Reeling in the Kurds
Empowering the Kurds to export their own oil could slow their preparations for independence without compromising the fight against ISIL.
Category: Security
Time for a New U.S.-Mexico Counter-Narcotics Strategy
The Peña Nieto administration needs to ditch the kingpin strategy and utilize the U.S. in a more instrumental capacity.
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Mexico Will Not Become Another Colombia
Paramilitarism in Mexico will not give rise to the same type of violence that Colombia experienced in the 1990s.
In Mexico, A Question of Vigilante Justice
President Peña Nieto must co-opt vigilante groups in order to establish a network of rural law enforcement.
Afghanistan’s Poppy Problem
If Afghan farmers are to have a chance of escaping the Taliban-controlled informal economy, the U.S. and its NATO allies must incorporate them into a legitimate supply chain.
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