Friday's Miscellany 12-21-2007

American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Reflections on the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27255/pub_detail.asp
• Amnesty International Spain shamed by police. http://www.amnesty.org/en/alfresco_asset/61d9a8ca-a2ef-11dc-8d74-6f45f39984e5/eur410072007en.pdf
  

Brookings

• Energy Security, Energy Urgency: Key Issues Facing the Next President. [Video] http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2007/1218_energy_lugar.aspx
• Humanitarian Imperatives are Transforming Sovereignty. http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2008/winter_humanitarian_cohen.aspx
  
• The State of the U.S. Economy [Video] http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2007/1219_economy.aspx

Center for American Progress

• The Lessons of Bali: The U.S. Needs to Lead on Global Warming. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/bali_lessons.html
• Nuclear Meltdown: Rebuilding a Coherent Policy Toward Iran. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/iran_event.html
• The Pakistan Challenge: The United States Cannot Fail Here. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pakistan_challenge.html
• Quality of Life in the Military. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/pdf/military_life.pdf
• We Are the Web. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/12/we_are_the_web.html

Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)

• Capacity Building through Research Partnership - A Case Study on Decentralisation and Governance in Northern Albania. http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=PublishingHouse&fileid=E66AD10F-0E5E-8EB2-22E9-A694FF170E10&lng=en

Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• "A Big Image Problem Down There": Prospects for an African Headquarters for AFRICOM. http://www.cdi.org/pdfs/reedAFRICOM.pdf
  
• Ten Years After Ottawa. http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=4161&from_page=../index.cfm
• 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

• Not on our dime. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141
• Bigotry, terror masked as faith. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• Financial Action on the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Act. http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/U.20071220.Financial_Action/U.20071220.Financial_Action.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Critical Questions: Turkish Airstrikes in Northern Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071219_cq_brannen_turkey.pdf
• Dollars and Bullets: The Role of US Aid in a Strategy for Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071217_iraq_aid_strategy.pdf
• Planning for Stability Operations: The Use of Capabilities-Based Approaches. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071023-planstabops.pdf
• Progress in Iraq: The December Report on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071220_progress_in_iraq.pdf
• Water and Energy Futures in an Urbanized Asia: Sustaining the Tiger. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/071210_petersonwaterenergy-web.pdf

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records.
• Main report – http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
• Translated records – http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/FF-Bios-Trans.pdf
• Original records -- http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/Foreign_Fighter_Bios-Orig.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments: Issues and Options for an Expanded Federal Role. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=8891&type=1

Department of Defense

• Department of Defense Foreign Sources of Supply: Assessment of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (Report Required by Section 812 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY06) http://www.acq.osd.mil/ip/docs/812_report_fy06.pdf
• Earlier reports. http://www.acq.osd.mil/ip/ip_products.html
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq - Dec 2007. http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/FINAL-SecDef%20Signed-20071214.pdf
• Earlier reports are available at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/Iraq_Reports/index.html
• Unmanned Systems Roadmap 2007-2032 http://www.acq.osd.mil/usd/Unmanned%20Systems%20Roadmap.2007-2032.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia. http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200712.ginsburg.democratictransitionscasestudiesasia.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Air Traffic Control: FAA Reports Progress in System Acquisitions, but Changes in Performance Measurement Could Improve Usefulness of Information. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0842.pdf
• Budget Issues: Accrual Budgeting Useful in Certain Areas but Does Not Provide Sufficient Information for Reporting on Our Nation's Longer-Term Fiscal Challenge. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08206.pdf
• A Call for Stewardship: Enhancing the Federal Government's Ability to Address Key Fiscal and Other 21st Century Challenges. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0893sp.pdf
• Coastal Wetlands: Lessons Learned from Past Efforts in Louisiana Could Help Guide Future Restoration and Protection. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08130.pdf
• Continuity of Operations: Selected Agencies Tested Various Capabilities during 2006 Governmentwide Exercise. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08185.pdf
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Systematic Assessment Is Needed to Determine Agencies' Progress toward U.S. Policy Objectives. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08188.pdf
  
• Department of Veterans Affairs: Actions Needed to Strengthen VA's Foreclosed Property Management Contractor Oversight. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0860.pdf
• DOD Travel Improper Payments: Fiscal Year 2006 Reporting Was Incomplete and Planned Improvement Efforts Face Challenges. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0816.pdf
• Economic Sanctions: Agencies Face Competing Priorities in Enforcing the U.S. Embargo on Cuba. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0880.pdf
• Force Structure: Better Management Controls Are Needed to Oversee the Army's Modular Force and Expansion Initiatives and Improve Accountability for Results. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08145.pdf
• Military Health Care: Cost Data Indicate That TRICARE Reserve Select Premiums Exceeded the Costs of Providing Program Benefits. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08104.pdf
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center: DHS Has Made Significant Progress Implementing Security Recommendations, but Several Recommendations Remain Open. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08306r.pdf
• Rebuilding Iraq: International Donor Pledges for Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08365r.pdf
• Veterans' Benefits: Improved Operational Controls and Management Data Would Enhance VBA's Disability Reevaluation Process. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0875.pdf

