Friday's Miscellany for 11-02-2007

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

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• France: Europe's Counterterrorist Powerhouse. http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.27057/pub_detail.asp
• Winning One Battle, Fighting the Next. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27027,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

Amnesty International

• United States of America: No Substitute for Habeas Corpus: Six years Without Judicial Review in Guantánamo. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AMR511632007ENGLISH/$File/AMR5116307.pdf
• Sierra Leone: Getting Reparations Right for Survivors of Sexual Violence (Including amendments). http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AFR510052007ENGLISH/$File/AFR5100507.pdf

Atlantic Council of the United States

• Corruption, Democracy, and Investment in Ukraine. http://www.acus.org/docs/071016_Corruption,%20Democracy,%20and%20Investment%20in%20Ukraine.pdf

Brookings Institution

• China’s 17th Party Congress: Maintaining Delicate Balances. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/11_china_shambaugh.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• China Regional Disparities - The Causes and Impact of Regional Inequalities in Income and Well-Being. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/keidel1.pdf

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)

• The Iran Counter-Proliferation Act: Potential Implications for Russian-Iranian Relations and U.S.-Russian Nuclear Cooperation. http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/071026.htm

Center for Security Policy

• Fujimori: The Other Side of the Story - Part II. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• LOST Runs Silent, Runs Deep. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• NATO and EU Rapid Response: Contradictory or Complementary? http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=44246
  

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA)

• A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons. http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/R.20071031.Arming_the_Heavens/R.20071031.Arming_the_Heavens.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Special Operations Forces Aviation. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071026_sof.pdf
• Critical Questions: Iran. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071026_wolfsthal_iran.pdf
• Security Cooperation in the Middle East. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071029_final.mil_coop_in_me.pdf
• Critical Questions: Confronting the Crisis in Sudan. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071029-cooke-sudan.pdf
• Critical Questions: U.S.-India Nuclear Deal. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071101_schaffer.pdf
• The Elements of Victory in Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071031_iraqelementsvictory.pdf
• Secretary Rice in Ankara: Mission Impossible? http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071031_bulent_commentary.pdf
• Turkey’s Military Options for Dealing with the PKK: A Preliminary Assessment. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071029_pkk_6.pdf
• Turkey and the West. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071030_turkeyandthewest.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Crew Rotation in the Navy: The Long-Term Effect on Forward Presence. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8771/10-31-Navy.pdf
• Testimony on Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8769/11-01-CO2Emissions.pdf
• Background Paper: CBO's Health Insurance Simulation Model: A Technical Description. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8712/10-31-HealthInsurModel.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Cicero and Tacitus on Empire: The Roman Tradition and American Conceptions of Foreign Policy. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200710.kopff.cicerotacitusempire.html
• Teaching Military History— Why and How: A Conference Report. http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1223.200710.kuehner.teachingmilitaryhistory.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Plans' Coverage of Key Cyber Security Elements Varies. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08113.pdf
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Sector-Specific Plans' Coverage of Key Cyber Security Elements Varies. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0864t.pdf
  
• Influenza Pandemic: Opportunities Exist to Address Critical Infrastructure Protection Challenges That Require Federal and Private Sector Coordination. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0836.pdf
• Maritime Security: The SAFE Port Act: Status and Implementation One Year Later. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08126t.pdf
• Nonproliferation: U.S. Efforts to Combat Nuclear Networks Need Better Data on Proliferation Risks and Program Results. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0821.pdf
• Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: GAO Audits and Key Oversight Issues. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08231t.pdf
• Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Needed to Improve Governmentwide Planning and Capabilities for Future Operations. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08228t.pdf
• Transportation Security: TSA Has Made Progress in Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, but Challenges Remain. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08133t.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• President Bush's Remarks on the Global War on Terror. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/bush110107.cfm
• Grading Cybersecurity Initiatives: Six Necessary Components. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/upload/wm_1684.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Sold to Be Soldiers: The Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers in Burma. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/burma1007/burma1007webwcover.pdf

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

• ISIS Imagery Brief: Syria Update II: Syria Buries Foundation of Suspect Reactor Site. Institute for Science and International Security. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/SuspectSiteUpdate26October2007.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Congo: Bringing Peace to North Kivu. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/africa/central_africa/133_congo___bringing_peace_to_north_kivu.pdf

Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Monitor. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/TM_005_019.pdf
• Azerbaijan Increasingly Caught Between Salafism and Iran. Jamestown Foundation.
• Proposed Yemen-Djibouti Bridge Threatens AFRICOM Security
• Tracking Yemen's 23 Escaped Jihadi Operatives – Part 2
• The Triborder Sea Area: Maritime Southeast Asia's Ungoverned Space.
  

• Post-Congress Appointments Motivated by Factional and Ideological Biases, Not Reform. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_020.pdf

Lexington Institute

• Policymakers Suppress Expert Findings on Future Fighter. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1191.shtml

Rand

• Common Battlefield Training for Airmen. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG624.pdf
• Terrorism Risk Modeling for Intelligence Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR386.pdf
• Networked Forces in Stability Operations: 101st Airborne Division, 3/2 and 1/25 Stryker Brigades in Northern Iraq. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG593.pdf
• UK: Remuneration and its Motivation of Service Personnel: Focus Group Investigation and Analysis. http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2007/RAND_DB549.pdf
• Motivations and Attitudes of New Recruits Regarding Remuneration Issues: Focus Group Investigation and Analysis. http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2007/RAND_DB551.pdf

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

• Relief and Reconstruction Funded Work at the Mosul Dam. http://www.sigir.mil/reports/pdf/assessments/PA-07-105.pdf
• SIGIR's Quarterly Report to Congress (October 30, 2007). http://www.sigir.mil/reports/quarterlyreports/Oct07/Default.aspx
  

Strategic Studies Institute

• Making Riflemen from Mud: Restoring the Army's Culture of Irregular Warfare. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=803
• The United States and ASEAN-China Relations: All Quiet on the Southeast Asian Front. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=812
  

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Democracy in Slow Motion: Oman Goes to the Polls. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2674
• Presidential Elections in Lebanon: Consensus or Conflagration? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2675