Friday's Miscellany 04-22-2011

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

·         2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends

·         Polls on the Environment, Energy, Global Warming, and Nuclear Power 

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

·         The Currency of Confidence 

·         German Security Policy on the Move - Challenges In and Post Afghanistan

·         Libya: The Debate  - Germany Says ‘No’ Again by Dieter Dettke 

·         The Role of the German Jewish Community in Postwar Germany's International Recognition 

·         We Need a New Atlanticism 

American Security Project

·         Pay Now, Pay Later: A State-by-State Assessment of the Costs of Climate Change 

Amnesty International

·         Never Forgotten: Lebanon’s Missing People 

·         Time for Justice: Egypt’s Corrosive System of Detention 

Asian Development Bank Institute

·         Causes of and Remedies for the People's Republic of China's External Imbalances: The Role of Factor Market Distortion

·         Exchange Rates and Global Rebalancing 

·         Exploring Access and Equity in Malaysia's Private Higher Education 

ASUA Institute of Land Warfare

·         U.S. Army Energy Security and Sustainability: Vital to National Defense 

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         The Delusion of Peace Initiatives 

Brookings

·         Challenges to the World Trade Organization: It’s All About Legitimacy

·         From Popular Revolutions to Effective Reforms: The Georgian Experience 

·         Iran and Turkey After Egypt: Time for Regional Realignments? 

·         Pakistan Plays Hardball

·         A Serious Approach to Development: Toward Success at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea 

·         Use Restrictions and the Future of Surveillance Law 

·         A Year of Living Dangerously: A Review of Natural Disasters in 2010 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         The Future of al-Nahda in Tunisia 

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

·         China’s Current and Emerging Foreign Policy Priorities

Center for Global Development

·         The FY2011 Budget Agreement for Foreign Operations Sets the Stage for Future Funding 

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

·         CSIS Southeast Asia 1Q Update: Director’s Report 

·         A More Strategic U.S. Approach to Police Reform in Africa 

·         PacNet #23 - The Eagle and the Dragon in the Land of Sandalwood: US and China Build Soft Power in Timor-Leste

·         Saudi Stability in a Time of Change 

Center for Global Development

·         Toward Results-Based Social Policy Design and Implementation 

               

Chatham House

·         Egypt in Transition

·         NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan: Enabling Security Transition (Speech transcript of Lt. Gen. William B Caldwell)

·         UK Defence: A Test Case 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         An Analysis of the President’s Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal year 2012

·         The Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Rethinking Peacemaking in Darfur 

·         U.S. Debt Ceiling: Costs and Consequences

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         DoD Instruction 5545.04, Policy on the Congressional Reporting Process for Military Educational Institutions Seeking to Establish, Modify, or Redesignate Degrees, April 7, 2011 

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)

·         D-2011-060 Marine Corps Inventory of Small Arms Was Generally Accurate but Improvements Are Needed for Related Guidance and Training, April 22, 2011 

·         D-2011-056 Consistent Use of Supply Support Activities Could Increase Efficiency of Equipment Drawdown from Iraq, April 14, 2011 

·         Review of Army Inspector General Agency Report of Investigation (Case 10-024) GEN McChrystal and Rolling Stone article   

Department of Energy Inspector General

·         Security Planning for National Security Information Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

·         National Terrorism Advisory System 

·         National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Public guide

·         OIG-11-69 Federal Emergency Management Agency Faces Challenges in Modernizing Information Technology 

Egmont Institute Royal Institute for International Relations

·         The Treachery of Strategies: A Call for True EU Strategic Partnerships 

EU Institute for Security Studies

·         After Gaddafi 

·         Freedom or Survival? (Libya) 

·         Save Misrata - and Help Libya Set Itself Free 

European Council on Foreign Relations

·         A Scorecard for European Foreign Policy    

European Policy Centre

·         Implementing Lisbon: What's New in Comitology? 

Foreign Policy

·         The War on Soft Power 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Parallels with the Past – How the Soviets Lost in Afghanistan, How the Americans are Losing 

·         Resetting Missile Defenses 

·         Turmoil in the Arabian Peninsula 

Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)

·         Strategic Pretence or Strategic Defence? Britain, France and the Common Security and Defence Policy after Libya 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Religiosity as a Determinant of Happiness (working paper #163) 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Border Security:  DHS's Visa Security Program Needs to Improve Performance Evaluation and Better Address Visa Risk Worldwide, GAO-11-315

·         Criminal Alien Statistics: Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs,   GAO-11-187 

·         Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Update on Federal Financial Risks and Claims Processing, GAO-11-397R 

·         Energy-Water Nexus:  Amount of Energy Needed to Supply, Use, and Treat Water Is Location-Specific and Can Be Reduced by Certain Technologies and Approaches,  GAO-11-225 

Heritage Foundation

·         Congress Must Demand Details of New START Implementation

·         Cuts in U.S. Contributions Necessitate Budget Austerity at the U.N.

·         Department of Energy Spending Cuts: A Guide to Trimming President Obama’s 2012 Budget Request

·         Congress Must Demand Details of New START Implementation 

·         Don’t Raise the Debt Limit Without Getting Spending Under Control 

·         Food Aid to North Korea: Time is Not Right 

·         Libya Mission Demonstrates That British Defense Cuts Must Be Reversed 

·         Referendum in Southern Sudan and the Road to Independence 

Human Rights Watch

·         Haiti’s Rendezvous with History: The Case of Jean-Claude Duvalier 

·         Libya: Cluster Munitions Strike Misrata

·         Syria: Rampant Torture of Protesters: Activists and Journalists Also Arrested and Mistreated 

Institute for Strategic, Political, Security and Economic Consultancy

·         The Waning World Power: The Demographic Future of Russia and the Other Soviet Successor States 

International Crisis Group

·         Indonesian Jihadism: Small Groups, Big Plans

·         Timor-Leste: Reconciliation and Return from Indonesia
  

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Lost in Translation: China’s Opaque Defence White Paper 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         The Dynamics of the Term Structure of Interest Rates in the United States in Light of the Financial Crisis of 2007-10 

·         How Do Business and Financial Cycles Interact? 

·         Identifying the Linkages Between Major Mining Commodity Prices and China’s Economic Growth-Implications for Latin America

·         Kingdom of the Netherlands-Netherlands: Detailed Assessment Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism 

·         Monetary Transmission in Dollarized and Non-Dollarized Economies: The Cases of Chile, New Zealand, Peru and Uruguay

·         Next Generation Balance Sheet Stress Testing

·         Republic of Moldova: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Progress Report 

International Relations and Security Network

·         Is Iran Still Center of Middle East's 'Great Game'? 

·         Libya Exposes New Faultlines in Indian Foreign Policy 

·         Patrolling Rio's Favelas – From Pacification to Police State? 

·         The Saudi Complex: Power vs Rights

·         Saving the WTO from the Doha Round 

·         Tyranny of the Central Bankers 

·         Why Libya Will Not Be a Second Iraq 

Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO)

·         2010 Report to the President 

Institute for Security Studies

·         Elections, Politics and External Involvement in Djibouti 

Jamestown Foundation

·         China Brief, April 22, 2011, v. 11, no. 7 

o    The Rise of the Energy Faction in Chinese Politics

o    Japan’s Approach to China’s Control of Rare Earth Elements

o    Taiwan’s Defense Transformation and Challenges Under Ma Ying-Jeou

o    China’s 2010 National Defense White Paper: An Assessment

·         Terrorism Monitor, April 22, 2011, v. 9, no. 16 

o    Pakistani Taliban Continue Their Campaign against Sufi Shrines

o    The Internal Crisis of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

o    Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Challenges and Opportunities in Revolutionary Yemen

Joint Air Power Competence Centre

·         Journal of the JAPCC, no. 13

       o    Transformation of the Italian Air Force: An Interview with Lieutenant General Giuseppe Bernardis

o    Advance of the Afghan Air Force and NATO Air Training Command - Afghanistan

o    Impact of a Combat Air Wing

o    A Risky Assumption – NATO’s Access to the Space Commons

o    Project Noctua: A Model for Enhancing NATO UAV Capability

o    The SACT Post-Lisbon Action Plan: A JAPCC Perspective

o    Air-Land Integration: A Challenge for NATO

o    Fighting Pirates from Space: Using Space Resources in the Fight

o    Military History – Handle with Care (Part 2)

o    Coalition Space Operations: Improving Space Support to ISAF

o    Struggling to Meet Demand: The Need for European Airlift

o    TanDEM-X: A New Era of Global Accuracy

o    Out of Africa: Multirole Tankers in Support of International Aid

Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination

·         Kabul’s Long Shadows: Historical Perspectives 

Lowy Institute for International Policy

·         China in the Pacific: The New Banker in Town 

MITRE

·         Dynamic Red Queen Explains Patterns in Fatal Insurgent Attacks 

·         Improving Departure Taxi Time Predictions Using ASDE-X Surveillance Data 

National Academies Press

·         Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving Acute and Subacute Health Outcomes in Military Personnel 

·         Understanding and Managing Risk in Security Systems for the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex 

