Friday's Miscellany 12-07-2012

Afghanistan Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee

·         Report of the Public Inquiry into the KabulBank Crisis 

Afghanistan Watch

·         Caught Between Past and Present: Consultation with Victims of Three Massacres in Afghanistan: 15 March 1979 Herat, February 1993 Afshar and August 1998 Balkh

African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes

·         Kenya's Military Intervention in Somalia: AnIntricate Process

American Enterprise Institute

·         An Action Plan for US Policy in the Americas

American Security Project

·         American Competitiveness Report – An Issue of National Security

·         Critical National Security Challenges 

·         Threat Finance and Financial Intelligence

Amnesty International

·         Conflict in Yemen: Abyan’s Darkest Hour

·         Death Penalty in the English-speaking Caribbean—A Human Rights Issue

·         Forced Evictions of Roma in Ile-de-France

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), November 2012, v. 19, no. 11

o    Costs of war: excess health care burdens during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (relative to the health care experience pre-war)

o    Substance use disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces, 2000-2011

o    Outbreak of gastrointestinal illness during Operation New Horizons in Pisco, Peru, July 2012

Armed Forces Journal

·         AFJ, November 2012 

o    Unloved Aerial Vehicles: Gutting Its UAV Plan, Air Force sets a Course for Irrelevance

o    The Cyber Terror Bogeyman

o    Don’t Box in the Red Team

o    Paper Dragon

o    Help Troops Save

o    Understanding the CIA

o    Back to basics

Atlantic Council

·         United States and the Global Future 

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         Post-Bipolar World: The Interdependence Paradigm

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Building in Jerusalem—A Strategic Imperative 

·         Operation Pillar of Defense—An Initial Strategic and Military Assessment

Bipartisan Policy Center

·         Countering Online Radicalization in America

 

Brookings

·         Bridging The Gap—Integrating Price Mechanisms Into International Climate Negotiations

·         Dangers of Popular Constitution-Making

·         The Education Link: Why Learning is Centralto the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda

·         Global MetroMonitor 2012: Slowdown, Recovery, and Interdependence

·         Improving University Technology Transfer and Commercialization

·         Learning to Compete: Is Small Beautiful?Small Enterprise, Aid and Employment in Africa

·         Tax Reform for Growth, Equity, and Revenue

·         The Treaty on Intermediate-Range NuclearForces: History and Lessons Learned

Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Feeding the HungryDragon: Canada, Mongolia and China's Resource Strategy

·         Recapitalizing the Canadian Forces’ Major Fleets: Assessing the Lingering Controversies and Challenges

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Avoiding a Divorce: A Virtual EU Membershipfor Turkey 

·         Global Ten [large file]  

·         In Afghanistan, It’s Not All in the Numbers

Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict inSouth Asia: Rising Tensions and Policy Options Across the Subcontinent  

·         Reforming Our Tax System, Reducing OurDeficit

Center for Security Policy

·         7 Ways that Looming Budget Cuts to Public Lands and Oceans Will Affect All Americans

·         The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left inLatin America: A Dark Picture

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, No. 120:Legislation and Governance

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Building an Integrated Enterprise: Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of CBRNE Detection and Response

·         Competing Pressures for U.S. PEPFAR in Botswana 

·         Hemisphere Insider: Volume II, Issue 32 - December 7, 2012

·         Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) – No. 63, 4 December 2012

·         Issues & Insights, v. 12,  no. 13

·         PacNet #77A - Position Vacant:Nonproliferation and Disarmament Leader, Asia

·         PacNet #81 - What Happens when CriticalInfrastructure Defenses Fail?

·         PacNet #82 - For Mongolia, Two Symbolic Steps in the Wrong Direction

·         Recommendations for a New Administration

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation

·         Criminal Justice and Rule of Law CapacityBuilding to Counter Terrorism in Fragile Institutional Contexts: Lessons From Development Cooperation

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         The EU Budget Becomes Politically More Explosive

·         The False Promise of a Eurozone Budget

·         Inequality in the Southern Mediterranean: A Survey of Selected Countries

Chatham House

·         EU and the US—Partnership in Search of Leadership

·         EU Structural Funds: Do They Generate MoreGrowth?

·         Intra-European Imbalances: the Need for a Positive-Sum-Game Approach

·         Lessons from Our Friends in the North

Coalition for Fiscal and National Security

·         Statement Urging DOD Budget Cuts be Weighed as Part of Government-wide Effort 

Congress. Senator Coburn

·         Safety At Any Price: Assessing the Impact of Homeland Security Spending in U.S. Cities

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

·         Quarterly Update—U.S. Economic Recovery in Historical Context

·         U.S. Debt Ceiling: Costs and Consequences

 

Defense Security Service (DSS)

·         Targeting U.S. Technologies: A Trend Analysis Reporting from Defense Industry   

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2013-026 Supply Support Activities in Afghanistan Could Be Managed More Effectively to Improve Inventory Accountability, November 30, 2012 

