World Politics Review
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 00:00
If post-conflict Colombia features a politically aggressive, budgetarily bloated, judicially untouchable military, then it will be an example of an outcome to avoid.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 00:00
In the face of persistent violence in Mexico, citizens are increasingly forming vigilante groups they say are for self-defense.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 00:00
The goal of the new National Intelligence Center is to address the interagency coordination challenges that have plagued the Mexican intelligence apparatus
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 00:00
The oil industry pays $55 million per year for government security, according to the Colombian Oil Association. The government, however, has struggled to keep up with the number of oil companies
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 00:00
It remains to be seen what role civil society will have in the negotiations in the long term, and if land reform will suffer the same fate as the Victims' Law
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 00:00
Taking a step back, the case also revealed the need for sufficiently credible and effective multilateral mechanisms in the Americas to resolve such conflicts when they do develop.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 00:00
Colombian forces have been most active in playing an advisory role in Central America. But so far it seems Colombia’s role mostly revolves around training, not actually accompanying local security forces on operations
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 00:00
The oil sector's emergence signals an improved security environment, which may draw foreign investment into other sectors of the economy.
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 00:00
Colombia's new foreign policy, with strengthened trade and diplomatic ties with countries in Asia playing a central role, is not a result of Washington's failure to ratify the FTA.
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 00:00
It again demonstrates what happens when the president's rhetoric is not translated into action by the foreign policy bureaucracy.