Friday's Miscellany 08-16-2013

American Enterprise Institute

·         Has Kuwait Reached the Sectarian Tipping Point?  

·         On Labor Law Reforms in India 

Amnesty International

·         If You Love Your Life, Move Out!  Forced Eviction in Badia East, Lagos State, Nigeria  

·         Housing is Our Human Right—End Forced Evictions in Nigeria 

Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset

·         Conflict Trends (No.17): Real-time Analysis of African Political Violence, August 2013 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia   

·         Multilateralizing Asian Regionalism 

Atlantic Council

·         IntelBrief: The African Growth and Opportunity Act Revisited 

·         Israeli Experience in Missile Defense: Lessons for NATO  

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Agenda for Change—Strategic Choices for the Next Government  

·         Getting there—A Status Update for the 2000 Defense White Paper  

Berkman Center on Internet & Society

·         Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice: New Findings from Pew and the Berkman Center 

Brookings Institute

·         Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August  14, 2013] 

·         An American Perspective on Maritime Asia 

·         Breaking the Stalemate—The Military Dynamics of the Syrian Civil War and Options for Limited U.S. Intervention  

·         Immigration Facts: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) 

·         Invest But Reform: Establish a National Infrastructure Bank Capitalized by a Repatriation Tax Holiday 

·         Shelby County v. Holder and the Future of the Voting Rights Act

·         Standing Up to Modern Terrorism: How the Hong Kong Police Force Strives to Keep Hong Kong One of the World’s Safest Cities 

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Full of Holes—Byers and Webb on Canada's Submarine Program  

Center for American Progress

·         The Role of the U.S. Government in Promoting Private-Sector Development Solutions

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)

·         Homeland Security Affairs Journal, 2013, v. 9

o    Enabling Public Safety Priority Use of Commercial Wireless Networks  

o    Supply Chain Resilience: Diversity + Self-organization = Adaptation 

o    The Two Faces of DHS: Balancing the Department’s Responsibilities 

o    The Plan, Type,Source, Report Cycle: A Unifying Concept for National Guard Preparedness 

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

·         Motivation For Hiring Alien Workers? Hint:It’s Not a Labor Shortage 

·         Questions for Lawmakers on Immigration 

Center for Naval Analyses

·         Adjusting First-Term Contract Lengths in the Navy—Implications and Recommendations 

·         Analysis of the T+X Program and a Proposal for a New Pilot

·         Japan’s Territorial Disputes  

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies

·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 2013, v. 15, no. 1 

o    What Will Be the Legacy of the War in Afghanistan?

o    Fighting Doctrines and Revolutionary Ethics

o    Non-Lethal Weapons and Force-Casualty Aversion in 21st Century Warfare

o    The Military as Nation Builder: The Case of the Canadian North

o    Aerial Warfare and Maritime Expeditionary Operations: Naval Aviation Versus Land-Based Air Power in the 1982 Falklands War

o    “Are we shooting?”- Strategic Communications Campaign in a Population-Centric Counterinsurgency

o    The Securitization of Child Soldiers by Burmese Insurgent Groups: Preliminary Research from the Field

o    China’s New Arctic Strategem: A Strategic Buyer’s Approach to the Arctic

o    Breaking the Cycle: Recognizing Past Success and Making U.S.-North Korean Reconciliation a Reality

o    Collaborative Disaster Training For Canadian Forces Bases And Civilian Partners

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Impact Player: Kim Ki-choon 

·         GCC-Maghreb Relations in a Changing Regional Order 

·         PacNet #66 - Post-Arab Spring: Political Transitions in Retreat? 

·         PacNet #65 - A Farewell to Grandiosity? Practical Cooperation and the ADMM-Plus  

·         PacNet #64 - China's "Surgical" Human Rights Crackdown 

Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World

·         Islamism and the Pakistani State 

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Economic Policy Coordination in the Economic and Monetary Union: From Maastricht via the SGP to the Fiscal Pact 

·         The EU’s Paradoxical Efforts at Tracking the Financing of Terrorism: From Criticism to Imitation of Dataveillance 

·         Has Austerity Failed in Europe? 

