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

January 17, 2013

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

Nepal, on the Brink of Collapse

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

Colombia’s Elections and Consolidation: Moving Beyond FARC and the Paramilitaries?

October 21, 2011

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Implications of the Assassinations of Prominent Politicians in Afghanistan

July 22, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

What Next for Afghanistan? A Post-Election Analysis

October 18, 2010

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Web Chat: Mexico's Drug Wars

September 8, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Effect of International Counternarcotics Policies

July 21, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

After the Presidential Elections: The Challenges Ahead in Colombia

July 6, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Obama Administration's New Strategy to Fight Illegal Drug Use

May 13, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

How to Win Mexico's Drug War

March 27, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Afghanistan's Elections and Accountable Governance

August 19, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The 2009 Afghanistan Elections and the Future of Governance

August 13, 2009, Vanda Felbab-Brown

President Obama at 100 Days

April 30, 2009

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