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Obama’s New Cuba Policy: Catching up to Latin America By Erika de la Garza, Program Director, Latin America Initiative
When it comes to Cuba, the United States is finally catching…
December 19, 2014
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Increased Funding and Health Care Reform Are Key to Drug Treatment Accessibility
By Scott R. Maggard
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and…
December 18, 2014
Normalizing U.S.-Cuban Relations: Long Overdue
The United States and Cuba, it seems, are poised to resume diplomatic relations severed in 1961. Fellow Joe Barnes explains why normalization of relations between the two countries is simple "good sense."
Read "Normalizing U.S.-Cuban relations: Long overdue" in the Dec. 18, 2014, Baker Institute Blog.
Joe Barnes December 18, 2014
Spending on Treatment to Save on Incarceration
By Hadar Aviram
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and…
December 17, 2014
Drug War Fatigue, a Sympathetic User Population and Shifting Public Attitudes Drive Current Drug Treatment Trends
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and recreational marijuana…
Katharine Neill Harris December 16, 2014
The Future of Treatment in Drug Policy: Stigma Remains a Serious Problem
By Claire D. Clark
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and…
December 15, 2014
The President’s Speech on ISIS: The Disconnect Between Ends and Means
Thursday's Baker Institute Blog carries a commentary from fellow Joe Barnes on President Obama’s Sept. 10, 2014, speech on ISIS and Iraq.
Joe Barnes September 11, 2014
Hillary Clinton on Obama’s Foreign Policy: What’s So Bad About “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Fellow Joe Barnes looks at the kerfuffle arising from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s critical — much-publicized — response to President Obama’s description of his foreign policy as “don’t do stupid stuff.”
Joe Barnes August 13, 2014
A Century On, World War I Casts a Long Shadow Across the Middle East
One hundred years after the start of World War I, the legacies of decisions made by colonial powers during and after the period cast a long shadow over the Middle East.
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen June 27, 2014
Egypt’s Leadership Carousel
Despite his sweeping electoral victory, it seems that Egypt's new president, General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, has learned little from the past mistakes of Mubarak and Morsi.
June 20, 2014