Friday's Miscellany 01-18-2008

ACLU

• Pandemic Preparedness: The Need for a Public Health-Not a Law Enforcement/National Security-Approach

Amnesty International

• Campaigning to End Stoning in Iran
• Religious Minority Faces Discrimination in Armenia

Atlantic Council of the United States

• U.S.–Turkey Relations Require New Focus on Energy Security, Middle East, and Fighting Terrorism

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray into Political Integration or Retreat into Old Positions?

CATO

• Cracks in the Foundation: NATO's New Troubles

Center for American Progress

• After the Surge: U.S. Army Chief of Staff Casey Is Right to Be Worried

Center for Security Policy

• Globaloney
• Argentina's Kirchner - An Ally of Chavez

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Iran and the US: Key Issues from an American Perspective
• Comparative Connections v.9 n.4 - A Quarterly E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations
  
• Smart Power Speaker Series with Henry Crumpton

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

• Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records
• CTC Sentinel

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• A Comparison of Science and Technology Funding for DOD's Space and Nonspace Programs
• Effects of Gasoline Prices on Driving Behavior and Vehicle Markets
• The Health Care System for Veterans: An Interim Report
• Unauthorized Appropriations and Expiring Authorizations

Florida Statewide Grand Jury

• First Interim Report of the Statewide Grand Jury. Criminal Gangs and Gang Related Violence

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• America’s "Long War(s)"
• Policy Disruption by NIE

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Chemical Demilitarization: Additional Management Actions Needed to Meet Key Performance Goals of DOD's Chemical Demilitarization Program
• Energy Markets: Increasing Globalization of Petroleum Products Markets, Tightening Refining Demand and Supply Balance, and Other Trends Have Implications for U.S. Energy Supply, Prices, and Price Volatility
• Iran Sanctions: Impact in Furthering U.S. Objectives Is Unclear and Should Be Reviewed
• Iraq Reconstruction: Better Data Needed to Assess Iraq's Budget Execution

Heritage Foundation

• Nicaragua's President Ortega: The Balancing Act After One Year
• The Iran National Intelligence Estimate: A Comprehensive Guide to What Is Wrong with the NIE
• Advancing Freedom in Burma
• Don't Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, But Tap Elsewhere

Human Rights First

• Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity

Human Rights Watch

• Burma’s Gem Trade and Human Rights Abuses
• Crackdown in Burma: Targeted Sanctions Needed: Business-Related Recommendations on Burma

Indiana State University. Dept. of Criminology.

• Terrorist Recruitment in American Correctional Institutions: An Exploratory Study of Non-Traditional Faith Groups. Final Report

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

• ISIS Imagery Brief: New Construction at Syrian Site

International Crisis Group

• "A Seat at the Table: The Role of Displaced Persons in Peace Talks and Peacebuilding" Presentation by Donald Steinberg, Vice-President, International Crisis Group, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington DC, 14 December 2007.
• Timor-Leste: Security Sector Reform

Lexington Institute

• Deal of the Century: Who Will Win the Tanker Competition?

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)

• To Our Great Detriment: Ignoring What Extremists Say About Jihad

Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)

• Trends in Naturalization Rates

Rand

• Estimating the Cost of Administering the Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
• Maintaining Military Medical Skills During Peacetime Outlining and Assessing a New Approach
  
• Towards a Dutch Interoperability Framework: Recommendations to the Forum Standaardisatie
  
• U.S.-Pakistan Relations: Assassination, Instability, and the Future of U.S. Policy. Testimony

Strategic Studies Institute

• A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil
• Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

USAF Counterproliferation Center (CPC)

• Our Backyard: Posse Comitatus and the Challenge of Government Reorganization

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Apocalyptic Politics: On the Rationality of Iranian Policy
• Bush's Middle East Trip: The President Embraces Rice's Approach
  
• Prosecuting Terrorism beyond 'Material Support'
• Presidential Politics: Republican and Democratic Views on Middle East Policy