·         DODIG-2013-028 Contracting Improvements Still Needed in DoD's FY 2011 Purchases Made Through the Department of Veterans Affairs, December 7, 2012

Department of State

·         The Future of U.S.-China Economic Relations

East-West Center

·         After Obama's Visit: The US-Thailand Alliance and China

·         Changing Cities: Linking Global Knowledge to Local Action

Emergency Management

·         Dueling Degrees: Emergency Management vs.Homeland Security

 

Enough Project

·         Getting Back on Track—Implementing the UN Regional Strategy on the Lord’s Resistance Army 

EURAC

·         Getting Back on Track: Implementing the UNRegional Strategy on the Lord's Resistance Army

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Palestine's UN Status Change: What Comes Next?

Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

·         Japan's Role as Leader for Nuclear Nonproliferation

Feinstein International Center

·         Afghanistan: Humanitarianism in Uncertain Times

Foreign Policy

·         The Big Kill

·         Blue World Order

·         The Climate Scofflaw

·         Confessions of a Strategic Communicator

·         DeMinted

·         Who Really Did Build That?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Iran: Taking Aim at Low Fertility and Women’sMobility

·         The Verdict on Mykonos - and the Future ofIran

FRIDE

·         Parliamentary Reform after the Arab Spring

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         What Friends Are Made Of—Bilateral Linkages and Domestic Drivers of Foreign Policy Alignment with China

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         A New Chance for Ukraine? 

·         Turkey and the EU: What Next?

·         Turkey and the United States: What to Expect in Obama’s Second Term

Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA)

·         GHA Report 2012

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Afghanistan Development: Agencies Could Benefit from a Shared and More Comprehensive Database on U.S. Efforts. GAO-13-34

·         Civil Rights: Additional Actions in Pigford II Claims Process Could Reduce Risk of Improper Determinations. GAO-13-69R

·         Defense Management: Opportunities Exist to Improve Information Used in Monitoring Status of Efficiency Initiatives. GAO-13-105R

·         DHS Strategic Workforce Planning: Oversight of Departmentwide Efforts Should Be Strengthened. GAO-13-65

·         Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Effects of Proposed Changes on Partial Disability Beneficiaries Depend on Employment After Injury. GAO-13-143R

·         The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Fall 2012 Update. GAO-13-148SP

·         Firms Reported to Have Sold Iran Refined Petroleum Products or Engaged in Commercial Activities in Iran's Energy Sector. GAO-13-173R

·         James Webb Space Telescope: Actions Needed to Improve Cost Estimate and Oversight of Test and Integration. GAO-13-4

·         Screening Partnership Program: TSA Should Issue More Guidance to Airports and Monitor Private versus Federal Screener Performance. GAO-13-208

Heritage Foundation

·         A Federalist Conception of the Pardon Power

·         North Korean Missile Launch Challenges U.S.Foreign Policy

·         STEM Jobs Act: Next Step for High-Skilled Immigration Reform

·         U.S. Can Mine the Deep Seabed Without Joining the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea

·         U.S. Should Put U.N. Climate Conferences on Ice

Human Rights Watch

·         Accountability before Guinea’s Courts for the September 28, 2009 Stadium Massacre, Rapes, and Other Abuses 

·         Waiting for Justice: Accountability beforeGuinea’s Courts for the September 28, 2009 Stadium Massacre, Rapes, and Other Abuses

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         Eruptions in Goma – Troublesome Mandate

·         In Pursuit of a Shield: US, Missile Defence and the Iran Threat

·         Israel Confronts Iran: Rationales, Responses and Fallouts  

·         The New Defence Offset Guidelines: Challenges Ahead

·         Obama’s Visit to Myanmar

·         Officers’ Promotion Policy in the Army

·         The Second India-China SED

·         Sectarian Violence in Karachi: Is Pakistan Closer to the Precipice?

·         SINAI: The Middle East’s New Hot Spot

Institute for Economics and Peace

·         Global Terrorism Index: Capturing the Impact of Terrorism from 2002-2011

Institute for the Study of Radical Movements (ISRM)

·         Moving Forwards? Breaking with Right-Wing Extremism in Present Day Berlin

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

·         The Battle for Damascus: The Current State of Play in Syria

·         Combat Power & Confidence Within The Afghan National Army

·         Syrian Kurds and the Democratic Union Party (PYD)

·         The Surge in Afghanistan: Command Voices

·         Weekly Iraq Update #49 November 30,2012-December 06, 2012

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         China-India Strategic Economic Dialogue Gains Momentum

·         FDI in Multi-brand Retail in India: Signs of New Resolve

·         A Pakistani Vision of Peace with India

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

·         Preventing and Countering Far-RightExtremism: European Cooperation

·         Social Media for Social Change: Using the Internet to Tackle Intolerance

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

·         Expectations of Intelligence in the Information Age

 

