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

Legislative Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

September 26, 2013, Benjamin Wittes

The Success Story in Colombia

September 24, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and David Petraeus

Bo Xilai's Smile

September 24, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Massacre in Nairobi: Kenya Under Siege as al-Shabab Consolidates

September 23, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Syrian Crisis: Massive Displacement, Dire Needs and a Shortage of Solutions

September 18, 2013, Elizabeth Ferris, Kemal Kirişci and Salman Shaikh

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A Tiger Hunt in China's Oil Patch

September 13, 2013, Erica S. Downs

The DOJ Attempt to Block School Vouchers in Louisiana Undermines Civil Rights

September 11, 2013, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst

Will Less Incarceration Mean More Social Mobility?

September 5, 2013, Kim Howard and Richard V. Reeves

The Recent Economic Exuberance Cycle in Latin America: A Short-Lived Mirage or Deeply Rooted Transformation?

September 4, 2013, Ernesto Talvi

Liberal Democracies’ Divergent Interpretations of the Right of Return: Implications for Free Movement

September 2013, Megan Bradley

Much of What We Think about Privacy, Liberty, Security and Threat is Wrong

August 30, 2013, Benjamin Wittes and Fred Dews

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Corruption Trial Begins for China's Bo Xilai

August 24, 2013, Cheng Li

Pakistan, Taliban and the Afghan Quagmire

August 24, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Why Bo Xilai’s Trial is About China, Not Bo Xilai

August 23, 2013, Cheng Li

Analysis of the Bo Xilai Trial in China

August 23, 2013, Cheng Li

Bo Xilai's Poisonous Legacy in China

August 22, 2013, Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen

Australia's Inefficient Coalition Asylum Policy Will Flood the Courts

August 16, 2013, Jane McAdam and Ben Saul, Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Obama Press Conference Hits NSA Surveillance, Putin, Russia, Embassy Closures, Health Care, Immigration

August 9, 2013, Fred Dews

Shelby County v. Holder and the Future of the Voting Rights Act

August 9, 2013, Nathaniel Persily and Thomas E. Mann

John Roberts Appoints Judges to More Than the FISA Court

August 8, 2013, Russell Wheeler

Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?

August 2, 2013, John Villasenor

Institutional Failure in Surveillance Policymaking: Deliberating the Patriot Act

July 29, 2013, William Bendix and Paul J. Quirk

Afghan Election Will Be a Bellwether

July 25, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown and Ronald E. Neumann

What Is the "Responsibility to Protect"?

July 24, 2013, Fred Dews