The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has released their report entitled "Crime Wars: Gangs, Cartels and U.S. National Security."
According to their website, the report is a "...result of a yearlong study by the Center for a New American Security, Crime Wars provides some elements of such a strategy, including recommendations for the U.S. government to: renew political and military outreach to Latin American states; enhance efforts to strengthen state institutions throughout the region; and better attack cartels’ financial networks. At the same time, domestic policy should aim to disseminate better intelligence among law enforcement, federally fund additional campaigns to diminish drug demand and safeguard U.S. communities against gang recruitment. Only by dealing with transnational crime in a comprehensive manner will societies in the hemisphere be able to mitigate its impact."
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday's Miscellany 09-24-2010
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
· Enhancing Civilian Protection in Peace Operations: Insights from Africa
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
· Putting the “Kerala Model” to Rest: Lessons for a New Era of Development in India
Atlantic Council
· Global Governance 2025
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· The Network ADF – C4ISR Capability Summary 2010
Berghof Conflict Research
· The KLA and the Kosovo War: From Intra-State Conflict to Independent Country
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
· A Progressive Nuclear Policy: Rethinking Continuous-at-Sea Deterrence
Brookings Institution
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated September 20, 2010 and archive]
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated September 21, 2010 and archives]
· Ten Economic Facts about Immigration
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Dispatch, Fall 2010, v. 8, no. 3
o Threat Manipulation, Distorted Intelligence and War: Using History to Disprove a Popular Theory of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
o Global Summitry: Under Construction
o Investing in Ideas: Modern Strategic Development in Support of Defence Policy and Practice
o Reducing CF Command & Control Overhead-Is Structure the Issue?
o The Major Commission of Inquiry and ‘Connecting the Dots’
o NORAD of the North
o Canada’s Post-2011 Commitment to Afghanistan
o Decline of the American Empire
· G8 Security Sector Capacity Building in Fragile States: Examining Effectiveness and Coherence
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· The Arctic: A View from Moscow
· Regional Trade Blocs: The Way to the Future?
CATO Institute
· Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint
Center for a New American Security
· An Indispensable Force: Investing in America’s National Guard and Reserves
Center for American Progress
· Strong and Sustainable : How to Reduce Military Spending While Keeping Our Nation Safe
· A Thousand Cuts : What Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit Through Large Spending Cuts Could Really Look Like
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Elections: Another Milestone on the Road to Nowhere?
· Western Balkans Policy Review 2010
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
· Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State by State
Center on International Cooperation, New York University
· Drug Production and Trafficking, Counterdrug Policies, and Security and Governance in Afghanistan · Emerging Doctrine for Political Missions
· Is a Regional Pact to Stabilize Afghanistan Possible?
· Map: Political Missions 2009-2010
· Political Missions, Mediation and Good Offices
· Why All Peace Operations Are Political
Centre for International Governance Innovation
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Afghanistan
· Improving the Governance of the Food Aid Convention: Which Way Forward?
Chatham House
· Britain's Strategic Defence and Security Review: Cut and Stay Strong [The World Today, October 2010, v. 66, no. 10]
· Floods and Fighting: State of Crisis [The World Today, October 2010, v. 66, no. 10]
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Operating in the Digital Domain: Organizing the Military Departments for Cyber Operations [September 23, 2010]
o U.S. Cyber Command: Organizing for Cyberspace Operations [September 23, 2010]
o A Question of Quality and Value: Department of Defense Oversight of Tuition Assistance Used for Distance Learning and For-Profit Colleges [September 22, 2010]
Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
· Pipeline Safety Oversight and Legislation
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Crimes Against Humanity: When Will Indonesia’s Military Be Held Accountable for Deliberate and Systematic Abuses in West Papua?
· Nuclear Cooperation and Non-Proliferation after Khan and Iran: Are We Asking Enough of Current and Future Agreements?
· Renegotiating the South Pacific Tuna Treaty: Closing Loopholes and Protecting U.S. Interests
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· DHS Planning and Response: Preliminary Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
· Securing America’s Transportation Systems: The Target of Terrorists and TSA’s New Direction
Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
· ECPA Reform and the Revolution in Cloud Computing
Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
· Made in the USA: Manufacturing Policy, the Defense Industrial Base, and U.S. National Security
· Transition in Iraq: Is the State Department Prepared to Take the Lead?
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Keeping Us Safe: The Need for a Nationwide Public Safety Network
· S.3742, The Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Challenges to Water and Security in Southeast Asia
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Nine Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Promoting Security and Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
· Investigating and Prosecuting Financial Fraud after the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Contingency Planning: Electoral Violence in Nigeria
· Foreign Policy and the 2010 Midterm Elections: Trade
Crisis States Research Centre
· Kyrgyzstan in Crisis: Permanent Revolution and the Curse of Nationalism
Critical Threats Project
· Gulf of Aden Security Review
· Map of Mogadishu
Department of Defense Inspector General
· D-2010-085 Kuwait Contractors Working in Sensitive Positions Without Security Clearances or CACs
Department of Homeland Security
· Active Shooter: How to Respond
· Mass Shooting/Active Shooter First Responder Awareness Card
Department of Justice Inspector General
· A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups, September 2010
Department of State
· Background Notes : Iraq
· Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1969-1976, v. 10, January 1973-July 1975
Departments of the Navy and Army
· Guam and CNMI Military Relocation including Relocating Marines from Okinawa Transient Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Berth Air and Missile Defense Task Force
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Libya
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Nine Years After September 11, 2001: Perspective on the First Decade of an Enduring Conflict
Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan
· Election Day 2010: First Preliminary Observation Report September 20, 2010
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· 2010 Resubmission of the U.S.-Russia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Further Actions Needed by State and Other Agencies to Improve the Review of the Classified Nuclear Proliferation Assessment, GAO-10-1039R
· Aviation and the Environment: Systematically Addressing Environmental Impacts and Community Concerns Can Help Airports Reduce Project Delays, GAO-10-50
· Aviation and the Environment: Survey of Airport Officials on Airport Environmental Issues (GAO-10-748SP, September 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-50
· Building Security: New Federal Standards Hold Promise, But Could Be Strengthened to Better Protect Leased Space, GAO-10-873
· Defense Exports: Reporting on Exported Articles and Services Needs to Be Improved, GAO-10-952
· Disaster Response: Criteria for Developing and Validating Effective Response Plans, GAO-10-969T [testimony]
· Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist, GAO-10-636
· President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Efforts to Align Programs with Partner Countries' HIV/AIDS Strategies and Promote Partner Country Ownership, GAO-10-836
· Public Transit Security Information Sharing: DHS Could Improve Information Sharing through Streamlining and Increased Outreach, GAO-10-895
· Sudan Divestment: U.S. Investors Sold Assets but Could Benefit from Increased Disclosure Regarding Companies' Ties to Sudan, GAO-10-742
· Survey of Public Transit Agencies on Security Information Sharing, GAO-10-896SP (E-supplement to GAO-10-895)
Heritage Foundation
· China–Japan Confrontation at Sea: Senkaku Islands Issue Won’t Go Away
· Free Markets and National Defense: US Import Dependence on China
· New START, U.S. Strategy, and How Much Is Enough?
· Not the Time to Go Wobbly: Press US Advantage on South China Sea
· The Obama Administration’s Ambitious Export Control Reform Plan
· Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to US Interests?
· UN Millennium Development Goals: Foreign Aid v. Economic Freedom
· The United Nations and Development: Grand Aims, Modest Results
· Want Real Homeland Security? Give State and Local Governments a Real Voice
Hudson Institute
· The Clash of the Counter-Bureaucracy and Development
· Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 10
o The Iranian Revolution in the New Era
o Why Iran’s Islamic Government is Unraveling
o The Iranian Clergy’s Silence
o Reform Versus Radicalism in the Islamic Republic
o The Shiites of Saudi Arabia
o Iran’s Central Asia Temptations
o Jordan’s Encounter with Shiism
o The Making of the Christmas Day Bomber
o Profile: Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK
o Gender Ideology and the Jamaat-e-Islami
o The Primacy of Values
Human Rights First
· State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors
Human Rights Watch
· Once You Enter, You Never Leave: Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia
· Targets of Both Sides: Violence Against Students, Teachers, and Schools in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
· Can the Rise of ‘New’ Turkey Lead to a ‘New’ Era in India-Turkey Relations?
