Friday's Miscellany 04-05-2013

38 North

·         Kim Jong Un's Pyongyang Shuffle

·         Satellite Images Show New Construction at North Korea's Plutonium Production Reactor; Rapid Restart?

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         “Good” Water Governance Models in Afghanistan—Gaps and Opportunities

American Enterprise Institute

·         Dutch Hard Power—Choosing Decline  

American Security Project

·         American Security Quarterly,  April 2013, v. 2, no. 2

o    The Need for Long Term Thinking

o    Energy R&D Critical to American Competitiveness

o    It’s Not DOE that Drives Energy Policy

o    Adjusting Pentagon Spending Priorities will Strengthen National Security

o    The Modern Day Trojan Horse

o    We don’t really know what the North Koreans are Thinking

o    Game Changer for Japan and Climate Change: Methane hydrate

o    Australia: A Poster Child for Climate Change

o    Lockheed Martin Outlines Plans for Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Amnesty International

·         Egypt/Sudan—Refugees Face Kidnapping for Ransom, Brutal Treatment and Human Trafficking 

·         Sudan—Ten Years On:  Violations Remain Widespread in Darfur 

·         Turkey—Decriminalize Dissent:  Time to Deliver on the Right to Freedom of Expression 

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

·         Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, March 2013, v.20, no. 3  

o    Challenges in monitoring and maintaining the health of pilots engaged in telewarfare

o    Mental health diagnoses and counseling among pilots of remotely piloted aircraft in the United States Air Force

o    External causes of traumatic brain injury, 2000-2011

o    Mid-season influenza vaccine effectiveness for the 2012-2013 influenza season

o    Update: heat injuries, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012

o    Update: exertional rhabdomyolysis, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2008-2012

o    Update: exertional hyponatremia, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 1999-2012

o    Deployment-related conditions of special surveillance interest

Asian Development Bank

·         The Kyrgyz Republic: Building a Brighter Future in the Heart of Central Asia

·         The Road to ASEAN Financial Integration

Atlantic Council

·         Time to Move from Tactics to Strategy on Iran

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         The Next Frontier in United States Unconventional Shale Gas and Tight Oil Extraction: Strategic Reduction of Environmental Impact

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Beyond the Trident Alternatives Review

·         Deterrence, Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and UK Trident

Brookings

·         America's Care in the Use of Force (and Use of Drones)

·         A Fair Compromise to Break the Climate Impasse

·         Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Resurgence

·         Top Five Reasons Why Africa Should Be a Priority for the United States

·         Understanding North Korea

Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies

·         International Financial Crisis and China’s Foreign Exchange Reserve Management 

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         West African Canaries in the Gold Mine—Investment Outlook and Challenges for Burkina Faso & Mali   

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)/Canadian International Council (CIC)

·         The Future of Foreign Military Training

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Balancing Chinese Interest on North Korea and Iran 

·         Great Strategic Triangle 

·         Iran’s Nuclear Odyssey—Costs and Risks 

·         Syria’s Opposition Leadership Problem 

Caspian Research Center

·         Iran’s Caspian Warship Shows Shift in Perceptions

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Listening to the Generals: How Military Advice Affects Public Support for the Use of Force

Center for American Progress

·         North Korea and the War of Words

 

Center for Complex Operations (CCO)

·         Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         Legalization vs. Enforcement: What the American People Think on Immigration

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Article by LTG Qi Jianguo on International Security Affairs

·         The Long Littoral Project: Sea of Japan

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         China-U.S.Relations in East Asia: Strategic Rivalry and Korea's Choice

·         Geostrategic Implications of Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas

·         Issues & Insights, Vol. 13, No. 3—Moving Forward Together:  The Future of the US-Japan Alliance

·         PacNet #20R - Response to PacNet #20 “Reading Into South Korea’s Nuclear Debate”

·         PacNet #22 - Understand Xi Jinping’s Renaissance, Put it in Historical Context

·         Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th and K Streets: Watershed Elections Could Mark a Political Transition in Malaysia

·         U.S.-Iran Strategic Competition—Impact of theEU, EU3, and Non-EU European States 

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation

·         Preventing Conflict and Terrorism: What Role for the Security Council?

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         The New Bail-in Doctrine: A Recipe for Banking Crises and Depression in the Eurozone

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         The Fighters of Lashkar‐e‐Taiba: Recruitment,Training, Deployment and Death

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         The Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle Program and Alternatives

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Abenomics and the Japanese Economy

·         Enter the Dragon and the Elephant—China’s and India’s Participation in Global Health Governance 

·         Quarterly Update—Foreign Ownership of U.S.Assets

            
Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Speech by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel,National Defense University, Washington, DC, Wednesday, April 03, 2013

·         U.S.-Japan Okinawa Consolidation Plan -Consolidation Plan for Facilities and Areas in Okinawa

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         2012 Information Technology Workforce Assessment for Cybersecurity (ITWAC): Summary Report

·         OIG 13-55  Effectiveness of the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division's Management Practices to Implement the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program

Department of the Navy

·         Navy Information Dominance Roadmap 2013-2028   

Department of State

·         Women in the Arab World - Do They Matter?

