Friday's Miscellany for 10-26-2007

Items of Interest [with thanks to the IDA Library for some of the links]

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• A World without the U.S.-ROK Alliance: Thinking about "Alternative Futures." http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27018,filter.foreign/pub_detail.asp

Amnesty International

• Democratic Republic of Congo: Torture and Killings by State Security Agents Still Endemic. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR620122007
• Occupied Palestinian Territories: Torn apart by Factional Strife.
  http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/MDE210202007ENGLISH/$File/MDE2102007.pdf
• Russian Federation: Update Briefing: What Progress Has Been Made Since May 2006 to Tackle Violent Racism? http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/EUR460472007ENGLISH/$File/EUR4604707.pdf
• OBSTRUCTION AND DELAY: Peacekeepers needed in Darfur now.
  http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AFR540062007ENGLISH/$File/AFR5400607.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Arab Political Systems: Baseline Information and Reforms. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=16918&prog=zgp&proj=zdrl,zme
• The Political Economy of Reform in Egypt: Understanding the Role of Institutions. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cmec5_alissa_egypt_final.pdf

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• America's Antiquated New Cruise Missile.
  http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4125&from_page=../index.cfm

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS) and the Institute of World Affairs (IWA)

• Side by Side or Together?: Working for Security, Development & Peace in Afghanistan and Liberia. Workshop report. http://www.ucalgary.ca/pdsp/files/pdsp/sidebysideortogether_oct2007.pdf

Center for Security Policy

• Chinese Information Warfare.
  http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/modules/newsmanager/center%20publication%20pdfs/perry%20china%20iw.pdf
• Fujimori: The Other Side of the Story, Part I. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Happy Birthday, UN. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Islamic Finance or Financing Islamism? http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/modules/newsmanager/center%20publication%20pdfs/alexiev%20islamic%20finance.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Afghanistan, Iraq & Self-Inflicted Wounds: The Strategic Lessons of Nation Building. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071016_lessofiraqafghan.pdf
• The Israeli "Nuclear Reactor Strike" and Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Background Analysis. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071024_syriannucl_weapcontext.pdf
• Pandora's Box: Iraqi Federalism, Separatism, "Hard" Partitioning ad US Policy. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/10242007_iraqhardpartition.pdf

Congress. House. Oversight Committee. National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee.

• Six Years Later: Assessing Long-Term Threats, Risks and the U.S.
  Strategy for Security in a Post-9/11 World. Hearing transcript. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/10-10-2007-jtmtranscript1.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8690&type=1

Foreign Policy Institute

• China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic And Military Power. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200710.delisle.chinarising.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Climate Change Research: Agencies Have Data-Sharing Policies but Could Do More to Enhance the Availability of Data from Federally Funded Research. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071172.pdf
• Drug Control: U.S. Assistance Has Helped Mexican Counternarcotics Efforts, but the Flow of Illicit Drugs into the United States Remains High. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08215t.pdf
• Information Technology: Improvements for Acquisition of Customs Trade Processing System Continue, but Further Efforts Needed to Avoid More Cost and Schedule Shortfalls. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0846.pdf
• Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08212t.pdf
• Project BioShield: Actions Needed to Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08208t.pdf
• Project Bioshield: Actions Needed to Avoid Repeating Past Problems with Procuring New Anthrax Vaccine and Managing the Stockpile of Licensed Vaccine.
  http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0888.pdf
• Secure Border Initiative: Observations on Selected Aspects of SBInet Program Implementation. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08131t.pdf
• Terrorist Watch List Screening: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Management Oversight, Reduce Vulnerabilities in Agency Screening Processes, and Expand Use of the List. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08110.pdf
• Terrorist Watch List Screening: Recommendations to Enhance Management Oversight, Reduce Potential Screening Vulnerabilities, and Expand Use of the List. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08194t.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• Does the United Nations Advance the Cause of Freedom?.
  http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/upload/hl_1047.pdf
• Argentina: Implications for the U.S. If First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Becomes President. http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/wm1678.cfm
• Does the United Nations Advance the Cause of Freedom?.http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/upload/hl_1047.pdf
• Why Reagan Would Still Reject the Law of the Sea. Treaty. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/upload/wm_1676.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• UK: Counter the Threat or Counterproductive?: Commentary on Proposed Counterterrorism Measures. http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/uk1007/uk1007web.pdf
• Renewed Crisis in North Kivu, Congo. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/drc1007/drc1007webwcover.pdf

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

• ISIS Imagery Brief: Syria Update: Suspect Reactor Site Dismantled. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/SyriaUpdate25October2007.pdf
• ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspect Reactor Construction Site in Eastern Syria: The Site of the September 6 Israeli Raid? http://www.isis-online.org/publications/SuspectSite_24October2007.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Pakistan: The Forgotten Conflict in Balochistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5131&l=1
• Southern Thailand: The Problem with Paramilitaries. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5132&l=1

Iraqanalysis.org

• Financial Cost of War. http://www.iraqanalysis.org/info/224

Jamestown Foundation

• Russia’s Race for the Arctic and the New Geopolitics of the North Pole. http://www.jamestown.org/docs/Jamestown-BaevRussiaArctic.pdf

Lexington Institute

• New Maritime Strategy: Three Cheers, and Three Complaints. Lexington Institute. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1189.shtml

Rand

• The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy. http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/2007/RAND_CB113-1.pdf
• Human Trafficking in Ohio: Markets, Responses, and Considerations. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG689.pdf
• Women and Human Security: The Case of Post Conflict Afghanistan. http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP1291.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

• The Military Strategy of Global Jihad. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=809

United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan

• Suicide Attacks in Afghanistan (2001-2007). http://www.unama-afg.org/docs/_UN-Docs/UNAMA%20-%20SUICIDE%20ATTACKS%20STUDY%20-%20SEPT%209th%202007.pdf

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

• USIP Working Paper: Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities. Institute for Science and International Security. http://www.usip.org/pubs/working_papers/wp5_dprk.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Larijani's Resignation: Implications for Iranian Nuclear Policy and Internal Politics. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2672
• FBI: Transforming U.S. Efforts to Fight Transnational Terrorist Networks. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2671
• Promoting Arab Democracy (or Not): What the Past Should Tell Us about the Future (Part II). http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2670
• The PKK and the Armenian Genocide Resolution: U.S.-Turkish Relations at a Critical Juncture. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2669