Friday's Miscellany 08-21-2009

Amnesty International
· Honduras: Human Rights Crisis Threatens as Repression Increases
· Tunisia: Continuing Abuses in the Name of Security

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· The Armageddon Test

Brookings Institution
· Monetary Policy Challenges for Emerging Market Economies
· Pakistan's Madrassas: The Need for Internal Reform and the Role of International Assistance
· Peace, Reconciliation, and Displacement
· Protecting the Displaced in Colombia: The Role of Municipal Authorities

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Palestine: The Schism Deepens
· Rising Tensions in Afghanistan: Dispatch from Kandahar

Center for American Progress
· In Afghanistan, Do What We Must
· Peaking Duck: Beijing’s Growing Appetite for Climate Action
· Slideshow: Afghanistan Heads to the Ballot Box- Pre-Election Photos from Afghanistan

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
· Jobs Americans Won’t Do? A Detailed Look at Immigrant Employment by Occupation
· Worse Than It Seems: Broader Measure of Unemployment Shows Bleak Picture

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
· Energy Conversation: The First 3 Years
· Powering America’s Defense: Energy and the Risks to National Security

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
· Alternative Transportation Fuels and Vehicle Technologies
· GCC - Iran: Operational Analysis of Air, SAM and TBM Forces
· Issues in International Political Economy - "Mexico's Periodic Bad Times" - August 2009 - Number 116 · Legitimacy and the Afghan Elections
· A Risk-Management Approach to Afghanistan?
· Shape, Clear, Hold, and Build

Centre for International Governance Innovation
· Afghanistan’s Alternatives for Peace, Governance and Development: Transforming Subjects to Citizens & Rulers to Civil Servants

Council on Foreign Relations
· Beyond Elections, Fixing the Afghan State
· FARC, ELN: Colombia’s Left-Wing Guerrillas
· Overcoming the 'Rut' in Middle East Peace Efforts
· Political Instability in Egypt

Department of Defense (DOD)
· Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/ Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) U.S. Casualty Status Fatalities

Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP)
· CBDP Annual Report to Congress 2009

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-09-93 - Review of U.S. Coast Guard Enterprise Architecture Implementation Process

Department of Justice
· Cities in Which Mexican DTOs Operate Within the United States--Situation Report
· National Methamphetamine Threat Assessment 2009
· National Prescription Drug Threat Assessment 2009

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· Prolonging East Asia’s Surprising Peace—Can It Be Managed?

Heritage Foundation
· Afghan Elections Offer Hope for the Future
· Extended Republic or Centralized Nation-State? Herbert Croly, Progressivism, and the Decline of Civic Engagement
· A CIA Special Prosecutor: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
· No North Korean Thaw from Clinton Trip
· Obama Missile Defense Proposal: Numbers Matter
· Strengthening U.S. Anti-Narcotics Efforts in Colombia
· Sustain MEADS, the Other European Missile Defense Program
· The U.S. Should Not Join the International Criminal Court

Hudson Institute
· The Talibanization of Gaza: A Liability for the Muslim Brotherhood

Human Rights Watch
· "They Want Us Exterminated": Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq

Institute for the Study of War
· Building Security Forces and Ministerial Capacity: Iraq as a Primer

International Crisis Group
· Myanmar: Towards the Elections

International Relations and Security Network
· Afghan Vote: Dangerous Ink Stains
· Central Asia: Beyond Jihad
· Mexico’s ‘Divine Justice’
· South Ossetia: The War Way of Life
· Transdniester: No End to Conflict
· Turnout Mixed In Afghan Vote
· The US and the Gulf: Shifting Diplomatic Landscapes
· US Defense Budget, A Hard Sell

International Republican Institute (IRI)
· Afghanistan Public Opinion Survey: July 16-26, 2009

Iran Tracker
· A Thorn in the Side of the Taliban: Turkistan Bhittani Biography and Analysis

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, 17, August 20, 2009
*Hu's Anti-Graft Drives Lack Institutional Checks and Reforms
*Is China a "Soft" Naval Power?
*Peace-Mission 2009: A Military Scenario Beyond Central Asia
*China-ASEAN Free Trade Area: A Chinese "Monroe Doctrine" or "Peaceful Rise"?
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 26, August 20, 2009
*Jihadis Turn their Eyes to Syria as a Post-Iraq Theater of Operations
*The Death of Baitullah Mahsud: A View from Afghanistan
*Uncertainty Rather than Stability Follows Defeat of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers
*The Return of the Kingmaker: Afghanistan's General Dostum Ends his Exile

Lexington Institute
· Are Policymakers Too Enchanted With Unmanned Aircraft?
· Reversing Industrial Decline: A Role for the Defense Budget

National Security Archive
· Brazil Conspired with U.S. to Overthrow Allende
· Breaking the Silence: The Mexican Army and the 1997 Acteal Massacre

Natural Resources Defense Council
· A Clear Blue Future: How Greening California Cities Can Address Water Resources and Climate Challenges in the 21st Century

Peterson Institute for International Economics
· The 2008 Oil Price "Bubble"
· Criss-Crossing Globalization: Uphill Flows of Skill-Intensive Goods and Foreign Direct Investment
· Setting the NAFTA Agenda on Climate Change
· Structural and Cyclical Trends in Net Employment over US Business Cycles 1949–2009: Implications for the Next Recovery and Beyond
· What's on the Table? The Doha Round as of August 2009

