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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

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 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

Washington vs. Washington (and Colorado): Who Should Decide About Marijuana?

January 8, 2013

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The Connecticut Shootings: Now is the Time for a Debate over Gun Control

December 14, 2012, Darrell M. West

Transnational Organized Crime: Whither Antidrug Policy?

Fall/Winter 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Political Violence and the Illicit Economies of West Africa

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

Is the Immigration of Korean Sex Workers to the United States Sex Trafficking or Migrant Smuggling?

October 2012, Chang-Ryung Han

What Legacy Does Felipe Calderón Leave in Mexico?

October 31, 2012, Andrés Rozental

Legal Marijuana? New Domestic and International Initiatives Challenge the Status Quo

October 3, 2012

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Simply putting more police on the streets might be one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce crime.

October 3, 2012, Jens Ludwig, USA Today

Would Another Peace Accord Help Central America?

August 27, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Solving the Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime Problem Without Greater Violence

August 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown

It doesn't look like the Colorado shootings will galvanize the gun control issue. The National Rifle Association has a solid lock on the gun issue and effectively is preventing any serious discussion of gun violence. Americans don't like to connect our gun policies on assault weapons with violent crime and it doesn't look like that is going to change any time soon.

August 1, 2012, Darrell M. West, Xinhua

Aurora and the U.S. Obsession with Guns: Leadership Wanted to Fight Political Capture

July 23, 2012, Daniel Kaufmann

Already the [Mexican] government is taking flak for letting less violent and ostentatious criminal groups off the hook. It will be an even more sensitive issue for Pena Nieto because he has all the PRI baggage of negotiated deals.

July 3, 2012, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bloomberg

A Bill that Cracks Down on Russian Corruption

June 6, 2012, Robert Kagan and David J. Kramer

The "Oceans 11" of Cyber Strikes

May 2012, Peter W. Singer