Friday's Miscellany 07-25-2008

American Enterprise Institute
· America and the War on Terror http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.22819/pub_detail.asp
· Possible Extension of the UN Mandate for Iraq: Options http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28373/pub_detail.asp
· Public Opinion on the War with Iraq http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.22142/pub_detail.asp
· What Does China's Growth Portend for Latin America? http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.28366/pub_detail.asp

BASIC
· Iran Update No. 122 - 24 July 2008 http://www.basicint.org/update/iran080724.htm

Brookings Institute
· Engaging the Muslim World: A Communication Strategy to Win the War of Ideas http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Projects/Opportunity08/PB_MuslimWorld_PSinger.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Party for Justice and Development in Morocco: Participation and Its Discontents http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cp93_hamzawy_pjd_final.pdf

Center for American Progress
· Relief from High Oil Prices: Testimony Before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/romm_spr_testimony.html
· Seeking Justice for Zimbabwe http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/07/pdf/enough_zimbabwe.pdf

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy http://www.cnas.org/attachments/contentmanagers/2788/SlaughterDaalderJentleson_StrategicLeadership_July08.pdf

Center for Security Policy
· Iran in Latin America [The Americas Report, v. 4, no. 30, July 24, 2008] http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/modules/newsmanager/center%20publication%20pdfs/the%20americas%20report%20july%2024,%202008.pdf

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Commentary: Afghanistan: The Problem is Far More than Troop Levels By Anthony H. Cordesman http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080724_cordesman_afghan.pdf
· Commentary: On Energy Independence By Frank Verrastro http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080723_verrastro_energy_independence.pdf
· Government Open Source Policies http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/0807218_government_opensource_policies.pdf
· NAFTA Revisited: How to Proceed http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080722_weintraub_commentary.pdf
· US Troop Levels And Iraqi Perceptions of the US http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080721_iraqi_perceptions_of_us.pdf
· US Troop Withdrawals from Iraq: How Ready are Iraqi Forces? http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080722_isf_report.pdf
· Western Investment in Central and Eastern Europe:
· Incentives, Constraints, Contexts http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080721_western_investment.pdf

Commission to Assess the Threat to United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
· Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack: Critical National Infrastructure. http://www.empcommission.org/docs/A2473-EMP_Commission-7MB.pdf
· Testimony before the House Armed Services Committee http://www.empcommission.org/docs/GRAHAMtestimony10JULY2008.pdf

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· CBO's Estimate of Cost of the Administration's Proposal to Authorize Federal Financial Assistance for the Government-Sponsored Enterprises for Housing http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9574&type=1
· Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology (testimony) http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9572&type=1

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Angola’s Political and Economic Development http://www.cfr.org/publication/16820/africas_oil_powerhouse.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy
· http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Climate_ChangeTF.pdf
· The Soft Power Surge http://www.cfr.org/publication/16828/soft_power_surge.html?breadcrumb=%2F
· Will Deal With Iran Be Worked Out? http://www.cfr.org/publication/16827/cutting_a_deal_with_iran.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Health and Human Services/Department of Homeland Security
· Guidance on Allocating and Targeting Influenza Vaccine http://www.pandemicflu.gov/vaccine/allocationguidance.pdf

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-08-48 - Challenges Remain In Executing the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Technology Program For Its Intelligence System http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_08-48_April08.pdf
· OIG-08-71 - Management of Department of Homeland Security International Activities and Interests http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_08-71_June08.pdf

Director of National Intelligence
· Vision 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence Enterprise http://www.dni.gov/Vision_2015.pdf

EastWest Institute
· Promoting Media Responsibility in Countering Violent Extremism http://www.iews.org/announcements/events/index.cfm?title=Events&view=detail&nid=321&aid=5651

