Friday's Miscellany 04-01-2011

AEI Critical Threats
• Libya Conflict: Situation Update

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
• Afghanistan’s Drug Career: From War to Drug Economy

Amnesty International
• Death Sentences and Executions 2010

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center
• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report (MSMR), March 2011, v. 18, no. 3
o Motorcycle and other motor vehicle-related deaths, U.S. Armed Forces, 1999-2010
o Update: Heat injuries, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2010
o Update: Exertional rhabdomyolysis, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2010
o Update: Exertional hyponatremia, active component, U.S. Armed Forces, 1999-2010
o Deployment-related conditions of special surveillance interest

Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
• Small Wars 2.0: A Working Paper on Land Force Planning After Iraq and Afghanistan

Asian Development Bank Institute
• Crisis, Imbalances, and India
• Foreign Direct Investment in Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects
• Trans-Pacific Rebalancing: Thailand Case Study

Atlantic Council
• “Strategically Lonely” Iran Exploits Opportunities for Regional Influence

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
• Global Forces 2010: Proceedings of the ASPI Conference
• Special Report Issue 38 – A Better Fit: National Security and Australia’s Aid Program
• Unchartered Terrain: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect

Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Between War and Peace: Considering the Statecraft of Cyberspace from the Perspective of the U.S. State Department
• Uranium Mining in Texas: Why Is It Done That Way?

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
• Covert Action for Toppling the Gaddafi Regime

Brookings Institute
• Protecting Civilians in Disasters and Conflicts

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
• Being Rejected in the United Nations: The Causes and Implications of Canada's Failure to Win a Seat in the UN Security Council
• Canada’s Citizen Soldiers: A Discussion Paper
• The New Terrorism: Understanding Yemen

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Gambit or Endgame? The New State of Arms Control
• Obstacles on the Path of Tunisia’s Democratic Transformation Arab Bulletin - March 30, 2011
• The Contentious Debate Over China’s Economic Transition
• Gambit or Endgame? The New State of Arms Control
• Impact of the Global Financial Crisis: Predictions Gone Wrong
• Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions
• NPT 2010-2015: The Way Forward

CATO Institute
• Bankrupt: Entitlements and the Federal Budget

Center for American Progress
• Cleaner Cars, Less Foreign Oil: A Path to Economic Prosperity and Oil Security

Center for a New American Security
• Forging a Libya Strategy: Policy Recommendations for the Obama Administration
• Security Through Partnership: Fighting Transnational Cartels in the Western Hemisphere

Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
• Homeland Security Affairs Journal, 2011, Supplement no. 3
o IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security Papers
o Policy, Practice, and the Search for Alpha
o Gamma-Insensitive Fast Neutron Detector with Spectral Source Identification Potential
o Using Public Network Infrastructures for UAV Remote Sensingin Civilian Security Operations
o Intelligent Recognition of Acoustic and Vibration Threats for Security Breach Detection, Close Proximity Danger Identification, and Perimeter Protection
o Augmenting the DGPS Broadcast with Emergency Information
o Prototyping Fusion Center Information Sharing: Implementing Policy Reasoning Over Cross-Jurisdictional Data Transactions Occurring in a Decentralized Environment

Center for Immigration Studies
• Taking Names: List of Firms Barred from Foreign Worker Programs Likely Just Scratches the Surface

Center for Security Policy
• Durbin Launches the 'Anti-Pete King' Hearing

Center for Security Studies
• No. 94 Russian Studies

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• DIIG Current Issues No. 24: India’s Defense Spending and Military Modernization
• Hemisphere INSIDER Volume I Issue 1 - March 2011
o Criminal Justice Reforms Challenge Mexico
o Cuba Releases a Notable Political Prisoner
o Haiti Holds Runoff Elections
o The United States Delays Approval of Its Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
o China and Colombia Discuss Building an Alternative to the Panama Canal
o Dissent and a Faltering Economy in Venezuela Could Challenge Chavez’s Grip
o Uruguay and Argentina Plan Construction for a Joint Re-Gasification Plant
o China Pursues Energy Investments in Argentina
• India's Military Modernization
• The North Caucasus: Russia's Volatile Frontier
• PacNet 18A – Japan: Don’t Waste the Crisis
• PacNet 19 - Deal with Preah Vihear Peacefully
• PacNet 20 - China’s Acquiescence on UNSCR 1973: No Big Deal
• US and Iranian Strategic Competition

Center for the Studies of Intelligence
• Studies in Intelligence, 2011, v. 55, no. 1
o Ensnaring the Unwitting in Czechoslovakia: KAMEN: A Cold War Dangle Operation with an American Dimension, 1948-1952
o What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers

Centre for Studies on Federalism
• Pan-Africanism and Federalism

Century Foundation
• Afghan Women at the Crossroads: Agents of Peace—Or Its Victims?

Chatham House
• India and South Africa as Partners for Development in Africa?
• Key Issues in Nigeria’s 2011 Elections 

China, People's Republic, Information Office of the State Council
• China's National Defense in 2010

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
• CTC Sentinel, March 2011, v. 4, no. 3
o The Unraveling of the Salih Regime in Yemen
o Using Google Insights to Assess Egypt's Jasmine Revolution
o Accuracy of the U.S. Drone Campaign: The Views of a Pakistani General
o The Risks of Supporting Tribal Militias in Pakistan
o The Factors Behind Rebellion in Iranian Kurdistan
• Media reports -- Yemen's Saleh Says Willing to Quit Under Conditions and "Google: A New Tool For U.S. Intelligence?"
• Self-Inflicted Wounds: Debates and Divisions within al-Qa'ida and its Periphery

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for Missile Defense
• FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Budget Requests from SOUTHCOM, NORTHCOM, and EUCOM
• Improving the Readiness of U.S. Forces through Military Jointness
• Operation Odyssey Dawn and US Military Operations in Libya

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
• H.R. 908, a bill to extend the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to maintain the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Asia Overview: Protecting American Interests in China and Asia [March 31, 2011]
• Libya: Defining U.S. National Security Interests [March 31, 2011]
• Rising Oil Prices and Dependence on Hostile Regimes: The Urgent Case for Canadian Oil [March 31, 2011]

Congress. House. Homeland Security
• Public Safety Communications: Are the Needs of Our First Responders Being Met?
• The U.S. Homeland Security Role in the Mexican War Against Drug Cartels

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
• H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers
• The Permanent Provisions of the PATRIOT Act
• Raising the Agencies' Grades – Protecting the Economy, Assuring Regulatory Quality and Improving Assessments of Regulatory Need

Congress. House. Oversight & Government Reform Committee
• Has Dodd-Frank Ended Too Big To Fail?
• Unfunded Mandates And Regulatory Overreach Part II
• Why Isn't The Department Of Homeland Security Meeting The President's Standard On FOIA?

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure
• Improving the Nation's Response to Catastrophic Disasters: How to Minimize Costs and Streamline our Emergency Management Programs

Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
• Chairman Rogers Opposes Supplying Arms to Libyan Rebels
• Chairman Rogers Response to President Obama’s Address to the Nation on Libya

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
• Department of Defense Efficiencies Initiatives
• Department of the Army in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program
• Operation Odyssey Dawn and the situation in Libya
• Strategic Forces Programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program
• U.S. European Command and U.S. Strategic Command in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
• Another U.S. Deficit – China and America – Public Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet
• Assessing the Situation in Libya
• A Shared Responsibility: Counternarcotics and Citizen Security in the Americas
• Tibet: Seeking Common Ground on the Rooftop of the World

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
• Exploring Drug Gangs’ Ever-Evolving Tactics to Penetrate the Border and the Federal Government’s Ability to Stop Them
• Securing the Border: Building on the Progress Made
• Strengthening the Senior Executive Service: A Review of Challenges Facing the Government’s Leadership Corps
• Ten Years After 9/11: A Report From the 9/11 Commission Chairmen
• Tools to Prevent Defense Department Cost Overruns

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
• Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims 

Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
• Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence Covering the Period January 3, 2009 - January 4, 2011 [S.Rpt 112-3]

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program
• A Review of CBO's Activities in 2010 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Handling the Middle East's 'Tectonic' Shifts
• Nuclear Power Safety Concerns 
• “Reaching Out” – Promoting Community Engagement (Video)

Department of Defense
• National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2010 (Green Book)
• FY2012 budget documents
• Operation Odyssey Dawn

Department of the Navy
• OPNAV 5400.7438 Standard Naval Distribution List

East-West Center
• Dealing with Davis: Inconsistencies in the US-Pakistan Relationship

EU Institute for Security Studies
• Don't Forget Syria
• Yemen after Saleh

European Policy Centre
• Addressing the Security Challenges in the South Caucasus
• A Quantum Leap in Economic Governance - But Questions Remain

Foreign Policy
• The Deadliest Village in Russia
• The Dis-Integration of Europe
• Massacre in Mazar
• Mission Not Accomplished 
• The Syrian Time Bomb 
• This Week at War: Don't Arm the Rebels, Train Them
• The YouTube Revolutions

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• Transition from Democracy Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Border Security: DHS Progress and Challenges in Securing the U.S. Southwest and Northern Borders GAO-11-508T [testimony]
• Defense Acquisitions: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs, GAO-11-233SP
• Defense Infrastructure: Ability of Ship Maintenance Industrial Base to Support a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier at Naval Station Mayport, GAO-11-388R 
• DOD Cost Overruns: Trends in Nunn-McCurdy Breaches and Tools to Manage Weapon Systems Acquisition Costs, GAO-11-499T [testimony]
• H-1B Visa Program: Multifaceted Challenges Warrant Re-examination of Key Provisions, GAO-11-505T [testimony] 
• Key Indicator Systems: Experiences of Other National and Subnational Systems Offer Insights for the United States, GAO-11-396
• Refugee Assistance: Little Is Known about the Effectiveness of Different Approaches for Improving Refugees' Employment Outcomes, GAO-11-369
• State and Local Governments: Knowledge of Past Recessions Can Inform Future Federal Fiscal Assistance, GAO-11-401
• Trends in Nunn-McCurdy Cost Breaches for Major Defense Acquisition Programs, GAO-11-295R

Heritage Foundation
• Aiding Libya More Than Arming Rebels 
• Checkbook Homeland Security: Highlights from the FY2012 Budget Request
• E-Verify Self Check: A Solid Step Forward 
• EUCOM Should Lead US Combatant Commands in Defense of National Interests in the Arctic
• Obama Wrongly Adopts U.N. “Responsibility to Protect” to Justify Libya Intervention
• President Obama Sees Amtrak as Key to America’s Transportation 

Human Rights Watch
• Montagnard Christians in Vietnam: A Case Study in Religious Repression

Idisaster 2.0
• Selected Resources on Social Media and Emergency Management

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)
• Protests in the Arab World: Implications for the Region and India
• Uprisings in the Arab World: Options for GOI (Government of India)

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
• Characterizing the Crisis at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
• Fukushima Crisis: A Chronology Preliminary Assessment of Accident Sequences and Potential Atmospheric Radiation Releases

Institute for Security Studies
• Conference Report: Policing in South Africa: 2010 and Beyond
• Securing Africa's Nuclear Resources
• Workshop Report: Understanding the IPID Mandate for Addressing Police Corruption

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy
• The PLA’s “Orient Express”: Militarization of the Iron Silk Road

Institute for the Study of War
• New Developments in Iraq’s Nascent Government
• Opium Poppies Creep Back in Afghan Province
• The Status of Current Operations in Libya

International Crisis Group
• CrisisWatch N°92, 1 April 2011
• Iraq and the Kurds: Confronting Withdrawal Fears
• Radical Islam in Gaza
• Reforming Pakistan’s Electoral System War?

