Browse Research and Commentary

President Obama’s Visit to Mexico: Key Anti-Crime Issues

April 26, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Counterinsurgency, Counternarcotics, and Illicit Economies in Afghanistan: Lessons for State-Building

April 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Still Knee-Deep In Poppy: The Evolution of Counter-Narcotics Policies in Afghanistan

March 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Indonesia Field Report IV: Wildlife Trafficking, Illegal Fishing, and Lessons from Anti-Piracy Efforts

March 26, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Brookings Launches the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence (21CSI)

March 12, 2013

Focused Deterrence, Selective Targeting, Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime: Concepts and Practicalities

February 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Peña Nieto’s Piñata: The Promise and Pitfalls of Mexico’s New Security Policy against Organized Crime

February 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Governance, Rule of Law and Natural Resources in Indonesia and Lessons for Burma’s Transformation

February 7, 2013

• Audio
• Transcript

Indonesia Field Report III – The Orangutan’s Road: Illegal Logging and Mining in Indonesia

February 7, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Indonesia Field Report II – Bali High, Rainforest Low: The Illicit Drug Trade in Indonesia

February 6, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Indonesia Field Report I - Crime as a Mirror of Politics: Urban Gangs in Indonesia

February 6, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

President Barack Obama’s Second Term: Big Bets and Black Swans

January 17, 2013

• Video
• Audio
• Transcript

Chaos in Kabul

January 17, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term

January 17, 2013

Karzai Visit a Time for Tough Talk on Security, Corruption

January 8, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Afghanistan: Endgame or Persisting Challenge with Continuing Stakes?

December 11, 2012

• Audio
• Transcript

@ Brookings Podcast: Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan after 2014

December 10, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

• Video

Transnational Organized Crime: Whither Antidrug Policy?

Fall/Winter 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Aspiration and Ambivalence

Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan

2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

• Video

Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa

November 15, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown and James J.F. Forest

Slip-Sliding on a Yellow Brick Road: Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan

October/November 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Challenges and Opportunities of a Post-2014 Afghanistan

September 19, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Would Another Peace Accord Help Central America?

August 27, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Afghan National Security Forces: Afghan Corruption and the Development of an Effective Fighting Force

August 2, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Solving the Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Problem Without Greater Violence

August 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown