Country Reports on Terrorism 2009

The State Department just released its 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism.

Earlier reports and the press release with background on this report are also available.

Friday's 07-30-2010

Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)
· How Tribal Are the Taleban? Afghanistan’s Largest Insurgent Movement Between its Tribal Roots and Islamist Ideology
· The Northern Front: The Afghan Insurgency Spreading Beyond the Pashtuns

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
· Afghanistan Research Newsletter 26

Amnesty International
· Greece Must Stop Treating Migrants as Criminals

Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
· Indonesia and Post-New Order Reforms: Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting the Responsibility to Protect
· The Responsibility to Prevent: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies for Operationalisation

Asian Development Bank Institute
· Fiscal Policy Coordination in Asia: East Asian Infrastructure Investment Fund

Brookings Institute
· Export Nation: How US Metros Lead National Export Growth and Boost Competitiveness
· How to Think About the US Budget Challenge
· The Importance of Research and Development for US Competitiveness and a Clean Energy Future
· Improving the U.S. Response to Internal Displacement: Recommendations to the Obama Administration and the Congress
· Surveying for Dollars: The Role of the American Community Survey in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
· Towards More Effective Protection for IDPs in Southern Afghanistan

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· The Arab State: Assisting or Obstructing Development?
· Why Go Strategic? The Value of a Truly Strategic Dialogue Between the US and China

Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Perspectives on Reconciliation Options in Afghanistan

Center for American Progress
· Better, Not Smaller : What Americans Want from Their Federal Government
· The Generation Gap on Government

Center for Army Analysis
· Nation-building, Stability Operations and Prophylactic COIN?

Center for Naval Analysis (CNA)
· Powering America's Economy: Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· 10th French-American Defense Symposium
· Afghan and Iraqi Metrics and the IED Threat
· The Coming Challenges in Defense Planning, Programming and Budgeting
· The Macroeconomics of US Defense Spending: Problems in Federal Spending, and Their Impact on National Security
· National Security and the Commercial Space Sector
· Refocusing Afghan Metrics on Key Local Areas and Population Centers

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· Chinese Traditional Culture and Foreign Policy
· Obama's New "Af-Pak" Strategy: Can "Clear, Hold, Build, Transfer" Work?

Combat Studies Institute (CSI)
· An Ever Present Danger: A Concise History of British Military Operations on the North-West Frontier, 1849-1947, Occasional Paper 33
· Long War against Piracy: Historical Trends, Occasional Paper 32
· Searching for Stability: The U.S. Development of Constabulary Forces in Latin America and the Philippines. Occasional Paper 30

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Final Report of the Independent Panel's Assessment of the Quadrennial Defense Review [July 29, 2010]
o Harnessing Small Business Innovation for National Security Cyber Needs [July 28, 2010]
o Transformation in Progress: The Services’ Enlisted Professional Military Education Programs [July 28, 2010]
o Surface Fleet Readiness [July 28, 2010]
o Japan: Recent Security Developments [July 27, 2010]

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
· H.R. 5820, the “Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010”
· The BP Oil Spill and Gulf Coast Tourism: Assessing the Impact

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals: Progress through Partnerships
· Climate Change Finance: Providing Assistance for Vulnerable Countries
· The Crisis in Haiti: Are We Moving Fast Enough?
· Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Direction: Implications for U.S.-Turkish Relations

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· Interoperable Emergency Communications: Does the National Broadband Plan Meet the Needs of First Responders?
· Lost in the Shuffle: Examining TSA’s Management of Surface Transportation Security Inspectors

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
· American Dream Part III: Advancing and Improving the Fair Housing Act on the 5-year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
· Online Privacy, Social Networking, and Crime Victimization

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
· Implementation of Iran Sanctions

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Department of Defense Strategic Force Structure Options Under the New START
· New START

Congress. Senate. Caucus on International Narcotics Control
· U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Consumer Online Privacy

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Perspectives on Reconciliation Options in Afghanistan

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs
· Closing the Language Gap: Improving the Federal Government’s Foreign Language Capabilities
· Mismanagement of Contracts at Arlington National Cemetery
· Flood Preparedness and Mitigation: Map Modernization, Levee Inspection, and Levee Repairs
· High-Risk Logistics Planning: Progress on Improving Department of Defense Supply Chain Management

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon: Protecting Victims of Major Oil Spills
· Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· Federal Debt and the Risk of a Fiscal Crisis
· The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: An Update

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations
· The Lengthening List of Iran Sanctions
· War Games on the Korean Peninsula
· WikiLeaks' Fallout for U.S.-Pak Ties

Department of Defense. Personnel and Readiness
· Population Representation In the Military Services FY 2008

Department of the Army
· Army Health Promotion Risk Reduction Suicide Prevention Report 2010