East West Center

·         Education in Pacific Island States: Reflections on the Failure of 'Grand Remedies' 

·         The United States: The Hidden Actor in the Senkaku Islands

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Iraq  Country Analysis Brief - April 2013

Enough Project

·         Architects of Atrocity—The Sudanese Government’s War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Torture in South Kordofanand Blue Nile States 

·         Broken Approach to Peace Between the Sudans—A Proposal to End the Cycle of Incremental Progress and Dangerous Delay 

·         Rights Groups Statement—Civilians Will Face Heightened Atrocities if Uganda and US End Operations to Counter Kony’s LRA 

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Brussels-Beijing—Changing the Game? 

·         Good Cop or Bad Cop?  Sanctioning Belarus 

European Leadership Network

·         Building Mutual Security in the Euro-AtlanticRegion: Report Prepared for Presidents, Prime Ministers, Parliamentarians, and Publics

European Research Program 

·         State Intelligence Agencies and the Far Right; A Review of Developments in Germany, Hungary and Austria

FRIDE

·         Foreign Funding in Egypt after the Revolution

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Strengthening the Core or Splitting Europe?

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Gay Rights: Where is Turkey Heading? 

·         Turkey's Negotiations with the PKK: Contents, Dynamics, Risks and Possible Outcomes

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Border Security: Partnership Agreements and Enhanced Oversight Could Strengthen Coordination of Efforts on Indian Reservations. GAO-13-352

·         Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Efforts to Assess Chemical Security Risk and Gather Feedback on Facility Outreach Can Be Strengthened. GAO-13-353

·         Defense Health Care: TRICARE Multiyear Surveys Indicate Problems with Access to Care for Nonenrolled Beneficiaries. GAO-13-364  

·         DOD Procurement of Mi-17 Helicopters. GAO-13-319R

·         Information Sharing: Agencies Could Better Coordinate to Reduce Overlap in Field-Based Activities. GAO-13-471

Government of Japan—National Institute of Defense Studies

·         East Asia Strategic Review 2013—Executive Summary

 

Heritage Foundation 

·         Arms Trade Treaty: Problems with Substancea nd Process

·         Congressional Guide—Seven Steps to U.S.Security, Prosperity, and Freedom in Cyberspace 

·         James Madison: Father of the Constitution

·         No European Union Membership in the Arctic Council

·         Strengthen the Coast Guard’s Presence in the Arctic

Households in Conflict Network

·         Evaluating Programmes in Conflict-Affected Areas

·         The Impact of Conflict on Education Attainment and Enrollment in Colombia: Lessons from Recent IDPs

Human Rights Watch

·         Turning Rhetoric into Reality: Accountability for Serious International Crimes in Côte d’Ivoire

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         BRICS Comes of Age at Durban 

·         China Nurtures Its Nuclear Nexus with Pakistan 

·         Democracy in Pakistan a Distant Dream 

·         Theaterised Joint Logistics: A Caliberated Initiation

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Africa's Role in Shaping the International Unclear Security Agenda

Institute for the Study of War

·         2013 Iraq Update 

o    #14: Political Calculations Trump Security Concerns

o    #13: Sunni Split as Sadrists Return to Government

·         Syria Update: The Southern Battlefronts

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         From EMU to DEMU: The Democratic Legitimacy of the EU and the European Parliament

·         Russia Plays on Azerbaijan's Insecurity but Sinks into Its Own Troubles

·         Turkey's Kurdish Gamble

Inter-American Dialogue

·         Debating the Prospects for Peace in Colombia 

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)

·         European Foreign Fighters in Syria

International Crisis Group

·         CrisisWatch, N°116, 01 Apr 2013

·         Yemen’s Military-Security Reform—Seeds for New Conflict? 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         China’s Path to Consumer-Based Growth:Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency

·         China’s Demography and its Implications

·         Italian Sovereign Spreads: Their Determinants and Pass-through to Bank Funding Costs and Lending Conditions

·         "Leaning Against the Wind" and the Timing of Monetary Policy

·         Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium

·         West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU): Staff Report on Common Policies for Member Countries

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East: Options and Challenges

International Relations and Security Network

·         Arguments for a Nuclear Iran?

·         Iran’s Internal Politics

·         Iran's Regional Quagmire 

·         A Nuclear Iran: The Spur to a Regional Arms Race?

