Friday's Miscellany 08-20-2010

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS)
• Issue Brief #37: Transatlantic Relations After the Lisbon Treaty

Anti Defamation League (ADL)
• Resurgence of the Sovereign Citizen Movement

Atlantic Council
• Strategies for a Cybered World

British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
• Iran Update, No. 145 – 18 August 2010
• New Players in the Dispute over Iran's Nuclear Program: Brazilian, Turkish and Iranian Objectives

Brookings Institute
• Crises No More: The Success of Obama’s Stimulus Program
• Partnership, Strength and Presence: Converging Regional Interests and Opportunities in the Gulf
• Reflections on the Evolution of the China Field in Political Science
• A Statesman's Forum with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

CAC / COIN – Colloquium
• Mitigation of Terrorist Effects on Victims‟ Motivation

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Nuclear Suppliers Group and the IAEA Additional Protocol

CATO Institute
• Nuclear Proliferation Update: Exporting the Bomb

Center for Complex Operations
• Prism, September 2010, v. 1, no. 4
o Diplomacy Before and After Conflict
o Afghanistan: Opportunities and Risks
o A "Net Shift" for Afghanistan?
o Analytics and Action in Afghanistan
o Afghanistan: Long-term Solutions and Perilous Shortcuts
o Recalibrating the Afghan Reconciliation Program
o Countering Taliban Information Operations in Afghanistan
o Afghanistan: The German Factor
o Stabilization Operations Beyond Government: Joint Venture Public-Private Partnerships in Iraq and Afghanistan
o Columbia: Learning Institutions Enable Integrated Response
o Blind Ambition: Lessons Learned and Not Learned in an Embedded PRT

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Cooperative Mexican-US Antinarcotics Efforts
• Economic Transformation and the Future of Capitalism
• Iraq: Strategic Partnership or Lose the "Unwon" War
• Iraq After the Election: Meeting the Challenges of 2010
• Iraq After the Election: Measuring the Course of the War
• Iraq After the Election: Economy, Demographics, Budget and Trade
• Iraq After the Election: Critical Impact on World Oil Supplies
• Iraq After the Election: Economic and Military Aid and US Withdrawals
• Strategic Competition with Iran: The Military Dimension

Centre for Policy Alternatives
• Freedom of Expression and the Internet in Sri Lanka

Congress. House. Energy and Commerce Committee
• The BP Oil Spill: Accounting for the Spilled Oil and Ensuring the Safety of Seafood from the Gulf

Congress. Senate. Environment & Public Works Committee
• Failure of Leadership: President Obama and the Flawed Federal Response to the BP Disaster

Council on Foreign Relations
• Afghanistan's National Security Forces
• Conflicting Objectives for U.S. in Afghanistan - Interview with Col. Gian P. Gentile
• Conflicting Objectives for U.S. in Afghanistan - Interview with Jack Kem: Long Road Ahead for Afghan Security Forces
• U.S. Withdrawal Echoes in Iraq

Department of the Army
• United States Army Operating Concept—2016-2028

Department of Defense
• 2010 DoD Report to Congress on the Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China
• DoD Directive 5205.14, DoD Counter Threat Finance (CTF) Policy, August 19, 2010
• Protecting the Force: Lessons Learned from Fort Hood - Final Recommendations of the Ft Hood Follow-on Review

Department of Defense Inspector General
• D-2010-075 Foreign Allowances and Differentials Paid to DOD Civilian Employees Supporting Overseas Contingency Operations, August 17, 2010
• D-2010-076 Recoupment of Advanced Education Costs from Disenrolled Air Force Academy Cadets, August 17, 2010)
• D-2010-078 Air Force Use of Time-and-Materials Contracts in Southwest Asia, August 16, 2010

Department of Health and Human Services
• The Public Health Emergency Countermeasures Enterprise Review

Department of Homeland Security
• Data on Enforcement Actions
• Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2009

Department of State
• Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act 2010 [U.S. efforts on international water issues]
• Pervious reports

Energy Information Administration
• Country Analysis Brief: India

Foreign Policy and The Fund for Peace
• 2010 Failed States Index
• 2010 Global Cities Index

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment
• Critical Infrastructure Protection: Key Private and Public Cyber Expectations Need to Be Consistently Addressed,GAO-10-628
• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Federally Funded Programs Have Helped to Address the Needs of Gulf Coast Small Businesses, but Agency Data on Subcontracting Are Incomplete, GAO-10-723
• Superfund: Interagency Agreements and Improved Project Management Needed to Achieve Cleanup Progress at Key Defense Installations, GAO-10-348

Heritage Foundation
• The Building Blocks of a Strong National Defense
• A Conservative Foreign Policy
• Developing a Strong Border and Immigration Policy
• Ensuring that Congress Follows the Constitution
• The Federalization of Homeland Security
• Getting the Small-Boat Threat Right
• Holding Terrorists Accountable
• New CBO Budget Baseline Shows that Soaring Spending—Not Falling Revenues—Risks Drowning America in Debt
• Re-embracing Federalism
• Reining in Runaway Spending and Deficits
• Remember the Jay Treaty: START Behaving Like Senators
• Restoring the US to a Free Economy
• The Rising Tide of Red Tape
• The Threat of Nuclear Weapons
• The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare

Human Rights Watch
• Everyone’s in on the Game: Corruption and Human Rights Abuses by the Nigeria Police Force
• Where is the Justice? Interethnic Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan and Its Aftermath

IDEEA
• Common Defense Quarterly, Fall 2010
o Montenegro – a Reliable Defense Partner
o The NATO Summit in Lisbon: Charting NATO’s Future in a Resource Constrained Environment
o Building Resilient Critical Infrastructure through International and Domestic Partnerships
o The Force Multiplier: The Whole of Government In An Era of Resource Constraints and Mission Growth
o A Deployable Civilian Force for Reconstruction and Stabilization: S/CRS and the Civilian Response Corps
o Federated Identity: A Building Block Approach for Secure Collaboration
o Multidisciplinary Activities
o The Best and Brightest Enabling Technologies May Already Be Decades Old, and Just Waiting to be Rediscovered
o Industrial Partnerships Key To Patriot Modernization
o The Empire Test Pilots’ School Learn to test – test to learn
o Interview with Major General Tom H Knutsen, RNorAF, Defense Attache, Royal Norwegian Embassy
o Interview with Kent R. Schneider, President & CEO, AFCEA
o Interview with Brigadier General Michael M. Brogan, USMC, Commander, Marine Corps Systems Command
o Washington DC Embassy Defense Attachés
o Foreign Government Buyers in DC of U.S. Defense and Aerospace Equipment

Institute for Policy Studies
• Report of the Task Force on A Unified Security Budget for the United States

Institute for the Study of War
• Status Update: Shi’a Militias in Iraq

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)
• ICSR Peace and Security Summit

International Crisis Group
• Chad: Beyond Superficial Stability

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The Dynamic Effects of Commodity Prices on Fiscal Performance in Latin America

International Relations and Security Network
• Australian Poll: Quiet on the Foreign Policy Front
• Azerbaijan Eyes Russian Missile System
• Cambodia: Military, Inc.
• China’s Next Elite: 2012 and Beyond
• Iraq’s Future Hanging by a Thread
• Kyrgyz Security Forces Implicated in Violence
• Limits of Brazil-Iran Relationship Revealed
• Taleban Justice 'Fairer' Than State Courts
• Tempting Fate
• US, Vietnam Tighten the Bond
• US Disengages from Burma
• Who Controls Sharia Law?

Jamestown Foundation
• China Brief, August 19, 2010 v. 10, no. 17
o Hawks vs. Doves: Beijing Debates “Core Interests” and Sino-U.S. Relations
o PLA Amphibious Capabilities: Structured for Deterrence
o The Caspian Sea: China’s Silk Road Strategy Converges with Damascus
o China’s Secure Communications Quantum Leap
• Terrorism Monitor, August 19, 2010, v. 8, no. 33
o Kurdish PKK Using PJAK to Isolate Turkey
o Al-Shabaab's Unavoidable Clash with Somaliland Democracy
o Round Seven? The Houthi Rebellion in Northern Yemen

Palm Center
• “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell—Detailing the Damage”

Partnership for Public Service
• Closing the Gap: Seven Obstacles to a First-Class Federal Workforce

Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
• Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim: Religion, Politics and the President

Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Mexicans Continue Support for Drug War: But Sense of Progress and Support for U.S. Involvement Declines

RAND
• Building a More Resilient Haitian State
• Evaluating Navy’s Funded Graduate Education Program: A Return-on-Investment Framework
• Multi-perspective Strategic Decision Making: Principles, Methods, and Tools
• Reflecting Warfighter Needs in Air Force Programs: Prototype Analysis

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• The Asian and Global Financial Crises: Consequences for East Asian Regionalism
• Enabling Security for the 21st Century: Intelligence & Strategic Foresight and Warning

Security Sector Reform (SSR)
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Burundi No. 3

Small Wars Journal
• The Hezbollah Myth and Asymmetric Warfare
• Identity, Insurgency & Healing
• Primitive Violence, Culture, and the Path to Peace
• Professional Military Education for United States Army Special Operations Forces
• Reexamination of a Quintessential Joint Force Operation Case Study: Urgent Fury
• The Ugly Truth: Insurgencies are Brutal
• U.S. Efforts to Combat Terrorism Financing: Progress Made and Future Challenges

UK Parliament
• Military Campaign in Afghanistan

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• Pakistan Initial Floods Emergency Response Plan
• Pakistan: Numbers of People Affected by Floods

University of Pennsylvania
• Terrorism in Pakistan: Incident Patterns, Terrorists’ Characteristics, and the Impact of Terrorist Arrests on terrorism [dissertation]

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• The 2009 NGO Sustainability Index: For Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Flooding Challenges Pakistan's Government and the International Community
• Improving High-Value Resource Contracting in Afghanistan
• On the Issues: Iraq in Transition

US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
• Chemical Insecurity - America’s Most Dangerous Companies and Multimillion Dollar Cmapaign Against Common Sense Solutions

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Arming Hizballah? U.S. Military Assistance to Lebanon
• Going Critical: Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Starts Up
• Reforming the Rogue: Lessons from the US-Libya Rapprochement

White House
• Executive Order 13549 of August 18, 2010 - Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities
• Executive Order 13550 of August 18, 2010 - Establishment of Pakistan and Afghanistan Support Office
• Report to the President on Reengineering the Influenza Vaccine Production Enterprise to Meet the Challenges of Pandemic Influenza