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April 24, 2024

Mexico
Organized crime fuels Mexico’s election violence, plus Europe’s Southern Cone cocaine pipeline

Organized crime’s hold on local governments fuels record election violence; Europe’s cocaine pipeline shifting to the Southern Cone.

The Customs and Port Administration building in Montevideo, Uruguay, on January 3, 2024.

March 23, 2021

Democracy
Democracy Tested: Democratic Backsliding in Europe, With Ivan Krastev

In this special series of The President’s Inbox on the future of democracy, James M. Lindsay speaks with experts to discuss whether and where democratic governance is faltering around the world. This…

Podcast A woman holds a Polish Constitution during a protest in favour of European Commission move urging EU leaders to press forward with disciplinary action against Poland for allegedly violating rule-of-law standards in front of the Courts in Krakow.

October 20, 2011

United States
Libya and the International Community After Qaddafi

A staff member of the Libyan embassy steps on a portrait of Muammar Qaddafi in front of the embassy building in Sofia July 25, 2011 (Stoyan Nenov/Courtesy Reuters). CFR.org just posted a short video…

Libya and the International Community After Qaddafi

June 17, 2011

Economics
How Mexico Can Win Drug War, Colombia’s Way

A girl stands in front of a mural as she waits for Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia for the inauguration of a public library in a suburb of Medellin (Jose Gomez/Courtesy Reuters). I wrote th…

A girl stands in front of a mural as she waits for Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia for the inauguration of a public library in a suburb of Medellin (Jose Gomez/Courtesy Reuters).

November 22, 2013

United States
Weekend Reading: Shubra Happenings, Lebanon’s Bombs, and America’s “Power Outage”

Sofia Fenner and Mohammed Talaat explore how Morsi’s ouster is changing Shubra. Thanassis Cambanis isn’t too worried about Lebanon. Martin Kramer hopes for the perpetuation of American power, but p…

Palestinians sit on the beach in Gaza City.