greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 02-15-2013

· DODIG-2013-046 Acquisition Processes and Contract Management DoD Does Not Have Visibility Over the Use of Funds Provided to the Department of Energy

Department of State

· The Crisis in Mali: U.S. Interests and the International Response

· Finding a Lasting Solution to Instability inThe Democratic Republic of the Congo

· Forging Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the NPT

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

· Misery Beyond the War Zone—Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Populations in Lebanon

East West Center

· The Elusive Nature of North Korean Reform

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

· Gabon Country Analysis Brief - February 2013

· Saudi Arabia Country Analysis Brief - February 2013

· Thailand Country Analysis Brief - February 2013

Enough Project

· Peace by Committee—The 17 Committees and Commissions Responsible for Making Peace between the Two Sudans

European Policy Centre (EPC)

· Democratisation, Modernisation and Globalisation - The EU and the Hard Tasks Facing the Three South Caucasus Nations

· The EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF):Agreement but at a Price

Feinstein International Center

· Refugee Livelihoods in Urban Areas: Identifying Program Opportunities:Recommendations for Programming and Advocacy

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· Elections in Jordan: Victory for Reform orMore of the Same?

FRIDE

· The Afghanistan-Central Asia Relationship:What Role for the EU?

· Foreign Democracy Assistance in the Czech and Slovak Transitions: What Lessons for the Arab World?

· Strategic Priorities for EU Defence Policy

German Development Institute

· Effectiveness of Democracy-Support in “Fragile States”: A Review

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

· Turkey’s Iraq Challenge

Global Humanitarian Assistance

· Humanitarian Financing to the Syria Crisis in 2013

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· 2013 Update to GAO's High Risk List. GAO-13-283

· Afghanistan: Key Oversight Issues. GAO-13-218SP

· Building Partner Capacity: Key Practices to Effectively Manage Department of Defense Efforts to Promote Security Cooperation, by Janet St. Laurent, managing director, defense capabilities and management, before the House Committee on Armed Services. GAO-13-335T [testimony]

· Cybersecurity: National Strategy, Roles, and Responsibilities Need to Be Better Defined and More Effectively Implemented. GAO-13-187

· Defense Health: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Combat Casualty Care Research Achieves Goals. GAO-13-209

· Defense Business Transformation: Improvements Made but Additional Steps Needed to Strengthen Strategic Planning and Assess Progress. GAO-13-267

· Depot Maintenance: Additional Information Needed to Meet DOD's Core Capability Reporting Requirements. GAO-13-194

· Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made and Work Remaining after Nearly 10 Years in Operation, by Cathleen A. Berrick, managing director, homeland security and justice, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, House Committee on Homeland Security [testimony] GAO-13-370T

· Drug Control: State Approaches Taken to Control Access to Key Methamphetamine Ingredient Show Varied Impact on Domestic Drug Labs. GAO-13-204

· Helium Program: Urgent Issues Facing BLM's Storage and Sale of Helium Reserves, by Daniel Garcia-Diaz, director, natural resources and environment, before the House Committee on Natural Resources. GAO-13-351T [testimony]

· Influenza: Progress Made in Responding to Seasonal and Pandemic Outbreaks, by Marcia Crosse, director, health care, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Committee on Energy and Commerce. GAO-13-374T [testimony]

· Standard Missile-3 Block IIB Analysis of Alternatives. GAO-13-382R

· Pipeline Permitting: Interstate and Intrastate Natural Gas Permitting Processes Include Multiple Steps, and Time Frames Vary. GAO-13-221

· Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Continued Coordination, Operational Data, and Performance Standards Needed to Guide Research and Development, by Gerald L. Dillingham, Ph.D., director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Subcommittee on Oversight, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. GAO-13-346T [testimony]

· VA Health Care: Reported Outpatient Medical Appointment Wait Times Are Unreliable, by Debra A. Draper, director, health care, before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. GAO-13-363T [testimony]

· Warfighter Support: Army's and Defense Logistics Agency's Approach for Awarding Contracts for the Army Combat Shirt. GAO-13-57R

Government of the United Kingdom

· Scotland Analysis—Devolution and theImplications of Scottish Independence

Heritage Foundation

· Budget Cuts Would Not Harm the Economy

· China’s Xi Jinping’s New Hard Line and the U.S.–Japan Alliance

· How the United States’ High Debt Will Weaken the Economy and Hurt Americans

· Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Falls Short

· Second Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Setting Priorities for the Next Four Years

· United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Mali: Only After Stability Is Restored

· U.S. Natural Gas Exports—Lift Restrictions and Empower the States

· U.S. Should Back India’s Membership in APEC

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· Bangladesh War Crime Trial: The Surprise Second Verdict

· Shruti and Smritik—Some Issues in the Re-emergence of Indian Traditional Knowledge

· Transformation of Tibet Issue from Hope to Despair: What Next?

