Friday's Miscellany 10-19-2012

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit

·         Land Governance at the Crossroads: A Review of Afghanistan’s Proposed New Land Management Law 

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

·         Completing the Euro: A Road Map Towards Fiscal Union in Europe 

American Security Project

·         Small Modular Reactors—Possible Path Forward for Nuclear Power 

Amnesty International

·         Serbia Needs New Laws Against Forced Eviction  

·         Thousands Face Violent Eviction in China  

·         Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico  

·         Use of Secret Evidence in the United Kingdom 

Asian Centre for Human Rights

·         The State of Juvenile Justice in Himachal Pradesh 

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         Establishing Monetary Union in the Gulf Cooperation Council: What Lessons for Regional Cooperation? 

·         Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries: Diversification vs. Offshoring 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Just Don’t Take Away My Smartphone 

Atlantic Council

·         Encouraging Public-Private Partnerships to Fight Financial Crime 

·         France—Back to the Future  

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Ostrich Syndrome—Understanding the World’s Reluctance to Take Action Against Iran  

·         Sunni Sectarianism and the Re-emergence of Jihadism in Indonesia  

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         New Poll Shows Voters Have Strong Interest in Global Affairs: Voters Split on Isolationism, Concerned about Terrorism and Arab Spring 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Borderline Chaos? Securing Libya’s Periphery 

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         Military Campaigns—Veterans’ Endorsements and Presidential Elections 

Center for American Progress (CAP)

·         Regional Energy, National Solutions: A Real Energy Vision for America 

Center for Global Development

·         Economic Assistance in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Afghanistan 

·         Migration and Disaster-Induced Displacement: European Policy, Practice, and Perspective 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Asian Defense Spending - 2000-2011 

·         Asia Defense Spending—2000-2011 (slide presentation)   

·         The Defense Budget's Double Whammy: Drawing Down While Hollowing Out from Within 

·         Hemisphere Insider, v. 2, no. 26, October 19, 2012 

·         Nuclear Scholars Initiative: A Collection of Papers from the 2012 Nuclear Scholars Initiative 

·         PacNet #64 - Is America listening to its East Asian Allies? 

·         Preparing for a Deep Defense Drawdown 

Center for the Study of Intelligence

·         Studies in Intelligence, v. 56, no. 3, 2012 

o    A Personal Perspective The Evolution of Intelligence Reform, 2002–2004

o    Intelligence After the “Great War”: Captain John A. Gade, US Navy: An Early Advocate of Central Intelligence

o    Edging in From the Cold: The Past and Present State of Chinese Intelligence Historiography

o    Beyond Spy vs. Spy: The Analytic Challenge of Understanding Chinese Intelligence Services

o    A Strategy Framework for the Intelligence Analyst

o    Marking 50 Years of a Directorate: Science and Technology: Origins of a Directorate

Center on International Cooperation (CIC)

·         Contracting the Commanders: Transition and the Political Economy of Afghanistan’s Private Security Industry 

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         An Assessment of US Progress towards its Pledge on Climate Change Mitigation 

·         Banking Union: Ireland vs. Nevada, an Illustration of the Importance of an Integrated Banking System 

·         EU Global Peace Diplomacy
·         The Policy Mix and Macroeconomic Adjustment in the Euro Area 

·         The UK-Canada Agreement on Mutual Support of Missions Abroad: Loyalty Compromised? 

·         The Use of Innovative Financial Instruments for Financing EU Policies and Objectives: Implications for EU and National Budgets 

Chicago Council on Global Affairs

·         Foreign Policy in the New Millennium 

CNA

·         Data Rights Valuation in Software Acquisitions 

Columbia University Law School

·         Civilian Impact of Drones—Unexamined Costs, Unanswered Questions   

·         Counting Drone Strike Deaths 

Congress. Senate. Senator Tom Coburn

·         Waste Book 2012 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Teeing Up for the Final Debate 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Directive 3100.10, Space Policy, October 18, 2012 

·         DoD Manual 5105.21, Volume 1, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Administrative Security Manual: Administration of Information and Information Systems Security, October 19, 2012 

·         DoD Manual 5105.21, Volume 2, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Administrative Security Manual: Administration of Physical Security, Visitor Control, and Technical Security, October 19, 2012 

·         DoD Manual 5105.21, Volume 3, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Administrative Security Manual: Administration of Personnel Security, Industrial Security, and Special Activities, October 19, 2012 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         Guidance for Protecting Responders’ Health During the First Week Following A Wide-Area Aerosol Anthrax 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Mexico Analysis Brief - October 2012 

·         Nigeria Country Analysis Brief - October 2012 

·         United Arab Emirates Country Analysis Brief - October 2012 

Enough Project

·         Forgotten Again—How the World Has Failed Abyei  

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         A Budget for the Euro Zone? 

·         In the Hunt for Caspian Gas, the EU Can Learn from China 

·         The State of Play on the EU MFF 2014-2020 Interinstitutional Negotiations 

·         Turkey-EU Relations: Time to Rebuild Trust 

Foreign Policy

·         The Case for Intervention... 

·         The Creation Myth of Xi Jinping 

·         The Foreign Policy Superbowl 

·         Rewarding Impunity 

·         The True Spy Story Behind Argo [Iran Hostage Rescue] 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         American Exceptionalism… Exposed 

·         Conference Report: Energy, Environment and Security in Asia 

·         How Borders Work 

·         Jordan, Morocco, And The Future Of The Middle East 

·         Making Waves: Debates behind China's First Aircraft Carrier 

·         Russia and the U.S. Elections 

·         The Syrian Crisis and the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry 

FRIDE

·         The EU-South Africa Strategic Partnership: Changing Gear? 

George C. Marshall Institute

·         Changes in the Fuel Mix Used to Produce Power in the U.S. 

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) to the Middle East and North Africa Region: Short- and Medium-Term Developments 

·         Turkey’s Transformation and Its Future Influence: A Critical Link 

·         Ukrainian Energy Security: Between Mortgage and Profit 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Energy-Water Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs. GAO-12-880 

·         H-2A Visa Program: Modernization and Improved Guidance Could Reduce Employer Application Burden. GAO-12-706 

·         Homeland Security: Agriculture Inspection Program Has Made Some Improvements, but Management Challenges Persist. GAO-12-885 

·         Homeland Security: Survey of DHS Agriculture Specialists (GAO-12-884SP, September 2012), an E-supplement to GAO-12-885 

·         Prevention and Public Health Fund: Activities Funded in Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011. GAO-12-788 

Heritage Foundation

·         Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism 

·         CARICOM: U.S. Should Push Back Against Chavez in the Caribbean 

·         Federal Spending by the Numbers—2012 
·         Fifty-Third Terror Plot Foiled Since 9/11: Bombing Targets U.S. Financial Hub 

·         Fixing Mali: Stabilized Governance Should Be the Priority 

·         Time to Allow Uranium Mining in Virginia  

Households in Conflict Network

·         Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response 

Human Rights Watch

·         Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte 

·         Syria—New Evidence Military Dropped Cluster Bombs 

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

·         Assessing DOD Investments in Clean Energy 

Institute for Economics and Peace

·         Violence Containment spending in the United States: A New Methodology to Categorize and Account for the Economic Activity Related to Violence 

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA)

·         U.S.-Japan Peacebuilding Cooperation—Recommendations Toward a Whole-of-Alliance Approach  

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

·         Parchin High Explosives Test Site Activity Still Ongoing 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated October 2012] 

·         Jihad in Syria: The Rise of Jabhat Nusra 

·         NATO’s Defence Ministerial: Afghanistan after 2014 

·         Warning in Libya: The Rise of an Imminent Threat 

·         Weekly Iraq Update #42, October 11, 2012-October 17, 2012 

International Crisis Group

·         Implementing Peace and Security Architecture (II): Southern Africa 

·         The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (I), Ethnicity and Conflict 

·         The North Caucasus: The Challenges of Integration (II), Islam, the Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency 

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

·         World Disasters Report 2012 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Benghazi Attack Throws Libya Gains Into Question 

·         Global Currencies: The Slow March of the Renminbi 

·         Turkey's Frustrations Grow with Syrian Civil War 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Can Women Save Japan? 

·         Financing Growth in the WAEMU Through the Regional Securities Market: Past Successes and Current Challenges 

·         Social Spending in Korea: Can It Foster Sustainable and Inclusive Growth? 

·         Ukraine Gas Pricing Policy: Distributional Consequences of Tariff Increases 

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, October 19, 2012, v. 12, no. 20 

o    18th Party Congress to Showcase Rising Status of Private Business

o    China and Qatar Forge a New Era of Relations around High Finance

o    Beijing Building Influence, Shelving Competition in the South Pacific

o    China Steps Up Rhetoric against U.S. Missile Defense

·         Terrorism Monitor, October 18, 2012, v. 10, no. 19 

o    Fears of a Militant Resurgence Loom in Kashmir as Territorial Dispute is Revived at UN Forum

o    Can Somalia’s al-Shabaab Survive the Loss of Kismayo?

o    Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Sets Assassins Loose in Strategic Shift

Korea Institute for National Unification

·         The Meaning of North Korea’s Participation in the Paralympics and North Korean Human Rights as well as the Future Challenges for the Development of Inter-Korean Relations 

·         Opening the Pandora’s Box? The Introduction of a New Economic Management System in North Korea 

Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2012 [updated Oct 21, 2012] 

·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated Oct 16, 2012] 

Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)

·         Employee Perceptions of Federal Workplace Violence 

National Defense University Library

·         Cybersecurity 

National Governors Association (NGA)

·         America Wins: The Struggle for Control of the National Guard 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

·         International Mobility and Employment Characteristics among Recent Recipients of U.S. Doctorates 

National Security Archive

·         Cuban Missile Crisis Day by Day: From the Pentagon's "Sensitive Records" 

·         Pentagon Estimated 18,500 U.S. Casualties in Cuba Invasion 1962, But If Nukes Launched, "Heavy Losses" Expected 

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update Oct 16, 2012] 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         China’s Nuclear Energy Development and Spent Fuel Management Plans 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Boko Haram and the Prospects for a Negotiated Settlement 

·         Gender, Fragility and the Politics of Statebuilding 

·         Towards Another Stalemate in Zimbabwe? 

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

·         The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended 50 Years Ago, so Why Should We Still Hold Our Breath? 

Oxford Research Group

·         Towards the Recording of Every Casualty: Analysis and Policy Recommendations from a Study of 40 Casualty Recorders 

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency

·         Roles and Responsibilities of MNAs 

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         Growing Concerns in China about Inequality, Corruption: Ratings for the U.S. Decline 

Pew Internet and American Life Project

·         Social Media and Political Engagement 

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

·         More Say There Is Solid Evidence of Global Warming 

·         On Eve of Foreign Debate, Growing Pessimism about Arab Spring Aftermath: Public Favors Tough U.S. Stance on Iran, China 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Economic Growth: The Great Slowdown (1980-2000) and Recovery (2000-2010) 

·         The Military and Economic Development in Pakistan 

·         Socialism: The 20th Century and the 21st Century 

Rand

·         An Assessment of the Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Services to Measure and Track Language and Culture Training and Capabilities Among General Purpose Forces 

·         The Muslim Brotherhood, Its Youth, and Implications for U.S. Engagement 

Small Arms Survey

·         Pistols and Revolvers    

Small Wars Journal

·         Goldwater-Nichols II: It’s Not What You Think 

·         It's Not About Us 

·         Narrative Led Operations: Put the Narrative First 

·         People and Culture: Who Cares? 

·         The Regularity of Irregular Warfare 

Stanley Foundation

·         The Practical Side of Protection [53rd Strategy for Peace Conference]  

US Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Conflict Dynamics in Karachi 

·         Governance Reforms in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: The Long Road to Nowhere? 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Beyond the Red Line
·         Countering the Iranian Missile Threat in the Middle East     

·         Hizbullah Narco-Terrorism: A Growing Cross-Border Threat 

·         A Middle East Cheat Sheet for Monday's Foreign Policy Debate 

·         The Shadow of Iran over Bahrain's Problems 

·         Will Iran Weather the Economic Storm? 

White House

·         NSDD-238 (National Security Decision Directive) - Basic National Security Strategy (recently declassified)