Friday's Miscellany 02-08-2008

American Enterprise Institute

• The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis
• Chicken Little Is Right: State of the U.S. military, and Its Equipment

Amnesty International

• Justice Failed in Kosovo
• Police Ill-Treatment Plagues Bosnia and Herzegovina

BASIC

• Iran Update, No. 113

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Lebanon’s Sunni Islamists: A Growing Force

CATO

• What to Do about Climate Change

Center for American Progress

• Issue Pulse: Waterboarding Is Torture
• The Surge Isn't Working: Pulse on Iraq

Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
Strategic Insights (v. 7, no. 1, February 2008)

• Energy Security: Current and Future Strategic Challenges
  * Introduction: Special Edition on Energy Security by Friedrich Steinhäusler, James A. Russell, and Daniel Moran
  * The Militarization of Energy Security by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell
  * Security of Energy: The Conflict after Next? by David W. Hamon and Arnold C. Dupuy
  * Energy Security or a New Globalization of Conflicts? Oil and Gas in Evolving New Power Structures by Uwe Nerlich
  * The Middle East: Petroleum Supply Security or Political Stability? by Naji Abi-Aad
  · Supply Chain and Infrastructure Security
  * Security Risks to the Oil and Gas Industry: Terrorist Capabilities by Friedrich Steinhäusler, P. Furthner, W. Heidegger, S. Rydell, and L. Zaitseva
  * Integrated Security Concept for the Oil and Gas Industry by P. Furthner and Friedrich Steinhäusler
  * Scenario Development in Oil and Gas Management: “Envisioning the Future” by Means of Analytical Techniques by James David Ballard and Fred C. Dilger
  * Severe Accidents in the Oil Chain with Emphasis on Oil Spills by Peter Burgherr and S. Hirschberg
  * A Guideline: Using or Creating Incident Databases for Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines by Achim Hilgenstock
  * Gas Analytical Technologies for Physical Protection of Oil and Gas Objects by Vladimir Gruznov and M. Baldin
  * Gas Analyzing System Based on Semiconductor Sensors for Providing Safety of Oil and Gas Pipeline Operations by O. Tolbanov, O. Anisimov, V. Sachkov, G. Sakovich, Alexander Vorozhtsov, N. Eisenreich, and M. Krausa
  * Inline Inspection from an Operator’s Point of View by Thomas Huwener
  * Remote Detection of Leaks in Gas Pipelines with an Airborne Raman Lidar by Sergey M. Bobrovnikov, Ilia B. Serikov, Yuri F. Arshinov, G. Sakovich, Alexander Vorozhtsov, and N. Eisenreich
  * Emergency Shut-Down Valve for Gas Pipelines by Alexander Vorozhtsov, V. Arkhipov, and I. Plekhanov
  Viewpoints: Emerging Resource Conflict Zones
  * Resource Wars: Energy, Resource Conflict, and the Emerging World Order with Michael T. Klare
  * Cold Front Rising: As Climate Change Thins Polar Ice, a New Race for Arctic Resources Begins by Barry Zellen
  * The United Nations Africa Union Mission in Darfur—UNAMID by Glen Segell

Center for Defense Information

• FY 09 Air Force Space Budget: Modest Increase
• Defense Monitor: Special Issue: The World At War

Center for Security Policy

• Russia Extends a Helping Hand to Chavez
• A Teaching Moment: Saudi Arabia Funded al Qaeda Outside

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)

• FY 2009 Request Would Bring DoD Budget to Record (or Near-Record) Levels

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• The CNGR Final Report: The Best Shot for a Stronger, Sustainable Reserve Component
• Integrating 21st Century Development and Security Assistance
• Managing the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Future
• Why Georgia's Election Matters
• U.S. Policy Options for Strengthening Coordination between Global HIV/AIDS and TB Programs

Committee on the Present Danger

• Cracks in Iran's Economic Façade

Council on Foreign Relations

• The French Military in Africa
• Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. Economy
• Leading Africa
• Pakistan’s New Generation of Terrorists
• Tellis: Pakistan’s Mixed Record on Anti-Terrorism
• Tensions Rise in Iraq’s Kurdish North

Department of the Interior Inspector General

• Assessment of the United States Park Police

Director of National Intelligence

• Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 5 February 2008.

EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• Is There an Albanian Question? [Chaillot Paper n°107]

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Bush, the Nudge-in-Chief

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Homeland Security: Preliminary Observations on the Federal Protective Service's Efforts to Protect Federal Property, by Mark L. Goldstein, director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
• Department of Homeland Security: Status and Accountability Challenges Associated with the Use of Special DHS Acquisition Authority, by John K. Needham, acting director, acquisition and sourcing management, before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology, House Committee on Homeland Security
• The Department of Defense's Civilian Human Capital Strategic Plan Does Not Meet Most Statutory Requirements
• Immigration Benefits: Internal Controls for Adjudicating Humanitarian Parole Cases Are Generally Effective, but Some Can Be Strengthened.
• "Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, on the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, in Chandler, Arizona.
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing," by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio.

Heritage Foundation

• Administration Makes Needed Reforms in the Arms Export Control Process
• The Commission on the National Guard and Reserves: Reforming the Reserve Component
• Northern Exposure: The Right Way to Address U.S.–Canadian Counterterrorism

Institute for Science and International Security

• ISIS Statement Regarding "A Shot in the Dark" in the February 11 Issue of the New Yorker, by Seymour Hersh
  ISIS Report on Iran: Iran Installing More Advanced Centrifuges at Natanz Pilot Enrichment Plant: Factsheet on the P-2/IR-2 Centrifuge

International Assistance and Strategy Center

• Bank Liability Under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Dispelling the ‘Routine Banking Services” Defense in Material Support Cases
• China's Emerging 5th Generation Air-to-Air Missiles

International Crisis Group

• Afghanistan: The Need for International Resolve
• Iraq’s Civil War, the Sadrists and the Surge

International Federation for Human Rights

• Surplus People? Undocumented and Other Vulnerable Migrants in South Africa

Lexington Institute

• Powering JSF: One Engine Is Enough
• 2009 Defense Budget: Key Patterns and Priorities

Project on Defense Alternatives

• Cul de Sac: 9/11 and the Paradox of American Power
• A Prisoner to Primacy: Dearth of New Thinking Regarding Security Policy

Project on National Security Reform

• Proceedings from a Conference on "Integrating Instruments of National Power in the New Security Environment

Rand

• Assessing the Impact of Revisions to the EU Horizontal Food Labelling Legislation
• Assessing the Impact of Revisions to the EU Nutrition Labelling Legislation
• Estimating the Benefits of the Air Force Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Initiative
• Guidelines and Metrics for Assessing Space System Cost Estimates
• Maintaining Military Medical Skills During Peacetime

Small Wars Journal

• COIN and Irregular Warfare in a Tribal Society

Stanley Foundation

• Arab Media and US Policy: A Public Diplomacy Reset
• Oil and Security
• Restructuring America's Ground Forces: Better, Not Bigger

Strategic Studies Institute

• Deterrence, Missile Defense, and Collateral Damage in the Iranian-Israeli Strategic Relationship
• Developing Strategic Leaders for the 21st Century

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• Afghanistan Opium Winter Rapid Assessment

United States Commission on Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People (HELP)

• HELP Commission website
• Final report - Beyond Assistance: The HELP Commission Report on Foreign Assistance Reform

USAF Chief of Staff

• “The Nation’s Guardians—21st Century Air Force” White Paper

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Egypt Working to Contain Gaza
• Winograd Part II: Implications for U.S.-Israeli Relations

Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control

• Iran Watch Roundtable: An Assessment of Europe's Leadership in Confronting the Iranian Nuclear Challenge