Friday's Miscellany 12-10-2010

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• AEI Political Report, December 2010, v. 6, no. 11
o The Role of Government: What Do Americans Want?
• The F-22: Raptor or Albatross?
• A Rift with the Afghans
• Trickling Home to South Waziristan
• Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Forging the Future of Germany and Europe: Reflections on 20 Years of German Unification
• Policy Report #45: Intellectual Property Rights and Green Technology Transfer: German and U.S. Perspectives
• The Reform of the IMF: Europe's Short-Term Arithmetic and Long-Term Choices
• Remembering and Renewing: Polish-German Relations Forty Years Later
• Why Flooding Facebook With Comic Pictures Calls for the Application of Copyright Laws

Amnesty International
• Behind a Wall of Silence: Prosecution of War Crimes in Croatia
• A Blow to Humanity: Torture by Judicial Caning in Malaysia
• Still in Need of Safety: The Internally Displaced in Eastern Chad

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center
• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, November 2010, v. 17, no. 11 - Mental Health issue

Asian Development Bank Institute
• EU-Asia Free Trade Areas? Economic and Policy Considerations
• Universalizing Complete Access to Finance: Key Conceptual Issues

Atlantic Council
• Hitting the Reset Button on US-Russia Cooperation
• Modernizing the OSCE: An Agenda Item for Astana

Berghof Conflict Research
• Empowering Diasporas: The Dynamics of Post-War Transnational Tamil Politics

Brookings Institute
• Al Qaeda's M&A Strategy
• Attitudes Toward the Middle East Peace Process: Surveys of Arab and Jewish Opinion in Israel and Public Opinion in the United States
• Innovation’s Darker Future: Biosecurity, Technologies of Mass Empowerment, and the Constitution
• Korea-US Cooperation Against Bulk Cash Smuggling
• Taking Action on Climate Change: The Forecast for Cancún and Beyond

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Arab Reform Bulletin December 8, 2010 - The Obama Administration’s Quiet Approach to Reform in the Arab

CATO Institute
• Why is Africa Poor?

Center for American Progress
• U.S.-China Relations: Security and the Military-to-Military Exchange

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Responsible Transition: Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011

Center for Global Development
• Capability Traps? The Mechanisms of Persistent Implementation Failure
• MCA Monitor Report from the Field: Republic of Georgia
• More than Money: Impact Investing for Development
• Sudan Debt Dynamics: Status Quo, Southern Secession, Debt Division, and Oil—A Financial Framework for the Future

Center for Security Studies
• NATO and Missile Defence: Opportunities and Open Questions
• NATO Summit: Forward-looking Decisions, Difficult Implementation

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Enhancing India’s Role in the Global Nonproliferation Regime
• India and the Nonproliferation Institutions
• Moving Forward with Constitutional Reform in Kenya
• The North African Military Balance
• PacNet #59 - Testing Trilaterism
• PacNet #60 - China’s Policy Toward North Korea: A New Twist?
• PacNet #61 - More than Futenma
• South Asia Monitor, no. 148 - The Inside Pages: An Analysis of the Pakistani Press The Tongue-tied Press of Pakistan: Comparing English and Urdu Newspapers
• South Asia Monitor, no. 149 - Beyond Kashmir’s Summer of Violence
• US and Iranian Strategic Competition
• What to Do About North Korean Aggression?

Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program
• China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 2010, v. 8, no. 3
o Special Issue: Turkmenistan
o Turkmenistan: Permanent Transition or Elusive Stability?
o Changes in the Political Elite in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan
o Berdymukhammedov’s Turkmenistan: A Modest Shift in Domestic and Social Politics
o Turkmenistan: A Promised Land for Doing Business? Macroeconomic Reforms under Berdymukhammedov
o External Conditionality, Domestic Insulation and Energy Security: The International Politics of Post-Niyazov Turkmenistan

Chatham House
• On Cyber Warfare

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• Crime and Insurgency in the Tribal Areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan
• CTC Sentinel Nov/Dec 2010
o AQAP’s Soft Power Strategy in Yemen
o Developing Policy Options for the AQAP Threat in Yemen
o The Role of Non-Violent Islamists in Europe
o The Evolution of Iran’s Special Groups in Iraq
o Fragmentation in the North Caucasus Insurgency
o Assessing the Success of Leadership Targeting
o Revolution Muslim: Downfall or Respite?
o Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Implications for U.S. National Security
• Strategic Forces: The Status of Implementing the Phased Adaptive Approach to Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Implementing Tougher Sanctions on Iran: A Progress Report
• Zimbabwe: From Crisis to Renewal

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Assessment of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Support Function Roles and Responsibilities

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• Civil Liberties and National Security

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Nunn-Lugar Global: The Africa Mission, November 2010
• The New START Treaty (Treaty Doc. 111–5)

Congress. Senate. Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
• Benefitting Whom? For-Profit Education Companies and the Growth of Military Educational Benefits

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
• Examining the Efficiency, Stability, and Integrity of the U.S. Capital Markets

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
• Financial Access 2010

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Cancun Outcome a Modest Step Forward
• How WikiLeaks Hurts U.S.-Pakistan Ties
• Threat of Homegrown Islamist Terrorism
• UN Security Council Enlargement and U.S. Interests

Deloitte Energy & Resources
• Oil & Gas Reality Check 2011

Demos
• The Edge of Violence: “Tackling Home-Grown Terrorism Requires a Radical Approach…”

Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service
• Household Food Security in the United States, 2009

Department of Defense
• Administrative Instruction 111, Component Emergency Response on the Pentagon Reservation
• DoD Directive 3115.13, DoD Support to the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG)
• DoD Instruction 8100.04, DoD Unified Capabilities (UC)
• DoD Manual 7730.47-M, Vol. 1, Manual for Defense Incident-Based Reporting System (DIBRS): Data Segments and Elements
• DoD Manual 7730.47-M, Vol. 2, Defense Incident-Based Reporting System (DIBRS): Supporting Codes

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-11-08 - Assessment of Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Support Function Roles and Responsibilities
• OIG-11-12 - Protective Security Advisor Program Efforts to Build Effective Critical Infrastructure Partnerships: Oil and Natural Gas Subsector
• OIG-11-13 - Review of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility Site Selection Process

Department of Justice - Office of Immigration Litigation
• Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions: Padilla v. Kentucky

Department of State
• Background Notes: Afghanistan

East West Center
• Chinese Domestic Debates on Soft Power and Public Diplomacy

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations
• Addressing the Financial Crisis: The EU’s Incomplete Regulatory Response

EU Commission
• Reaping the Benefits of Electronic Invoicing for Europe

EU Institute for Security Studies
• The EU in Zimbabwe: What to Do Now?
• The EU, Russia and the Neighbourhood?
• Europeans Prepare to Face up to Their Responsibilities
• How to Engage with Abkhazia?
• India-EU Forum: Effective Multilateralism
• Peacebuilding in Asia: Refutation or Cautious Engagement?
• Sapsan: A Parable of Russian Modernization

European Interagency Security Forum
• Good Practice Review 8 (Revised edition): Operational Security Management in Violent Environments

Foreign Policy
• WikiFamous: Ten World Figures Who are Getting Their 15 Minutes in the Limelight
• Who's Who in WikiLeaks: The World Leaders Embarrassed by Cablegate