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian Peace Talks 

·         Trials and Tribulations of European Defense Cooperation 

Chatham House

·         Eurasian Economic Integration: Rhetoric and Reality

·         Saving Oil and Gas in the Gulf 

Combat Studies Institute Press

·         Fixing Our Broken Immigration System: The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship 

·         The Roots of Military Doctrine: Change and Continuity in Understanding the Practice of Warfare 

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)

·         18th ICCRTS (2013): Proceedings 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Historical Budget Data—August 2013

·         Monthly Budget Review for July 2013 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Issue Guide: Egypt's Escalating Crisis 

·         The Role of the U.S. Federal Reserve 

Defense Legal Policy Board

·         Military Justice in cases of U.S. Servicemembers Alleged to have Caused the Death, Injury or Abuse of Non-combatants in Iraq or Afghanistan 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Extending Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses of Military Members [memorandum] 

·         Further Guidance on Extending Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses of Military Members 

·         Test Science Roadmap

o    Report    

o    Appendices    

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2013-116  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Did Not Comply With Base Realignment and Closure Legislation 

·         DODIG-2013-117  Enhanced Oversight Needed for Nontactical Vehicle Fleets in the National Capital Region 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         OIG-13-94 FEMA Deployed the Appropriate Number of Community Relations Employees in Response to Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee  

·         OIG-13-106 Reducing Over-classification of DHS’ National Security Information 

 

Department of Justice (DOJ)

·         Administration White Paper on NSA Domestic Surveillance  

·         National Security Agency: Missions,Authorities, Oversight and Partnerships 

Department of the Navy

·         SECNAVINST 5510.37 Department of the Navy Insider Threat Program 

East-West Center

·         Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         China Poised to Become the World’s Largest Net Oil Importer Later This Year 

Enough Project

·         Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur  

·         Nine Things You Need to Know About the Conflict in Darfur 

·         Recent Fighting in Eastern Congo and Its Implications for Peace 

European Parliament

·         The Involvement of Salafism/Wahhabism in the Support and Supply of Arms to Rebel Groups around the World 

Feinstein International Center

·         Ransom, Collaborators, Corruption: Sinai Trafficking and Transnational Networks

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Export Promotion: Better Information Needed about Federal Resources. GAO-13-644 

Heritage Foundation

·         CBO Should Measure Long-Term Obligations and Policy Impact 

·         Congress Should Scale Back the Renewable Fuel Standard—to Zero

·         EMP Awareness Day: The First Step to Averting Disaster 

·         House Water Resources Development Act: Ditch Senate Bill Blunders, Reform the Army Corps 

·         Making Crime Fighting a Team Effort:Cross-Designating Federal Law Enforcement Officers as State Officers 

·         Senate Immigration Bill May Violate the Origination Clause 

·         U.S. Should Be Wary of Fake Chinese Economic Reform 

Hoover Institute

·         Strategika, no. 5 

o    What Exactly are the Strategic Aims that North Korea Hopes to Achieve by the Possession of a Few Deployable Nuclear Weapons?

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

·         2013 Iraq Update #32 - Prison Break and Violence Levels Demand Maliki Security Response 

·         Iraq's Foreign Minister in Washington: The Moment to Address Today's Challenges and Avert Future Crises 

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         Bangladesh at a Crossroads: A Political Prognosis 

·         The Changing Moods on the Sino-Indian Front 

·         John Kerry’s Islamabad Visit: A Possible Thaw? 

·         Reading West Bengal’s Panchayat Poll Results 

International Crisis Group

·         Great Expectations—Iran’s New President and the Nuclear Talks  

·         Make or Break—Iraq’s Sunnis and the State  

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Dismal Employment Growth in EU Countries: The Role of Corporate Balance Sheet Repair and Dual Labor Markets 

·         Stocktaking the Fund’s Engagement with Regional Financing Arrangements 

·         Testing the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis since1650: Evidence from Panel Techniques that Allow for Multiple Breaks 

International Peace Institute (IPI)

·         Humanitarian Engagement in Contemporary Complex Emergencies 

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

·         Joint Pub 3-28, Defense Support of Civil Authorities, 31 July 2013 

·         Joint Pub 3-27, Homeland Defense, 29 July 2013 

·         Joint Pub 3-32, Command and Control for Joint Maritime Operations, 07 August 2013 

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         Prospects for North Korea’s Nuclear Issue and Inter-Korean Relations in the Second Half of 2013 

Lowy Institute for International Policy

·         2012 Australia-India Roundtable Report—Outcomes Statement and Summary of Proceedings 

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         How Can Japan Compete in a Changing Global Market? 

