Friday's Miscellany 05-24-2013

38 North

·         Fear Prevails Over Greed: the Kaesong Shutdown

AEI Critical Threats Project

·         Karachi Violence Emblematic of Pakistan's Instability

Air University Library Bibliographies

·         Joint Forces/Operations Bibliography

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         AFRICOM: Protecting US Interests Disguised as 'Military Partnerships'

American Security Project (ASP)

·         Protecting the Homeland: The Rising Costs of Inaction on Climate Change 

Army War College

·         Parameters, Winter-Spring 2013, v. 42, no. 4/43 no. 1 

o    Drone Wars: Risks and Warnings

o    Drones over Yemen: Weighing Military Benefits and Political Costs

o    Drones: Legitimacy and Anti-Americanism

o    Drones: What Are They Good For?

o    Rethinking the Utility of Nuclear Weapons

o    Reaffirming the Utility of Nuclear Weapons

o    Recalibrating American Grand Strategy:  Softening US Policies Toward Iran in Order to Contain China

o    "The Strange Voyage": A Short Précis on Strategy

o    American Landpower and Modern US Generalship

Asian Development Bank

·         Flood Risk Management: A Strategic Approach

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Creating an Association of Southeast Asian Nations Payment System: Policy and Regulatory Issues

·         The Middle-Income Trap: Issues for Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         "Gulf-Maghreb Relations: Investing without Interfering*" 

·         Still a Long Way to Go for Tunisian Democracy

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Israel’s Interests in Syria

Brookings

·         The 100th Anniversary of the 17th Amendment (Direct Election of Senators): A Promise Unfulfilled?

·         Alleviating Poverty: Mobile Communications, Microfinance and Small Business Development Around the World

·         Good Things Grown in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Review of Citizenship Education in Arab Nations

Caspian Research Institute

·         Is Armenia Really Ready to Sign Karabakh Peace Principles?

Center for Media and Democracy

·         Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Cyber Preparedness Continuum: A Tool for Improving Cyber Preparedness in Emergency Management

·         Tuareg—A Nation Without Borders?

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         The Council of Europe: Time for Reform

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         A Chemical Weapons–Free Middle East 

·         The Gulf Military Balance Volume I: The Conventional and Asymmetric Dimensions 

·         Issues & Insights v. 13, no.  6 - Progress Continues, but Disagreements Remain

·         Japan Chair Platform: The Senkaku Islands and International Law 

·         Strengthening U.S.  Investment in Women's Global Health   

·         PacNet #35 - Why Taiwan is needed in ICAO

·         U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World 

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (CGCC)

·         Alter-Messaging: The Credible, Sustainable Counterterrorism Strategy

Chatham House

·         Don't Try This at Home: Lessons From America's War on Drugs

·         Libya Two Years On

·         Negotiating the Rise of New Powers

·         The Role of New Political Parties in Angola: New Entrant, New Era?

·         Rwanda's Foundations for the Future: Growth, Business and Development 

·         Somalia's Transformation into a Regional and International Actor

·         South Africa’s Growth and Development: Implications for Regional and International Engagement

·         Trends in Civil Society in Russia

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         State Building at the Grassroots: Community-based Approaches in Conflict-affected States

College of Europe

·         Is Withdrawal from the European Union a Manageable Option? A Review of Economic and Legal Complexities 

Combat Studies Institute Press

·         Art of War Papers: Lansdale, Magsaysay, America, and the Philippines 

·         Sixteen Cases of Mission Command

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, May 2013, v.6, no. 5

o    The Pakistani Taliban’s Karachi Network

o    A Review of the French-led Military Campaign in Northern Mali

o    Mali’s Challenges Post-French Intervention

o    The Significance of Taliban Shari`a Courts in Afghanistan

o    Mexico’s New Strategy to Combat Drug Cartels: Evaluating the National Gendarmerie

o    Morocco’s Stability in the Wake of the Arab Spring

o    Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Background Material on Guantanamo Bay

Congress. House. Congressmen Markey and Waxman

·         Electric Grid Vulnerability: Industry Responses Reveals Security Gaps

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee

·         Cyber Threats and Security Solutions 

·         Cybersecurity: An Examination of the Communications Supply Chain

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Advocating for American Jacob Ostreicher’s Freedom after Two Years in Bolivian Detention

·         The Call for Economic Liberty in the Arab World

·         The Growing Crisis in Africa's Sahel Region

·         The Middle East and North Africa FY 2014 Budget: Priorities and Challenges

·         U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation: An Overview of the Merida Initiative 2008–Present

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Assessing the Threat to the Homeland from al Qaeda Operations in Iran and Syria

·         Visa Security and Overstays: How Secure is America?

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror

·         S. 744 and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: Lessons Learned or Mistakes Repeated?

Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

·         America's Next Generation Supercomputer: The Exascale Challenge

·         The Current and Future Applications of Biometric Technologies 

·         Restoring U.S. Leadership in Weather Forecasting

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Different Perspectives on International Development 

·         European Union Economic Relations: Crisis and Opportunity

·         Prospect for Afghanistan's 2014 Elections

Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 

·         Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the Environment

·         Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program—May 2013

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Human Rights in Iran

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

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

·         Global Cyber Crime

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Selected Acquisition Report  - Program Acquisition Cost Summary [December 31, 2013]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         Executive Summary–Assessment of U.S. Government and Coalition Efforts to Develop the Afghan Border Police

Department of Justice

·         Letter Offering Obama Administration Rationale for Lethal Drone Attacks 

Department of State

·         International Religious Freedom Report for 2012

·         Washington D.C. Release of "Global IDP Overview 2012" Report

East-West Center

·         Deciphering Australia’s Defense Budget 

·         South Korea: National Security or National Pride Regarding Japan?

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         Money for Structural Reforms in the Eurozone: Making Sense of Contractual Arrangements

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Algeria Country Analysis Brief - May 2013

·         Emerging East Africa Energy - May 2013

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Syria: The Imperative of De-escalation

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Fighting Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea -Offshore and Onshore

·         Mali: The UN Takes Over

·         The Syria Conference: Last Exit Peace?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         The Sino-Japanese Clash: What is Behind It?

FRIDE

·         Foreign Funding’ in Post-Revolution Tunisia

·         Security Sector Reform in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: What Role for Europe?

Fridtjof Nansen Institute

·         Russia's Post-Kyoto Climate Policy: Real Action or Merely Window-Dressing?

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Convergence, Divergence and a Complex Interplay: Chile and the International and Transnational Anti-Corruption Campaign

The German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Transit-Oriented Development in the United States: What Can the Dutch Learn?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Defense Acquisitions: Continued Management Attention Needed to Enhance Use and Review of DOD's Inventory of Contracted Services. GAO-13-491

·         Defense Infrastructure: Navy's Analysis of Costs and Benefits Regarding Naval Station Mayport Demonstrated Some Best Practices and Minimally Addressed Other Requirements. GAO-13-501

·         Emergency Alerting: Capabilities Have Improved, but Additional Guidance and Testing Are Needed. GAO-13-375

·         Export-Import Bank: More Detailed Information about Its Jobs Calculation Methodology Could Improve Transparency. GAO-13-446

·         Government Efficiency and Effectiveness: Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication through Enhanced Performance Management and Oversight. GAO-13-590T [testimony]

·         Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Observations on States' Role, Liabilities at DOD and Hardrock Mining Sites, and Litigation Issues. GAO-13-633T [testimony]

·         Homeland Security: An Overall Strategy Is Needed to Strengthen Disease Surveillance in Livestock and Poultry. GAO-13-424

·         Immigration Enforcement: Preliminary Observations on DHS's Overstay Enforcement Efforts. GAO-13-602T [testimony]

·         Spectrum Management: Federal Relocation Costs and Auction Revenues. GAO-13-472

Harvard Law School

·         Harvard National Security Journal, 2013, v.4, no. 2

o    The Chilling Effect of the “Material Support” Law on Humanitarian Aid: Causes, Consequences, and Proposed Reforms

o    “Out of the Loop”: Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Law of Armed Conflict

o    The U.N. Security Council’s Duty to Decide

o    Valuing Speech and Open Source Intelligence in the Face of Judicial Deference

Heritage Foundation

·         All Three Budget Options Would Damage National Security

·         Congress Must Stop Obama’s Downward Spiral of Missile Defense

·         Congress Should Query IMF Support for Capital Controls

·         Top 10 To-Do List for the National Defense Authorization Act

·         U.N. Arms Trade Treaty: U.S. Decision to Sign Treaty Shows Review Process Was Rushed

·         Withdrawing U.S. Forces from Europe Weakens America

Hoover Institute

·         Strategika, no. 2 

o    Can Iran be prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons by sanctions, or ultimately will it require preemptive military action?

o    If Iran becomes nuclear, can it be contained?

Human Rights Watch

·         Turning Migrants into Criminals: The Harmful Impact of U.S. Border Prosecutions 

·         What is a House without Food?: Mozambique’s Coal Mining Boom and Resettlements

Ice2Sea

·         From Ice to High Seas

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (ISDA)

·         Daulat Beg Oldie Standoff: An Assessment

·         India and Iran Relations—Sustaining the Momentum 

·         India and NSG: Approaches to Indian Membership

·         Russian Military Reforms: An Evaluation

Institute for National Security Studies (Israel)

·         Russia and the Middle East: Policy Challenges

·         Syria, Russia, and the S-300: Military and Technical Background

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         Burma Reiterates its “No-Nuclear-Weapons” Commitment

·         Case Study - United States Busts Likely North Korean Transshipment Scheme 

·         IAEA Report on Iran 

·         Iran Laying Asphalt at the Suspect Parchin Site

·         ISIS Analysis of IAEA Report on Iran

·         Next Generation Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 2013

·         Satellite Imagery—Iran Laying Asphalt at the Suspect Parchin Site  

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Angola's Second Post-war Elections: The Alchemy of Change

Institute for the Study of War

·         Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated May 2013]

·         Iraq Update #21: Maliki Changes Security Leaders: Is It the Solution to Iraq’s Security Challenges?

