Vanda Felbab-Brown

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

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

Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) are seen in Zumar, Nineveh province, Iraq October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - RC1E698CF530

Pitfalls of the paramilitary paradigm: The Iraqi state, geopolitics, and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2019

A U.S. Border and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official stands next a concrete K-rail with concertina wire at Cordova-Americas bridge to enhance security efforts in preparation for increasing number of migrants arriving at the border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RC1F2181F4D0

US-Mexico security cooperation 2018-2024

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

DATE IMPORTED: March 06, 2019 Police officers patrol a street after a blockade set by members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel to repel security forces during an anti-fuel theft operation in Santa Rosa de Lima, in Guanajuato state, Mexico, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

AMLO’s security policy: Creative ideas, tough reality

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

DATE IMPORTED: March 15, 2019. Soldiers keep watch near a crime scene where the bodies were left by unknown assailants, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Mexico’s out-of-control criminal market

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks on before a speech marking the first 100 days of his presidency at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido - RC183BA26AA0

The ills and cures of Mexico’s democracy

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, Khalifa Haftar, the military commander who dominates eastern Libya, and the participants of the International Conference on Libya listen to a verbal agreement between the various parties regarding the organization of a democratic election this year at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 29, 2018. Etienne Laurent/Pool via Reuters - RC150A52E560

Empowered decentralization: A city-based strategy for rebuilding Libya

John R. Allen, Hady Amr, Daniel L. Byman, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, Alice Friend, Jason Fritz, Adel Abdel Ghafar, Bruce Jones, Mara Karlin, Karim Mezran, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Landry Signé, Arturo Varvelli, Frederic Wehrey, and Tarik M. Yousef

Monday, February 11, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Brookings experts on Trump’s UNGA speech

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

DATE IMPORTED: September 23, 2012 A Ugandan soldier from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) watches as defected members of Islamist militant group al Shabaab walk after giving themselves up to the African Union AMISOM forces in Garsale, approximately 10km from the town of Jowhar, 80km north of Mogadishu, in this September 22, 2012 handout picture made available by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team on September 23, 2012. Islamist rebels said they shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Saturday and threatened to kill every legislator in the country. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force said, however, there were signs of deepening internal rifts within al Shabaab. More than 200 rebels defected near the town of Jowhar on Saturday, AMISOM said. REUTERS/AU-UN IST/Abukar Albadri/Handout (SOMALIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018