greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 07-19-2013

· DODIG-2013-104 DoD Oversight Improvements Are Needed on the Contractor Accounting System for the Army’s Cost- Reimbursable Stryker Logistics Support Contract

· DODIG-2013-091 Evaluation of the Military Criminal Investigative Organizations Sexual Assault Investigations

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

· 2012 National Network of Fusion Centers Final Report

Department of Justice

· Report on Review of News Media Policies

Department of State

· Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: Quarterly Update

· Unclassified Annex - Iranian influence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Enough Project

· Sudan's Bloody Periphery—The Toll on Civilians from the War in Blue Nile State

EU Institute for Security Studies

· Building Peace in Mali: The Elections and Beyond

· Ukraine’s Gas Loop

· The Wider North - Opportunities and Challenges

European Policy Centre (EPC)

· The European Parliament - Why Should I Care?

· The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - A Long Hard Road to Multilateralism?

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

· Geopolitics Reborn

· The Russians are Seeping In, the Americans are Pivoting Out, and the Germans are Moving Up: The Future of Europe

FRIDE

· Civil Society and Foreign Donors in Libya

German Development Institute

· Assist Those Most in Need, or Most of Those in Need? The Challenge of Allocative Efficiency for Aid Effectiveness

· Foreign Aid and the Fragile Consensus on State Fragility

· Mozambique’s Economic Transformation: Are Efforts to Streamline the Fragmented Aid Landscape Undermined for Good?

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

· International Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes: Toward a Conceptual Framework

German Marshall Fund of the United States

· Bridging the Gulf with Iraq

· European Energy Security and the Role of Russia

· Flexible Expansion: NATO Enlargement in an Era of Austerity and Uncertainty

· Thinking Outside the Box: Energy Security in Europe and Beyond

· Turkey and the Southern Corridor after TAP’s Selection as the Main Export Route for Caspian Gas

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· America Competes Acts: Overall Appropriations Have Increased and Have Mainly Funded Existing Federal Research Entities. GAO-13-612

· Department of Homeland Security: Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development Efforts Could Be Strengthened. GAO-13-766T [testimony]

· DOD's POW/MIA Mission: Top-Level Leadership Attention Needed to Resolve Longstanding Challenges in Accounting for Missing Persons from Past Conflicts. GAO-13-619

· Foreign Affairs Management: State Department Has Strengthened Foreign Service Promotion Process Internal Controls, but Documentation Gaps Remain. GAO-13-654

· Highlights of a Forum: Data Analytics For Oversight and Law Enforcement. GAO-13-680SP

· Strategic Sourcing: Improved and Expanded Use Could Provide Significant Procurement Savings. GAO-13-765T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation

· Airline Safety: The Good News

· Border Security Results Act: Misguided Metrics and a Potential Trigger for Amnesty

· China’s Steady Global Investment—American Choices

· Congress Doesn’t Know Its Own Mind— And That Makes You a Criminal

· Dodd–Frank at Year Three: Onerous and Costly

· Immigration Reform: A Step-by-Step Approach

· The Impact of a Declining Defense Budget on Combat Readiness

· The Importance of Providing U.S. Food Aid During Egypt’s Ongoing Political Crisis

· Productivity and Compensation—Growing Together

· Protecting U.S. Territory Against Long-Range Missiles—Second Approach Needed

· The Unfair Attack on Arbitration: Harming Consumers by Eliminating a Proven Dispute Resolution System

Households in Conflict Network

· Displacement and Education of the Next Generation: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Human Rights Watch

· As Long as They Let Us Stay in Class: Barriers to Education for Persons with Disabilities in China

· Dark Side of Green Growth: Human Rights Impacts of Weak Governance in Indonesia’s Forestry Sector

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

· Indian Defence Industry: Issues of Self-Reliance

· Pakistan Army vs Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: The Latest Round

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

· Iran’s Critical Capability in 2014—Verifiably Stopping Iran from Increasing the Number and Quality of its Centrifuges

· Update on Iran’s Arak Reactor

Institute for the Study of War

· 2013 Iraq Update #28: The Revival of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq

· 2013 Iraq Update #29: Protesters Turn Out During Ramadan Despite Rising Violence: 2013 Iraq Update #29

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

· Indian Rupee: Tortuous Travails

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· Evaluating the Net Benefits of Macroprudential Policy: A Cookbook

· The Evolution of Current Account Deficits in the Euro Area Periphery and the Baltics: Many Paths to the Same Endpoint

· Institutional Arrangements for Macroprudential Policy in Asia

· The Macroprudential Framework: Policy Responsiveness and Institutional Arrangements

· Pressure or Prudence? Tales of Market Pressure and Fiscal Adjustment

Lloyd’s of London

· Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electric Grid

Long War Journal

· Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated July 15, 2013]

Middle East Studies

· MES Insights, July 2013, v.4, no. 4

Miller Center

· National War Powers Commission Report

· National War Powers Commission website

Moshe Dayan Center

· Iqtisadi, July 21, 2013, v. 3, no. 7 Egypt's Agony

National Academies Press

· An Ecosystem Services Approach to Assessing the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

· Health Literacy: Improving Health, Health Systems, and Health Policy Around the World: Workshop Summary

· Nationwide Response Issues After an Improvised Nuclear Device Attack

· Toward Quality Measures for Population Health and the Leading Health Indicators

National Bureau of Asian Research

· Asia Policy, July 2013,no. 16 [access is free through Sept 15, 2013]

o Himalayan Water Security: The Challenges for South and Southeast Asia

o Asia’s Unstable Water Tower: The Politics, Economics, and Ecology of Himalayan Water Projects

o China’s Upstream Advantage in the Great Himalayan Watershed

o Melting the Geopolitical Ice in South Asia

o Himalayan Water Security: A South Asian Perspective

o Hydropower Dams on the Mekong: Old Dreams, New Dangers

o Climate Change and Water Security in the Himalayan Region

o Securing the Himalayas as the Water Tower of Asia: An Environmental Perspective

o A New Type of Major-Power Relationship: Seeking a Durable Foundation for U.S.-China Ties

o China’s Transition to a More Credible Nuclear Deterrent: Implications and Challenges for the United States

o Expanding Contacts to Enhance Durability: A Strategy for Improving U.S.-China Military-to-Military Relations

o Policy Succession and the Next Cross-Strait Crisis

· Japan's Entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Domestic Priorities and Regional Dynamics

National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS)

· The Security Situation in Syria: Present Conditions and Future Prospects

National Institute of Justice

· National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

· A Global Review (2012-2013) of Improvised Explosive Devices and Mine / Explosive Remnant of War Hazards in Afghanistan

Observer Research Foundation

· China Military Watch, July 15, 2013, v.2, no. 14 China, Russia Conclude Joint Maritime Exercise

· India-Bangladesh Border Management: The Challenge of Cattle Smuggling

· Nawaz Sharif and India

Oxfam International

· Russia as a Humanitarian Aid Donor

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

· Social Capital, Policing and the Rule of Law: Keys to Stabilization

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

· Avoiding the "Resource Curse" in Mongolia

· The Hyperglobalization of Trade and Its Future

Pew Internet & American Life Project

· The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing is Taught in Schools

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

· Fewer See Events in Egypt as Critical to U.S. Interests: Interest in Egypt News Has Plummeted Since the Arab Spring

Pew Research Global Attitudes Project

· America’s Global Image Remains More Positive than China’s

· Mexican Public Favors Military Use, U.S. Aid to Fight Drug Cartels

· Who Is Up, Who Is Down: Global Views of China& the U.S.

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

· In the Shadow of Syria: Review of the Chemical Weapons Convention

· Is Moldova Tired of Being the Success Story of the Eastern Partnership?

· The Search for an Exit from the Poland–Belarus Deadlock on Small Border Traffic

Rand

· Demography & Inequality: How Europe's Changing Population Will Impact on Income Inequality

· Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills for Army Leaders Using Blended-Learning Methods

· Re-Examining the Al Qa'ida Threat to the United States [testimony]

Refugees International

· South Sudan—Protection and Assistance Challenges Demand a Firm Response

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

· Mali—The Case for a Permanent UN Intervention Force?

Small Wars Journal

· “A Conversation with Clausewitz”

· Be Wise, Not Foolish: Medical NGO Deterrence Through an Insurgent Lens

· Fitting Intelligence to the Fight: Lessons from Afghanistan

· Old Wine in New Bottles: Douhet, Warden, and Counterinsurgency

· Preparing for an Irregular Future-Counterinsurgency

· Privatization of Violence: Legal and Illegal Armed Actors in the Mexican Center of Gravity in the New Wars

· Sustainable Development as a Military Tool

· Thailand’s War in the South Carries On, Peace Talks in Doubt

· Thinking and Writing About COIN

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

· Maritime Transport and Destabilizing Commodity Flows

Transnational Institute

· The Sugarcane Industry and the Global Economic Crisis

Transparency International

· Global Corruption Barometer 2013: Report

United Kingdom Parliament, House of Commons Defense Committee

· First Joint Report of the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defense, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees… Scrutiny of Arms Exports and Arms Control

o Volume I: Report

o Volume II: Memorandum from the Chair of the Committees

o Volume III: Oral and Additional Written Evidence

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

· Deterioration in the Sinai

· Pakistan's Example of the Way Forward in Egypt

· Violence and Political Rifts on the Rise in Lebanon

· Will Egypt Become the Next Algeria?

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

· Egypt—Islamist Ascent, Islamist Descent