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Crime–War Battlefields

June 6, 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

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

January 17, 2013

Afghanistan Trip Report VI: Counternarcotics Policy in Afghanistan: A Good Strategy Poorly Implemented

May 10, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Why Eradication Won’t Solve Afghanistan’s Poppy Problem

January 3, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

War and Drugs in Afghanistan

October 25, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Narcoterrorism and the Long Reach of U.S. Law Enforcement

October 12, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Using Cost-Benefit Analysis to Develop Counternarcotics Policy

September 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Obama's Plan and the Future of Afghanistan

June 23, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Counterinsurgents in the Poppy Fields: Drugs, Wars and Crime in Afghanistan

June 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Effect of International Counternarcotics Policies

July 21, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Stepping Away from Poppy Eradication in Afghanistan

May 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Drug-Conflict Nexus in South Asia: Beyond Taliban Profits and Afghanistan

May 20, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Connection Between Drugs and War

May 14, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Design and Resourcing of Supply-Side Counternarcotics Policies

April 14, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs

January 25, 2010

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Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan

December 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

U.S. Options in Afghanistan and the Karzai Brothers

November 2, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Narco-belligerents Across the Globe: Lessons from Colombia for Afghanistan?

October 28, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan

October 21, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Reducing Demand for Poppy Inside and Outside Afghanistan

September 25, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Obama Administration’s New Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan

September 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Fending Off Failure in Afghanistan: The Opium Factor

September 21, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

UN Says Afghan Opium Production Down

September 2, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown