Friday's Miscellany 09-12-2014

38 North

·         North Korea’s Cyber Capabilities: Deterrence and Stability in a Changing Strategic Environment 

Al Jazeera Center for Studies

·         Israel’s Aggression against Gaza:Implications and Analysis 

·         Syrian Revolution’s Path after Attacks on Ahrar al-Sham 

American Enterprise Institute

·         As the Brazilian Economy Slips Into Recession, Voters May Opt for Free-Market Solutions 

·         A Precarious Balance: Preserving the Right Mix of Conventional and Special Operations Forces 

Amnesty International

·         Out of Control: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Mexico 

·         Thailand: Attitude Adjustment:  100 Days Under Martial Law 

·         Ukraine: Abuses and War Crimes by the Aidar Volunteer Battalion in the North Luhansk Region 

Arab American Institute (AAI)

·         American Attitudes Toward Arabs and Muslims 

Asian Development Bank

·         Myanmar: Unlocking the Potential 

·         Power Sector in Developing Asia: Current Status and Policy Issues 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Submarine Choice: Perspectives on Australia’s Most Complex Defense Project 

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

·         The Consequences of Afghanistan’s 2014 Presidential Election Impasse 

Brookings

·         Eight Facts About U.S. Crude Oil Production 

·         Effects of Income Tax Changes on Economic Growth 

·         Going Local: Connecting the National Labs to their Regions to Maximize Innovation and Growth 

·         The ISIS Threat in Iraq and Beyond 

·         Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications 

·         The State of the Mobile Economy: Innovation,Investment and Economic Impact Around the World 

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)

·         Pitfalls and Promises : Security Implications of a Post-revolutionary Middle East 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         What Myanmar Means for the U.S.-Japan Alliance 

CATO Institute

·         Export-Import Bank and Its Victims—Which Industries and States Bear the Brunt? 

·         Responsible Counterterrorism Policy 

Center for American Progress

·         Defeating ISIS: An Integrated Strategy to Advance Middle East Stability 

Center for Democracy and Technology

·         International Law and Secret Surveillance:Binding Restrictions upon State Monitoring of Telephone and Internet Activity 

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)

·         Enlisted Career Paths for Top Snipes and Combat Systems Maintenance Managers 

·         The Future of Drone Strikes: A Framework for Analyzing Policy Options 

·         Improving Enlisted Fleet Manning 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Amphibious Shipping Shortfalls: Risks and Opportunities to Bridge the Gap 

·         Chinese Military Modernization and Force Development: Chinese and Outside Perspectives 

·         Key Factors Shaping the President’s Islamic State Speech 

Center for Technology & National Security Policy (CTNSP)

·         Policy Challenges of Accelerating Technological Change: Security Policy and Strategy Implications of Parallel Scientific Revolutions 

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

·         Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, 2014, v. 17 

o    Analysis on ISIS, Salafi Dawa of Egypt, Turkey's Politics, & Repression in Zinjiang

Centre for European Policy Studies

·         The Juncker Commission: A Bold Bid to Restore the College 

·         Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances—Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union? 

·         Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labor in Europe 

·         Reshaping Politics of the Left and Centre in Greece After the 2014 EP Election 

·         The Strength of the Euro: Does it Matter and Is It Really that Strong? 

·         War Crimes and Shifting Borders in the Middle East 

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         International Finance: Can the System Be Saved? 

Chatham House

·         Iran’s Nuclear Future 

Conflict Armament Research

·         Islamic State Weapons in Iraq and Syria 

Congress. House Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Genocidal Attacks Against Christian and Other Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq 

·         Hamas’ Benefactors: A Network of Terror 

·         Libya’s Descent 

·         Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi: Our Marine in Mexican Custody 

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         One Flight Away: An Examination of the Threat Posed by ISIS Terrorists with Western Passports 

·         Strategy and Mission of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate 

Congress. House. Oversight Committee

·         Examining the Administration’s Treatment of Whistleblowers 

·         Obstructing Oversight: Concerns from Inspectors General 

Congress. House. Science, Space and Technology Committee

·         Bakken Petroleum: The Substance of Energy Independence 

·         Strategy and Mission of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate 

Congress. House. Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

·         The Status of the Merchant Marine 

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Cybersecurity, Terrorism, and Beyond:Addressing Evolving Threats to the Homeland 

·         Oversight of Federal Programs for Equipping State and Local Law Enforcement 

               

Congress. Senate. Veterans Affairs Committee

·         The State of VA Health Care 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         CBO’s Updated Budget Outlook 

·         Shifting Priorities in the Federal Budget 

Council on Foreign Relations

·         Balance Owed: Federal Debt and Deficits 

·         Federal Debt Scorecard   

·         Global Economics Monthly, September 2014 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Department of Defense Quarterly Suicide Report Calendar Year 2014 1st Quarter 

·         Statement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on President Obama's ISIL Speech 

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         DODIG-2014-105 - Criminal Investigations: Evaluation of Military Criminal Investigative Organizations’ Child Sexual Assault Investigations 

·         DODIG-2014-106  Military Sealift Command Oversight of Excess Spare-Parts Inventory and Purchases for Sealift Program Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships Needs Improvement  

Department of Homeland Security

·         OIG 14-129 DHS Has Not Effectively Managed Pandemic Personal Protective Equipment and Antiviral Medical Countermeasures 

Department of State

·         ISIL's Persecution of Religious Minorities in Iraq and Syria 

·         Statement for the Record for the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security: An Examination of the Threat Posed by ISIL Terrorists with Western Passports 

·         Video Message From Secretary Kerry on September 11, 2014 

Dutch Safety Board

·         Preliminary Report : Crash Involving Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH17 

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         The China-EU Strategic Partnership on Development: Unfulfilled Potential 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Saudi Arabia  Country Analysis Brief - September 2014 

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Brexit or Not? Time for the EU to Move 

·         Beyond Individuals: A More Effective Structure for the Commission 

European Union Institute for Security Studies

·         Eurasian Union: The Real, the Imaginary and the Likely 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, September 2014 

o    Criminal Investigative Analysis: Applications for the Courts (Part Four of Four)

o    Suicide by Cop: Broadening Our Understanding

o    Futures Perspective: A Retrospective: Police Academy Training in 2032

o    Officer Survival Spotlight: Circumstances and the Deadly Mix

o    Leadership Spotlight: Should You Always Lead from the Front?

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

·         Federal Interagency Operational Plans  (FIOP) 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Hungary: Going in the Wrong Direction? 

FRIDE

·         Who Will Save the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Syria? 

Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

·         ISIS and the Deceptive Rebooting of Al Qaeda 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Contestations over Indigenous Participation in Bolivia’s Extractive Industry: Ideology, Practices, and Legal Norms 

·         A Democratic Rentier State? Taxation, Aid Dependency, and Political Representation in Benin 

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Transatlantic Trends 2014 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Air Traffic Control System: Selected Stakeholders' Perspectives on Operations, Modernization, and Structure. GAO-14-770 

·         Contract Management: DOD's Implementation of Justifications for 8(a) Sole-Source Contracts. GAO-14-721R

·         Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Improve Its Efforts to Identify Unutilized and Underutilized Facilities. GAO-14-538   

·         Defense Planning: DOD Needs Specific Measures and Milestones to Gauge Progress of Preparations for Operational Access Challenges. GAO-14-801 

·         Department Of Homeland Security: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Research and Development. GAO-14-865T [testimony] 

·         DHS Training: Improved Documentation, Resource Tracking, and Performance Measurement Could Strengthen Efforts. GAO-14-688 

·         DOD Education Benefits: Action Is Needed To Ensure Evaluations Of Postsecondary Schools Are Useful. GAO-14-855  

·         Federally Funded Research Centers: Agency Reviews of Employee Compensation and Center Performance. GAO-14-593 

·         Foreign Assistance: USAID Should Update Its Trade Capacity Building Strategy. GAO-14-602 

·         Information Security: Agencies Need to Improve Oversight of Contractor Controls. GAO-14-612 

·         Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Take Further Actions to Prevent Sexual Assault during Initial Military Training. GAO-14-806 

·         Military Personnel: DOD Needs to Update General and Flag Officer Requirements and Improve Availability of Associated Costs. GAO-14-745 

·         Personnel Security Clearances: Additional Guidance and Oversight Needed at DHS and DOD to Ensure Consistent Application of Revocation Process. GAO-14-640 

·         Special Operations Forces: DOD's Report to Congress Generally Addressed the Statutory Requirements but Lacks Detail. GAO-14-820R 

·         Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government. GAO-14-704G 

·         Veterans Affairs: Better Understanding Needed to Enhance Services to Veterans Readjusting to Civilian Life. GAO-14-676  

·         Veterans Affairs: Data Needed to Help Improve Decisions Concerning Veterans' Access to Burial Options. GAO-14-537 

Henry Jackson Society

·         British Jihadists: Preventing Travel Abroad and Stopping Attacks at Home 

Heritage Foundation

·         The Federal Trade Commission’s Role in Online Security: Data Protector or Dictator? 

·         Foreign Export Credit Subsidies: Kill Them,Don’t Copy Them 

·         The Generalized System of Preferences: Time to Renew and Reform the U.S. Trade Program  

Human Rights Watch

·         "Make Their Lives Miserable": Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel 

·         "The Power These Men Have Over Us": Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by African Union Forces in Somalia  

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)

·         South Asia Trends 

·         POK Newsletter [Pakistan occupied Kashmir]

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

·         Africa Watch, September 11,2014 

o    Al-Shabaab Under New Leadership

o    South African Defense Reform—Stuck in Low Gear

Institute for Science and International Security

·         Iran Admits Illegally Acquiring Goods for its Nuclear Programs 

·         ISIS Analysis of IAEA Iran Safeguards Report 

Institute for Security & Development Policy

·         China's Military Reform: Prospects and Challenges 

·         Looking Forward: Kazakhstan and the United States 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         On the Margins: The City of Cape Town and Organised Crime 

