Increased Treatment: Popular, Beneficial, Limited
Drug policy has experienced an interesting shift recently. Along with legalization of medical and recreational marijuana…
William Martin December 19, 2014
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Latin America Initiative | Commentary
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
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
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
The Victory of Tabaré Vázquez and the Frente Amplio Party: A View From the Left Once again, the Uruguayan people, in a peaceful and civilized manner, turned out in large masses and were unhindered at the polls.
December 5, 2014
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Uruguay’s Second Round By Natalia Roba, 2011 Americas Project Fellow, Uruguay
The Oct. 26 elections in Uruguay confirmed the hegemony of center-left…
November 24, 2014
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Commentary
Politics as Usual: Boycott Makes No Difference for Bahrain's Female Candidates Whether out of strategic calculations or due to attitude towards women, the outcome is the same: female candidates often do not follow the party route to political office in Bahrain.
Gail Buttorf, Bozena Welborne November 17, 2014
Rethinking Female Empowerment in the MENA Region
What is empowerment? How can women across the MENA region become empowered? Is it possible for Western-born concepts — such as female empowerment — to travel across complex contexts and patriarchal/male-dominated cultures? While agreeing on a definition for female empowerment has proved to be a challenging task among scholars and policy practitioners, working out a universal framework that is applicable to different settings has proven to be an even more daunting task.
October 28, 2014
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Uruguay: A Left-leaning Perspective on the Electoral Process Uruguay’s national elections on October 26 will determine more than who occupies the Republic’s presidency, vice presidency, and Senate and House chambers — voters will also determine the government’s political orientation. The occasion will force Uruguayans to choose between the progressivism of the Frente Amplio party — which government has promoted for the past 10 years — and a return to the conservatism of the opposition Blanco and Colorado parties.
October 17, 2014