Friday's Miscellany 09-09-2011

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

·         Sifting Through The Layers of Insecurity in the Sahel: The Case of Mauritania

American Enterprise Institute Critical Threats

·         Limited Goals, Limited Gains: The Pakistan Army's Operation in Kurram

·         Yemen Crisis Situation Report [latest update]     

American Security Project (ASP)

·         Technology from Fusion Research: Benefits Today 

Amnesty International

·         At A Crossroads: Sierra Leone’s Free Health Care Policy 

·         Deadly Detention: Deaths in Custody Amid Popular Protest in Syria  

·         When Will They Get Justice? Failures of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission    

Asian Development Bank Institute

·         Institutions for Economic and Financial Integration in Asia: Trends and Prospects 

Atlantic Council

·         Learning From Libya: The Right Lessons for NATO 

·         Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century: The Regional Agenda and the Global Role 

AUSA Institute of Land Warfare

·         Laying the Groundwork for the Army of 2020 
·         U.S. Army Training for Unified Land Operations 

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

·         Whither US Forces? US Military Presence in the Asia-Pacific and the Implications for Australia 

Brookings

·         Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan [updated August 31, 2011] 

·         The American Public on the 9/11 Decade: A Study of American Public Opinion 

·         From Aid to Global Development Cooperation 

·         Iraq Index: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq [updated August 30, 2011] 

·         Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Pakistan [updated August 29, 2011
·         What It Means to be an American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America Ten Years after 9/11 

Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI)

·         Farewell to the GWOT: What We Learned from the Global War On Terror

·         Fertilizing the Arab Spring 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

·         Stop Enabling Pakistan’s Dangerous Dysfunction  

·         Ten Years After 9/11—A World of Change [interactive video]

Center for American Progress

·         10th Anniversary of 9/11 

Center for Global Development

·         The Commander’s Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations 

·         MDG Progress Index 2011: The Good (Country Progress), the Bad (Slippage), and the Ugly (Fickle Data)

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHR&GJ)

·         A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter Terrorism 

·         Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the “Homegrown Threat” in the United States 

·         Under the Radar: Muslims Deported, Detained, and Denied on Unsubstantiated Terrorism Allegations 

Center for International Peace Operations

·         Five Paradoxes of Peace Operations

Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS)

·         10th Anniversary of 9/11 

Center for Security Policy

·         Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 

·         Where are We, Ten Years after 9/11? 

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

·         Afghanistan Win or Lose: Transition and the Resource Crisis  

·         Beyond New START  

·         Confronting an Uncertain Threat  

·         Cyber Events Since 2006 

·         The Elephant Engages Asia at Its Own Pace 

·         The Lessons and Challenges of September 2011 – the New "9/11" 

·         PacNet #50 - US Missile Defense and China: An Exchange 

·         PacNet #51 - Taking Stock of Japan Six Months After 3/11 

·         Russian Soft Power in the 21st Century  

Center for Technology and National Security Policy

·         New Directions in U.S. National Security, Defense Plans, and Diplomacy: A Review of Official Strategic Documents    

·         Strengthening Government Laboratory Science and Technology Programs: Some Thoughts for the Department of Homeland Security   

Center on Law and Security

·         Terrorist Trial Report Card: September 11, 2001-September 11, 2011 

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies

·         Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Spring 2011, v. 13, no. 3 

o    The Canadian Intelligence Community After 9/11

o    Canada and the Future of NATO

o    Military Responses and Capabilities in Canada’s Domestic Context Post 9/11

o    Terrorism in Canada

o    Canada's Warlord: Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's Leadership during the Great War

o    Facing the Future: Canada’s Environmental Security Challenges in the 21st Century

o    A Race to the Top: Oil & Gas Exploration in the Canadian Arctic

o    Intervening for Peace? Dilemma’s of Liberal Internationalism and Democratic Reconstruction in Afghanistan

o    Sailing with the Sea Shepherds

Century Foundation

·         Debt Ceiling Deal Threat to Short-Term Job Creation and Long-Run Economic Growth 

·         Revenue Increases on Highest-Income Households Appropriate for Balanced Approach to Budgeting 

Chatham House

·         Cultural Dialogue in International Security: New Thinking for Europe and America   

CNA

·         Irregular Conflict, the Department of Defense, and International Security Reform 

Col. Arthur D. Simons Center

·         Interagency Bibliography 

·         Interagency Journal, Summer 2011, v, 2, no. 2 

o    A Ticking Time Bomb

o    Swords and Plowshares: DoD and USAID on the Battlefield

o    Building Interagency Capabilities at U.S. Africa Command

o    Where are the JIACGs today?

o    Mechanics of Governance Approach to Capacity Development

o    A Legacy of Vietnam: Lessons from CORDS

o    A Civilian’s Guide to Military Planning

o    Interview with the Honorable Ronald E. Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee

·         Current Status of Suicide Prevention Programs in the Military 

·         Department of Defense Component Audit Efforts 

·         The Future of National Defense and the U.S. Military Ten Years After 9/11 

·         Provide for the Common Defense: The U.S. Military 10 Years After 9/11 [videos] 

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee

·         Hearings 

o    USAID's Long-Term Strategy for Addressing East African Emergencies [Sept 8. 2011]

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee

·         The Attacks of September 11th: Where are We Today 

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee

·         Afghanistan: Right Sizing the Development Footprint

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs

·         Defending the Nation Since 9/11: Successful Reforms and Challenges Ahead at the Department of Homeland Security 

·         U.S. Postal Service in Crisis: Proposals to Prevent a Postal Shutdown 

Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence

·         Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

·         Lost U.S. Opportunities After 9/11  

·         Quarterly Update: The Economic Downturn in Historical Context 

Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

·         Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations and Politics: The Role of India and the US 

Department of Defense (DOD)

·         Defense Intelligence Agency Strategy 2012-2017  

·         DoD Instruction 3025.16, Defense Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) Programs, September 8, 2011 

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

·         Develop a Radiation Response Plan 

EUCAM

·         Involving Central Asia in Afghanistan's Future - What Can Europe Do? 

Eurasia Group

·         China’s Great Rebalancing Act  

European Policy Centre (EPC)

·         Yes, But - Defining a Vision after the Karlsruhe Verdict 

Foreign Policy

·         Does Obama Have His Eye on the Right Economic Crisis? 

·         A Decade of Resolve 

·         From Revolution to War 

·         Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar 

·         What War Looks Like 

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)

·         9/11 And U.S.-China Relations 

·         America Ten Years After 9-11 

·         Beyond The Tenth Year In Afghanistan: Security Force Assistance And International Security 

·         The Disruptive Cost Of Fear - Our Desire To Return To The World Of September 10Th And What It Has Cost Us

·         Notes on Teaching 9/11 

Geneva Declaration

·         Contributing Evidence to Programming: Armed Violence Monitoring Systems 

German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

·         Burma’s Transition to “Disciplined Democracy”: Abdication or Institutionalization of Military Rule? 

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

·         Department of Homeland Security:  Progress Made and Work Remaining in Implementing Homeland Security Missions 10 Years after 9/11, GAO-11-881 

·         Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made and Work Remaining in Implementing Homeland Security Missions 10 Years after 9/11, GAO-11-940T [testimony] 

·         Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made and Work Remaining in Implementing Homeland Security Missions 10 Years after 9/11, GAO-11-919T [testimony] 

·         GAO's Perspectives on Fiscal and Performance Challenges Facing Government, GAO-11-1071CG [presentation]

·         Hurricanes Katrina and Rita:  Temporary Emergency Impact Aid Provided Education Support for Displaced Students, GAO-11-839 

·         Nuclear Nonproliferation:  U.S. Agencies Have Limited Ability to Account for, Monitor, and Evaluate the Security of U.S. Nuclear Material Overseas, GAO-11-920 

·         Telecommunications:  Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Could Inform FCC's Efforts to Complete the Digital Transition of Low-Power Television Stations and Reallocate Spectrum, GAO-11-790

Henley Putnam University

·         Journal of Strategic Security, Fall 2011, v. 4, no. 3

o    Hizbollah-Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience

o    Extraordinary Rendition and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy

o    Mitigating the Exploitation of U.S. Borders by Jihadists and Criminal Organizations

o    Buy Off and Buy In: Flipping the FARC

o    The Rising: Ireland: Easter 1916

o    Guerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921

o    Terrorism and Homeland Security: Perspectives, Thoughts, and Opinions

o    Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base

Heritage Foundation

·         40 Terror Plots Foiled Since 9/11: Combating Complacency in the Long War on Terror 

·         European Parliament Should Back EU–U.S. Passenger Name Record Agreement 

·         FEMA Reform and Disaster Response: Heritage Foundation Recommendations
·         The President’s New “Jobs Speech”: More Economic Alchemy Likely 

·         Theft of Food Aid in Somalia Should Lead to Congressional Oversight 

·         Three Paths for Obama’s Jobs Speech 

Homeland Security & Defense Business Council

·         Homeland Security Before 9/11 

Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI)

·         Counterterrorism Intelligence: Law Enforcement Perspectives 

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

·         State of Human Rights in 2010 

Human Rights Watch

·         The Rehab Archipelago: Forced Labor and Other Abuses in Drug Detention Centers in Southern Vietnam     

