic Council

·         An Agenda for NATO-EU-Private Sector CyberCollaboration

·         TSG IntelBrief: Somalia: Pirates Down andOut...for Now

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         To Bail Out or Not? Germany, “Madame No” andthe Euro Crisis

·         China: Interesting Times

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Operation Pillar of Defense: In Support of aGround Offensive

Berkman Center on Internet & Society

·         Parents, Teens and Online Privacy

Brookings

·         Conversations with Experts on the Future ofCentral America

·         From Bad Cop to Good Cop: The Challenge ofSecurity Sector Reform in Egypt [report in English and Arabic]

·         Human Resource Development in New NuclearEnergy States: Case Studies from the Middle East

CACI International Inc

·         The Winter of Our Torment: Reevaluating U.S.National Security and the Middle East

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

·         Forget Al-Qaeda: Think Mexico - Next GreatThreat to Canadian Security

 

Catholic Agency for Overseas Development

·         Giving it Away: The Consequences of anUnsuitable Mining Policy in Colombia

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (CGCC)

·         From Input to Impact: Evaluating TerrorismPrevention Programs

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         The ASEAN and East Asia Summits: U.S. WalksSoftly While China Wields a Big Stick

·         Defense Reforms in India: Slow but SteadyProgress

·         The Fighting in Gaza: Just “Round Two” in anEndless Series of Future Clashes and Battles?

·         Lessons Learned from AIDS 2012: Friends inNeed Are Friends Indeed

·         Middle East Notes and Comment: Brother, CanYou Spare a Carrier?

·         PacNet #71B - China's Consumption Problem andthe Global Economy

·         PacNet #75 - China: A Hidden Danger inMyanmar's Reform Process

·         PacNet #76 - How the US Can Profit fromChina's Political Transition

·         Significant Cyber Incidents Since 2006 [updated November 20, 2012]

·         The State of Public Health in South Sudan:Critical Condition

·         U.S.-India Military Engagement: Steady asThey Go

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Backloading: A Necessary, But Not SufficientFirst Step

·         A Framework for Various Approaches under theUNFCCC: Necessity or Luxury?

·         The Future of the Clean DevelopmentMechanism: A Note on the Report “A Call to Action” of the High-Level Panel onCDM Policy Dialogue

·         How to Deal with Macroeconomic Imbalances?

·         Household Debt in Europe’s Periphery: TheDangers of a Prolonged Recession

·         Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to theEuropean External Action Service

Chatham House

·         Brazil in Africa: Just Another BRICS CountrySeeking Resources?

·         Stability and Development in Somalia

·         The United States Africa Command: ProtectingUS Interests and Supporting African Capacity [event video and transcript]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

·         Strategic Maneuvers: The Revolving Door fromthe Pentagon to the Private Sector

College of Europe

·         EU China Observer, no.5, November  2012

·         The Gulf Cooperation Council as a NewRegional Power: Time for the EU to Propose a Strategic Partnership

·         Why Is Sovereign Debt Restructuring aChallenge? The Case of Greece

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Estimated Impact of the American Recovery andReinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from July 2012 ThroughSeptember 2012

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         European Foreign Policy and the Euro Crisis

·         Poland's Economic Model

Delhi Policy Group

·         Peace and Stabilization in Afghanistan: WhatCan Neighbors Contribute?

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Coalition Warfare Program FY14-15 ManagementPlan and CWP Brief

·         Directive Updates DoD's Space Policy

·         DoD Directive 3000.09, Autonomy in Weapon Systems, November 21, 2012

Emergency Capacity Building Project

·         Northern Mali: Conflict & Food Insecurity

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

·         2012 Middle East WMDFZ Conference

European Interagency Security Forum (EISF)

·         Gender and Security: Guidelines forMainstreaming Gender in Security Risk Management

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         No Complete Breakdown – At Least Not Just Yet

Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

·         Sanctions, Military Strikes, and OtherPotential Actions Against Iran: Initial Findings from an Expert Elicitation onPotential Global Economic Impacts

Foreign Policy

·         Bearing Witness [Gaza]

·         King David : Why Generals Shouldn't Run the CIA

·         On Pilgrims and Zionists

·         That Other War [Congo]

·         Panetta's Wrong About a Cyber 'Pearl Harbor'

·         Thanksgiving is Un-American

·         Trouble on the Home Front

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Bomb Returns for a Second Act

·         Israel, Hamas, and "the Egypt We WereWaiting For"

FRIDE

·         The EU and Ukraine: Hapless But Not Hopeless

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         The “Bearded Elites” and the Sad State ofEgyptian State Institutions

·         Turkey’s Diminutive Democracy

·         Turkey, Syrian Opposition, and the UnitedStates: An Unlikely Trio?

