Friday's Miscellany 11-13-2009

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Different Beds, Same Nightmare: The Politics of History in Germany and Japan
• Implications of the 2009 German Election

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• The Canada First Defence Strategy - One Year Later
• Measuring Effectiveness in Complex Operations: What is Good Enough?

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Iran, the United States, and the Gulf: The Elusive Regional Policy
• U.S. Afghan Strategy: The Big Questions

CDW
• Federal Cybersecurity Report: Danger on the Front Lines

Center for a New American Security
• Hard Lessons: Navigating Negotiations with the DPRK

Center for American Progress
• Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo: How to Get to Zero
• The Next Phase: CAP Trip Report and Findings on the Future U.S.-China Relations

Center for Complex Operations (CCO)
• Prism, v. 1, no. 1, December 2009
o Stabilization and Reconstruction: A Long Beginning
o Through the Complex Operations Prism
o Addressing the Problem of Failed States: A New Instrument
o Military Adaptation in Complex Operations
o Complex Operations and Interagency Operational Art
o Organizing for Victory
o Time Lag and Sequencing Dilemmas of Postconflict Reconstruction
o National Security Reform: A Prerequisite for Successful Complex Operations
o A New Approach to the Delivery of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan
o Provincial Reconstruction Teams: A Literature Review
o An Interview with Richard L. Armitage

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: A Summary
• The Afghan Narcotics Industry: Extended Summary
• The European Approach to Global Health
• Global Health Interventions for U.S. Food and Drug Safety
• Significant Cyber Events Since 2006
• Terrorism and WMD: The Link with the War in Afghanistan
• Transnational Threats Update October 2009 - Vol. 7, No. 8
o Turbulence in the Taliban/al Qaeda Relationship
o Adlene Hicheur French Physicist, al Qaeda Supporter?
o al Qaeda Threatens China over Uighurs
o Accusations Fly in Wake of Team Massacre
o Yemen Accuses Iranian Sailors of Arms Smuggling
o Indian Drawdown Highlights J&K Disparity
o Drug Wars Explode in Rio de Janiero
o Serbia Targets the Drug Trade
o American Scientist a Spy for Israel?
o New Report: China is preparing for IW
• The United States and Korea Leading beyond the Storm
• Water and Agriculture: Implications for Development and Growth: Identifying Common Ground for a U.S.-EU Agenda

Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Anwar al-Awlaki: The UK Connection

Central Intelligence Agency FOIA Office
• Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski
• Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals

Chatham House
• The DPRK and China: Hard Choices
• The Red Flag Rises: South Africa at the Crossroads
• Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus: Common and Diverging Interests

Conciliation Resources
• Out of the Margins: Securing a Voice for Internally Displaced People: Lessons from Georgia

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Enhancing U.S. Preventative Action
• Global Imbalances, National Rebalancing, and the Political Economy of Recovery
• Gloomy Prospects for World Growth
• Improving Resolution Options for Systemically Relevant Financial Institutions
• Political Instability in Egypt
• Understanding the Armed Groups of the Niger Delta
• The United States in the New Asia
• U.S. Immigration Policy

Department of Defense
• Report to Congress on Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-015, DOD Civil Support During the 2007 and 2008 California Wildland Fires
• Interagency Review of Prior Inspector General Recommendations Related to U.S. Export Controls, Volume II, September 2008

Department of Justice Inspector General
• A Review of the Department’s Anti-Gang Intelligence and Coordination Centers

Egmont Institute, Royal Institute for International Relations
• End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective
• A New Security Architecture for Europe? Russian Proposal and Western Reactions

European Union Institute for Security Studies
• The Obama Moment
• Risky Business? The EU, China and Dual-Use Technology

Foreign Policy Research Institute
• The Obama-Hu Summit
• Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Defense Acquisitions: Strategic Airlift Gap Has Been Addressed, but Tactical Airlift Plans Are Evolving as Key Issues Have Not Been Resolved, GAO-10-67
• Defense Infrastructure: Guam Needs Timely Information from DOD to Meet Challenges in Planning and Financing Off-Base Projects and Programs to Support a Larger Military Presence, GAO-10-90R
• Information Security: Actions Needed to Manage, Protect, and Sustain Improvements to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Classified Computer Network, GAO-10-28
• International Monetary Fund: Lending Programs Allow for Negotiations and Are Consistent with Economic Literature, GAO-10-44
• Military and Veterans' Benefits: Analysis of VA Compensation Levels for Survivors of Veterans and Servicemembers, GAO-10-62
• Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased While Savings Estimates Have Decreased Since Fiscal Year 2009, GAO-10-98R
• U.S. Marshals: Qualifications and Comparison of Demographic Characteristics to Their Counterparts in Selected Federal Law Enforcement Agencies, GAO-10-15R

Heritage Foundation
• Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Could Threaten National Security
• Dangerous Trajectories: Obama's Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy
• Japan's Security Policy: Navigating the Troubled Waters Ahead
• A Meaningful Agenda for President Obama's Meeting with Southeast Asian Leaders
• President Obama Has a Full Plate in First Visit to China
• Revenge of the Dirty Dozen: 12 Policies that Undermine Civil Society
• The Three Reaffirms: Suggested Agenda for President Obama's Visit to China
• The U.N. Human Rights Council: No Better for Obama's Engagement

Immigration Policy Center
• Essential to the Fight: Immigrants in the Military Eight Years after 9/11

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom (Iran) Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date

Institute for Security Studies
• Policy Brief No 16: Addressing the Challenges of Law Enforcement in Africa, Policing in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia
• Policy Brief No 17: A Place for Tradition in an Effective Criminal Justice System, Customary Justice in Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia

Institute for the Study of Labor
• Persistence of Civil Wars

International Crisis Group
• Bosnia’s Dual Crisis
• Palestine: Salvaging Fatah

International Organization for Migration
• Assessment of Return to Iraq

International Relations and Security Network
• Baghdad Divided
• Can Greece Lead the Way?
• Europe’s Gas Dilemma
• The Politics of Private Force in the Philippines
• Should C Asia Fear Taliban Spillover?
• Superpower Summitry: Sino-US Relations

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 34, November 13, 2009
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o Neo-Zarqawists Target the Arab Christians of Jordan
o The Hunt for Pakistan's Most Wanted Terrorists
o Perspectives on the Future of the Somali Jihad

Lowy Institute
• Problems to Partnership: A Plan for Australia-India Strategic Ties
• Stemming the 'Evil Flowers' [IEDs]

National Bureau of Asian Research
• Pakistani Partnerships with the United States: An Assessment

National Security Archive
• The Taliban Biography: The Structure and Leadership of the Taliban 1996-2002

NATO Defense College
• An Assessment of Crime Related Risks in the Sahel

Pak Institute for Peace Studies
• Pakistan Security Report (October 2009)
• South Asia Conflict Report: October 2009
• Tribal Region Conflict Report (October 19 to October 26 to November 1, 2009)

Peterson Institute for International Economics
• America, Europe, and the New Trade Order
• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Emerging Asia

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Americans and Western Europeans Agree on Afghanistan-Pakistan Extremist Threat

Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: Seven Fundamental Questions
• A Better Understanding of the Vietnam War

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• October 2009 Quarterly Report

Stanley Foundation
• Securing Vulnerable Nuclear Materials: Meeting the Global Challenge
• Sudan and the Implications for Responsibility to Protect

Stimson Center
• Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• China’s Expanding Role in Peacekeeping: Prospects and Policy Implications

US Coast Guard (USCG)
• Revised Catastrophic Incident Search and Rescue Addendum to the National Search and Rescue Supplement

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• The Current Status of Religious Coexistence and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Lebanon's Unstable Equilibrium

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Iran and Hizballah: Significance of the Francop Interception
• Small War or Big Problem? Fighting on the Yemeni-Saudi Border
• Stuck in Neutral? Diagnosing the Impasse in the Middle East Peace Process
• A Victory for Islamism? The Second Lebanon War and Its Repercussions

World Bank
• Country Aggregate Reports

World Public Opinion.org
• Images of China and the United States Around the World
• Wide Dissatisfaction with Capitalism -- Twenty Years after Fall of Berlin Wall

Worldwatch Institute
• Vital Signs Online