Sunday, April 10, 2011

Friday's Miscellany 04-08-2011

Radiation Dose Chart

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
Afghanistan Drugs: Evolution from a War Economy to a Drug Economy
Kandahar in Revolt: The Quran Demos in the Light of History

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
Afghanistan Research Newsletter 29

Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Urban Fragility and Security in Africa

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
NATO: Renewed from Afghanistan
The Role of the German Jewish Community in Postwar Germany's International Recognition

Amnesty International
Moment of Truth for Yemen
Security with Human Rights

Asian Development Bank Institute
Asian Monetary Unit and Monetary Cooperation in Asia
Financial Development in Emerging Markets: The Indian Experience 
Regional Integration in the Americas: State of Play, Lessons, and Ways Forward

Associated of the United States Army
Win, Learn, Focus, Adapt, Win Again: The Scrimmage Should Be As Hard As the Game

Atlantic Council
Roma Inclusion: A Call for Central European Leadership

Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)
In it for the long haul: Australia's aid to Afghanistan

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
Global Forces 2010: Proceedings of the ASPI Conference
Special Report Issue 39 - A Reliable Partner: Strengthening Australia – Timor-Leste Relations
Uncharted Terrain: Libya and the 'Responsibility to Protect'

Brookings Institute
Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated March 29, 2011]
Beyond the Disaster: A Call for Japanese Leadership in International Disaster Response Law
Brazil and China: South-South Partnership or North-South Competition?
Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated March 31, 2011]
Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated March 30, 2011]
Protecting Civilians in Disasters and Conflicts

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
Foreign Policy in the Election

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Arab Reform Bulletin - Is the King's Dilemma Only for Presidents?
Challenges to Democracy Promotion: The Case of Bolivia

CATO Institute
Bankrupt: Entitlements and the Federal Budget
The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition
Beyond Symbolism? The U.S. Nuclear Disarmament Agenda and Its Implications for Chinese and Indian Nuclear Policy
The Case for Gridlock
Marriage against the State: Toward a New View of Civil Marriage

Center for Global Development
Dataset: Vulnerability to Climate Change
Find Me the Money: Financing Climate and Other Global Public Goods
The Peace Corps in a Smaller World: A New Model for the Next 50 Years

Center for Naval Analysis (CNA)
China Confronts Afghan Drugs: Law Enforcement Views of “The Golden Crescent”
The Independent Review Panel to Study the Judge Advocate Requirements of the Department of the Navy  Military Retirement Choice Calculator

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Human Security: Genesis, Debates, Trends
Impartial and Stuck: NATO’s Predicament in Libya
Strategic Trends 2011

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Issues in International Political Economy - Corporate Workouts in Mexico - April 2011 - Special Issue 1
PacNet #21 - Biosecurity Can Reinvigorate the US-Japan Relationship
U.S.-India Insight - Hearing the Stone Mason’s Chisel and Hammer
Water and National Strength in Saudi Arabia

Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)
Assessing the Army Power and Energy Efforts for the Warfighter (Defense and Technology Paper # 81)

Centre for European Reform
A New Neighbourhood Policy for the EU

Centre for International Governance Innovation
Preventing Crises and Promoting Economic Growth: A Framework for International Policy Cooperation

Century Foundation
Afghanistan Agonistes: The Many Stakes in a Thirty Years War
Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace
Afghanistan Task Force White Papers
The Myth of Big Government

Chatham House
Nigeria's 2011 Elections
Preventing Crises and Promoting Economic Growth: A Framework for International Policy Cooperation
Sixty Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations (Transcript of speech by Rt Hon William Hague)
Sixty Years of British-Israeli Diplomatic Relations (Transcript of speech by HE Shimon Peres)

Command and Control Research Program (CCRP)
International C2 Journal, 2010-2011, v.4, no. 2 
o Cyberspace: The Ultimate Complex Adaptive System
o Requirements for Autonomous Unmanned Air Systems set by Legal Issues
o Knowledge Sharing as a Contingency in the Design of Counterterrorism Organizations
International C2 Journal, 2010-2011, v.4, no. 3
o Special Issue: Interagency Experimentation
o Models in Multi-Agency C2 Experiment Lifecycles: The Collaborative Experimentation Environment as a Case Study
o Testbed for Tactical Networking and Collaboration
o Whole-of-Government Planning and Wargaming of Complex International Operations: Experimental Evaluation of Methods and Tools
o Using Response Surface Methodology as an Approach to Understand and Optimize Operational Air Power
o Ergonomic Challenges for Digitization: Learning from Analog Mission Planning Processes
International C2 Journal, 2010-2011, v.5, no. 1
o Special Issue: Beyond Command and Control: Sense Making under Large World Uncertainty
o A Simple Heuristics-Based Model for Threat Prediction to Support Decision-Making
o Strategic Development in a Large World

