Browse Research and Commentary

Despite Its Siren Song, High-Value Targeting Doesn’t Fit All: Matching Interdiction Patterns to Specific Narcoterrorism and Organized-Crime Contexts

October 1, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

A State-building Approach to the Drug Trade Problem

July 18, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Crime–War Battlefields

June 6, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

How Will the OAS Report Affect the Drug-Policy Debate?

May 31, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

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

February 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Has the U.S. "Militarized the Battle" Against Illegal Drugs?

February 26, 2013, Andrés Rozental

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

February 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

Transnational Organized Crime: Whither Antidrug Policy?

Fall/Winter 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Where Is the Drug Policy Debate Headed Next?

November 16, 2012, Andrés Rozental

What Legacy Does Felipe Calderón Leave in Mexico?

October 31, 2012, Andrés Rozental

Solving the Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Problem Without Greater Violence

August 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

May 10, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

There have been many, often credible allegations of the complicity of Venezuelan officials in the drug trade. Areas bordering Colombia are a major springboard for the cocaine trade onward, and the Venezuelan military is widely believed to be taking a cut on the trade, with complicity reaching high levels of the government.

April 28, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

A Better Strategy to Combat Organized Crime in Mexico and Central America

April 13, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown and Eric Olson

Vice President Biden’s Visit to Mexico and Honduras

March 7, 2012, Diana Villiers Negroponte

Lessons on Crime Reduction from Colombia for Mexico?

February 24, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Asia, International Drug Trafficking, and U.S.-China Counternarcotics Cooperation

February 2012, Yong-an Zhang

Why Eradication Won’t Solve Afghanistan’s Poppy Problem

January 3, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Confronting Organized Crime and Urban Violence in Latin America

December 5, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Using the Colombia Model in Afghanistan

October 28, 2011, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Paul Wolfowitz