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)

·         Interactive Map of Affected Countries [targeted attacks on schools, teachers, and students, or the military use and occupation of schools by armed forces]

·         Lessons in War: Military Use of Schools andOther Education Institutions during Conflict

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Information Management: National Technical Information Service's Dissemination of Technical Reports Needs Congressional Attention. GAO-13-99

·         Returned Peace Corps Volunteers: Labor and Peace Corps Need Joint Approach to Monitor Access to and Quality of Health Care Benefits. GAO-13-27

·         Spectrum Management: FCC's Licensing Approach in the 11, 18, and 23 Gigahertz Bands Currently Supports Spectrum Availability and Efficiency. GAO-13-78R

Heritage Foundation

·         Chinese Economic Espionage Is Hurting theCase for Free Trade

Households in Conflict Network

·         Social Capital and Conflict

Human Rights Watch

·         Losing Humanity: The Case against KillerRobots

·         Red Herring: Marijuana Arrestees Do NotBecome Violent Felons 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         African Efforts to Close the Impunity Gap

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         In Positive Move, Burma to Sign Additional Protocol

Institute for the Study of War

·         Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated November 2012]

·         Timeline: Ali Mussa Daqduq

·         Weekly Iraq Update #47 November 15, 2012-November 21, 2012

·         Why U.S. troops must stay in Afghanistan

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         A Stirring Call for China-India StrategicLeadership

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         Boosting Negotiations with Turkey: What CanFrance Do?

International Center for Research on Women

·         Strengthening Research and Action onGender-based Violence in Africa

 International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s WesternMedia Strategy

International Crisis Group

·         Israel and Hamas: Fire and Ceasefire in a NewMiddle East

·         A Precarious Balancing Act: Lebanon and theSyrian Conflict

·         Sri Lanka: Tamil Politics and the Quest for aPolitical Solution

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         2012 Spillover Report - Background Papers

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         The Uprisings and the Future of North Africaand the Middle East: The Vienna Seminar 2012

International Relations and Security Network

·         The Geopolitics of Brazil: An EmergentPower's Struggle with Geography [5 parts]

·         Mexico's Grand Strategy [with related pubs]

·         Russia's Grand Strategy

·         The Sources of Turkish Grand Strategy –‘Strategic Depth’ and ‘Zero-Problems’ in Context

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Joint Pub 2-03, Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations, 31 October 2012

National Academies Press

·         Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at theU.S.-Mexico Border

National Defense University Press

·         Strategic Reflections: Operation IraqiFreedom, July 2004–February 2007

National Security Archive

·         Declassified Pentagon History ProvidesHair-Raising Scenarios of U.S. Vulnerabilities to Nuclear Attack through 1970s

 NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update Nov 13, 2012]

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Brazil: An Emerging Peacekeeping Actor

·         Demobilisation and Disarmament in PeaceProcesses

·         Disarmament and Demobilisation in ComparativePerspective: Patterns and Policy Recommendations  

·         Drugs and the Peace Process in Colombia

·         The Expectation Gap: Delivering Justice andAccountability in Post-Mubarak Egypt

·         Jordan, the Syrian Factor and StreetDiscontent

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

·         Report on Security Clearance Determinations2011

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         Poland and Brazil: Narrowing the Distance,Exploring Mutual Potential

Rand

·         Improving Air Force Depot Programming byLinking Resources to Capabilities

·         Promoting International Energy Security:Volume 4, The Gulf of Guinea

Small Arms Survey

·         Tracking National Homicide Rates:  Generating Estimates Using Vital RegistrationData

Small Wars Journal

·         An Alternative: Brains of Enormous Value

·         The Battle of the Supply Lines in Syria

·         Is Chicago on the Road to Becoming anAmerican Ciudad Juárez?

·         Virtual Indoctrination and the Digihad: TheEvolution of Al-Qaeda's Media Strategy

·         Zawahiri and Gaza’s Information Terrain

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         The Energy and Security Nexus: A StrategicDilemma

UN Office on Drugs and Crime

·         Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012 SummaryFindings   

US  International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         The Value of Value Added: Measuring GlobalEngagement with Gross and Value-added Trade

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Conflict in Gaza: The Egyptian PresidentPlots a Dangerous Course

·         The Fuel for the Flames

·         Gaza Violence: Hamas's Tragic Mistake

·         How To Defuse the Israel-Gaza Conflict:Cairo's Crucial Role

·         How to End the War in Gaza

·         Maliki Government's Whitewashing of Hezbollah

·         Palestinian Media on Gaza: Contrasting the PAand Hamas

·         Responding to Assad's Use of Airpower inSyria