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Bangladesh’s Growth Enablers

Internal Displacement Monitoring Center

·         Global Estimates 2012: People Displaced by Disasters

International Crisis Group

·         Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Fiscal Multipliers in the ECCU

·         Heterogeneous Bank Lending Responses to Monetary Policy: New Evidence from a Real-time Identification 

·         Sovereign Debt Restructuring - Recent Developments and Implications for the Fund's Legal and Policy Framework

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Defense and Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region: The JIDD Conference

IP Commission [Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property]

·         IP Commission Report

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, May 24, 2013,v. 13, no. 11

o    China’s Reform Summed Up: Politics, No; Economics, Yes (Sort of...)

o    China’s Coexistence Strategy and the Consequences for World Order

o    Missile Defense with Chinese Characteristics

o    Xinjiang’s April 23 Clash the Worst in Province since July 2009

Leitner Center

·         International Criminal Tribunals: A Visual Overview

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated May20, 2013]

National Academies Press

·         Future of Battlespace Situational Awareness: A Workshop Summary

·         High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions

National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)

·         Functional Resilience of Port Environs in a Changing Climate – Assets and Operations

National Security Archive

·         The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War - Part 2 

·         The 1983 War Scare: "The Last Paroxysm" of the Cold War - Part 3

·         Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1973

·         Forced Disappearance in the Dominican Republic

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update May 21, 2013]

New America Foundation

·         Building a Bridge to a Tri-Polar World Economy: An American Growth Strategy

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Conflict Financing: What’s Wrong with War Economies?

·         Peace Processes and International Law

·         The State of Yemen’s Oil and Gas Resources

Observer Research Foundation

·         Community Driven Development in Developing Countries

·         Sino-Indian Border Infrastructure: An Update

Oxford Research Group

·         North Korea—Taking Account of the View from Pyongyang  

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

·         Stabilization Transition to a Host Nation: The Provincial Iraqi Control (PIC) Case

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

Pew Research Global Attitudes Project

·         Economies of Emerging Markets Better Rated During Difficult Times

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         Polish-Mexican Cooperation—Where Does Poland Stand?

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Exploitation without Subsumption: The Scope and Limits of Proto-Industrial Exploitation 

·         Social Structures of Accumulation, the Rate of Profit, and Economic Crises

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Noureddine Jebnoun, "Tunisia's Security Syndrome" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 123, May 2013)

Rand

·         The Evolving Role of Emergency Departments in the United States  

·         Patient Privacy, Consent, and Identity Management in Health Information Exchange: Issues for the Military Health System  

·         The Terrorist Threat from Syria  [testimony]

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Enhancing Global and Regional Mechanisms for Conflict Management and Resolution 

·         A New Containment-Policy The Curbing of War and Violent Conflict in World Society

Small Arms Survey

·         The Headstamp Trail: An Assessment of Small-calibre Ammunition Found in Libya

Small Wars Journal

·         COIN Lessons Ignored: The Philippines Campaign (1899-1902)

·         The Infantryman's Half Kilometer Reconsidered

·         Is the War on Terrorism Over? Long Live Unconventional Warfare

·         JPME: The Need for Foresight

·         Religious Advising For Strategic Effect: US Army Chaplains as Change Agents

US Coast Guard (USCG)

·         Arctic Strategy

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         An Anti-Fraud Strategy for Afghanistan’s 2014 Elections

·         We Pretend To Work, And They Pretend To Pay Us

US International Trade Commission (USITC)

·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics, May 2013

o    Feeding the Dragon and the Elephant: How Agricultural Policies and Trading Regimes Influence Consumption in China and India

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         After Ahmadinejad

·         The Muslim Brotherhood's Views on Iran

·         Nuclear Iran: A Glossary of Terms [May 2013 Update]

·         Winners and Losers in Iran's Presidential Election

White House

·         Fact Sheet: The President’s May 23 Speech on Counterterrorism [given at NDU]

·         Remarks by the President at the National Defense University [May 23, 2013]

·         Remarks of President Barack Obama [released for NDU speech]

·         Remarks by the President at the United States Naval Academy Commencement [May 24, 2013]

Wilson Center

·         The State of the Border Report: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S.-Mexico Border

World Public Opinion

·         Views of China and India Slide While UK's Ratings Climb: Global Poll