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• Quo Vadis Fidel? Where are You Going?
• Time for a New Approach to Mexico
• Watching Iran: How the WikiLeaks Disclosures Could Put a Sweeping U.S. Effort to Monitor the Islamic Republic in Jeopardy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Better Ensure a Coordinated Federal Response to Illegal Activity on Federal Lands, GAO-11-177
• Defense Management: DOD Has a Rigorous Process to Select Corrosion Prevention Projects, but Would Benefit from Clearer Guidance and Validation of Returns on Investment, GAO-11-84
• Defense Transportation: Additional Information Is Needed for DOD's Mobility Capabilities and Requirements Study 2016 to Fully Address All of Its Study Objectives, GAO-11-82R
• Information Security: National Nuclear Security Administration Needs to Improve Contingency Planning for Its Classified Supercomputing Operations, GAO-11-67
• Maritime Security: Ferry Security Measures Have Been Implemented, but Evaluating Existing Studies Could Further Enhance Security, GAO-11-207
• Military and Veterans Disability System: Pilot Has Achieved Some Goals, but Further Planning and Monitoring Needed, GAO-11-69
• Navy's Proposed Dual Award Acquisition Strategy for the Littoral Combat Ship Program, GAO-11-249R

Government of Canada
• 10th Quarterly Report on Canada’s Engagement in Afghanistan

Henley Putnam University
• Journal of Strategic Security, Winter 2010, v. 3, no. 4
o The Security Impact of Oil Nationalization: Alternate Futures Scenarios
o International Security Strategy and Global Population Aging
o Operation Opera: An Ambiguous Success
o Devolving Jihadism

Heritage Foundation
• Don’t Get Your Hopes Up About Chinese Political Reform
• Indian Globalization: How It Could Happen and How the US Can Help
• KORUS FTA: A Good Deal Unnecessarily Delayed
• NATO Summit 2010: Time to Turn Words Into Action
• Taiwan Straits Relations: Chinese Approaching Crisis Management Crunch-Point
• Treaty Ratification During Lame Duck Sessions
• Using the SAFETY Act to Build a Stronger US-Israeli Terrorism-Fighting Partnership
• Wikileaks and Julian Assange: Time to Update US Espionage Laws

Homeland Security & Defense Business Council
• 9/10/11 Project monograph - Biosecurity: Are We Ready for the Day Before Tomorrow

Hoover Institute
• Pakistan and America

Human Rights Watch
• Rights on the Line: Human Rights Watch Work on Abuses against Migrants in 2010
• Trigger Happy: Excessive Use of Force by Indian Troops at the Bangladesh Border

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• An Impact Assessment of President Obama’s Visit on the India-US Strategic Partnership

Institute for Security Studies
• ISS Paper 220: The Impact of climate Change in Africa
• Policy Brief No. 21: ZIMBABWE From a Global (Dis)Agreement to Free and Fair Elections? Considering Scenarios for Zimbabwe's Future
• Peace and Security Council Report No. 17
• South Africa's Second Term at the UN Security Council: Managing Expectations

ISPW
• The Taiwan Calculus in China’s Strategy Towards the North Korea – Iran Axis

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Government Response Improves but Still Fails to Meet Needs of Growing IDP Population

International Crisis Group
• Cyprus: Bridging the Property Divide
• Indonesia: Preventing Violence in Local Elections
• Reforming Pakistan’s Criminal Justice System
• Transforming China: Insights from the Japanese Experience of the 1980s

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Bank Capital: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
• The Cost of Private Debt Over the Credit Cycle
• Determinants of Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: Fundamentals vs Financial Stress
• Into the Great Unknown: Stress Testing with Weak Data
• Managing Public Debt and Its Financial Stability Implications
• Monetary Policy, Leverage, and Bank Risk-Taking
• U.S. Monetary Shocks and Global Stock Prices

International Relations and Security Network
• After Cancún: Shifting Climate Gears
• Agent Provocateurs: Al-Qaida’s New Strategy in Yemen
• Belarusians: In Need of a Nation
• Bosnia's Post-Election Future Bleaker Than Ever
• The Eurozone Slides into a Vicious Cycle
• Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek Coalition Talks Back at Square One
• Prioritizing Nuclear Nonproliferation
• 'Systemic Corruption': Daunting Challenge in Globalized Era
• Why Hasn’t the US Been Able to Foster Democracy in Iraq?
• 'We Don't Need No Education'?