Department of State
· Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Coast Guard: Deepwater Requirements, Quantities, and Cost Require Revalidation to Reflect Knowledge Gained, GAO-10-790
· Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Develop Performance Criteria to Gauge Impact of Reform Act Changes and Address Workforce Issues, GAO-10-774
· Defense Acquisitions: Guidance Needed on Navy's Use of Investment Incentives at Private Shipyards, GAO-10-686
· Defense Infrastructure: Army's Privatized Lodging Program Could Benefit from More Effective Planning, GAO-10-771
· Defense Management: Improved Planning, Training, and Interagency Collaboration Could Strengthen DOD's Efforts in Africa, GAO-10-794
· Defense Management: U.S. Southern Command Demonstrates Interagency Collaboration, but Its Haiti Disaster Response Revealed Challenges Conducting a Large Military Operation, GAO-10-801
· Department of Defense: Additional Actions Needed to Improve Financial Management of Military Equipment, GAO-10-695
· Department of Homeland Security: DHS Needs to Comprehensively Assess Its Foreign Language Needs and Capabilities and Identify Shortfalls, GAO-10-714
· DOD's High Risk Areas: Observations on DOD's Progress and Challenges in Strategic Planning for Supply Chain Management, GAO-10-929T [testimony]
· Foreign Language Capabilities: Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, and State Could Better Assess Their Foreign Language Needs and Capabilities and Address Shortfalls, GAO-10-715T [testimony]
· Iran Sanctions: New Act Underscores Importance of Comprehensive Assessment of Sanctions' Effectiveness, GAO-10-928T [testimony]
· Military Naturalizations: USCIS Generally Met Mandated Processing Deadlines, but Processing Applicants Deployed Overseas Is a Challenge, GAO-10-865
· Military Personnel: Enhanced Collaboration and Process Improvements Needed for Determining Military Treatment Facility Medical Personnel Requirements, GAO-10-696
· National Security: Interagency Collaboration Practices and Challenges at DOD's Southern and Africa Commands, GAO-10-962T [testimony]
· State Department: Undercover Tests Show Passport Issuance Process Remains Vulnerable to Fraud, GAO-10-922T [testimony]
· Technology Assessment: Explosives Detection Technologies to Protect Passenger Rail, GAO-10-898
· U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Security Fencing, Infrastructure and Technology Fiscal Year 2010 Expenditure Plan, GAO-10-877R

Government Accountability Project (GAP)
· The Foundation for the Future: What FOIA Documents Reveal
o Full report
o Executive Summary
o Key FOIA Documents
o Appendix I

Heritage Foundation
· The “Beijing Consensus” in Energy and the Environment
· Colombia and Obama’s Latin America Policy: Time to Close Ranks and Support a Friend
· Countering Turkey’s Strategic Drift
· Drawbacks of Dutch-Style Health Care Rules: Lessons for Americans
· Expand NORAD to Improve Security in North America
· The Manas Base and Challenges to the US Presence in Kyrgyzstan
· Nuclear Games II: An Exercise in Examining the Dynamic of Missile Defenses and Arms Control in a Proliferated World
· Panama and Obama’s Latin America Policy: Time to Close Ranks and Support a Friend
· US Long-Term Debt Situation is One of the World’s Worst

Human Rights Watch
· Back to the Future: India's 2008 Counterterrorism Laws
· Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)
· The Next War? The Danger of the Lebanese-Israeli Border Igniting

Institute for the Study of War
· Disposition of Forces: Afghanistan

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
· Displacement and Worsening Humanitarian Situation as a Result of Ongoing Violence and Conflict

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Democracy and Reforms: Evidence from a New Dataset
· The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis
· Kuwait: Financial System Stability Assessment - Update
· Public Capital and Growth
· United States: Publication of Financial Sector Assessment Program Documentation - Technical Note on Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism

International Organization for Migration (IOM)
· Assessing Basic Socio-Economic Indicators in Northern Lebanon: RAP for Planning the Development of Vulnerable Communities

International Peace Institute (IPI)
· Power, Politics, and Change: How International Actors Assess Local Context

International Relations and Security Network
· Has Moscow Had Enough Of Lukashenka?
· Justice, Security and Wikileaks
· Restive Iraqi Province to Censor Clerics
· Social Networking in Iran
· Tbilisi Seeks To Lure Back Its Separatists
· Turkey Steps Up Support for Azerbaijani Exclave
· US-China Economic Conflict: Not Dead, but Asleep
· US Muslims Under Microscope

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor July 29, 2010, v. 8, no. 30
o Al-Zawahiri Releases New Message with Focus on the Levant and Iraq
o Iranian Naval Capabilities and the Security of the Hormuz Strait
o Lashkar-e-Taiba's Growing International Focus and its Links with al-Qaeda

Lowry Institute
· How Do We Know When We are at War?

Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Project
· Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook

National Research Council
· Nuclear Forensics: A Capability at Risk

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
· Response to “Rush to Judgment: Inconsistencies in South Korea’s Cheonan Report”
· Rush to Judgment—Inconsistencies in South Korea’s Cheonan Report

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
· 2009 “Report to Congress on the Security Inspection Program for Commercial Power Reactor and Category I Fuel Cycle Facilities: Results and Status Update

Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
· Piracy Analysis and Warning Weekly (PAWW)

Parliamentary Library of Australia
· Australia’s Military Involvement in Afghanistan Since 2001: A Chronology

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· Revisiting the NAFTA Agenda on Climate Change

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Concern About Extremist Threat Slips in Pakistan: America's Image Remains Poor

Rand
· Afghanistan's Local War: Building Local Defense Forces
· Best Practices in Developing Proactive Supply Strategies for Air Force Low-Demand Service Parts
· Harnessing Full Value from the DoD Serum Repository and the Defense Medical Surveillance System · Whither Al-Anbar Province?: Five Scenarios Through 2011

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
· Asia Rising and the Maritime Decline of the West: A Review of the Issues: IQPC/Asia Rising
· From Empire to the War on Terror: The 1915 Indian Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore as a Case Study of the Impact of Profiling of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
· Swords to Ploughshares: China's Defence-Conversion Policy

Small Wars Journal
· COIN in Absurdistan: Saving the COIN Baby from the Afghan Bathwater (and Vice-Versa)
· Gun Control in Counterinsurgency: A Game Theory Analysis
· No, Really: Is the US Military Cut Out For Courageous Restraint?
· Recruiting, Development, and Retention of Cyber Warriors Despite an Inhospitable Culture

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
· SIGIR Quarterly Report To Congress July 2010
· SIGIR-10-019 - Iraq Reconstruction Funds: Forensic Audits Identifying Fraud, Waste and Abuse (Interim report #4)
· SIGIR-10-020 - Development Fund for Iraq: Department of Defense Needs to Improve Financial and Management Controls
· SIGIR-10-021 - Plans To Preserve Iraq Reconstruction Program and Contract Records Need To Be Improved
· SIGIR-10-022 - Improved Oversight Needed for State Department Grant to the International Republican Institute

Strategic Studies Institute (ISS)
· Project on National Security Reform: Vision Working Group Report and Scenarios
· U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues, Vol I: Theory of War and Strategy, 4th Edition · U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues, Vol II: National Security Policy and Strategy, 4th Edition

Taxpayers for Common Sense and The Hill
· Fiscal Year 2011 Earmark Databases (Updated 7/30/10)
· FY2011 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs
o Disclosure chart
o Databases [excel file]

UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR)
· UNIDIR Forum 2010, no. 2, - Maritime security
o Security threats and challenges to maritime supply chains
o Sea piracy: some inconvenient truths
o Maritime security and nuclear cargoes
o The Proliferation Security Initiative
o Building awareness of sea-dumped chemical weapons

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
· The QDR in Perspective: Meetings America’s National Security Needs in the 21st Century

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Education and Conflict in Haiti
· Haiti After the Quake: Six Months and Counting
· ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo Independence Declaration
· Israel: Not Just a Strategic Asset, but a Strategic Bonanza

Wikileaks
· Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

Friday's Miscellany 07-23-2010

ADS Group
· UK Aerospace Industry Survey 2010

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
· Issue Brief #37: Transatlantic Relations After the Lisbon Treaty
· German-American Issues #13: The Many Sides of Muslim Integration
· Soundboard of Society or Critical Observer: German and American Media Coverage of the Afghanistan Conference
· Systemizing Structural Change: How States Can Learn From Each Other

Amnesty International
· Hard News: Journalists’ Lives in Danger in Somalia

U.S. Army Nuclear and Combating WMD Agency (USANCA)
· Combating WMD Journal, Spring/Summer 2010, Issue 5
o Sea Power - Deterrence From The Sea
o The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accident & Incident Program in Europe
o Making Foreign Consequence Management Harder
o Pandemics of the Past: A Learning Opportunity
o Nuclear Medical Science Officers: Army Health Physicists Proudly Serving and Defending Their Country around the Globe
o The Need to Redefine Electromagnetic (EM) Protection: “A Think Piece"
o Nuclear Power Plants on Military Installations: “A Think Piece”
o USANCA Launches Army CWMD Information Portal (ACIP)
o The Mission that Drove World History
o Historical Development of the Nuclear Weapons Accident Response Procedures
o Sea Power - Deterrence from the Sea

Atlantic Council
· It's Time to Ratify the Defense Trade Cooperation Treaties
· The Changing Pakistan Army Officer Corps

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· Comparing Climate Commitments: A Model-Based Analysis of the Copenhagen Accord
· Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies
· Options for the Institutional Venue for International Climate Negotiations