Conflict
2010, The Year of Assassination by Drones: Annual Report on CIA’s Target Killing Campaign in Pakistan’s Tribal Area

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
Army and Air Force National Guard and Reserve Component Equipment Posture
Department of Energy Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Department of Defense Nuclear Programs Budget Request
Improving Management and Acquisition of Information Technology Systems in the Department of Defense
Review of the Implementation Plans for the Repeal of Law and Policies Governing Service by Openly Gay and Lesbian Service Members
Sustaining the Force: Challenges to Readiness
Testimony on Repeal of Law and Policies Governing Service of Openly Gay and Lesbian Service Members
U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea budget request 2012
U.S. Transportation Command and U.S. Africa Command Budget Request

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
The U.S. Government Response to the Nuclear Power Plant Incident in Japan

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
Hearings
o The Government of Belarus: Crushing Human Rights at Home? [April 1, 2011]
o Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges in South Asia [April 5, 2011]
o Committee Briefing on Israel’s Security Requirements for Defensible Borders [April 5, 2011]
o Watching the Watchers: The Need for Systemic Reforms and Independence of the State Department Inspector General [April 5, 2011]
o Financial Hardball: Corralling Terrorists and Proliferators [April 6, 2011]
o Is America’s Overseas Broadcasting Undermining our National Interest and the Fight Against Tyrannical Regimes? [April 6, 2011]
o Reforming the United Nations: The Future of U.S. Policy [April 7, 2011]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
Strengthening International Cooperation on Aviation Security
Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa: Ramifications for U.S. Homeland Security
Using Resources Effectively to Secure Our Border at Ports of Entry – Stopping the Illicit Flow of Money, Guns and Drugs

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
Army modernization in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program 
Strategic Systems in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program
U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program
U.S. Transportation Command and U.S. Africa Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Future Years Defense Program

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
Combating Human Trafficking in Asia
Perspectives on the Crisis in Libya

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
Nomination of Rafael Borras to Under Secretary for Management, Department of Homeland Security
Securing the Border: Progress at the Local Level

Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence
S. 719, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
S. Rpt. 112-12, Report to Accompany S. 719, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (April 4, 2011)

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Long-Term Analysis of a Budget Proposal by Chairman Ryan
Monthly Budget Review - March 2011

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Democracy Promotion and the Obama Doctrine
Managing Arab Spring's Fallout in Iran 
The Perils of Libyan Nation Building 
Pivotal Elections for Emerging Peru 

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
NATO's New Strategic Concept: A Comprehensive Assessment
Private Military Companies in Counter-insurgency Strategy 

Department of Defense Freedom of Information Act Office
Secretary Rumsfeld: Documents Released to Secretary Rumsfeld Under MDR [large file]

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
D-2011-058 Defense Finance and Accounting Service Has Made Progress in Providing Staffing Levels to Support the Mission in Southwest Asia April 7, 2011
SDIG-SWA-11-01 Fiscal Year 2011 Comprehensive Oversight Plan for Southwest Asia and Surrounding Areas

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
OIG-11-25 Improvements Needed in the Process to Certify Carriers for the Free and Secure Trade Program
OIG-11-56 U.S. Secret Service’s Information Technology Modernization Effort (Redacted)
OIG-11-57 CBP’s Efficacy of Controls Over Drug Seizures
OIG-11-58 Transportation Security Administration's Management Letter for FY 2010 DHS Consolidated Financial Statements Audit
OIG-11-59 U.S. Coast Guard's Management Letter for FY 2010 DHS Consolidated Financial Statements Audit
Procedures Relating to a Federal Funding Hiatus

Department of State
2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Strengthening Stability in Space

Department of the Army
Infantry Small-Unit Mountain Operations - (ATTP) 3-21.50

Department of the Navy
OPNAV Notice 9000.9166 Planning Factors for Force Level Projections

East-West Center
Want a New Map of Asia? Include the United States

European Commission
European Demography Report 2010 

European Council on Foreign Relations
European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2010

Foreign Policy
...And Keep It Shut!: What Parts of the Government Should be Permanently Furloughed?
Bad Politics, Worse Prose
Benghazi Diary
It Might Be the Top Personnel Priority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs -- But is the AfPak Hands Program Flopping?
Original Sin: The Seeds of the Euro Crisis are as Old as the Euro Itself 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
The Threat of Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzania

Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Transition in Arab States: Time for an "EU-Master Plan"

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Africa Spectrum, 2010, v. 45, no. 3 [50 Years of Independence in Africa]
o Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations: 50 Years of Independence in Africa
o Urban Languages in Africa
o Changing Webs of Kinship: Spotlights on West Africa
o New Fractures, Old Wounds: Africa and the Renewal of South Agency
o Do Nations Have Stomachs? Food, Drink and Imagined Community in Africa
o Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: In Africa and Beyond
o “Indépendance Cha Cha”: African Pop Music since the Independence Era
o Glimmering Utopias: 50 Years of African Film

Glevum Associates
2011 Yemen Stability Survey

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Aviation Security: TSA Is Taking Steps to Validate the Science Underlying Its Passenger Behavior Detection Program, but Efforts May Not Be Comprehensive GAO-11-461T [testimony]
Defense Acquisitions: CH-53K Helicopter Program Has Addressed Early Difficulties and Adopted Strategies to Address Future Risks GAO-11-332
Defense Infrastructure: The Navy Needs Better Documentation to Support Its Proposed Military Treatment Facilities on Guam GAO-11-206
Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Places Program on Firmer Footing, but Progress Still Lags, GAO-11-325
State and Local Governments' Fiscal Outlook: April 2011 Update GAO-11-495SP
State Department Inspector General: Actions to Address Independence and Effectiveness Concerns Are Under Way GAO-11-382T [testimony] 

Heritage Foundation
A Clash of Integrities: Moral and Religious Liberty in the Armed Forces
Cote d'Ivoire Tragedy: Rigorous Oversight of U.N. Peacekeeping Needed
Defense Claims a Smaller Percentage of Federal Spending Today Than it Did in 1992 
Economic Analysis of the House Budget Resolution
The FY 2012 Defense Budget Proposal: Looking for Cuts in All the Wrong Places
Justice for America: Using Military Commissions To Try the 9/11 Conspirators
The Limits of Transparency: China Releases 2010 Defense White Paper
Obama’s Radical Climate Change Agenda Driving U.S. Foreign Aid Policy
Peru’s Next President Should Continue Political and Free Market Reforms
A Strong National Defense: The Armed Forces America Needs and What They Will Cost
Why Does Economic Freedom Matter?

Hudson Institute
Challenges of North Korean Nuclear Negotiation
Has Argentina Joined the Chavez Bloc? 
US National Interest, Climate Engineering, and International Law

Human Rights Watch
No News is Good News: Abuses Against Journalists by Palestinian Security Forces

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
Dynamics of Expanding the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation)
India's Defence Cooperation with its major traditional & New Strategic Partners

Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS)
Brazil and the United States: The Need for Strategic Engagement
Secret Weapon: High-value Target Teams as an Organizational Innovation

Institute for Security Studies
Implications of the Financial War on Libya 

Institute for the Study of War
Fact Sheet: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
Libya Conflict: Situation Update

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR)
A Typology of Lone Wolves: Preliminary Analysis of Lone Islamist Terrorists

International Crisis Group
CrisisWatch N°92
Nepal’s Fitful Peace Process
Politics and Transition in the New South Sudan
Popular Protest in North Africa and the Middle East (III) - The Bahrain Revolt
Regenerating U.S.-Turkish Relations in 2011

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Iran Dismisses Post-Fukushima Nuclear Rethink

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
An Analysis of U.S. Fiscal and Generational Imbalances: Who Will Pay and How?
Capital Flows to EU New Member States: Does Sector Destination Matter?
Deposit Formation in Georgia
Evidence on Productivity, Comparative Advantage, and Networks in the Export Performance of Firms
Feeling The Elephant’s Weight: The Impact of Côte d’Ivoire’s Crisis on WAEMU Trade
Financial Cycles: What? How? When?
ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries
Mongolia: Measuring the Output Gap
A Network Analysis of Global Banking:1978-2009
Probabilities of Default and the Market Price of Risk in a Distressed Economy

International Relations and Security Network
China’s Acquiescence on UNSCR 1973 – No Big Deal
EU and Maghreb Countries: Counterterrorism Cooperation
Leaked Cables Show US Wrong on Yanukovych
Liberation Technology: Dreams, Politics, History
Libya and Iraq: A Long War’s Risk
Preventing or Enabling? Counter-radicalization Policy in a Divided Britain 
Swiss Experiences in Peace Mediation, Part Two
Turkey’s New Role in the Geostrategic Landscape of Euro-Muslim Relations
Walking the Line Between Islam and Fear - Islamophobes on a Shrink's Couch
A Year Before Elections, What About Russia's Corruption Fight?

