Friday's Miscellany 08-26-2011

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Stress-Testing South Africa: The Tenuous Foundations of One of Africa’s Stable States

American Enterprise Institute Critical Threats

·         Yemen Crisis Situation Report [latest update] 

Amnesty International

·         Crimes Unseen: Extrajudicial Executions in Bangladesh  

·         ‘We Are Not Dirt’: Forced Evictions in Egypt’s Informal Settlements  

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)

·         Managing Concurrent and Repeated Risks: Explaining the Reductions in Opium Production in Central Helmand Between 2008 and 2011 

Air Force Space Command

·         High Frontier, 2011, v. 7, no. 4 

o    Enduring Issues: The Space Commission 10 Years Later

o    The Space Commission: 10 Years Later - Still a Work in Progress

o    Reconsidering the Space Commission 10 Years Later

o    The Space Commission: 10 Years Later, But Not Quite 10 Years Closer

o    Leading into the Future: Creating the Cadre of Space Professionals Getting There From Here: Realizing the Space Commission’s Vision: 10 Years Later

o    The Space Commission Recommendations in Retrospect: Four Key Lessons

o    Space Professional Development—10 Years After the Space Commission: Managing Our Most Important Assets

o    Space Professional Continuing Education: One of Three Pillars

o    The Space Commission - Impacts on Policy and Professional Development

o    Escaping the Space Acquisition Death Spiral, Part One of a Three Part Series

o    Escaping the Space Acquisition Death Spiral, Part Two of a Three Part Series

o    Escaping the Space Acquisition Death Spiral, Part Three of a Three Part Series

Army Corps of Engineers

·         Engineer: Professional Bulletin of Army Engineers, May-August 2011, v. 40

o    The Strategy of Mapping

o    JTF Rugged: Maximizing Efficiency as the Theater Engineer

o    Brigade in Iraq

o    USACE Helps Pakistan Recover From Monsoon Season

o    Forming the Company Intelligence Support Team

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

·         After September Comes October  

Brookings

·         Al Qaeda’s New Sinai Front 

·         Deficit Reduction and the New Congressional Committee: A Primer 

·         The Major Roadblock to Muslim Assimilation in Europe 

·         The Nexus and the Olive Tree 

·         A Regional Approach to Managing Africa’s Food Shocks

·         Role Reversal in Global Finance 

·         Why Can’t Europe Get it Right the First Time… or the Second… or the Third? 

Center for American Progress

·         Fear, Inc. The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America 

·         The Need for a Political and Economic Transition Strategy in Afghanistan: Report from July 2011 Trip to Kabul, Afghanistan 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Defense Budgets Cuts and Non-Traditional Threats to US Strategy
·         Maritime Interests: China-US Cooperation and Conflicts

·         PacNet #46 - Has Strategic Patience Run Its Course? 

·         PacNet #45 - Biden Time in Mongolia 

·         Regional Security and Global Governance 11th Dialogue on US-China Relations and Regional Security  

·         Toward an Appropriate Mix of Conventional, Nuclear, and Missile Defense Forces  

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

·         August 2011: What to Do When the Euro Crisis Reaches the Core

·         The Eurozone Debt Crisis: From Its Origins to a Way Forward

·         Partial Sovereign Bond Insurance by the Eurozone: A More Efficient Alternative to Blue (Euro-)Bonds 

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

·         Constructive Powers Initiative: Managing Regional and Global Security [conference proceedings] 

·         Toward a Post-2015 Development Paradigm [conference proceedings] 

Combating Terrorism Center (CTC)

·         CTC Sentinel, August 2011, v. 4, no. 8

o    AQAP’s ‘Great Expectations’ for the Future

o    The Revival of Shi`a Militancy in Iraq

o    Al-Qa`ida’s Confused Messaging on Libya

o    Germany Increasingly a Center for Terrorism in Europe

o    Islamic Activism in Europe: The Role of Converts

o    The Rise of Salafists in Tunisia After the Fall of Ben Ali

o    Recent Highlights in Terrorist Activity

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

·         Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update 

·         Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from April 2011 Through June 2011

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Global Natural Gas Potential 

·         Libya's 'Precarious' Transition Ahead 

·         A Pakistan-based Terrorist Attack on the U.S. Homeland: CPA Contingency Planning Memorandum No. 13 

·         Reviving U.S. Economic Leadership 

·         Ten Lessons Since the 9/11 Attacks 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         JP 3-0, Joint Operations     

·         JP 5-0, Joint Operation Planning  

·         Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China - 2011 

·         Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, Calif. 

·         Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, Calif. 

Department of the Army

        ·         Army Social Media Handbook 2011

Disaster Research Center

·         Reporting for Duty?  A Synthesis of Research on Role Conflict, Strain, and Abandonment among Emergency Responders during Disasters and Catastrophies [sic]

EUCAM

·         Involving Central Asia in Afghanistan’s Future: What can Europe Do? 

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

·         Complete International Energy Outlook 2010 

·         Country Analysis Brief - Nigeria 

·         Country Analysis Brief - Syria 

Foreign Policy

·         All Points Bulletin: Qaddafis on the Loose 

·         Assad's Cartoonish Crackdown 

·         The Baghdad Syndrome 

·         Fear, Incorporated: Who's Paying for all that Islamophobic Paranoia? 

