Honduras Gone Wrong
How Playing Tegucigalpa as a Proxy is Undercutting U.S. Influence October 16, 2012 Dana Frank Summary: Since the June 2009 military coup, violence and human rights abuses have spiked in Honduras. In...
View ArticleGetting to Yes With Iran
The Challenges of Coercive Diplomacy December 3, 2012 Robert Jervis Summary: Halting Iran's progress toward a bomb will require the United States to make credible promises and credible threats...
View ArticleOur Man in Havana
The Imprisonment of Alan Gross and the U.S. Effort to Bring Him Home December 21, 2012 R. M. Schneiderman Summary: On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama often said that he wanted a new beginning with...
View ArticleThe Castros' Captive
Why Appeasing Havana Won't Free Alan Gross February 11, 2013 Frank Calzon Summary: In a recent article, R.M. Schneiderman suggested that U.S. pro-democracy programs were responsible for prolonging the...
View ArticleLand for Peace in Colombia
The Key to Ending Bogotá’s War With the FARC April 15, 2013 Oliver Kaplan and Michael Albertus Summary: Even as Colombian troops fight FARC rebels in the jungle, the two sides are busy negotiating a...
View ArticleCuba After Communism
The Economic Reforms That Are Transforming the Island June 11, 2013 Julia E. Sweig and Michael J. Bustamante Summary: Cuba has entered a new era of economic reform that defies easy comparison to...
View ArticleHopeless in Honduras?
The Election and the Future of Tegucigalpa November 22, 2013 Dana Frank Summary: It was hoped that the Honduran elections on November 24 would offer a way out of the political and economic decline...
View ArticleFrontier Justice
How to Manage Mexico's Self-Defense Forces March 11, 2014 Patricio Asfura-Heim and Ralph H. Espach Summary: In order to maximize the benefits and avoid the pitfalls associated with bringing vigilantes...
View ArticleHaiti Strikes Back
By Taking the UN to Court, the Country Might Save Itself May 13, 2014 Fran Quigley Summary: A deadly 2010 outbreak of cholera in Haiti was quickly traced to a UN camp, but the UN has been slow to take...
View ArticlePope Francis' Latin Lessons
How Latin America Shaped the Vatican May 14, 2014 Omar G. Encarnación Summary: It was hoped that Pope Francis would revive the Catholic Church in Latin America, but it is increasingly clear that his...
View ArticleDeadly Deportations
How Obama's Immigration Policies Break the Law November 5, 2014 Lauren Carasik Summary: If a decrease in border crossings is the metric upon which Obama's response to this summer's immigration crisis...
View ArticleCuban Comrades
The Truth About Washington and Havana's New Detente December 21, 2014 Michael J. Bustamante Summary: The agreement reached between the Obama administration and the Cuban government is by any measure...
View ArticleThe Cuban Knot
The Vatican's Strategy in Havana December 30, 2014 Victor Gaetan Summary: The United States and Cuba could not have restored diplomatic ties without the Catholic Church. But the church could be the...
View ArticleHavana Calling
Easing the Embargo Will Open the Cuban Telecom Sector February 17, 2015 Jose W. Fernandez and Eric Lorber Summary: Easing the U.S. embargo on Cuba will provide companies with immediate economic...
View ArticleCreole Crisis
Preventing Civil War in Haiti March 3, 2015 Hervé Rakoto Razafimbahiny Summary: Haiti is at risk of returning to a dangerous cycle of coups and conflict unless the country and the international...
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