Friday's Miscellany 12-17-2010

Psychiatric Services, December 2010, v. 61, no. 12, p. 1177 “Self-Inflicted Deaths Among Women With U.S. Military Service: A Hidden Epidemic?”

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
• Poverty in Afghan Policy: Enhancing Solutions through Better Defining the Problem
• Securing Life and Livelihoods: The Role of Social Relations in Afghanistan
• Understanding and Addressing Context in Rural Afghanistan: How Villages Differ and Why

Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC)
• CV-22B Accident Investigation Board report

Air University
• Air & Space Power Journal, Winter 2010, v. 24, no. 4
o Haiti Relief: An International Effort Enabled through Air, Space, and Cyberspace
o Air Force ISR Operations: Hunting versus Gathering
o A Seat at the Table: Beyond the Air Component Coordination
o Element
o Bringing Balance to the Force
o Global Power Requires a Global, Persistent Air-to-Air Capability
o Closing the Irregular Warfare Air Capability Gap: The Missing Puzzle Piece: Rugged Utility Aircraft and Personnel
o Air Component Campaign Planning: Beyond Conflict and Kinetics
o Developing US European Command's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Strategy for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2015

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Financial Crisis Primer: Questions and Answers on the Causes of the Financial Crisis
• Security in the Indo-Pacific Commons
• Sino-US Competition and US Security: How Do We Assess the Military Balance?
• Turkey on the Brink

Amnesty International
• Partial Truth and Selective Justice: The Aftermath of the June 2010 Violence in Kyrgyzstan
• Seeking Safety, Finding Fear: Refugees, Asylum-Seekers and Migrants in Libya and Malta
• Uganda: Amnesty International Memorandum on the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, 2010

Asia-Pacific Research Center
• A Brief History of the US-ROK Alliance and Anti-Americanism in South Korea

Asian Development Bank Institute
• Financial Development: A Broader Perspective
• How the iPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People's Republic of China

Atlantic Council
• Central Europe and the Geopolitics of Energy

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Special Report Issue 36 – Making Mischief: The Return of the South China Sea Dispute
• What Goes Around – Choosing the RAN’s Future Combat Helicopter

Belfer Center
• What Happened (and Why): An Assessment of the Cancun Agreements

Brookings Institution
• Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated December 10, 2010]
• Don't Rush Back to the Six-Party Talks: A Call for Vigilant Disregard
• Drug Trafficking from North Korea: Implications for Chinese Policy
• A Half-Empty Government Can’t Govern: Why Everyone Wants to Fix the Appointments Process, Why It Never Happens, and How We Can Get It Done
• Innovation’s Darker Future: Biosecurity, Technologies of Mass Empowerment, and the Constitution
• Internal Displacement and Refugee Status Determination
• Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated December 9, 2010]
• The Next Round: The United States and Nuclear Arms Reductions After New START
• Plan A-Minus for Afghanistan
• When Disaster Strikes: Women's Particular Vulnerabilities and Amazing Strengths

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• Victims of Identity Theft, 2008

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• Pilot Error – Why the F-35 Stealth Fighter is Wrong for Canada

Canadian Chamber of Commerce
• Strengthening Our Ties: Four Stops Toward a More Successful Canada-U.S. Partnership

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Canada’s International Policy Statement Five Years Later
• From the Operational to the Strategic: A Post-2011 Opportunity

Canadian Forces College
• The Justifications for War and Peace in World Religions; Part I: Extracts, Summaries and Comparisons of Scriptures in the Abrahamic Religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism)
• The Justifications for War and Peace in World Religions; Part II: Extracts, Summaries and Comparisons of Scriptures in Indic Religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism)
• The Justifications for War and Peace in World Religions Part III: Comparison of Scriptures from Seven World Religions

Canadian Senate
• Training in Afghanistan: Including Women

Carnegie Endowment
• Arab Reform Bulletin, December 15, 2010 - Turkish-Arab Economic and Military Cooperation: How Far Will it Go?
• A Place in the Sun or Fifteen Minutes of Fame? Understanding Turkey’s New Foreign Policy
• Russia’s Oil Exports: Economic Rationale Versus Strategic Gains
• The Sources of Soviet Iranian Conduct: George Kennan’s Fifteen Lessons for Understanding and Dealing With Iran
• The Way Forward for Turkey and the EU: A Strategic Dialogue on Foreign Policy

Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Beyond Borders: Developing Comprehensive National Security Policies to Address Complex Regional Challenges
• Managing 21st-Century Diplomacy: Lessons from Global Corporations
• Responsible Transition: Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
• Robotic Skies: Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and the Strategic Defense of Japan
• Securing South Korea: A Strategic Alliance for the 21st Century