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
· Iran Update, No. 144 – 19 July 2010
o Talks over Iran's nuclear enrichment could resume in the fall
o More sanctions levied on Iran; Tehran vows to continue enriching uranium
o Utility and impacts of sanctions questioned
o Tehran pushes uranium enrichment progress; United States and Russia warn Iran closer to weapons capability
o G8 and D8 summits
o Case of Iranian nuclear scientist adds more controversy to Iran-U.S. relations; Canadian convicted of trying to export dual-use technology to Iran

Brookings Institute
· Beyond Additionally in Cap-and-Trade Offset Policy
· Bridging Cuba’s Communication Divide: How US Policy Can Help
· Latin America and the Caribbean’s Economic Recovery
· Levantine Reset: Toward a More Viable US Strategy for Lebanon
· Moving to the Cloud: How the Public Sector Can Leverage the Power of Cloud Computing
· Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan (updated July 19, 2010 and archives)
· Steps to Improve Cloud Computing in the Public Sector

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
· Building Cooperation in the Eastern Middle East
· Political Dimensions of Police Reform in Pakistan

CATO Institute
· The Inefficiency of Clearing Mandates

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Afghan National Security Forces
· Refocusing Afghan Metrics on Key Local Areas and Population Centers
· US Defense Planning

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
· The Taliban Beyond the Pashtuns

Chatham House
· Between Faith and Reason: UK Policy Towards the US and the EU
· The UK and the World: Rethinking the UK’s International Ambitions and Choices Conference
o Session 1 - A Changing Britain
o Session 2 - The UK in the Global Economy: Still in the Top Tier?
o Session 3 - The UK, US and Europe: Transatlantic Relations and Choices
o Session 4 - The UK as a Global 'Thought Leader'
o Session 5 - Options for Security and Defence Policy
o Session 6 - A Changing Britain

Commission on Wartime Contracting
· Better Planning For Defense-to-State Transition in Iraq Needed to Avoid Mistakes and Waste

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Managing the Department of Defense in a Time of Tight Budgets [July 22, 2010]
o Modeling and Simulation: Enhancing Military Readiness [July 20, 2010]

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
· The Role of the Interior Department in the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Oversight of the Feed the Future Initiative
· Protecting U.S. Intellectual Property Overseas: The Joint Strategic Plan and Beyond
· Assessing the Merida Initiative: A Report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Transshipment and Diversion: Are U.S. Trading Partners Doing Enough to Prevent the Spread of Dangerous Technologies?

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· The Role of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Border Security
· Enhancing DHS’ Efforts to Disrupt Alien Smuggling Across Our Borders

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
· Ensuring Justice for Victims of the Gulf Coast Oil Disaster

Congress. Senate. Armed Services Committee
· Sustaining Nuclear Weapons Under the New START [July 15, 2010]
· Implementation of the New START [July 20, 2010]

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science and Transportation
· Turning Ideas into Action: Ensuring Effective Clean Up and Restoration in the Gulf
· SAFE Port Act Reauthorization: Securing Our Nation's Critical Infrastructure

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
· Charting a Path Forward: The Homeland Security Department's Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and Bottom-Up Review
· A Review of Disaster Medical Preparedness: Improving Coordination and Collaboration in the Delivery of Medical Assistance during Disasters
· The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Ensuring a Financially Responsible Recovery Part II

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· An Analysis of the Army's Arsenal Support Program Initiative

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Debating the New START Treaty
· US Drone Activities in Pakistan

Department of Homeland Security
· Progress in Implementing 9/11 Commission Recommendations: July 2010 Update

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-10-98 - FEMA's Disaster Assistance Improvement Plan

Department of State
· Background Notes: Iran
· Background Notes: Pakistan

Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
· Key Fact About Contractors
· ODNI Fact Sheet: Leading an Integrated Intelligence Community that Operates as a Single Enterprise
· Questions & Answers on the Intelligence Community Post 9/11

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Alien Smuggling: DHS Needs to Better Leverage Investigative Resources and Measure Program Performance along the Southwest Border, GAO-10-328
· Alien Smuggling: DHS Could Better Address Alien Smuggling along the Southwest Border by Leveraging Investigative Resources and Measuring Program Performance GAO-10-919T [testimony]
· Border Security: CBP Lacks the Data Needed to Assess the FAST Program at U.S. Northern Border Ports, GAO-10-694
· Defense Management: DOD Needs Better Information and Guidance to More Effectively Manage and Reduce Operating and Support Costs of Major Weapon Systems, GAO-10-717
· Drug Control: DOD Needs to Improve Its Performance Measurement System to Better Manage and Oversee Its Counternarcotics Activities, GAO-10-835
· Drug Control: International Programs Face Significant Challenges Reducing the Supply of Illegal Drugs but Support Broad U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives, GAO-10-921T [testimony]
· Elections: DOD Can Strengthen Evaluation of Its Absentee Voting Assistance Program, GAO-10-476
· Engaging Foreign Audiences: Assessment of Public Diplomacy Platforms Could Help Improve State Department Plans to Expand Engagement, GAO-10-767
· Information Management: Challenges In Federal Agencies' Use of Web 2.0 Technologies, GAO-10-872T [testimony]
· Maritime Security: DHS Progress and Challenges in Key Areas of Port Security, GAO-10-940T [testimony]
· Merida Initiative: The United States Has Provided Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support but Needs Better Performance Measures, GAO-10-837
· Merida Initiative: The United States Needs Better Performance Measures for Its Counternarcotics and Anticrime Support Efforts, GAO-10-913T [testimony]
· Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Is Taking Steps to Mitigate Challenges but Is Not Fully Reporting Some Additional Costs, GAO-10-725R
· New Embassy Compounds: State Faces Challenges in Sizing Facilities and Providing for Operations and Maintenance Requirements, GAO-10-689

