Research and Commentary

Coca and Insecurity in Nariño, Colombia

February 22, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Illegal Economies and Smuggling in Colombia

February 22, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Reducing Urban Violence: Lessons from Medellín, Colombia

February 14, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Building Resilience Against Organized Crime

February 10, 2011, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Illicit Economies and Instability

November/December 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

West African Drug Trade in the Context of Illicit Economies and Poor Governance

October 14, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Stemming the Violence in Mexico, but Breaking the Cartels

September 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Pushing Up Poppies in Pakistan

September 27, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Marijuana Legalization in Mexico

September 23, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Web Chat: Mexico's Drug Wars

September 8, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

@ Brookings Podcast: Mexico's Cartel Violence Escalates

August 27, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

• Video
• Audio

The Effect of International Counternarcotics Policies

July 21, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Kabul and International Partners: Still Struggling over the Basic Design

July 20, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Colombian Coca Cultivation

July 7, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

After the Presidential Elections: The Challenges Ahead in Colombia

July 6, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Rules and Regulations in Ungoverned Spaces: Illicit Economies, Criminals and Belligerents

June 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Stepping Away from Poppy Eradication in Afghanistan

May 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Conceptualizing Crime as Competition in State-Making and Designing an Effective Response

May 21, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Drug-Conflict Nexus in South Asia: Beyond Taliban Profits and Afghanistan

May 20, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Narcotics International, Inc.: How Drug Cartels in Mexico and Elsewhere Undermine Governance

May 17, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Around the Halls: Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s Visit to the United States

May 14, 2010, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Andrés Rozental and José Tessada

The Connection Between Drugs and War

May 14, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

May 13, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Obama and Karzai Meet in Washington

May 12, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown

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The Design and Resourcing of Supply-Side Counternarcotics Policies

April 14, 2010, Vanda Felbab-Brown