Friday's Miscellany 03-28-2008

American Enterprise Institute

· Economic Integration and Incipient Democracy http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27707/pub_detail.asp

· What France Does Best at Counterterrorism http://american.com/archive/2008/march-april-magazine-contents/what-france-does-best

Amnesty International

· Carnage and Despair in Iraq http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/carnage-and-despair-iraq-20080317

BASIC

· Iran Update, No. 115 http://www.basicint.org/update/iran080326.htm

Brookings Institution

· In Battling Terrorism, the French Excel http://www.brookings.edu/interviews/2008/0325_terrorism_shapiro.aspx

· Iraq and Vietnam – Differences and Similarities http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0321_iraq_vietnam_nessen.aspx

· Shaping Lebanon's Future http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2008/0319_lebanon_saab.aspx

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

· Breaking the Suicide Pact: U.S.–China Cooperation on Climate Change http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/pb57_chandler_final.pdf

CATO

· The Grass Is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-613.pdf

Center for a New American Security

· The Case for Conditional Engagement in Iraq http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/1888/CNAS%20Memo%20Conditional%20Engagement%20Iraq%20Mar%202008.pdf

· Sustainable Security: Developing a Security Strategy for the Long Haul http://www.cnas.org/en/cms/?1924

Center for Security Policy

· Disarmed in the War of Ideas http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141

· Chavez's early ties with the FARC and ELN http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

· A Cooperative Strategy for the 21st Century Seapower http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publications/PubLibrary/B.20080326.A_Cooperative_Stra/B.20080326.A_Cooperative_Stra.pdf

Center for Strategic and International Studies

· Invigorating Defense Governance: A Beyond Goldwater-Nichols Phase 4 Report http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080311-hicks-invigoratingdef4web.pdf

· The Iraq War After Five Years: The Surge, Current Status, and Military Lessons http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080317_5_year_iraq_war_final.pdf

· Overcoming Extremism Conference Report http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080321_overcomingextremismconfreport.pdf

· The Role of Airpower in the Iraq and Afghan Wars http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080318_afgh-iraqairbrief.pdf

· Security Challenges and Threats in the Gulf: A Net Assessment http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080324_gulfthreatanalysis.new.pdf

· A Steep Hill: Congress and U.S. Efforts to Strengthen Fragile States http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080320-barton-steephill.pdf

Combat Studies Institute

· We Were Caught Unprepared: The 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli War http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/RandP/CSIpubs.asp#LongWar

CTC Sentinel

March 2008, v. 1, no. 4 http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/CTCSentinel-Vol1Iss4.pdf

· Jihad After Iraq: Lessons from the Arab Afghans Phenomenon By Mohammed M. Hafez

· Combating Terrorist Financing at the Agency and Interagency Levels By Dennis Lormel

· Lessons Learned from the September 2007 German Terrorist Plot By Petter Nesser

· Mapping the Factional Structure of the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq By Michael Gabbay

· Jihadists Target the American Dream By Brian Fishman

· The Growth of Militant Islamist Micro-Diaspora Communities: Observations from Spain By Kathryn Haahr

· Drawing the Right Lessons from Israel's War with Hizb Allah By Andrew Exum

· Guest Commentary: Benazir Bhutto's Doomed Return to Pakistan By James R. Ellis, Lt. Gen. U.S. Army (Ret.)

EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)

· Policy Brief, no. 1 - Missile Defence in Europe: The Political and Security Dimensions http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/policyBrief_001.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute

· The Revolution Will be Brought to You by Text Messaging http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200803.jones.revolutiontextmessaging.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

· Defense Contracting: Army Case Study Delineates Concerns with Use of Contractors as Contract Specialists http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08360.pdf

· Defense Space Activities: National Security Space Strategy Needed to Guide Future DOD Space Efforts http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08431r.pdf

· DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Related to the Quality and Timeliness of Clearances http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08580r.pdf

Heritage Foundation

· The Bucharest NATO Summit: Washington and London Must Not Give in to French Demands. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/upload/wm_1863.pdf

· U.S. Africa Command: Challenges and Opportunities http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/bg_2118.pdf

· Iraq Five Years On: The Coalition Is Winning the War Against Al-Qaeda http://www.heritage.org/Research/Iraq/upload/wm_1860.pdf

· Public Diplomacy: Reinvigorating America's Strategic Communications Policy http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/upload/hl_1065.pdf

Human Rights Watch

· Adults Before Their Time: Children in Saudi Arabia’s Criminal Justice System http://hrw.org/reports/2008/saudicrd0308/saudicrd0308webwcover.pdf

· All Over Again: Human Rights Abuses and Flawed Electoral Conditions in Zimbabwe’s Coming General Elections http://hrw.org/reports/2008/zimbabwe0308/zimbabwe0308web.pdf

· Ballots to Bullets: Organized Political Violence and Kenya's Crisis of Governance http://hrw.org/reports/2008/kenya0308/kenya0308webwcover.pdf

· Precarious Justice: Arbitrary Detention and Unfair Trials in the Deficient Criminal Justice System of Saudi Arabia. http://hrw.org/reports/2008/saudijustice0308/saudijustice0308webwcover.pdf

International Crisis Group

· Azerbaijan: Independent Islam and the State http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5351&l=1

· Kosovo's First Month http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/europe/balkans/b47_kosovo_first_month.pdf

· Ruling Palestine I: Gaza Under Hamas http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/arab_israeli_conflict/73_ruling_palestine_gaza_under_hamas.pdf

Lexington Institute

· Containing Iran: A Role for America's Navy http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1244.shtml

Oxfam International

· Falling Short: Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/ACBAR_aid_effectiveness_paper_0803.pdf/download

RAND

· Brain Korea 21 Phase II: A New Evaluation Model [English] http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG711.pdf

· Brain Korea 21 Phase II: A New Evaluation Model [Korean] http://rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG711.1.pdf

· The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery: Options for Future Research http://rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2008/RAND_OP183.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

· Building for the Future: China's Progress in Space Technology during the Tenth 5-Year Plan and the U.S. Response http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB852.pdf

· Projecting Pyongyang: The Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il Regime http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB844.pdf

· Security Sector Reform in Liberia: Mixed Results from Humble Beginnings http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB855.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

· The Damascus Arab Summit: Arab Divisions Ensure Modest Achievements http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2736

· The Hamas Dilemma: A Debate on Alternative Strategies http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2735

· Kuwait's New Political Crisis: Can Democracy Trump Sectarianism? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2734

· Small Island, Big Issues: Bahrain's King Visits Washington http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2733

· The Gaza Challenge. Washington Institute for Near East Policy http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2732

· Will the Turkish Constitutional Court Ban the AKP? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2731