Friday's Miscellany 02-22-2008

American Enterprise Institute

• Iran's Parliamentary Elections and the Revolutionary Guards' Creeping Coup d'Etat
• Iranian Influence in the Levant, Iraq, and Afghanistan
  

American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Nuclear Forensics: Role, State of the Art, Program Needs
  

BASIC

• Iran Update, No. 114
  

Brookings

• The Cuban Economy After Castro
• Testing the "Israel Lobby" Thesis
• What Does Fidel Castro's Retirement Mean for Cuba?
  

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Nuclear Renaissance and Non-Proliferation
  

Center for a New American Security

• CNAS-Foreign Policy Magazine: U.S. Military Index
  
• Strengthening the Readiness of the U.S. Military
  

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

• Study Finds U.S. Intelligence Community Confidence in Iran's Chemical Weapons Capability has Diminished Steadily Since 2003
  

Center for Security Policy

• Garcia's Two Terms
• "John Doe" Telecoms
• Mugniyeh's True Legacy
• The Ethics of "Exporting" Education
  

Center for Security Studies

• ESDP After Lisbon: More Coherent and Capable?
  
• Russian Analytical Digest No. 35 -- Russia's Health and Demographic Situation

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• President Bush’s Africa Trip
  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Public Health Preparedness: Mobilizing State by State
  

Committee on the Present Danger

• Senator Lieberman on Iran
  

Congressional Budget Office

• The Deductibility of State and Local Taxes
  

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

• The North African Regimes are a Security Problem for Themselves, for the EU and for The US: Violence, Depolitisation and Islamisation Characterise North African Societies
  
• Shia-Islamist Political Actors in Iraq
  

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

• Data Mining Report to Congress
  

EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

• US Policy on Iraq: Past, Present and Future
  

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

• Kenya Update
  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Bank Secrecy Act: Increased Use of Exemption Provisions Could Reduce Currency Transaction Reporting While Maintaining Usefulness to Law Enforcement Efforts
• Bank Secrecy Act: Surveys of Financial Institutions and CTR Users
• Disaster Cost Estimates: FEMA Can Improve Its Learning from Past Experience and Management of Disaster-Related Resources
• Embassy Security: Upgrades Have Enhanced Security, but Site Conditions Prevent Full Adherence to Standards
• Information Security: Protecting Personally Identifiable Information
• Military Personnel: The DOD and Coast Guard Academies Have Taken Steps to Address Incidents of Sexual Harassment and Assault, but Greater Federal Oversight Is Needed
  

Heritage Foundation

• Big Labor Can't Handle the Truth About Colombia
• Cuba's Phony Transition: Fidel Resigns, Raul Reigns
• Providing for the Common Defense: What 10 Years of Progress Would Look Like
• President Bush's Trip to Africa: Solidifying U.S. Partnerships with the Region
• The West Must Back Full Independence for Kosovo
  

Human Rights Watch

• Flooding South Lebanon: Israel’s Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006
• On the Margins of Profit: Rights at Risk in the Global Economy
• Russia: Choking on Bureaucracy: State Curbs on Independent Civil Society Activism
  

Information Sharing Environment (ISE)

• ISE Key Issues Guidance
  

International Crisis Group

• Kenya in Crisis
• Sri Lanka's Return to War: Limiting the Damage

ISN Security Watch

• Armenia: Sarkisian Poll Triumph Challenged
• Chad: Between Sudan's Blitzkrieg, Darfur's War
• The Global Kidney Bazaar
• The Internet's Vulnerability
• Kosovo Declares Independence
  
• Pakistan and Violence
• Pakistan's Surprise Elections
• Technology and the Fog of War
• A View of the Cuban Revolution
  

Jamestown Foundation

• "New Quality" in Jihadi Threats
  

Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)

• JIEDDO FY 2007 Annual Report

Lexington Institute

• Army Fiscal Pressures Encourage Huge Depot to Innovate
• Our Failed, Punitive Policy
  

National Security Archive

• Southern Cone Rendition Program: Peru's Participation: Operation Condor Crimes Focus of Italian Indictments

Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS)

• Estimates of the Legal Permanent Resident Population in 2006
  

Pew Global Attitudes Project

• Global Views on Castro and Cuba
  

Rand

• Education and the Asian Surge: A Comparison of the Education Systems in India and China
  

Strategic Studies Institute

• Dissent and Strategic Leadership of the Military Professions

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

• Headscarf Dilemma: Implications for Turkey and the United States
• Iran's Parliamentary Elections: Assured Victory for the Supreme Leader