Vanda Felbab Brown: 4 books
Aspiration and Ambivalence
Strategies and Realities of Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
After more than a decade of great effort and sacrifice by America and its allies, the Taliban still has not been defeated, and many Afghans believe that a civil war is coming. Aspiration and Ambivalence analyzes the U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan and offers detailed recommendations...
The Wall
The Real Costs of a Barrier between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
In her Brookings Essay, The Wall, Brookings Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the true costs of building a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, including (but not limited to) the estimated $12 to $21.6 billion price tag of construction. Felbab-Brown explains the importance of the United States’...
The Extinction Market
Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The planet is currently experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species than just the iconic elephants, rhinos, and tigers, the rate...
Militants, Criminals, and Warlords
The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Conventional political theory holds that the sovereign state is the legitimate source of order and provider of public services in any society, whether democratic or not. But Hezbollah and ISIS in the Middle East, pirate clans in Africa, criminal gangs in South America, and militias in Southeast Asia...