PEW Center
· New Data Show Nanotechnology-Related Activities in Every U.S. State

RAND
· Computer Simulation of General and Flag Officer Management: Model Description and Results
· Finding Needles in a Haystack: A Resource Allocation Methodology to Design Strategies to Detect Terrorist Weapon Development

Small War Journal
· To Kill a Mockingbird: The Deconstruction of Information Operations

Stimson Center
· The Indian Ocean: Resource and Governance Challenges
· Islam and Politics: Renewal and Resistance in the Muslim World

Strategic Studies Institute
· Mind-Sets and Missiles: A First Hand Account of the Cuban Missile Crisis
· The Role of Cuban Paramilitary Organizations (People's Militias) in the Post-Castro Era
· Taking Up the Security Challenge of Climate Change

UK Parliament
· Closing the Impunity Gap: UK Law on Genocide (and Related Crimes) and Redress for Torture Victims
· Scrutiny of Arms Export Controls (2009): UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2007, Quarterly Reports for 2008, Licensing Policy and Review of Export Control Legislation

US Institute of Peace
· Building the Rule of Law in Haiti: New Laws for a New Era
· How Opium Profits the Taliban
· Notes from Sudan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Cracking Down on Iran's Illicit Trade
· Fatah Congress: Will New Resolutions Mean a New Direction?

Washington Post-ABC News
· Poll Data on US Opinion on Afghan War
· Washington Post article

World Health Organization (WHO)
· Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2008: The Numbers and Trends

Friday's Miscellany 08-14-2009

Adjutants General Association of the United States (AGAUS)
· The Homeland Security Council: A Different Structure for a Different Challenge

Afghanistan Analyst Network
· How To Win An Afghan Election
· The Other Side. Dimensions of the Afghan Insurgency: Causes, Actors - and Approaches to Talks

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
· AIHRC AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights Presidential and Provincial Council Elections : First Report 25 April – 12 June 2009
· AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring Of Political Rights - Presidential And Provincial Council Elections - Second Report, 16 June - 1 August 2009

American Enterprise Institute
· Order of Battle: Pakistani Military in FATA and Northwest Frontier Province

Amnesty International
· Civilians in the Aftermath of War: The Georgia-Russia Conflict One Year On

Army War College
· Parameters, Summer 2009, v. 39, no. 2
*“Is There a Civil-Military Gap in China’s Peaceful Rise?” by Andrew Scobell
*“China’s New Security Strategy for Africa” by Jonathan Holslag
*“Enhancing Interrogation: Advancing a New Agenda” by John A. Wahlquist
*“Unlocking Russian Interests on the Korean Peninsula” by John W. Bauer
*“Caught in the Net: Lessons from the Financial Crisis for a Networked Future” by Gautam Mukunda and William J. Troy
*“An Ever-Expanding War: Legal Aspects of Online Strategic Communication” by Daniel Silverberg and Joseph Heimann
*“Deconstructing Our Dark Age Future” by P. Michael Phillips

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· Improving U.S.-China Relations: The Next Steps

Brookings Institution
· The 2009 Afghanistan Elections and the Future of Governance
· The 2009 Afghan Elections and the Future of the International Community in Afghanistan
· Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd and the Australia-U.S. Alliance
· China’s New Think Tanks: Where Officials, Entrepreneurs, and Scholars Interact
· Climate Change and India: Is There a Basis for U.S. Pressure?
· A Crucial Election for Afghanistan's Future
· Successful Afghan Election Is Only Part of the Fight against the Taliban
· The Taliban and the Afghan Elections

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Inside Kabul: Dispatch from Afghanistan
· Islam and the Paths of Pakistan’s Political Development
· Morocco’s Royal Think Tank Issues Report on Economic Crisis: Diagnosis Right, Therapy Wrong!
· Realities and Priorities: What to Do in Afghanistan
· Regional Arrangements in the Arabian Gulf
· Why America Should Play the Long Game in Iran

Center for a New American Security
· Afghanistan Strategy Dialogue [blog by Abu Muqawama]

Center for American Progress
· Economic Snapshot for August 2009
· Natural Gas: A Bridge Fuel for the 21st Century
· Rebuilding America: A Policy Framework for Investment in Energy Efficiency Retrofits
· U.S. Policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Center for American Progress Conversation with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and His Interagency Team

Center for Defense Information (CDI)
· How Congress Finances Pork

Center for National Policy
· Afghan Elections: Prospects for the Future

Center for Security Policy
· Is 'Islam' at War with Us?

