Friday's Miscellany -7-12-2013

38 North

·         North Korea: Enduring Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain

AEI Critical Threats

·         Mutiny in the Yemeni Military

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

·         Another Post-2014Capability Gap: Spin and Reality of the Afghan Air Force’s Readiness

·         The Road to Ghazni: Bombs, Battles and Blockades

·         Who Played Havocwith the Qatar Talks? Five Possible Scenarios to Explain the Mess

·         Winding Down or in for the Long Haul? The Emergence of a New US Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Air Force STSC

·         CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, July/August 2013, v. 26, no. 4

o    CrossTalk and Software—Past, Present and Future: A Twenty-Five Year Perspective

o    A Twenty-Five Year Perspective

o    Is Something Missing from Project Management?

o    A New Software Metric to Complement Function Points: The Software Non-functional Assessment Process (SNAP)

o    Improving Affordability: Separating Research from Development and from Design in Complex Programs

o    Efficiencies of Virtualization in Test and Evaluation

Alliance for Peacebuilding

·         Building Peace, March 2013

American Enterprise Institute

·         Taiwan's Crucial Role in the U.S. Pivot to Asia  

Amnesty International

·         Egypt—Unlawful Killings in Protests and Political Violence on 5 and 8 July 2013 

·         Frontier Europe—Human Rights Abuses on Greece’s Border with Turkey 

·         Greece—Enter at Your Peril:  Lives Put at Risk at the Gate of Europe 

·         Lebanon—Torture Allegations in Wake of Sidon Armed Clashes

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Conflict Trends (No.16): Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, July 2013

 

Asian Development Bank

·         Intellectual Property Rights, Quality of Institutions, and Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Asia

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Evaluation and Implications for East Asian Regionalism

Asan Institute for Policy Studies

·         Time to Address North Korea’s Prison Labor Camps 

Atlantic Council

·         Beyond Spillover: Syria's Role in Lebanon's Drift Toward Political Violence

·         Electoral Politics Under Tunisia's New Constitution

·         Global Trends2030: Challenges and Opportunities for Europe

·         Syria's War Threatens Lebanon's Fragile Economy

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Welcome Back to Mubarak’s Egypt 

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Reading the Findings of the UK Trident Alternatives Review

Brookings

·         Besieged Polis—Citizen Insecurity in Latin America  

·         Strengthening U.S.-Taiwan Relations: A New Partnership for a New Age [event video and transcript]

·         Vital Statistics on Congress

CATO Institute

·         Liberalization or Litigation?  Time to Rethink the International Investment Regime

Center for American Progress

·         Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers, 2001–2011

Center for Global Development

·         A Robust and Nuanced U.S. Policy Response to Zimbabwe

Center for Naval Analysis (CNA)

·         Iranian Operational Decision Making

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Egypt, Syria, the Search for Regional Stability and Learning from the "Non-Wars" Against "Non-Terrorism"

·         Korea Chair Monitor, v. 1, no. 3 

·         Indonesia Steps Up Global Health Diplomacy

·         The Pacific Alliance: An Example of Lessons Learned

·         PacNet #49 - Okinawa - Look to Singapore!

·         PacNet #50 - Timor-Leste: A Fragile Peace

·         PacNet #51 - Start Thinking Now About Transitional Justice in a Post-Transition North Korea

·         Project on Nuclear Issues: A Collection of Papers from the 2011 Conference Series

·         Seven Revolutions: About the Presentation

·         Significant Cyber Events [updated as of July 11,2013]

·         US and Iranian Strategic Competition: Latin America, Africa, and the Periphery States

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

·         Eurasia 2014: Into Thin Air

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Austerity: European Democracies Against the Wall

·         Deploying the Energy Incentive: Reinforcing EU Integration in South-East Europe

·         Household Debt and the European Crisis

·         Price Formation in Commodities Markets: Financialisation and Beyond

·         What’s Wrong with Europe’s Banks?

Chatham House

·         Do Nuclear Weapons Deter?

·         Egypt: Democracy in the Balance

·         Global Food Insecurity and Implications for Saudi Arabia

·         How the Soviet Inheritance Holds Back Russia's Development

·         International Criminals: Extradite or Prosecute?

