Friday's Miscellany 03-25-2011

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• Pashtunwali – Tribal Life and Behaviour Among the Pashtuns

Africa Center for Strategic Studies
• West Africa's Growing Terrorist Threat: Confronting AQIM's Sahelian Strategy

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Europe's Default in Credibility
• Gulf of Aden Security Review
• Political Report March 2011
o Speaker Boehner: less popular and less unpopular than Speaker Gingrich
o Pain at the pump and presidential (un)popularity
o Attitudes on offshore drilling: drill, baby, drill more?
o Drawing lines in the polling sand on Libya
o Obamacare one year after passage: Patient stable, but not improving
o Americans on public employees: cut benefits, not collective bargaining
o Twenty-six percent wear the union label in Wisconsin
o State and national finances: They're bad! What to do?
o NPR listeners: More upscale, educated, and liberal
o Plus much more: Trump's positive trajectory, the sheen on Sheen
• Yemen Protest Map
• Yemen Protests: U.S. Policy in Crisis

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• German Policy on Libya: Right on Substance, Short on Style
• In Europe's Own Neighborhood

Amnesty International
• A ‘Lawless Law’: Detentions Under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act
• Bloodied but Unbowed: Unwarranted State Violence Against Bahraini Protestors
• Freedom of Expression Under Fire: Briefing to the Hungarian Government on the New Media Legislation

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
• Emerging Contours of Financial Regulation: Challenges and Dynamics
• Processing Trade, Exchange Rates, and the People's Republic of China's Bilateral Trade Balances

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• Egypt’s Classic Strategic Triangle 

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Japan Nuclear Crisis Resources

Bipartisan Policy Center and American Clean Skies Foundation
• Task Force on Ensuring Stable Natural Gas Markets

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
• Getting to Zero Update March 23, 2011 

Brookings
• Assessing Obama’s Visit to Brazil: A New Framework for Relations with Latin America?
• A View of the U.S. Economy

Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer
• An Estimate of the Fiscal Impact of Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter
• Comparing PBO and DND Cost Estimates on Canada’s Proposed Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Some Preliminary Questions and Answers on Key Issues

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Policy Update – Libya: Why Are We Involved

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Bulletin - March 22, 2011 - Next Steps in Egypt's Transition

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
• Extreme Crises: Reassessing US Preparedness After Japan 
• Security Through Partnership: Fighting Transnational Cartels in the Western Hemisphere

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)
• CIP Report no. 104 - Oil and Gas

Center for Security Policy
• America's Descent into Strategic Dementia
• UN Intervention into Libya an Ominous Precedent for Israel
• Understanding the Third Terror War

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
• Strategic Trends 2011 
o Power Shifts: Emerging Markets Emerged, Geopolitics Fractured
o Regional Dynamics in the New Middle East
o 9/11 Ten Years On: Terrorism as a Manageable Risk
o Narcotics as a Growing Security Concern

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• Selected Options and Costs for a No-Fly Zone Over Libya

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS
• Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress
• Fukushima: What It Is and Isn’t
• Health Outlook in Japan
• The Iranian Navy’s Historic Mediterranean Deployment: Timing Is Everything
• Issues & Insights Vol. 11 - No. 4
• Japan's Energy Supply and Security since the March 11 Earthquake
• Libya: Managing a Fragile Coalition
• Libya: Three Possible Outcomes and the Role of Governance, Money, Gas, and Oil
• PacNet #18 - Facing a Complex Crisis: Thoughts on Japan’s Recovery
• Responding to Crisis in Japan
• Response to Japan’s March 11 Disaster: When the Going Gets Tough
• Rethinking a Resource-Based Strategy
• Seizing the Multilateral Moment in Libya
• Suspicions, Misconceptions, and Mistakes

Centre for Eastern Studies
• 'Creeping' Civil War in the North Caucasus
• Germany’s Stance on the Libyan Crisis as a Function of German Internal Policy
• Russia on the Military Intervention in Libya

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
• Security Sector Reform in Haiti One Year After the Earthquake
• Toward a Post-2015 Development Paradigm (1)

Centre for International Policy Studies
• Is NATO’s Counterinsurgency Strategy Working in Afghanistan?: A Case Study

Century Foundation
• Afghanistan—Negotiating Peace

Chatham House
• Post-Revolutionary Georgia on the Edge?

Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center
• Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center (CBRNIAC) Newsletter, 2011, v. 12, no. 1
o U.S. Coast Guard’s Chemical/Biological (CB) Small Boat and Aircrew Anti-Exposure/Dry Suit
o The USSTRATCOM Center for Combating WMD (SCC-WMD) Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Support Cell
o Hazardous Materials Course Focus on WMD Attack and Response

CIA FOIA reading room
• Wartime Statutes - Instruments of Soviet Control

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• CBO's Labor Force Projections Through 2021 
• Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget for 2012

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• The Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention
• Libya and the Responsibility to Protect
• Obama's 'Poorly Conceived' Libya Intervention

Department of Defense
• DoD Instruction 5525.14, DoD Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) Flying Armed, March 22, 2011

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• SPO-2011-004 Assessment of DOD Wounded Warrior Matters - Fort Sam Houston

Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations
• Mineral Resource Team 2010 Activities Summary [Afghanistan]

Department of Energy
• The Situation in Japan - Radiological Assessment - Updated 03/22/11

Department of Homeland Security
• Enabling Distributed Security in Cyberspace: Building a Healthy and Resilient Cyber Ecosystem with Automated Collective Action

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-11-47 DHS Department-wide Management of Detection Equipment (Redacted)

East-West Center
• A Step Too Far: Why CPGS Is The Wrong Answer to China's Anti-Access Challenge

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations
• Renewed Financial Supervision in Europe – Final or Transitory?

European Policy Centre
• The EU budget – an Instrument for Shaping and Delivering Key EU Policy Priorities

Foreign Policy
• The Eye of the Storm [Libya] 
• The Hard Part: What Happens if the Libyan Rebels Actually Win?
• Obama’s Unconstitutional War
• The Qaddafi I Know

Foreign Policy Research Institute
• The New Liberalism In Global Politics: From Internationalism to Transnationalism

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Defense Acquisitions: Application of Lessons Learned and Best Practices in the Presidential Helicopter Program, GAO-11-380R
• DOD and VA Health Care: Federal Recovery Coordination Program Continues to Expand but Faces Significant Challenges, GAO-11-250
• The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: January 2011 Update, GAO-11-451SP
• Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Accountability, GAO-11-372

Heritage Foundation
• Coordinated Terrorist Attacks on Global Energy Infrastructure: Modeling the Risks
• Four Recommendations for Hungary's Proposed Constitution
• Middle East Lessons for China: Internal Stability
• NATO’s Libya Mission: U.S. and U.K. Must Assert Strong Leadership
• Obama’s 2012 Budget: Higher Taxes, Slower Growth
• President Obama in El Salvador: Facing the Central American Challenge
• President Obama in Latin America: Put Hugo Chavez on the Agenda 
• Rare Earths: The US Government Should Not Manage Supply
• Restarting Health Care Reform: A New Agenda
• Washington’s To-Do List for Libya: Next Steps Must be Measured
• What the President Must Do About Yemen

Hoover Institute
• Poland’s National Digital Archives

Human Rights Watch
• Everyday Intolerance: Racist and Xenophobic Violence in Italy
• Violence Instead of Vigilance: Torture and Illegal Detention by Uganda’s Rapid Response Unit

Infinity Journal
• Infinity Journal, Spring 2011, no. 2 [free registration required]
o Reconsidering War's Logic and Grammar
o Coping with Nonstate Rivals
o Seek and Destroy: The Forgotten Strategy for Countering Armed Rebellion
o Special Forces - Strategic Asset
o Cyber Power and Strategy - So What?
o The "Narrative Strategy': A Politicized Strategy for Leaving Afghanistan

Institute for Defence and Security Analyses (IDSA)
• Giving Away Our Best and Brightest
• Impact of the Earthquake on the Japanese and Global Economies
• India: An Uneasy Onlooker! 
• Japan Battling the Nuclear Nightmare 
• Japan Faces a Nuclear Disaster
• Japan's Disaster Brings Sino-Japanese Relations Closer
• Japan’s Energy Dilemma 
• Japan’s Nuclear Crisis and Analysis of Radiation Data as on 18/03/2011
• Japan’s Political Battles at a time of National Crisis
• Maoists in Delhi and NCR: Wake-up time for Police
• Relevance of an East China Sea dispute to India
• Revision of the DSCO: Human Rights to the Fore
• Taking Stock of Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
• Why Culture Matters?

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
• No Shortcuts: U.S. Policy and the Challenge of Stabilizing Pakistan
• Through the Health Lens: The Aftermath of the 2010 Pakistan Flood
• The U.S. Talks to Egyptians: Who is Listening?

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy
• Combating Piracy – China’s Contribution
• NATO and its New Strategic Concept

Institute for the Study of War
• Libya Conflict: Situation Update
• VIDEO- Afghanistan: Regional Stability and Global Security

International Council on Security & Development (ICoS)
• Afghanistan Transition: Dangers of a Summer Drawdown

International Crisis Group
• Gaza: The Next Israeli-Palestinian War?
• The Philippines: Back to the Table, Warily, in Mindanao 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the Czech Republic
• Food Prices and Political Instability
• How Strong are Fiscal Multipliers in the GCC? An Empirical Investigation
• Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth
• Making OTC Derivatives Safe - A Fresh Look
• Managing Volatility - A Vulnerability Exercise for Low-Income Countries

International Relations and Security Network
• AirSea Battle: An Exchange 
• In Wake of Japan Disaster, Safety of Armenian Nuclear Plant Questioned
• India Looks East in Search of New Partners 
• Kazakhstan - From Regional Discourse to Global Security 
• Libya's War, History's Shadow 
• Peacebuilding Through Statebuilding? 
• Putin’s Crusade
• Taliban Employs Modern Weapons in 'War of Words' 
• Zimbabwe: New Verse, Same as the First 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Egyptians Choose Order over Further Political Upheaval
• Libya: Direct Military Hits, Unclear Political Target

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, March 25, 2011, v. 11, no.5
o Beijing's Blueprint for Tackling Mass Incidents and Social Management
o A Chinese Assessment of China's External Security Environment
o The PLA’s "Orient Express": Militarization of the Iron Silk Road
o Defense and Deterrence in China’s Military Space Strategy
• Terrorism Monitor, March 24, 2011, v. 9, no. 12
o After Mubarak: Egypt's Islamists Struggle to Adapt to the Egyptian Revolution
o Qaddafi Tries to Secure Loyalty of Circassians of Misrata
o The Unseen Hand: Saudi Arabian Involvement in Yemen

KOF Swiss Economic Institute
• KOF Index of Globalization 2011: Economic Crisis Slows Down Globalization

Marine Corps Combat Development Command (USMCCDC)
• Report of the 2010 Marine Corps Force Structure Review Group Executive Summary

McKinsey Global Institute
• Urban World: Mapping the Economic Power of Cities

MITRE
• Handbook for Implementing Agile in Department of Defense Information Technology Acquisition
• Human Performance and Fatigue Research for Controllers
• A Model-Based Analysis of Semi-Automated Data Discovery and Entry Using Automated Content Extraction
• National Airspace System Security Cyber Architecture
• Using Inferred Probabilities to Measure the Accuracy of Imprecise Forecasts

Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS)
• Islam, Islamism and Politics in Eurasia Report No. 36 - January 2011: Most Violent January for CHRI/CE in a Decade

National Academies Press
• HIV Screening and Access to Care: Health Care System Capacity for Increased HIV Testing and Provision of Care
• The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: A Workshop Summary
• Intelligence Analysis: Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations
• Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences

National Defense University Library - MERLN
• Issues at a Glance - Libya

National Hazards Center
• 2011 Japanese Disasters Resources

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• Understanding and Managing Risk Security Systems for the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex: Committee on Risk-Based Approaches for Securing the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex

National Security Archive
• "Learn from History", 31st Anniversary of the Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero

NATO Defense College
• NATO and Complex Operations: The Challenge of Responding to Mass Atrocity

New American Foundation
• The Chinese Yuan Grow Up-Slowly: Fact and Fiction about China's Currency Internationalization

Peterson Institute for International Economics
• North Korea's Recurrent Humanitarian Crises
• Resource Management and Transition in Central Asia, Azerbaijan, and Mongolia
• Will the Crisis Create a New Japan?

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Opposition to Nuclear Power Rises amid Japanese Crisis: Support for Offshore Oil and Gas Drilling Rebounds

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS)
• New Challenges and Opportunities for Brazil's Defense Policy [Viewpoints 45]
• UN Legitimacy and Relevance [PJIA 4] 

Rand
• Changing Aircraft Carrier Procurement Schedules: Effects That a Five-Year Procurement Cycle Would Have on Cost, Availability, and Shipyard Manpower and Workload
• Identifying Arabic-Language Materials for Children That Promote Tolerance and Critical Thinking
• Looming Discontinuities in U.S. Military Strategy and Defense Planning: Colliding RMAs Necessitate a New Strategy
• Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry
• Shared Modular Build of Warships: How a Shared Build Can Support Future Shipbuilding

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Winds of Change in Sarawak Politics?

Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff Freedom of Information Reading Rooms
• Recent releases
o Detainees: Documents Released under Litigation 2011
o Detainees: Summary of Conclusions for Meeting of the NSC Principals Committee - 19 June 2003
o Detainees: Briefing Guantanamo Detainees - February 4, 2004.
o Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) & Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA): Contractors in Iraq - Part 1 and 2

Small Wars Journal
• The Clash of the Caliphates: Understanding the Real War of Ideas
• 'Holding' for Companies and Platoons in Counterinsurgency
• Panama: Is Restructuring the Razor to Cut Out Corruption?
• “Penny Wise, Pound Foolish” 
• A Theory of Dark Network Design (Part One)
• A Theory of Dark Network Design (Part Two): Type-I Dark Network: Opportunistic-Mechanical

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
• An Evaluation of Counterinsurgency as a Strategy for Fighting the Long War
• Security and Governance: Foundations for International Stability

Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment // Small Arms Survey
• SPLM/A–Shilluk Conflict in Upper Nile

United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• Protective Order and Procedures for Counsel Access to Detainees Subject to Military Commission Prosecution at the United States Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba [Protective Orders]

UN Human Development Programme (UNDP)
• Kosovo Human Development Report 2010

UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
• Global Smart Update, March 2001, v. 5

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
• Ready for Takeoff: China’s Advancing Aerospace Industry

US Marine Corps (USMC)
• 2011 Report to Congress on the Posture of the Marine Corps
• United States Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Strategy and Implementation Plan

USAID
• Japan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
• Libya - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
• New Zealand - Earthquake - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Implementing Obama's Message Supporting Iranian Human Rights
• The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy
• Operation Odyssey Dawn and the Course of the Libyan War

YouGov
• YouGov Afghanistan poll

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Beyond a No-Fly Zone: How to Protect Civilians in Libya
• Is a Palestinian Uprising Next?
• Implementing Obama's Message Supporting Iranian Human Rights
• The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy
• Iraq's Regional Awakening
• The Muslim Brotherhood Today: Between Ideology and Democracy
• Operation Odyssey Dawn and the Course of the Libyan War
• Yemen May Be the Next Regime to Fall
• Yemeni Military Leader Tied to Terrorism Pledges to Protect Protesters

White House
• Letter from the President Regarding the Commencement of Operations in Libya
• Remarks by President Obama and President Funes of El Salvador in Joint Press Conference
• Remarks by President Obama and President Sebastian Pinera of Chile at Join Press Conference
• Remarks by President Obama and President Rousseff of Brazil in Exchange of Toasts at Official Lunch in Brasilia, Brazil
• Remarks by President Obama and President Rousseff of Brazil in Brasilia, Brazil
• Remarks by the President at CEO Business Summit in Brasilia, Brazil
• Remarks by President Obama on Latin America in Santiago, Chile
• Remarks by the President on Libya
• Remarks by the President to the People of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Weekly Address: The Military Mission in Libya