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