Friday's Miscellany for 11-16-2007

Amnesty International

• Afghanistan: Detainees Transferred to Torture: ISAF Complicity? http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA110112007ENGLISH/$File/ASA1101107.pdf
  
• Myanmar: Briefing Paper: No Return to "Normal." http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA160372007ENGLISH/$File/ASA1603707.pdf
• USA: Slippery Slopes and the Politics of Torture. http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/AMR511772007ENGLISH/$File/AMR5117707.pdf

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

• Iran Update, No. 109. http://www.basicint.org/update/iran071113.htm

Brookings Institution

• Iran: Reality, Options, and Consequences. http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2007/1107_iran_maloney.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Is Russia Becoming Our Enemy Again? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16020502

CATO

• What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model? http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-603.pdf

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

• The State of the U.S. Army. http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/1464/CNASArmyReadiness_FactsheetNov07.pdf

Center for American Progress

• Strategic Drift in Iraq. http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2007/strategic_drift.html

Center for Defense Information

• Fiscal Year 2008 Defense Budget: Programs of Interest. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4130&from_page=../index.cfm

Center for Security Policy

• Invest Terror-free!
  http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Islam and the Nation-State. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Issues in International Political Economy - Some Recent Examples of the Dependency/Dominance Relationship Between Mexico and the United States. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issues200711.pdf
• Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071112-backfromthebrink-web.pdf
• PCR Project Special Briefing: Fixing Iraq's Internal Security Forces: Why is Reform of the Ministry of Interior so Hard? http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071113_fixingiraq.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2007 Update http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8713
• Issues in Climate Change. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8819&type=1
• The Long-Term Outlook for Health Care Spending. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8758&type=1
• Testimony on Costs of Reprocessing Versus Directly Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8808&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

• Pakistan’s Tremors Worry India. http://www.cfr.org/publication/14801/pakistans_tremors_worry_india.html?breadcrumb=%2F
• Profile: Al-Qaeda in Iraq (a.k.a. al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia). http://www.cfr.org/publication/14811/profile.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• The Space Age That Never Arrived: A Meditation on the 50th Anniversary of Sputnik 1. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.mcdougall.sputnikanniversary.html
• Dereliction of Duty Redux? http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.hoffman.derelictionofdutyredux.html
• The Hon. Ike Skelton on Civil-Military Relations. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200711.skelton.civilmilitaryrelations.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Exposed Through Covert Testing of TSA's Passenger Screening Process. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0848t.pdf
• Border Security: Despite Progress, Weaknesses in Traveler Inspections Exist at Our Nation's Ports of Entry. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08192t.pdf
• Combating Nuclear Terrorism: Federal Efforts to Respond to Nuclear and Radiological Threats and to Protect Key Emergency Response Facilities Could Be Strengthened. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08285t.pdf
• Defense Acquisitions: Overcoming Challenges Key to Capitalizing on Mine Countermeasures Capabilities. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0813.pdf
• Hurricane Katrina: Ineffective FEMA Oversight of Housing Maintenance Contracts in Mississippi Resulted in Millions of Dollars of Waste and Potential Fraud. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08106.pdf
• Influenza Vaccine: Issues Related to Production, Distribution, and Public Health Messages. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0827.pdf
• Investigative Operations: Use of Covert Testing to Identify Security Vulnerabilities and Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08286t.pdf
• United Nations: Progress on Management Reform Efforts Has Varied. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0884.pdf
• Uranium Enrichment: Extension of Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund May Be Needed to Cover Projected Cleanup Costs. Testimony. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08277t.pdf

The Henry L. Stimson Center

• The Cooperation Between the U.S. and Japan on Our Respective Defense Exchanges with Other Countries to Improve the International Security Environment. http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=480

Heritage Foundation

• Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes. http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/upload/bg_2086.pdf
• Targeting Terrorists. http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed111307a.cfm
• U.S. Thwarts 19 Terrorist Attacks Against America Since 9/11. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandDefense/bg2085.cfm

Human Rights Watch

• Egypt: Prohibited Identities: State Interference with Religious Freedom. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1107/egypt1107webwcover.pdf
• 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/srilanka1107webwcover.pdf

International Alert

• A Climate of Conflict: The Links Between Climate Change, Peace and War. http://www.international-alert.org/publications/getdata.php?doctype=Pdf&id=322&docs=980

Institute for Science and International Security

• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iran/IranIAEAreportNov15.pdf
  

International Crisis Group

• Guinea: Change on Hold. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5147&l=1
• Nagorno-Karabakh: Risking War. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5157
• Shiite Politics in Iraq: The Role of the Supreme Council. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5158
• Winding Back Martial Law in Pakistan. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=5156

International Relations and Security Watch

• Iranian Kurdistan: A Simmering Cauldron. http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=18342

Jamestown Foundation

• China Means Business in Iraq. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_021.pdf

Lexington Institute

• Asian Security: Japan Needs Better Tools to do Its Part. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1195.shtml

Physicians for Social Responsibility

• War Is Not the Answer: The Medical and Public Health Consequences of Attacking Iran. http://www.psr.org/site/DocServer/WarIsNotTheAnswer.pdf?docID=2181

Progressive Policy Institute

• Federal Terrorism Court. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/TerrorismCourt111407.pdf
• Fixing the Department of Homeland Security. http://www.ppionline.org/documents/FixingDHS11142007.pdf

Rand

• Developing Robust Border Security Technologies to Protect Against Diverse and Adaptive Threats. http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2007/RAND_CT294.pdf
• Stealing the Sword: Limiting Terrorist Use of Advanced Conventional Weapons. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG510.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

• The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and Education in China's 80-Year-Old Military. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB834.pdf
• On the Uses of Cultural Knowledge. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB817.pdf
• The Evolution of U.S.-Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB825.pdf

Swiss Peace

• Private Security Companies and Local Populations: An Exploratory Study of Afghanistan and Angola. http://www.swisspeace.ch/typo3/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/PSC.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• The PKK Redux: Implications of a Growing Threat. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2681
• How to Handle Terrorist Suspects: No Easy Answer. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2680
• Britain and Zionism: Then and Now. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2679

U.S. China and Security Economic Review Commission

• 2007 Annual report http://www.uscc.gov/