National Priorities Project (NPP)

·         Defining the FY2012 Budget Debate 

National Security Archive

·         The Last NSAM Standing - Deconstructing a Secrecy Blunder: A Study in Dysfunction 

NATO Defense College

·         Building a New Military? The NATO Training Mission-Iraq

·         Towards a Comprehensive Approach: Integrating Civilian and Military Concepts of Strategy 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         North Korean Nuclear Nationalism and the Threat of Nuclear War in Korea

·         Workshop on Legal Cooperation to Control Non-State Nuclear Proliferation: Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction and UN Resolutions 1540 and 1373 

Naval War College

·         Naval War College Review, Spring 2011, v. 64, no. 2

o    From Bottle Rockets to Lightning Bolts: China's Missile Revolution and PLA Strategy against U.S. Military Intervention

o    Toward an African Maritime Economy: Empowering the African Union to Revolutionize the African Maritime Sector

o    The Development of the Angled-Deck Aircraft Carrier: Innovation and Adaptation Hiding in Plain Sight: The U.S. Navy and Dispersed Operations under EMCON, 1956-1972

o    Alliance Naval Strategies and Norway in the Final Years of the Cold War

o    The Quiet Warrior Back in Newport: Admiral Spruance, the Return to the Naval War College, and the Lessons of the Pacific War, 1946-1947

o    Is Deterrence the Only Option? [review essay]

o    The Province of Moral Courage [review essay]

New America Foundation

·         The Year of the Drone 

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

·         Local and National Ownership in Post-Conflict Liberia - Foreign and Domestic Inside Out? 

Observer Research Foundation

·         Afghan Situation Likely to Become Complicated, Says Chinese Scholar 

Oxfam

·         Achieving a Shared Goal: Free Universal Health Care in Ghana

·         A Blueprint for UN Women

·         High Stakes: Girls’ Education in Afghanistan 

·         Six Months Into the Floods: Resettling Pakistan’s Priorities Through Reconstruction 

·         Whose Aid is it Anyway?: Publicizing Aid in Conflicts and Crises 

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKOSI)

·         Civil Military Operations: Afghanistan

·         Mass Atrocity: Prevention and Response A Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Workshop Report 

Peterson Institute for International Economics

·         Corporate Tax Reform for a New Century 

·         Japan Can—and Will—Be a Normal Economy Again 

Physicians for Human Rights

·         Do No Harm—A Call for Bahrain to End Systematic Attacks on Doctors and Patients 

RAND

·         Efficiencies from Applying a Rotational Equipping Strategy

·         Toward Affordable Systems II: Portfolio Management for Army Science and Technology Programs Under Uncertainties 

Real Instituto Elcano

·         Al-Qaeda’s Persistent Sanctuary 

Research Institute for European and American Studies

·         A War Without ‘Principals’: Narco-Violence in Mexico 

SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

·         Security for All: Women in the Afghan Police Forces    

Security Council Report

·         Update Report on Côte d’Ivoire 

·         Update Report on Israel/Palestine 

Small Wars Journal

·         The Case for Joint Professional Security Education for the Afghan National Security Forces

·         Iraq: The Whole Thing Was Much Harder Than It Needed To Be

·         A Ketch Named Mastico: North Africa Maritime Security Operations

·         Sandals and Robes to Business Suits and Gulf Streams: Warfare in the 21st Century 

Stimson Center

·         A New Way Forward: Rebalancing Security Assistance Programs and Authorities 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Central Asian Security Trends: Views from Europe and Russia 

Transnational Institute

·         Withdrawal Issues: Report on the US Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe 

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review

·         China’s Program for Science and Technology Modernization: Implications for American Competitiveness 

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

·         Missed Opportunities: The Impact of DDR (Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration) on SSR (Security sector reform) in Afghanistan 

USAID

·         Cote d'Ivoire - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update] 

·         Haiti - Earthquake and Cholera [latest update] 

·         Japan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update] 

·         Libya - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update] 

·         Sudan - Complex Emergency - Disaster Assistance at a Glance [latest update] 

Verizon RISK Team

·         2011 Data Breach Investigations Report 

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The Grinding War in Libya Favors Qadhafi 

·         Iran's Continuing Power Struggles  

·         Is the Palestinian Authority Ready for Statehood?

·         Lebanon Today: Internal Politics and the Arab Spring

·         Moscow, Not Arabia, Is the Big Threat to Europe

·         No Good Options for Iranian Dissidents in Iraq

·         Syria: One Step Forward, One Step Back 

White House

·         OMB Sustainability and Energy Scorecards