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