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
• Climate Change and Regime Longevity in the DPRK
• Strategy for a Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone as a step to "Common Security"

New America Foundation
• A New Deal: A Plan for Sustainable Afghan Stability

New England Journal of Medicine
• Health Hazards of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell”

Oxfam
• Dashed Hopes: Continuation of the Gaza Blockade

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
• 10 Reasons Why the Russian Economy Will Recover
• Exchange Rate Policy in Brazil

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
• Muslim Networks and Movements in Western Europe

Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Who Tweets?

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Deficit Solutions Meet With Public Skepticism: Consensus in Principle, Resistance in Practice
• Public Sees WikiLeaks as Harmful

Rand
• The al Qaeda-Inspired Terrorist Threat: An Appreciation of the Current Situation

School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
• Is Government in India Becoming More Responsive? Has Democratic Decentralisation Made a Difference?
• Security by Militia, but for Whom?: Non-State Actors and Security Governance in Nigeria

Security Affairs.org
• Jr of International Security Affairs, Fall/Winter 2010 - Number 19
o The Next Stage of Proliferation
o The Post-Iran Proliferation Cascade
o Fear and loathing – and an emerging arms race–in the Persian Gulf
o Nonproliferation, Russian Style
o The Kremlin’s strange approach to countering the spread of WMD
o Tracing Syria’s Nuclear Ambitions
o Why Syria wants the bomb, and how it is trying to get it
o Tackling Pyongyang’s Proliferation Trade
o North Korea is arming the world’s rogues, here’s how to stop it
o The NPT’s Challenge to Israel
o How arms control threatens to undermine the Jewish state’s nuclear opacity
o Off to a Bad START
o The new arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow is harmful for America
o Provocatively Weak
o The Last Line of Defense

Security Council Report
• Update Report No. 3 on Somalia (8 December 2010)
• Update Report no. 4 on Iraq (10 December 2010)

Small Wars Journal
• Children, the War on Terror and Decision Making
• Design and the Prospects for Artistry
• From Conception to Policy: Evolution of Thinking on the War against Terrorism 2002-2004
• Insurgencies in South Sudan: A Mandatory Path to Build a Nation?
• The Military’s Cultural Disregard for Personal Information
• The US in Afghanistan: Follow Sun Tzu rather than Clausewitz to Victory
• U.S. Armor in Afghanistan: Worth the Effort?

Stanley Foundation
• The IAEA and Nuclear Security: Trends and Prospects

Stimson Center
• A Piece of the Global Puzzle: The Role of the Gulf Cooperation Council and League of Arab States in Implementing Resolution 1540

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• Russia's Prospects in Asia

United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA)
• Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Least Developed Countries Report 2010: Towards a New International Development Architecture for LDCs

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Basic Training Manual on Investigating and Prosecuting the Smuggling of Migrants
• Model Law Against the Smuggling of Migrants

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1993-2003 – Humanitarian Abuses and Violations

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Chad’s 2007 Peace Agreement Plagued by Poor Implementation
• Conflict and Post-Conflict Governance: The Stakeholder Perspective
• Transcending the Past to Build Haiti’s Future

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Beyond the Freeze Deal: A New Agenda for U.S. Efforts on the Peace Process
• Democracy in the Balance? Iraq's Next Government
• The Evolution of Iran's Special Groups in Iraq
• Jerusalem-Ramallah-Cairo-Amman: A Trip Report and Policy Update
• Merging Bottom-Up and Top-Down Peace Efforts: A Jerusalem-Ramallah Trip Report
• Palestinian Public Opinion: Tactically Flexible, Strategically Ambitious

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, 1971 -1975
• The Soviet Pavilion at Brussels ’58: Convergence, Conversion, Critical Assimilation, or Transculturation?

World Bank
• Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention

World Public Opinion.org
• Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information