Center for Nonproliferation Studies
· The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Enters into Force
· Chemical Weapon Munitions Dumped at Sea

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· Analysis of the FY 2010 Defense Budget Request
· Classified Funding in the FY 2010 Defense Budget Request
· Impact of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the US Military’s Plans, Programs, and Budgets
· Resourcing For Defeat: Critical Failures In Planning, Programming, Budgeting, And Resourcing The Afghan And Iraq Wars

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· Iran Status Report
· Twenty Important Controls for Effective Cyber Defense and FISMA Compliance
· Violence in the North Caucasus Interim Report: January 2008 – July 2009
· Withdrawal from Iraq: Assessing the Readiness of Iraqi Security Forces

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
· Creating Global Intelligence: Overview http://www.foia.cia.gov/cgi.asp
· Foreign Broadcast Information Service: History -Part I: 1941-1947

Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
· Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, Summer 2009, v. 11, no. 4
*A Rational-constructivist Explanation for the Evolution and Decline of the Norm against Mercenarism
*The Theoretical Aspect of Targeted Killings: The Phoenix Program as a Case Study
*Auditory Situation Awareness in Urban Operations

Congress Senate Foreign Relations Committee
· Afghanistan's Narco War: Breaking the Link Between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
· Pakistan’s Tribal Belt (Interactive)
· Striking a Balance on Counterterrorism Policies
· U.S. Air Strikes in Pakistan "Ineffective"
· U.S. Policy Shift Needed in the Horn of Africa

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· Report on the President's Surveillance Program, prepared by the Offices of Inspectors General of the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence http://www.dodig.mil/Ir/reports/s0907.pdf

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
· OIG-09-91 - CBP's Construction of Border Patrol Facilities and Acquisition of Vehicles
· OIG-09-74 - Advisory Report: Department of Homeland Security's Capabilities to Implement the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics
· 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
· The Macroeconomic Impacts of the 9/11 Attack: Evidence from Real-time Forecasting

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessments
· Department of Homeland Security Our Border Network

European Commission (EC) European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO)
· The EU in Afghanistan - Assistance and Support to the Democratic Process

Foreign Policy Research Institute
· La Familia Michoacána: A Deadly Mexican Cartel Revisited

Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR)
· Key Challenges Facing Security Sector Reform: A Case for Reframing the Donor Policy Debate · Security Sector Reform: Post-Conflict Integration
· SSR and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Armed Wing of State-Building?

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· International Trade: Four Free Trade Agreements GAO Reviewed Have Resulted in Commercial Benefits, but Challenges on Labor and Environment Remain, GAO-09-439
· U.S.-Africa Trade: Options for Congressional Consideration to Improve Textile and Apparel Sector Competitiveness under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, GAO-09-916

Heritage Foundation
· A CIA Special Prosecutor: A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
· Five Things Congress and the President Are Doing to Bring Back Sky-High Gas Prices
· India's Future in the Balance
· Pakistan Gaining Against Militants

Hudson Institute
· Hudson Institute Economic Report August 14, 2009

Human Rights Watch
· Human Rights and Saudi Arabia’s Counterterrorism Response Religious Counseling, Indefinite Detention, and Flawed Trials
· White Flag Deaths: Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
· Strategic Forum no. 245 - An Iraqi ISF Assessment after U.S. Troop Withdrawal

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Mysteries Deepen Over Status of Arak Reactor Project

Institute for the Study of War
· Why the Taliban Are Winning--for Now

International Crisis Group
· Nepal’s Future: In Whose Hands?
· Somalia: The Trouble with Puntland

International Energy Administration (EIA)
· End-User Petroleum Product Prices and Average Crude Oil Import Costs July 2009
· Monthly Natural Gas Survey May 2009
· Monthly Oil Survey May 2009

International Relations and Security Network
· Africa: Police for Peace
· Fatah's Changing of the Guard
· Iran Watch: A Lame Duck President?
· An Opportune Time for Moldova
· Tactical Nukes: A Strategic Asset or Future Liability?

IranTracker
· 2009 Waziristan Conflict Map
· Reported Death of Beitullah Mehsud & Pakistani Taliban Leadership

Jamestown Foundation
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 25, August 13, 2009
*Jihadis Search for Intelligence Penetration on Jihadi Website Forums
*Counterterrorism Operations Continue in Tajikistan
*PKK Forces Await Orders from Imprisoned Leader Abdullah Ocalan
*Is the Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline a Viable Project? The Impact of Terrorism Risk

National Academies Press
· Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects [free download but registration required]
· The Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities [free download but registration required]

Partnership for a Secure America
· Pakistan's Nuclear Security

Pew Global Attitudes Project
· Pakistani Public Opinion: Growing Concerns About Extremism, Continuing Discontent with U.S.

RAND
· Finding Needles in a Haystack: A Resource Allocation Methodology to Design Strategies to Detect Terrorist Weapon Development
· Improving the Army's Assessment of Interactive Multimedia Instruction Courseware
· A National Agenda for Public Health Systems Research on Emergency Preparedness
· Risk Communication in the Early Stages of the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Alert: How Effective Were State and Local Public Health Departments?
· Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals
· Understanding Why Terrorist Operations Succeed or Fail

Small Wars Journal
· Bil Janoob: Multi-National Division-South Security Force Assistance
· Inception and Early Evolution of a Partnership Doctrine: Building Afghan Army Capacity While Fighting a Counterinsurgency

Social & Demographic Trends Pew Research Center
· Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Generation Gap

Southern Poverty Law Center
· The Second Wave: Return of the Militias

Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
· SIGAR-Audit-09-3 A Better Management Information System Is Needed to Promote Information Sharing, Effective Planning, and Coordination of Afghanistan Reconstruction Activities

Stimson Center
· Mapping the United States Government Engagement in Global Public Health
· A New Agenda for Bosnia and Herzegovina
· Thailand’s Apparent Policy Shift on Mekong Hydropower Dams

Strategic Studies Institute
· Toward a Risk Management Defense Strategy

UK Parliament
· Leaks and Whistleblowing in Whitehall

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
· Afghanistan’s Police: The Weak Link in Security Sector Reform
· Blood Oil in the Niger Delta
· Interview with Abiodun Williams about Africa
· Interview with Sheldon Himelfarb about Media in Peacebuilding
· Theory Meets Practice: Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· Militarization of the Iranian Judiciary
· Mubarak Comes to Washington

White House
· Health Insurance Reform Reality Check

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
· A "New" Strategy For Afghanistan And Its Region - Summary Report

Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths

The US Institute of Peace, in collaboration with the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, held an event entitled " Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths" on June 17, 2009. The video of this event is now available.

A related report from the Berkman Center entitled " Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent" might also be of interest. The Internet & Democracy Project is investigating the "impact of the Internet on civic engagement and democratic processes." They also did some work on "Mapping Change in the Iranian Blogosphere" earlier this year.

Friday's Miscellany 08-07-2009

American Enterprise Institute
· Deter, Defend, Repel, and Partner: A Defense Strategy for Taiwan
· Drug Use in Nigeria

American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICIGS)
· German and U.S. Domestic Counterterrorism Responses: Only Half a World Apart
· Kulturpolitik versus Aussenpolitik in the Past Sixty Years
· NATO and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: New Energy Geopolitics for the Transatlantic Alliance
· The Transatlantic Agenda for Labor Market Reform: Increasing Adaptability Through Continuing Training

American Society of Civil Engineers
· Guiding Principles for the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Amnesty International
· Civilians in the Aftermath of War: The Georgia-Russia Conflict One Year On

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
· U.S. Aid to Pakistan—U.S. Taxpayers Have Funded Pakistani Corruption

Brookings Institution
· Germany’s Recession vs. America’s: Doing Worse, but Feeling Better
· How the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have Shaped the Obama Administration
· Morocco’s King Mohammed VI: 10 Years and Counting
· The Scouting Report: Dialing Down North Korea’s Nuclear Threat
· Seeking Fair and Effective Administration of Immigration Laws
· Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential: Numbers and Rules

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
· Iran's Clenched Fist: Should the United States Extend or Withdraw Its Hand?
· Kurdish Elections: Implications for Iraq and the Region
· The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan

Center for Security Policy
· What's Wrong with Insulza and the OAS
· A World of Hurt

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
· Correcting Course: The Cancellation of the Future Combat Systems Program

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
· The New Metrics of Afghanistan
· Resourcing for Defeat: Critical Failures in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resources the Afghan and Iraq Wars
· South Asia Monitor: "A Calculated Risk": India's New Budget - August 03, 2009
· Toward the Heavens: Latin America’s Emerging Space Programs

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee
· Aviation Safety: The Relationship Between Network Airlines and Regional Airlines

Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations Committee
· Georgia: One Year After the August War

Congress. Senate. Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee
· The U.S. Postal Service in Crisis
· Strengthening the Federal Acquisition Workforce: Government-wide Leadership and Initiatives
· Focusing on Children in Disasters: Evacuation Planning and Mental Health Recovery
· Eliminating Wasteful Contractor Bonuses

Congress. Senate. Judicial Committee
· Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor

Department of Defense
· Measuring Stability in Iraq, Quarterly Report, July 2009

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
· D-2009-098 Status of the Defense Emergency Response Fund in Support of the Global War on Terror
· D-2009-097 Data Migration Strategy and Information Assurance for the Business Enterprise Information Services
· D-2009-091 Information Operations Contracts in Iraq
· D-2009-030 Marine Corps Implementation of the Urgent Universal Needs Process for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles

Department of Homeland Security Office of Immigration Statistics
· An Exploratory Time Series Analysis of Apprehensions and Linewatch Hours on the Southwest Border

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA)
· Department of Homeland Security Complaint Tracking System (CTS)
· Department of Homeland Security National Dialogue for the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR)

DIALOGUE
· Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean: Their Impact on Local Economies and the Response of Local Governments

Energy Information Administration (EIA)
· Energy Market and Economic Impacts of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

FDD's Center for Terrorism Research
· A Guide to Terrorism Events and Landmark Cases: Terrorism in the West 2008

Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
· U.S. Foreign Policy Traditions and the Middle East
· The U.S. and Egypt Since the Suez Crisis
· What Students Need To Know About America’s Wars, Part 2— 1920–Present: A History Institute for Teachers

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
· America Competes Act: NIST Applied Some Safeguards in Obtaining Expert Services, but Additional Direction from Congress Is Needed, GAO-09-789
· Ballistic Missile Defense: Actions Needed to Improve Planning and Information on Construction and Support Costs for Proposed European Sites, GAO-09-771
· Biosafety Laboratories: BSL-4 Laboratories Improved Perimeter Security Despite Limited Action by CDC, GAO-09-851
· Defense Acquisitions: Additional Analysis Needed to Capture Cost Differences Between Conventional and Nuclear Propulsion for Navy's Future Cruiser, GAO-09-886R
· Federal Contracting: Application of OMB Guidance Can Improve Use of Award Fee Contracts, GAO-09-839T
· Hurricane Katrina: Barriers to Mental Health Services for Children Persist in Greater New Orleans, Although Federal Grants Are Helping to Address Them, GAO-09-935T [testimony]

Heritage Foundation
· Bill Clinton in Pyongyang: Bring American Reporters Home, Do Not Let Up on Nukes
· Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Authorization Bill: Conference Issues and Recommendations
· Foreign Aid: Congress Should Shift USAID Funds to the Millennium Challenge Account
· National Security Not a Good Argument for Global Warming Legislation
· Shiprider Program Demonstrates U.S.--Canadian Cooperation

Human Rights Watch
· Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse, and Impunity in the Indian Police
· Rockets from Gaza: Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups’ Rocket Attacks

IBM Center for the Business of Government
· Strategic Risk Management in Government: A Look at Homeland Security [with case example of port security]

Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)
· Strategic Forum no. 244 - Aligning Disarmament to Nuclear Dangers: Off to a Hasty START?
· Strategic Forum no. 243 - U.S.-Mexico Defense Relations: An Incompatible Interface

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
· Imagery Brief on Burma

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
· ISS Paper 192: Financial Disclosure Requirements in South Africa 2004–2008, Holding Elected Politicians Accountable
· ISS Paper 191: Africa and an Arms Trade Treaty
· Monograph No 163: Benin, Revue de la Justice Criminelle
· Monograph No 162: Mali Criminalité et Justice Criminelle
· Monograph No 161: The Theory and Practice of Criminal Justice in Africa
· Monograph No 160: Sierra Leone. A Country Review of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2008
· Monograph No 159: The Criminal Justice System in Zambia. Enhancing the Delivery of Security in Africa

Institute for the Study of War
· Déjà Vue All Over Again in Afghanistan?
· Major Enemy Groups in Afghanistan [map]
· Order of Battle, Coalition Combat Forces in Afghanistan, August 2009
· Order of Battle, Coalition Combat Forces in Iraq, August 2009

International Relations and Security Network
· F-22: Ruptured Raptor
· Moscow's Security Plans Face Reality Check
· Ukraine: The Rise of Yatsenyuk
· Web 3.0: Installing the Plumbing

International Council on Security and Development
· Afghanistan Elections: Guns and Money
· Kabul maps

Iran Tracker
· Unrest in Iran: Incident Statistics and Map for Protests, Arrests, and Deaths

Jamestown Foundation
· China Brief, v. 9, no. 16, August 5, 2009
*Hu Boosts Military Modernization at PLA Anniversary
*Xinjiang Crackdown and Changing Perceptions of China in the Islamic World?
*China's Russian Far East
*Strategic Implications of Chinese Fisheries Development
· Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 24, August 6, 2009
* Jihadis Ask How the Mujahideen Will Control an Islamic State of Iraq
*Local Militants Struggle with Taliban Government for Control of Pakistan's Khyber Agency
*What Next for the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group after Rebuff from the Libyan Regime?
*Imprisoned PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan Preparing a Roadmap to Peace in Turkey's Ethnic-Kurdish Insurgency

Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense
· Chem-Bio Defense Quarterly, Vol. 6 No. 3, July-September 2009

Lexington Institute
· Stopping C-17 Now Would Hobble Future Warfighters

Migration Policy Institute
· Aligning Temporary Immigration Visas with US Labor Market Needs: The Case for Provisional Visas

National Academies Press
· Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age
· Evaluation of Future Strategic and Energy Efficient Options for the U.S. Capitol Power Plant [free download but registration required]
· Global Security Engagement: A New Model for Cooperative Threat Reduction [free download but registration required]

RAND
· Improving Development and Utilization of U.S. Air Force Intelligence Officers
· Public Health Preparedness and Response to Chemical and Radiological Incidents: Functions, Practices, and Areas for Future Work
· A Question of Balance: Political Context and Military Aspects of the China-Taiwan Dispute
· A Strategic Approach to Joint Officer Management: Analysis and Modeling Results

Small Wars Journal
· The 800-Pound Gorilla: The Interrelationship of Culture, Economics, and Security in Afghanistan
· Going Tribal: Enlisting Afghanistan’s Tribes
· Organizing Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan

Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
· Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, July 2009

Stimson Center
· Defense Sector Reform: A Note on Current Practice
· National Security Strategies and Policies: A Note on Current Practice
· Threat Assessments and Reviews: A Note on Current Practice

Strategic Studies Institute
· The Role of Cuban Paramilitary Organizations (People's Militias) in the Post-Castro Era
· Taking Up the Security Challenge of Climate Change

UK House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee
· Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan

UK Parliament
· Allegations of UK Complicity in Torture
· Dual-use Dilemma
· The Iraq Inquiry
· Pandemic Influenza: Follow-up

US Institute of Peace
· Scenarios for Sudan: Avoiding Political Violence Through 2011

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
· 'Managed Democracy' Gives Way in Iraqi Kurdistan

White House
· Remarks by John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism – As Prepared for Delivery "A New Approach to Safeguarding Americans"

Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction - latest Qrtly report now available

the Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released its latest Quarterly Report to the United States Congress for July 2009 http://www.sigar.mil/reports/quarterlyreports/Jul09/pdf/Report_-_July_2009.pdf

Previous reports are also accessible.