Jamestown Foundation
China Brief, April 8, 2011, v. 11, no. 6
o North African Revolutions and Protests Challenge Chinese Diplomacy
o China's Looming Labor Supply Challenge?
o Beijing Confronts Japanese Nuclear Meltdown
o China’s Maritime Strategy Is More Than Naval Strategy
Terrorism Monitor, April 7, 2011, v. 9, no. 14
o Trial of Indonesia's Abu Bakr Ba'asyir a Test of Indonesia's Counterterrorism Resolve
o Picking Up Where the Red Army Faction Left Off: Tales from the German Jihad
o Egypt's Internal Security Service Collapses in a Storm of Charges and Revelations

Lexington Institute
Dressing For Success: Equipping The 21st Century Warfighter Quickly And Efficiently
Enabling The Carrier Strike Group: The Role Of The E-2 And C-2
Modestly-Sized Aerospace & Defense Sector Is Major National Asset

Lowry Institute
China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town
Justice or Stability? Hizbullah, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Consequences for the Region
Risky Business: Emerging Risks for Cross-Border Business

Mitre Corp
A Comparative Study of PDF Generation Methods: Measuring Loss of Fidelity When Converting Arabic and Persian MS Word Files to PDF
Reliable Electronic Text: The Elusive Prerequisite for a Host of Human Language Technologies

Monterey Institute of International Studies
Islam, Islamism, and Politics in Eurasia Report (IIPER) no. 37

National Academies Press
Engineering Aviation Security Environments--False Alarm Reduction: Interim Report (Letter Report)
HIV Screening and Access to Care: Exploring the Impact of Policies on Access to and Provision of HIV Care
National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach
Preparing for the Future of HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Shared Responsibility

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Inadequate Security Practices Expose Key NASA Network to Cyber Attack

National Defence and the Canadian Forces
Canadian Military Journal, 2011, v. 11, no. 2
o The Canadian Forces in 2010 and 2011 ~ Looking Back and Looking Forward
o Outside CF Transformation Looking In
o Towards a Canadian Forces Arctic Operating Concept
o Vimy, April 1917: The Birth of Which Nation?
o Perpetual Interests… The Admiralty Influence on the Development of the Naval Service of Canada
o A Rejection of the Need for Warrior Scholars?
o “What is to be done?” The Future of Canadian Second World War History
o Philosophy and the Military
o Acquiring Expertise on the Chinese Military

National Security Archive
The Chiquita Papers: Banana Giant's Paramilitary Payoffs Detailed in Trove of Declassified Legal, Financial Documents

Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT)
Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: A Pakistani Narrative

Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)
Foreign Fighter Interdiction: Stability Operations as Countermeasures

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Fewer See Clear Goal in Libya; Opposition to Arming Rebels
Most Want Budget Compromise but Split on Who's to Blame for a Shutdown
Obama Ratings Slip Amid Economic Anxieties: Public Has Far Lower Opinion of Congress

Police Executive Research Forum
2011 Electronic Control Weapon Guidelines

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS)
Guinea-Bissau: Bringing Angola into the Fold [Viewpoints 49]
Encircling Zimbabwe: Between Friend and Foe [Viewpoints 48]
IPRIS Lusophone Countries Bulletin: 2010 Review
o Angola: forging identity in foreign policy making
o Brazil: preparing for the dawn of a new era
o Cape Verde: a profilic year
o Guinea-Bissau: still in the eye of the storm
o Mozambique: strength on the surface, but fissures emerging
o Portugal: punching above its weight
o São Tomé and Príncipe: Promises and Disappointments
o Timor Leste: recalling 2010, anticipating 2011
Parallels of Inadequacy: The G4 and Libya [Viewpoints 47]
Dilma Rousseff in Portugal: Worst Timing Ever [Viewpoints 46]

