Sunday, January 6, 2013

Friday's Miscellany 01-04-2013


Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission


American Logistics Association


American Peace Society

·         World Affairs, January-February 2013
o    Bibi’s Bomb
o    US Cyber Warriors Seize the Offensive
o    Zero-Sum Makes Zero Sense

Armed Forces Journal

·         AFJ, December 2012
o    When the Network Dies: The Army Lacks the Battle Drills That Would Help It Fight On
o    Air Force Cyber Vision 2025
o    Command and Accountability
o    Abolish QDR
o    The Quantified Warrior
o    Unloved Aerial vehicles

Atlantic Council


Barcelona Centre for International Affairs


Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies


Berkman Center on Internet & Society


Brookings


California Polytechnic State University


Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)


Caspian Research Institute


CATO Institute


Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)


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

·         After Al-Shabaab
 
Chatham House


College of Europe

 
Congress. Senate. Coburn

·         Department of Everything

Congress. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

·         Interagency Personnel Rotation Act of 2011 [S. Rpt 112-235]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         The “Fiscal Cliff” Deal

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)


Department of Defense (DOD)


Department of the Army

·         Army Capstone Capabilities 2013

Department of State


Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Angola Country Analysis Brief - January 2013

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

·         FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin - December 2012 
o    Vigilance Fatigue in Policing: A Critical Threat to Public Safety and Officer Well-Being
o    In Pursuit of Cooperation: Idaho Police Agencies Join Together
o    Doing the “Right Thing” for the Wrong Reasons: Abuse of Police Discretion
o    Armored Car Industry: Reciprocity Act and Local Law Enforcement

Finnish Institute for International Affairs


German Marshall Fund of the United States


Global Political Trends Center


Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen CBP Efforts to Mitigate Risk of Employee Corruption and Misconduct. GAO-13-59
·         Financial Institutions: Causes and Consequences of Recent Bank Failures. GAO-13-71
 
Heritage Foundation


Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)


Homeland Security Outlook

·         Maritime Security Outlook

Institute for the Study of War

·         Iraq Update - 2013 Weekly Iraq Update #1

Institute of National Security Studies (Israel)


Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS)


International Crisis Group

·         CrisisWatch N°113, 30 December 2012

International Monetary Fund (IMF)


International Peace Institute (IPI)


International Relations and Security Network


Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, January 4, 2013, v. 13, no. 1
o    Regional Chief Selections Highlight Continuity in Leadership Development
o    What Direction for Legal Reform Under Xi Jinping?
o    China and Cambodia: With Friends Like These…
o    China-Uganda Relations: Closer is Not Necessarily Better

Korea Institute for National Unification


Library of Congress, Federal Research Division


Long War Journal

·         Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2013 [updated Jan 3, 2013]
·         Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002 - 2013 [updated Jan 3, 2013]
·         Green-on-Blue Attacks in Afghanistan: The Data [updated Jan 1, 2013]

Lowy Institute for International Relations


National Academies Press


National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health


National Defense University Press/ Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction


National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NIMO)

·         NMIO Technical Bulletin, Fall 2012, v. 4
o    Italian Navy Approach to an Integrated Interagency Maritime Surveillance
o    Asean Information Sharing Portal
o    Illicit Trafficking in the Maritime Domain
o    Harbor Shield: Underwater Acoustic Inspection of Underway Vessels for Hull-Mounted Explosives
o    Studies in Maritime Security
o    Building the Business Model for Nonproliferation

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability


Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

·         Policy Brief Series: The Gulf

Oxfam Publishing

 
Pak Institute for Peace Studies

·         Pakistan Security Report 2012

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)


Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         What Americans Want in 2013

Pew Internet and American Life Project

·         Mobile Connections to Libraries

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Pranamita Baruah, "Japan-China Spat Over the Senkaku Islands Continues to Persist" (IPRIS Viewpoints, No. 113, January 2013)

Rand


Reserve Forces Policy Board


Small Wars Journal


Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)


United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)


US International Trade Commission (USITC)
·         Journal of International Commerce and Economics, January 2013

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         No Settlement in Damascus

Wilson Center

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

2012 Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Faculty and Alumni Publications

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has a world renowned pool of faculty and alumni who do research in a wide variety of areas.  Here's a list of some of the books they authored, edited or contributed to that were released in 2012.