· New START and the Obama Administration: Hurdles Still Ahead
· Water Security for India: The External Dynamics
Institute for National Strategic Studies
· China Strategic Perspectives: Assessing The PLA's Role in Elite Politics
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· ISS Paper 217: Reintegration in Mozambique, An Unresolved Affair
· Conference Report: 3rd African Conference of Commandants
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
· Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Poliferation [sic]: Linkages and Dissonaces
Institute for the Study of War
· Force Disposition: Afghanistan/Pakistan Border
International Crisis Group
· China’s Myanmar Strategy: Elections, Ethnic Politics and Economics
· Eritrea: The Siege State
· Guinea: Reforming the Army
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
· Chinese Navy's New Strategy in Action
· Long March of China's Military Reform
· Pakistan's Floods: Broader Implications
· Rough Seas Ahead for UK Navy
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Pakistan: Use of Fund Resources—Request for Emergency Assistance—Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Pakistan
International Relations and Security Network
· Afghan Vote Count Begins
· Britain’s Security Future
· Iran's Option In Case of Attack
· Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
· North Korea's Succession Speculation
· The Real Greek Economy: Owners, Rentiers, Opportunists
· South Africa at the Rubicon - Again?
· Tajikistan: Militant Ambush Puts Spotlight on Security
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, September 24, 2010, v. 10, no. 19
o Aging Tigers, Mighty Dragons: China’s Bifurcated Surface Fleet
o China Unveils "The Kashmir Card"
o The Politics of China’s Missile Redeployments
o Bloc Politics in the Persian Gulf: China’s Multilateral Engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council
· Terrorism Monitor, September 23, 2010, v. 8, no. 36
o Suicide-Bomb Assassination of Prominent Cleric in South Waziristan May Incite Tribal Conflict
o Iraqi Oil Facilities Threatened as Islamic State of Iraq Intensifies its Campaign Against the State
o French Counterterrorism Operations in the Sahara
National Academies Press
· Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis
· Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts
National Intelligence Council
· Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture
National Security Archive
· The Iraq War -- Part I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
National Terrorism Center (NCTC)
· Bomb Threat Stand-Off Distance Chart
· Intelligence Guide for First Responders
Nautilus Institute
· Political Prospects for a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Northeast Asia
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
· Privatization in Kosovo: The International Project 1999-2008
Office of the United States Trade Representative
· 2010 Trade Policy Agenda and 2009 Annual Report
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The G-20 and International Financial Institution Governance
Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Brazilians Upbeat About Their Country, Despite Its Problems
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
· Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
· Religion and the Issues: Results from the 2010 Annual Religion and Public Life Survey
Security Council Report
· Update Report no. 3 - Counterterrorism
Sheldon I. Cohen
· Debt and Home Foreclosures: Their Effect on National Security Clearances
Small Wars Journal
· A Culture of Inclusion: Defense, Diplomacy, and Development as a Modern American Foreign Policy · The Iranian Ballistic Missile Threat And a “Phased, Adaptive Approach” to Missile Defense for Europe · The Mumbo-Jumbo of Design: Is this the Army’s EBO?
· Terrorism, COIN, and National Security
· Three Wickets and A Bulldozer: Overcoming Afghanistan’s Geopolitical Barriers
· The Troubles in Northern Ireland: Conflict Resolution and the Problem with Being ‘Reasonable’
Strategic Studies Institute
· Preparing for One War and Getting Another?
UK Defence Academy
· Cyber Probing: The Politicisation of Virtual Attack
· The Mouse that Roared, or the Bear that Growled? Russia's Latest Military Doctrine
· The Russian Federation Navy: An Assessment of its Strategic Setting, Doctrine and Prospects
· Security Sector Reform and Donor Assistance in Serbia: Complexity of Managing Change
UN General Assembly and Security Council
· The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Human Rights Council
· Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance*
UN Secretary General
· The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
Urban Institute Center on International Development and Governance
· The Local Government System in Pakistan: Citizens Perceptions and Preferences
US Army Peacekeeping Institute
· Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments – A Metrics Framework
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The Civil Society-Military Relationship in Afghanistan
· Institutionalizing Security Sector Reform
· Local Justice in Southern Sudan
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Captured Documents: What We Now Know about Saddam's Iraq
· If War Comes: Israel vs. Hizballah and Its Allies
· Laying the Foundation for Peace: Challenges for the Palestinian Economy
· Turkey after the Constitutional Referendum: Implications for Washington
· Enhancing Civilian Protection in Peace Operations: Insights from Africa
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
· Putting the “Kerala Model” to Rest: Lessons for a New Era of Development in India
Atlantic Council
· Global Governance 2025
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· The Network ADF – C4ISR Capability Summary 2010
Berghof Conflict Research
· The KLA and the Kosovo War: From Intra-State Conflict to Independent Country
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
· A Progressive Nuclear Policy: Rethinking Continuous-at-Sea Deterrence
Brookings Institution
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated September 20, 2010 and archive]
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated September 21, 2010 and archives]
· Ten Economic Facts about Immigration
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· The Dispatch, Fall 2010, v. 8, no. 3
o Threat Manipulation, Distorted Intelligence and War: Using History to Disprove a Popular Theory of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
o Global Summitry: Under Construction
o Investing in Ideas: Modern Strategic Development in Support of Defence Policy and Practice
o Reducing CF Command & Control Overhead-Is Structure the Issue?
o The Major Commission of Inquiry and ‘Connecting the Dots’
o NORAD of the North
o Canada’s Post-2011 Commitment to Afghanistan
o Decline of the American Empire
· G8 Security Sector Capacity Building in Fragile States: Examining Effectiveness and Coherence
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· The Arctic: A View from Moscow
· Regional Trade Blocs: The Way to the Future?
CATO Institute
· Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint
Center for a New American Security
· An Indispensable Force: Investing in America’s National Guard and Reserves
Center for American Progress
· Strong and Sustainable : How to Reduce Military Spending While Keeping Our Nation Safe
· A Thousand Cuts : What Reducing the Federal Budget Deficit Through Large Spending Cuts Could Really Look Like
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Afghan Elections: Another Milestone on the Road to Nowhere?
· Western Balkans Policy Review 2010
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
· Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation’s Emergency Response State by State
Center on International Cooperation, New York University
· Drug Production and Trafficking, Counterdrug Policies, and Security and Governance in Afghanistan · Emerging Doctrine for Political Missions
· Is a Regional Pact to Stabilize Afghanistan Possible?
· Map: Political Missions 2009-2010
· Political Missions, Mediation and Good Offices
· Why All Peace Operations Are Political
Centre for International Governance Innovation
· Security Sector Reform Monitor: Afghanistan
· Improving the Governance of the Food Aid Convention: Which Way Forward?
Chatham House
· Britain's Strategic Defence and Security Review: Cut and Stay Strong [The World Today, October 2010, v. 66, no. 10]
· Floods and Fighting: State of Crisis [The World Today, October 2010, v. 66, no. 10]
Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Operating in the Digital Domain: Organizing the Military Departments for Cyber Operations [September 23, 2010]
o U.S. Cyber Command: Organizing for Cyberspace Operations [September 23, 2010]
o A Question of Quality and Value: Department of Defense Oversight of Tuition Assistance Used for Distance Learning and For-Profit Colleges [September 22, 2010]
Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
· Pipeline Safety Oversight and Legislation
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Crimes Against Humanity: When Will Indonesia’s Military Be Held Accountable for Deliberate and Systematic Abuses in West Papua?
· Nuclear Cooperation and Non-Proliferation after Khan and Iran: Are We Asking Enough of Current and Future Agreements?
· Renegotiating the South Pacific Tuna Treaty: Closing Loopholes and Protecting U.S. Interests
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· DHS Planning and Response: Preliminary Lessons from Deepwater Horizon
· Securing America’s Transportation Systems: The Target of Terrorists and TSA’s New Direction
Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
· ECPA Reform and the Revolution in Cloud Computing
Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
· Made in the USA: Manufacturing Policy, the Defense Industrial Base, and U.S. National Security
· Transition in Iraq: Is the State Department Prepared to Take the Lead?