·         Pregnant in Putin's Russia 

·         Ready for Day One [Libyan Postwar Planners] 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Revisiting the Resource–Conflict Link: A Systematic Comparative Test of Causal Mechanisms in Four Major Oil-Exporting Countries 

               

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Maritime Security:  Progress Made, but Further Actions Needed to Secure the Maritime Energy Supply, GAO-11-883T [testimony] 

Heritage Foundation

·         Accession to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea Is Unnecessary to Secure U.S. Navigational Rights and Freedoms 

·         Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste: Missing Opportunity for Lasting Reform 

·         A Counterterrorism Strategy for the "Next Wave" 

·         Homeland Security 4.0: Overcoming Centralization, Complacency, and Politics  

·         States Get a "License" to Enforce Immigration Laws 

·         Without Proof: The Unpersuasive Case Against Voter Identification 

·         Why the United States Should Be Concerned About France’s Banking Crisis 

Human Rights Watch

·         Futures Stolen: Barriers to Education for Children with Disabilities in Nepal f

·         Ripe with Abuse: Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries 

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         The Proposed SADC Parliament, Old Wine in New Bottles or an Ideal Whose Time has Come? 

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

·         Life After Death: Al-Qaeda and the Terrorism Narrative 

Institute for the Study of War

·         Pakistan’s Kurram Offensive – Implications for Afghanistan  

International Crisis Group

·         Indonesia: Hope and Hard Reality in Papua 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

·         Chile: Financial System Stability Assessment 

·         The Cyclicality of Fiscal Policies in the CEMAC Region 

·         Global Economic Governance: IMF Quota Reform 

·         Measuring the Potential Output of South Africa 

·         Public Debt Targeting An Application to the Caribbean 

·         South Africa: Macro Policy Mix and Its Effects on Growth and the Real Exchange Rate --Empirical Evidence and GIMF Simulations 

·         South Africa: The Cyclical Behavior of the Markups and its Implications for Monetary Policy 

·         The Taxation and Regulation of Banks 

International Relations and Security Network

·         The ANC: Historical Irony on the Horizon?  

·         The ECB – An Incompetent Cult? 

·         Pakistan's Tribal Area Reforms Too Little, Too Late 

·         Reinforcing Regional Rights: Labour and Migration 

Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics (LCCD)

·         A Computationally-Enabled Analysis of Lashkar-e-Taiba Attacks in Jammu & Kashmir

·         Dealing with Lashkar-e-Taiba: A Multi-Player Game-Theoretic Perspective

National Bureau of Asian Research

·         Ecological and Nontraditional Security Challenges in South Asia 

National Conference of State Legislatures

·         State Policy Options: A Report of the National Conference of State Legislatures Task Force on Military and Veterans Affairs 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

·         The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones from 1851 to 2010 (and Other Frequently Requested Hurricane Facts) 

Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)

·         The United States in the World Economy [speech by C. Fred Bergsten] 

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         Americans Want More Pressure On Students, the Chinese Want Less

Rand

·         China and India, 2025: A Comparative Assessment  

·         The Public Health System a Decade After 9/11: Key Successes and Continuing Challenges 

Small Wars Journal

·         Institutionalizing an ‘Irregular Warfare’ Focus in the Navy

·         Introduction to the Locus of Legitimacy and State Stability

·         The Natural Law of Strategy 

·         On Pakistan: Interviews with Shaukat Qadir and Aqil Shah 

·         Populations as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Case Study of Corruption in Afghanistan 

·         The Real Challenge in Afghanistan: Toward a Quantum COIN

·         State Versus Defense: An Interview with Stephen Glain 

·         The Writings of Abdullah Imam on Flight Commander Mohammed Wagih Abaza: A Unique Member of the Egyptian Free Officers and Revolutionary Command Council 

Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)

·         SIGIR Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to Congress [July 2011] 

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         China-Latin America Military Engagement: Good Will, Good Business, and Strategic Position 

Transportation Research Board (TRB)

·         Feasibility of a Consolidated Security Credential for Persons Who Transport Hazardous Materials 

·         TRB Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report 

UN Institute for Disarmament Research

·         Disarmament Forum, 2011, no. 2 

o    Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones

o    Peeling the Orange: Regional Paths to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

o    The Treaty of Pelindaba: Towards the Full Implementation of the African NWFZ Treaty

o    The Arctic: Top of the World to be Nuclear-Weapon-Free

o    Possible Elements of an NWFZ in the Middle East

o    The Role of Civil Society in Promoting a WMDFZ in the Middle East

USAID

·         Horn of Africa - Drought [latest update] 

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

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

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Five Things Obama Can (and Should) Do to Topple Assad 

·         Implications of the Negev Terrorist Incident 

·         Iraq's Relentless Insurgency: The Fight for Power ahead of U.S. Withdrawal

·         New Tremors in Egypt-Israel Relations 

·         The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran

·         The Unbreakable Muslim Brotherhood: Grim Prospects for a Liberal Egypt