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Vanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is the author of Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs (Brookings Institution Press, 2009).



Expertise

Drugs and other illicit economies; counternarcotics policies; insurgency; civil war; terrorism; conflict management; stability operations and reconstruction; positive versus coercive inducement strategies; Latin America; Afghanistan; Colombia; Burma/Myanmar; Peru; Somalia U.S. foreign policy

  • Language Fluency:
  • French
  • Czech

Background

Past Positions
Assistant Professor, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2007-08); Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University (2005-06); Research Associate, Seminar XXI (2004-05); Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, MIT (Spring 2004); Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, MIT (2001-03); Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2000)

Education

Ph.D., MIT, 2007; B.A., Harvard University, 1999

"There has not been one single case in which an insurgency has been defeated by economic means -- and this includes drugs. It has never worked anywhere."


Participating in These Upcoming Events

Save to My PortfolioCampaign 2012: Afghanistan and Pakistan PolicyFebruary 15, 2012The Brookings Institution

Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioNo Stairway to Heaven: Rescuing Slums in Latin AmericaFebruary 02, 2012Brookings Up Front Blog
Save to My PortfolioConfronting Organized Crime and Urban Violence in Latin AmericaDecember 05, 2011The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioWar and Drugs in AfghanistanOctober 25, 2011World Politics Review
Save to My PortfolioNarcoterrorism and the Long Reach of U.S. Law EnforcementOctober 12, 2011U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade
Save to My PortfolioIt Is Time to Pass the Free Trade Agreement with ColombiaOctober 11, 2011Brookings Up Front Blog
Save to My PortfolioHuman Security and Crime in Latin AmericaSeptember 2011Western Hemisphere Security Analysis Center at Florida International University and USSOUTHCOM
Save to My PortfolioLaw Enforcement Actions in Urban Spaces: Lessons from Latin AmericaSeptember 2011Western Hemisphere Security Analysis Center at Florida International University and USSOUTHCOM
Save to My PortfolioUsing Cost-Benefit Analysis to Develop Counternarcotics PolicySeptember 2011International Journal of Drug Policy
Save to My PortfolioAfghanistan Ten Years after 9/11September 06, 2011The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioIs Drug Trafficking on the Rise in Bolivia's Santa Cruz Region?August 11, 2011Latin America Advisor, Inter-American Dialogue
Save to My PortfolioObama's Plan and the Future of AfghanistanJune 23, 2011Brookings Up Front Blog
Save to My PortfolioThe War on Terror After Osama bin Laden: A Limited Demoralizing Effect May 02, 2011The New York Times (Room for Debate blog)
Save to My PortfolioThe Taliban Jailbreak and Afghanistan's FutureApril 26, 2011The New York Times (Room for Debate blog)
Save to My PortfolioA Shared Responsibility: Counternarcotics and Citizens' Security in the AmericasMarch 31, 2011Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs
Save to My PortfolioPresident Obama's Visit to a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil FavelaMarch 17, 2011The Brookings Institution

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Contact Information

vfelbabbrown@brookings.edu

202.797.6105
Brookings Office of Communications

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