Vanda Felbab-Brown

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By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2025

International security challenges and solutions for the road ahead

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Macaques seen inside the cages during on sale at animals market store in Medan, North Sumatra province, Indonesia on February 22, 2020. Topeng monyet or the monkey mask is a show using monkeys. In some regions of Indonesia this performance is no longer allowed because it is considered torture of animals. Photo by Sutanta Aditya/ABACAPRESS.COM

Preventing pandemics through biodiversity conservation and smart wildlife trade regulation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 25, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A militia group with no political affiliation from Michigan, including Joseph Morrison (3rd R), Paul Bellar (2nd R) and Pete Musico (R) who were charged for their involvement in a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, attack the state capitol building and incite violence, stand in front of the governor's office after protesters occupied the state capitol building during a vote to approve the extension of Whitmer's emergency declaration/stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lansing, Michigan, U.S. April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Seth Herald/File Photo SEARCH "AMERICA IN THE AGE OF TRUMP" FOR THE PHOTOS.

How to counter right-wing armed groups in the United States

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, January 21, 2021

People protest outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse over the decision to drop drug charges against Mexico's former defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., November 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

The US-Mexico security relationship in 2021

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

A NATO solider (L) speaks on radio at the site of a car bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan August 22, 2015. A car bomb outside a Kabul hospital killed at least 10 people and caused widespread casualties among Afghan civilians, although it appeared to have targeted a vehicle carrying foreign citizens, witnesses and security sources said. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

In Afghanistan, different priorities means vastly different policies

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, January 15, 2021

A member of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fires a weapon on a pickup truck during a battle with Islamic State militants in Giza Bahreya, in Sirte, Libya October 27, 2016. REUTERS/Hani Amara

The key trends to watch this year on nonstate armed actors

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, January 15, 2021

A U.S. soldier assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Armored Division watches as a UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter prepares to land during an advise and assistance mission in southeastern Afghanistan, August 4, 2019. Picture taken on August 4, 2019. Courtesy Alejandro Licea/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

US policy toward Afghanistan: Consider the trade-offs, including with other policy areas

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Around the halls: How leaders and publics around the world are reacting to events at the Capitol

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Marsin Alshamary, Célia Belin, Charles T. Call, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Lindsey W. Ford, Ryan Hass, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, January 8, 2021

California, United States.- In the photo taken on December 31, 2020, a health worker prepares to extract a dose of the vaccine. A nurse tested positive for coronavirus in the United States days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The 45-year-old man works in the emergency services of a hospital in the Californian city of San Diego and was vaccinated on December 18. The experts assured that this is not "something unexpected".

How to increase vaccination and mask-wearing to defeat COVID-19

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Michael Sinclair

Tuesday, January 5, 2021