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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

The Illegal Trade in Wildlife in Southeast Asia and Its Links to East Asian Markets

April 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Jagged Edge: Illegal Logging in Southeast Asia

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

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

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

January 17, 2013

Nepal, on the Brink of Collapse

June 5, 2012, Seyom Brown and Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

May 10, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Afghanistan Challenge: A Government that Serves the Afghan People

February 15, 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

Combating Transnational Organized Crime in East Asia: Trafficking in Humans, Money, and Illicit Materials

June 30, 2011

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The Disappearing Act: The Illicit Trade in Wildlife in Asia

June 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 Illegal Logging Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region

March 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Pushing Up Poppies in Pakistan

September 27, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Effect of International Counternarcotics Policies

July 21, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Kabul and International Partners: Still Struggling over the Basic Design

July 20, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown