Reports Monitor # 2009-05

AFGHANISTAN
– Reconciling With the Taliban?: Toward an Alternative Grand Strategy in Afghanistan (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
– State Building and Stabilisation in Afghanistan: Design Constraints to Effectiveness (Institute of South Asian Studies)

BRAZIL
– Brazil in the Global Economy: Measuring the Gains From Trade (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

CHAD
– Tchad: la poudrière de l’Est (International Crisis Group)

CHINA
– China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy (US Congressional Research Service)
– China’s Growing Role in UN Peacekeeping (International Crisis Group)

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
– The Securitisation of Islam in Europe (Center for European Policy Studies)

CYPRUS
– A People’s Peace in Cyprus: Testing Public Opinion on the Options for a Comprehensive Settlement (Center for European Policy Studies)

DEFENSE
– Tactics in Counterinsurgency, U.S. Army Field Manual, updated (US Department of Defense)
– Prologue: Future Warfare through the Lens of Contemporary Conflicts (Center for a New American Security)

DRC
– Le Kivu, charnière entre l’Atlantique et l’océan Indien (Institut français des relations internationales)

ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
– Assessing Treasury’s Strategy: Six Month of Troubled Assets Relief Program (US Congress)
– The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications (US Congressional Research Service)
– Banking Crisis: The impact of the failure of the Icelandic banks (UK House of Commons)
– Lessons of the Financial Crisis (Council on Foreign Relations)
– Global Economic Prospects 2009 (World Bank)
– Factbook 2009: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics (OECD)

ENERGY
– Le gaz algérien en passe de changer de religion (Institut français des relations internationales)

EUROPEAN UNION
– La coordination des politiques économiques en Europe (France, Sénat)

INDIA
– Indian General Election 2009 – Geographical Influence of Regional Parties and Electoral Outlook (Institute of South Asian Studies)

INTELLIGENCE
– The National Intelligence Council: Issues and Options for Congress (US Congressional Research Service)

IRAQ
– Land, Property, and the Challenge of Return for Iraq’s Displaced (US Institute of Peace)
– Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction)

JAPAN
– Japon, l’archipel des paradoxes : pour un partenariat renouvelé (France, Sénat)

KOREA
– Pursuing a Comprehensive Vision for the U.S.-South Korea Alliance (Center for Strategic and International Studies)

LEBANON
– Lebanon: the Swing State of a New Levant (Aspen Institute)

MEXICO
– Types of Firearms and Methods of Gun Trafficking from the United States to Mexico as Revealed in U.S. Court Documents (Violence Policy Center)

MIDDLE-EAST
– The Kurds in Syria: Fueling Separatist Movements in the Region? (US Institute of Peace)

NATO
– NATO and the South Caucasus (Center for Security Studies)

PROPAGANDA
– U.S. Public Diplomacy: Time to Get Back in the Game (US Congress)

TURKEY
– Turkey and Armenia: Opening Minds, Opening Borders (International Crisis Group)

UNITED STATES
– Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment (US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Intelligence and Analysis)

WATER
– The 3rd United Nations World Water Development Report: Water in a Changing World [29 Mo]