IDEEA

·         Common Defense Quarterly, Fall 2011 

o    In the Search for Rebalancing the Relationship of the Collective Security

o    The National Security Importance of the Arctic Will Change Even if the Climate Doesn’t

o    Interview with HE Jonas Hafström, Swedish Ambassador to the United States

o    The Work of the British Defence Committee of the House of Commons

o    Leveraging New Platforms During the Strategic Transition: Avoiding “Penny Wise and Pound Foolish” Acquisition Approaches

o    Interview with HE Jorge Dezcallar, Spanish Ambassador to the United States

o    For US Defense Companies to be Globally Competitive, New Approach Needed

o    USASATMO: Meeting Foreign Training Needs

o    Interview with Phillip J. Bond, President, TechAmerica

o    The Peace Corps: A 21st Century Smart Power Program

o    Do we have a BMD Plan?

o    Teaching Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Piracy

Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses (IDSA)

·         The Arctic as a Global Common  

·         Challenges Before Noda Yoshihiko  

·         South Korea’s Jeju Island Naval Base  

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

·         Protector or Predator? Tackling Police Corruption in South Africa 

Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

·         Countering Religion or Terrorism: Selective Enforcement of Material Support Laws Against Muslim Charities 

Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)

·         Intelligence to Protect the Homeland: Taking Stock Ten Years Later and Looking Ahead 

Inter-American Dialogue

·         Measuring Up? How Did Latin America and the Caribbean Perform on the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment? 

Interdisciplinary Analysts/Nepal Madhes Foundation/Small Arms Survey/Saferworld

·         Armed Violence in the Terai 

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

·         Application of Safeguards in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

·         Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran 

International Crisis Group

·         Congo: The Electoral Process Seen from the East 

·         Keeping Haiti Safe: Police Reform   

International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

·         Forging a Democracy from Libya's Jamahiriya 

·         Shangri-La Dialogue Report 2011

International Relations and Security Network

·         India: No Counter-Revolution Please 

·         The Israelite Connections of the Taliban 

·         Rethinking the Peace Dividend

·         Sanctions Stepped Up on Syria 

·         Trends in the Intelligence Environment Ten Years After 9/11 

·         The World’s Food Crisis: Time to Move 

Jamestown Foundation

·         Terrorism Monitor, September 9, 2011, v. 9, no. 34 

o    Pakistan’s Military Urges Tribal Uprising against Militants in North Waziristan

o    The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and the Future of the Peace Process in the Southern Philippines

o    Jihadists in Syria: Myth or Reality?

Lowy Institute for Public Policy

·         Obama’s Alliances  

·         Talib or Taliban?   

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)

·         Climate Change and Migration Dynamics  

Ministry of Foreign Affairs - People's Republic of China

·         China's Peaceful Development [white paper] 

National Academies Press

·         Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs 

National Security Archive

·         Secret U.S. Message to Mullah Omar: "Every Pillar of the Taliban Regime Will Be Destroyed" 

National Defense University Press

·         Prism, 2011, v. 2, no. 4 

o    Transforming the Conflict in Afghanistan

o    State-building: Job Creation, Investment Promotion, and the Provision of Basic Services

o    Operationalizing Anticipatory Governance

o    Colombia: Updating the Mission?

o    Reflections on the Human Terrain System During the First 4 Years

o    Patronage versus Professionalism in New Security Institutions

o    Regional Engagement in Africa: Closing the Gap Between Strategic Ends and Ways

o    NATO Countering the Hybrid Threat

o    COIN in Peace-building: Case Study of the 2009 Malakand Operation

o    The Premature Debate on CERP Effectiveness

o    An Interview with Richard B. Myers

NATO Defense College

·         Libya in Limbo: How to Fill the Security Vacuum 

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability

·         Urban Security in China - A Case Study of Dalian 

New America Foundation

·         Homegrown Terrorism Cases, 2001-2011 - The Homegrown Threat 

New York Times

·         The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air [selection of 9/11 audio recordings] 

Partnership for Public Service

·         Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11 

Pew Global Attitudes Project

·         From Hyperpower to Declining Power: Changing Global Perceptions of the U.S. in the Post-Sept. 11 Era 

Pew Internet & American Life Project

·         28% of U.S. Adults Use Mobile and Social Location-Based Services 

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

·         Libya: Steady Views, Declining Interest 

PLoS ONE

·         Global Comparison of Warring Groups in 2002–2007: Fatalities from Targeting Civilians vs. Fighting Battles 

Policy Exchange

·         Ties that Bind: How the Story of Britain’s Muslim Soldiers Can Forge a National Identity 

Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security

·         Brazil's Haiti Drawdown: Reflections on Global Aspirations [Viewpoint 75]

