Friday's Miscellany 11-23-2007

Amnesty International

• Albania: "No Place to Call home" - Adult Orphans and the Right to Housing. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGEUR110052007
• Central African Republic: War Against Children in the Wild North. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAFR190062007
• Slovakia: Still Separate, Sill Unequal Violations of the Right to Education of Romani Children in Slovakia. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/EUR720012007ENGLISH/$file/EUR7200107.pdf

Bread for the World

• Hunger 2008: Working Harder for Working Families. http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-reports/hunger-report-2008-download.html [previous reports available at http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-reports/ ]

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 110. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071121.htm
• The Real Cost Behind Trident Replacement and the Carriers. http://www.basicint.org/nuclear/beyondtrident/cost.pdf
• Washington Nuclear Update - Getting to Zero. http://www.basicint.org/update/zero071121.htm

Brookings

• The Next Phase of the Iraq War. http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1115_iraq_byman.aspx
• Tangling Over Recess Appointments: What’s at Stake? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1121_senate_binder.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Arab Reform Bulletin: November 2007. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19713&prog=zgp&proj=zdrl,zme
• The Presidential Crisis in Lebanon Demands Urgent Attention. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19714&prog=zgp&proj=zme

Center for American Progress

• Needing NATO: The Alliance Could Crumble if the U.S. Becomes the COIN Expert
  http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/11/3022332
• A Report Half Empty: Iran Needs to Level with the IAEA. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/iaea_iran.html
• A Strategy for Success in Sirte
  http://americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/enough13.pdf

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

• Global Forecast: The Top Security Challenges of 2008
  http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071114_intro_global_forecast.pdf

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Homeland Security Technologies. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14827/homeland_security_technologies.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder
• The Road to Annapolis. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14850/road_to_annapolis.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Defense Science Board (DSB)

• Deployment of Members of the National Guard and Reserves in the Global War on Terror
  http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2007-11-National_Guard_and_Reserve_in_the_Global_War_on_Terrorism.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Protecting Critical Infrastructure. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.gale.infrastructure.html
• War and Leadership: a Critical Analysis of Thucydides’ Account of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily. http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1227.200711.walling.warleadershipthucydides.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Immigration Benefits: Seventeenth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08267r.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• The Annapolis Peace Conference: Cloudy Prospects for Success. http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm1708.cfm
• U.N. Further Weakens Human Rights Council. http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm1707.cfm
• Who's Who in Russia's Parliamentary Elections. http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/wm1706.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Exported and Exposed: Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/srilanka1107/
• Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1107/

International Crisis Group

• “Deradicalisation” and Indonesian Prisons. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5170&l=1
• The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Annapolis and After. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5174
• Winding Back Martial Law in Pakistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5156&l=1

International Relations and Security Network (ISN)

• Opium: Legal Solutions. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=18392

Jamestown Foundation

• China Brief (November 14, 2007). http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_021.pdf
• Terrorism Focus (November 20, 2007). http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/tf_004_038.pdf

Joint Economic Committee

• War at Any Price?—the Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget
  http://jec.senate.gov/Documents/Reports/11.13.07IraqEconomicCostsReport.pdf
• Republican Response. http://www.house.gov/jec/news/2007/Nov/JEC%20GOP%20Response.pdf

Pew Research Center

• Lebanon's Precarious Politics: Many of the Country's Sectarian Differences Do Not Run along a Straight Muslim-Christian Fault Line.
  http://pewresearch.org/pubs/636/lebanon-politics

Progressive Policy Institute (PPI)

• Rebuilding America's Reserves. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/RebuildingReserves111407.pdf

Rand

• Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR534.pdf
• Preparing the Army for Stability Operations: Doctrinal and Interagency Issues. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG646.pdf
• Technology Acquisition by Terrorist Groups: Threat Assessment Informed by Lessons from Private Sector Technology Adoption [Reprint]. http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2007/RAND_RP1248.pdf
• The Victims of Terrorism: An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector. http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP180-1.pdf

SENLIS Council

• Afghanistan: Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the Brink.
  http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/Afghanistan_on_the_brink/documents/Afghanistan_on_the_brink

Strategic Studies Institute

• AFRICOM's Dilemma: The "Global War on Terrorism" "Capacity Building," Humanitarianism, and the Future of U.S. Security Policy in Africa. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=827
• East Asian Security: Two Views. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=800
• Regional Threats and Security Strategy: The Troubling Case of Today's Middle East. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=814
• Security Cooperation; A Key to the Challenges of the 21st Century. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=820