Institute of International Affairs

· Strategy Papers on the Arctic or High North—A Comparative Study and Analysis

Institute for Public Policy

· Eventual Immigration Reform Details Will Determine Success

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

· ISIS Statement on North Korean Nuclear Test

· Ring Magnets for IR-1 Centrifuges

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

· 2013 Iraq Update #7: De-Baathification Body Ousts Iraq's Chief Justice as Protests Continue

· Iraq's Return to Bloodshed

· The Syrian Army: Doctrinal Order of Battle

Intelligence and National Security Alliance

· Intelligence Community IT Enterprise—Doing in Common What is Commonly Done

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

· Al-Qaeda at the Crossroads: How the Terror Group is Responding to the Loss of Its Leaders & the Arab Spring

International Crisis Group

· Sudan’s Spreading Conflict (I): War in South Kordofan

· Tunisia: Violence and the Salafi Challenge

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· Blackout Periods in GRA Arrangements and the Extended Rights to Purchase Policy - A Review

· Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5: What are the Links?

· Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany

· Structural Transformation and the Volatility of Aggregate Output in OECD Countries

International Peace Institute (IPI)

· Enhancing European Military and Police Contributions to UN Peacekeeping

· Migrants in Times of Crisis: An Emerging Protection Challenge

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

· Managing Indonesia – An Australian Perspective

· Managing Kashmir

· Managing the Indian Ocean

· Managing the Strait of Malacca

· Vietnam and the US: Convergence but Not Congruence

Jamestown Foundation

· China Brief, February 15,2013, v. 13, no. 4

o All the General Secretary’s Men: Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Revealed

o Radar Incident Obscures Beijing’s Conciliatory Turn toward Japan

o The PLA Prepares for Future Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations

o Shared Threat Perceptions Begin Renewal of Sino-Russian Arms Trade

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy (Harvard University)

· Media Coverage of the Drone Program

Moshe Dayan Center

· The Attack on the US Embassy in Ankara: AWarning for the Turkish Government

National Academies Press

· Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary

· Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes: A Workshop Summary

National Bureau of Asian Research

· The Impending Tide of Chinese Investment in the United States

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

· Russia's Military Reform and the Navy

NATO Defense College

· AU-NATO Collaboration: Implications and Prospects

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

· New Approach to Security in Northeast Asia: Breaking the Gridlock Workshop

New America Foundation

· Reorienting America's Foreign Policy Toward North Africa and the Middle East

New York University School of Law

· The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

· Qatar: Geostrategic Media and Foreign Policy

· Qatar’s Foreign Policy

Oxford Research Group

· Afghanistan and the New American Way of War

· Mali: Consequences of a War

Pew Global Attitude Project

· China and Cyber Attacks: A Top Concern of U.S. Experts

Pew Hispanic Center

· A Statistical Portrait of U.S. Hispanics

Pew Internet and American Life Project

· The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

· Could the Arctic Warm Up NATO–Russia Relations?

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

· Social Justice through Affirmative Action in India

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

· Chris Landsberg and Candice Moore, "BRICS, South-South Cooperation and the Durban Summit: What's in it for South Africa?" (Portuguese Journal of International Affairs, No. 7, Spring/Summer 2013): 3-14

Rand

· Critical Materials: Present Danger to U.S. Manufacturing

· Embassy Security: From the Outside In

· Focus on the U.S. Gulf States: Committed tothe Region and the Well-Being of Its Residents

Small Wars Journal

· Do National Interests Extend Past the Atmosphere?

· Everything I Really Need to Know I Learnedfrom Afghans

· The Leadership Crisis in the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army

· Talking Trash with the Locals: Garbage and Situational Awareness

Stanley Foundation

· Promoting Greater Transparency for Effective Nuclear Security

TRAC