Impact of Diaspora Communities on National and Global Politics: Annotated Bibliography Based on Survey of the Literature

“The Strategic Assessments Group (SAG) tasked us to survey the literature for information dealing with various aspects of Diasporas and their behavior as part of the Impact of Diaspora Communities on National and Global Politics Project.”--Executive Summary from the Impact of Diaspora Communities on National Global Politics: on Survey of the Literature

The Future of Intelligence Analysis, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography: Publications on Intelligence Analysis and Reform

“This study contains the findings and recommendations of the Future of Intelligence Analysis Project, an eighteen-month effort that explored what must be done to provide the US government with an effective intelligence analysis capability in the future.”—Executive Summary in Vol. 1

Future Ideological Challenges: Fault Lines, Movements, and Competing Models (Annotated Bibliography Based on Survey of the Literature)

“The Strategic Assessments Group tasked CISSM to survey the literature for information dealing with nascent or future idea-based themes, fault lines, and challenges as part of the Future Ideological Challenges research effort.”—Executive Summary from Future Ideological Challenges: Fault Lines, Movements, and Competing Models (Report on Survey of the Literature)

Impact of Diaspora Communities on National and Global Politics: Report on Survey of the Literature

“The Strategic Assessments Group (SAG) tasked us to survey the literature for information dealing with various aspects of Diasporas and their behavior as part of the Impact of Diaspora Communities on National and Global Politics Project.”--Executive Summar

Future Ideological Challenges: Fault Lines, Movements, and Competing Models (Report on Survey of the Literature)

“The Strategic Assessments Group tasked CISSM to survey the literature for information dealing with nascent or future idea-based themes, fault lines, and challenges as part of the Future Ideological Challenges research effort.”—Executive Summar

The Future of Intelligence Analysis, Volume I

Final Repor

Interdicting Drugs in the Big Pond

More success in drug busts--here, 43 tons of hashish and 13 tons of marijuana are taken off the Intrepid Venture in San Francisco Bay--just means that maritime interdiction forces must refine intelligence gathering and develop more effective random-search methods, to counter ever-changing smuggling techniques

Anchoring American Foreign Policy in the Absence of a Clear and Present Danger

The dissertation was motivated by the belief that American policy makers need to consider trends in the relative power of states to a greater degree than is currently the practice at times when significant threats to national security are present