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August 5, 2024

Mexico
Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels

Violence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war against drug cartels.

A soldier stands guard as over 850 kilos of drugs are burned in Monterrey, Mexico.

September 16, 2024

United States
C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard, White House National Economic Advisor, shares an updated assessment of the U.S. recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world’s foremost econom…

Play Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard speaks on stage foregrounding the U.S. flag.

October 14, 2016

Wars and Conflict
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Violent Kleptocracies, Ethiopia’s Unrest

Fighting the Worst Kleptocracies Worse than kleptocracies are violent kleptocracies, as defined in a new report by advocacy group The Enough Project. In these, leaders run the state as a predatory …

Demonstrators chant slogans while flashing the Oromo protest gesture during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival of the Oromo people, in Bishoftu town, Oromia region, Ethiopia, October 2, 2016 (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri).

March 4, 2015

Global
Reflections on the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism

Farah Pandith, CFR’s adjunct senior fellow, discusses policy formulations resulting from the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conferenc…

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February 27, 2014

Thailand
Thailand Headed for a Violent Ending

Clashes in Thailand between anti-government protestors and security forces have intensified. This past weekend, unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets at anti-government protestors in eastern Thailand a…

Thayakorn Yosubon, the father of a pair of siblings killed in Sunday's bomb blast near an anti-government protest site, mourns as he hold a photograph of his children during their funeral at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok on February 24, 2014. (Athit Perawongmetha/Courtesy Reuters)

October 24, 2016

Cybersecurity
When Naming Cyber Threat Actors Does More Harm Than Good

Max Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and cyber research affiliate at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Cybersecurity firms, despite their increasing promine…

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