Barma, Naazneen H. "Petroleum, Governance, and Fragility: The Micro Politics of Petroleum in Post-Conflict States." in Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov, (eds.) Beyond the Resource Curse. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
HD9502 .A2 B49 2012 DKL

Blanken, Leo J. Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
JC359 .B53 2012 DKL

Bordetsky, Alex and Mark E. Nissen, “Leveraging Mobile Network Technologies to Accelerate Tacit Knowledge Flows across Organizations and Distances,” in Guglielmo Trentin (Ed.) Technology and Knowledge Flow: The Power of Networks. Oxford, UK: Chandos Pub., 2012.
T58.8 .T47 2011 DKL

Bruneau, Thomas C. and Florina Cristiana Matei. The Routledge Handbook of Civil-Military Relations. New York: Routledge, 2012.
JF195.C5 R68 2012 DKL

Catrantzos, Nick. Managing the Insider Threat: No Dark Corners. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012.
ISBN  978-1439872925 [NPS alumnus]
HD61.5 .C37 2012 DKL

Ear, Sophal. Aid Dependence in Cambodia : How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
DS554.8 .E25 2013 DKL

Everton, Sean. Disrupting Dark Networks. New York: Cambridge University Press, c2012.
 
Freeman, Michael. Financing Terrorism: Case Studies. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2012.
HV6431 .F572 2012 DKL

Harré, Rom, and Fathali M. Moghaddam. Psychology for the Third Millennium: Integrating Cultural and Neuroscience Perspectives. London : SAGE, 2012.
QP360 .P79 2012 DKL

Jasper, Scott (ed). Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons:  A Comprehensive Approach for International Security. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012.

Jones, L.R., Philip J. Candreva and Marc R. DeVore. Financing National Defense: Policy and Process. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2012. 
UA23 .J66 2012 DKL

Jones, Seth G. Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11. New York: W.W. Norton &; Co., 2012.
HV6432.5.Q2 J66 2012 DKL

Khan, Feroz. Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. 2012.
U264.5.P18 K43 2012 DKL

Kenny, Paul and Mónica Serrano and Arturo Sotomayor (eds.) Mexico's Security Failure: Collapse into Criminal Violence. New York : Routledge, 2012.
HV6813.5 .M49 2012 DKL

Knopf, Jeffrey W. (ed.) Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012 .
JZ5675 .S44 2012 DKL

Langford, Gary. Engineering Systems Integration: Theory, Metrics, and Methods. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2012.
TA168 .L315 2012 DKL

Looney, Robert E. (ed.) Handbook of Oil Politics. New York, Routledge, 2012.
HD9560.6 .H27 2012 DKL

Nix, Dayne and E. Cory Yoder. Defense Contingency Contracting Handbook(DCCHB). Version 4, 2012. Washington, DC

Rothstein, Hy and John Arquilla (eds). Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012.
DS371.412 .A318 2012 DKL

Shark, Alan R. CIO Leadership for Public Safety Communications: Emerging Trends & Practices. Alexandria, VA: Public Technology Institute, 2012. [Ronald P. Timmons alumnus]
T58.64 .S53 2012 DKL

Stevens, David. Naval Networks: The Dominance of Communications in Maritime Operations - 2007 King-Hall Naval History Conference Proceedings. Canberra ACT, Australia: Sea Power Centre, 2012. [Kenneth J. Hagan and Mike McMaster]
ISBN: 978-0642297679
V163.N38 2012 DKL

Tucker, David. Illuminating the Dark Arts of War: Terrorism, Sabotage, and Subversion in Homeland Security and the New Conflict. Continuum. 2012.
HV6431 .I44 2012 DKL

Twomey, Christopher P. "After the Summit: Investing in Nuclear Materials Security," NBR Analysis Brief, April 2012.

Wirtz, James J. and Peter R. Lavoy (eds.). Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
JZ5675 .O82 2012 DKL

Yost, David. "NATO's Deterrence and Defense Posture After theChicago Summit: A Report on a Workshop in Rome, 25-27 June 2012," (Rome: NATO Defense College, October 2012).

Zellen, Barry Scott. The Art of War in an Asymmetric World: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era. New York, NY : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2012.
U42 .Z39 2012 DKL

Zellen, Barry Scott. State of Doom : Bernard Brodie, the Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World. London : Continuum, 2012.
U264 .Z45 2012 DKL