Sunday, August 18, 2013

Friday's Miscellany 08-16-2013



American Enterprise Institute
·         On Labor Law Reforms in India 

Amnesty International

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

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Atlantic Council

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Berkman Center on Internet & Society

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

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

Center for American Progress

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
·         Homeland Security Affairs Journal, 2013, v. 9

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)

Center for Naval Analyses
·         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 
·         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)
·         Has Austerity Failed in Europe? 

Centre for European Reform (CER)

Chatham House
·         Saving Oil and Gas in the Gulf 

Combat Studies Institute Press

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
·         18th ICCRTS (2013): Proceeding

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
·         Historical Budget Data—August 2013

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Defense Legal Policy Board

Department of Defense (DOD)
·         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)

Department of the Navy
·         SECNAVINST 5510.37 Department of the Navy Insider Threat Program 

East-West Center

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Enough Project

European Parliament

Feinstein International Center

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
·         Export Promotion: Better Information Needed about Federal Resources. GAO-13-644 

Heritage Foundation

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 

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

International Crisis Group

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

International Peace Institute (IPI)

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

Lowy Institute for International Policy

National Bureau of Asian Research

National Security Archive
·         The Secret History of the U-2 

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
·         Middle East and North Africa Update no. 35 

Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP)

Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton

Peace Research Institute Oslo

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
·         How to Measure Underemployment? 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

Rand

Royal United Service Institute (RUSI)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Small Wars Journal

Strategic Studies Institute

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)

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
·         Bahrain's Planned Day of Rebellion 

White House

Wilson International Center for Scholars