greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 06-28-2013

· DODIG-2013-097 Improvements Needed in the Oversight of the Medical-Support Services and Award-Fee Processes Under the Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, Base Operations Support Services Contract

· DODIG-2013-098 Assessment of U.S. Military Cemeteries

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

· Lessons Learned: Social Media and Hurricane Sandy: Virtual Social Media Working Group and DHS First Responders Group

East-West Center

· Australia and India: Indo-Pacific Partners

· Japanese Historical Reconciliation Should Begin at Home with Okinawa

EU Institute for Security Studies

· Arabism - 100 Years of Solitude

· Libya: The Struggle for Security

EU Non-Proliferation Consortium

· Creating a Common EU Policy on Nuclear Non-proliferation Education: A Case Study of Sweden

· The European Union's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Centres of Excellence Initiative

European Policy Centre (EPC)

· Gezi Park One Month On: What Lies Ahead?

Feinstein International Center

· Making Gender-Just Remedy and Reparation Possible: Upholding the Rights of Women and Girls in the Greater North of Uganda

Flashpoint

· Convoy of Martyrs in the Levant: A Joint Study Charting the Evolving Role of Sunni Foreign Fighters in the Armed Uprising Against the Assad Regime in Syria

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· Revamping the Nagorny Karabakh Peace Process

FRIDE

· The Gulf States and the Arab Uprisings

German Marshall Fund of the United States

· Encounters with the Third Kind: Turkey’s New Political Forces are Met by Old Politics

· Urban Futures: An Atlantic Perspective

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Antidumping and Countervailing Duties: Key Challenges to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises' Pursuit of the Imposition of Trade Remedies. GAO-13-575

· Army Industrial Operations: Budgeting and Management of Carryover Could Be Improved. GAO-13-499

· Border Security: Progress and Challenges in DHS Implementation and Assessment Efforts. GAO-13-653T [testimony]

· Building Partner Capacity: Actions Needed to Strengthen DOD Efforts to Assess the Performance of the Regional Centers for Security Studies. GAO-13-606

· Contractor Performance: DOD Actions to Improve the Reporting of Past Performance Information. GAO-13-589

· Defense Acquisitions: Goals and Associated Metrics Needed to Assess Progress in Improving Service Acquisition. GAO-13-634

· Defense Forensics: Additional Planning and Oversight Needed to Establish an Enduring Expeditionary Forensic Capability. GAO-13-447

· Gas Pipeline Safety: Guidance and More Information Needed before Using Risk-Based Reassessment Intervals. GAO-13-577

· Grants Management: Improved Planning, Coordination, and Communication Needed to Strengthen Reform Efforts. GAO-13-383

· Grants Performance: Justice and FEMA Collect Performance Data for Selected Grants, but Action Needed to Validate FEMA Performance Data. GAO-13-552

· Haiti Reconstruction: USAID Infrastructure Projects Have Had Mixed Results and Face Sustainability Challenges. GAO-13-558

· Managing for Results: 2013 Federal Managers Survey on Organizational Performance and Management Issues (GAO-13-519SP, June 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-518. GAO-13-519SP

· Managing For Results: Executive Branch Should More Fully Implement the GPRA Modernization Act to Address Pressing Governance Challenges. GAO-13-518

· Military Bases: DOD Has Processes to Comply with Statutory Requirements for Closing or Realigning Installations. GAO-13-645

· National Nuclear Security Administration: Laboratories' Indirect Cost Management Has Improved, but Additional Opportunities Exist. GAO-13-534

· National Preparedness: FEMA Has Made Progress, but Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Grant Management and Assess Capabilities. GAO-13-637T [testimony]

· Program Evaluation: Strategies to Facilitate Agencies' Use of Evaluation in Program Management and Policy Making. GAO-13-570

· U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Building Overhead Costs into Projects and Customers' Views on Information Provided. GAO-13-528

Henley Putnam University

· Journal of Strategic Security, Summer 2013, v. 6, no. 2

o Achieving Resilience in Disaster Management: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships

o Emerging Media Crisis Value Model: A Comparison of Relevant, Timely Message Strategies for Emergency Events

o Beyond the Storms: Strengthening Preparedness, Response, & Resilience in the 21st Century

o DigiNotar: Dissecting the First Dutch Digital Disaster

o Disaster, Resilience and Security in Global Cities

o Lessons from Japan: Resilience after Tokyo and Fukushima

Heritage Foundation

· Cost of a Climate Policy: The Economic Impact of Obama’s Climate Action Plan

· Energy Production on Federal Lands: Handing Keys Over to the States

· Helping Southeast Asia Come to Grips with the Reality of Taiwan

· History Suggests Social Security Insolvency Is Coming Sooner Than Projected

· Kerry in India—Setting the Tone on Security Issues

· Obama’s Trip to Africa: Make It More Than a Photo-Op

· Schumer–Corker–Hoeven Amendment Fails on Securing the Border and Halting Illegal Immigration

· U.S. Should Warn Egyptian President Morsi Against a Crackdown

Households in Conflict Network

· Abandoning Coffee under the Threat of Violence and the Presence of Illicit Crops. Evidence from Colombia

· Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan

Human Rights Watch

· Barely Surviving: Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia

· It's Part of the Job: Ill-treatment and Torture of Vulnerable Groups in Lebanese Police Stations

· They Say We Should Be Grateful: Mass Rehousing and Relocation Programs in Tibetan Areas of China

Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI)

· France and the Fight against Terrorism in the Sahel: The History of a Difficult Leadership Role

Institute for Defense Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· Gilgit Baltistan: Between Hope and Despair

Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence

· International Journal of Conflict and Violence IJCV, 2013, v. 7, no. 1

o Introduction: Transitions from Violence. Analysing the Effects of Transitional Justice

o Bringing Justice and Enforcing Peace? An Ethnographic Perspective on the Impact of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

o Contesting International Norms of Transitional Justice: The Case of Timor Leste

o Transitional Justice: History-Telling, Collective Memory and the Victim-Witness

o Qualitative Research on Prejudice

o Racism, Differentialism, and Antiracism in Everyday Ideology: A Mixed-Methods Study in Britain

o “It Depends How You’re Saying It”: The Complexities of Everyday Racism

o The Meaning of Anti-Americanism: A Performative Approach to Anti-American Prejudice

o How Racist Violence Becomes a Virtue: An Application of Discourse Analysis

o Dealing with Discrimination and the Struggle for Social Advancement in Migrant Families: Theoretical and Methodo - logical Aspects of a Study on Adolescent Generational Dynamics in Turkish Migrant Families Subjected to Marginalization

o Economic Prosperity as “Narcissistic Filling”: A Missing Link Between Political Attitudes and Right-wing Authoritarianism

o “I Am First and Foremost a Man of Logic” – Stereotyping, the Syndrome Character of Prejudice, and a Glance at Anders Breivik’s Manifesto

Institute for Homeland Security Solutions (IHSS)

· Unmanned Aircraft and the Human Element: Public Perceptions and First Responder Concerns

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

· The Geneva Conventions and South African Law

Institute for the Study of War

· 2013 Iraq Update #26: Provincal Election Outcomes: The Political Fragmentation of Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'a

· Syria Conflict Exacerbates Communal Tension in Lebanon

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

· Where is Israel Heading?

International Crisis Group

· Afghanistan’s Parties in Transition

· Syria’s Metastasising Conflicts

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· The Elusive Quest for Inclusive Growth: Growth, Poverty, and Inequality in Asia

· Fiscal Policy over the Election Cycle in Low-Income Countries

International Peace Institute (IPI)

· The Future of Intrastate Conflict in Africa: More Violence or Greater Peace?

· Providing for Peacekeeping [website]

Jamestown foundation

· Terrorism Monitor, June 27, 2013, v. 11, no. 13

o Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Makes Inroads in Southern Yemen but Reveals Limits to Its Operational Capabilities

o Punjab Government Financing Front Group for Lashkar-e-Taiba Terrorists

o Shiite Enclaves North of Aleppo Becoming Staging Grounds for Hezbollah’s Next Offensive

o The Tribal Factor in Syria’s Rebellion: A Survey of Armed Tribal Groups in Syria

Korea Institute for National Unification

· One Year into the ‘6.28 Policy Directives- Contents and Progress

· The United States and China: “Same Bed, Different Dreams” and the Denuclearization of North Korea

National Academies Press

· Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts: Report of a Joint Workshop of the National Academy of Engineering and the United States Institute of Peace: Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

· Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

NATO Defense College

· NATO and the Arab League: The Importance of Being Earnest

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

· Israel: Alternative Regional Options in a Changing Middle East

Organization of American States (OAS)

· A Fine Balance: Mapping Cyber (in)Security in Latin America

Oxford Research Group

· A New Era for Iran? Audio Interview with our Iran Researcher

Pew Internet & American Life Project

· Younger Americans’ Library Habits and Expectations

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

· Regionalism in East Asia: A Bumpy Road to Asian Integration

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

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

· Morally Arbitrary Economic Advantage

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

Project on Defense Alternatives (PDA)

· Defense Sense: Fiscal Year2014 Update—Options for National Security Savings

RAND

· Developing Public Health Regulations for Legal Marijuana

· Do U.S. Military Interventions Occur in Clusters?

Royal United Service Institute (RUSI)

· Defence Industry and the Reinvigorated UK-UAE Security Relationship

· The Future of the UK's Co-operative Nuclear Relationships

Security & Defense Agenda

· Safeguarding Defense Technologies

Small Arms Survey

· Armed Groups’ Holdings of Guided Light Weapons

· Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets

Small Wars Journal

· Anonymous vs. Los Zetas: The Revenge of the Hacktivists

· Fooled by Certainty

· Leader-Imposed Stress

· Resurrection is Emancipation: Exploring “Strategy” as a Dead Metaphor

· Things Americans Need to Know: How to Be Better Partners

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

· Whose Responsibility is Interoperability?

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

· SIGAR Audit 13-13 - Afghan Special Mission Wing: DOD Moving Forward with $771.8 Million Purchase of Aircraft that the Afghans Cannot Operate and Maintain

Stanley Foundation

· Building International Confidence and Responsibility in Nuclear Security

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

· Joint Strategic Planning System Insights: Chairmen Joint Chiefs of Staff 1990 to 2012

· The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Libya: Reviewing Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR

· The Struggle for Yemen and the Challenge of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Transnational Institute

· Impunity Inc.: Reflections on the “Super-Rights” and “Super-Powers” of Corporate Capital

United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons Defense Committee

· Securing the Future of Afghanistan—Government Response to the Committee's Tenth Report

UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

· 2013 World Drug Report