Heritage Foundation
· As the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty Process Begins, UNs “Programme of Action” on Small Arms Shows Its Dangers
· The Cameron-Obama White House Meeting: The US and UK Must Reject a Timetable for the War in Afghanistan
· Cap-and-Trade Bill Would Make Housing Less Affordable
· China’s Suspect Economic Data
· Comparing Pay in the Federal Government and the Private Sector
· Congress Starts Thinking Seriously About Cybersecurity – But More Thinking Needed
· David Cameron and Barack Obama Must Advance Economic Freedom – Not More Foreign Aid
· David Cameron Must Press for US Ratification of the US-UK Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty
· Europe: What Future?
· Reclaiming America: Why We Honor the Tea Party Movement

Human Rights Watch
· “I Saw It with My Own Eyes”: Abuses by Chinese Security Forces in Tibet, 2008-2010
· Off the Streets: Arbitrary Detention and Other Abuses against Sex Workers in Cambodia

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
· Whither Pakistan? Growing Instability and Implications for India

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· ISS Paper 211: 'Keep Calm and Carry On' An Initial African Assessment of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) 2010 Review Conference
· ISS Paper 212: The Chair of the African Union What Prospect for Institutionalisation?
· ISS Paper 213: Towards an Understanding of Repeat Violent Off Ending: A Review of the Literature

Institute for the Study of Labor
· Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigration Legalization

Institute for the Study of War
· Analysis of the Afghan Defense Appointments

International Council on Security and Development
· Afghanistan—The Relationship Gap

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· Central Banking Lessons from the Crisis
· Euro Area Policies: Selected Issues
· Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries and Challenges Ahead: An Update
· Proposal for a Post-Catastrophe Debt Relief Trust Fund
· Resolution of Cross-Border Banks - A Proposed Framework for Enhanced Coordination

International Relations and Security Network
· Can Kabul Conference Cover a Donor-Government Gap?
· Color Revolutions Turn Black
· The Dangers of a Burqa Ban
· Eritrea and Isaias Afewerki: A Cold Logic
· Ethiopia's Election: All Losers
· ICJ Clears Kosovo Independence
· Leadership Crisis in Nepal
· The McChrystal Affair and US Civil-Military Relations
· New Prospect for Space Arms Control
· Thailand Emergency Rule Under Fire
· Ukraine: What Opposition?
· Unrest in Baluchistan

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, July 22, 2010, v. 10, no. 15
o The Chinese Navy’s Emerging Support Network in the Indian Ocean
o Assessing the PLA’s Promotion Ladder to CMC Member Based on Grades vs. Ranks – Part 1
o China Building Africa's Economic Infrastructure: SEZs and Railroads
o Chinese Analyses of Soviet Failure: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
· Terrorism Monitor, July 22, 2010, v. 8, no. 29
o South Lebanon's Shiites Clash with French Peacekeepers- A Hezbollah Strategy?
o Uyghurs Convicted in East Turkestan Islamic Movement Plot in Dubai
o Tawhid al-Hakimiyyah- A Jihadi Achilles Heel?

Joint Defense Science Board (DSB)/Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force
· The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise

Military Education Research Libraries Network (MERLN)
· Military Bibliographies [various topics]

Mitchell Institute
· Air Force UAVs: The Secret History

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
· Pakistan’s Police between Centralization and Devolution

Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
· ANP Compound at Kandahar Generally Met Contract Terms but Has Project Planning, Oversight, and Sustainability Issues

Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU)
· PSRU Brief # 60. Domestic Politics and Systemic Constraints in Pakistan’s India Policy

Rand
· New Equipping Strategies for Combat Support Hospitals
· Observations on Recent Trends in Armored Forces
· Simple Models to Explore Deterrence and More General Influence in the War with al-Qaeda
· Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Sources of Success in Counterinsurgency
· Victory Has a Thousand Fathers: Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies

Small Wars Journal
· Afghanistan: The Importance of Political Maneuver in COIN Operations
· MIA in QDR: A Unifying Vision for Land Forces
· Afghan Governance Considerations
· A Third COIN Course of Action: A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
· Explosive Escalation?: Reflections on the Car Bombing in Ciudad Juarez

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
· Controlling Conflict Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)
· Got Vision? Unity of Vision in Policy and Strategy: What It Is and Why We Need It [NPS Faculty - Dr Anna Simons]

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· The Iranian Clergy's Silence
· Yemen's Forever War: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
· Yemen's Forever War: The Houthi Rebellion
· Yemen's Forever War: Political Instability in the South

Washington Post
· Top Secret America

White House
· Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force

DSB - Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise report

The Joint Defense Science Board (DSB)/Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force has released its latest report -- "The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise"

According the memo from Task Force Co-Chairs:

"Nuclear weapons remain a serious - and, some believe, growing - threat to U.S. forces, affecting the survivability of critical systems for mission assurance. The potential use of nuclear weapons on the battlefield was not eliminated at the end of the Cold War. Regional Proliferation risks are growing. A global market place has made acquisition of information and components to develop nuclear weapons more accessible. Perhaps most important is the fact that U.S. superiority in its conventional forces makes nuclear weapons attractive to potential adversaries who could never compete against such a robust arsenal of systems.

"At the same time, however, U.S. attention and capabilities to counter nuclear weapons have been atrophying for many years. Intelligence assets are focused elsewhere. Military and civilian leaders in DOD are poorly educated on military operations in nuclear environments, and have little understanding of nuclear weapons and the issues surrounding their use against our nation. U.S. counters (outside of missile defense) have received little attention in over two decades, especially defensive measures to ensure continued operations in radiation environments. Technical expertise and infrastructure have decayed significantly. Investments in nuclear survivability have declined...."

Friday's Miscellany 07-16-2010

Africa Center for Strategic Studies
· Cocaine and Instability in Africa: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

American Enterprise Institute [AEI] Critical Threats Project
· Expanding the Campaign of Violence: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's English-Language Magazine

Amnesty International
· Independent Voices Stifled in Tunisia

Asian Development Bank Institute
· The Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization: Origin, Development and Outlook
· Financing Asia’s Infrastructure: Modes of Development and Integration of Asian Financial Markets

Australian Ministry of Defence
· Building Defence Capability: A Policy for a Smarter and More Agile Defence Industry Base

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
· Putting the ‘National’ into National Security: Australia’s Maritime Surveillance Capability

Berghof Conflict Research
· 9th Berghof Handbook Dialogue: "Human Rights and Conflict Transformation: The Challenges of Just Peace
o Introduction: Towards Peace with Justice
o Rethinking Conflict Transformation from a Human Rights Perspective
o Conflicts and the Politics of Human Rights Invocations
o Conflict Transformation and Human Rights: A Mutual Stalemate?
o The New Constitutionalism: An Approach to Human Rights from a Conflict Transformation Perspective
o Reflections on Rights and Conflict from Uganda
o Human Rights and the Imbalance of Power: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
o Interaction between Conflict Transformation and Human Rights in the Face of Ongoing Armed Conflict in Colombia
o Concluding Reflection: Holding Concurrent Realities

Brookings Institute
· Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan (updated July 15, 2010 and archives)
· Bridging Cuba's Communication Divide: How U.S. Policy Can Help
· A Changing Japan in a Changing World
· Energizing Peace: The Role of Pipelines in Regional Cooperation
· Financial Reform: Now It’s Up to the Regulators
· The Political Battle in Iraq
· Social Foundation of Taiwan's Future: Guns, Wheelchairs and Shark's Fin Soup

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)
· G8 Security Sector Capacity Building in Fragile States: Examining Effectiveness and Coherence

CATO Institute
· Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law

Center for a New American Security
· Contracting in Conflicts: The Path to Reform

Center for American Progress
· Preparing for the Next Public Health Crisis: Establishing a Public Health Response Plan to Address Threats Such as the Gulf Oil Disaster
· What the International Community Should Focus on at the Kabul Conference: Progress in Afghanistan Depends on Political Reforms

Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
· Strategic Insights, Spring/Summer 2010, v. 9, no, 1 - Special Issue: The Complex Realm of Asymmetric Warfare
o State Security Policy and Proxy Wars in Africa: Ultima Ratio Regum: Remix or Redux?
o Change We Can Fight Over: The Relationship between Arable Land Supply and Substate Conflict
o Understanding Female Suicide Terrorism in Sri Lanka through a Constructivist Lens
o The Perilous Slog of Asymmetric Warfare: A Better Way Forward in Afghanistan
o Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an Instrument of Coercion

Center for Security Policy
· Disastrously 'Transforming' Defense

Center for Security Studies (CSS)
· Strategic Trends Analysis No. 78: The Military Utility of Drones
· Strategic Trends Analysis No. 77: The Libyan Affair: Afterthoughts on Swiss Crisis Management

