Friday's Miscellany 07-01-2011

A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility: A Red Team Study of Mutual Perceptions of Afghan National Security Force Personnel and U.S. Soldiers in Understanding and Mitigating the Phenomena of ANSF-Committed Fratricide-Murders 

Afghanistan Analysts Network

·         What the US Senate’s Report on Afghanistan Does and Doesn’t Say 

American Enterprise Institute Critical Threats

·         Yemen Crisis Situation Report [latest update]  

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)

·         Financial Regulatory Reform in the U.S. and EU 

·         Politics of Dilemma: Turkish and EU Approaches Toward Syria 

·         Putting a Face to Europe in North Africa: Why the EU Needs a Special Representative to Respond to the Arab Spring 

·         Vigilance vs. Precaution: Diverging Directions in U.S. and European Technology Governance? 

Amnesty International

·         Mind the Legal Gap: Roma and the Right to Housing in Romania 

·         Zimbabwe: Briefing to the Pre-Session Working-Group of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 

Asian Development Bank Institute

·         Trans-Pacific Economic Relations and US-China Business Cycles: Convergence within Asia versus US Economic Leadership 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Forks in the river: Australia's strategic options in a transformational Asia

·         Serving Australia: Control and Administration of the Department of Defence

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)

·         Multilateralizing Nuclear Arms Control: An Agenda for the P5 Meeting in Paris  

Brookings

·         Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated June 23, 2011]

·         Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Lost Decade? A Partner for the United States?  

·         Travails of Development and Democratic Governance in Central America  

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         A Criteria-Based Approach to Nuclear Cooperation With Pakistan 

·         Russia in Mid-2011  

Center for a New American Security

·         Preserving Progress: Transitioning Authority and Implementing the Strategic Framework Agreement 

Center for Security Policy

·         How Congress Was Duped into Repealing Military Gay Ban    

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Afghanistan and the Uncertain Metrics of Progress: Part 7: The Problem of Pakistan & the Probability of Grand Strategic Success 

·         China’s New Wave of Aggressive Assertiveness in the South China Sea 

·         Constitutional Coups?: Military Intervention in Latin America 

·         Cooperative Architecture in the South China Sea: ASEAN-China Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship, and Cooperation 

·         The Defense Department’s Enduring Contributions to Global Health 

·         Hardening Positions over Dangerous Grounds: Recent Developments in the South China Sea Dispute 

·         The New National Strategy for Counterterrorism 

·         No Maritime Security Without Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) 

·         Patterns in Terrorism in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia: 2007-2010  

·         Recent Developments in the South China Sea: Implications for Regional Security and Cooperation     

·         Tensions Flare in the South China Sea 

·         Transitioning to a New Strategy 2009-2010  

·         US State Department and Counter-Terrorism Center Reporting Terrorism in the Middle East and Central Asia, August 2010  

·         The Washington Quarterly (TWQ), Summer 2011, v, 34, no. 3    

o    A Military Strategy for the New Space Environment

o    The Climate Wars Myth

o    Germany as a Geo-economic Power

o    Al-Qaeda and the Rise of China: Jihadi Geopolitics in a Post-Hegemonic World

o    China and the United Nations: The Stakeholder Spectrum

o    Crimea’s Overlooked Instability

o    The Battle for Reform with Al-Qaeda

o    Israel’s Pessimistic View of the Arab Spring

o    Beware the Duck Test

o    The Trust Deficit: Seven Steps Forward for U.S.–Arab Dialogue

Chatham House

·         Assessing the Foreign Policy and Global Health Initiative: The Meaning of the Oslo Process  

CISCO

·         Email Attacks: This Time It's Personal 

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee

·         The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents 

·         Outgunned ; Law Enforcement Agents Warn congress They Lack Adequate Tools to Counter Illegal Firearms Trafficking 

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Long-Term Implications of the 2012 Future Years Defense Program 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         The Folly of U.S. Debt Brinkmanship 

·         Growing Shadows in an Unsettled Iraq 

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General

·         OIG-11-88 Compendium of Disaster Preparedness Programs

·         OIG-11-86 U.S. Coast Guard's Marine Safety Program-Offshore Vessel Inspections

·         OIG-11-87 Management Oversight and Additional Automated Capabilities Needed to Improve Intelligence Information Sharing (Redacted) 

Department of State

·         Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 

East-West Center

·         Policy Lessons for Japanese Disaster Responses 

European Policy Evaluation Consortium (EPEC)

·         Study on Wild Fire Fighting Resources Sharing Models 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         Understanding Turkey’s 2011 General Election Results 

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

·         The CSDP after Lisbon: Lost Opportunities or Changed Interests? 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

German Marshall Fund of the United States

·         Addressing Pakistan’s Sovereignty Deficit 

 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Defense Centers of Excellence:  Limited Budget and Performance Information on the Center for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, GAO-11-611 

·         Defense Infrastructure:  The Enhanced Use Lease Program Requires Management Attention, GAO-11-574 

·         Defense Logistics:  DOD Input Needed on Implementing Depot Maintenance Study Recommendations, GAO-11-568R 

·         Department of Defense:  Further Actions Needed to Institutionalize Key Business System Modernization Management Controls, GAO-11-684 

·         Department of State Overseas Comparability Pay, GAO-11-772R     

·         Diplomatic Security:  Expanded Missions and Inadequate Facilities Pose Critical Challenges to Training Efforts,  GAO-11-460 

·         Diplomatic Security:  Expanded Missions and Inadequate Facilities Pose Critical Challenges to Training Efforts, GAO-11-780T [testimony] 

·         Influenza Pandemic:  Lessons from the H1N1 Pandemic Should Be Incorporated into Future Planning, GAO-11-632 

·         Influenza Vaccine:  Federal Investments in Alternative Technologies and Challenges to Development and Licensure, GAO-11-435 

·         "Maximizing DOD's Potential to Achieve Greater Efficiencies and Improve Business Operations," by Gene L. Dodaro, comptroller general of the United States, before the DOD Performance Symposium, in Lansdowne, Virginia.  GAO-11-799CG, June 29, 2011 

·         Military Buildup on Guam:  Costs and Challenges in Meeting Construction Timelines, GAO-11-459R 

·         Military Uniforms:  Issues Related to the Supply of Flame Resistant Fibers for the Production of Military Uniforms, GAO-11-682R 

·         Operational Contract Support:  Actions Needed to Address Contract Oversight and Vetting of Non-U.S. Vendors in Afghanistan, GAO-11-771T [testimony] 

·         The U.S. Government Is Establishing Procedures for a Procurement Ban against Firms that Sell Iran Technology to Disrupt Communications but Has Not Identified Any Firms, GAO-11-706R 

Heritage Foundation

·         Consequential China: U.S.–China Relations in a Time of Transition 

·         The Economy Hits Home: Energy and the Environment    

·         The Economy Hits Home: International Trade 

·         The Economy Hits Home: What Makes the Economy Grow?    

·         Hugo Chávez’s Cancer, Authoritarianism, and the U.S. 

·         Nuclear Weapons Modernization Priorities After New START 

·         Reset Regret: Moral Leadership Needed to Fix U.S.–Russian Relations 

·         Obama Cybersecurity Proposal Flawed, But Fixable 

·         Planned Military Recruiting Center Attack: 40th Terror Plot Against the United States Foiled 

·         US Must Improve Internet Freedom Outreach Effort 

·         Why Does America Welcome Immigrants? 

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

·         Balochistan: Blinkered Slide into Chaos 

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         Japan Toys with the idea of a “Grand Coalition”  

International Crisis Group

·         The Insurgency in Afghanistan’s Heartland 

·         Post-quake Haiti: Security Depends on Resettlement and Development 

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Making Sense of Syria 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) - Review of the Effectiveness of the Program 

·         Policy Coordination in Fiscal Federalism: Drawing Lessons from the Dubai Debt Crisis 

·         Post-conflict Recovery: Institutions, Aid, or Luck? 

·         The Real Exchange Rate and Employment in China

·         The Role of Monetary Policy in Turkey during the Global Financial Crisis 

International Peace Institute

·         Responding to Natural Disasters: What Role for the OSCE? 

International Relations and Security Network

·         Africa's Development: The Global Bond 

·         The Changing Landscape of Humanitarian Aid 

·         China's Consumer Revolution - Winners and Losers 

·         Drone Warfare: Cost and Challenge 

·         The New Gold Rush 

·         Taming the Heavens: The New Space Diplomacy 

·         Turkey Looks Ahead 

·         Wilders Acquittal Strains Netherlands 

International Republican Institute (IRI)

·         Egyptian Public Opinion Survey 

Internet World Stats

·         Internet Usage in the Middle East    

Joint Irregular Warfare Center / Center for Complex Operations

·         Irregular Adversaries and Hybrid Threats: An Assessment - 2011    

MITRE

·         The Relationship Between Human and Machine-Oriented Standards and the Impact to Enterprise Systems Engineering 

·         "The Thing is... What is Our 'What'?" 

National Academies Press

·         Assessing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop 

·         Materials Needs and Research and Development Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems 

·         Protecting the Frontline in Biodefense Research: The Special Immunizations Program 

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

·         Background Report: Suicide Attack on Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan 

National Priorities Project (NPP)

·         Military Recruitment 2010 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         The Survival of North Korea: Essays on Strategy, Economics, and International Relations 

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         Four Years After Walter Reed, Government Still Faulted for Troop Support

·         U.S. Seen as Among the Greatest Nations, But Not Superior to All Others

·         Views of Obama’s Approach for Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal Little Changed

Polish Institute of International Affairs

·         Unrest in Syria: Political Forces and Scenarios  

Rand

·         Alliances in the 21st Century: Implications for the US-European Partnership 

·         Counterinsurgency Scorecard: Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years 

·         Promoting Psychological Resilience in the U.S. Military 

·         Sustaining the Air Force Nuclear Enterprise through Officer Workforce Planning 

Refugees International

·         Afghanistan: Responsible U.S. Transition Must Address Displacement Crisis 

Small Wars Journal

·         The Age of Airpower: An Interview with Martin van Creveld 

·         The Assessments Process in Contemporary Operating Environment 

·         The Atlantic Alliance and the Sino-Islamic Nexus: From the Hindu Kush to the Shores of Tripoli 

·         Cartel Next: How Army Design Methodology Offers Holistic and Dissimilar Approaches to the Mexican Drug Problem 

·         Civil Information and Intelligence Fusion: Making “Non-Traditional” into “New Traditional” for the JTF Commander 

·         The Closers Part VI: NGOs and IOs    

·         Mexico: A Mosaic Cartel War 

·         Mexico: The Accidental Narco? 

·         Ordinary Men and Abhorrent Behavior 

·         Ten Years Gone 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct 

Transportation Research Board (TRB)

·         Cooperative Research Programs Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report 

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime // Government of Afghanistan Ministry of Counter Narcotics

·         Afghanistan Cannabis Survey 2010

UN Secretary-General

·         The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security

USAID

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

·         Haiti - Earthquake and Cholera [latest update] 

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

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

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         The AKP's Underwhelming Victory: How the Election Will Change Turkish Politics

·         A Coming Storm? Prospects and Implications of UN Recognition of Palestinian Statehood 

·         Deadlock Delays Vote on New U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement 

·         Egypt's New Political Alliance Could Boost the Islamists 

·         Egypt, U.S. Strategy, and Engaging the Muslim Brotherhood 

·         Iran's Policy Confusion about Bahrain 

·         Morocco's Constitutional Referendum: Context, Content, and Impact 

·         UN Promotes Splitting the Taliban from al-Qaeda

·         Violent Repression of Protests: How Much Has Changed in Egypt? 

·         Why Hezbollah Had a Really Bad Week 

White House

·         National Strategy for Counterterrorism

·         Factsheet