greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 12-27-2013

· National Preparedness: HHS Is Monitoring the Progress of Its Medical Countermeasure Efforts but Has Not Provided Previously Recommended Spending Estimates. GAO-14-90

Hudson Institute

· Defining Relevant Markets for Mergers and Acquisitions Involving Communications Services

Institut Français des Relations Internationals (IFRI)

· The Influence of the State on Expanding Russian MNEs: Advantage or Handicap?

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

· Delegation of Powers to the Armed Forces in a Time Warp

· The Geopolitics of America's Energy Independence: Implications for China, India and the Global Energy Market

· India’s Maoists: Financing the War Machinery

Institute for Economic Stability

· Energy Initiatives in Afghanistan

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)

· Rowing Together—Developing Parallel Paths to Stability, Denuclearization and a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula

Institute for National Security Studies

· Changing of the Tide in the Syrian Civil War

Institute for Security & Development Policy

· Azerbaijan's Security and U.S. Interests:Time for a Reassessment

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· The Benefits of International Policy Coordination Revisited

· Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth

· Development of the Renminbi Market in Hong Kong SAR: Assessing Onshore-Offshore Market Integration

· Does Financial Connectedness Predict Crises?

· Financial and Sovereign Debt Crises: Some Lessons Learned and Those Forgotten

· Financial Soundness Indicators and Banking Crises

· Global Spillovers into Domestic Bond Markets in Emerging Market Economies

· Macroeconomic Effects of Sovereign Restructuring in a Monetary Union: A Model-based Approach

· Natural Gas, Public Investment and Debt Sustainability in Mozambique

· Sovereign Debt Markets in Turbulent Times: Creditor Discrimination and Crowding-Out

Long War Journal

· Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2013 [updated December 25, 2013]

· Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated December 27, 2013]

Migration Observatory (UK)

· Migrants in the UK: An Overview

National Academies Press

· Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation

· Developing New National Data on Social Mobility

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

· Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security: A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and SocietalIssues

· The Global Crisis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Leadership of China and the BRICS

· Performance Metrics for the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture

· Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families

· Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative

Oxfam International

· Civil Society Engagement with Political Parties During Elections—Lessons from Ghana and Sierra Leone

Oxford Research Group

· Al-Qaida: An Idea in Search of a Cause

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)

· Peace & Stability Operations Journal Online, December 2013, Special Anniversary ed.

o The History of PKI/PKSOI: The Early Years and a Snapshot of the Past 20 years

o PKSOI Anniversary Gathering: Celebrating 1993-2013

o The History of PKI

o PKI to PKSOI

o PKI/PKSOI Articles of Experience

o Portrait of GEN Gordon R. Sullivan, USA Ret. with the PKI/PKSOI Directors

Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

· Collaborating to Combat Illicit Networks through Interagency and International Efforts

· Cross-Border Economies: A Blueprint for North American Competitiveness

· La Educación de la Seguridad de la Defensa en las Américas

· Security and Defense Studies Review (SDSR), 2013, v. 14 Special Issue: The Drug Policy Debate

o China, United States, and Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities

o Perspective on Cutting Edge Research for Crime and Security Policies and Programs in the Caribbean

o The Growth of the Private Security Industry in Barbados: A Case Study

o A Geopolitical Interpretation of Security Concerns within United States–Latin American Relations

o A Tentative Embrace: Brazil’s Foreign and Trade Relations with the United States

o Border Security Systems Initiative: A Transformative Endeavor in Force Design

o Estratégia Nacional de Defesa do Brasil: Comentários sobre a sua Implementação (2008–2011)

o Perspectives on Instability: Honduras and Paraguay

o Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: Selected Bibliography

o The Drug Policy Debate - A Selection of Brief Essays Representing the Diversity of Opinion, Contributors: Marilyn Quagliotti, Timothy Lynch, Peter Hakim (with Kimberly Covington), Craig Deare, AMB Adam Blackwell, and General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey

· The Strategic Dimension of Chinese Engagement with Latin America

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

· Finance and Growth: The Neglected Role of the Business Cycle

Rand

· Denying Flight: Strategic Options for Employing No-Fly Zones

· Leadership Matters: How Principals Promote Teaching Effectiveness

· Multinational Overview of Cannabis Production Regimes

· Understanding the Cost and Quality of Military-Related Education Benefit Programs

Red 24

· Threat Forecast 2014

Security & Defense Agenda

· Cyber-Security: Problems Outpace Solutions