Center for American Progress
• The Cancun Compromise: Masterful Diplomacy Ends with Agreement
• New START: A Test Of GOP Seriousness

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• America’s Wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, And Iraq
• Approaching Korean Unification: What We Learn from Other Cases
• Clear Gold: Water as a Strategic Resource in the Middle East
• Developing America’s Unconventional Gas Resources
• Global Aging Preparedness Index
• North Korea: Migration Patterns and Prospects
• Pivot Points: The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR)
• Policy Brief Number 9 -- After the Astana Summit: More Questions than Answers
• WikiLeaks and Free Flow of Information on the Internet

Center on Law and Security
• Terrorist Trial Report Card: September 11, 2001-September 11, 2010
• Top 50 High Profile Terror Plots

Central Intelligence Agency
• Studies in Intelligence, 2010, v. 54, no. 3
o Intelligence Community Reform: A Cultural Evolution
o Open Source Insights: Origins and Current State of Japan’s Reconnaissance Satellite Program
o Cross References: The National Cryptologic Museum Library
o Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War
o A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Africa Portal

Century Foundation
• Slouching to the Brink: The Coming Economic Crisis

Chatham House
• The Changing Nature of Nigeria-India Relations
• India’s Africa Engagement: Prospects for the 2011 India-Africa Forum
• More for Asia: Rebalancing World Oil and Gas
• Mozambique’s International Diplomatic and Trade Perspectives
• No Shortcut to Stability: Justice, Politics and Insurgency in Afghanistan
• The UK’s Role in Protecting Our Future Supply Chain

Citizen Corps
• Nuclear Incident Communication Planning

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Littoral Combat Ship acquisition in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2011 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Federal Debt and Interest Costs

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Forging a Four-Sided Afghan Deal

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
• Riding the Tiger: China’s Rise and the Liberal World Order

Department of Defense
• 2009-2010 Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies
• 2010 Service Academy Gender Relations Survey
• FY 2011 Enterprise Transition Plan
• Report on Progress Towards Security and Stability in Afghanistan [November 2010]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2011-024 Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Use of Undefinitized Contractual Actions

Department of Homeland Security and Public Safety Canada
• Canada-US Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure

Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
• The Collaboration Toolkit for Community Organizations: Effective Strategies to Partner with Law Enforcement
• The Co-Implementation of Compstat and Community Policing: A National Assessment
• Crime Prevention Research Review No. 4: The Effects of Problem-Oriented Policing on Crime and Disorder

Department of State
• Background Notes: Congo (Brazzaville)
• Background Notes: Israel
• Background Notes: Mexico
• Background Notes: Uruguay
• Background Notes: Zambia
• Fact Sheets: Investments in Ballistic Missile Defense
• Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) - Leading Through Civilian Power
• President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) page
• U.S. - South African PEPFAR Partnership Fact Sheet
• U.S. - South African PEPFAR Partnership signing remarks

Director of National Intelligence
• Summary of the Reengagement of Detainees Formerly Held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• Country Analysis Brief: Azerbaijan

European Commission
• The EU and Africa: Working Towards Closer Partnership
• EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT

European Policy Centre
• Enhancing the Well-Being of Europe's Citizens: Hard Choices?
• The European Citizens' Initiative: Next Step, Implementation
• Political Trends and Priorities 2011-2012

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• FBI Versus the Klan, Part 5: Trouble in Texas
• National Information Sharing Strategy 2011

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
• Money Laundering Using Trusts and Company Service Providers
• Money Laundering Using New Payment Methods

Foreign Policy
• 5 Ways to Win the War in Afghanistan
• How to Stop the Next Korean War
• The Palestinians Are the Real Obstacle to Peace
• Spawn of WikiLeaks

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
• Power, Money, and American National Security: Today and Tomorrow

Fraser Institute
• Skating on Thin Ice: Canadian-American Relations in 2010 and 2011

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• B-2 Bomber: Review of the Air Force's Decision to Change Extremely High Frequency Satellite Communications Antennas, GAO-11-180R
• Defense Acquisitions: Realizing Savings under Different Littoral Combat Ship Acquisition Strategies Depends on Successful Management of Risks, GAO-11-277T [testimony]
• Defense Management: DOD Needs to Monitor and Assess Corrective Actions Resulting from Its Corrosion Study of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, GAO-11-171R
• Export Controls: Agency Actions and Proposed Reform Initiatives May Address Previously Identified Weaknesses, but Challenges Remain, GAO-11-135R
• Federal Work/Life Programs: Agencies Generally Satisfied with OPM Assistance, but More Tracking and Information Sharing Needed, GAO-11-137
• Information Sharing: DHS Could Better Define How It Plans to Meet Its State and Local Mission and Improve Performance Accountability, GAO-11-223
• National Security: An Overview of Professional Development Activities Intended to Improve Interagency Collaboration, GAO-11-108
• National Security: An Inventory of Professional Development Activities Intended to Improve Interagency Collaboration and Selection Characteristics by Providing Agency and Type of Activity, GAO-11-109SP (E-supplement to GAO-11-108)
• Nuclear Nonproliferation: Comprehensive U.S. Planning and Better Foreign Cooperation Needed to Secure Vulnerable Nuclear Materials Worldwide, GAO-11-227
• Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS's Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities, GAO-11-99
• Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: 2010 Reports Addressed Many Required Elements, but Budget Planning Not Yet Completed, GAO-11-153R
• Statewide Transportation Planning: Opportunities Exist to Transition to Performance-Based Planning and Federal Oversight, GAO-11-77
• Statewide Transportation Planning: Surveys of State Departments of Transportation and Regional Planning and Development Organizations , GAO-11-78SP (E-supplement to GAO-11-77)

Harvard Business Center & NBER
• Decoding Inside Information*

Heritage Foundation
• Afghan Review Shows Troop Surge Working
• Building Leaders: Improving National Security Professional Development
• Export Controls and the Hard Case of China
• Five Things Congress Should Do About China
• Friend of Liberty: Cuba Broadcasting Targets the Castro Tyranny
• House Spending Plans for Defense Would Harm the Military
• How to Fix Medicare: A New Vision for a Better Program
• Treaty Ratification During Lame Duck Sessions
• Yucca Mountain and Nuclear Waste Policy: A New Beginning?

Human Rights Watch
• Buffeted in the Borderland: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Ukraine
• Indifference to Duty: Impunity for Crimes Committed in Nepal
• Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
• “Their Future is at Stake”: Attacks on Teachers and Schools in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province
• “We Are a Buried Generation”: Discrimination and Violence against Sexual Minorities in Iran

IAGS
• Journal of Energy Security, December 2010
o The “Radicalization” of Maritime Piracy: Implications for Maritime Energy Security
o Energy Infrastructure As A Diplomatic Tool: The Arab Gas Pipeline
o Water and Energy: A Flashpoint in Pakistan-India Relations?
o China's Rare Earth Monopoly
o The Brazilian Biodiesel Program
o Thirsty Energy, Scarce Water: Interdependent Security Challenges
o Calculating Energy Security: How to Functionally and Reliably Develop the European-Caspian Gas Link

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
• China’s Out of Area Naval Operations: Case Studies, Trajectories, Obstacles, and Potential Solutions

Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP)
• China and EU in Myanmar: Different Paths to the Same Goals
• Human Trafficking and Conflict
• Latvian Organized Crime Invests in Politics
• Sovereign Debt: The Implications for China of the Financial Crisis in Europe

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)
• Understanding and Combating Muslim Radicalism in the United States
• The United States & Political Islamism: From Demobilization to Deradicalization?

Institute for the Study of War (ISW)
• Afghanistan Report 7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar: Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
• IRAQ: Political Wrangling Leaves Around 2.8 Million Displaced Iraqis with No Durable Solutions in Sight

International Crisis Group
• Dangerous Little Stones: Diamonds in the Central African Republic
• Georgia: Securing a Stable Future
• Timor-Leste: Time for the UN to Step Back

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Estimating a Structural Model of Herd Behavior in Financial Markets
• Export versus FDI in Services
• Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
• Japan's Quest for Growth: Exploring the Role of Capital and Innovation
• Rebalancing in Japan: The Role of Private Consumption
• Senegal: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Annual Progress Report
• Weathering the Global Storm: The Benefits of Monetary Policy Reform in the LA5 Countries
• What Drives House Prices in Australia? A Cross-Country Approach

International Relations and Security Network
• Africa Amidst Currency Wars
• America: The Panoptic Shiver
• Darfur Fears as Attention Shifts to South Sudan
• The Human Commodity: Our Global Shame
• India's Military Might: Hype over Substance
• TAPI Pipeline Signed, Sealed – Not Yet Delivered [Turkmen-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India]
• Turkey: Are PKK and Gulen Movement Burying the Hatchet?
• US-Congo Minerals Law: Overdue Reform or Fuel on the Fire?

