greta's gouge: Friday's Miscellany 04-18-2014

· Army Modular Force Structure: Annual Report Generally Met Requirements, but Challenges in Estimating Costs and Assessing Capability Remain. GAO-14-294

· Defense Contracting: DOD's Use of Class Justifications for Sole-Source Contracts. GAO-14-427R

· Foreign Aid: USAID Has Increased Funding to Partner-Country Organizations but Could Better Track Progress. GAO-14-355

· Maritime Infrastructure: Key Issues Related to Commercial Activity in the U.S. Arctic over the Next Decade. GAO-14-299

· Nuclear Weapons: Technology Development Efforts for the Uranium Processing Facility. GAO-14-295

· Petroleum Refining: Industry's Outlook Depends on Market Changes and Key Environmental Regulations. GAO-14-249

Heritage Foundation

· The DREAM Act in the NDAA: Wrong for National and Homeland Security

· Paycheck Fairness Act Would Reduce Pay and Flexibility in the Workplace

· President Obama’s 2015 Budget: How Government Expansion Will Limit Opportunity, Slow Economic Growth, and Erode Financial and National Security

· The Proposed Transfer of the IANA Function to ICANN

· The Second Amendment and the Inalienable Right to Self-Defense

· U.S. Export–Import Bank: Corporate Welfare on the Backs of Taxpayers

Hoover Institution

· Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems: Why a Ban Won’t Work and How the Laws of War Can

Households in Conflict Network

· Conditional Cash Transfers, Civil Conflict and Insurgent Influence: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

· Africa Watch, April 11, 2014

o Boko Haram and the 2015 Nigerian Elections

o Turkey in Africa—An Emerging Influencer?

· Africa Watch, April 17, 2014

o Kenya—Mass Arrests Counterproductive and Undermine Security Reform Pledge

o A Litmus Test for Guinea's President

Institute for Security & Development Policy

· Rebalancing Act: China’s Fiscal Reform Challenge

· The South China Sea: Challenge for ASEAN

· Tallying the Hidden Environmental Costs of Drug Production

Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC)

· Indigenous Rights vs Agrarian Reform in Indonesia: A Case Study from Jambi

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

· People's Perspectives of Organised Crime in West Africa and the Sahel

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

· Overt Shi'a Militia Mobilization in Mixed Areas

· Rebels Reopen the Latakia Front

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

· Foundations of Bangladesh’s Economic Development: Politics of Aid

· Youth and ‘Refo-lution’? Protest Politics in India and the Global Context

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

· Caspian Gas, TANAP and TAP in Europe's Energy Security

· Global Economic Trends and Recovery Prospects

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

· Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

· Terrorism Research and Government

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

· Comparing the Performance of Logit and Probit Early Warning Systems for Currency Crises in Emerging Market Economies

· Cross-Country Experience in Reducing Net Foreign Liabilities: Lessons for New Zealand

· Exchange Rate Flexibility and Credit during Capital Inflow Reversals: Purgatory…not Paradise

· India: Defining and Explaining Inclusive Growth and Poverty Reduction

· Official Demand for U.S. Debt: Implications for U.S. Real Interest Rates

International Peace Institute (IPI)

· Beyond Haiti: Enhancing Latin American Military and Police Contributions to UN Peacekeeping

· Terminating Security Council Sanctions

Jamestown Foundation

· Terrorism Monitor, April 18, 2014, v. 12, no. 8

o Terrorist Campaign Strikes Mombasa as Somali Conflict Spreads South

o Is the End in Sight for Colombia’s FARC Insurgency?

o In a Shifting Political Landscape, Hezbollah Repositions Itself as the Anti-Terrorist Defender of Lebanon

Law Library of Congress

· Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights and the Parot Doctrine

· Spain: Parot Doctrine After the ECHR Decision

Long War Journal

· Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2014 [updated April 19, 2014]

Mercatus Center

· Why the Cybersecurity Framework Will Make Us Less Secure

Notre Europe - Institut Jacques Delors

· The Unhappy State of the Union

Office of Foreign Assets Control

· Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List [updated April 17, 2014]

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

· 2013 Report on Security Clearance Determinations

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

· Gustavo Placido dos Santos, "Boko Haram:Time for an Alternative Approach" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 143, April 2014)

· Vicente Ferreira da Silva, "NATO Should Set Limits on Russia's Actions in the East" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 144, April 2014)

Rand

· The Days After a Deal: Iran, Its Neighbors, and U.S. Policy Following a Nuclear Agreement

· The Days After a Deal with Iran: Regional Responses to a Final Nuclear Agreement

· Designing a System for Collecting Policy-Relevant Data for the Kurdistan Region — Iraq

· The Future of Health Care in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Toward an Effective, High-Quality System with an Emphasis on Primary Care

· Key Facts and Statistics from the RAND Military Caregivers Study

· Strategies for Private-Sector Development and Civil-Service Reform in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq

· Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups (TWANG)

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

· Economic Integration between South Asia and East Asia: A Perception Survey of Asian Opinion Leaders

· Nuclear Deterrence: The Wohlstetter-Blackett Debate Re-visited

Small Wars Journal

· An Attack Reconnaissance Helicopter for Tomorrow’s Conflict

· Bridging the Civil-Military Gap: Soldier Photography in Afghanistan

· Calling “Team Yankee”: Why the U.S. Needs Heavy Armor Back in Europe

· The Exhausted Insurgency

· Expanding the Anti-Access Problem Set

· From Riots to Vigil: The Community, the Police and Mark Duggan’s Legacy

· India’s National Security Policies and the Threat of Lashkar-e-Taiba: A Forgotten Concern

· Towards a Cyber Leader Course Modeled on Army Ranger School

· U.S. Military Engagement Abroad: A Brief Case Analysis

· Why Russia Supports Syria

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)

· SIGAR 14-47 Afghan Customs: U.S. Programs Have Had Some Successes, but Challenges Will Limit Customs Revenue as a Sustainable Source of Income for Afghanistan

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

· Recent Trends in Military Expenditure

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

· Augmenting Our Influence: Alliance Revitalization and Partner Development

Transnational Institute

· On the Issue of Nuclear Terrorism

· The Tragedy of The Private, The Potential of The Public

UK House of Commons Defence Committee

· Afghanistan—Camp Bastion Attack

o v. 1 Report,together with formal minutes

o v. 2 Oral and written evidence

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights