Friday's Miscellany 10-22-2010

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• The Ex-Taleban on the High Peace Council: A Renewed Role for the Khuddam ul-Furqan?

Afghanistan NGO Safety Office
• Afghanistan: ANSO Quarterly Data Report Quarter 3 2010 [01 January - 30 September]
• ANSO Quarterly Data Reports

Air University Library
• Recent Bibliographies
• WMD: Chemical, Biological, & Radiological
• Somalia Piracy
• Cyberspace and National Security
• Iraq Reconstruction

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Network Neutrality 101 - Why the Government Must Act to Preserve the Free And Open Internet

Amnesty International
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Briefing to the UN Committee Against Torture

Atlantic Council
• Triple Crown 2010: Can the Transatlantic Alliance be Strategic?

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Analysis of Financial Incentives for Early CCS Deployment
• How Good Politics Results in Bad Policy: The Case of Biofuel Mandates
• Transportation Revenue Options: Infrastructure, Emissions, and Congestion

British American Security Information Council(BASIC)
• Iran Update, no. 146

Brookings Institute
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated October 19, 2010 and archive]
• Civil Society in the Arab World and the Dilemma of Funding
• Empirical Performance of a Decentralized Civil Violence Model
• Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
• Reset Reloaded: The Second Phase of Obama’s Russia Policy Should Now Have a Major European Component
• The Role of Religious Leaders and Religious Communities in Diplomacy
• Systemic Risk in the Financial System: Insights from Network Science
• (Un?)Happiness and Gasoline Prices in the United States

Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Background Checks for Firearm Transfers, 2009 Statistical Tables

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Broken Promises: The Fragility Gap and the Millennium Development Goals
• China’s Strategic Behaviour

CARE Canada
• Looking for Leadership: Women’s Empowerment and Canada’s New Role in Afghanistan

CATO Institute
• A Free Trade Agreement with South Korea Would Promote Both Prosperity and Security

Center for a New American Security
• America’s Interests in India
• India, The United States and the Global Commons
• Natural Allies: A Blueprint for the Future of US-India Relations
• The Strategic Implications of Indo-US Private Sector Ties
• The United States and India 10 Years Out
• Unleashing US-India Defense Trade

Center for American Progress
• A New Approach to the Russia-Georgia Conflict

Center for Immigration Studies
• A Gift to the Drug Cartels: Will New Mexico Become the New Arizona?

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
• Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Summer 2010, v. 12, no. 4
• Germany and Sea Power in the 20th Century
• Inexpensive Leadership: On Canada’s Global Normative Position and Its Potentials
• Conference Proceedings: Canadian Reserves on Operations
• Conference Powerpoints: Canadian Reserves on Operations

Center for Security Policy
• National Security Scorecard

Center for Security Studies
• Intelligence Agencies: Adapting to New Threats
• Switzerland and the EU: Challenges and Uncertainties of Bilateralism

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Cyber Events Since 2006
• Doing Less with Less? Assessing the Impact of the UK Strategic Defense and Security Review
• Issues & Insights Vol. 10 - No. 24
• Middle Eastern Perspectives on the United States
• PacNet #50 - Enhancing Japan's position in the Senkaku Dispute
• The US Transition in Iraq: Iraqi Forces and US and Military Aid

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• The Caribbean Papers: Caribbean Economic Governance Project
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Burundi [4th ed]

Chatham House
• Evaluating the 2010 Strategy Review
• Hong Kong in the Global Economy: How the Special Administrative Region Rises to the Challenges Posed by China
• Managing Energy: Rethinking the Fundamentals - Managing Energy Technology
• Strategy in Austerity: The Security and Defence of the United Kingdom
• Yemen and Somalia: Terrorism, Shadow Networks and the Limitations of State-Building

Combat Studies Institute (CSI)
• War Termination: The Proceedings of the War Termination Conference United States Military Academy West Point 21 June 2010

Council on Foreign Relations
• Midterm Elections 2010: Spending Wars

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
• The Russo-Chinese Energy Relationship

Deloitte’s Global Energy & Resources Group
• Energy Predictions 2011 report

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-124 - The Performance of 287(g) Agreements Report Update
• OIG-10-122 - Age Determination Practices for Unaccompanied Alien Children - Update
• OIG-10-121 - FEMA’s Implementation of Recommendations from Top Officials 4
• OIG-10-97 - DHS' Counterintelligence Activities (Summary)

Department of State
• Briefing on Pending Major Arms Sale

Department of the Navy
• Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) 2011 Guidance

Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies
• China in Ghana: Easing the Shift from Aid Dependency to Oil Economy?

European Environment Agency
• Tracking Progress Towards Kyoto and 2020 Targets in Europe

European Policy Centre
• Skills and Education for Growth and Well-Being in Europe 2020: Are We on the Right Path?

Federal Reserve Board
• Report to the Congress on Risk Retention

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
• Identity Theft – Trends, Patterns, and Typologies Reported in Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Filed by Depository Institutions

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Secure Border Initiative: DHS Needs to Strengthen Management and Oversight of Its Prime Contractor, GAO-11-6
• Servicemember Reemployment: Agencies Are Generally Timely in Processing Redress Complaints, but Improvements Needed in Maintaining Data and Reporting, GAO-11-55
• Southwest Border: More Timely Border Patrol Access and Training Could Improve Security Operations and Natural Resource Protection on Federal Land, GAO-11-38

Heritage Foundation
• America’s Founders and the Principles of Foreign Policy: Sovereign Independence, National Interests, and the Cause of Liberty in the World
• Protective Agreement to Limit Missile Defense and Space Systems Should Delay New START
• Spending Cuts in British Defense Review: Less Than Expected, but Still Damaging
• The U.S. Takes “New Europe” for Granted at its Own Peril

Human Rights Watch
• Afraid and Forgotten: Lawlessness, Rape, and Impunity in Western Côte d’Ivoire
• Development Without Freedom: How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia
• The Price of Independence: Silencing Labor and Student Unions in Tunisia

Institute for Homeland Security Solutions
• Building on Clues: Examining Successes and Failures in Detecting U.S. Terrorist Plots, 1999-2009

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
• A Contentious New START: A Snapshot of the Debate over the New START Treaty
• Strategic Forum # 260 Private Contractors in Conflict Zones: The Good, the Bad, and the Strategic Impact

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Burundi: Overview of the 2010 Elections and Observations on the way Forward
• A Critical Assessment of Security Challenges in West Africa
• Illegal Fishing and the Rising Threat of Piracy

Institute for the Study of War
• Iraq – Order of Battle (Dec 09 – Oct 10)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Bank Lending in Turkey: Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policies
• Deconstructing The International Business Cycle: Why Does A U.S. Sneeze Give The Rest Of The World A Cold?
• Financial Contagion through Bank Deleveraging: Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the Financial Crisis
• Financial Frictions, Investment, and Institutions
• The Impact of the Great Recession on Emerging Markets
• International Capital Flows and Development: Financial Openness Matters
• Is Social Spending Procyclical?
• Regional Economic Outlook: Europe
• Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere
• Restoring Debt Sustainability After Crises: Implications for the Fiscal Mix
• Spillovers from Europe into Morocco and Tunisia

International Relations and Security Network
• Azerbaijan: Should the Learned be Elected in Baku?
• Bahrain on the Edge
• The Broken US-Mexican Border
• China's Demographic Dilemma
• Drone Attacks Stoke Debate in Pakistan
• German Defense Reform and Conscription
• Regional Military Force Established to Crack Down on Lord’s Resistance Army
• Turkey's Referendum: Revenge à la Turca?
• Wen Jiabao: The Verdict of History

IRIS Independent Research
• 9 Secrets of the Tanker War: Replacing America’s Aerial Refueling Tankers with KC-X

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, October 22, 2010, v. 10, no. 21
o PLA Gains Clout: Xi Jinping Elevated to CMC Vice-Chairman
o Letter from Taiwan: Taipei and the New, Assertive China
o New Strains Emerge in the Sino-Russian Military Relationship
o Growing Nationalism and Maritime Jurisdiction in the East China Sea
• Terrorism Monitor, October 21, 2010, v. 8, no. 38
o Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Strategy of "Encircling" India
o The New Ideologues of the North Caucasus Jihadists
o Can Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Maintain its Operational Capability in a Sanctions Regime?

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• How Globalisation is Changing Patterns of Marginalisation and Inclusion in the UK

McKinsey Global Institute
• Beyond Austerity: A Path to Economic Growth and Renewal in Europe

Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Well Within Reach: America’s New Transportation Agenda

Monterey Institute for International Studies
• Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Reports

National Academies Press
• Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration
• Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Interim Report
• Sequence-Based Classification of Select Agents: A Brighter Line
• Severe Space Weather Events--Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report
• Understanding the Demand for Illegal Drugs

National Library of Medicine
• Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) website
• NN/LM Emergency Preparedness & Response Toolkit

Officer.com
• Maritime Homeland Security: Are Duties & Responsibilities Changing?

Parliamentary Library of Australia
• Multiculturalism: A Review of Australian Policy Statements and Recent Debates in Australia and Overseas

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
• The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Development Thinking
• Prospects for Implementing the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement
• A Role for the G-20 in Addressing Climate Change?

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Indians See Threat From Pakistan, Extremist Groups

RAND
• Residential Insurance on the U.S. Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: A Framework for Evaluating Potential Reforms
• Retention of Military Physicians: The Differential Effects of Practice Opportunities Across the Three Services
• Three Essays on Obstacles to Improving Demographic Representation in the Armed Forces

Russian and Eurasian Security Network
• Russian Analytical Digest No. 84: Police Reform

Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: It Never Hurts to Talk
• In Afghanistan, Less is More
• Design and the Prospects for Critical Dialogue
• Governance in the Raw: A Primer on Tribal Political Systems
• Planning a Military Campaign to Support Negotiations in Afghanistan
• Southern Sudan - the Four Theses
• Team Ninewa Models Successful Civilian-Military Unity of Effort

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• Military Spending and Arms Procurement in the Gulf States

Transnational Institute
• Assumptions in the European Union Biofuels Policy: Frictions with Experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
• The Second Conquest: The EU Free Trade Agreement with Colombia and Peru

United Kingdom
• A Strong Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The National Security Strategy
• Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review

UK National Audit Office
• Ministry of Defence: The Major Projects Report 2010

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
• Disarmament Forum - Arms Control Verification, 2010, no. 3
o Arms Control Verification (full text)
o Verification: To Detect, to Deter and to Build Confidence
o The Verification Debate in the BTWC in 2011
o Monitoring and Verification of the Arms Trade and Arms Embargoes
o Verification in Space: Theories, Realities and Possibilities
o Verification and Security in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Elements and Framework of a Nuclear Weapons Convention
o The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Verification of International Agreements

United Nations Office in Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Guide for the Development of Forensic Document Examination Capacity

Uppsala Conflict Data Program // Peace Research Institute Oslo
• UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset: Version 4-2010, 1946 – 2009

U.S. Census Bureau
• Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2009

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
• “Children of War” Screening at United Nations Spotlights Efforts to Aid Child Soldiers
• Dangerous Liaisons with the Afghan Taliban: The Feasibility and Risks of Negotiations
• On the Issues: Lebanon
• Persistent Challenges to Long-Term Peace in Côte d’Ivoire
• Realism and Pragmatism in Security Sector Development
• Social Media Amplify Concerns in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State
• Transparency is the Key to Legitimate Afghan Parliamentary Elections

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Balancing Rights in Bahrain
• Iran's Influence in Iraq: Game, Set, but Not Match to Tehran
• Turkey under the AKP: Neither a European nor a Regional Power (Part 3)

World Economic Forum
• Global Gender Gap Index 2010

Friday's Miscellany 10-15-2010

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Capacity-Building Through Policymaking: Developing Afghanistan’s National Education Strategic Plan
· Does Women’s Participation in the National Solidarity Programme Make a Difference in their Lives?: A Case Study in Parwan Province
· Peace at all Costs? Reintegration and Reconciliation in Afghanistan

Air Force Doctrine Command
· Cyberspace Operations [AFDD 3-12]

Air University
· Air Warfare [reprint edition]

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
· Asia-Pacific Demographics in 2010-2040: Implications for Strategic Balance
· Defending Defense: Setting the Record Straight on US Military Spending Requirements
· The Enigma of Russian Mortality
· Post-Partisan Power

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· 20 Years After German Reunification: A Bumpy Road to Success – With Confusingly Much Green Light Ahead
· The Lisbon Treaty in Focus
· Recovering From an Economic Hangover: Lessons and Prescriptions for Transatlantic Cooperation

Amnesty International
· Nigeria: Port Harcourt Demolitions: Excessive Use of Force Against Demonstrators
· USA: The Case of the ‘Cuban Five’

Asian Development Bank Institute
· The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Business Activity: A Survey of Firms in the People's Republic of China

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare
· Fiscal Year 2011 Army Budget: An Analysis

Baker Institute for Public Policy
· Rehabilitation of Radicals

Brookings
· American Politics on the Eve of the Midterm Elections
· Catalysts for Rights: The Unique Contribution of the UN’s Independent Experts on Human Rights
· Next Steps on U.S.-Russian Nuclear Negotiations and Nuclear Nonproliferation

Bureau of Justice Statistics
· Gang Units in Large Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2007

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Natural Gas Pricing and Its Future: Europe as the Battleground

CATO Institute
· Congress Should Account for the Excess Burden of Taxation

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations & Regimes [updated]

Center for American Progress
· Big Oil Goes to College: An Analysis of 10 Research Collaboration Contracts Between Leading Energy Companies and Major U.S. Universities
· From a "Green Farce" to a Green Future: Refuting False Claims About Immigrants and the Environment

Center for Security Policy
· Is it Time for More Attacks?

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Comparative Connections v. 12 n. 3
· Global Aging Preparedness Index
· Grand Strategy in the Afghan, Pakistan, and Iraq Wars
· The Growing Challenges in Defense Spending and the Defense Budget: An Overview
· Middle East Notes and Comment: Failure and Success on the Nile
· PacNet #47 – The Seoul G20 Summit: Opportunity for and Challenge to Strengthening US-Korea Relations
· PacNet #48 – Comparative Connections Summaries
· PacNet #49 - Asia in the “New American Moment”
· The Uncertain Cost of War(s)

Central Command (CENTCOM)
· CENTCOM Information Portal Extranet FOIA Reading Room

Chatham House
· Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe
· Strategy in Austerity: The Security and Defence of the United Kingdom

Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST)
· Suicide Attack Database

CIVIC (Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict)
· Civilians in Armed Conflict: Civilian Harm and Conflict in Northwest Pakistan

Congress. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
· Report and Analysis of Sitting on Our Assets: The Federal Government’s Misuse of Taxpayer-Owned Assets

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Monthly Budget Review, October
· Potential Costs of Veterans’ Health Care

Consortium for Strategic Communication [Arizona State University]
· A Counter-Narrative for Iranian Tyranny
· Lessons from Aceh Terrorist De-Radicalization

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Crisis Guide: Pakistan
· Foreign Policy and the 2010 Midterms: Energy and Climate Policy
· The Prospect for Peace in Sudan: A View from Religious Leaders on the Ground (Audio)
· Solving the Kashmir Conundrum

Department of Defense
· DOD Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

Department of Defense and Department of State
· Joint Statement on Enhancing Coordination to Secure America's Cyber Networks

Department of Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
· Historical Facts Book

Department of Homeland Security
· OIG-10-123 - FEMA’s Preparedness for the Next Catastrophic Disaster - An Update
· OIG-10-120 - Management of DHS’ Data Center Consolidation Initiative Needs Improvement
· Privacy Impact Assessment for the Use of Social Networking Interactions and Applications Communications/Outreach/Public Dialogue
· Privacy Impact Assessment for the Significant Event Notification (SEN) System

Department of State
· Background Notes: Japan

Detention Watch Network, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
· Year One Report Card: Human Rights and the Obama Administration's Immigration Detention Reforms

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Short-Term Energy and Winter Fuels Outlook

EU Institute for Security Studies
· China's Foreign Policy Debates
· The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo: The Beginning of a New Road
· Is the EU Capable of Making Serbs and Albanians Finally Reconcile?
· Transforming the Quartet principles: Hamas and the Peace Process

Georgia Tech Information Security Center
· Emerging Cyber Threats Report 2011

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Afghanistan and Iraq: DOD Should Improve Adherence to Its Guidance on Open Pit Burning and Solid Waste Management, GAO-11-63
· Aviation Weather: Agencies Need to Improve Performance Measurement and Fully Address Key Challenges, GAO-10-84
· Coast Guard: Efforts to Identify Arctic Requirements Are Ongoing, but More Communication about Agency Planning Efforts Would Be Beneficial, GAO-10-870
· Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Reassess Joint Cruise Missile Costs before Starting New Production Phase, GAO-11-112
· Military Personnel: Sustained Leadership and Oversight Needed to Improve DOD's Prevention and Treatment of Domestic Abuse, GAO-10-923
· Supply Chain Security: CBP Has Made Progress in Assisting the Trade Industry in Implementing the New Importer Security Filing Requirements, but Some Challenges Remain, GAO-10-841

Henley-Putnam University
· Journal of Strategic Security, Fall 2010, v. 3, no. 3
o Understanding the Appeal of the Taliban in Pakistan
o Conceptualizing Terrorist Violence and Suicide Bombing
o Eriksonian Identity Theory in Counterterrorism
o Social Cohesion and Islamic Radicalization: Implications from the Uighur Insurgency
o North Korea and Support to Terrorism: An Evolving History
o Political Terrorism: An Historical Case Study of the Italian Red Brigades

Heritage Foundation
· 2010 Index of Dependence on Government
· The 21st-Century Militia: State Defense Forces and Homeland Security
· America’s Founders and the Principles of Foreign Policy: Sovereign Independence, National Interests, and the Cause of Liberty in the World
· Defending Defense: Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Military Spending Requirements
· The Obama Administration Mush Push for Macedonia’s Accession to NATO at the Lisbon Summit
· Obama Jobs Deficit Further Evidence of Failure
· Technology Explains Drop in Manufacturing Jobs
· The White House Embraces Smart Power: Now What?

The Institute for Security Studies
· Somalia Dilemmas Changing Security Dynamics, but Limited Policy Choices

Institute for the Study of War
· Creating Police and Law Enforcement
· The Haqqani Network

International Crisis Group
· Colombia: President Santos’s Conflict Resolution Opportunity
· New Crisis, Old Demons in Lebanon: The Forgotten Lessons of Bab-Tebbaneh/Jabal Mohsen

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· The Euro's Effect on Trade Imbalances
· Government Investment and Fiscal Stimulus
· Monetary Policy Matters: New Evidence Based on a New Shock Measure
· Panama: Selected Issues Paper

International Relations and Security Network
· Al-Qaida: Condition and Prospect
· Kyrgyzstan: Parties Prepare for Coalition Building
· Listening to the Asia-Europe Dialogue
· Mexico: Assassins on the 'Cheap'
· Transparency: Obama’s Mixed Scorecard
· The 'X' Factor: Reintegrating Female Combatants

Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development
· Mission Maryland: Measuring Economic Impact of Maryland's Military Installations

National Academies Press
· BioWatch and Public Health Surveillance: Evaluating Systems for the Early Detection of Biological Threats: Abbreviated Version
· Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration
· Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5

National Drug Intelligence Center
· SENTRY - An Early Warning and Response System [mapping application]

National Priorities Project
· Military Recruitment 2009

National Science Foundation
· Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function: Fiscal Years 2009–11

Nixon Center
· Asia’s Role in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean: Implications for the Region and the US

Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network
· Korea-Japan Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (KJNWFZ) Concept Paper
o English
o Japanese
o Korean
· The Status Quo Isn’t Working: A Nuke-Free Zone Is Needed Now

OMB Watch
· Analysis of A Pledge to America

Open Society Foundations
· Confinement Conditions at a U.S. Screening Facility on Bagram Air Base
· Revenue Watch Index: Transparency: Governments and the Oil, Gas and Mining Industries
· The Trust Deficit: The Impact of Local Perceptions on Policy in Afghanistan

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The Central Banker's Case for Doing More
· Global Economic Prospects as of September 30, 2010: A Moderating Pace of Global Recovery
· Reform of the Global Financial Architecture

Pew Internet & American Life Project
· Americans and Their Gadgets
· Video Calling and Video Chat

RAND
· The Perfect Storm: The Goldwater-Nichols Act and Its Effect on Navy Acquisition
· Police Recruitment and Retention for the New Millennium: The State of Knowledge
· Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico: Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help? · Today's Police and Sheriff Recruits: Insights from the Newest Members of America's Law Enforcement Community

Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
· Entente or Oblivion—Prospects and Pitfalls of Franco-British Cooperation on Defense

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
· India’s Emerging Land Warfare Doctrines and Capabilities
· Japan’s New Security Imperative: The Function of Globalization

Security Council Report
· Update Report on Somalia [October 15, 2010]

Small Wars Journal
· A Better, Bad Choice
· Humanizing “The Man:”: Strengthening Psychological and Information Operations in Afghanistan
· Implementing COIN Doctrine in the Absence of a Legitimate State
· Looking for the Hedgehog Idea
· The Rising Dominance of the Information Revolution within RMA Thought

Strategic Studies Institute
· Operation EUFOR TCHAD/RCA and the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
· Pakistan: A Guide to Main Militant Groups

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment
· UNODC Annual Report 2010

US District Court - Central District of California
· Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America and Robert M. Gates -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" suspension order
· Related documents

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Ahmadinezhad's Lebanon Visit and the Fate of the Hariri Tribunal
· Obama's National Security Vision: Confronting Transnational Threats with Global Cooperation
· Negotiations amidst the Settlement Freeze
· Pakistan Goes Rogue

White House
· An Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Investment
· Report on Afghanistan and Pakistan, September 2010

Friday's Miscellany 10-08-2010

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Capacity-Building Through Policymaking: Developing Afghanistan’s National Education Strategic Plan

African Center for Strategic Studies
• Enhancing Civilian Protection in Peace Operations: Insights from Africa

Air University
• The Wright Stuff, v. 5, no. 20, September 23, 2010
o Air Force Advanced Analysis: A Proposition

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• The Russian Federation: Confronting the Special Challenges of Aging and Social Security Policy in an Era of Demographic Crisis

Amnesty International
• Universal Jurisdiction: UN General Assembly Should Support This Essential International Justice Tool

Army War College
• US Army War College Guide to National Security Issues Volume II, National Security Policy and Strategy

Atlantic Council
• The Danger of Divergence: Transatlantic Cooperation on Financial Reform

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Australia's National Security Institutions: Reform and Renewal
• Southeast Asia: Patterns of Security Cooperation

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
• Getting to Zero Update, October 7, 2010

Brookings Institute
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated October 4, 2010 and archive]
• China’s Population Destiny: The Looming Crisis
• The Future Is Now: A Balanced Plan to Stabilize Public Debt and Promote Economic Growth
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated September 30, 2010 and archive]
• Latin America Economic Perspectives
• October 2010 Update for TIGER: Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery
• The Next Economy and the Growth Challenge for the United States
• Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
• Ten Economic Facts about Immigration

Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Gang Units in Large Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2007

CACI International Inc.
• Made in China - Waking Up to U.S. National Security Cyberthreats

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Armenia and Turkey: Bridging the Gap

Caucasian Review of International Affairs (CRIA)
• Caucasus Update No. 80, October 6, 2010 Unblocking the US-Azerbaijan Relationship

Center For Hemispheric Defense Studies
• Security and Defense Studies Review, Spring-Summer 2010, v. 10
o Eastphalia: Asia en la Geopolítica Global y las Implicaciones para las Américas
o A Conflict Analysis Methodology for Formulating Security Policy and Strategy
o Las Relaciones Político-Militares en Democracia: Los Ministerios de Defensa
o Mujeres Terroristas: Ascendiendo la Escala de Terror
o El Uso de la Fuerzas Militares en el Marco del Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Como Herramienta Legítima en el Enfrentamiento con los Actores Armados No Estatales
o Dimensión Internacional de la Política de Seguridad Democrática
o New Regionalism and Leadership in Brazilian Security and Defense Policy
o Maras, Inc.: The Continuing Evolution of the Transnational Street Gangs in Central America
o Cyber Espionage: A Threat to National Security
o New Frontiers? China – Latin America Space Cooperation
o U.S. Military Justice: Present at the Creation

Center for Security Studies
• Privatising Security: The Limits of Military Outsourcing

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Sustaining America’s Strategic Advantage in Long-Range Strike

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• DIIG Current Issues No. 22: Rare Earth Elements
• Iraq: The Realities of US “Withdrawal of Combat Forces” and the Challenges of Strategic Partnership
• Putting the Air War in Pakistan in Perspective

Center for Technology and National Security Policy
• Islamic Radicalization in the United States: New Trends and a Proposed Methodology for Disruption
• Risk-Informed Decisionmaking for Science & Technology

Centre for European Reform
• How to Save the Euro
• How Should Europe Respond to Sovereign Investors in its Defense Sector?
• Turkish Politics and the Fading Magic of EU Enlargement

Century Foundation
• India in Afghanistan and Beyond: Opportunities and Constraints
• Post-Soviet Central Asian National Interests in Afghanistan

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, September 2010, v. 3, no. 9
o Reevaluating Al-Qa`ida's Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities
o The Evolving Terrorist Threat in Yemen
o The U.S.-Pakistan Relationship and Finding an End State in Afghanistan
o Piracy in the Horn of Africa: A Growing Maritime Security Threat
o Al-Qa`ida's Key Operative: A Profile of Mohammed Ilyas Kashmiri
o The Role and Significance of Signature Attacks in the Iraqi Insurgency
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan - report

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times
• Monthly Budget Review, October 2010
• Potential Costs of Veterans' Health Care

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• The Global Finance Regime
• Internet Governance in an Age of Cyber Insecurity
• Islam: Governing Under Sharia
• Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists
• State Sponsors: Iran
• Sudan's Fractured Internal Politics
• White House Report on Afghanistan and Pakistan, September 2010

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
• 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

Defence Research and Development Canada
• Exercise Integrated Response 2008 (ExIR-08): After Action Report
• V2010 CBRNE Tabletop Exercise 2009 (TTX-09):After Action Report
• V2010 CBRNE Live Play Exercise 2009: After Action Report

Deloitte
• Defense: New Realities, Innovative Response

Department of the Army
• Army Regulation 381–12 - Threat Awareness and Reporting Program

Department of Defense
• DoD Directive 3025.13, Employment of DoD Capabilities in Support of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), October 8, 2010
• DoD Instruction 1340.25, Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE), September 28, 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-10-018, Law Enforcement Reporting of Suspicious Activity, October 1, 2010

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-10-119 - Evaluation of Screening of Air Cargo Transported on Passenger Aircraft (Unclassified Summary)
• OIG-10-118 - Efforts to Detect and Deter Fraud Committed by Immigration Services Officers
• OIG-10-117- CBP's Handling of Unaccompanied Alien Children

Department of State
• Background Notes: Colombia
• Limited-Scope Review of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's Oversight of Explosives Detection Canine Programs

Department of Veterans Affairs
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Oversight Advisory Report
• VA Has Opportunities to Strengthen Program Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12

Director of National Intelligence
• A Dialogue on the New National Information-Sharing Environment (ISE) Strategy: Building Beyond the Foundation

Energy Information Administration
• Country Analysis Brief: Iraq
• Country Analysis Brief: South Korea

European Policy Centre
• The EU as a Counter-Terrorism Actor Abroad: Finding Opportunities, Overcoming Constraints
• The Treaty of Lisbon: A Second Look at the Institutional Innovation

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Cyberspace Policy: Executive Branch Is Making Progress Implementing 2009 Policy Review Recommendations, but Sustained Leadership Is Needed, GAO-11-24
• DOD Business Transformation: Improved Management Oversight of Business System Modernization Efforts Needed, GAO-11-53
• Firms Reported in Open Sources to Have Sold Iran Refined Petroleum Products between January 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, GAO-10-967R
• Global Health: Trends in U.S. Spending for Global HIV/AIDS and Other Health Assistance in Fiscal Years 2001-2008, GAO-11-64
• Information Technology: Opportunities Exist to Improve Management of DOD's Electronic Health Record Initiative, GAO-11-50
• Nuclear Weapons: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Ensure Continued Availability of Tritium for the Weapons Stockpile, GAO-11-100
• Privacy: OPM Should Better Monitor Implementation of Privacy-Related Policies and Procedures for Background Investigations, GAO-10-849

Heritage Foundation
• The 21st-Century Militia: State Defense Forces and Homeland Security
• The Arizona Immigration Law: Racial Discrimination Prohibited
• The White House Embraces Smart Power: Now What?
• Why is America Exceptional?

Human Rights Watch
• Walls at Every Turn: Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers Through Kuwait’s Sponsorship System

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses
• Afghanistan: A Firewall is Better than Partition
• Change in India-US Diplomatic Practices – An Interim Report

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
• Air, Space, & Cyberspace Power in the 21st-Century

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
• Strategic Forum no. 259 - Global Commons and Domain Interrelationships: Time for a New Conceptual Framework?

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Taking Stock: North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Program

Institute for the Study of Labor
• The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

Institute for the Study of War
• After the Surge: Task Force Raider’s Experience in Iraq

The Institute for Security Studies
• Situation Report: Abyei Natural Resources Conflicts
• Situation Report: Liberia: The 2011 Elections and Building Peace in the Fragile State

Inter-American Development Bank
• Disaster Risk Indicators

International Food Policy Research Institute
• Food Security and Economic Development in the Middle East and North-Africa

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Islamic Banking: How Has it Diffused?
• Strategies for Fiscal Consolidation in the Post-Crisis World
• What Can International Cricket Teach Us About the Role of Luck in Labor Markets?
• World Economic Outlook (WEO): Recovery, Risk, and Rebalancing

International Relations and Security Network
• Ecuador: Between Rebellion and Coup
• Jihadist Census: ‘Al Qaeda-Affiliated and 'Homegrown’ Jihadism in the UK'
• OSINT Report 3/2010
• Rebuilding Kyrgyzstan
• The Success of Islamophobia
• Survival of the Richest: Taxation in Pakistan
• Venezuela's Poll: Democracy Against the Odds

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, October 8, 2010, v. 10, no. 20
o Hu Revives Quasi-Maoist Tactics to Stem Social Instability
o The Karakoram Corridor: China’s Transportation Network in Pakistan
o China’s Growing Clout in the SCO: Peace Mission 2010
o New Twists over Old Disputes in China-Japan Relations
• Terrorism Monitor, October 4, 2010, v. 8, no. 37
o Islamist Terrorism in Europe: Could Greece Be Next?
o Insurgent Groups React to the Withdrawal of American Combat Forces in Iraq
o Jihad in the Rasht Valley: Tajikistan's Security Dilemma

Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
• Chem-Bio Defense Quarterly Magazine, 2010, v. 7, no. 2
o Acquisition Reform Practical Approach for Both Government and Industry
o Face Free Respirator Protection Takes to the Sky
o Joint Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) Leaders Unite to Support President Obama’s Standards Initiative
o The Next Generation Chemical Standoff Detection System and the Long Road to Dugway Proving Ground, a Study in Government-Industry Collaboration
o Partnering to Protect
o What Makes a “Good” Architecture?
o Product Manager Consequence Management (PM-CM)
o New Provisional Biosurveillance Office at CBMS
o ECBC Cooperative Research and Development Agreements

Levy Institute
• Why Has China Succeeded – And Why It Will Continue To Do So

Lexington Institute
• P-8A Poseidon: A New Model For Military Procurement

Lowy Institute
• Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy in the Age of Obama
• Our Consensus Future: The Lay of the Land in 2025
• The Return of Geo-Economics

National Academies Press
• Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring CyberAttacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy

National Commission on Children and Disasters
• 2010 Report to the President and Congress

National Research Council
• Review of the Department of Homeland Security's Approach to Risk Analysis

National Security Archive
• THE IRAQ WAR -- PART III: Shaping the Debate

Nautilus Institute
• Australian Defence Force (ADF) Budget Allocations for Afghanistan-Related Activities
• Treaty between the Government of Australia and the Government of the United States of America Concerning Defense Trade Cooperation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2007-09-05

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General
• OIG-10-A-21 Audit of NRC’s Oversight of the Access Authorization Program for Nuclear Power Plants

Open Society Foundation
• The Trust Deficit: The Impact of Local Perceptions on Policy in Afghanistan

Pak Institute for Peace Studies
• Hizbut Tahrir in Pakistan: Discourse and Impact
• Pakistan's Responses to Terrorism: A Broad Overview

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
• Beyond Borders: Diversity and Transnational Links in Afghan Religious Education
• Engaging Diasporas in Development. A Review of Pilot Project Pakistan

Rand
• Air Power [Posted with permission from The International Studies Encyclopedia, Vol. I, edited by Robert A. Denemark, April 2010, pp. 47–65]
• Best Practices in Developing Proactive Supply Strategies for Air Force Low-Demand Service Parts
• Reflecting Warfighter Needs in Air Force Programs: Prototype Analysis

Royal Institute for International Relations
• Countering Afghan Narcotics: A Litmus Test for Effective NATO and Russia Cooperation?
• A Strategy for CSDP: Europe’s Ambitions as a Global Security Provider

Security & Defence Agenda
• The 2010 UK Strategic Defence and Security Review
• A Conversation on Cybersecurity

Small Wars Journal
• Afghanistan: The De-evolution of Insurgency
• Arming the U.S. Military for the Future
• Bismarck’s Lesson on COIN: An Invading Force’s Presence in a Foreign Land is its own Enemy
• Counterinsurgency in Pakistan
• Design and the Prospects for Mission Analysis
• Iraqi Police Priorities
• The Misunderstood Private Dynamic of Modern War
• The Prospect for a Unified International Policy on Iran
• The U.S. Strategic Imperative Must Shift From Iraq/Afghanistan to Mexico/The Americas and the Stabilization of Europe

Smart Grid Interoperability Panel
• Smart Grid Interoperability Panel - Cyber Security Working Group Standards Review

Stimson Center
• Enhancing United Nations Capacity to Support Post-Conflict Policing and Rule of Law
• Beyond the Boundaries in the Middle East
• UN Panels of Experts and UN Peace Operations

Strategic Studies Institute
• Harnessing Post-Conflict "Transitions": A Conceptual Primer

The Liaison Office
• The Dutch Engagement in Uruzgan: 2006 to 2010

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Crime, Politics and Violence in Post- Earthquake Haiti
• Humanitarian Space Shrinking for Health Program Delivery in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Local Justice in Southern Sudan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Jerusalem: A Vision for Tomorrow

Friday's Miscellany 10-01-2010

Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
• Disruptive Information Technologies: Cloud Computing, Social Networking, Consumerization
• Tipping Point: Maintaining the Health of the National Security Space Industrial Base

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• The Russian Federation: Confronting the Special Challenges of Aging and Social Security Policy in an Era of Demographic Crisis

Amnesty International
• The Chains Remain: Restrictions on Freedom of Expression in Sudan
• Left Out: Violations of the Rights of Roma in Europe
• Not Welcome Anywhere: Stop the Forced Return of Roma to Kosovo

Asian Development Bank Institute
• Promoting Learning and Industrial Upgrading in ASEAN Countries

Atlantic Council
• NATO 2020: SAG Strawman Strategic Concept

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Southeast Asia: Patterns of Security Cooperation
• Special Report Issue 34 – Australia’s National Security Institutions: Reform and Renewal

Baker Institute
• The History of U.S. Relations with OPEC: Lessons to Policymakers

Brookings
• China-Japan Security Relations
• Cyprus: Current Developments and Prospects for the Future
• The Future Is Now: A Balanced Plan to Stabilize Public Debt and Promote Economic Growth

Center for American Progress
• Dirty Money: Oil Companies and Special Interests Spend Millions to Oppose Climate Legislation
• Navigating Political Currents to Achieve Middle East Peace: American Leadership Is Vital
• The Transformation of US-Russia Relations

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Crime Wars: Gangs, Cartels and U.S. National Security
• Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a Post-Petroleum Era

Center For Hemispheric Defense Studies
• Strategic Forum 259, Global Commons and Domain Interrelationships: Time for a New Conceptual Framework?