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Agencies Believe Strengthening International Agreements to Improve Collection of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties Would Be Difficult and Ineffective http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08876r.pdf
· Aviation Security: Transportation Security Administration Has Strengthened Planning to Guide Investments in Key Aviation Security Programs http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081024t.pdf
· Cayman Islands: Business Advantages and Tax Minimization Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08779t.pdf
· Cayman Islands: Business and Tax Advantages Attract U.S. Persons and Enforcement Challenges Exist http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08778.pdf
· Cayman Islands: Review of Cayman Islands and U.S. Laws Applicable to U.S. Persons' Financial Activity in the Cayman Islands, (GAO-08-1028SP), an E-supplement http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081028sp.pdf
· Defense Infrastructure: Services' Use of Land Use Planning Authorities http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08850.pdf
· Developing Countries: U.S. Financing for Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative Currently Experiencing a Shortfall http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08888r.pdf
· Government Performance: 2007 Federal Managers Survey on Performance and Management Issues http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/gao-08-1036sp/
· Government Performance: Lessons Learned for the Next Administration on Using Performance Information to Improve Results http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081026t.pdf
· Highway Public-Private Partnerships: Securing Potential Benefits and Protecting the Public Interest Could Result from More Rigorous Up-front Analysis http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081052t.pdf
· Influenza Pandemic: Federal Agencies Should Continue to Assist States to Address Gaps in Pandemic Planning http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08539.pdf
· Information Sharing: Definition of the Results to Be Achieved in Terrorism-Related Information Sharing Is Needed to Guide Implementation and Assess Progress http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08637t.pdf
· Information Sharing Environment: Definition of the Results to Be Achieved in Improving Terrorism-Related Information Sharing Is Needed to Guide Implementation and Assess Progress http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08492.pdf
· Nuclear Material: DOE Needs to Take Action to Reduce Risks Before Processing Additional Nuclear Material at the Savannah River Site's H-Canyon http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08840.pdf
· Public Transportation: Improvements Are Needed to More Fully Assess Predicted Impacts of New Starts Projects http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08844.pdf
· Securing, Stabilizing, and Rebuilding Iraq: Progress Report: Some Gains Made, Updated Strategy Needed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081021t.pdf
· State Department: Comprehensive Strategy Needed to Improve Passport Operations http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08891.pdf

Heritage Foundation
· Economic Freedom as a Human Right http://www.heritage.org/Research/WorldwideFreedom/upload/hl_1094.pdf
· India Wins Big Bet on U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Deal http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/upload/wm_2002.pdf
· Mexico, Drug Cartels, and the Merida Initiative: A Fight We Cannot Afford to Lose http://www.heritage.org/Research/LatinAmerica/upload/bg_2163.pdf
· The Russia-Venezuela Axis: Using Energy for Geopolitical Advantage http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/wm_2000.pdf

Human Rights Watch
· Appeasing China: Restricting the Rights of Tibetans in Nepal http://hrw.org/reports/2008/tibetnepal0708/

International Crisis Watch
· Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words? http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5589&l=1
· Venezuela: Political Reform or Regime Demise? http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5583&l=1

International Relations and Security Network
· Argentina: A Crisis of Riches http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19213
· Britain Adrift http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19218
· Nigeria: Tension over Bakassi Peninsula http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19216
· Security and the Other Tri-border http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19228
· Serbia: Karadzic Capture Lifts EU Dreams http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19222

Jamestown Foundation
China Brief
Volume 8, Issue 15 (July 17, 2008) http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/cb_008_015.pdf
· "PLA Deploys S-300 PMU3/Dongfeng-15A Surface to Air Missiles"
· "Beijing Revives Mao's “People's Warfare” to Ensure Trouble Free Olympics"
· "The Evolution of Espionage: Beijing’s Red Spider Web"
· "Taiwan’s Defense Budget Dilemma: How Much is Enough in an Era of Improving Cross-Strait Relations?"
· "The New Rules of Cross-Strait Economic Engagement"
Terrorism Monitor
July 25, 2008 – Volume VI, Issue 15 http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/uploads/TM_006_015.pdf
· "The Pakistan Frontier Corps in the War on Terrorism – Part One"
· "Empowering “Soft” Taliban Over “Hard” Taliban: Pakistan’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy"
· "PKK Kidnappings an Isolated Initiative or a New European Strategy?"
· "The Global Repercussions of Nigeria’s Niger Delta Insurgency"

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
· Information Galaxy: Intelligence Study on Security and Defense –Case of Potential terrorism at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/Information%20Galaxy_Intelligence%20Study%20on%20Security%20and%20Defense.pdf

Middle East Institute (MEI)
· Affirming the Saudi Will to Power: Domestic Challenges to King ‘Abdullah http://www.mideasti.org/files/affirming-saudi-will-power-domestic-challenges-King-Abdullah.pdf
· Countering the Negative Image of Arab Women in the Arab Media: Toward a "Pan Arab Eye" Media Watch Project http://www.mideasti.org/files/countering-negative-image-arab-women-arab-media.pdf
· Water and Conflict in the Middle East http://www.mideasti.org/files/water-and-conflict-middle-east.pdf

Office of the Director of National Intelligence
· MOA between DOD CIO and ONDI CIO Establishing Net-Centric Software Licensing Agreements for Information Sharing Technologies. http://www.defenselink.mil/cio-nii/docs/Net-Centric-MOA.pdf

PARAMETERS US Army War College Quarterly
Summer 2008, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/08summer/contents.htm
· “Reflections on Leadership” by Robert Gates “Aligning “Soft” with “Hard” Power” by Henrietta Holsman Fore “Theory of Victory” by J. Boone Bartholomees
· “Waging Communication War” by Kenneth Payne “Making Revolutionary Change: Airpower in COIN Today” by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
· “Collaborative Strategic Planning and Action: A New Approach” by Fred T. Krawchuk
· “With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN” by Robert M. Chamberlain
· “Retiring Hitler and “Appeasement” from the National Security Debate” by Jeffrey Record
· “Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community’s Struggle to Find its Voice” by Josh Kerbel

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· The 2008 Pew Global Attitudes Survey in China: The Chinese Celebrate Their Roaring Economy, as They Struggle with its Costs Near Universal Optimism About Beijing Olympics http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=261

RAND
· Allocation of Forces, Fires, and Effects Using Genetic Algorithms http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2008/RAND_TR423.pdf
· Ensuring That Army Infrastructure Meets Strategic Needs http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/2008/RAND_DB547.pdf

T Boone Pickens Wind Plan
· Website http://www.pickensplan.com/
· Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee testimony Energy Security: An American Imperative http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Hearings.Detail&HearingID=53c9a5a6-4da4-4410-bcd8-1fba768c2f31
· Related DOE report – 20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy’s Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf

Transportation Research Board (TRB)
· The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr294.pdf
· Scanning the Home Front for Transportation’s Best Practices: Program Facilitates State Agency Exchange of Information, Technology http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews256scanhome.pdf

US Climate Change Science Program
· Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems – final Report of Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6 http://downloads.climatescience.gov/sap/sap4-6/sap4-6-final-all.pdf
· Main website http://www.climatescience.gov/

US Institute of Peace
· Iraq: Positive Change in the Detention System http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/iraq_detention.PDF
· Killing Friends, Making Enemies: The Impact and Avoidance of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan http://www.usip.org/pubs/usipeace_briefings/2008/afghanistan_casualties.PDF

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Can Lebanon's March 14 Reverse the Tide? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2916
· Confronting the Challenge of Iran: Comprehensive Solutions for a Comprehensive Threat http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC07.php?CID=410

World Security Institute
Arab Insights Quarterly Journal
v. 2, no. 2, Summer 2008
http://www.arabinsight.org/pdf/Arabinsight26.pdf
· "Emerging Financial & Economic Trends
· "Gulf Investments in the United States: Unwelcome Money"
· "Islamic Banking: Myths and Facts"
· "Egyptian Islamists and Nonviolence: Views from a Prison Cell"
· "China in the Middle East: Perspectives from the Arab World"
· "Arabs and the 2008 Election: Hopes and Predictions"