Project on Defense Alternatives
The Pentagon and Deficit Reduction: FY-2012 Budget Retains Exceptional Level of Defense Spending

RAND
Are Words Enough in a Crisis?
The Cloud: Understanding the Security, Privacy and Trust Challenges
Effects of Soldiers' Deployment on Children's Academic Performance and Behavioral Health
Monitoring and Evaluation in Stabilisation Interventions: Reviewing the State of the Art and Suggesting Ways Forward

Refugees International
Sudan: Overcoming Obstacles to Peace
Thailand: No Safe Refuge

Russian and Eurasian Security Network
Russian Analytical Digest No.95: Russia and Sports: Politics, Business and National Identity

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Assessing 12-year Military Reform in Indonesia: Major Strategic Gaps for the Next Stage of Reform 
Rising from Within: China's Search for a Multilateral World and Its Implications for Sino-U.S. Relations
Rising Power… To Do What? Evaluating China's Power in Southeast Asia

Security & Defence Agenda
Getting in Step: Coordinating National Responses to Changing Security Threats
A New Partnership for Europeans Security

Security Council Report
Update Report No. 1 - Kenya and the ICC

SIPRI
Arms Transfers to Zimbabwe: Implications for an Arms Trade Treaty
National Reports on Arms Exports
Ukrainian Arms Supplies to Sub-Saharan Africa

Small Wars Journal
Defense in an Age of Austerity: 2022
The Pacification of Zaganiyah (Part One): Fighting for Intelligence to Overcome the Information Gap
The Philosophy Behind the Iraq Surge: An Interview with General Jack Keane
Shaping a Culture of Privacy in the DoD
Shaping Coalition Forces’ Strategic Narrative in Support of Village Stability Operations
Simply a Nirvana Fallacy: Seeing Everything from the Prism of Islamic Extremism in Afghanistan
Six Frigates and the Future of Gunboat Diplomacy
Tell Me How to Do This Thing Called Design! Practical Application of Complexity Theory to Military Operations
To Design or Not to Design (Part Four): Taking Lines out of Non-Linear; How Design Must Escape ‘Tacticization’ Bias of Military Culture

Stanley Foundation
Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa: Bridging the Security/Development Divide With International Security Assistance
Courier, Winter 2010, no. 69
o Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems Is Still Our Top Priority
o Preventing the Next Mass Atrocity
o Global Leader Summits Evolve: The youngest of multilateral forums, the G-20, still has some growing up to do
o Nuclear Security Summits Crucial to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
UN Security Council Resolution 1540: Identity, Extension, and Implementation

Stimson Center
Beyond Boundaries in Eastern Africa

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
A Colloquium on U.S. National Security Policy, Military Strategy: Understanding the Environment for Contemporary Warfare
Hard Power and Soft Power: The Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of Policy in the 21st Century
Resolving Ethical Challenges in an Era of Persistent Conflict

Symantec
Symantec Internet Security Threat Report: Trends for 2010

UK House of Commons Committees
Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2011): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2009, Quarterly Reports for 2010, licensing policy and review of export control legislation

UK House of Commons Library
Japanese Quake: Nuclear Power

United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2010 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Global Smart Update 2011 - v. 5, March 2011

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
China’s Active Defense Strategy and its Regional Impact hearing transcript

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
The Future of Yemen 
Iraq’s Disputed Territories: A View of the Political Horizon and Implications for U.S. Policy
Making Peace after Genocide: Anatomy of Burundi Process
The Need to Pursue Mutual Interests in U.S.-PRC Relations
Refugees and IDPs after Conflict: Why They Do Not Go Home
Starting an Af-Pak Dialogue

USAID
Haiti - Earthquake and Cholera [latest update]
Libya - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]
Pakistan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update]

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
The Fogel Murders: A Call to Combat Incitement
The New Silk Road: China's Energy Strategy in the Greater Middle East
Turkey's Opposition Turns Social Democratic: Will the Turks Follow?
The U.S. Approach to Promoting Democracy in the Middle East
Winds of Change in the Middle East: A View from Israel

White House
Presidential Policy Directive/PPD – 8 - National Preparedness
Remarks by the President on the Budget
Remarks by the President on Budget Talks
Report on Afghanistan and Pakistan, March 2011
Weekly Address: President Obama on the Budget Compromise to Avoid a Government Shutdown

World Bank
eAtlas of Global Development

World Public Opinion.Org
Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows