Friday's Miscellany 08-23-2013

38 North

·         The KaesongOpportunity 

ACAPS

·         Compared to What:Analytical Thinking and Needs Assessment 

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         MitigatingRadicalism in Northern Nigeria 

Air Force Space Command (USAFSC)

·         Resiliency andDisaggregated Space Architectures: White Paper 

American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California

·         Muslims Need NotApply 

American Enterprise Institute

·         Saudi Arabia'sForgotten Shi'ite Spring  

American Security Project

·         Academic Exchange—A Pillar of Public Diplomacy  

·         American Competitiveness and National Security  

·         America’s Infrastructure—Challenges and Opportunities 

·         Iranian Ballistic Missiles  

Amnesty International

·         Egypt—“People Were Dying All Around Me”:  Testimonies from Cairo Violence on 14 August 2013  

·         No Peace Without Justice—Victims of Indonesia’s Aceh Conflict Demand Truth, Justice and Reparation  

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

·         An Asian Perspective on Global Financial Reforms 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Design, Mission Command and the Network: Enabling Organizational Adaptation 

·         The Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex: Winning the Future Fight 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         Israeli Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy 

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

·         Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-Year Mission to Secure a Legacy of Soviet Nuclear Testing 

Brookings Institution

·         Invest But Reform:Establish a National Infrastructure Bank Capitalized by a Repatriation Tax Holiday  

·         Manning the Next Unmanned Air Force—Developing RPA Pilots of the Future   

·         The United States and Japan in East Asia: Challenges and Prospects for the Alliance  

Canadian Defense & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Diplomacy,Globalization and Heteropolarity: The Challenge of Adaptation 

Census Bureau

·         New Census Bureau Interactive Map Shows Languages Spoken in America 

·         2011 Language Mapper 

·         Language Use in the United States: 2011 

Center for American Progress

·         A Disaster in theMaking: Addressing the Vulnerability of Low-Income Communities to Extreme Weather 

·         Guinea-Bissau andthe South Atlantic Cocaine Trade 

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)

·         CIP Report, August 2013, v. 12, no. 2 [Health] 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Gulf Analysis Paper: China's Balancing Act in the Gulf 

·         PacNet #68 - Binding China 

·         PacNet #67 - Japan-China Maritime Confidence Building And Communications Mechanisms 

·         PacNet #65R - Don't underestimate the ADMM+ 

·         Securing Cyberspace Through Public-Private Partnerships [executive summary] 

·         Seven Revolutions and Diamond 6 Leadership Workshop 

·         Somalia Redux?:Assessing the New Somali Federal Government  

·         Southeast Asia from the Corner of 18th & K Streets: Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: The Pentagon Leads by Example 

·         The Underlying Causes of Stability and Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: An Analytic Survey 

·         Violence in Iraq in Mid 2013: The Growing Risk of Serious Civil Conflict 

Central Asia Program - The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

·         Educational Reforms in Turkmenistan: Good Framework, Bad Content? 

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         Elections to the European Parliament and the Trouble with Vox Populi 

·         European Household Credit Markets Continue to Fall: Key Findings from the ECRI Statistical Package 

Centre for European Reform (CER)

·         Europe's Struggle for Influence in Egypt 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Instruction1005.15, DoD Civilian Flags, August 6, 2013 

·         DoD Instruction1310.01, Rank and Seniority of Commissioned Officers, August 23, 2013  

·         DoD Instruction5505.10, Criminal Investigations of Noncombat Deaths, August 15, 2013 

·         DoD Manual3150.08, Nuclear Weapon Accident Response Procedures (NARP), August 22, 2013 

Department of the Navy

·         CNO's Navigation Plan 2014-2018 

European Leadership Network (ELN)

·         New START: A Net Assessment 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Arms for Peace in Syria? 

·         Can the Israeli Center Hold? 

·         To Drone or Not to Drone 

Foundation for Strategic Research

·         Defining the European Defense Technological and Industrial Base—Debates and Dilemmas 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Army and Marine Corps Training: Better Performance and Cost Data Needed to More Fully Assess Simulation-Based Efforts. GAO-13-698 

·         Army Networks: Opportunities Exist to Better Utilize Results from Network Integration Evaluations. GAO-13-711 

·         Next Generation Jammer: DOD Should Continue to Assess Potential Duplication and Overlap As Program Moves Forward. GAO-13-642 

·         Wildland Fire Management: Improvements Needed in Information, Collaboration, and Planning to Enhance Federal Fire Aviation Program Success. GAO-13-684 

Heritage Foundation

·         Congress Should Pave the Way for a U.S.–Africa Free Trade Agreement 

·         Egypt’s Coup Requires a Cautious U.S. Response 

·         Federal Spending by the Numbers, 2013: Government Spending Trends in Graphics, Tables, and Key Points 

·         Food Safety Rules:Rushed Deadlines Will Lead to Disaster 

·         Overmilitarization:Why Law Enforcement Needs to Scale Down Its Use of Military Hardware and Tactics 

·         U.S.–Baltic Relations: Laying the Groundwork for Deeper Cooperation 

Households in Conflict Network

·         Measuring Conflict Exposure in Micro-Level Surveys 

Human Rights Watch

·         "No Money, No Justice": Police Corruption and Abuse in Liberia 

·         Rape Victims as Criminals: Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador 