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk
• Fiscal sustainability and the fiscal reaction function for South Africa
• Reconsidering the Role of Food Prices in Inflation
• Sovereign Rating News and Financial Markets Spillovers: Evidence from the European Debt Crisis

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
• Global Strategic Review Report 2010

International Peace Institute
• Impact of Emerging Powers on the Council

International Relations and Security Network
• Emerging Markets: New Challenges After the Global Recession
• Feeding Billions: Food Security in China
• The Genesis of Terrorism in the Sahara 
• Harnessing the Power of Social Media in International Relations
• Libya: AFRICOM's Combat Christening  Libya: War or Humanitarian Intervention?
• Russia: Conscription Crisis Looming?
• Swiss Experiences in Peace Mediation, Part One
• Tackling Corruption in Revolutionary Egypt
• Thoughts on Japan’s Recovery

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, April 1, 2011, v. 9, no. 13
o The Khurasan Mujahideen Seek to Eliminate Espionage in Waziristan
o New Tensions in Kirkuk as Kurdish Peshmerga Surround City
o Solidarity in Resistance: Middle East Revolutions Strengthen Hezbollah

Joint Air Power Competence Centre
• Journal of the JAPCC, 2010, no. 12
o Evolving to Meet Future NATO Challenges: Interview with General Hasan Aksay
o Naval Air Power – The Italian Navy Vision
o Strategic Airlift Capability: C-17 Multinational Airlift Takes Flight
o Integrating Space – People First!
o Challenges for NATO Missile Defence
o Strategy versus Capability: The Non-Contribution of NATO Air and Space Power to Counter-Piracy
o What Place Space? The Critical Need to Develop Space Expertise
o NATO’s Achilles Heel: The Case for NATO Logistics Command Authority
o Contemporary Operations with an Eye on the Future
o Military History – Handle with Care
o Delivering Fixed-Wing Air Power Effects in a COIN Environment

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG)
• Unacceptable Risk: Two Decades of “Close Calls,” Leaks and Other Problems at U.S. Nuclear Reactors
National Academies Press
• The Emerging Threat of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Southern Africa: Global and Local Challenges and Solutions: Workshop Summary
• National Water Resources Challenges Facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

National Defense University (NDU)
• Skin in the Game: Partnership in Establishing and Maintaining Global Security and Stability

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
• The Russian Perspective on the Korean Peninsula in 2010 and Implications for the Future

New America Foundation• Evolving Structures of the Global Oil and Gas Industry

PeaceOps
• Journal of International Peace Operations, March- April 2011, v. 6, no. 5
o Independence in South Sudan
o The Future of the Stability Operations Industry
o Q & A with Sir John Holmes
o Local Solutions to Global Problems
o The Afghanistan Transition
o Treating a Nation
o In Defense of Human Rights
o The Future of S/CRS – What’s in a Name?
o Doug Brooks: A Decade in Stability
o Amb. Herman Cohen: Africa Ten Years into the Future
o Gary Sturgess: The East India Company

Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Coordinating Regional and Multilateral Financial Institutions
• Oil-Hungry China Needs to Rethink Energy Security

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Upbeat Chinese May Not Be Primed for a Jasmine Revolution

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
• Lukewarm Public Interest in Libya
• Modest Support for Libya Airstrikes, No Clear Goal Seen

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS)
• Dilma Rousseff in Portugal: Worst Timing Ever [Viewpoints #46]
• Parallels of Inadequacy: The G4 and Libya [Viewpoints #47]

Program for Culture & Conflict Review
• The Culture and Conflict Review, Spring 2011, v. 5, no. 1
o Muscular Mentoring: FM 3-24 and Selected Experiences of Regional Corps Advisory Command 3-5
o The Social Fitness of Insurgencies: The Organizational Payoff for Legitimated Power – The Case of Hezbollah
o Muscular Nonviolence: People Powered Insurgencies Stage a Stunning Resurgence
o Negotiating with the Taliban: The Timing and Consequences of Settlements in Foreign Power COIN Wars
o A Return to 2001: The Consequences of Premature Withdrawal from Afghanistan
o Economic Liberalism and Regional Security in East Asia: A Case Study on the Impact of China’s Accession to the WTO
o Disaster Response, Peacekeeping/Stability Ops, and Cultural Heritage Protection: Capacity Development through the Inter-American System
o Rogue Wave: Modern Maritime Piracy and International Law

Project for Excellence in Journalism
• Media Focus Remains Overseas

Public Interest Declassification Board
• Discretionary Declassification and Release of Contemporary National Security Information
• Regularizing the Declassification Review of Classified Congressional Records
• Simplifying the Declassification Review Process for Historical Records

Rand
• Air Force Contingency Contracting: Reachback and Other Opportunities for Improvement
• Assessing the Illegal Trade in Cultural Property from a Public Policy perspective
• Beyond Rivalry and Camaraderie: Explaining Varying Asian Responses to China
• New Opportunities and Challenges for Taiwan's Security 
• Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants

Research and Documentation Center (RDC)
• Bosnian Atlas of War Crimes (Atlas)

Royal Society
• Knowledge, Networks, and Nations: Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Rising from Within: China’s Search for a Multilateral World and Its Implications for Sino-US Relations
• Structures for Strategy: Institutional Preconditions for Long-Range Planning in Cross-Country Perspective
• What Happened to the Smiling Face of Indonesian Islam? Muslim Intellectualism and the Conservative Turn in Post-Suharto Indonesia
• Winds of Change in Sarawak Politics?

Small Wars Journal
• The Clash of the Caliphates: Understanding the Real War of Ideas
• Countering Extremism in Yemen: Beyond Interagency Cooperation
• 'Holding' for Companies and Platoons in Counterinsurgency
• Insurgencia Criminal en las Américas
• Lessons for Libya? - Flawed Policy and the Inevitability of Military Failure: The Anglo-French Suez Expedition of 1956
• Libya and the Responsibility to Protect
• Libya’s Rebel Leaders and Western Assistance
• Panama: Is Restructuring the Razor to Cut Out Corruption?
• “Penny Wise, Pound Foolish”
• Shaping Coalition Forces’ Strategic Narrative in Support of Village Stability Operations
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
• Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism

Stimson Center
• Maritime Commerce and Security: The Indian Ocean
• The Meaning of JASDF’s Airlift Operation in Iraq and JASDF’s Future Challenges 
• North Korea: Challenge for the US-Japan Alliance

Strategic Studies Institute
• Junior Leader Professional Development — Who Has the Time?
• Resolving Ethical Challenges in an Era of Persistent Conflict

Transnational Institute
• Withdrawal Issues: Report on the U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
• China’s Active Defense Strategy and its Regional Impact [hearing transcript]
• Going Out: An Overview of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Analyzing Post-Conflict Justice and Islamic Law
• Concerns Grow over Cote d'Ivoire
• Egypt Opposition Divided over New Political Parties Law
• Egypt's Economic Future 
• Eye on the Middle East and North Africa
• The Future of Pakistan
• Libya: No Fly Zone
• Libya, Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
• Preventing Arab-Kurd Conflict in Iraq after the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces
• Telhami in Politico: Libya Action in U.S. National Interest
• Transitional Justice in Egypt and Tunisia
• The Unfolding Situation in Yemen
• Upheaval in Syria 

USAID
• Afghanistan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
• Iraq - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
• Japan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
• Libya - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]

U.S. Geological Survey
• Mines and Mineral Processing Facilities in the Vicinity of the March 11, 2011, Earthquake in Northern Honshu, Japan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Egypt Opposition Divided over New Political Parties Law
• Egypt's Transition: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
• Odyssey Dawn Squeezes Qadhafi
• Qatar's Quest to Become the Leading Arab State
• Why Turkey Needs a New Foreign Policy

White House
• Advise the Advisor: Secretary Steven Chu and Energy Policy 
• Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future
• Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya
• Weekly address - The Military Mission in Libya [March 26, 2011]
• Transcript
• MP4
• MP3

World Food Program
• WFP/FAO/UNICEF Rapid Food Security Assessment Mission to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 

World Public Opinon.org
• Rising Concern about China's Increasing Power: Global Poll