Centre for International Governance Innovation
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Afghanistan September 2010, no. 4

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Defense Department PAS Positions
• Final Review Draft of “Afghan National Security Forces”
• Foreign Policy and Development
• PacNet #42 – Casting Off the Old Regime: The DPJ’s Real Challenge
• PacNet #43 – Tip of the Spear: The 13 Missions for US Marines in Okinawa
• PacNet #44 - The Challenge of a Nuclear North Korea: Dark Clouds, Only One Silver Lining
• Spread Sheet Model for Analyzing the Military Balance in Asia
• Thresholds for Cyberwar

Center for Strategic Research
• Strategic Perspectives 1 "Redefining Success: Applying Lessons in Nuclear Diplomacy from North Korea to Iran

Common Cause
• Voting in 2010: Ten Swing States (includes discussion of military voters overseas)

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
o Department of Defense’s efficiency initiative [September 29, 2010]
o Fighting Superbugs: DOD’s Response to Multidrug-Resistant Infections in Military Treatment Facilities [September 29, 2010]
o Small Business’ Role and Opportunities in Restoring Affordability to the Department of Defense [September 29, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Cambodia’s Small Debt: When Will the U.S. Forgive?
• Out of the Shadows: The Global Fight Against Human Trafficking
• PEPFAR: From Emergency to Sustainability and Advances Against HIV/AIDS
• Renewed Engagement: U.S. Policy Toward Pacific Island Nations
• U.S. Strategy for Countering Jihadist Websites

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office: Can It Overcome Past Problems and Chart a New Direction?
• Emergency Logistics Management: Transforming the Delivery of Disaster Relief for the 21st Century
• Is the Office of Intelligence and Analysis Adequately Connected to the Broader Homeland Communities?

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Courtroom Use: Access to Justice, Effective Judicial Administration, and Courtroom Security
• Reining in Overcriminalization: Assessing the Problems, Proposing Solutions
• The Role of Immigration in Strengthening America's Economy

Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
• Averting the Storm: How Investments in Science Will Secure the Competitiveness and Economic Future of the U.S.

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
• Pipeline Safety: Assessing the San Bruno, California Explosion and Other Recent Accidents

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• The al-Megrahi Release: One Year Later

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee
• Earthquake Preparedness: What the United States can Learn from the 2010 Chilean and Haitian Earthquakes
• Implementation, Improvement, and Sustainability: Management Matters at the Department of Homeland Security
• Improving Financial Accountability at the Department of Defense

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Crimes Against America's Homeless: Is the Violence Growing?

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices - Testimony
• Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times

Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Foreign Policy and the 2010 Midterms: New START and Arms Control

Crisis States Research Centre
• Civilian Control of the Military in Tanzania and Zambia: Explaining Persistent Exceptionalism

Department of Defense
• DoD Directive 5148.11, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (ATSD(IO)), September 20, 2010
• DoD Instruction 1340.25, Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE), September 28, 2010

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2010-088 Accountability and Disposition of Government Furnished Property in Conjunction with the Iraq Drawdown - Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, September 30, 2010
• D-2010-091 DOD Needs to Improve Management and Oversight of Operations at the Theater Retrograde-Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, September 30, 2010

Department of Homeland Security
• OIG-10-115 - FEMA’s Management of Disaster Assistance Employee Deployment and Payroll Processes
• OIG-10-112 - Evaluation of DHS' Security Program and Practices For Its Intelligence Systems For Fiscal Year 2010 (Unclassified Summary)

Department of State
• Background Notes : North Korea [updated September 29, 2010]
• The American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975 [program]

East-West Center
• How to Confront Radical Islam
• Vietnam-US Relations: Past, Present, Future

Economic Policy Institute
• Rising China Trade Deficit will Cost One-Half Million U.S. Jobs in 2010

Energy Information Administration
• Country Analysis Brief: Iraq

Eurostat
• EU-27 Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with the USA, China, the EFTA Countries, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Australia in 2009

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• BARACK W. OBAMA?: The Obama Middle East Strategy in Historical Perspective

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Air Ambulance: Effects of Industry Changes on Services Are Unclear, GAO-10-907
• Army Corps of Engineers: Organizational Realignment Could Enhance Effectiveness, but Several Challenges Would Have to Be Overcome, GAO-10-819
• Defense Infrastructure: Department of Defense's Energy Supplemental Report, GAO-10-988R
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo: U.S. Agencies Should Take Further Actions to Contribute to the Effective Regulation and Control of the Minerals Trade in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, GAO-10-1030
• Department of Defense: Financial Management Improvement and Audit Readiness Efforts Continue to Evolve, GAO-10-1059T [testimony]
• Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made in Implementation and Transformation of Management Functions, but More Work Remains, GAO-10-911T [testimony]
• Export Promotion: Observations on the Export-Import Bank's Efforts to Achieve U.S. Policy Goals, GAO-10-1069T [testimony]
• Federal Contracting: Assessments and Citations of Federal Labor Law Violations by Selected Federal Contractors, GAO-10-1033
• Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in Continuity Planning and Involvement of Key Users, GAO-10-799
• Human Capital: Further Actions Needed to Enhance DOD's Civilian Strategic Workforce Plan, GAO-10-814R
• Information Sharing: Federal Agencies Are Helping Fusion Centers Build and Sustain Capabilities and Protect Privacy, but Could Better Measure Results, GAO-10-972
• Iraq and Afghanistan: DOD, State, and USAID Face Continued Challenges in Tracking Contracts, Assistance Instruments, and Associated Personnel, GAO-11-1
• Maritime Security: Actions Needed to Assess and Update Plan and Enhance Collaboration among Partners Involved in Countering Piracy off the Horn of Africa, GAO-10-856
• Military Personnel: Observations on the Use and Effects of the National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Act of 2008, GAO-10-1014R
• Office of the Federal Detention Trustee's (OFDT) Cost Estimation Methods Reflect Features of Best Practices, but Processes Could Be Enhanced, GAO-10-1037R
• Persian Gulf: U.S. Agencies Need to Improve Licensing Data and to Document Reviews of Arms Transfers for U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Goals, GAO-10-918
• Supply Chain Security: DHS Should Test and Evaluate Container Security Technologies Consistent with All Identified Operational Scenarios to Ensure the Technologies Will Function as Intended, GAO-10-887
• U.S. Employment in the United Nations: State Department Needs to Enhance Reporting Requirements and Evaluate Its Efforts to Increase U.S. Representation, GAO-10-1028
• U.S. Water and Sanitation Aid: Millions of Beneficiaries Reported in Developing Countries, but Department of State Needs to Strengthen Strategic Approach, GAO-10-957
• VA Health Care: Spending for and Provision of Prosthetic Items, GAO-10-935
• Weapons of Mass Destruction: Actions Needed to Track Budget Execution for Counterproliferation Programs and Better Align Resources with Combating WMD Strategy, GAO-10-755R

Heritage Foundation
• China-Japan Confrontation at Sea: Senkaku Islands Issue Won’t Go Away
• East China Sea Flare-Up: Learning the Wrong Lessons in Beijing
• Obama Tax Hikes: Bad for All Americans
• Senate Must Scrutinize Deeply Flawed New START Verification Measures
• Trade Freedom Continues to Advance - Barely
• The Uncertainty of Health Care Projections
• Venezuela’s Legislative Elections: Democratic Opposition Makes Major Gains
• What Nuclear Gaming Tells Us About New START
• Why is America Exceptional?