Friday's Miscellany 07/31/2009

Amnesty International
• Nicaragua: The Total Abortion Ban in Nicaragua: Women’s Lives and Health Endangered, Medical Professionals Criminalized

Atlantic Council of the U.S
• U.S.-China Cooperation on Nuclear Power

Basic American Security Information Council (BASIC)
• Getting to Zero Update, July 28, 2009
• Iran Update, no. 136, July 30, 2009

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Confrontation or Collaboration?: Congress and the Intelligence Community

Brookings Institution
• African Growth and Opportunity Act: A Case of Vanishing Benefits
• Consequences of Alternative U.S. Cap-and-Trade Policies: Controlling Both Emissions and Costs
• How We're Doing: A Composite Index of Global and National Trends
• Minimizing Potential Threats from Iran: Assessing Sanctions and Other U.S. Policy Options
• The New Orleans Index Anniversary Edition: Four Years after Katrina

Business Executives for National Security (BENS)
• Getting to Best: Reforming the Defense Acquisition Enterprise

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• The Future of Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Development Challenge
• Morocco: The Emergence of a New Palace Party

CATO
• Fannie Med? Why a "Public Option" Is Hazardous to Your Health

Center for Contemporary Conflict (CCC)
• Strategic Insights, April 2009, v. 8, no. 2
• High Noon on the High Seas: A Proximity–Complexity Model of Maritime Piracy Threats by James E. McGinley and Jonathan P. Berliner
• Arms Control in the Obama Administration: Coming in from the Cold by Jeffrey A. Larsen
• Strategic Stability Reconsidered: Prospects for Escalation and Nuclear War in the Middle East by James A. Russell
• Medvedev Overplays the “Military Card” in Trying to Impress Obama by Dale Herspring and Roger N. McDermott
• A Critical Juncture: American Foreign Policy and Asymmetric Warfare by John Maszka
• Reducing Ideological Support for Terrorism by Paul Shemella
• Why Arab Summitry is Fizzling: Sub-Regional Geopolitics Meets the New Global Reality of Rising Powers and Fragile States by Mike Kraig
• Viewpoint: War in the Tribal Zone: Planning for Victory in the Long War by Barry Zellen
• Breakouts, Evasive Maneuvers: Managing the Proliferation Intentions of Determined States by Carol Kessler and Amy Seward
• The Future of Japanese Nuclear Policy by Maria Rost Rublee
• Turkish Perceptions and Nuclear Proliferation by Ibrahim Al-Marashi and Nilsu Goren
• Libya’s Nuclear Intentions: Ambition and Ambivalence by Maalfrid Braut-Hegghammer
• Illicit Nuclear Procurement Networks and Nuclear Proliferation: Challenges for Intelligence, Detection, and Interdiction by Jack Boureston and James A. Russell
• Possible Correlations of Multinational Military Operations and State Stability, and Application to State Building in Iraq by Nicholas J. Buls
• Decade of Nuclear Learning: Ten Years After the South Asian Nuclear Tests (Feb 12-13, 2009) by Zachary S. Davis
• U.S.-India Strategic Cooperation in South Asia: A Track II Dialogue (Sep 24-25, 2008) by Zachary S. Davis and Colleen E. Garcia

Center for American Progress
• Faces of Pakistan's Militant Leaders: In-Depth Profiles of Major Militant Commanders
• Interactive Map: Leaders of Pakistan's Militant Groups

Center for Immigration Studies
• A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population

Center for International Governance Innovation
• Security Sector Reform Monitor: Afghanistan [July 2009]

Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
• Cross Sector Collaboration in Homeland Security
• Global Alliances, Inequality and Vulnerability in Emergency Preparedness

Center for Security Policy
• Interim Guantanamo Legislative Report: House Volume
• Interim Guantanamo Legislative Report: Senate Volume

Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
• Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping The Path To Victory
• Iraq: A Time to Stay? The US Needs and Exit Strategy, Not Just an Exit
• Iraq’s Fracture Lines: Recidivism or Reassertion
• Korea Chair Platform: North Korea’s Hard-Line Behavior
• U.S. Alliances and Emerging Partnerships in Southeast Asia
*Addendum
• U.S.-Russia Collaboration on Health
• Winning in Afghanistan: Summary Remarks

Common Defense Quarterly
• Summer 2009
• Melting Borders: Economic and National Security Concerns Associated with Arctic Icemelt
• Supporting Maritime Interoperability for the Common Defense

Congress. House. Armed Services Committee
• Hearings
*Efforts to Improve Shipbuilding Effectiveness [July 30, 2009]
*U.S. Security Relationship with Russia and Its Impact on Transatlantic Security [July 30, 2009]
*Psychological Stress in the Military: What Steps are Leaders Taking? [July 29, 2009]
*Investing in Our Military Leaders: The Role of Professional Military Education in Officer Development [July 28, 2009]
*Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management [July 28, 2009]

Congress. House. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Ushering in Change: A New Era for U.S. Regional Policy in the Pacific
• New Challenges for International Peacekeeping Operations
• Sudan: U.S. Policy and Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
• The Reset Button Has Been Pushed: Kicking Off a New Era in U.S.-Russian Relations

Congress. House. Homeland Security Committee
• Beyond ISE Implementation: Exploring the Way Forward for Information Sharing
• Beyond Readiness: An Examination of the Current Status and Future Outlook of the National Response to Pandemic Influenza

Congress. House. Oversight and Government Reform Committee
• Inadvertent File Sharing Over Peer-To-Peer Networks: How It Endangers Citizens and Jeopardizes National Security

Congress. House. Science and Technology Committee
• Effectively Transforming Our Electric Delivery System to a Smart Grid

Congress. House. Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Post Katrina: What it Takes to Cut the Bureaucracy

Congress. Senate. Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee
• Weathering the Storm: The Need for a National Hurricane Initiative http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=b8f77570-efa7-4198-a86e-bf6bb3f9d88c

Congress. Senate. Foreign Affairs Committee
• Responding to Pakistan's IDP Crisis
• Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Sudan

Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee
• Prosecuting Terrorists: Civilian and Military Trials for GTMO and Beyond

Congress. Senate Intelligence Select Committee
• Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010. S.rpt 111-55

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Additional Information Regarding the Effects of Specifications in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act Pertaining to Health Insurance Coverage
• CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2009 Update

Department of Defense
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq – June 2009

Department of Homeland
• High-Priority Technology Needs

Department of Defense Inspector General (DODIG)
• D-2009-096 Contracts for the U.S. Army's Heavy-Lift VI Program in Kuwait
• SPO-2009-005 Assessment of Electrical Safety In Afghanistan
• IE-2009-006 Review of Electrocution Deaths in Iraq: Part I - Electrocution of Staff Sergeant Ryan D. Maseth, U.S. Army
• IPO-2009=E001 Review of Electrocution Deaths in Iraq: Part II - Seventeen Incidents Apart from Staff Sergeant Ryan D. Maseth, U.S. Army

Department of Homeland Security Inspector General
• OIG-09-13 - Annual Review of the United States Coast Guard's Mission Performance (FY 2007)
• OIG-09-90 - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' Progress in Modernizing Information Technology
• OIG-09-89 - Consolidated Report on DHS' Management of 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes Mission Assignment Funding
• OIG-09-88 - The Science and Technology Directorate's Processes for Funding Research and Development Program
• OIG-09-86 - Efforts to Identify Critical Infrastructure Assets and Systems

Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessments
• TSA Whole Body Imaging Update

Enough Project
• Chad's Domestic Crisis: The Achilles heel for Peacemaking in Darfur

Europe Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
• What Ambitions for European Defence in 2020?

Foreign Policy Research Institute
• Toward an Intelligence-based Nuclear Cooperation Regime

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Biological Research: Observations on DHS's Analyses Concerning Whether FMD Research Can Be Done as Safely on the Mainland as on Plum Island, GAO-09-747
• Combating Gangs: Better Coordination and Performance Measurement Would Help Clarify Roles of Federal Agencies and Strengthen Assessment of Efforts, GAO-09-708
• Contingency Contract Management: DOD Needs to Develop and Finalize Background Screening and Other Standards for Private Security Contractors, GAO-09-351
• Defense Acquisitions: Opportunities Exist to Achieve Greater Commonality and Efficiencies among Unmanned Aircraft Systems, GAO-09-520
• Defense Infrastructure: Planning Challenges Could Increase Risks for DOD in Providing Utility Services When Needed to Support the Military Buildup on Guam, GAO-09-653
• Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Efforts to Achieve Full Interoperability Are Ongoing; Program Office Management Needs Improvement, GAO-09-775
• Emergency Communications: Vulnerabilities Remain and Limited Collaboration and Monitoring Hamper Federal Efforts, GAO-09-604
• Energy Markets: Refinery Outages Can Have Varying Gasoline Price Impacts, but Gaps in Federal Data Limit Understanding of Impacts, GAO-09-700
• Federal Law Enforcement Retirement: Information on Enhanced Retirement Benefits for Law Enforcement Personnel, GAO-09-727
• Homeland Defense: Preliminary Observations on Defense Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management Plans and Preparedness, GAO-09-927T [testimony]
• Homeland Security: Federal Protective Service Should Improve Human Capital Planning and Better Communicate with Tenants, GAO-09-749
• Improper Payments: Significant Improvements Needed in DOD's Efforts to Address Improper Payment and Recovery Auditing Requirements, GAO-09-442
• Influenza Pandemic: Gaps in Pandemic Planning and Preparedness Need to Be Addressed, GAO-09-909T [testimony]
• Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Strengthen Investment Board Oversight of Poorly Planned and Performing Projects, GAO-09-566
• Project BioShield Act: HHS Has Supported Development, Procurement, and Emergency Use of Medical Countermeasures to Address Health Threats, GAO-09-878R
• Small Business Administration: Additional Steps Should Be Taken to Address Reforms to the Disaster Loan Program and Improve the Application Process for Future Disasters, GAO-09-755
• Small Business Administration: Additional Steps Should Be Taken to Address Reforms to the Disaster Loan Program and Improve the Application Process for Future Disasters, GAO-09-900T [testimony]
• Transportation Security: Key Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Mass Transit and Passenger Rail Security, but Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Federal Strategy and Programs, GAO-09-678
• United Nations: Renovation Still Scheduled for Completion in 2013, but Risks to Its Schedule and Cost Remain, GAO-09-870R
• U.S.-Russia Nuclear Agreement: Interagency Process Used to Develop the Classified Nuclear Proliferation Assessment Needs to Be Strengthened, GAO-09-743R
• Veterans' Disability Benefits: Preliminary Findings on Claims Processing Trends and Improvement Efforts, GAO-09-910T [testimony]
• Warfighter Support: Information on Army and Marine Corps Ground Combat Helmet Pads, GAO-09-768R

Heritage Foundation
• America's Military Voters: Re-enfranchising the Disenfranchised
• Honduras's Conservative Awakening
• Ideas Matter: Restoring the Content of Public Diplomacy
• Iran's Nuclear Threat: The Day After
• Joe Biden's Trip to Ukraine and Georgia
• Legal Authorities in the Long War
• The PERI Report on Clean Energy: The Wrong Question and a Misleading Result
• Priorities for Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's New Secretary General
• The Unlikely Orchid Smuggler: A Case Study in Overcriminalization

Human Rights Watch
• Forbidden: Institutionalizing Discrimination against Gays and Lesbians in Burundi

Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
• International and Regional Security Dynamics: Indian and Iranian Perspectives
• Tackling or Trailing the Taliban: An Assessment

International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR)
• Incredible Dialogues: Religious Dialogue as a Means of Counter-Terrorism in Yemen

International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament
• Hacking Nuclear Command and Control

International Relations and Security Network
• Iraqi Kurd Poll, Signs of Maturity
• Saudi Security Policy Under Fire
• Somalia’s New Religious War
• Swine Flu: Assessing the Pandemic

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Hope in a Time of Global Insecurity: Preparing for 2010. A Guide to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• ISS Paper 190: Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Criminality, Challenges to the (re) Establishment of Rule of Law in Liberia
• Situation Report: 27 Jul 2009: Ghana’s 2008 Election: Towards a Consolidated Democracy?
• Monograph No 158: A Strategic Conflict Assessment of Zambia
• Policy Brief No 7: The Theory and Practice of Criminal Justice in Africa
• Policy Brief No 6: Criminal Justice System in Zambia
• Policy Brief No 5: Criminal Justice System in Sierra Leone

Institute for the Study of War
• Kunar and Nuristan: Rethinking U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations
• The 2009 Kurdish Elections

International Crisis Group
• Bosnia: A Test of Political Maturity in Mostar
• Burundi: To Integrate the FNL Successfully
• Indonesia: The Hotel Bombings

Jamestown Foundation
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 22, July 27, 2009
*Hafiz Mohammad Saeed - India's Most Wanted Man Free Again in Pakistan
*Niger Delta Militants Mount First Ever Raid on Lagos Oil Facilities
*New Strategies in al-Qaeda's Battle for Algeria
*Islam-o-Muslim and the Resilience of Terrorism in Bangladesh
• Terrorism Monitor, v. 7, no. 23, July 30, 2009
*Britain Jails "Lone Wolf" Terrorist Isa Ibrahim
*Jihadis Offer Training in Evasion of Police and Security Forces
*Afghan Officials Say Security Forces Must Secure and Develop Helmand Province Offensive is to Succeed
*Jamaat al-Muslimeen: The Growth and Decline of Islamist Militancy in Trinidad and Tobago

Lexington Institute
• Air Force Delay on Radar Plane Fix Hurts Soldiers

National Academies Press
• Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience: Workshop Summary [free download but registration required]
• IED Attack: Improvised Explosive Devices

National Immigration Law Center
• A Broken System. Confidential Reports Reveal Failures in U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Seismic Design of Steel Special Moment Frames: A Guide for Practicing Engineers

Naval War College
• Somalia... From the Sea

New America Foundation
• Guantanamo: Who Really 'Returned to the Battlefield'? and Appendix

Open Democracy
• Afghanistan and Iraq: Western Wars, Genocidal Risks

Palm Center
• Self Inflicted Wound: How and Why Gays Give the White House a Free Pass on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Wireless Internet Use

Rand
• The Geopolitical Consequences of the World Economic Recession -- A Caution
• The Mujahedin-e Khalq in Iraq: A Policy Conundrum
• Withdrawing from Iraq: Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies

Refugees International
• Greater Expectations: UN Peacekeeping & Civilian Protection

Small Wars Journal
• Avoiding Dien Bien Phu
• Police Operational Art for a Five-Dimensional Operational Space
• Six Reasons Counterinsurgencies Lose: A Complementary Perspective
• Troubled Waters
• Why Civil Military Operations will be a Combat Multiplier in Counterinsurgency Operations

South Asia Analysis Group
• United States "Af-Pak Policy": Efficacy and Likely Directions in the Near Future

Truman National Security Project
• Nuclear Weapons: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century

UK Parliament
• Global Security: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan, Human Rights Unit
• Afghanistan: Mid Year Bulletin on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2009

US Institute of Peace (USIP)
• Interview with Dan Brumberg about Iran

Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Engagement or Consequences: Getting the Iran Message Right
• In Their Own Words: PKK Leaders on Peace, Dialogue, and the United States
• Muslim Engagement: The Obama Administration's Approach
• Persistent Anti-Americanism in Turkey: External or Internal Causes?
• Summer Heats Up in Lebanon

World Public Opinion.org
• Islamist Militancy in Pakistan: A View from the Provinces companion to Pakistani Public Turns Against Taliban, But Still Negative on US
• Publics Want More Government Action on Climate Change: Global Poll