Friday's Miscellany for 11-09-2007

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Numbers [some brief opinion poll results including progress in Iraq and the French]. http://american.com/archive/2007/november-11-07/numbers-11-9-07

Amnesty International

• A Guide to the African Commission Guide on Human and Peoples' Rights. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/IOR630052007ENGLISH/$File/IOR6300507.pdf
• Rwanda: Suspects Must not be Transferred to Rwandan Courts for Trial Until it is Demonstrated That Trials Will Comply with International Standards of Justice. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AFR470132007ENGLISH/$File/AFR4701307.pdf

Arms Control Association

• A Witches Brew? Evaluating Iran's Uranium-Enrichment Progress. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007_11/Albright.asp

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 108. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071102.htm
• Afghanistan Update. http://www.basicint.org/update/AFG071102.htm

Brookings Institution

• Catastrophe or a Last Chance in Pakistan? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2007/1105_pakistan_cohen.aspx

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute

• Canada as the "Emerging Energy Superpower": Testing the Case. http://www.cdfai.org/PDF/CDFAIConference2007.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Issues in U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=19697&prog=zgp&proj=znpp,zsa

Center for American Progress

• The Forgotten Front [Afghanistan]. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/afghanistan_report.pdf
• A Race Against Time in Eastern Chad. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/pdf/enough11.pdf
• Think Again: Torturous Debate over Waterboarding. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/torturous_debate.html

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change. http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/1278/CSIS-CNAS_AgeofConsequences_October07.pdf

Center for Defense Information

• Afghanistan Update: Oct. 1-31, 2007. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4137&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• "Bush Doctrine 2.0?" http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• America's blunder, Chavez's Success. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Winning Iraq. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142
• Get Tough on Suicide Bombings. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Armed Nation Building: The Real Challenge in Afghanistan. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071107_afghanchall.pdf
• The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071105_ageofconsequences.pdf
• China's Civil Society Organizations: What Future in the Health Sector. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071102_chinacivilsociety.pdf
• CSIS Commission on Smart Power: A Smarter More Secure America. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071106_csissmartpowerreport.pdf
• China's Civil Society Organizations: What Future in the Health Sector: A Report of the Task Force on HIV/AIDS Delegation to China, June 13-20, 2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071102_chinacivilsociety.pdf

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)

• International C2 Journal [Fall 2007] http://www.dodccrp.org/html4/journal_v1n2.html Special Issue: "Decision Support for Network-Centric Command and Control"
  o Automation Architecture for Single Operator, Multiple UAV Command and Control
  o Custom Work Aids for Distributed Command and Control Teams: A Key to Enabling Highly Effective Teams
  o Adaptive Automation for Human-Robot Teaming in Future Command and Control Systems
  o Improving Planning and Replanning: Using a Formal Grammar to Automate Processing of Command and Control Information for Decision Support

Combat Studies Institute

• The Other End of the Spear: The Toothto-Tail Ratio (T3R) in Modern Military Operations. http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/RandP/OP23.pdf

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Afghanistan’s Painkiller. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14713/afghanistans_painkiller.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• The Future of the U.S. Military. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14721/future_of_the_us_military.html
• Inequalities in Asia's Giants. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14706/inequalities_in_asias_giants.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder
• Planning for Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe. http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Zimbabwe_CSR31.pdf
• U.S. Officials Mull Pakistan Position. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14709/us_mulls_pakistan.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

• D-2008-012 Distribution of Funds and the Validity of Obligations for the Management of the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund - Phase I, November 5, 2007. http://www.dodig.mil/Audit/reports/FY08/08-012.pdf

FBI

• Terrorism 2002-2005. http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terrorism2002_2005.pdf

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• Food Protection Plan: An Integrated Strategy for Protecting the Nation's Food Supply. http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/advance/food/plan.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• The Continued Retreat of Democracy in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.basora.retreatdemocracypostcommunist.html
• The Marines: Premier Expeditionary Warriors. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.hoffman.marinesexpeditionarywarriors.html
• Cicero and Tacitus on Empire: The Roman Tradition and American Conceptions of Foreign Policy. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200710.kopff.cicerotacitusempire.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation's Ports of Entry. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08219.pdf
• Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to Take Action to Encourage Fiscal Discipline and Optimize the Use of Tools Intended to Improve GWOT Cost Reporting. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0868.pdf
• Securing U.S. Nuclear Material: DOE Has Made Little Progress Consolidating and Disposing of Special Nuclear Material. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0872.pdf
• State Department: Transparent Cost Estimates Needed to Support Passport Execution Fee Decisions. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0863.pdf
• Terrorist Watch List Screening: Recommendations to Promote a Comprehensive and Coordinated Approach to Terrorist-Related Screening. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08253t.pdf
• Trade Adjustment Assistance: States Have Fewer Training Funds Available than Labor Estimates When Both Expenditures and Obligations Are Considered. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08165.pdf

Heritage Foundation

• The Advantages of Expanding the Nuclear Navy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/wm1693.cfm
• The Bush–Sarkozy White House Summit: A U.S.–French Entente Cordiale. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/wm_1692.pdf
• Europe's Strategic Dependence on Russian Energy. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/bg_2083.pdf
• Musharraf's Emergency Rule Will Only Fuel Pakistan Crisis. http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/wm1691.cfm
• Missile Defense: Debunking Arguments Against the Third Site in Eastern Europe. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/wm_1694.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Nowhere to Turn: Torture and Ill-treatment in Uzbekistan. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/uzbekistan1107/uzbekistan1107webwcover.pdf
• Rehabilitation Required: Russia’s Human Rights Obligation to Provide Evidence-based Drug Dependence Treatment. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/russia1107/russia1107webwcover.pdf

Interagency Working Group on Import Safety

• Action Plan for Import Safety. http://www.importsafety.gov/report/actionplan.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Ethiopia and Eritrea: Stopping the Slide to War. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3170&tid=5136&l=1
• Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission. http://www.un.org/NewLinks/eebcarbitration/
• Sri Lanka: Sinhala Nationalism and the Elusive Southern Consensus. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=3173&tid=5144&type=pdf&l=1

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

• Israeli Airstrike in Syria: International Reactions. http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/071101.htm

Lexington Institute

• Crusading Navy Secretary Cancels 300-Ship Fleet. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1193.shtml

Rand

• Addressing the Uncertain Future of Preserving the Past: Towards a Robust Strategy for Digital Archiving and Preservation. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR510.pdf
• Building Partner Capabilities for Coalition Operations. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG635.pdf
• Negotiating with Iran. Testimony. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT293.pdf
• Terrorism Risk Modeling for Intelligence Analysis and Infrastructure Protection. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR386.pdf
• Testimony before the French Paper Commission on Defense and National Security. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT292.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

• The Eastern Dimension of America's New European Allies. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=813
• Transformation Under Fire: A Historical Case Study with Modern Parallels. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=810
• The United States and ASEAN-China Relations: All Quiet on the Southeast Asian Front. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=812
• Working and Playing Well with Others: A Strategy-Policy Mismatch in Export Controls. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=835

UN Office of Drugs and Crime

• 2007 World Drug Report. http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/wdr07/WDR_2007.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• America's Future Direction in Iraq. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=364
• The Bush Administration and the Peace Process: Annapolis and Beyond. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=371
• Israel-Hizballah-Syria: Lessons from the Last War, Preventing the Next One. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=365
• Kuwait: Keystone of U.S. Gulf Policy. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/download.php?file=PolicyFocus76.pdf
• Pakistan and the War on Terror. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2677