Friday's Miscellany 1-23-2009

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Climate Change and Energy Security: Lessons Learned
· Religion and Public Policy: A German-American Comparison
· U.S. and European Banks: Two Sides of the Same Story?

Brookings Institution
· $25/Barrel Oil? Coming Up!
· A Case Study of Aid Effectiveness in Kenya: Volatility and Fragmentation of Foreign Aid, with a Focus on Health
· Does Openness To International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
· Europe, the United States, and Middle Eastern Democracy: Repairing the Breach
· Measuring the Cost of the TARP
· The Obama Orders: A Quick and Dirty Analysis
· President Obama's Plan to Close Guantánamo

Bureau of Justice Statistics
· Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2007-08

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· Setting the Stage for the Obama Administration: The Players, the Program, and the Opportunities for Canada

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· China’s Fourth Quarter 2008 Statistical Record: Q&A Session
· Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities
· Pointers for the Obama Administration in the Middle East: Avoiding Myths and Vain Hopes

Center for American Progress
· After Midnight: The Bush Legacy of Deregulation and What Obama Can Do
· Interactive Map: Recovery Beyond the Beltway: The Nationwide Allocation of $541 Billion · How to Close Guantánamo
· An Iraqi Refugee Story [video]
· Let's Get it Started: What President-Elect Obama Can Learn from Previous Administrations in Making Political Appointments
· Presidential Appointments by the Numbers

Center for New American Security (CNAS)
· Tell Me Why We’re There? Enduring Interests in Afghanistan (and Pakistan)

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Bolivia's Constitutional Vote: Implications for the Future
· A Cabinet-level Development Agency: Right Problem, Wrong Solution
· DIIG Current Issues No.4: European Defense Spending Outlook, 2009
· Enhancing Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations: A Report of the Global Dialogue Between the European Union and the United States
· Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: Strategic and Warfighting Implications of a Nuclear Armed Iran

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
· Civilian Surge: Key to Complex Operations

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
· Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening CDC’s Emergency Response

Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center
CBRNIAC Newsletter, 2008, v. 9, no. 4.
· Homeland Defense / Civil Support Capabilities-Based Assessment Overview
· CDTF Provides Realistic Training for 93rd CST
· MRICD Scientist Retires After 58 Years of Service
· Exercise Readies First Units for NORTHCOM Assignment
· MRICD Scientist Appointed Editor of New Journal
· Force Health Protection & Readiness Launches CB Warfare Exposures Web Site
· U.S. Northern Command Gains Dedicated Response force
· Umatilla Completes VX Artillery Projectile Disposal Campaign
· History of Army Chemical and Biological Decontamination – Part II

Combating Terrorism Center
CTC Sentinel, January 2009, v. 2, no. 1
· “Al Qa`ida’s Five Aspects of Power” by The Combating Terrorism Center
· “A Case Study of the January 2008 Suicide Bomb Plot in Barcelona” by Fernando Reinares
· “A Holistic Critique of Singapore’s Counter-Ideological Program” by Kumar Ramakrishna
· “Shifting Trends in Suicide Attacks” by Assaf Moghadam
· “The Future of Moqtada al-Sadr’s New Jaysh al-Mahdi” by Babak Rahimi
· “Reconsidering the Role of Militias in Iraq” by Major James J. Smith, U.S. Army
· “The Pakistan Army and its Role in FATA” by Shuja Nawaz
· “Iraq’s Border Security: Key to an Iraqi Endstate” by Lieutenant Colonel Steven Oluic, U.S. Army

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Inevitable' that U.S. Will Have to Deal with Hamas
· Obama May Face 'Rebuff' from Europe on Military Step-Up in Afghanistan
· President Obama and the World
· Russian-American Relations Symposium: Session Three: The Future of Russian-American Relations (Video)
· Searching for an Afghan Strategy

Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff
· Capstone Concept for Joint Operations" [ver. 3.0 19 January 2009]

Department of Energy Electricity Advisory Committee
· Bottling Electricity: Storage as a Strategic Tool for Managing Variability and Capacity Concerns in the Modern Grid
· Keeping the Lights on in a New World
· Smart Grid: Enabler of the new Energy Economy

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
· Action Directives [critical infrastructure protection; risk analysis; state and local intelligence sharing; transportation security; and state, local, and tribal integration]
· Action Directives on Cyber Security and Northern Border Strategy

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)
· INAUGURAL SECURITY: Behind the Scenes
o Story
o Video

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Bankruptcy: Judiciary Should Take Further Steps to Make Bankruptcy Data More Accessible GAO-09-28
· Federal User Fees: Additional Analyses and Timely Reviews Could Improve Immigration and Naturalization User Fee Design and USCIS Operations GAO-09-180
· Financial Regulation: A Framework for Crafting and Assessing Proposals to Modernize the Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System GAO-09-314T
· High-Risk Series: An Update GAO-09-271
· Immigration Application Fees: Costing Methodology Improvements Would Provide More Reliable Basis for Setting Fees GAO-09-70
· Natural Hazard Mitigation and Insurance: The United States and Selected Countries Have Similar Natural Hazard Mitigation Policies but Different Insurance Approaches GAO-09-188R · Real Property: Infrastructure Investment Presents Opportunities to Address Long-standing Real Property Backlogs and Reduce Energy Consumption GAO-09-324T
· VA Health Care: Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement GAO-09-145

Heritage Foundation
· Can the ILO Be Saved from Itself?
· Holding Terrorists Accountable: A Lawful Detainment Framework for the Long War
· President Obama's Inaugural Speech: Tough Road Ahead for U.S. Foreign Policy
· Time for a New International Game Plan
· The Truth About China's Growth

Human Rights Watch
· Crisis Without Limits: Human Rights and Humanitarian Consequences of Political Repression in Zimbabwe
· On the Margins: Rights Abuses of Ethnic Khmer in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
· Up in Flames: Humanitarian Law Violations and Civilian Victims in the Conflict over South Ossetia
· Will Lobbyists Turn the Stimulus Package Into a Festival of Fiscal Greed?

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Nuclear Iran: Not Inevitable

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· Kenya – A Year after the Crisis: The Quest for Electoral Reform and Transitional Justice

International Crisis Group
· Local Election Disputes in Indonesia: The Case of North Maluku

International Relations and Security Network
· Chavez's Year of Reckoning
· Costs of War: The Security Blanket
· Gas Game: Losers All Around
· Rioting Eastern Europe
· Russia: Xenophobia on the Rise
· Turkey: Coup Investigation Raises Tensions

Investigative Project on Terrorism
· Terrorism Financing Roots and Trends of Saudi Terrorism Financing

Jamestown Foundation
China Brief, January 22, 2009 Volume 9 Issue 2
· CCP Provincial Committees' Reports Highlight Growing Wealth and Urban-Rural Inequality
· Chinese State Media Goes Global: A Great Leap Outward for Chinese Soft Power?
· Commodity Flux and China’s Africa Strategy
· Recent Trends in Russo-Chinese Military Relations
· New Advances in PLA Battlefield Aerospace and ISR
Terrorism Focus January 23, 2009 Volume 7 Issue 2
· UK Trial Exposes al-Qaeda Terrorist Network with Connections to Pakistan
· Turkey Addresses PKK Challenge after Iraq Reaches Status of Forces Agreement with United States
· Colombia’s FARC and the Basque ETA: Exploring the Tactical and Economic Partnership
· Upcoming Changes to the Drug-Insurgency Nexus in Afghanistan

Lexington Institute
· Climate-Change Initiatives Must Be Affordable
· Navy Needs to Stick with Its Unmanned Combat Aircraft

National Defense University
· Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) 1st Quarter 2009, no. 52
o An Interview with General George W. Casey By David H. Gurney
o Let’s Win the Wars We’re In By John A. Nagl
o Let’s Build an Army to Win All Wars By Gian P. Gentile
o Hybrid Warfare and Challenges By Frank G. Hoffman
o Systems versus Classical Approach to Warfare By Milan N. Vego
o Mobile Nuclear Power for Future Land Combat By Marvin Baker Schaffer and Ike Chang
o Teaching Strategy in the 21st Century By Gabriel Marcella and Stephen O. Fought
o “Military-Political” Relations: The Need for Officer Education By Derek S. Reveron and Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris
o A Strategic Asset for Engagement: Enhancing the Role of National Defense University By Keith D. Dickson
o Irregular Warfare Lessons Learned: Reforming the Afghan National Police By Lewis G. Irwin
o Effects-based Operations: Combat Proven By Paul M. Carpenter and William F. Andrews
o EBO: There Was No Baby in the Bathwater By Paul K. Van Riper
o Victory—From the Prism of Jihadi Culture By Jeffrey B. Cozzens
o Death of the Combatant Command? Toward a Joint Interagency Approach By Jeffrey Buchanan, Maxie Y. Davis, and Lee T. Wight
o Irregular Warfare Is Warfare By Kenneth C. Coons, Jr., and Glenn M. Harned
o Wired for War? Robots and Military Doctrine By P.W. Singer
o Chinese Disaster Relief Operations: Identifying Critical Capability Gaps By Nirav Patel
o China-Africa Relations in the 21st Century By Jennifer L. Parenti
o Shoulder to Shoulder: The Marine Corps and Air Force in Combat By Daniel J. Darnell and George J. Trautman III
o Inside the Detention Camps: A New Campaign in Iraq By Mason Brooks and Drew Miller
o "Operationalizing” Legal Requirements for Unconventional Warfare By James P. Terry
o Reconstructing Iraq’s Provinces, One by One By Henry L. Clarke
o Why USAFRICOM? By Edward Marks
o U.S. Africa Command: Value Added By Mary C. Yates
· From Sputnik to Minerva: Education and American National Security
· Meeting Complex Challenges Through National Security Reform

National Priorities Project (NPP)
· Military Recruitment 2008: Significant Gap in Army's Quality and Quantity Goals

National Security Archive
· Cuba and the U.S.: Road Map on Efforts to Improve Relations Revealed in Declassified Documents
· President Obama Embraces Openness on Day One
· U.S. Nuclear Detection and Counterterrorism, 1998-2009

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Did Reagan Rule In Vain? A Closer Look at True Expenditure Levels in the United States and Europe
· Structuring a Green Recovery: Evaluating Policy Options for an Economic Stimulus Package

RAND
· Foundation for Integrating Employee Health Activities for Active Duty Personnel in the Department of Defense
· Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati
· Unfolding the Future of the Long War: Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army

Stanley Foundation
· The Responsibility to Protect and Foreign Policy in the Next Administration

Task Force on New Americans
· Building an Americanization Movement for the Twenty-First Century

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
· Public Oversight of the Security Sector: A Handbook for Civil Society Organizations

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh's Iraq-based Formula for Regional Cooperation
· Islamic Peacemaking Since 9/11
· Recruitment of Rule of Law Specialists for the Civilian Response Corps

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· The Iran-al-Qaeda Conundrum
· Jordan's Intelligence Chief Sacked: New Policy Toward Hamas?
· Saudi Leadership Crisis Looms: Health of Crown Prince Falters

White House
· Bush White House Archives
· Agenda - all issues
· Agenda - American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
· Agenda - Defense
· Agenda - Energy and the Environment
· Agenda - Homeland Security
· Executive Order -- Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
· Executive Order -- Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
· Executive Order -- Review of Detention Policy Options
· Inaugural Address by President Barack Hussein Obama

White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
· Making the Drug Problem Smaller, 2001-2008
· National Drug Control Strategy: 2009 Annual Report