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