Vanda Felbab-Brown

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Narco Noir

By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2021

Proxies and militias: Internal stability and geopolitics in Iraq, Somalia, and Nigeria

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Soldiers stand outside a safe house, where five people were shot dead during an operation on Friday to recapture the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, January 9, 2016. Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Mexico needs better law enforcement, but the solution isn’t opportunistic decapitation

Vanda Felbab-Brown

February 14, 2020

Undated handout picture of U.S., Taliban and Qatar officials during a meeting for peace talks in Doha, Qatar. Qatari Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

After the US-Taliban deal, what might negotiations between the Taliban and Afghan side look like?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Feb 4, 2020; Washington, DC, USA; President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address from the House chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY

Brookings experts react to Trump’s third State of the Union

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Iraqi people gather during a funeral procession for militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed by U.S. air strike at Baghdad airport, in Basra, Iraq, January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Essam al-Sudani

Stuck in the middle: Iraq and the enduring conflict between United States and Iran

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, announces opioid response grants to state governments in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott

What the US and Canada can learn from other countries to combat the opioid crisis

Keith Humphreys, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, January 13, 2020

Soldiers of the Colombian National Army destroy coca plants during an eradication operation at a plantation in Taraza, Antioquia province, Colombia September 10, 2019. Picture taken September 10. 2019. REUTERS/Luis Jaime Acosta - RC1D4B04F620

Detoxifying Colombia’s drug policy

Vanda Felbab-Brown

January 2020

America’s longest war: The state of affairs in Afghanistan

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

AMLO’s first year: Mexico’s political, economic, and security trends

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST