Friday's Miscellany 08-06-2010

ACLU
· Establishing a ‘New Normal’—National Security, Civil Liberties, and Human Rights Under the Obama Administration—An 18-Month Review

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
· Asia's Role in the Global Financial Architecture
· Rebalancing the US Economy in a Postcrisis World
· Trade Logistics and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

Brookings Institution
· 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll: Results of Arab Opinion Survey Conducted June 29-July 20, 2010
· AGOA [Africa Growth and Opportunity Act] at 10: Challenges and Prospects for U.S.-Africa Trade and Investment Relations
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated July 31, 2010 and archives]
· The Arab World’s Shifting Attitude Toward the Obama Administration
· Assessing Decision-making on the NYC Islamic Center: Continuing Our Tradition of Religious Liberty
· A Government for Baghdad
· Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated July 28, 2010 and archives]
· The New Orleans Index at Five
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated July 28, 2010 and archives]
· Surveying for Dollars: The Role of the American Community Survey in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
· WikiLeaks Will Make Intelligence Gathering in Afghanistan Harder

CACI International Inc and the U.S. Naval Institute
· Cyber Threats to National Security: Countering Challenges to the Global Supply Chain

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
· Exploring the China-Pakistan Relationship: Roundtable Report

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Geopolitics and Energy in Iraq: Where Politics Rule
· South Asia Monitor: A Difficult Road Ahead: India's Policy on Afghanistan - August 1, 2010
· The Next Phase in America's Relationship with Iraq
· The Uncertain Cost Of War(s)
· "Unplanning" for Uncertainty: Reshaping Future Defense Plans

Combat Studies Institute (CSI)
· Press On!: Selected works of General Donn A. Starry
o Volume I
o Volume II
· US Army and the Interagency Process: Historical Perspectives: the Proceedings of the Combat Studies Institute 2008 Military History Symposium
· US Army and the Media in Wartime: Historical Perspectives: The Proceedings of the Combat Studies Institute 2009 Military History Symposium

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· CTC Sentinel, July 2010, v. 3, no. 7
o The Mysterious Relationship Between Al-Qa`ida and Iran
o Al-Shabab's Agenda in the Wake of the Kampala Suicide Attacks The Punjabi Taliban: Causes and Consequences of Turning Against the State
o The Ghazi Force: A Threat to Pakistan's Urban Centers Pakistan's Challenges in Orakzai Agency
o The Growing Threat of Female Suicide Attacks in Western Countries
o Countering Terrorist Financing: Successes and Setbacks in the Years Since 9/11
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· 3 Years Later, Implementation of 100% Maritime Scanning Mandate Still Elusive

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Navy’s Plans for the Next Generation Ohio Class Ballistic Missile Submarine
· Report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel
· Russian Force Structure in Support of the New START Treaty

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Transforming Government Through Innovative Tools and Technology

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· Government Preparedness and Response to a Terrorist Attack Using Weapons of Mass Destruction
· Protecting the Public Interest: Understanding the Threat of Agency Capture

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· A Deluge of Woe in Pakistan
· Why Sanctions Can Hurt North Korea

Critical Threats Project
· Ahmadinejad in West Africa: What Iranian Outreach to the Region Reveals about Tehran’s Foreign Policy

Department of State
· Country Reports on Terrorism 2009
o Previous reports
· To Walk the Earth in Safety: The United States Commitment to Humanitarian Demining, 2010
o Previous reports

Department of the Army
· Army Sustainability Report 2009
· Sustainability 2001-2008

Department of the Treasury. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
· 2010 OFAC Recent Actions (in reverse chronological order)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
· Bank Crime Statistics (BCS) Federal Insured Financial Institutions January 1, 2010 – March 31, 2010
· Corruption, Drugs, Gangs, and More

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Cyberspace: United States Faces Challenges in Addressing Global Cybersecurity and Governance, GAO-10-606
· Homeland Security: Addressing Weaknesses with Facility Security Committees Would Enhance Protection of Federal Facilities, GAO-10-901
· Organizational Transformation: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0), GAO-10-846G

Heritage Foundation
· Oil Spill Liability: A Plan for Reform
· Santos Takes Charge in Colombia: New Leader for an Old Friend

Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
· Building Peace, Seeking Justice: A Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Accountability and Social Reconstruction in the Central African Republic

Information Sharing Environment (ISE)
· Information Sharing Environment, Annual Report to the Congress (July 2010)

Institute for Security Studies
· Peace and Security Council Protocol, August 2010. No. 13

Institute for the Study of War
· Uncertain Future for the Sons of Iraq

Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
· India's Unfinished Security Revolution
· South Asia Trends, v. 1, no. 7, July 19-31, 2010

International Crisis Group
· Drums of War: Israel and the "Axis of Resistance"
· Indonesia: The Deepening Impasse in Papua

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Sectoral and Institutional Approach
· Output and Unemployment Dynamics during the Great Recession: A Panel Unobserved Components Analysis
· Peaks, Spikes, and Barrels: Modeling Sharp Movements in Oil Prices

International Relations and Security Network
· The Assam Conflict: Failure of the Press
· The Chechen Insurgency And Succession
· Convention Calls Time on Cluster Bombs
· Costs of War: Game Over?
· Democracy Sidelined in India-Myanmar Ties
· Georgia: A Future Beyond War
· Kenya Faces Crucial Referendum
· The Implications of the Fayyad-Plan
· Iraq: On the Path to National Salvation?
· Kyrgyz Opposition Leader Arrested
· Rwanda: Kagame’s New Seven-Year Challenge
· Stress-Testing European Banks
· Violence in Karachi

Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)
· Interactive Terror History Map

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, August 5, 2010, v. 10, no. 16
o China's Brain Drain Dilemma: Elite Emigration
o Assessing the PLA’s Promotion Ladder to CMC Member Based on Grades vs. Ranks – Part 2
o The Japanese Archipelago through Chinese Eyes
o Will Linguistic Centralization Work? Protesters Demonstrate against Restrictions on Cantonese
· Terrorism Monitor, August 5, 2010, v. 8, no. 31
o Half-Hearted Security Operations in Punjab Do Little to Restrain Taliban
o Bombings in Bangkok: A Return to Political Violence for the Red Shirts?
o Al-Qaeda's Ambitions in Pakistan: Changing Goals, Changing Strategies

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
· JP 3-22, Foreign Internal Defense, 12 July 2010

Lowry Institute
· Reviving Dead Aid: Making International Development Assistance Work

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
· The Differential Impact of Mortality of American Troops in the Iraq War: The Non-Metropolitan Dimension [Demographic Research, July 2010, v. 23, article 2, p. 41-62]

National Academies Press
· Review of the Department of Defense Enhanced Particulate Matter Surveillance Program Report [free download but registration required]

National Guard
· The National Guard a Great Value for America

National Wildlife Federation
· Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution, and Profit

NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
· COMISAF’s Counterinsurgency Guidance

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
· Pakistan Security Report 2009

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Concern About Extremist Threat Slips in Pakistan—America’s Image Remains Poor

Rand
· United States and Mexico: Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide

Small Wars Journal
· America’s Flawed Approach to the Global War on Terror
· Army Capstone Concept & the Genesis of German WW I...Tactics
· Down at the District
· Interviewing Tactics in Counterinsurgency
· The Saudi Option
· Strategic Communication & Influence Operations: Do We Really Get It?
· Thai Village Security Lessons for Afghanistan

Stimson Center and Stanley Foundation
· "WMD, Drugs, and Criminal Gangs in Central America: Leveraging Nonproliferation Assistance to Address Security/Development Needs With UNSCR 1540

Strategic Studies Institute
· Organizing to Compete in to Political Terrain

Truman Project
· National Security Manual 2010

United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
· Women with a Blue Helmet: The Integration of Women and Gender Issues in UN Peacekeeping Missions

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Scenarios for Sudan's Future, Revisited
· William J. Perry and Stephen J. Hadley Testify on the "Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel"

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Ahmadinezhad's Bomb Rhetoric: Opportunities for U.S. Policy
· Brushfire or Spark? Incident on the Israel-Lebanon Border
· Fighting the Ideological Battle: The Missing Link in U.S. Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism
· How to Form a New Iraqi Government while U.S. Combat Forces Withdraw