Friday's Miscellany 08-08-2008

American Enterprise Institute

· Beijing 2008: AEI Scholars on China and Its Olympic Moment. http://www.aei.org/research/contentID.20080729163935307/default.asp

· Iraq: Why We Are Winning. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28434/pub_detail.asp

· What Does China's Growth Portend for Latin America? http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28366/pub_detail.asp

· Legacy or Complacency? Lula's Unfinished Business in Brazil. http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.28435/pub_detail.asp

American Prospect

· A Glossary of Iraq Euphemisms http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_glossary_of_iraq_euphemisms

Asian Centre for Human Rights

· South Asia Human Rights Index 2008 http://www.achrweb.org/reports/SAARC-2008.pdf

BASIC

· Iran Update http://www.basicint.org/update/iran080807.htm

Brookings Institution

· Afghanistan Index - Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan http://www.brookings.edu/foreign-policy/afghanistan-index.aspx

· Crime in Latin America: Democracy Losing this Fight http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/0805_latin_america_casaszamora.aspx

· The Looming Crisis: Displacement and Security in Iraq http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/08_iraq_ferris/08_iraq_ferris.pdf

· Standing Down as Iraq Stands Up http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2008/09_iraq_ohanlon.aspx

· Surge in the Number of Iraqi Refugees: Causes and Implications http://www.brookings.edu/multimedia/video/2008/0703_iraq_refugees_koser.aspx?emc=lm&m=217424&l=21&v=658612

CACI International Inc (CACI) and the National Defense University (NDU)

· Dealing With Today’s Asymmetric Threat to U.S. and Global Security: The Need for an Integrated National Asymmetric Threat Strategy http://www.caci.com/announcement/CACI_Asymmetric_Threat_paper.pdf

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

· India - IAEA Reports http://www.carnegieendowment.org/static/npp/reports/gov2008-30.pdf

Center for American Progress

· Climate War Games http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/climate.html

· How to Deal with Jerusalem http://www.middleeastprogress.org/2008/08/how-to-deal-with-jerusalem/

Center for Security Policy

· Enola Gay: Dangerous Disarmers http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=141

· Taiwan Arms Freeze. http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/home.aspx?sid=140&categoryid=140&subcategoryid=142

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

· Issues & Insights Vol. 08 - No. 07 - August 5, 2008U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue: Next Generation Views of the U.S.-Japan Alliance http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n07.pdf

· Sadr and the Mahdi Army: Evolution, Capabilities, and a New Direction http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080804_jam.pdf

· Transnational Threats Update July 2008 - Vol. 6, No. 7 http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/ttu_0607.pdf

· U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue: Next Generation Views of the U.S.-Japan Alliance. http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/issuesinsights_v08n07.pdf

· US Casualties: The Trends in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/080808_war_casualties.pdf

Council on Foreign Relations

· Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) http://www.cfr.org/publication/12717/alqaeda_in_the_islamic_maghreb_aqim_or_lorganisation_alqada_au_maghreb_islamique_formerly_salafist_group_for_preaching_and_combat_or_groupe_salafiste_pour_la_prdication_et_le_combat.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

· Avoiding Transfers to Torture http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Assurances_CSR35.pdf

· China’s Environmental Crisis http://www.cfr.org/publication/12608/chinas_environmental_crisis.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fbackgrounder

· Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Climate_ChangeTF.pdf

· Eritrea's Border Troubles http://www.cfr.org/publication/16884/eritreas_border_troubles.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fdaily_analysis

· Food Price Inflation: Explanation and Policy Implications http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CGS_WorkingPaper_3.pdf

· Gaming the China Model http://www.cfr.org/publication/16912/gaming_the_china_model.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Fdaily_analysis

· Securing Pakistan's Tribal Belt http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Pakistan_CSR36.pdf

· Trade Liberalization: Cordell Hull and the Case for Optimism http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CGS_WorkingPaper_4.pdf

· Trouble on the Ballot in Iraq http://www.cfr.org/publication/16895/trouble_on_the_ballot_in_iraq.html?breadcrumb=%2F

Department of Defense

· Tenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation

o V. 2 - http://www.defenselink.mil/news/QRMCreport.pdf

o V. 1 - http://www.defenselink.mil/prhome/docs/Tenth_QRMC_Feb2008_Vol%20I.pdf

Department of Defense Inspector General

§ D-2008-115 Status of Training Vehicles for U.S. Ground Forces Deploying in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom http://www.dodig.mil/Audit/reports/fy08/08-115.pdf

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

• OIG-08-81 - Hurricane Katrina Multitier Contracts http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_08-81_Jul08.pdf
• OIG-08-80 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Management of 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes Mission Assignment Funding http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_08-80_Jul08.pdf

Foreign Policy Research Institute

§ The History and Future of Suicide Terrorism http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200808.horowitz.suicideterrorism.html

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

§ Amerithrax (Anthrax) Court Documents http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/

Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior

§ Afghanistan, the Limits of Counter-Insurgency and the Prospects for Negotiations http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/documents/FRIDE_Afghanistan_limitsofcounterinsurgency.pdf

Government Accountability Office

§ DOD Business Transformation: Air Force's Current Approach Increases Risk That Asset Visibility Goals and Transformation Priorities Will Not Be Achieved http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08866.pdf

§ DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Navy Programs' Compliance with DOD's Federated Business Enterprise Architecture Needs to Be Adequately Demonstrated http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08972.pdf

§ Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d081031.pdf

Heritage Foundation

§ Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Passing of a Titan http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/upload/wm_2010.pdf

§ Don't Let the Good Die Young: Strengthening Homeland Security's Policy Office http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/upload/wm_2012.pdf

§ The Turkish Constitutional Crisis: Resolved—for Now http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/upload/wm_2013.pdf

Institute for National Security Studies

§ Israel and a Nuclear Iran: Implications for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Defense http://www.inss.org.il/upload/(FILE)1216203568.pdf

Institute for Security Studies

§ Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa: A Need for a New Continental Approach http://www.issafrica.org/index.php?link_id=3&slink_id=6413&link_type=12&slink_type=12&tmpl_id=3

§ Peace in the Kivu's? An analysis of the Nairobi and Goma Agreements http://www.issafrica.org/dynamic/administration/file_manager/file_links/SITREPDRC310708.PDF?link_id=3&slink_id=6411&link_type=12&slink_type=13&tmpl_id=3

International Relations and Security Network

§ Assessing Stability in Syria http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19281

§ The History, Future of Suicide Terrorism http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=19277

§ Indian Presence Essential in Afghanistan http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19271

§ The Olympic Countdown: Beijing to Shanghai http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19276

§ Sarkozy's New Priorities http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19266

§ Uzbekistan: Losing Control http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19272

Jamestown Foundation

§ Terrorism Focus - August 5, 2008 – Volume 5, Issue 29 http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?issue_id=4581

o Lebanese Jihadis Accuse Sunni Shaykhs of Acting as Agents for Shiite Hezbollah

o Restructuring al-Qaeda’s Algerian Insurgency

o India’s Security Agencies Struggle with Probe into Serial Bombings in Gujarat and Karnataka

o Istanbul Bombings Suggest PKK Insurgency May Be Entering a More Ruthless Phase

Lexington Institute

§ Rapid, Reliable Warning is the Key to Homeland Biodefense http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1304.shtml

§ Low-Cost Solution to Missile Defense has Many Advantages http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1302.shtml

Lowy Institute for International Policy

§ Foreign Investment in Australia and China http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=855

§ Hizbullah: Walking the Lebanese Tightrope http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=854

§ So what? Matching policy to Australian interests in West Asiahttp://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=863

National Defense University

§ The Need for an Integrated National Asymmetric Threat Strategy http://www.caci.com/announcement/CACI_Asymmetric_Threat_paper.pdf

§ Choosing War: The Decision to Invade Iraq and Its Aftermath http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.pdf

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

§ Trafficking in Persons Especially on Women and Children in Nepalhttp://www.humansecuritygateway.info/documents/NHRCNepal_traffickinginpersons2006-07.pdf

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

§ Human Rights, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, Fact Sheet No. 32 http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet32EN.pdf

Pew Global Attitudes Project

§ An Enthusiastic China Welcomes the Olympics http://pewresearch.org/pubs/918/china-olympics

Pew Internet & American Life Project

§ Search Soars, Challenging Email as a Favorite Internet Activity http://pewresearch.org/pubs/921/internet-search

Proteus [Army War College]

§ Iran-Syria-Hizballah-Hamas: A Coalition Against Nature, Why Does it Work? by Dr. Ely Karmon, Volume 1, Issue 5, May 2008. http://www.carlisle.army.mil/proteus/docs/karmon-iran-syria-hizbollah.pdf

RAND

§ Future U.S. Security Relationships with Iraq and Afghanistan: U.S. Air Force Roles http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG681.pdf

Refugees International

§ Colombia: Forced Internal Displacement Overwhelming Capacity to Respond http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/10791/

§ Northern Uganda: International Support for Sudanese Refugees Still Required http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/10810/

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

§ Why Have We Not Been Attacked Again? Competing and Complementary Hypotheses for Homeland Attack Frequency http://www.heritage.org/Research/Features/NationalSecurity/upload/WeHaveNotBeenAttackedAgain.pdf

Strategic Studies Institute

§ China-Russia Security Relations: Strategic Parallelism without Partnership or Passion? http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB868.pdf

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

§ Increasing Pressure on Iranian Opposition in Iraq http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2919

§ Coping with the Challenge of Iran http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2918

§ The Future of the Iraqi Kurds http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubPDFs/PolicyFocus85.pdf

World Health Organization

§ Preventing Violence and Reducing Its Impact: How Development Agencies can Help http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241596589_eng.pdf