·         New Leadership in Beijing—Political and Economic Implications 

·         The Rule of Law in South Africa: Measuring Judicial Performance and Meeting Standards

·         Registering for Growth: Tax and the Informal Sector in Developing Countries

Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations

·         @tomic 2012: An Exercise in Perspective

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Joint Hearing on DOD and VA Collaboration to Assist Service Members Returning to Civilian Life

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee

·         Cyber Espionage and the Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property and Technology

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         The Abu Dhabi Pre-Clearance Facility: Implications for U.S. Businesses and National Security

·         Cambodia’s Looming Political and Social Crisis

·         Learning from Iraq: A Final Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

·         The State Department 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report

·         The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After Benghazi

          
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         Assessing Attacks on the Homeland: From Fort Hood to Boston

·         Emergency MGMT2.0: How #Social Media & New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response,& Recovery #Disasters #Part2 #Govt/NGOs

·         Threat to the Homeland: Iran’s Extending Influence in the Western Hemisphere

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee

·         Unaccountable Government: GAO Reports Show Feds Struggling to Track Money and Performance

Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

·         Oversight and Management of Department of Energy National Laboratories and Science Activities

·         Strategic Planning for National Manufacturing Competitiveness

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

·         FEMA Reauthorization: Recovering Quicker and Smarter

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee

·         Stopping Fraudulent Robocall Scams: Can More Be Done?

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Assessing the Transition in Afghanistan

 Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings: Preparing for and Responding to the Attack

·         Protecting our Northern Border: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Local Partnership

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Status of Discretionary Appropriations: FY 2014 Senate

Cyberbullying Research Center

·         State Cyberbullying Laws: A Brief Review of State Cyberbullying Laws and Policies

·         State Sexting Laws: A Brief Review of State Sexting Laws and Policies

Defense R&D Canada

·         Analysis of Marine Traffic along Canada's Coasts

·         Canadian Defence Priorities, CF Force Posture and Strategic Readiness

·         Capability Based Planning Pilot Project

·         Clan and Islamic Identities in Somali Society

·         Classification of Less Lethal Device Technologies

·         Continental Air Defence: Threat Perception and Response

·         Control Architecture for Multiple Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Operations

·         Design of a Maritime Domain Awareness Visual Analytics Prototype (DMVAP)

·         Detecting Wormholes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Through Hop Count Analysis

·         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

·         A "First-Cut" Concept Map": The Irregular Adversary (Insurgent)

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

·         Historical Data Review of Radicalization and the Economy in Canada

·         Humanitarian Relief Operations: A Military Logistics Perspective

·         Hybrid Air Vehicles for Military Logistics Heavy Lift 

·         Institutional Analysis and Irregular Warfare: A Case Study of the French Army in Algeria1954-1960

·         Institutional and Organizational Unconscious Theories

·         Interagency Governance

·         Machine Learning Algorithms for Multiple Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Operations

·         Modelling Public Security Operations: Analysis of the Effect of Key Social, Cognitive, and Informational Factors with Security System Relationship Configurations for Goal Achievement

·         Modelling Public Security Operations (Modélisation des opérations de sécurité publique)

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

·         A Preliminary Non-lethal Weapons Gap Analysis

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

·         Psychological Resilience: A Brief Review of Definitions, and Key Theoretical, Conceptual, and Methodological Issues 

·         A Radar-Based Tactical Decision Aid Concept for Ship Route Planning and Task Group Positioning

·         Radicalization in the National Economic Climate

·         The Relative Nature of Low Probability of Detection Radar

·         Risk Assessment: Challenges and Recommendations

·         Risk Assessment References

·         Science Town 2.0:An Integrating Concept for S&T Support for Multi-Agency Crisis and Disaster Management

·         Social Identity Dynamics in a World with Two Adversarial Groups

·         Social Psychology Theories in the Meta-Oganizational Context (Théories de la Psychologie Sociale dans le Contexte Méta-Organisationnel)

·         Towards Building Trusted Multinational Civil-Military Relationships Using Social Networks

·         Understanding the Process of Radicalization: Review of the Empirical Literature (Comprendre le processus de radicalisation)

·         Unmanned Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges from a Canadian Perspective

·         Users Manual and Validation of the Automated Grading System (AGS)

·         Visual Analysis of Social Networks in a Counter-Insurgency Context

 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Instruction7041.04, Estimating and Comparing the Full Costs of Civilian and Active Duty Military Manpower and Contract Support, July 3, 2013 

·         Performance of the Defense Acquisition System, 2013 Annual Report

 Department of Energy

·         U.S. Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate change and Extreme Weather

East-West Center

·         The Expanding Indo-Japanese Partnership

·         Strategic Implications of TPP: Answering the Critics

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Kuwait Country Analysis Brief

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         Afghanistan: Enter2014 

·         The Georgian Succession

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 

·         WMD-Related Dual-Use Trade Control Offences in the European Union: Penalties and Prosecutions

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

·         European Drug Report 2013 

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Between a Rock and a Hard Place: What is Turkey’s Place in the Transatlantic Market?

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

·         Developing High Quality Emergency Operation Plans for Houses of Worship

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, July 2013 

o    FBI Counterintelligence Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program: A Unique Investigative Resource    

o    Focusing on Wildlife Crime (Part 1) 

o    Control and Arrest Tactics Training: Guidelines for Safety

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         A Second, Corrective Revolution?

·         Can the EU Rescue Democracy in Hungary?  

·         Canada's Midterm Blues: The Harper Government Hits Rocks  

·         Complete the Islamists’ Defeat  

·         Defense Reorganization Under Sequestration: A Speech by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on December 1, 2016

·         Egypt’s Counter Revolution  

·         Revamping the Nagorny Karabakh Peace Process   

·         Snowden and the “Reset” 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Green Power and Performance in Global Environmental Governance

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Challenges of a Multipolar World: The United States, India, and the European Union in the Asia-Pacific

·         From Model to Bystander and How to Bounce Back: Turkey, the Middle East, and the Transatlantic Alliance

·         Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges for Middle Power Diplomacy

·         Regional Dynamics in the Mediterranean and Prospects for Transatlantic Cooperation 

·         The U.S.-Japan Alliance in a Time of Transition

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Defense Acquisition Workforce: The Air Force Needs to Evaluate Changes in Funding for Civilians Engaged in Space Acquisition. GAO-13-638

·         Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Analysis of Benefits Under Proposed Program Changes. GAO-13-730T [testimony]

·         Intellectual Property: Insights Gained from Efforts to Quantify the Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods in the U.S. Economy. GAO-13-762T [testimony]

·         Military Training: DOD Met Annual Reporting Requirements and Continued to Improve Its Sustainable Ranges Report. GAO-13-648

·         NOAA: Initial Response to Post-Storm Assessment Requirements. GAO-13-559R

·         Nuclear Reactor License Renewal: NRC Generally Follows Documented Procedures, but Its Revisions to Environmental Review Guidance Have Not Been Timely. GAO-13-493

·         Nuclear Weapons: Factors Leading to Cost Increases with the Uranium Processing Facility. GAO-13-686R

·         President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Millions Being Treated, but Better Information Management Needed to Further Improve and Expand Treatment. GAO-13-688

Heritage Foundation

·         2013 Global Agenda for Economic Freedom

·         Afghanistan: Zero Troops Should Not Be an Option

·         Benjamin Franklin: The Sage of America

·         Disarm Now, Ask Questions Later: Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Policy

·         Egypt: A Way Forward After a Step Back

·         Punitive Trade Sanctions on Bangladesh Not the Way to Improve Labor Conditions

·         Winning Without Fighting: The Chinese Psychological Warfare Challenge

Households in Conflict Network

·         The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Evolution of Aerial Combat

·         The Increasing Complexity of the Internationalised Syrian Conflict

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Long Walk to Restoration: Lessons from Somalia's Transition Process

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         China’s Gwadar Pearl

·         Debating India’s Look-East Engagement: Singapore’s Contribution

·         The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor: Salient Features and Recent Developments

·         India: A Destination Nightmare for Tourists? Implications of Sexual Violence

·         Skill Development Initiatives in India

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         Juggling Security, Democracy and Development in the Caucasus: What Role for the EU?

·         More Europe on Defence or No Europe

·         The Syrian File. The Role of the Opposition in a Multi-Layered Conflict

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

·         Pakistan: Massive New Displacement and Falling Returns Require Rights-Based Response 

·         South Sudan: A Comprehensive Response to Internal Displacement is Crucial

·         Sudan: A Worsening Displacement Crisis in Need of a Comprehensive Response

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Basel Capital Requirements and Credit Crunch in the MENA Region

·         Country Transparency and the Global Transmission of Financial Shocks

·         Determinants of Sovereign Bond Spreads in Emerging Markets: Local Fundamentals and Global Factors vs. Ever-Changing Misalignments

·         The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation

·         Does Fiscal Policy Affect Interest Rates? Evidence From A Factor-Augmented

·         Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy Transmission in Vietnam and Emerging Asia

·         Macro-Financial Implications of Corporate (De)Leveraging in the Euro Area Periphery

·         Monetary Policy and Balance Sheets [US]

·         Tax Coordination, Tax Competition, and Revenue Mobilization in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

·         Toward A Sustainable and Inclusive Consolidation in Lithuania: Past Experience and What is Needed Going Forward

·         IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update -- Growing Pains, July 2013

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Countries Emerging from Conflict [video] 

·         The UN Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, July 12, 2013, v. 13, no. 14 

o    Rectification Campaign to Boost Cadres with “Red DNA”

o    Chinese Premier Li’s India Visit: Sifting through the Charm Offensive

o    NATO and Its Limits in the Asia-Pacific

o    Exploring the Significance of China’s Membership on the Arctic Council

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

o    Turkey’s Counter-Terrorism Response to the Syrian Crisis

o    China Claims Uyghur Militants Trained in Syria

o    Sinai Insurgency Exploits Political Crisis in Egypt

Japan Ministry of Defense

·         Defense of Japan2013 [White Paper]

JFK Special Warfare Center and School

·         Special Warfare, July-September 2013, v. 26,no. 3

o    Social Revolution

o    Leveraging SOF Capacity: Fusing Components, TSOCS and Academics

o    An Unconventional Role for Civil Affairs

o    Crossing the Red Line: Social Media and Social Network Analysis for Unconventional Campaign Planning

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2013 [updated July 13, 2013]

·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated July 9, 2013]

Lowy Institute for International Policy

·         Financial Regulation and the G20

McAfee

·         Dissecting Operation Troy:  Cyberespionage in South Korea

National Academies Press

·         An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy

National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC)

·         Ballistic &Cruise Missile Threat

NATO Defense College

·         The Future of Airborne Forces in NATO

Oxfam International

·         Managing Price Risk in Local Food Reserves—Analyzing the Prospects for a Stabilization Fund in Mali and Niger 

Pak Institute for Peace Studies

·         Pakistan Security Report 2012

Pakistan Commission Report

·         Abbottabad Commission on Bin Laden

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

·         Public Esteem for Military Still High

 

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         American International Engagement on the Rocks

 

Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)

·         Poland and Spain: How to Cooperate in a Europe in Flux

·         Ripping into TTIP? Debates Surrounding the Upcoming EU–U.S. Negotiations

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security 

·         Noureddine Jebnoun, "Business as Usual: Egyptian Military Kingmakers" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 130, July 2013)

·         Rajaram Panda, "Japan's Upper House Elections: A New Test for Shinzo Abe" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 131, July 2013)

Rand

·         Costs of Flying Units in Air Force Active and Reserve Components  

·         Democratization in the Arab World: A Summary of Lessons from Around the Globe 

·         Democratization int he Arab World: A Summary of Lessons from Around the Globe (Arabic translation)  

·         Understanding Why a Ground Combat Vehicle That Carries Nine Dismounts Is Important to the Army 

·         What Should We Learn From Boston?  [testimony]

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         Egypt on the Brink: The Military's Dilemma

·         Fuel Price Hike and Indonesia’s Energy Insecurity

·         Military Coup in Egypt: A Recipe for Failure

·         South Africa Beyond Mandela

Small Wars Journal

·         Assessing Two Countering Violent Extremism Programs: Saudi Arabia’s PRAC and the United Kingdom’s Prevent Strategy 

·         Bias and Perception: How it Affects Our Judgment in Decision Making and Analysis

·         Economic and Religious Influencers in the Era of Population-Centric Warfare

·         Hezbollah's Strategy and Tactics in the Security Zone from 1985 to 2000

·         Sequestration as a Godsend: Operate the DOD as a Modern Business: Part II 

·         Six Requirements for Success in Modern Counterinsurgency

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

·         Learning from Iraq: A Final Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Russian Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa

Transnational Institute

·         A Foreseeable Disaster: The European Union’s Agroenergy Policies and the Global Land and Water Grab 

United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office

·         Arab Spring and Economic Transition—Two Years on

·         Intellectual Property in China

University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab

·         Some Devices Wander by Mistake—Planet Blue Coat Redux

US Air Force

·         Global Horizons - Final Report - United States Air Force Global Science and Technology Vision

·         Global Horizons - Appendix

·         Global Horizons - Executive Summary

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Gulf Aid to Egypt and U.S. Policy 

·         Hearing on the Blacklisting of Hezbollah by the European Union

·         How Syria's Civil War Became a Holy Crusade

·         Threat to the Homeland: Iran's Extending Influence in the Western Hemisphere

·         Understanding Egypt's Tamarod Revolution: What Happened? What's Next?

·         What Have U.S. Troops Been Doing in Jordan?

White House

·         The Economic Benefits of Fixing our Broken Immigration System