Homeland Security Policy Institute
• Foreign Fighters: Trends, Trajectories & Conflict Zones

Human Rights Watch
• Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools
• Looser Rein, Uncertain Gain: A Human Rights Assessment of Five Years of King Abdullah’s Reforms in Saudi Arabia

Institute of History
• No 83: Russian Policy Towards Africa and the Near East

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• What is North Korea Building in the Area of the Destroyed Cooling Tower? It Bears Watching

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)
• China and the EU: Economy Prevails
• The Improvement of U.S.- Myanmar Relations: Processes, Reasons and Prospects
• The Pipeline Dynamics in the Sino-Myanmar Honeymoon: Regional Contention and Strategic Fallout
• Political Roles of Religious Communities in South Asia
• Return of the Liberal Democrats? Internal Divisions within the Democratic Party of Japan
• Tough Times Ahead? Escalating Tensions Between Japan and China: Dual Perspectives

Institute for the Study of War
• From the Front Lines: Evaluating Afghanistan (VIDEO)

International Crisis Group
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina – A Parallel Crisis
• CrisisWatch N°86, 1 October 2010
• Nepal’s Political Rites of Passage

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Chile: Selected Issues Paper
• Heavily Indebted Countries (HIPC) Initiative and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI)--Status of Implementation
• Price Dynamics in China
• Monetary Transmission in Low Income Countries
• Recent Credit Stagnation in the MENA Region: What to Expect? What Can Be Done?

International Relations and Security Network
• Azerbaijan Gears Up for Elections
• ‘New’ Direct Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations Doomed
• Pakistan Blocks NATO Supply Route
• Pakistan Supreme Court, Government Face Off
• Role for Local Justice in Darfur?
• Serbia's Sandzak Becomes Balkan's Latest Hot Spot

National Academies Press
• Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
• A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States

National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC)
• Blue Planet: Informal International Police Networks and National Intelligence

National Democratic Institute
• Public Opinion Poll Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) August 2010

National Security Archive
• THE IRAQ WAR -- PART II: Was There Even a Decision?
• The United States vs. Rito Alejo del Río

Nautilus
• Implementing a Japanese-Korean Nuclear Weapon Free Zone: Precedents, Legal Forms, Governance, Scope and Domain, Verification and Compliance, and Regional Benefits

New America Foundation
• Public Opinion in Pakistan’s Tribal Regions

Pacific Research Institute
• GI Junior Scholarships: Expanding Education Options for Children from Military Families in California

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
• Controversies Over Mosques and Islamic Centers Across the U.S.

Pew Research Center
• Static America: Myths about Political Change in the U.S.

Polish Institute of International Affairs
• Financial Aspects of Russian Military Reform

RAND
• Calculator Shows the Cost of Crime and Value of Police
• Developing a Defense Sector Assessment Rating Tool
• Hidden in Plain Sight: What Cost-of-Crime Research Can Tell Us About Investing in Police
• Job Search on the Internet, E-Recruitment, and Labor Market Outcomes
• Our Foes Cannot Destroy This Nation
• Recruiting and Retaining America's Finest: Evidence-Based Lessons for Police Workforce Planning
• Security in Iraq: A Framework for Analyzing Emerging Threats as U.S. Forces Leave
• Understanding and Reducing Off-Duty Vehicle Crashes Among Military Personnel
• Use of the C-27J Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Conducting Army Mission Critical, Time Sensitive Missions in Counterinsurgency Operations

Rubicon Research Repository
• Digital Repository of Diving and Environmental Physiology Research

Security Council Report
• Cross-Cutting Report on Women, Peace and Security

Small Wars Journal
• The Afghan National Security Force: A Progress Report, Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell, IV Remarks to the NATO Military Committee
• Breaking Ranks?
• Design for Napoleon’s Corporal
• The Fight for Marjah: Recent Counterinsurgency Operations in Southern Afghanistan
• Mission and Morality: Tough Choices for Advisors, Mentors and Teams Leaders
• Penny Packets Revisited: How the USAF Should Adapt to 21st Century Irregular Warfare
• “Right Tech” Solutions for USAF Security Force Assistance
• The Village Engagement Center: Stabilizing One Village at a Time
• WikiLeaks, Media, and Policy: A Question of Super-Empowerment

Stimson Center
• Beyond Boundaries in the Middle East: Leveraging Nonproliferation Assistance to Address Security/Development Needs With Resolution 1540


Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
• The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia

Transportation Research Board
• Maritime Freight Transportation, National Economic Recovery, and Global Sustainability: Coordinating a Strategic Plan


UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo]: Mapping Human Rights Violations 1993-2003


UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Afghan Opium Survey 2010

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Civic Education and Peacebuilding
• Crime, Politics and Violence in Post- Earthquake Haiti
• Crowdsourcing Crisis Information in Disaster- Affected Haiti
• The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
• Make It Theirs
• Mental Health Services During and After Armed Conflict: The State of Knowledge and Practice
• On the Issues: Bosnian Elections
• On the Issues: North Korea’s Leadership Succession: The China Factor

USAID Inspector General
• Review of Security Costs Charged to USAID Projects in Afghanistan
• USAID OIG Booklet on Pakistan and Afghanistan - July 2010

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Bringing Damascus into the Tent: Can Washington Revive Israel-Syria Peace Talks?
• Dear Prime Minister: U.S. Efforts to Keep the Peace Process on Track
• Laying the Foundation for Peace: Challenges for the Palestinian Economy
• Turkey after the Constitutional Referendum: Implications for Washington

White House
• Iran; Blocking Property of Persons With Respect to Human Rights Abuses (EO 13553)

World Public Opinion.org
• Governments Misspend More Than Half of Our Taxes--Global Poll