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Keeping Us Safe: The Need for a Nationwide Public Safety Network
· S.3742, The Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Challenges to Water and Security in Southeast Asia
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Nine Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland
Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Promoting Security and Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age
· Investigating and Prosecuting Financial Fraud after the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Contingency Planning: Electoral Violence in Nigeria
· Foreign Policy and the 2010 Midterm Elections: Trade
Crisis States Research Centre
· Kyrgyzstan in Crisis: Permanent Revolution and the Curse of Nationalism
Critical Threats Project
· Gulf of Aden Security Review
· Map of Mogadishu
Department of Defense Inspector General
· D-2010-085 Kuwait Contractors Working in Sensitive Positions Without Security Clearances or CACs
Department of Homeland Security
· Active Shooter: How to Respond
· Mass Shooting/Active Shooter First Responder Awareness Card
Department of Justice Inspector General
· A Review of the FBI's Investigations of Certain Domestic Advocacy Groups, September 2010
Department of State
· Background Notes : Iraq
· Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), 1969-1976, v. 10, January 1973-July 1975
Departments of the Navy and Army
· Guam and CNMI Military Relocation including Relocating Marines from Okinawa Transient Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Berth Air and Missile Defense Task Force
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Country Analysis Brief: Libya
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Nine Years After September 11, 2001: Perspective on the First Decade of an Enduring Conflict
Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan
· Election Day 2010: First Preliminary Observation Report September 20, 2010
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· 2010 Resubmission of the U.S.-Russia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Further Actions Needed by State and Other Agencies to Improve the Review of the Classified Nuclear Proliferation Assessment, GAO-10-1039R
· Aviation and the Environment: Systematically Addressing Environmental Impacts and Community Concerns Can Help Airports Reduce Project Delays, GAO-10-50
· Aviation and the Environment: Survey of Airport Officials on Airport Environmental Issues (GAO-10-748SP, September 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-10-50
· Building Security: New Federal Standards Hold Promise, But Could Be Strengthened to Better Protect Leased Space, GAO-10-873
· Defense Exports: Reporting on Exported Articles and Services Needs to Be Improved, GAO-10-952
· Disaster Response: Criteria for Developing and Validating Effective Response Plans, GAO-10-969T [testimony]
· Global Positioning System: Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist, GAO-10-636
· President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Efforts to Align Programs with Partner Countries' HIV/AIDS Strategies and Promote Partner Country Ownership, GAO-10-836
· Public Transit Security Information Sharing: DHS Could Improve Information Sharing through Streamlining and Increased Outreach, GAO-10-895
· Sudan Divestment: U.S. Investors Sold Assets but Could Benefit from Increased Disclosure Regarding Companies' Ties to Sudan, GAO-10-742
· Survey of Public Transit Agencies on Security Information Sharing, GAO-10-896SP (E-supplement to GAO-10-895)
Heritage Foundation
· China–Japan Confrontation at Sea: Senkaku Islands Issue Won’t Go Away
· Free Markets and National Defense: US Import Dependence on China
· New START, U.S. Strategy, and How Much Is Enough?
· Not the Time to Go Wobbly: Press US Advantage on South China Sea
· The Obama Administration’s Ambitious Export Control Reform Plan
· Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to US Interests?
· UN Millennium Development Goals: Foreign Aid v. Economic Freedom
· The United Nations and Development: Grand Aims, Modest Results
· Want Real Homeland Security? Give State and Local Governments a Real Voice
Hudson Institute
· The Clash of the Counter-Bureaucracy and Development
· Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 10
o The Iranian Revolution in the New Era
o Why Iran’s Islamic Government is Unraveling
o The Iranian Clergy’s Silence
o Reform Versus Radicalism in the Islamic Republic
o The Shiites of Saudi Arabia
o Iran’s Central Asia Temptations
o Jordan’s Encounter with Shiism
o The Making of the Christmas Day Bomber
o Profile: Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK
o Gender Ideology and the Jamaat-e-Islami
o The Primacy of Values
Human Rights First
· State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Private Security and Other Contractors
Human Rights Watch
· Once You Enter, You Never Leave: Deinstitutionalization of Persons with Intellectual or Mental Disabilities in Croatia
· Targets of Both Sides: Violence Against Students, Teachers, and Schools in Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces
Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
· Can the Rise of ‘New’ Turkey Lead to a ‘New’ Era in India-Turkey Relations?
· New START and the Obama Administration: Hurdles Still Ahead
· Water Security for India: The External Dynamics
Institute for National Strategic Studies
· China Strategic Perspectives: Assessing The PLA's Role in Elite Politics
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· ISS Paper 217: Reintegration in Mozambique, An Unresolved Affair
· Conference Report: 3rd African Conference of Commandants
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
· Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Poliferation [sic]: Linkages and Dissonaces
Institute for the Study of War
· Force Disposition: Afghanistan/Pakistan Border
International Crisis Group
· China’s Myanmar Strategy: Elections, Ethnic Politics and Economics
· Eritrea: The Siege State
· Guinea: Reforming the Army
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
· Chinese Navy's New Strategy in Action
· Long March of China's Military Reform
· Pakistan's Floods: Broader Implications
· Rough Seas Ahead for UK Navy
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Pakistan: Use of Fund Resources—Request for Emergency Assistance—Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Pakistan
International Relations and Security Network
· Afghan Vote Count Begins
· Britain’s Security Future
· Iran's Option In Case of Attack
· Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
· North Korea's Succession Speculation
· The Real Greek Economy: Owners, Rentiers, Opportunists
· South Africa at the Rubicon - Again?
· Tajikistan: Militant Ambush Puts Spotlight on Security
Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, September 24, 2010, v. 10, no. 19
o Aging Tigers, Mighty Dragons: China’s Bifurcated Surface Fleet
o China Unveils "The Kashmir Card"
o The Politics of China’s Missile Redeployments
o Bloc Politics in the Persian Gulf: China’s Multilateral Engagement with the Gulf Cooperation Council
· Terrorism Monitor, September 23, 2010, v. 8, no. 36
o Suicide-Bomb Assassination of Prominent Cleric in South Waziristan May Incite Tribal Conflict
o Iraqi Oil Facilities Threatened as Islamic State of Iraq Intensifies its Campaign Against the State
o French Counterterrorism Operations in the Sahara
National Academies Press
· Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis
· Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts
National Intelligence Council
· Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture
National Security Archive
· The Iraq War -- Part I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
National Terrorism Center (NCTC)
· Bomb Threat Stand-Off Distance Chart
· Intelligence Guide for First Responders
Nautilus Institute
· Political Prospects for a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone in Northeast Asia
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
· Privatization in Kosovo: The International Project 1999-2008
Office of the United States Trade Representative
· 2010 Trade Policy Agenda and 2009 Annual Report
Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The G-20 and International Financial Institution Governance
Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Brazilians Upbeat About Their Country, Despite Its Problems
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
· Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
· Religion and the Issues: Results from the 2010 Annual Religion and Public Life Survey
Security Council Report
· Update Report no. 3 - Counterterrorism
Sheldon I. Cohen
· Debt and Home Foreclosures: Their Effect on National Security Clearances
Small Wars Journal
· A Culture of Inclusion: Defense, Diplomacy, and Development as a Modern American Foreign Policy · The Iranian Ballistic Missile Threat And a “Phased, Adaptive Approach” to Missile Defense for Europe · The Mumbo-Jumbo of Design: Is this the Army’s EBO?
· Terrorism, COIN, and National Security
· Three Wickets and A Bulldozer: Overcoming Afghanistan’s Geopolitical Barriers
· The Troubles in Northern Ireland: Conflict Resolution and the Problem with Being ‘Reasonable’
Strategic Studies Institute
· Preparing for One War and Getting Another?
UK Defence Academy
· Cyber Probing: The Politicisation of Virtual Attack
· The Mouse that Roared, or the Bear that Growled? Russia's Latest Military Doctrine
· The Russian Federation Navy: An Assessment of its Strategic Setting, Doctrine and Prospects
· Security Sector Reform and Donor Assistance in Serbia: Complexity of Managing Change
UN General Assembly and Security Council
· The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
UN Human Rights Council
· Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance*
UN Secretary General
· The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
Urban Institute Center on International Development and Governance
· The Local Government System in Pakistan: Citizens Perceptions and Preferences
US Army Peacekeeping Institute
· Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments – A Metrics Framework
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The Civil Society-Military Relationship in Afghanistan
· Institutionalizing Security Sector Reform
· Local Justice in Southern Sudan
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Captured Documents: What We Now Know about Saddam's Iraq
· If War Comes: Israel vs. Hizballah and Its Allies
· Laying the Foundation for Peace: Challenges for the Palestinian Economy
· Turkey after the Constitutional Referendum: Implications for Washington
Monday, September 20, 2010
REPORT - National Guard and Reserves
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has just released a new report, An Indispensable Force: Investing in America's National Guard and Reserves, on the importance of the National Guard and Reserves.
From the website summary, the authors [John Nagl and Travis Sharp] "argue that although policymakers have taken great strides in recent years to support the Guard and Reserves, the U.S. government still is not investing sufficiently in the policies, laws, and budgets required for the Guard and Reserves to fulfill their current and future role in U.S. national security."
A video of an interview with one of the authors, John Nagl is also available.
NIC REPORT - Global Governance 2025
The National Intelligence Council has released its latest report - "Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture." This is a follow-up to their 2008 "Global Trends 2025: A Transforme World" report.
According to their website this report "provides an informal contribution to an important international debate on the way forward for global, regional, and bilateral institutions and frameworks to meet emerging challenges such as climate change, resource management, international migration flows, and new technologies."
The main site has additional information is available
For additional information, see their press release
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Friday's Miscellany 09-17-2010
Advisory Panel on Department of Defense Capabilities for Support of Civil Authorities After Certain Incidents
• Before Disaster Strikes: Imperatives for Enhancing Defense Support of Civil Authorities
Afghanistan Analysts Network
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan’s Evolving Elections
Air University
• Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2010, v. 24, no. 3
o Lorenz on Leadership: Part 3
o Reenabling Air Force Command and Control for Twenty-first-Century Partnerships
o Desert Shield and Desert Storm: 20 Years in Retrospect
o Seeing the Whole Elephant
o Femme Fatale 2010
o Civilian Language Education in America: How the Air Force and Academia Can Thrive Together
o Achieving a Credible Nuclear Defense
o It’s Time to Fight Back: “Operationalizing” Network Defense
o Satellites and Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Two Remotely Operated Ships Passing in the Fight
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision Statement on Capital Standards
• Missed Opportunities in the Dodd-Frank Act
• The Monumental Task Assigned to the Fed
• Proxy Access and the Market for Corporate Control
• Regulation of Broker-Dealers and the Dodd-Frank Act
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of “Wahlfreiheit”
• German Views on the Ninth Anniversary of 9/11
• Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Politics
American Security Project
• Consensus for American Security
Amnesty International
• New Order, Same Abuses—Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq
• Senegal: Land of Impunity
Asian Development Bank Institute
• Fiscal Policy Issues for India after the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2010)
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
• Consequence Management: Steps in the Right Direction?
Brookings Institution
• The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea: Dark Clouds, Only One Silver Lining
• Combating Climate Change through Quality Education
• The Determinants of Aid Volatility
• The Federal Budget Outlook
• Making Development Aid More Effective
• New Geopolitics and Rediscovery of the US-Japan Alliance: Reshaping “Northeast Asia” Beyond the Border
• Obama’s Infrastructure Agenda: Understanding the Pillars
• Pakistan’s Future: The Bellagio Papers
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• States Of Conflict: An Update on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Territorial Disputes and Seabed Petroleum Exploitation: Some Options for the East China Sea
• Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in America’s 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
• Cambodia—Maritime Security Challenges and Priorities
• Security Challenges and Implications for Defense Policy
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Pakistan’s Roller-Coaster Economy: Tax Evasion Stifles Growth
• Three Mirages and Two Markets: Understanding the South Caucasus
CATO Institute
• Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Eye to the Future: Refocusing State Department Policy Planning
• Planning Diplomacy and Development: Force Planning Applications for the State Department and USAID
• Rebuilding Diplomacy: A Survey of Past Calls for State Department Transformation
Center for Security Policy
• Shariah: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis - Report of Team 'B' 11
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike
o Related slides
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghanistan: A Progress Report
• Part I – Shaping the Campaign
• Part II – Meeting the Challenges of 2010
• Part III – Implementing the New Strategy
• Afghanistan’s National Assembly Elections
• Central Asia's Pipelines
• The Military Balance in Asia, 1990-2010: A Quantitative Analysis
• U.S.-Saudi Security Cooperation and the Impact of U.S. Arms Sales
Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
• Assessing the Health of Army Laboratories: Funding for Basic Research and Laboratory Capital Equipment
• Improving the Army's Next Effort in Technology Forecasting
• A Primer on Alternative Transportation Fuels
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Obama's War: Prospects for the Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Combined Arms Center
• The Colloquium, September 2010, v. 3, no. 2
o The Path to Victory: Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq
• Military Review, September-October 2010, v. 90, no. 5
o The Top Seven Myths of U.S. Defense Policy Toward the Americas
o Disarming the Key Leader Engagement
o Thoughts on the Battle for the Mind: IO and COIN in the Pashtun Belt
o National Will from a Threat Perspective
o Heuristics and Biases in Military Decision Making
o Shared Situational Understanding: Fundamental Principles and Iconoclastic Observations
o The Militarization of Gazprom
o The Allure of Quick Victory: Lessons from Peru’s Fight against Sendero Luminoso
o Talking Grand Strategy
o A Practical Approach to Cultural Insight
o Now That We’re Leaving Iraq, What Did We Learn?
o The Challenge of Leadership in the Interagency Environment
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Evolving Nature of Terrorism - Nine Years after the 9/11 Attacks
Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Pilot Flight and Duty Time Rule
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Current Security Situation on the Korean Peninsula
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
• The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements
• Oversight of MWAA, Reagan Washington National Airport and the Perimeter Rule
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Banking on Reform: Capital Increase Proposals from the Multilateral Development Banks
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Nuclear Terrorism: Strengthening Our Domestic Defenses, Part II
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Afghanistan's Unpromising Elections
• Rising Midterm Economic Pressures
Danish Institute for International Security (DIIS)
• ‘Old’ versus ‘New’ Europe: The 2002-08 Straitjacket of European Geopolitics
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Interagency Combating WMD Database of Responsibilities, Authorities, and Capabilities (INDRAC) website
Department of Defense
• Better Buying Power: Guidance for Obtaining Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending
• Guidance Roadmap
• DoD Instruction 2200.01, Combating Trafficking in Persons (CTIP), September 15, 2010
• DoD Instruction 3115.12, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), August 24, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-011, Intelligence Oversight Policy Guidance, March 26, 2008, Incorporating Change 1, September 8, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-021, DoD Use of the Civil Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking (SARSAT) System for Support to Personnel Recovery, October 17, 2008 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-027, Security of Unclassified DoD Information on Non-DoD Information Systems, July 31, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-052, DoD Guidance for Reporting Questionable Intelligence Activities and Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters, June 17, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 10, 2010
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-107 - Recommendations to Improve the Coast Guard’s System for Adjudicating Suspension and Revocation Matters
• OIG-10-114 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Tenant Satisfaction Survey)
Department of State
• Consular Notification and Access
• The Consular Notification and Access Manual
• Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
Department of the Air Force
• 2010 Combat Air Force Strategic Plan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: United Kingdom
EU Institute for Security Studies
• Human Rights Challenges in EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Cases of EUPOL and EUJUST LEX
• Humanitarian Action in Pakistan: A Case for EU Political Involvement
• State and Society: The Democratic Challenge
European Policy Centre
• Nagorno-Karabakh – A Ticking Time Bomb
• EU Strategic Partnerships: Are They Worth the Name?
Foreign Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Crime in the United States, 2009
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
• Defending U.S. Maritime Commerce In Peacetime From 1794 To Today
• Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials, GAO-10-1041T [testimony]
• Defense Health Care: Status of Efforts to Address Lack of Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements, GAO-10-1013T [testimony]
• Defense Planning: DOD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe, GAO-10-745R
• Financial Management Systems: Experience with Prior Migration and Modernization Efforts Provides Lessons Learned for New Approach, GAO-10-808
• Information Security: Progress Made on Harmonizing Policies and Guidance for National Security and Non-National Security Systems, GAO-10-916
• Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing, GAO-10-304
• Joint Strike Fighter: Assessment of DOD's Funding Projection for the F136 Alternate Engine, GAO-10-1020R
• Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R
• Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE's Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816
• Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to Respond to and Lessen Releases, GAO-10-769
• Veterans' Benefits: Training for Experienced Disability Claims Processors, GAO-10-1029T [testimony]
• Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses, GAO-10-722
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance [8 Sept 2010]
Heritage Foundation
• Adding DREAM Act to Defense Bill Is Another Form of Amnesty
• Advice and Consent? The Senate Should START with Advice
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• Do Not Undermine the US-European Military Relationship
• Federal Pay Still Inflated After Accounting for Skills
• Implementing Obamacare: A New Exercise in Old-Fashioned Central Planning
• Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes: McConnell-Grassley Tax Hike Prevention Act Would Help Taxpayers and Economy
• Russia’s Proposed New European Security Treaty: A Non-Starter for the U.S. and Europe
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
• Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to U.S. Interests?
• Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix
Human Rights Watch
• Always on the Run: The Vicious Cycle of Displacement in Eastern Congo
• Without Protection: How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• Thinking about Pakistan's Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis and War
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Civil Separated Plutonium in the INFCIRC/549 States – Taking Stock
• Global Fissile Material Stock Charts
• Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (INFCIRC/549): Background and Declarations
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Monograph 172: The International Criminal Court that Africa Wants
• ISS Paper 215: Eco-cop Environmental Policing in Eastern Africa
• ISS paper 216: Natural Resources Conflict Management Processes and Strategies in Africa
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Disgruntled Afghans Throw Out Taleban
International Crisis Group
• Pakistan: The Worsening IDP Crisis
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Adjustment under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09
• Bank Capital and Uncertainty
• Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
• Cyprus: Selected Issues
• Indonesia: Financial System Stability Assessment
• Indonesia: Selected Issues
• Monetary Transmission of Global Imbalances in Asian Countries
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset
International Relations and Security Network
• Assessing the Iraq Surge
• BP Returns To Libya Decades After Gaddafi’s Revolution
• Burma Finds Protective Brother in China
• China’s Rise, the US, and Asia’s Angst
• A Choice of 9/11s
• Georgia Pressing US to OK Defense Purchases
• 'Ground Zero' Imam Says Plans Misunderstood
• Political Is Personal in Peace Process
• Reshaping Bank Behavior
• Serbia: Trouble in Sandzak
• Ugandans Divided Over Somalia Strategy
• Uncertainty Remains Over Black Sea Fleet
• Washington Turf Wars
International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance
Japan Ministry of Defense
• Defense of Japan 2010 [defense white paper]
Lexington Institute
• Radical Multiculturalism a Growing Problem in Public Schools
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Afghanistan Elections Update
National Security Archive
• Former Guatemalan Soldier Sentenced to Ten Years for Lying About Role in Dos Erres Massacre
• "No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show
Nautilus Institute
• The 2009 Australian Defence White Paper: Analysis And Alternatives
New American Foundation
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Dir
o Map of Dir
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Frontier Regions
o Map of Frontier Regions
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand
o Map of Helmand
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Orakzai
o Map of Orakzai
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabul and Uruzgan
Office of The Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
• Joint Staff/Joint Operations: Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama, DoD correspondence sent, 2005-2008
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama correspondence to DoD, 2005-2008
Palm Center
• Don’t Ask Don't Tell Scorecard
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Americans Spending More Time Following the News
• Public Focused on Tensions over Islam: Partisans Divide over Media Coverage of Obama
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellent in Journalism
• Koran and Cultural Center Put Islam in the News
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: How the Country Can Profit and Become More Secure by Getting Rid of Its Surplus Weapons-Grade Uranium
RAND
• Moving Toward a Sustainable U.S. Defense Budget: Speech Given June 15, 2010, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Real Instituto Elcano
• Africa, AFRICOM and the Path to Stability
Security Council Report
• Nepal
• UN Security Council Elections 2010
Security Service MI5
• Address at the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals by the Director General of the Security Service, Jonathan Evans
Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Global Entrepreneurship and the United States
Small Wars Journal
• Comparisons in Nation Building: Korea & Iraq
• Drone Attacks and Just War Theory
• Fighting for a Narrative: A Campaign Assessment of the US-led Coalition’s Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan
• Plan Mexico? Towards an Integrated Approach in the War on Drugs
• A Remembrance of 9/11
• When Relief Aid Becomes Counterproductive: A Study of Intervention in the Congo (2007-2008)
Space Security.org
• Space Security 2010
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan
Yousuf Nazar - State of Pakistan
• Pakistan's Way Forward: Disengagement, Realignment, and Empowerment
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia
Truman Project
• Afghanistan 101
UK House of Commons Defence Committee
• Strategic Defence and Security Review
• The Strategic Defence and Security Review - Memoranda
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
• Advancing New Media Research
• Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia
• Civil Society in Darfur: The Missing Peace
• Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate (Arabic edition)
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Bosnia
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
• Internal Displacement and Local Peacebuilding in Kenya: Challenges and Innovations
• Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Hamas and the Peace Process: New Talks Highlight Internal Tensions
• Three Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• What Arabs Really Think About Iran
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico: New Data and Insights Illuminate Key Trends and Challenges
World Bank
• The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
• Before Disaster Strikes: Imperatives for Enhancing Defense Support of Civil Authorities
Afghanistan Analysts Network
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan’s Evolving Elections
Air University
• Air and Space Power Journal, Fall 2010, v. 24, no. 3
o Lorenz on Leadership: Part 3
o Reenabling Air Force Command and Control for Twenty-first-Century Partnerships
o Desert Shield and Desert Storm: 20 Years in Retrospect
o Seeing the Whole Elephant
o Femme Fatale 2010
o Civilian Language Education in America: How the Air Force and Academia Can Thrive Together
o Achieving a Credible Nuclear Defense
o It’s Time to Fight Back: “Operationalizing” Network Defense
o Satellites and Remotely Piloted Aircraft: Two Remotely Operated Ships Passing in the Fight
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision Statement on Capital Standards
• Missed Opportunities in the Dodd-Frank Act
• The Monumental Task Assigned to the Fed
• Proxy Access and the Market for Corporate Control
• Regulation of Broker-Dealers and the Dodd-Frank Act
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Family Policy and the Idea of “Wahlfreiheit”
• German Views on the Ninth Anniversary of 9/11
• Promoting Energy Innovation and Investment Through Transatlantic Transfer of Community Energy Politics
American Security Project
• Consensus for American Security
Amnesty International
• New Order, Same Abuses—Unlawful Detentions and Torture in Iraq
• Senegal: Land of Impunity
Asian Development Bank Institute
• Fiscal Policy Issues for India after the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2010)
Association of the United States Army (AUSA)
• Consequence Management: Steps in the Right Direction?
Brookings Institution
• The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea: Dark Clouds, Only One Silver Lining
• Combating Climate Change through Quality Education
• The Determinants of Aid Volatility
• The Federal Budget Outlook
• Making Development Aid More Effective
• New Geopolitics and Rediscovery of the US-Japan Alliance: Reshaping “Northeast Asia” Beyond the Border
• Obama’s Infrastructure Agenda: Understanding the Pillars
• Pakistan’s Future: The Bellagio Papers
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• States Of Conflict: An Update on Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Territorial Disputes and Seabed Petroleum Exploitation: Some Options for the East China Sea
• Tracking Economic Recession and Recovery in America’s 100 Largest Metropolitan Areas
Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace
• Cambodia—Maritime Security Challenges and Priorities
• Security Challenges and Implications for Defense Policy
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Mexico: Current and Future Political, Economic and Security Trends
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Pakistan’s Roller-Coaster Economy: Tax Evasion Stifles Growth
• Three Mirages and Two Markets: Understanding the South Caucasus
CATO Institute
• Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Eye to the Future: Refocusing State Department Policy Planning
• Planning Diplomacy and Development: Force Planning Applications for the State Department and USAID
• Rebuilding Diplomacy: A Survey of Past Calls for State Department Transformation
Center for Security Policy
• Shariah: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis - Report of Team 'B' 11
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike
o Related slides
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghanistan: A Progress Report
• Part I – Shaping the Campaign
• Part II – Meeting the Challenges of 2010
• Part III – Implementing the New Strategy
• Afghanistan’s National Assembly Elections
• Central Asia's Pipelines
• The Military Balance in Asia, 1990-2010: A Quantitative Analysis
• U.S.-Saudi Security Cooperation and the Impact of U.S. Arms Sales
Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
• Assessing the Health of Army Laboratories: Funding for Basic Research and Laboratory Capital Equipment
• Improving the Army's Next Effort in Technology Forecasting
• A Primer on Alternative Transportation Fuels
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Obama's War: Prospects for the Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Combined Arms Center
• The Colloquium, September 2010, v. 3, no. 2
o The Path to Victory: Counterinsurgency Operations in Iraq
• Military Review, September-October 2010, v. 90, no. 5
o The Top Seven Myths of U.S. Defense Policy Toward the Americas
o Disarming the Key Leader Engagement
o Thoughts on the Battle for the Mind: IO and COIN in the Pashtun Belt
o National Will from a Threat Perspective
o Heuristics and Biases in Military Decision Making
o Shared Situational Understanding: Fundamental Principles and Iconoclastic Observations
o The Militarization of Gazprom
o The Allure of Quick Victory: Lessons from Peru’s Fight against Sendero Luminoso
o Talking Grand Strategy
o A Practical Approach to Cultural Insight
o Now That We’re Leaving Iraq, What Did We Learn?
o The Challenge of Leadership in the Interagency Environment
Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Bosnia
Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Evolving Nature of Terrorism - Nine Years after the 9/11 Attacks
Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking
Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Pilot Flight and Duty Time Rule
Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Current Security Situation on the Korean Peninsula
Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
• The Integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into the National Airspace System (NAS): Fulfilling Imminent Operational and Training Requirements
• Oversight of MWAA, Reagan Washington National Airport and the Perimeter Rule
Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Banking on Reform: Capital Increase Proposals from the Multilateral Development Banks
Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Nuclear Terrorism: Strengthening Our Domestic Defenses, Part II
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Afghanistan's Unpromising Elections
• Rising Midterm Economic Pressures
Danish Institute for International Security (DIIS)
• ‘Old’ versus ‘New’ Europe: The 2002-08 Straitjacket of European Geopolitics
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Interagency Combating WMD Database of Responsibilities, Authorities, and Capabilities (INDRAC) website
Department of Defense
• Better Buying Power: Guidance for Obtaining Greater Efficiency and Productivity in Defense Spending
• Guidance Roadmap
• DoD Instruction 2200.01, Combating Trafficking in Persons (CTIP), September 15, 2010
• DoD Instruction 3115.12, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), August 24, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-011, Intelligence Oversight Policy Guidance, March 26, 2008, Incorporating Change 1, September 8, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-021, DoD Use of the Civil Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking (SARSAT) System for Support to Personnel Recovery, October 17, 2008 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum (DTM) 08-027, Security of Unclassified DoD Information on Non-DoD Information Systems, July 31, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 16, 2010
• Directive-Type Memorandum DTM-08-052, DoD Guidance for Reporting Questionable Intelligence Activities and Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters, June 17, 2009 - Incorporating Change 1, September 10, 2010
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-107 - Recommendations to Improve the Coast Guard’s System for Adjudicating Suspension and Revocation Matters
• OIG-10-114 - Federal Emergency Management Agency Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Tenant Satisfaction Survey)
Department of State
• Consular Notification and Access
• The Consular Notification and Access Manual
• Update: U.S. Response to Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
Department of the Air Force
• 2010 Combat Air Force Strategic Plan
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: United Kingdom
EU Institute for Security Studies
• Human Rights Challenges in EU Civilian Crisis Management: The Cases of EUPOL and EUJUST LEX
• Humanitarian Action in Pakistan: A Case for EU Political Involvement
• State and Society: The Democratic Challenge
European Policy Centre
• Nagorno-Karabakh – A Ticking Time Bomb
• EU Strategic Partnerships: Are They Worth the Name?
Foreign Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Crime in the United States, 2009
Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• The Constitutional History of U.S. Foreign Policy: 222 Years of Tension in the Twilight Zone
• Defending U.S. Maritime Commerce In Peacetime From 1794 To Today
• Mexico: The Bicentennial and Beyond
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Combating Nuclear Smuggling: Inadequate Communication and Oversight Hampered DHS Efforts to Develop an Advanced Radiography System to Detect Nuclear Materials, GAO-10-1041T [testimony]
• Defense Health Care: Status of Efforts to Address Lack of Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements, GAO-10-1013T [testimony]
• Defense Planning: DOD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe, GAO-10-745R
• Financial Management Systems: Experience with Prior Migration and Modernization Efforts Provides Lessons Learned for New Approach, GAO-10-808
• Information Security: Progress Made on Harmonizing Policies and Guidance for National Security and Non-National Security Systems, GAO-10-916
• Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing, GAO-10-304
• Joint Strike Fighter: Assessment of DOD's Funding Projection for the F136 Alternate Engine, GAO-10-1020R
• Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R
• Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE's Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816
• Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to Respond to and Lessen Releases, GAO-10-769
• Veterans' Benefits: Training for Experienced Disability Claims Processors, GAO-10-1029T [testimony]
• Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses, GAO-10-722
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance [8 Sept 2010]
Heritage Foundation
• Adding DREAM Act to Defense Bill Is Another Form of Amnesty
• Advice and Consent? The Senate Should START with Advice
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• Do Not Undermine the US-European Military Relationship
• Federal Pay Still Inflated After Accounting for Skills
• Implementing Obamacare: A New Exercise in Old-Fashioned Central Planning
• Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes: McConnell-Grassley Tax Hike Prevention Act Would Help Taxpayers and Economy
• Russia’s Proposed New European Security Treaty: A Non-Starter for the U.S. and Europe
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
• Turkey’s Referendum: A Looming Challenge to U.S. Interests?
• Twelve Flaws of New START That Will Be Difficult to Fix
Human Rights Watch
• Always on the Run: The Vicious Cycle of Displacement in Eastern Congo
• Without Protection: How the Lebanese Justice System Fails Migrant Domestic Workers
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• Thinking about Pakistan's Nuclear Security in Peacetime, Crisis and War
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Civil Separated Plutonium in the INFCIRC/549 States – Taking Stock
• Global Fissile Material Stock Charts
• Guidelines for the Management of Plutonium (INFCIRC/549): Background and Declarations
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Monograph 172: The International Criminal Court that Africa Wants
• ISS Paper 215: Eco-cop Environmental Policing in Eastern Africa
• ISS paper 216: Natural Resources Conflict Management Processes and Strategies in Africa
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Disgruntled Afghans Throw Out Taleban
International Crisis Group
• Pakistan: The Worsening IDP Crisis
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Adjustment under a Currency Peg: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the Global Financial Crisis 2008-09
• Bank Capital and Uncertainty
• Commodity Windfalls, Polarization, and Net Foreign Assets: Panel Data Evidence on the Voracity Effect
• Cyprus: Selected Issues
• Indonesia: Financial System Stability Assessment
• Indonesia: Selected Issues
• Monetary Transmission of Global Imbalances in Asian Countries
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights from a New Dataset
International Relations and Security Network
• Assessing the Iraq Surge
• BP Returns To Libya Decades After Gaddafi’s Revolution
• Burma Finds Protective Brother in China
• China’s Rise, the US, and Asia’s Angst
• A Choice of 9/11s
• Georgia Pressing US to OK Defense Purchases
• 'Ground Zero' Imam Says Plans Misunderstood
• Political Is Personal in Peace Process
• Reshaping Bank Behavior
• Serbia: Trouble in Sandzak
• Ugandans Divided Over Somalia Strategy
• Uncertainty Remains Over Black Sea Fleet
• Washington Turf Wars
International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan
• COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance
Japan Ministry of Defense
• Defense of Japan 2010 [defense white paper]
Lexington Institute
• Radical Multiculturalism a Growing Problem in Public Schools
National Democratic Institute (NDI)
• Afghanistan Elections Update
National Security Archive
• Former Guatemalan Soldier Sentenced to Ten Years for Lying About Role in Dos Erres Massacre
• "No-Go" Tribal Areas Became Basis for Afghan Insurgency Documents Show
Nautilus Institute
• The 2009 Australian Defence White Paper: Analysis And Alternatives
New American Foundation
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Dir
o Map of Dir
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Frontier Regions
o Map of Frontier Regions
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand
o Map of Helmand
• The Battle For Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Orakzai
o Map of Orakzai
• The Battle For Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabul and Uruzgan
Office of The Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
• Joint Staff/Joint Operations: Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) History Brief
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama, DoD correspondence sent, 2005-2008
• Congressional Correspondence: Senator Barack Obama correspondence to DoD, 2005-2008
Palm Center
• Don’t Ask Don't Tell Scorecard
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Americans Spending More Time Following the News
• Public Focused on Tensions over Islam: Partisans Divide over Media Coverage of Obama
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellent in Journalism
• Koran and Cultural Center Put Islam in the News
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: How the Country Can Profit and Become More Secure by Getting Rid of Its Surplus Weapons-Grade Uranium
RAND
• Moving Toward a Sustainable U.S. Defense Budget: Speech Given June 15, 2010, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Real Instituto Elcano
• Africa, AFRICOM and the Path to Stability
Security Council Report
• Nepal
• UN Security Council Elections 2010
Security Service MI5
• Address at the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals by the Director General of the Security Service, Jonathan Evans
Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Global Entrepreneurship and the United States
Small Wars Journal
• Comparisons in Nation Building: Korea & Iraq
• Drone Attacks and Just War Theory
• Fighting for a Narrative: A Campaign Assessment of the US-led Coalition’s Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan
• Plan Mexico? Towards an Integrated Approach in the War on Drugs
• A Remembrance of 9/11
• When Relief Aid Becomes Counterproductive: A Study of Intervention in the Congo (2007-2008)
Space Security.org
• Space Security 2010
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
• Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan
Yousuf Nazar - State of Pakistan
• Pakistan's Way Forward: Disengagement, Realignment, and Empowerment
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia
Truman Project
• Afghanistan 101
UK House of Commons Defence Committee
• Strategic Defence and Security Review
• The Strategic Defence and Security Review - Memoranda
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
• Advancing New Media Research
• Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia
• Civil Society in Darfur: The Missing Peace
• Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate (Arabic edition)
• Fulfilling the Promise of Peace: Human Rights, Peace and Reconciliation in Bosnia
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
• Internal Displacement and Local Peacebuilding in Kenya: Challenges and Innovations
• Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Hamas and the Peace Process: New Talks Highlight Internal Tensions
• Three Temptations on the Road to Mideast Peace
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• What Arabs Really Think About Iran
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• U.S. Firearms Trafficking to Mexico: New Data and Insights Illuminate Key Trends and Challenges
World Bank
• The Economic Consequences of “Brain Drain” of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Monday, September 13, 2010
Friday's Miscellany 09-10-2010
Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 1
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 2
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Afghan Election, 2010: Alternative Narratives
• Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II
• The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Nonstate Policing: Expanding the Scope for Tackling Africa's Urban Violence
Amnesty International
• Cambodia: Ongoing Serious Human Rights Violations Must Be Addressed
• United Kingdom: Submission for the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers
Army War College
• Parameters, Summer 2010, v. 40, no. 2
o War—Continuity in Change, and Change in Continuity
o An Appraisal of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy to Counter Terrorism
o Time for a Strategic and Intellectual Pause in Afghanistan
o Positive Perceptions to Sustain the US-Pakistan Relationships
o A Counter-WMD Strategy for the Future
o Soldiers and Politics: Exposing Some Myths
o The North Caucasus: Russian Roulette on Europe's Borders
o Google Confronts China’s “Three Warfares”
Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Economics of Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Restrictions in the Production of Electricity
• Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy: Lithium in Bolivia: Can Resource Nationalism Deliver for Bolivians and the World?