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, December 17, 2010, v. 10, no. 25
o Xi Jinping's Chongqing Tour: Gang of Princelings Gains Clout
o China's Missteps in Southeast Asia: Less Charm, More Offensive
o PLA's Growing Force Projection Capabilities
o China's Doctrine of Non-Interference Challenged by Sudan's Referendum
• Terrorism Monitor, December 16, 2010, v. 8, no. 45
o Haqqani Network Shifting from North Waziristan to Pakistan's Kurram Agency
o Abdullah Azzam Brigades Claim to be Defenders of Sunnis in Lebanon
o The Triangle of Death: Central Africa's New Hub of Regional Instability

Library of Congress
• Rule of Law Handbook

Mitre Corporation - JASON
• Science of Cyber-Security

National Academies Press
• Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
• Advancing the Science of Climate Change
• Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
• Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change

National Alliance of Caregivers
• Caregivers of Veterans—Serving on the Home Front

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
• Calm Before the Storm – Hong Kong People Respond to Reform

National Gang Center
• Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs

National Institute of Justice
• CBRN Protective Ensemble Standard for Law Enforcement: NIJ Standard-0116.00
• Making Policing More Affordable: Managing Costs and Measuring Value in Policing

Nautilus Institute
• An Initial Exploration of the Potential for Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Wastes in South Korea
• Deep Borehole Disposal of Nuclear Spent Fuel and High Level Waste as a Focus of Regional East Asia Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cooperation
• Out of the War: Policies for an Australian Contribution to a Sustainable Peace in Afghanistan

Oxfam
• Nowhere to Turn: The Failure to Protect Civilians in Afghanistan

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
• Conflict and Insecurity in Balochistan: Assessing Strategic Policy Options for Peace and Security

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
• Lessons Learned from U. S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations

Peterson Institute for International Economics
• How Europe Can Muddle Through Its Crisis
• The Role of International Organizations in Creating a More Stable World Economy
• Trade Disputes Between China and the United States: Growing Pains so Far, Worse Ahead?

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Global Publics Embrace Social Networking

Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Generations Online in 2010

Project on National Security Reform (PNSR)
• The Power of People: Building an Integrated National Security Professional System for the 21st Century

Rand
• Adding Value to Air Force Management Through Building Partnerships Assessment
• An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq

Refugees International
• Afghanistan: In a Time of Conflict
• Buried Alive: Stateless Kurds in Syria
• Confronting Climate Displacement: Learning from Pakistan’s Floods
• Last Line of Defense: How Peacekeepers Can Better Protect Civilians
• Sudan: The 30-Day Countdown

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• ASEAN Institutionalization: The Function of Political Values and State Capacity
• China’s Military Build-up in the Early Twenty-first Century: From Arms Procurement to War-fighting Capability
• Darul Uloom Deoband: Stemming the Tide of Radical Islam in India
• Recent Developments in the South China Sea: Grounds for Cautious Optimism?
• Transforming the Military: The Energy Imperative

SETA
• Turkey’s Role and Priorities in Enhancement of Security of Oil and Gas Supplies

Small Wars Journal
• 800 Words on the Last Year in Afghanistan
• Airborne Troops as a Tactical and Operative Military Revolution
• Beyond FM 3-24: Readings for the Counterinsurgency Commander
• Che Guevara: An Exploration of Revolutionary Theory
• A Conversation with Dr. Douglas Porch: Relooking French Encounters in Irregular Warfare in the 19th Century
• The Killer Tiger Roared: A Strategic Analysis of Sri Lankan “Kinetic” Counterinsurgency and its Theoretical Implications
• Thinking Critically about COIN and Creatively about Strategy and War: An Interview with Colonel Gian Gentile
• Visual Tracking and the Military Tracking Team Capability: A Disappearing Skill and Misunderstood Capability

Stimson Center
• A Code of Conduct for Responsible Space-Faring Nations
• Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review: Our Assessment

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• La Familia Drug Cartel: Implications for U.S.-Mexican Security
• Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations

Trust for America's Health
• Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• International Trade After the Economic Crisis: Challenges and New Opportunities

United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
• Economic Diversification in Africa: A Review of Selected Countries

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
• China: Intellectual Property Infringement, Indigenous Innovation Policies, and Frameworks for Measuring the Effects on the U.S. Economy

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• Women’s Work After War

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Beyond the Freeze Deal: A New Agenda for U.S. Efforts on the Peace Process
• Iran's Supreme Power Struggle
• WikiLeaks, Gulf Arabs, and Iran: An Opportunity for U.S. Policy

White House
• Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Report - overview

World Organization for Resource Development and Education (WORDE)
• A Community Based Approach to Countering Radicalization: A Partnership for America