Friday's Miscellany 06-07-2013

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         A Little Bit Poppy-free and a Little Bit Eradicated—Opium Poppy Cultivation in Balkh and Badakhshan Provinces in2011-2012 

 

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

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

·         BRICS & Egypt: An Opportunity to Begin Creating an Alternative Economic System

·         Kenya’s 2013 Elections and Emerging Foreign Policy

·         Qatari-Ethiopian Relations: Prospects after the Emir's Visit

·         Zigzag Diplomacy: Ethiopian-Qatari Diplomatic Relations and Their Implications

Al Qaeda

·         Inspire magazine, 11th edition, Spring 2013

American Enterprise Institute

·         Open Letter Regarding Reducing DOD Overhead

Amnesty International

·         Confronting a Nightmare—Disappearances in Mexico 

·         Words, War, and the Rule of Law—President Obama Revisits Counterterrorism Policy, but Human Rights Still Missing from Legal Framework 

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·         2013 Proposed Elections in Nepal: An Agenda for International Community

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Déjà Vu: Servicemembers' Earnings are Under Attack—Again 

Atlantic Council

·         IntelBrief: The Challenge of Feeding Africa

·         Political Kaleidoscope Turns Again in Crisis-Challenged Iran—2013 Elections 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Cost of Defense—ASPI Defense Budget Brief,2013-2014 

·         Enter the Cyber Dragon—Understanding Chinese Intelligence Agencies’ Cyber

·         Something New Under the Rising Sun—Expanding Australia–Japan Defense Cooperation 

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         It's Time for an Open, National Debate on Climate Change

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         The Debate on Decentralized Cooperation: Aid Effectiveness after 2015. Perspectives from Spain

Brookings Institute

·         The Challenge of Syrian Unity: Reassuring Local Communities and Framing National Consensus

·         External Environment of Chinese Investments in the United States

·         Municipal Authorities and IDPs Outside of Camps—The Case of Kenya's “Integrated Displaced Persons” 

·         A Study on the External Environment of Chinese Investments in the United States

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Back to the Future: Debating Missile Defence in Canada...Again

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

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Chinese Views Regarding the Senkaku/DiaoyuIslands Dispute

·         End of an Era in EU-Russia Relations 

Caspian Research Institute

·         Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Russia's Strategic Calculations

CATO Institute

·         Asia’s Story of Growing Economic Freedom

·         Free Trade, Free Markets—Rating the 112th Congress 

Center for American Progress

·         Toward Convergence: An Agenda for U.S.-India Cooperation in Afghanistan

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

·         Homeland Security Affairs Journal, June 2013, v. 9 

o    Entrepreneurial Security: A Free-Market Model for National Economic Security

o    There’s a Pattern Here: The Case to Integrate Environmental Security into Homeland Security

o    Visa Diplomacy vs. Visa Security

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         The Climate and Energy Nexus

·         The Climate and Energy Nexus Summary

·         Future Prospects for Syria: A CNA Small Group Discussion

·         The Long Littoral Project: Summary Report: A Maritime Perspective on Indo-Pacific Security

·         The Rebel Alliance: Why Syria’s Armed Opposition Has Failed to Unify

·         Social Media in the Emergency Management Field: 2012 Survey Results

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

·         Strategic Choices Exercise Outbrief  

·         video presentations

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         DIIG Current Issues No. 33: The Fight for Reliable Federal Contracting Data

·         Do UN Global Development Goals Matter to the United States?

·         Pacific Partners Outlook: The U.S.-New Zealand Partnership: An Alliance in All but Name

·         PacNet #38 - China’s Missed Opportunity at the Shangri-La Dialogue

·         PacNet #38A - Sunnylands: The Obama-Xi Summit

·         PacNet #39 - Japan-India Strategic Ties: Time to Move Beyond Mere Words

·         U.S.-Japan-India Track Two Strategic Dialogue May 2013 

Centre for Mental Health

·         The Needs to Belong: What Leads Girls to Join Gangs

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (CGCC)

·         To Protect and Prevent: Outcomes of a Global Dialogue to Counter Terrorist Abuse of the Nonprofit Sector

Central Asia Program. The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

·         If Only It Was Only Water…The Strained Relationship Between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Access Barriers to Services Markets: Mapping, Tracing, Understanding and Measuring

·         E3+3 Coercive Diplomacy Towards Iran: Do the Economic Sanctions Add Up?  

·         Local and Regional Authorities and the EU’s External Borders: A Multi-Level Governance Assessment of Schengen Governance and ‘Smart Borders’

·         Shifting Responsibilities for EU Roma Citizens: The 2010 French Affair on Roma Evictions and Expulsions Continued

·         Too Cold to Handle: EU Accession Talks with Iceland

Centre for European Strategy

·         Midsize, Yet Global: The Imperative of Punching above Weight Within the New World Order

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         Non-conventional Armed Violence and Non-state Actors: Challenges for Mediation and Humanitarian Action

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Continuing Repression by the Vietnamese Government

·         A Crisis Mismanaged: Obama’s Failed Syria Policy

·         Tragic Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Emergency MGMT 2.0: How #SocialMedia &New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response, & Recovery #Disasters#Part1 #Privatesector

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         The Department of Justice's Handling of Known or Suspected Terrorists Admitted into the Federal Witness Security Program

Congress. House. Natural Resources Committee

·         Going to Extremes: Climate change and the Increasing Risk of Weather Disasters

Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

·         Federal Efforts to Reduce the Impacts of Windstorms

·         STEM Education: The Administration’s Proposed Reorganization

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

·         Lessons Learned from the Boeing 787 Incidents

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee

·         Pending Legislation Regarding Sexual Assaults in the Military

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee

·         Gulf Restoration: A Progress Report Three Years after the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

·         State of Wireless Communications

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Labor Issues in Bangladesh

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Human Rights in Iran

·         The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions

Defence Research and Development Canada

·         ATLANTIS - Assembly Trace Analysis Environment

·         CAUSE Resiliency (West Coast) Experiment Final Report

·         Guidebook for Integrating a Micro Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) into Police and Emergency Operations

·         Implicit Trust in a Data Model

·         Institutional and Organizational Unconscious Theories: An Alternative Way for Explaining Challenges in Inter-Agency Cooperation

·         Multi-Organizational Collaborative Public Safety and Security Planning for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games

·         Social Identity Dynamics in a World with Two Adversarial Groups

·         Software Fingerprinting for Automated Malicious Code Analysis

·         The State and Scientific Basis of Cyber Security Metrics: Including Canadian Perspectives

·         Understanding the Institutional Dimension of Inter-agency Collaboration

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2012-036  DoD Needs to Improve Accountability and Identify Costs and Requirements for Non-Standard Rotary Wing Aircraft

·         D-2010-038  Identification of Classified Information in an Unclassified DoD System and an Unsecured DoD Facility, January 25, 2010

Department of State

·         Public Diplomacy's Role at Various Stages of Conflict Resolution

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

·         DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA

·         DNI Statement on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

·         Facts on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Enough Project 

·         Kony's Ivory—How Elephant Poaching in Congo Helps Support the Lord's Resistance Army

·         Uganda Reinstates Key Tool to Boost Defections from the Lord's Resistance Army

EU Institute for Security Studies  

·         Europe: Spread (Not Lost) in Space

·         Lebanon Between Crisis and Elections

·         Terrorist Attacks in Niger: Not Another Mali

·         The Usual Surprise? Iran's Presidential Elections 

·         What is New in the 'Global War on Terror'

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Making Progress Towards the Completion of the Single European Labour Market

·         Pathways to Achieve a Genuine Fiscal Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, June 2013

o    High-Technology Environment Training (HiTET): Embracing Modern Challenges

o    Cyberbullying and Sexting: Law Enforcement Perceptions

o    Legal Digest: The Supreme Court Analyzes Major Fourth Amendment Issues in Dog-Sniff Cases

o    Police Youth Leadership Camp: Influencing Young Lives

o    Leadership Spotlight: Strategic Leadership During Crisis

Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)

·         Measuring Progress in Reconstructing Afghanistan

·         An Update on the Taiwan Defense Situation (2011-2012)

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Economic Dimensions of the Arab Spring 

·         Reforming the Democracy Bureaucracy

Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research

·         European Perceptions of Turkish Foreign Policy

FRIDE

·         The Democratic Disconnect 

·         The EU and the Palestinians: Anticipating the Third Intifada

German Development Institute

·         Post 2015: How Emerging Economies Shape the Relevance of a New Agenda

German Institute for International and Security Affairs (GIISA)

·         Modifying the 2°C Target

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Toward the Green Economy: Assessing Countries’ Green Power

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Beyond the “Pivot”: Structural Dimensions of Transatlantic Challenges in the Context of a Rising China

·         China’s New Leadership, Prospects for Foreign Policy, and for the China-U.S. Relationship

·         The Decline of the West: An American Story

·         NATO and the U.S. Pivot to Asia: To Follow or Not to Follow?

·         The Pivot: Test of Europe as a Security Actor?

·         Pivot with a Purpose

·         A Silver Lining? Why Recent Reforms in Greece Warrant Cautious Optimism

·         The Taksim Protests: The Return of Secular Low Politics?

·         Understanding the Structural Causes of the Turkish Protests

·         What the Pivot Means for Transatlantic Relations: Separate Course or New Opportunity for Engagement?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         DOD Financial Management: Significant Improvements Needed in Efforts to Address Improper Payment Requirements. GAO-13-227

·         FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit. GAO-13-551R

Heritage Foundation

·         CBO Report on “Tax Expenditures” Has It Wrong

·         Double Coverage—How It Drives Up Medicare Costs for Patients and Taxpayers

·         EU Defense Integration: Undermining NATO, Transatlantic Relations, and Europe’s Security

·         F-16C/D Fills Taiwan’s Fighter Need

·         Homeland Security Appropriations Need Different Priorities

·         JAG Corps and Reforming the Military Justice System

·         Obama’s Meeting with China’s Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping

·         Ronald Reagan: Conservative Statesman

·         The U.S. Should Back Montenegro’s NATO Membership

·         Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Must Enhance Competitive Neutrality

Human Rights Watch

·         Elephant in the Room: Reforming Zimbabwe’s Security Sector Ahead of Elections

·         Safe No More: Students and Schools under Attack in Syria

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Li Keqiang Visit to Pakistan: Assessing the Outcome

·         Russia and Pakistan New Equation

·         Syria and WMD: Deepening Uncertainty

·         Taliban’s Spring Offensive and the Consequences

 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Towards Delivering Credible Polls in Zimbabwe

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq's Sectarian Crisis Reignites as Shi'a Militias Execute Civilians and Remobilize

·         Syria Update: The Fall of al-Qusayr

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         China Reinforces the Bridge to Pakistan

·         Decoding India-Japan and Sino-Pak Talks 

·         A ‘New’ Pakistan: Implications for Indo-Pak Relations 

·         President Karzai’s Visit to India: Setting Policy Markers for post-2014 Afghanistan

·         War-head Worries: Asia’s Expanding Nuclear Arsenals

International Forum for Democratic Studies

·         Democracy think Tanks in Action: Translating Research into Policy in Young and Emerging Democracies

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Are the Asia and Pacific Small States Different from Other Small States? 

·         Inclusive Growth: An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries

·         Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times: Bank-Level Evidence

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         The Elephant in the Room—Peace Operations and Organized Crime

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, June 7, 2013, v. 13, no. 12

o    The South China Sea Dispute (Part One): Negative Trends Continue in 2013

o    How China Got There First: Beijing’s Unique Path to ASBM Development and Deployment

o    Taiwan Work Leading Small Group under Xi Jinping

o    Taiwan Military Reform: Declining Operational Capabilities?

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Joint Pub 3-14, Space Operations, 29 May 2013

·         Other than War American Military Experience and Operations in the Post-Cold War Decade

Law Library of Congress

·         The Role of Islamic Law in Tunisia’s Constitution and Legislation Post-Arab Spring

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2013 [updated June7, 2013]

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated June1, 2013]

·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated June 8, 2013]

Marine Corps University Middle East Studies

·         To Join or Not to Join the Nuclear Club: How Nations Think about Nuclear Weapons: Two Middle East Case Studies

·         MES Insights, May 2013,v.  4, no. 3

Migration Policy Institute

·         Remaking the US Green Card System—Legal Immigration under the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013

National Academies Press

·         Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence

National Security Archive

·         Studies in Intelligence: New Articles from The CIA's In-House Journal

North-South Institute

·         Addressing the Economic Costs of Sustainable Energy in the Global South

·         Development and Sustainability in a Warming World: Measuring the Impacts of Climate Change

·         Doing Business in Fragile States: The Private Sector, Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

·         Regulating Extraction in the Global South: Towards a Framework for Accountability

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

·         Friends in Need are Friends Indeed: Triangular Co-operation and Twinning for Capacity Development in South Sudan

·         Synthesis Report of the Baseline Study on Civilian Capacity

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Friends in Need are Friends Indeed  

·         Is Israel in Danger of Losing its U.S. Support Base?

·         Middle East and North Africa Update 34

·         Pakistan’s 2013 Elections: What Implications for Exclusion and Fragility?

Overseas Development Institute

·         Search for Common Ground—Civil–Military Relations in Afghanistan, 2002–13 

Observer Research Foundation

·         China Military Watch, v. 2, no. 11

Oxford Research Group

·         Paul Rogers Commenting on the Syrian Crisis in Broadcast Media

·         Syria: The Transnational Dimension and the Chance of Compromise

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Assessment of the Quality of General Election2013

·         Election 2013: A Comparative Analysis of Election Manifestoes of Major Political Parties

·         The First 10 General Elections of Pakistan

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         Estimates of Fundamental Equilibrium Exchange Rates, May 2013

·         The Fiscal and Economic Effects of Austerity

·         Preserving the Open Global Economic System: A Strategic Blueprint for China and the United States 

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         Smartphone Ownership 2013

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         In Gay Marriage Debate, Both Supporters and Opponents See Legal Recognition as ‘Inevitable’

Pew Research Global Attitudes Project

·         Erdogan Favorability Topline

·         The Global Divide on Homosexuality: Greater Acceptance in More Secular and Affluent Countries

·         Hezbollah Topline and Survey Methods

·         U.S.-China Favorability Topline

Pew Research Hispanic Center

·         Inside the 2012 Latino Electorate

Physicians for Human Rights

·         Massacre in Central Burma—Muslim Students Terrorized and Killed in Meiktila

·         Securing Afghanistan's Past—Human Remains Identification Needs and Gap Analysis 

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Alena Vieira and Joao Mourato Pinto, "EU's Eastern Partnership, the Russia-led Integration Initiatives in thepost-Soviet Space, and the Options of the 'States-in-Between'" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 127, June 2013)

·         Licinia Simao, "The Reluctant Conflict Mediator: EU-Georgia Relations under the Neighborhood Policy" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 126, June 2013)

Project 2049 Institute

·         Assessing Japan's National Defense—Toward a New Security Paradigm in the Asia-Pacific

·         Securing U.S. Interests and Values in the Asia-Pacific

Rand

·         Iran's 2013 Presidential Election: Its Meaning and Implications 

·         Key Trends That Will Shape Army Installations of Tomorrow 

·         Knowledge-Based Economies and Basing Economies on Knowledge: Skills a Missing Link in GCC Countries 

·         Leadership Stability in Army Reserve Component Units  

·         Measuring the Value of Renewal: Age, Operational Tempo, Deployment, and Reset Effects on the Readiness and Maintenance Costs of Army Vehicles 

·         Stocktaking Study of Military Cyber Defence Capabilities in the European Union (milCyberCAP): Unclassified Summary 

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

·         Future of the UK's Cooperative Nuclear Relationships

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Climate Change: Just As Dangerous for Southeast Asia 

·         New Energy Dynamics in a Changing World

Small Arms Survey 

·         The Arms Trade Treaty: A Step Forward in Small Arms Control?

Small Wars Journal

·         Aiding Opposition Civilian Authority in Syria

·         Back to the Basics: Chess, Poker & the Future of Warfare

·         Cautious Optimism: Comparing the Final Days of the Communist Regime in Afghanistan with America’s Drawdown

·         Political Violence Prevention: Profiling Domestic Terrorists

·         A Tale of Two Warriors: Finding Belongingness after Battle

Stimson Center

·         Striving For New Equilibria

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Decoding Pakistan's “Strategic Shift” in Afghanistan

·         Europe, Afghanistan and the Transatlantic Relationship after 2014 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Avoiding the Slippery Slope: Conducting Effective Interventions

Transatlantic Academy

·         The Decline of the West: An American Story

Transnational Institute

·         A Transatlantic Corporate Bill of Rights

U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC)

·         Smart Power Agenda for Advancing America’s Global Interests

US Institute for Peace (USIP)

·         Peacekeeping 2014: An Agenda for Enhanced Effectiveness 

·         Social Media Reporting and the Syrian Civil War  

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant

·         Don't Discount the Iranian Election

·         Egypt's NGO Convictions Demand an Assertive Response

·         The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy

·         The Islamic Republic's Art of Survival: Neutralizing Domestic and Foreign Threats

·         Israel in the Whirlwind: A New Government Meets a Changing Security Environment

·         The Middle East at the U.S.-China Summit

·         New Palestinian Prime Minister Is a Victory for Fatah

·         Syria's Conflict: What Happens If Both Sides Get More Weapons?

·         Turks Have Learned the Power of Grassroots Politics

White House

·         Interagency Task Force on Military and Veterans Mental Health: 2013 Interim Report

World Economic Forum

·         Arab World Competitiveness Report 2013