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

Homeland Security Resources - DTIC 2011 Presentation

The resources listed below are part of a presenation i gave entitled Homeland Security Resources: Security Through the Power of Information at the DTIC 2011 Annual Conference.  It is by no means comprehensive but will be updated as time permits and recommendations are welcome.


AGENCIES
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
**DHS Department Subcomponents and Agencies
**Who became part of DHS
**Coast Guard
Department of Defense (DOD)
**Air Force
**Army
**Marine Corps
**Navy
**NORTHCOM
**NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command]
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
US Fire Administration
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
White House Homeland Security

CENTERS/INSTITUTES
Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS)
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy
Combating Terrorism Center
Counter-Terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement
Dept of State, Office of the Coordinator of Counterterrorism
Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
Emergency Response & Research Institute
Homeland Defense and Security Resources
Homeland Security Institute
Illinois Law Enforcement Media Resource Center
Institute of Defense Analyses (IDA)
Institute for Homeland Security Studies
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism Research Center

DISASTER RESOURCES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
DisasterAssistance.gov
DIMRC - Disaster Information Management Research Center
FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
Firstresponder.gov
NLM Emergency Access Initiative
Ready.gov
US Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)
Public Health and Medical Emergency Support/National Medical Information System
NORTHCOM

DATABASES
AGRICOLA
DTIC Online
EM-DAT – International Disaster Database
Energy Citations Database
FEMA Library
First Responder Knowledge Base
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
**GAO Topics collection
Global Terrorism Database
Health Library for Disasters [HELID]
National Agricultural Safety Database
National Counterterrorism Center Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS)
National Criminal Justice Research Service (NCJRS)
National Emergency Training Center—Learning Resource Center
National Technical Information Service
National Vulnerability Database
PPRI Disaster and Emergency Management Information Network
SEARCH (National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Thomas (Library of Congress) [congressional information]
TRIS Online [Transportation]
Uniform Crime Reports
WMD Terrorism Database
Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (NCTC)
WorldCat [worldwide union catalog]

HAZMAT
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
DOT Hazardous Materials Safety Office
Haz-Map Database [Occupational exposure to Hazardous Agents]
TOXMET

JOURNALS & JOURNAL INDEXES
Specific Journals [all free to search but some cost to download]
American Journal of Disaster Medicine
Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science
Critical Studies on Terrorism
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
Disaster Prevention and Management
Disasters
Emergency Access Initiative
FBI Law Enforcement
Homeland Security Affairs Journal
HSI Journal of Homeland Security
Intelligence and National Security
International Journal of Emergency Management
International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters
International Journal of Terrorism and Political Hotspots
International Security
Journal of Emergency Management
Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Studies in Intelligence
Terrorism and Political Violence

Free journal search sites
Medline Plus
PubMed
SCIRUS
Scitopia

Publisher sites [searching is free but access to article or chapters include a cost]
ACM Digital Library
ForensicNetBase/LawEnforcementNetBase
IEEExplore
InformaWorld
Ingenta
PolicyFile
ScienceDirect [Elesvier]
SAGE Online
SPIE Digital Library
SpringerLink
Wiley Online Library

DOCUMENT SITES
Conflict 21 – Terrorism Studies
Department of Energy OpenNet System
DOE Information Bridge
DTIC Online
DTIC Special Collections
First Responder Knowledge Base
Government Accountability Office (GAO) Topic collections
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
Homeland Security Standards Database
LLIS -- Lessons Learned Information Sharing
National Criminal Justice Research Service (NCJRS)
National Emergency Training Center's [NETC] Learning Resource Center
Thomas (Library of Congress) [congressional information]
US Fire Administration – Fire Academy Publications

Collection sites for hard to find documents
Document Cloud
Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Government Attic
Public Intelligence
Wikileaks

SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

WIDGETS
DIRMRC widgets for Finding disaster orgs, oil spills and health, health resources for Haiti
Department of Defense News widgets

 MOBILE TOOLS
Crisis Mapping and Early Warning
Lost People Finder
People Locator
REMM -- Radiation Emergency Medical Management
SAVER – System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders
WISER -- Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders

BLOGS
On the Homefront (HSDL)
HSDL HS Blog Search
Homeland Security Watch
Counterterrorism Blog
NORAD and USNORTHCOM Blog
TSA Blog

COMMERCIAL RESOURCES
CQ Homeland Security
International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center
Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
ProQuest
Ebsco
Lexis Nexis
STRATFOR

MAPS
FEMA Maps
Global Incidents Maps
NOAA Natural Hazard Interactive Maps
USGS Emergency Operations
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

STATISTICS
Bureau of Justice Statistics
CDC Statistics
FAA Accident and Incident Data
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
FedStats
National Center for Health Statistics
Office of Immigration Statistics
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Uniform Crime Reports
US Fire Administration Statistics

CONGRESSIONAL
CRS (Congressional Research Service)
**FAS CRS collection
**Foreign Policy Center collection
**Open CRS
**University of North Texas collection
Government Printing Office
Thomas (Library of Congress)

LEGAL INFORMATION
FindLaw’s Special Coverage – War on Terrorism
GPO
Judicial Branch Resources
Lexis Nexis
Terrorism Law & Policy
JURIST Legal News & Research—Terrorism Law & Policy
Thomas (Library of Congress)
Westlaw

INTELLIGENCE
CIA
FBI
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Terrorism Research Center

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