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· The Accidental Linchpin
· Asia’s Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters
· Border Security in a Time of Transformation
· Cambodian Debt to the United States: Ring of Consecrated Sand
· Comparative Connections, v. 12, no. 2
· Human Capital Crisis in Cybersecurity
· If Petraeus and Eikenberry Can Win
· Issues in International Political Economy - Mexico's War on Drugs - July 2010 - Number 127
· Public Health in Asia

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
· The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (JMSS), Spring 2010, v. 12, no. 3
o Fear and Loathing in Afghanistan?
o Cold Front: Hillary, Ottawa, and the Inuit:A Year after the Inuit Re-Assert their Sovereignty, Washington Takes Their Side
o Canada and Missile Defence: Saying No to Mr. Bush
o Northern Europe’s Arctic Defence Agenda
o Terrorism in Canada: Victims and Perpetrators
o Contemporary Threats to Canada and the Canadian Forces
o From Dogs of War to Soldiers of Peace: Evaluating Private Military and Security Companies as a Civilian Protection Force
o The Geopolitics of Chinese Energy Security
o Military Linguistics: Russian in the Red/Soviet Army

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
· Hearings
o Oversight of the Activities of the Maritime Administration [July 14, 2010]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
· Agent Orange in Vietnam: Recent Developments in Remediation

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
· The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Chain of Command: An Examination of Information Sharing Practices During a Spill of National Significance

Congress. House. Judiciary Committee
· Ethical Imperative for Reform of our Immigration System
· Impact of China’s Antitrust Law and other Competition Policies on U.S. Companies

Congress. House. Science and Technology
· Planning for the Future of Cyber Attack Attribution

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Afghanistan: Governance and the Civilian Strategy
· Executive Sessions of the Foreign Relations Committee (Historical Series) Vol 20 [previously classified transcripts of Vietnam Era Executive Sessions]
· The New START Treat (Treaty Doc. 111-5): Maintaining a Safe, Secure and Effective Nuclear Arsenal

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security & Government Reform Committee
· The Cost Effectiveness of Procuring Weapon Systems in Excess of Requirements: Can We Afford More C-17s?
· Preventing and Recovering Medicare Payment Errors
· The Federal Government’s Role in Empowering Americans to Make Informed Financial Decisions

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
· Evaluating The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, S. 2930

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
· CBO’s Economic Forecasting Record:2010 Update

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· A Third Lebanon War: CPA Contingency Planning Memorandum No. 8

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)
· CTC Sentinel, June 2010 V. 3 Issue 6
o AQAP’s growing security threat to Saudi Arabia
o Assessing AQI’s resilience after April’s leadership decapitations
o The return of Moqtada al-Sadr and the revival of the Mahdi Army
o Indoctrinating children: The making of Pakistan’s suicide bombers
o The third way: A paradigm for influence in the marketplace of ideas
o Still fighting for revolution: Greece’s new generation of terrorists

Danish Institute for International Studies
· Sovereignty at Sea: The Law and Politics of Saving Lives in the Mare Liberum

Department of Defense
· DoD Instruction 3150.10, DoD Response to U.S. Nuclear Weapon Incidents, July 2, 2010

Department of the Navy
· OPNAVINST 3500.39C - Operational Risk Management

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· 2009 Domestic Uranium Production Report
· Energy Market and Economic Impacts the American Power Act of 2010
· Natural Gas Year-In-Review 2009

European Policy Centre
· Europe and rising Asia must re-engage in a new partnership

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Canada at Mid-Year 2010: A View from North of the Border
· The Mavi Marmara Incident, Rafah, and Egypt's Steel Wall
· The McChrystal Affair and U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· Afghanistan Development: Enhancements to Performance Management and Evaluation Efforts Could Improve USAID's Agricultural Programs, GAO-10-368
· Afghanistan Development: Poverty and Major Crop Production (GAO-10-756SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-368
· Afghanistan Development: USAID Continues to Face Challenges in Managing and Overseeing U.S. Development Assistance Programs, GAO-10-932T [testimony]
· Defense Acquisitions: Missile Defense Program Instability Affects Reliability of Earned Value Management Data, GAO-10-676
· Human Capital: Quality of DOD Status of Forces Surveys Could Be Improved by Performing Nonresponse Analysis of the Results, GAO-10-751R
· Hurricane Katrina: CMS and HRSA Assistance to Sustain Primary Care Gains in the Greater New Orleans Area, GAO-10-773R
· Military Training: Army and Marine Corps Face Challenges to Address Projected Future Requirements, GAO-10-720

Heritage Foundation
· The 2010 Preparatory Committee for the UN Arms Trade Treaty: Five Dangers the US Must Avoid
· The Cameron–Obama White House Meeting: The U.S. and U.K. Must Reject a Timetable for the War in Afghanistan
· China’s Suspect Economic Data
· Comparing Pay in the Federal Government and the Private Sector
· Congress Starts Thinking Seriously About Cybersecurity—but More Thinking Needed
· “Mostly Free” – The Startling Decline of America’s Economic Freedom and What to Do About It
· New START: Beyond the Rhetoric
· A Rational Post-Spill Policy That Allows Offshore Drilling
· “Rebalancing” Chinese Investment in the US
· Tracking Chinese Investment: Western Hemisphere Now Top Target

Human Rights Watch
· “Hellish Work”: Exploitation of Migrant Tobacco Workers in Kazakhstan
· “I Am Not Dead, But I Am Not Living”: Barriers to Fistula Prevention and Treatment in Kenya
· The “Ten-Dollar Talib” and Women’s Rights: Afghan Women and the Risks of Reintegration and Reconciliation
· A Wasted Decade: Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad’s First Ten Years in Power

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· After the 2010 NPT Review Conference: Advancing the Non-Proliferation Pillar
· Update: New Charges for Irish Company Suspected of Military Exports to Iran
· US Company Faces Penalties for Alleged Nuclear Export Attempts to India, Israel

Institute for the Study of War
· Fact Sheet: Iraqi Politics Update
· Fact Sheet: What to Expect at the Kabul Conference
· Marjah‟s Lessons for Kandahar

International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)
· Afghanistan: The Relationship Gap
· Global Food Security Initiative portal

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
· Transcript: ISAF Spokesman Discusses Taliban Message

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
· China's Economic Growth: International Spillovers
· Financial Innovation, the Discovery of Risk, and the U.S. Credit Crisis
· How Do International Financial Flows to Developing Countries Respond to Natural Disasters?
· Inflation and Conflict in Iraq: The Economics of Shortages Revisited
· Japan: Selected Issues

International Relations and Security Network
· The 2010 Commonwealth Games: India’s Triumph or Disaster?
· Achieving Intelligence Dominance
· Afghan Corruption Alarming
· Al-Shabaab’s Regionalization Strategy
· Asymmetric War: Iran and the New Normal
· Berlusconi:Will the Gagger be Gagged?
· Crunch Time for Japanese PM
· Europe’s Banks, Europe’s Crisis
· Europe’s Stressed Banks
· Fragile Optimism on the HIV/Aids Front
· Japan Engages a Nuclear India
· Midnight in Belgrade, Dusk in Brussels
· The Naxalite/Moaist Movement in India
· A New Approach to Innovation Policy in the European Union
· Police Targeted in Bugojno Terror Attack
· Russian Analytical Digest, 12 July 2010, No 82: The Russian Far East
· Solar Power: The Sky's the Limit
· Why is Tajikistan's Ayni Air Base Idle?
· Why the Spies Really Matter

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v.8, no. 28, July 16, 2010
o Pakistani Taliban Widen Jihad with Strikes on Fellow Muslims
o Little-Known Ghazi Force Now a Major Player in the Punjabi Jihad?
o Airstrike Ignites Tribes in Yemen's Ma'rib Province

NATO Defense College
· Forum Paper 14 "Complex Operations: NATO at War and on the Margins of War

PACT Sudan /London School of Economics /Development Studies Institute
· Southern Sudan at Odds with Itself: Dynamics of Conflict and Predicaments of Peace

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The Design and Effects of Monetary Policy in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Public Safety Canada
· Canada-United States Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
· The Missing Dimension of Pakistan’s Counterinsurgency Policy

RAND
· DNA as Part of Identity Management for the Department of Defense
· Tracking Inmates and Locating Staff with Active Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Early Lessons Learned in One U.S. Correctional Facility

Real Instituto Elcano
· Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan in Strategic Context: Counterinsurgency versus Counterterrorism
· Back to Earth: Nuclear Weapons in the 2010s
· Jihadism in Portugal: Grasping a Nebulous Reality

Security Council Report
· Update Report on Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Prevention

Strategic Studies Institute
· The Russian Military Today and Tomorrow: Essays in Memory of Mary Fitzgerald

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
· Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Mid-Year Review of the Appeal 2010 for Afghanistan

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
· The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
· The Challenge of China’s Green Technology Policy and Ohio’s Response [hearing July 14, 2010]

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE)
· USIP Prevention Newsletter, July 2010
o The Elections in Lebanon and Côte d'Ivoire
o The Responsibility to Protect
o The Center's Project on Nonproliferation and Arms Control
o UN Sanctions against Iran
o The relations between Israel and Iran
o The Referendum in Kenya
o USIP's Pakistan Program
· What Does the G20 Toronto Declaration Mean for Conflict-Affected States?

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Disrupting the Flow of Funds to Terrorist Groups and Their Supporters
· Fighting the Ideological Battle: The Missing Link in U.S. Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism
· Inside Iran's Revolutionary Guard: A Defector Speaks
· U.S. Policy on Hizballah: The Question of Engagement
· Yemen's Forever War: Challenges for U.S. Policy

White House
· National HIV/AIDS Strategy
· National HIV/AIDS Strategy Implementation plan
· Progress Report on Cybersecurity