·         India’s Water Crisis: Causes and Cures 

National Security Archive

·         The Secret History of the U-2 

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Economics of Self-Sustainability: The Future of Afghanistan's Economy 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Middle East and North Africa Update no. 35 

·         Revolutionary Events in Egypt: Ramifications for Israel 

·         Youth Violence Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review of the Evidence 

Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP)

·         Protecting U.S. Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack 

Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton

·         Building the Enterprise: Nine Strategies for a More Integrated, Effective Government 

Peace Research Institute Oslo

·         Russia and Turkey in Conflict (Mis)Management in the Caucasus 

·         Who wants to go to Europe? Results from a Large-scale Survey on Migration Aspirations 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         The Greek Debt Restructuring: An Autopsy 

·         How to Measure Underemployment? 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Clearing the Air: Incorporating Air Quality and Environmental Justice into Climate Policy 

·         Implicit Asymmetric Exchange Rate Peg under Inflation Targeting Regimes: The Case of Turkey 

·         Shadow Banking in China: Institutional Risks 

Rand

·         Building Resilient Communities: An Online Training   

·         The Elements of Surprise: How Professionals Prepare for and Respond to Unexpected Events 

·         Increasing Flexibility and Agility at the National Reconnaissance Office: Lessons from Modular Design, Occupational Surprise, and Commercial Research and Development Processes 

·         National Intelligence University's Role in Interagency Research: Recommendations from the Intelligence Community  

·         Surprise! From CEOs to Navy SEALs: How a Select Group of Professionals Prepare for and Respond to the Unexpected 

·         The Unseen War: Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein  

Royal United Service Institute (RUSI)

·         The Remaking of Syria, Iraq and the Wider Middle East 

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

·         A Decade of Defiance and Dissent: A Wake-up Call for Sports 

·         Indonesia's Emerging Defence Economy 

Small Wars Journal

·         The 2012-2013 Mali Conflict: Considerations on the Human Battlespace and Strategic Outcomes 

·         Applications of the Memetic Perspective in Inform and Influence Operations 

·         Ensuring U.S. Prosperity and Security: The Case for Nigeria 

·         Fixing Afghanistan’s Broken Windows: A Low Tech Tool in the Fight Against Terror

·         The Limitations of Security Force Assistance and the Capabilities of the U.S. Army 

·         On Guerrilla Warfare: Two Takes, Mao vs.Guevara 

·         U.S. Geopolitics: Afghanistan and the Containment of China 

·         Visualizing Social Networks to Inform Tactical Engagement Strategies that will Influence the Human Domain 

Strategic Studies Institute

·         Development of the Baltic Armed Forces in Light of Multinational Deployments 

Ubiquity Press

·         Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, 2013, v2, no.2, article # 38 

o    ‘You Don’t Need to Love Us’: Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Pathway to National Dialogue in Sudan 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Are Morocco's Political Salafists Committed to Peace? 

·         Bahrain's Planned Day of Rebellion 

·         How the Israeli Drone Strike in the Sinai Might Backfire 

·         Pre-Negotiations and Political Realities Frame Israeli-Palestinian Talks 

·         Rebuilding U.S. Influence in Iraq One Meeting at a Time 

White House

·         Background on the President’s Statement on Reforms to NSA Programs 

·         Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages 

·         White Paper on NSA Surveillance Oversight 

Wilson International Center for Scholars

·         Hezbollah’s Roll of the Dice in South Lebanon  

·         Iran and Syria at the Crossroads—Fall of the Tehran-Damascus Axis? 

·         Mohamed El Baradei From Vienna to Cairo—A Transition