·         Using Social Network Analysis to Profile Organised Crime 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Control of Terrain in Syria: September 11,2014 

·         Iraq Forms a Government without Defense or Interior 

·         Iraq Situation Report

o    September 12-14, 2014 

o    September 9-11, 2014 

o    September 8-9, 2014 

·         ISIS Sanctuary Map: September 10, 2014 

·         A Strategy to Defeat the Islamic State 

·         Syria Update

o    September 4-12,2014 

Instituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)

·         The Future of Multilateral Security Dialogue in the Mediterranean: Lessons Learnt, Opportunities and Choices 

International Crisis Group

·         Rigged Cars and Barrel Bombs: Aleppo and the State of the Syrian War 

·         Water Pressures in Central Asia 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Budget Institutions in Low-Income Countries:Lessons from G-20 

·         Determinants of Banks' Net Interest Margins in Honduras 

·         Sovereign Debt Composition in Advanced Economies: A Historical Perspective 

Iraq Heritage

·         Iraq’s Heritage is Facing a New Wave of Destruction 

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, September 10,2014, v. 14, no.  17 

o    Power to the Provinces: The Devolution of China’s Maritime Rights Protection

o    Undocumented Uyghur Migrants Find New Route to Southeast Asia

o    Challenging Uyghur Muslim Identity: More Enforcement, Worse Results

o    The East China Sea ADIZ: Old Policy, New Packaging

JFK Special Warfare Center and School

·         Special Warfare, Oct-Dec 2014, v. 27, no. 4  

Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)

·         U.S. Military Deployments to Africa: Lessons from the Hunt for Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army 

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2014 [updated September 11 , 2014] 

Middle East Studies (MES)

·         Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Rocket Force: The Silent Service 

National Academies Press

·         Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying:   Workshop Summary 

·         Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States:   A Guide for the Health Care Sector 

·         The Context of Military Environments:   An Agenda for Basic Research on Social and Organizational Factors Relevant to Small Units  

·         The Influence of Global Environmental Change on Infectious Disease Dynamics:   Workshop Summary 

·         Rethinking the Components, Coordination, and Management of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Laboratories 

·         STEM Learning Is Everywhere:   Summary of a Convocation on Building Learning Systems 

National Security Archive

·         Israel Crosses the Threshold II: The Nixon Administration Debates the Emergence of the Israeli Nuclear Program 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Cuba: Reforming the Economy and Opening Society 

·         The un-Islamic State 

·         Why Mpeketoni Matters: al-Shabaab and Violence in Kenya 

Oxfam

·         A Fairer Deal for Syrians: International Commitments Needed to Arrest the Deepening Crisis in Syria and the Region 

·         Fiscal Justice to Reduce Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean 

PBS Frontline

·         Ebola Outbreak 

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         Growing Concern about Rise of Islamic Extremism at Home and Abroad 

·         Wide Partisan Differences Over the Issues That Matter in 2014 

Pew Research Global Attitudes Project

·         Global Public Downbeat about Economy: Many Wary of the Future 

RAND Corporation

·         Air Force Manpower Requirements and Component Mix: A Focus on Agile Combat Support 

·         Assessing the Army's Active-Reserve Component Force Mix 

Refugees International

·         Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Somali Refugees in Kenya 

Small Wars Journal

·         If You Liked Vietnam, You’ll Love the War With the Islamic State 

·         Reflections on the Modern Battlefield: A Discussion with General Anthony Zinni 

·         Tactical Cyber: How to Move Forward 

·         Why Reasoning with ISIS is a Useless Concept 

Stockholm International for Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

·         Russia’s Evolving Arctic Strategy: Drivers,Challenges and New Opportunities 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         A History of the U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1900-1990 

·         After the Spring: Reforming Arab Armies 

·         Political and Socio-Economic Change:Revolutions and Their Implications for the U.S. Military 

·         Turkey's New Regional Security Role:Implications for the United States 

Ubiquity Press

·         Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 2014, v. 3, no. 1  

o    Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Exploring the Relationship Between Governance,Instability and Violence 

o    Links Between Terrorism, Organized Crime and Crime: The Case of the Sahel Region 

UK Parliament

·         Iraq, Syria and ISIS – Recent Developments 

·         Ukraine: Towards a Frozen Conflict? 

US Commercial Service

·         Doing Business in China: 2014 Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies 

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Effective CVE [countering violent extremism]Approaches 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Funding ISIS (Infographic) 

·         How Iranians Might React to a Nuclear Deal 

·         Iran's Expanding Military Role in Iraq 

·         Revealing Trends in Turkey's Presidential Election 

White House

·         Background Conference Call on the President's Address to the Nation 

·         Excerpts of the President’s Address to the Nation 

·         President Obama: “we Will Degrade and Ultimately Destroy ISIL” 

·         Fact Sheet: Strategy to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) 

·         Remarks by the President at 9/11 Memorial 

·         Statement by the President on ISIL 

Wilson Center

·         Israel Crosses the Threshold II: The Nixon Administration Debates the Emergence of the Israeli Nuclear Program 

World Bank

·         Few and Far: The Hard Facts on Stolen Asset Recovery