Henry L. Stimson Center

• Thai-U.S. Economic Partnership: Opportunities and Limitations. http://www.stimson.org/pub.cfm?id=487

Heritage Foundation

• The Omnibus: "Stealth" Security Provision is Unnecessary. http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/upload/wm_1753.pdf
• The Pentagon's Robots: Arming the Future. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2093.pdf
• Omnibus Eliminates Funding for the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program. http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/wm_1755.pdf

Human Rights Watch

• Crossing the Line: Georgia’s Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/georgia1207/georgia1207webwcover.pdf
  
• Destroying Legality: Pakistan’s Crackdown on Lawyers and Judges. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/pakistan1207/pakistan1207webwcover.pdf
• Shutting Out the Critics: Restrictive Laws Used to Repress Civil Society in Jordan. http://hrw.org/reports/2007/jordan1207/jordan1207webwcover.pdf

International Crisis Group

• Georgia: Sliding towards Authoritarianism? http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/189_georgia___sliding_towards_authoritarianism.pdf
• Inside Gaza: The Challenge of Clans and Families. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/arab_israeli_conflict/71_inside_gaza___the_challenge_of_clans_and_families.pdf
• Nepal: Peace Postponed. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/south_asia/b72_nepal___peace_postponed.pdf
• Peacebuilding in Haiti: Including Haitians from Abroad. http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/24_peacebuilding_in_haiti___including_haitians_from_abroad.pdf
• South Korea’s Election: What to Expect from President Lee. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5240&l=1

Jamestown Foundation

• The Al-Qaeda Triangle [streaming video of conference] http://www.jamestown.org/events_details.php?event_id=43
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh. http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373866
• China Brief Volume 7, Issue 23 (December 13, 2007) http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_007_023a.pdf
• China Exerts Administrative Control Over Disputed South China Sea Islets
• Iran’s Nuclear Act and U.S.-China Relations: The View from Beijing
• The Iranian Nuclear Question in U.S.-China Relations
• China’s Looming Financial Reform Challenges
• The Kuomintang’s Security Policy and Taiwan’s 2008 Legislative and Presidential Elections

• Terrorism Monitor Volume 5, Issue 24 (December 20, 2007) http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/TM_005_024.pdf
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabak
• hIs the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat?
• Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy
• Oil and Jihad in Central Africa: The Rise and Fall of Uganda’s ADF
• Reviving a Forgotten Threat: The PKK in Nagorno-Karabakh
• Is the “Politicization” of the Kurdish Struggle in Turkey a Security Threat?
• Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy
• Oil and Jihad in Central Africa: The Rise and Fall of Uganda’s ADF
  

Kaiser Family Foundation/Pew Global Health Survey

• A Global Look at Public Perceptions of Health Problems, Priorities, and Donors: The Kaiser/Pew Global Health Survey http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/7716.cfm
• REPORT -- http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7716.pdf

Lexington Institute

• Bush-Cheney Security Agenda Made Steady Progress in 2007. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1209.shtml

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency. http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/229/report_display.asp
• Report - http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Digital_Footprints.pdf
• Questionnaire - http://pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIAL_Dec06_Tracking_FINAL_Topline.pdf

Project for Excellence in Journalism

• The Portrait from Iraq - How the Press Has Covered Events on the Ground. http://journalism.org/files/Iraq%20Content_Web%20version.pdf

RAND

• Modernizing the Federal Government: Paying for Performance. http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2007/RAND_OP213.pdf
• Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: Year Three Evaluation Report. http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR535.pdf
• Year One report - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR333.pdf
• Year Two report - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/RAND_TR445.pdf
• Preparing Hospitals and Clinics for the Psychological Consequences of a Terrorist Incident or Other Public Health Emergency. http://www.ladhs.org/ems/disaster/trainingIndex.htm
• Preparing Los Angeles CountyDepartment of Mental Health Staff to Respond to Hospitals and Clinics Following Large-Scale Emergencies. http://www.ladhs.org/ems/disaster/trainingIndex.htm

Trust for America's Health

• Ready or Not?: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism 2007. http://healthyamericans.org/reports/bioterror07/BioTerrorReport2007.pdf

UN Human Development Programme

• Human Development Report 2007/2008. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf
• Previous reports. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/

Washington Institute for Near East Policy A Middle East

• Study Tour: Perspectives from Amman, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Tel Aviv. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2699
• A Middle East Study Tour: Perspectives from Turkey. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2698
• An 'All Elements of Power' Strategy for Combating Terrorism. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2697
• The European View on Iran: Fallout from the New U.S. Intelligence Estimate. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2696
• Aid to the Palestinians: The Role of Oil-Rich Arab States. http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2695