Institute for Science and International Security  (ISIS)

·         Update on the Parchin Site 

Institute for the Study of War

·         2013 Iraq Update #33 - The Struggles of the Iraqi Security Forces 

·         Dances With Warlords:Karzai’s Latest Grist for the Presidential Rumor Mill 

·         Regime Regains Ground on the Coast 

Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)

·         China’s‘Look-West’ Policy: A New Link 

·         Connecting India To Asean: Opportunities and Challenges in India’s Northeast - Workshop Report 

·         Pakistan’s Water Woes 

·         Pressures on then Indian Rupee 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Capital Flows are Fickle: Anytime, Anywhere

·         The Driving Force behind the Boom and Bust in Construction in Europe 

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, August 23, 2013, v. 13, no. 17 

o    Army Day Coverage Stresses Winning Battles with “Dream of a Strong Military”

o    Sino-Mongolian Coal Relationship Continues Downward Spiral in 2013

o    A Tale of Two Volunteer Programs: China and Taiwan

o    The Democratic Progressive Party’s Defense Policy Blue Papers and the Opposition’s Vision for Taiwan’s National Defense

National Academies Press

·         Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies 

·         Strengthening Human Resources Through Development of Candidate Core Competencies for Mental,Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Workshop Summary 

National Security Archive

·         CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup 

NATO Civil-Military Fusion Center

·         Afghanistan Weekly Review [latest update August13, 2013] 

·         The Role of Iran in Afghanistan's Reconstruction and Development 

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         The Future of the Middle East and North Africa 

·         Russia’s Attempts to Gain a Status Boost from the G20 Chairmanship 

·         Saudi Arabia’s Domestic Sectarian Politics 

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

·         IC On the Record 

Pak Institute for Peace Studies

·         Political Cost the ANP Paid in Its Fight against Extremists 

·         Through Each Other’s Eyes: Pakistan-Afghanistan Media Monitoring Report (URDU VERSION) 

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKOSI)

·         Peace & Stability Operations Journal, August 2013, v. 3, no, 4 

o    PKSOI Supports U.S. Army Exercise Western Accord 13

o    Military Observer in West Africa

o    Words and Actions; The American Style of Peacekeeping

o    Finding A Way: Integrating Serb Police Officers into the Kosovo Police Service

o    Following in the “Footprint”: The Strategic Benefits of Peace Operations

o    Stability Operations: A College Student’s Perspective

o    Peace Operations: A Rwandan View

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         Egypt and Saudi Arabia Topline 

Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends

·         Race in America:Tracking 50 Years of Demographic Trends 

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt 

Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)

·         Pursuing Profits--Or Power? 

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Bruno Oliveira Martins, "Disclosed: EU Vulnerability. Taking US Mass Surveillance Seriously after the Snowden Affair" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 132, August 2013) 

Rand

·         New Approaches toDefense Inflation and Discounting  

·         The Role and Importance of the 'D' in PTSD 

·         Supporting Employers in the Reserve Operational Forces Era: Are Changes Needed to Reservists' Employment Rights Legislation, Policies, or Programs?  

·         Supporting Employers in the Reserve Operational Forces Era: Appendixes   

·         The Time is Ripe for Evidence-based Child Policy in the EU 

Rockport Analytics

·         The Value of Government Meetings 

Small Wars Journal

·         ADAPT: Training for Agriculture’s Seminal Role in Stability Operations for Afghanistan and Beyond 

·         A Four Dimensional Model of Insurgency and the Centrality of ‘Perception and Polarization’ to Strategic Success 

·         The Mexican Undead: Toward a New History of the “Drug War” Killing Fields 

·         Thinking Differently: Unlocking the Human Domain in Support of the 21st Century Intelligence Mission 

Stimson Center

·         Senkaku Islands/East China Sea Disputes—A Japanese Perspective 

Strategic Studies Institute

·         Cartel Car Bombings in Mexico   

·         The Causes of Instability in Nigeria and Implications for the United States 

University of South Alabama Library

·         Military and Sexual Assault Subject Guide    

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         All the Tyrant's Men: Chipping Away at the Assad Regime's Core 

·         Cutting Through the Fog of War in East Ghouta 

·         Egypt's Crackdown and El Baradei's Resignation 

·         Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Breakaway Factions, 1954-1981 

·         The Islamic Insurgency That Could Soon Hit Egypt 

·         Large-Scale Chemical Weapons Use Against Syrian Civilians: Military Implications

·         The Muslim Brotherhood's Fall Lands Turkey an Unexpected Ally: Kurds 

·         Polarized International Reactions to Syrian Chemical Attack 

·         Political Views of a Two-State Solution 

·         Turkey's Ergenekon Convictions: Impact on U.S. Relations 

White House

·         Fixing Our Broken Immigration System: The Economic Benefits of Providing a Path to Earned Citizenship   

Wilson Center

·         Civic Engagement and the Judicial Reform: The Role of Civil Society in Reforming Criminal Justice in Mexico 

·         The Criminal Diaspora: The Spread of Transnational Organized Crime and How to Contain its Expansion 

·         The Victims' Movement in Mexico