·         The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Future of Middle East Security

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The Establishment of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea: Significance and Tasks

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, April 4, 2013, v. 11, no. 8 

o    South African Military Disaster in the Central African Republic: Part One - The Rebel Offensive

o    South African Military Disaster in the Central African Republic: Part Two - The Political and Strategic Fallout

o    Ahrar al-Sham: A Profile of Northern Syria’s al-Qaeda Surrogate

o    Royal Army of Sulu Seeks to Restore the Sultanate in Malaysia’s Sabah State

o    Private Approval, Public Condemnation: Drone Warfare’s Implications for Pakistani Sovereignty

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Joint Operations, Fourth Edition, March 2013

National Academies Press

·         Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence

·         Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan:  Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families

National Defense University (NDU)

·         Joint Forge Quarterly (JFQ), April 2013, 2nd Qrt, no. 69 

o    Victory, Peace, and Justice: The Neglected Trinity

o    Organization Theories: Perspectives on Changing National Security Institutions

o    Goldcorp Crowdsourcing: An Industry Best Practice for the Intelligence Community

o    Fostering Constructive Dialogue on Military Sexual Assault

o    Confronting Transnational Organized Crime: Getting It Right to Forestall a New National Security Threat

o    Democracy Promotion in Oman

o    Restoring the "Unwritten Alliance": Brazil-U.S. Relations

o    Joint Communications Support Element: The Voice Heard 'Round the World

o    Command and Control Vulnerabilities to Communications Jamming

o    An Interview with Samuel J. Locklear III

o    NATO's Level of Ambition: Beyond Strategic Reach

o    From Sea Power to Cyber Power: Learning from the Past to Craft a Strategy for the Future

o    The Future of U.S. Landpower: Special Operations Versatility, Marine Corps Utility

o    The German Military Mission in Romania, 1940-1941

o    Lead Turning the Fight: The Joint Operational Access Concept and Joint Doctrine

o    Redefining Information Operations

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         The Direction of China-Taiwan Relations under the Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou Administrations

National Security Archive

·         Freedom of Information Follies: FOIA Reviewers Declassify Same Rwanda Document Four Times, Creating New Secrets EachTime

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update March 25, 2013]

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE)

·         National Cyber Security Framework Manual

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

·         From Mutual Assured Destruction to Mutual Assured Stability: Exploring a New Comprehensive Framework for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Arms Reductions

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability 

·         Rattling the American Cage: North Korean Nuclear Threats and Escalation Potential

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Jordan’s East Banker-Palestinian Schism

·         Security in the South Caucasus—The EU, NATO and Russia

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

·         Building Mutual Security in the Euro-Atlantic Region

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

·         Biodetection Technologies for First Responders

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         SOLLIMS Sampler 2013, v. 4,no. 2

o    Leadership in Stability Operations Understanding / Engaging the People

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Corporate Taxation and US MNCs: Ensuring a Competitive Economy

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) 

·         Austerity Economics and the Struggle for the Soul of U.S. Capitalism

·         Income Distribution and Aggregate Demand: A Global Post-Keynesian Model  

·         Post-Crisis Capital Account Regulation in South Korea and South Africa

·         The Rebranding of Capital Controls in an Era of Productive Incoherence

Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)

·         Pentagon Base Budget to Get Bigger Share in 2013

Quilliam Foundation

·         Jabhat al-Nusra 

 

Rand

·         Assessment of Beddown Alternatives for the F-35 

·         Assessment of Beddown Alternatives for the F-35: Executive Summary

·         The Relationship between Natural Resources and Tensions in China's Maritime Periphery [testimony]

·         Three Essays on Entrepreneurship in India and the U.S.: Policies, Social Ties and Mobility

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Hitting the Target?  How New Capabilities are Shaping International Intervention 

SIPRI

·         The Future of the Chemical Weapons Convention: Policy and Planning Aspects

Small Arms Survey

·         An Arms Trade Treaty: Will It Support or Supplant the PoA?

·         Demobilization in the DRC: Armed Groups and the Role of Organizational Control

·         Policing the Periphery—Opportunities and Challenges for Kenya Police Reserves

·         Unplanned Explosions at Munitions Sites

·         Small Arms Survey Review (2007–2012): Small Arms Transfers Controls Measures and the Small Arms Survey

Small Wars Journal

·         Has Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines Been a Success?

·         Iraq and Afghanistan through the Lens of American Military Casualties

·         Irregular Warfare: Network Warfare and the Venture Capital Green Beret

·         The JPME Saga of Joe Etudiant

·         The Pakistani Godfather: The Inter-Services Intelligence and the Afghan Taliban 1994-2010

South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

·         The Economic Diplomacy of Kenya’s Regional Interests

 

Stanley Foundation

·         Building a Nuclear Security Framework Fromthe Ground Up: Encouraging Coordination Among Centers of Excellence in Northeast Asia

·         The G-20 and Food Security: What Is the Right Agenda?

·         The Global Governance Architecture of Nuclear Security

STATT

·         Synapse, January 2013, no. 10

o    Afghan Migration in Flux

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         From Chaos to Cohesion: A Regional Approach to Security, Stability, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

·         Making Strategic Sense of Cyber Power: Why the Sky Is Not Falling

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Egypt Takes Another Step Toward Autocracy --and Instability

·         European Foreign Fighters in Syria

·         Iran Beyond Oil?

·         Islamism in Libya

Wilson Center

·         South African Nuclear History