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• The GCC States and the Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Bipartisan Policy Center
• Assessing the Terrorist Threat: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group
BP [British Petroleum]
• Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report [report, appendices, summary and video]
Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Attention: Deficit
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated September 1, 2010 and archives]
CATO Institute
• The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: A Blueprint for Future Trade Expansion
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• South Asia’s Geography of Conflict
Center for Global Development
• Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us
Center for Security Policy
• All Us ‘Citizens of the World’
• Oppose Shariah, Don’t Burn the Quran
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Five Years After Katrina
• Freeman Report: Cross-Strait Prospects – ECFA and Beyond
• How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a New Era for Caribbean Trade
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Control Orders: Strengthening National Security
Charities Aid Foundation
• World Giving Index
Chatham House
• BBC Recording: Has the Taliban Won the War in Afghanistan?
• Livestock Trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• Livestock Trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• A Macro-Economic Assessment of UK Security and Defence Policy Options
Congress. Senate. Senator Chuck Grassley
• Oversight Review of Audit Reporting by the Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
• Grassley to Gates letter
Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [June 2010]
• Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan
• Update: Interaction with OSD/PA on Release of Official Information [memo Sept 2, 2010]
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Devastating Floods in Pakistan: U.S. Secretary of State Calls for Worldwide Help
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] - Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume VII, Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972
• United States Foreign Policy [remarks by Sec Clinton]
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-111 - DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems
• OIG-10-110 - Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2009 DHS Integrated Audit (Redacted)
Ethics Resource Center
• Ethics and Employee Engagement
German Institute for Economic Research
• The Business of Piracy in Somalia
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information. GAO-10-693
• Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R
• University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937
Heritage Foundation
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• Do Not Undermine the U.S.–European Military Relationship
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• India: Fast Growth Does Not Mean a Strong Economy
• The New Face of the Union Movement: Government Employees
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes Defended by Myths and Straw Man Arguments: Summary
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
Human Rights Watch
• Dignity on Trial: India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
• Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
• A Strange Case: Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations
Immigration Policy Center
• Back to the Border; A Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Politics
Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses
• As Dragon Flexes Muscle, the Rising Sun Goes Defensive
• India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Common Perspectives
• India and New Zealand: Emerging Challenges
• Sky’s No Limit: Space-Based Solar Power, the Next Major Step in the Indo-US Strategic Partnership?
• Journal of Defence Studies, 2010, v. 4, no. 2
o Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India
o India, China and the United States: The Triangle That Isn’t
o Naxalite Movement in India: The State's Response
o Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China's New Concept of Information Warfare
o India's Defence Budget 2010-11: An Analysis
o Management of Medical Stores in Indian Armed Forces
o The Evolution of African Armies: A Perspective in 2010
o North Korea's Nuclear Issue: Security Implications for Asia
o Reconstitution of the Bangladesh Rifles
o India's Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use
o Indian Aerospace Power
o China Builds Dam on Indus near Ladakh
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
• What South Africa Does the World Need?
Institute of Development Studies
• Security Systems in Francophone Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Iran Degrading Safeguards Effectiveness; Low Enriched Uranium Production Holds Steady
Institute for Security Studies
• The Burundi Peace Process: From Civil War to Conditional Peace
• The Chair of the African Union – What Prospect for Institutionalization?
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
• Iraq - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Ache/Indonesia: IDPs and Returnees Still Face Significant Recovery and Reintegration Needs
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• Israeli Nuclear Capabilities
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Illicit arms in Indonesia
• Managing Land Conflict in Timor-Leste
• Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
• Turkey’s Crises over Israel and Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The End of an Era? The Medium- and Long-term Effects of the Global Crisis on Growth in Low-Income Countries
• Review of the Fund's Mandate - Follow-Up on Modernizing Surveillance
• To Starve or not to Starve the Beast?
• Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
International Relations and Security Network
• All Eyes on Red Sea Gas
• America in Iraq: Power, Hubris, Change
• Are Tajikistan's Security Services Breaking Down?
• Copper Tells the Story
• Moldova's Referendum Appears To Fail
• Moscow, Baku Cinch Gas Export Deal
• Tajiks Turn to Sharia Law
• The Unsettling Resettlement of Bhutan’s Refugees
• What the Asian Debate about US Hegemony Tells Us
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights From a New Dataset
Iran Watch
• Iran's Nuclear Timetable [updated September 9, 2010]
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators [updated August 13, 2010]
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, September 10, 2010, v. 10, no. 18
o Premier Wen's "Southern Tour": Ideological Rifts in the CCP?
o China’s Evolving Anti-Access Approach: “Where’s the Nearest (U.S.) Carrier?”
o China’s Emerging Debate on Military Transparency
o Ryukyu Chain in China’s Island Strategy
• Terrorism Monitor, September 9, 2010, v. 8, no. 34
o Al-Qaeda's Sa'id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military
o Floods Wash Out Counterterrorist Operations in North Waziristan
o Hukm al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda's Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians
Migration Policy Institute
• The Demographics Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
National Academies Press
• Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop
National Science Foundation
• Proposed Federal R&D Funding for FY 2011 Dips to $143 Billion, with Cuts in National Defense R&D
OpenTheGovernment.org
• 2010 SecrecyReport Card htt
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Not All Financial Regulation Is Global
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Turks Downbeat About Their Institutions: Even Military Less Well-Regarded
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
• Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
Portfolio.com
• A Stress Test for America
Project on Defense Alternatives
• An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending
Reporters Without Borders
• The Iraq War—A Heavy Death Toll for the Media
Small Wars Journal
• Approaching Doctrinal Training the Army Way
• The Art of “Campaigning” to Inform and Influence
• Department of Defense Special Branch: An Organizational Proposal for Counter-threat Operations in Low Intensity Conflicts
• Design and the Prospects for Deviant Leadership
• Hezbollah in the Tri-Border Area of South America
• Khastan Tawanestan! – “We Can, We Will!”
• Nine Years After 9/11: Assessing the War on Terror
• Rebuilding the Force: Unconventional Advisory Forces in Counterinsurgency
• Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Can the Hamlet Evaluation System Inform the Search for Metrics in Afghanistan?
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Controlling Conflict Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• New Foreign Policy Actors in China
Strategic Studies Institute
• An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
• Somalia: Line in the Sand--Identification of MYM Vulnerabilities
Transportation Research Board
• Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Ruling on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Averting Hell on Earth: Religion and the Prevention of Genocide • Iran's Subsidies Conundrum
• On the Issues: What if Kabul Bank Fails?
• Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
• Pakistan: Progress in Peacebuilding
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Combating Export Violations to Iran: The Role of ICE Homeland Security Investigations
• Beyond the Washington Summit: Challenges Facing Israeli-Palestinian Talks
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 1
• Campaign Trail 8: A multipolar election in the Afghan West 2
• Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Afghan Election, 2010: Alternative Narratives
• Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II
• The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• Nonstate Policing: Expanding the Scope for Tackling Africa's Urban Violence
Amnesty International
• Cambodia: Ongoing Serious Human Rights Violations Must Be Addressed
• United Kingdom: Submission for the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers
Army War College
• Parameters, Summer 2010, v. 40, no. 2
o War—Continuity in Change, and Change in Continuity
o An Appraisal of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy to Counter Terrorism
o Time for a Strategic and Intellectual Pause in Afghanistan
o Positive Perceptions to Sustain the US-Pakistan Relationships
o A Counter-WMD Strategy for the Future
o Soldiers and Politics: Exposing Some Myths
o The North Caucasus: Russian Roulette on Europe's Borders
o Google Confronts China’s “Three Warfares”
Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Economics of Pricing the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Restrictions in the Production of Electricity
• Energy Market Consequences of an Emerging U.S. Carbon Management Policy: Lithium in Bolivia: Can Resource Nationalism Deliver for Bolivians and the World?