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation

·         Countering Online Radicalization in America

International Crisis Group

·         CrisisWatch N°112, 1 December 2012

·         The Philippines: Breakthrough in Mindanao

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies:Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments

·         Enhancing Surveillance - Interconnectedness and Clusters - Background Paper

·         Fiscal Multipliers and the State of the Economy

·         Issues in Extractive Resource Taxation: A Review of Research Methods and Models

·         The Need for "Un-consolidating" Consolidated Banks' Stress Tests

·         Pension Reforms in Japan

·         Tracking Global Demand for Advanced Economy Sovereign Debt

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Go Long: Six Actions to Structurally Address Organized Violence

·         The Uprisings: The Future of North Africa and the Middle East

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Joint Pub 3-13, Information Operations, 27 November 2012

·         Joint Pub 3-18, Joint Forcible Entry Operations, 27 November 2012

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Inauguration of the Xi Jinping Leadership: Its Significance and Prospects

·         Outlook on the Second-Term Obama Administration’s Policy towards North Korea

Lexington Institute

·         Ensuring the Resilience of the U.S.Electrical Grid, Part IV—Key Investment Areas and Next Steps

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2012 [updated Dec 9, 2012]

National Academies Press

·         Disaster Resilience:  A National Imperative

·         Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security

·         An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention

·         Potential Health Risks to DOD Firing-RangePersonnel from Recurrent Lead Exposure

National Security Archive

·         Outdated Agency Regs Undermine Freedom of Information

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         U.S. “Rebalancing” as an Opportunity for a NWFZ in Northeast Asia

New America Foundation

·         Congress' Wicked Problem 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         China’s Regional Security Relations and Interaction with the U.S.: Trends, Challenges and Possible Scenarios

·         Gaza War II: Hamas's Tough Choices

·         Negotiating Disarmament and Demobilisation in Peace Processes: What is the State of the Evidence?

Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA)

·         Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts [Full report]

·         Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts [Executive Summary]

·         Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts [Case Studies]

Rand

·         Keeping Law Enforcement Connected:Information Technology Needs from State and Local Agencies

·         Modernizing the Mobility Air Force forTomorrow's Air Traffic Management System

·         RAND in the Middle

·         The Validity of the Preference Profiles used for Evaluating Impacts in the Dutch National Risk Assessment

Refugees International

·         Syrian Refugees—Reliance on Camps Creates FewGood Options  

Saferworld

·         Addressing Conflict and Violence from 2015:The Impact of Conflict and Violence on Achieving Development

·         Addressing Conflict and Violence from 2015:Rising Powers and Conflict

·         Addressing Conflict and Violence from 2015:What Are the Key Challenges? What Works in Addressing Them?

SIPRI

·         Measuring International Arms Transfers 

Small Arms Survey

·         Costs and Consequences: Unplanned Explosions and Demilitarization in South-East Europe

·         Urban Armed Violence

Small Wars Journal

·         The Afghan National Army in 2014

·         Counter-Insurgency Best Practices:Applicability to Northeast India

·         Criminal Insurgency: Narcocultura, SocialBanditry, and Information Operations

·         Saddam’s Generals: Perspectives of theIran-Iraq War

·         What is War? A New Point of View

Stanley Foundation

·         Shifting Coalitions and Potential Blocs for Asian and Pacific Leadership in the G-20

Stimson Center

·         Great Eastern Japan Earthquake—“Lessons Learned” for Japanese Defense Policy

·         Meeting The Objectives Of UN Security Council Resolution 1540—The Role Of Civil Society

·         The Pentagon as Pitchman: Perception and Reality of Public Diplomacy

Transparency International

·         2012 Corruption Perceptions Index

UK Department for Business Innovation & Skills

·         Reducing Risks of Future Disasters:Priorities for Decision Makers

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         A Diplomatic Milestone for Mindanao?

·         Enabling Agricultural Extension for Peacebuilding

Vision of Humanity

·         2012 Global Terrorism Index

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Egypt's Theocratic Future: The Constitutional Crisis and U.S. Policy

·         The End of the Forty-Year Peace Between Israel and Arab States

·         The First Flower of the Arab Spring

·         How Would Assad Use Chemical Weapons?

·         Iran Threatens Aerial Freedom of Navigation in the Gulf

·         Iraq's Oil Future 

·         Israel's Natural Gas Preferences

·         Legacies to Avoid in the Middle East

·         The New Normal on the Turkish-Syrian Border

·         The Rise of Al Qaeda in Syria

·         Syria after Assad: Heading Toward a Hard Fall?

·         The Unfortunate Rise of Retrenchment Chic

White House

·         Remarks by the President at the Nunn-LugarCooperative Threat Reduction Symposium

Wilson Center

·         The Challenges of the 21st Century City

·         Gaming Our Way to a Better Future

·         On Multilateralism, Sovereignty and the Western Hemisphere: Concepts in Jeopardy

·         Too Big to Succeed: The Need for Federal ITReform

·         Women after the Arab Awakening

World Bank

·         Turn Down The Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided