Friday's Miscellany 06-14-2013

38 North

·         The Sunnylands Summit: Keeping North Korea in Perspective

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

·         Ongoing Battle for Education—Uprisings, Negotiations and Taliban Tactics 

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Advancing Stability and Reconciliation in Guinea-Bissau—Lessons from Africa's First Narco-State 

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         The Illusion of a Revolution in Turkey: Tahrir or Taksim?

Amnesty International

·         Indigenous Rights Denied in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts 

·         Serious Human Rights Abuses Continue in Mali 

·         Unlock the Truth—Poland’s Involvement in CIA Secret Detention 

·         War Crimes in Sudan's Blue Nile State 

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Conflict Trends (No.15): Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, June 2013

Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation

·         IAE 13-01W - Twenty-First Century Governance: Ten Strategies for Success

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Institutionalizing Stability Operations: A Policy Analysis

Atlantic Council

·         Labor, Technology, and Innovation in Europe: Facing Global Risk through Increased Resiliency

Baker Institute for Public Policy

·         More Than Oil and Uprisings—Current Developments in Cord Blood Banking in the Arab World

Brennan Center for Justice

·         Are They Allowed to Do That? A Breakdown of Selected Government Surveillance Programs

Brookings

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

·         Internally Displaced Outside of Camps and The Role of Local Authorities in Colombia: A Comparative Study of Bogotá DC and Cali

Canada National Defence, Chief of the Air Staff

·         Royal Canadian Air Force Journal, Spring 2013, v. 2, no. 2

o    Canadian Special Security Events: An Improved Framework for Royal Canadian Air Force Command and Control

o    Unshakeable Faith: The Flawed Command of Bomber Harris

o    Were the Events of September 11, 2001, a Manifestation of Political Violence Generated by the Phenomenon of Globalization?

o    Operation AIR BRIDGE: Canada’s Contribution to the Sarajevo Airlift

Center for American Progress

·         300 Million Engines of Growth: A Middle-Out Plan for Jobs, Business, and a Growing Economy 

·         China’s Shifting Stance on Hydrofluorocarbons

·         Fulfilling the Promise of Concentrating Solar Power: Low-Cost Incentives Can Spur Innovation in the Solar Market

·         It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button on the Fiscal Debate

·         Super Pollutants 101

Center for a New American Security(CNAS)

·         The Emerging Asia Power Web: The Rise of Bilateral Intra-Asian Security Ties

·         Looking Forward: U.S. National Security Beyond the Wars [conference transcripts and videos] 

·         Seven Deadly Sins of Defense Spending 

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)

·         The CIP Report, June 2013, v.11, no. 12 - Energy

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Cyber Preparedness and Emergency Management Capability Crosswalk

·         Managing Large-Scale Security Events: A Planning Primer for Local Law Enforcement Agencies

·         The Post-Afghanistan IED Threat Assessment: Executive Summary

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

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

·         Russian Analytical Digest, June 10, 2013, No. 128: Russia in the Syrian Conflict

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Chinese President Xi Jinping Tours The Americas: Why Does It Matter?

·         Global Economics Monthly: Twin Peaks: The G8 and the BRICS

·         PacNet #42 - Always Ready, Always There: Marines and the Pacific Rebalance

·         PacNet #41 - China Comes Around?

·         PacNet #40A - US-China New Pattern of Great-Power Relations & The Times, They are A-Changing

·         PacNet #40 - A ‘New Type of Great Power Relations’? Hardly

·         Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy

·         Simple Tests for Surveillance

·         Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th & K Streets: Recommendations from the CSIS South China Sea Conference

·         U.S. and Iranian Strategic Competition: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Central Asia 

·         U.S. and Iranian Strategic Competition: Turkey and the South Caucasus 

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)

·         Strategic Shift—Appraising Recent Changes in U.S. Defense Plans and Priorities 

·         Suggestions for Evaluating the Quality of the Army’s Science and Technology Program—The Portfolio and Its Execution 

Center for the Study of Intelligence

·         Issues of Studies in Intelligence, 2013, v. 56, no. 4 

o    The Early Evolution of the Predator Drone

o    An Alternative Framework for Agent Recruitment: From MICE to RASCLS

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation (CGCC)

·         The G8’s Counterterrorism Action Group: Leaving Takes Leadership

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Capital Controls in Cyprus: Shooting at a Moving Target

·         Combating Youth Unemployment: The Latest European Fad?

·         Does the Key to a WMD-Free Middle East Lie in a Nuclear Iran?

·         Pathways to Low Carbon Transport in the EU –From Possibility to Reality

Centre for International and Strategic Analysis (SISA)

·         Pakistan's Security Dilemmas: On Doctrines, Perceptions, and Institutional Interests

Chatham House

·         International Law and the Obama Approach

·         Iran's Presidential Election: Looking Forward

·         Military Strategy in an Unpredictable World

·         The Psychological Cost of War: Tackling Military Mental Health

·         Sri Lanka—Obstacles to Change

City of New York

·         A Stronger, More Resilient New York

Combat Studies Institute Press

·         Art of War Papers: United States’ Grand Strategy Through the Lens of Lebanon in 1983 and Iraq in 2003

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         American NGOs Under Attack in Morsi’s Egypt 

·         Modernizing U.S. International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Protecting the Homeland Against Mumbai-Style Attacks and the Threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba

·         Why Can’t DHS Better Communicate with the American People?

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee

·         Defining the Problem and Scope of Over-criminalization and Over-federalization

·         Oversight Hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation

·         "Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act" (The SAFE Act)

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Committee

·         Examining the Government’s Record on Implementing the International Religious Freedom Act            

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         A Dangerous Slide Backwards: Russia's Deteriorating Human Rights Situation

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Oversight Committee

·         Reducing Duplication and Improving Outcomes in Federal Information Technology

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Federal Debt and the Statutory Limit, June 2013

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY2014 House

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention 

·         The Group of Eight (G8) Industrialized Nations

·         Iran's Revolutionary Guards

·         U.S. Domestic Surveillance

Defense R&D Canada

·         AutoFusion10 User and Software Manual for Shipboard Wave Measurements

·         Clan and Islamic Identities in Somali Society

·         Continental Air Defence

·         Data Protection in Multi-tenant Cloud Environments

·         DRDC Support to Emergency Management British Columbia’s (EMBC) Hazard Risk Vulnerability Analysis (HRVA) and Critical Infrastructure (CI) Programs

·         Emergency Management British Columbia Community Resilience Project

·         Field Case Study Involving Qualitative Research of Police and Health Care Personnel Regarding their Collaborative Experiences with Military Personnel

·         Humanitarian Relief Operations: A Military Logistics Perspective

·         Institutional Analysis and Irregular Warfare

·         Modelling Public Security Operations

·         National Search and Rescue Literature Review

·         Navigation Technologies for Micro-Aerial Vehicles

·         A Preliminary Non-lethal Weapons Gap Analysis

·         The Progressive Convergence of the Military and Policing Ethos in Post-Millennial Canada

·         Psychological Resilience

·         Radicalization in the National Economic Climate

·         Risk Assessment

·         Simulating the Repatriation of Canadian Forces Materiel from Afghanistan

·         Unmanned Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges from a Canadian Perspective 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Air- Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access & Area Denial Challenges

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DoDIG-2013-092 Defense Information to the Media

Department of the Army

·         2013 Army Leader Development Strategy

East-West Center

·         South Korea's Response to Human Rights Abuses in North Korea: An Analysis of Policy Options

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         Assessing the Single Supervisory Mechanism: Passing the Point of No Return for Europe’s Banking Union

Enough Project

·         Civilians Caught in the Crossfire—The Bombing of Abu Kershola and Ad Dandour

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Feed the World? The Challenges of Global Food Security

·         Obama 2.0: The New Foreign Policy Team

·         Renewables: Do They Matter for Foreign Policy?

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         Europe’s Strategic Cacophony 

·         Syria: The View from Iran

·         Syria: The View from Iraq

·         Syria: The View from Jordan

·         Syria: The View from the Gulf states

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         A Plan B, C and D for an EU Policy Towards Iran

·         For better, for Worse: the European Union Takes Croatia as Its 28th Member

·         Second Career Labour Markets - Assessing Challenges - Advancing Policies

Feinstein International Center

·         Standing Wealth: Pastoralist Livestock Production and Local Livelihoods in Sudan

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Discriminate Power: A Strategy for a Sustainable National Security Posture

·         Privacy Refracted through PRISM

·         Syria is Iran’s Stalingrad

FRIDE

·         Belarus and the Eurasian Union: Incremental Integration

Fridtjof Nansen Institute

·         Increasing Demand and Reducing Supply – A Rescue for the CDM?

 

German Development Institute

·         Country-level Aid Coordination at the United Nations: Taking the Resident Coordinator System Forward

·         Towards Renewal or Oblivion? Prospects for Post–2020 Cooperation Between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Resource Scarcity, Spite and Cooperation

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Convergence without Coordination: Why Washington and Brussels Must Work Together in North Africa 

·         The Strategic Logic of the U.S. Rebalance to Asia and a Potential European Role

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments. GAO-13-369

·         Chemical Regulation: Observations on the Toxic Substances Control Act and EPA Implementation. GAO-13-696T [testimony] 

·         Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Lessons Learned from Cancelled Radiation Portal Monitor Program Could Help Future Acquisitions. GAO-13-256

·         Defense Management: More Reliable Cost Estimates and Further Planning Needed to Inform the Marine Corps Realignment Initiatives in the Pacific. GAO-13-360

·         Export-Import Bank: Recent Growth Underscores Need for Improved Risk Management and Reporting. GAO-13-703T [testimony]

·         Information Technology: Additional Executive Review Sessions Needed to Address Troubled Projects. GAO-13-524

·         Suspension and Debarment: Characteristics of Active Agency Programs and Governmentwide Oversight Efforts. GAO-13-707T [testimony]

·         Transportation Infrastructure: Limited Improvement in Bridge Conditions over the Past Decade, but Financial Challenges Remain. GAO-13-713T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation

·         $25 Billion: The Sprint and Smithfield Acquisitions Should Be Cleared

·         Advancing the Immigration Nation: Heritage’s Positive Path to Immigration and Border Security Reform

·         The Dangers of the “Trust Us” Approach to Statutory Interpretation

·         The Ethanol Mandate: Don’t Mend It, End It

·         Fighting Back Against Overcriminalization: The Elements of a Mistake of Law Defense

·         Government Cyber Failures Reveal Weaknesses of Regulatory Approach to Cybersecurity

·         How to Read the CBO’s Scoring of the Immigration Bill

·         How to Spot Judicial Activism: Three Recent Examples

·         The Injustice of Imposing Domestic Criminal Liability for a Violation of Foreign Law

·         Russia’s Eurasian Union Could Endanger the Neighborhood and U.S. Interests

·         Senate Immigration Bill Does Not Require Payment of All Back Taxes

·         Time to Freeze U.S. Aid to Egypt

Human Rights Watch

·         Unwelcome Guests: Greek Police Abuses of Migrants in Athens 

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses

·         Defense Procurement Procedure 2013: A Ringside View 

·         Domination of Pakistan by Radical Islamists

·         Russia and the Geopolitics of Cyprus Bailout

Institute for Security  Studies (ISS)

·         A Standardised Police Roster System is Critical for the African Standby Force

Institute for the Study of War

·         2013 Iraq Update #23: Sadrists and Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq Fight for Baghdad

·         2013 Iraq Update #24: From Protest Movement to Armed Resistance

·         Syria Update 13-10:  The Battle for Aleppo

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         The Sliding Indian Rupee: Crisis or Opportunity?

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         The Future of Syria and the Regional Arms Race

·         An Uncertain Road to Peace: Domestic and Regional Challenges in the Turkish-Kurdish Process

 

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

·         NORTH-WEST PAKISTAN: Massive New Displacement and Falling Returns Require Rights-Based Response 

International Crisis Group

·         Central African Republic: Priorities of the Transition

·         Tentative Peace in Myanmar’s Kachin Conflict 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment? 

·         Investing Volatile Oil Revenues in Capital-Scarce Economies: An Application to Angola

·         Potential Output and Output Gap in Central America, Panama and Dominican Republic

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Trends in Uniformed Contributions to UN Peacekeeping: A New Dataset, 1991–2012

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, June 14, 2013, v. 11, no. 12

o    Tunisia’s Elusive Jihadist Network

o    Mogadishu’s Dilemma: Who Is in Control?

o    The Mobile Threat: Multiple Battlefields Ensure Instability in the Sahel/Sahara Region

Joint Chiefs of Staff

·         Joint Pub 3-07.3 Peace Operations

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         Retooling for the Future

Lexington Institute

·         Competitive Defense Contracting: When It Makes Sense (and When It Doesn't)

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated June 9, 2013]

National Academies Press

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

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         Beijing and the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia: To Serve the People [PDF free through August 15, 2013]

·         The Obama-Xi Summit: A New Era in Bilateral Relations? 

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

·         The 11th Forum (FY 2012), September 26, 2012 - "The Legacy and Implications of the Pacific War"

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update June 4, 2013]

·         The Logistical Challenges Confronting the Afghanistan Drawdown

Nautilus institute for Security and Sustainability

·         Update Review of Safety Aspects of Nuclear Power Program in the Republic of Korea

Naval War College

·         /LUCE.NT/ a Journal of National Security Studies, June 2013 - Ethics

o    Ethical Leadership by Choice

o    Fostering Ethical Decision-Making

o    The Centrality of Military Ethics

o    Promoting Democracy and Human Rights: an Ethical Dilemma with Policy Implications

o    Ethical Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

o    Integrity: The Foundation of Leadership

o    Military Operations: The Harmful Effects of Hubris-Influenced Leaders

o    Medical Ethics and Military Conflicts – What Would You Do?

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Israel’s Internal Frontier: The Enduring Power of Ethno-Nationalism

·         The Lawless Roads: An Overview of Turbulence Across the Sahel

·         Pakistan’s Role and Strategic Priorities in Afghanistan since 1980

·         “We are One, but We are Different”: Murle Identity and Local Peacebuilding in Jonglei State, South Sudan

Observer Research Foundation

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

Oxford Research Group

·         Iran and the E3+3: Waiting for Mr President

Pew Research Center for the People & the  Press

·         Sexual Assault in the Military Widely Seen as Important Issue, But No Agreement on Solution

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         The Western Balkans and the Alliance: All Is Not Well on NATO’s Southern Flank?

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Sandra Fernandes, "Georgia and the European Security Architecture Conundrum" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 128, June 2013)

Rand

·         Lashkar-e Taiba and the Threat to the United States of a Mumbai-Style Attack [testimony]

·         The Threat of a Mumbai-Style Terrorist Attack in the United States  [testimony]

·         Using Behavioral Indicators to Help Detect Potential Violent Acts: A Review of the Science Base  

Small Wars Journal

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

·         The Failure to Adapt and Innovate after a Drawdown: The U.S. Army in the Interwar Years 1919-1939

·         Joint Force 2020 and the Human Domain: Time for a New Conceptual Framework? 

·         A Message of Felicitation from the Esteemed Amir-Ul-Momineen on the Occasion of Eid: An Analysis of Taliban Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr Statements from 2006 to 2012

·         On Targuité, Nomadism and the Nation: The Origins of Tuareg Militant Nationalism in North Africa

·         Sequestration as a Godsend: Operate the DoD as a Modern Business Organization

·         To the Horizon: Seven Conflicts of Concern for the U.S. Military 

·         Transition in Afghanistan: Lessons from the Past

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         The Future of the Arab Gulf Monarchies in the Age of Uncertainties

·         Nigerian Unity: In the Balance

Transatlantic Academy

·         Convergence without Coordination: Why Washington and Brussels Must Work Together in North Africa

Ubiquity Press

·         Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, June 2013, v.2, no. 2 

o    Region in Crisis: Stabilizing Mali and the Sahel

o    Conflicts Colliding in Mali and the Sahel

o    Lessons from the African Union Mission for Somalia AMISOM for Peace Operations in Mali

o    Sustaining Rural Afghanistan under Limited Central Government Influence

o    Sahel State Political Violence in Comparative Perspective

o    French Military Intervention in Mali: Inevitable Consensual yet Insufficient

o    Operationalizing Civilian Protection in Mali: The Case for a Civilian Casualty Tracking Analysis and Response Cell

o    The Malian Crisis and the Challenge of Regional Cooperation 

o    Sustaining Rural Afghanistan under Limited Central Government Influence

o    The Logistics of The War in The Sahel

o    Civic and Political Behavior in Mali: Constraints and Possibilities

o    The Malian Crisis and the Challenge of Regional Cooperation

o    Mali: Visions of War

o    Conflicts Colliding in Mali and the Sahel

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Bahrain Rounds Up Organizers of Antigovernment Violence

·         How to Make Diplomacy on Syria Succeed 

·         The Islamic Republic's Will to Survive: Likely Nuclear Resistance, Unlikely Social Revolt

·         The Muslim Brotherhood in the Gulf: Prospects for Agitation

·         Palestinians Need Tough Talk from Europe

·         Regional Consequences of Qatar's Leadership Transition

·         Rising to Iran's Challenge: GCC Military Capability and U.S. Security Cooperation

·         Syria's Collapse and How Washington Can Stop It

·         'There Must Be Order': How Russia's Internal Muslim Issues Affect Its Syria Policy

·         U.S. Credibility on Iran at Stake in Syria

·         A Way Forward in Benghazi

·         What to Expect from Russia at the G-8 Summit

World Health Organization (WHO)

·         Pandemic Influenza Risk Management: WHO Interim Guidance