·         Taur Matan Ruak: The First Candidate for the 2012 Presidential Elections in Timor Leste? [Veiwpoint 76] 

·         IPRIS Maghreb Bulletin 11 

o    Promoting the "Good Islam": The Regime and Sufi-Brotherhoods in Algeria

o    Unauthorized Migration: Another Agreement between Italy and Tunisia?

o    The Clay 'Tiger': Tunisia and the End of the 'Bread' Economic Model

o    France and the Libyan Intervention

Project 2049 Institute

·         Air Power Trends in Northeast Asia: Implications for Japan and the US-Japan Alliance  

·         Asian Alliances in the 21st Century  

RAND

·         From Insurgency to Stability

o    Volume I: Key Capabilities and Practices 

o    Volume II: Insights from Selected Case Studies  

·         Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: Identifying Lessons for Future Efforts 

Refugees International

·         Pakistan: Flood Survivors Still Struggling to Recover  

Rutgers Law Review

·         A New Type of War: The Story of the FAA and NORAD Response to the September 11, 2001 Attacks  

Small Wars Journal

·         Asymmetrical National Security Policy – Simple Doesn’t Mean Stupid 

·         Child Soldiers, NGO’s And the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child 

·         Chinese Perspectives on Sino-Iran Relations

·         Ditching Career Centric COIN 

·         A Guerilla War At Sea: The Sri Lankan Civil War 

·         One Team’s Approach to Village Stability Operations 

·         New Media: A Boon for Insurgents or Counterinsurgents? 

·         The Terrorist Climate of Sudan: Forecasting Effects of the Southern Secession 

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)/ Dept of State Inspector General

·         The U.S. Civilian Uplift in Afghanistan Has Cost Nearly $2 Billion, and State Should Continue to Strengthen Its Management and Oversight of the Funds Transferred to Other Agencies 

START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism

·         Background Report: 9/11, Ten Years Later 

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

·         The G20 and Inefficient Energy Subsidies: Grasping the Cause of Price Distortions by the Roots? [English] 

·         Is Afghanistan on the Brink of a New Civil War?: Possible Scenarios and Influencing Factors in the Transition Process 

Terrorism Research Initiative

·         Perspectives on Terrorism, 2011, v. 5, no. 3-4 

o    Terrorism and Political Violence in Africa: Contemporary Trends in a Shifting Terrain

o    Terrorism in Liberation Struggles: Interrogating the Engagement Tactics of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

o    'Forcing the Horse to Drink or Making it Realise its Thirst’? Understanding the Enactment of Anti-Terrorism Legislation (ATL) in Nigeria

o    Opportunity Costs or Costly Opportunities? The Arab Spring, Osama Bin Laden, and Al-Qaeda’s African Affiliates

o    Al-Qaeda’s Influence in Sub-Saharan Africa: Myths, Realities and Possibilities

o    From Theory to Practice: Exploring the Organised Crime-Terror Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa

o    The Paradox of Terrorism, Armed Conflict and Natural Resources in Africa: an Analysis of Cabinda in Angola

Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)

·         Adapting, Transforming, and Modernizing Under Fire: The Mexican Military 2006-11 

TRAC Immigration

·         Immigration Enforcement Since 9/11: A Reality Check 

United Kingdom House of Commons

·         Report of the Baha Mouse Inquiry [British abuse of detainees in Iraq]

o    v. 1 

o    v. 2    

o    v. 3   

UK Parliament, House of Commons Defense Committee

·         Strategic Defense and Security Review and the National Security Strategy

o    Volume I 

o    Volume II  

United Nations Secretary General

·         Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident [Palmer Report] 

United Nations University

·         WorldRiskReport 2011 

USAID

·         Haiti - Earthquake and Cholera [latest update] 

·         Horn of Africa - Drought [latest update] 

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

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

·         Asad's Iraqi Lifeline: Naming, Shaming, and Maiming It

·         Could Turkey and Israel Go to War? 

·         Hanging by a Thread  

·         It's the Ideology, Stupid    

·         What Do the Arabs of East Jerusalem Really Want?

·         Why Is the Middle East Still in Thrall to 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?  

White House

·         Address by the President to a Joint Session of Congress

·         Remarks by Vice President Biden at the Pentagon 9/11 10th Anniversary Commemoration 

·         Remarks by the President at the September 11th 10th Anniversary Commemoration 

·         Remarks by Vice President Joseph Biden at Dedication of Flight 93 Memorial 

·         Serve and Remember [9-11 reflections] 

World Economic Forum

·         Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012 

World Public Opinion.org

·         Six in Ten Americans Say U.S. Weakened Its Economy by Overspending in Response to 9/11

·         Why Muslims Are Still Mad at America