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• The GCC States and the Security Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Bipartisan Policy Center
• Assessing the Terrorist Threat: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group
BP [British Petroleum]
• Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report [report, appendices, summary and video]
Brookings
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 31, 2010 and Archives]
• Attention: Deficit
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated September 1, 2010 and archives]
CATO Institute
• The Miscellaneous Tariff Bill: A Blueprint for Future Trade Expansion
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• South Asia’s Geography of Conflict
Center for Global Development
• Beyond Short-Term Thinking: How to Spend Billions Well in Pakistan, for Them and for Us
Center for Security Policy
• All Us ‘Citizens of the World’
• Oppose Shariah, Don’t Burn the Quran
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Five Years After Katrina
• Freeman Report: Cross-Strait Prospects – ECFA and Beyond
• How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): Towards a New Era for Caribbean Trade
Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC)
• Control Orders: Strengthening National Security
Charities Aid Foundation
• World Giving Index
Chatham House
• BBC Recording: Has the Taliban Won the War in Afghanistan?
• Livestock Trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• Livestock Trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
• A Macro-Economic Assessment of UK Security and Defence Policy Options
Congress. Senate. Senator Chuck Grassley
• Oversight Review of Audit Reporting by the Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General
• Grassley to Gates letter
Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq [June 2010]
• Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan
• Update: Interaction with OSD/PA on Release of Official Information [memo Sept 2, 2010]
Department of State
• Fact Sheets: Devastating Floods in Pakistan: U.S. Secretary of State Calls for Worldwide Help
• Foreign Relations of the United States [FRUS] - Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume VII, Vietnam, July 1970-January 1972
• United States Foreign Policy [remarks by Sec Clinton]
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-111 - DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems
• OIG-10-110 - Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2009 DHS Integrated Audit (Redacted)
Ethics Resource Center
• Ethics and Employee Engagement
German Institute for Economic Research
• The Business of Piracy in Somalia
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information. GAO-10-693
• Hybrid Warfare, GAO-10-1036R
• University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated, GAO-10-937
Heritage Foundation
• China’s Indian Provocations Part of Broader Trend
• Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them
• Do Not Undermine the U.S.–European Military Relationship
• Don’t Ask, I’ll Just Tell You What the Law Should Be: Log Cabin Republicans v. United States
• India: Fast Growth Does Not Mean a Strong Economy
• The New Face of the Union Movement: Government Employees
• Nine Years Since 9/11: When Will Congress Wake Up on Homeland Security?
• Obama Tax Hikes Defended by Myths and Straw Man Arguments: Summary
• Targeting the Yuan: A Feel-Good but Futile Response
Human Rights Watch
• Dignity on Trial: India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors
• Needless Pain: Government Failure to Provide Palliative Care for Children in Kenya
• A Strange Case: Violations of Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States by European Multinational Corporations
Immigration Policy Center
• Back to the Border; A Historical Comparison of U.S. Border Politics
Institute of Defence Studies & Analyses
• As Dragon Flexes Muscle, the Rising Sun Goes Defensive
• India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Common Perspectives
• India and New Zealand: Emerging Challenges
• Sky’s No Limit: Space-Based Solar Power, the Next Major Step in the Indo-US Strategic Partnership?
• Journal of Defence Studies, 2010, v. 4, no. 2
o Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India
o India, China and the United States: The Triangle That Isn’t
o Naxalite Movement in India: The State's Response
o Integrated Network Electronic Warfare: China's New Concept of Information Warfare
o India's Defence Budget 2010-11: An Analysis
o Management of Medical Stores in Indian Armed Forces
o The Evolution of African Armies: A Perspective in 2010
o North Korea's Nuclear Issue: Security Implications for Asia
o Reconstitution of the Bangladesh Rifles
o India's Response Options to Pakistani Nuclear First Use
o Indian Aerospace Power
o China Builds Dam on Indus near Ladakh
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
• What South Africa Does the World Need?
Institute of Development Studies
• Security Systems in Francophone Africa
Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Iran Degrading Safeguards Effectiveness; Low Enriched Uranium Production Holds Steady
Institute for Security Studies
• The Burundi Peace Process: From Civil War to Conditional Peace
• The Chair of the African Union – What Prospect for Institutionalization?
Institute for the Study of War
• Afghanistan - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
• Iraq - Order of Battle [updated September 2010]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Ache/Indonesia: IDPs and Returnees Still Face Significant Recovery and Reintegration Needs
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Syrian Arab Republic
• Israeli Nuclear Capabilities
International Crisis Group
• Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
• Illicit arms in Indonesia
• Managing Land Conflict in Timor-Leste
• Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
• Turkey’s Crises over Israel and Iran
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The End of an Era? The Medium- and Long-term Effects of the Global Crisis on Growth in Low-Income Countries
• Review of the Fund's Mandate - Follow-Up on Modernizing Surveillance
• To Starve or not to Starve the Beast?
• Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
International Relations and Security Network
• All Eyes on Red Sea Gas
• America in Iraq: Power, Hubris, Change
• Are Tajikistan's Security Services Breaking Down?
• Copper Tells the Story
• Moldova's Referendum Appears To Fail
• Moscow, Baku Cinch Gas Export Deal
• Tajiks Turn to Sharia Law
• The Unsettling Resettlement of Bhutan’s Refugees
• What the Asian Debate about US Hegemony Tells Us
International Peace Institute (IPI)
• The United Nations Security Council and Civil War: First Insights From a New Dataset
Iran Watch
• Iran's Nuclear Timetable [updated September 9, 2010]
• Tracking the World's Efforts to Punish Iranian Proliferators [updated August 13, 2010]
Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, September 10, 2010, v. 10, no. 18
o Premier Wen's "Southern Tour": Ideological Rifts in the CCP?
o China’s Evolving Anti-Access Approach: “Where’s the Nearest (U.S.) Carrier?”
o China’s Emerging Debate on Military Transparency
o Ryukyu Chain in China’s Island Strategy
• Terrorism Monitor, September 9, 2010, v. 8, no. 34
o Al-Qaeda's Sa'id al-Shihri Seeks to Revolutionize the Saudi Military
o Floods Wash Out Counterterrorist Operations in North Waziristan
o Hukm al-Tatarrus: al-Qaeda's Justification for Killing Muslim Civilians
Migration Policy Institute
• The Demographics Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
National Academies Press
• Assessing the Effects of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill on Human Health: A Summary of the June 2010 Workshop
National Science Foundation
• Proposed Federal R&D Funding for FY 2011 Dips to $143 Billion, with Cuts in National Defense R&D
OpenTheGovernment.org
• 2010 SecrecyReport Card htt
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• The Consequences of Banking Crises for Public Debt
Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Not All Financial Regulation Is Global
Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Turks Downbeat About Their Institutions: Even Military Less Well-Regarded
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
• Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?
Portfolio.com
• A Stress Test for America
Project on Defense Alternatives
• An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending
Reporters Without Borders
• The Iraq War—A Heavy Death Toll for the Media
Small Wars Journal
• Approaching Doctrinal Training the Army Way
• The Art of “Campaigning” to Inform and Influence
• Department of Defense Special Branch: An Organizational Proposal for Counter-threat Operations in Low Intensity Conflicts
• Design and the Prospects for Deviant Leadership
• Hezbollah in the Tri-Border Area of South America
• Khastan Tawanestan! – “We Can, We Will!”
• Nine Years After 9/11: Assessing the War on Terror
• Rebuilding the Force: Unconventional Advisory Forces in Counterinsurgency
• Teaching New Dogs Old Tricks: Can the Hamlet Evaluation System Inform the Search for Metrics in Afghanistan?
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Controlling Conflict Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• New Foreign Policy Actors in China
Strategic Studies Institute
• An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations
• Somalia: Line in the Sand--Identification of MYM Vulnerabilities
Transportation Research Board
• Cooperative Research Programs Security Research Status Report
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Ruling on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Averting Hell on Earth: Religion and the Prevention of Genocide • Iran's Subsidies Conundrum
• On the Issues: What if Kabul Bank Fails?
• Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
• Pakistan: Progress in Peacebuilding
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Combating Export Violations to Iran: The Role of ICE Homeland Security Investigations
• Beyond the Washington Summit: Challenges Facing Israeli-Palestinian Talks
• The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy
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