Immigrant Rights -- Scope, Limits, and Implications
by Tom Barry
Mar-30-2012 | Report
Tom Barry explores the complicated and controversial subject of immigrant rights... Read More »
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From Quick Wins to Long-Term Profits? Developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states: Burundi case study
by Nicole Ball, Jean-Marie Gasana, Willy Nindorera
Mar-29-2012 | Report
Nicole Ball, Jean-Marie Gasana, and Willy Nindorera explore security and justice programming in Burundi in order to develop better approaches to solving four key challenges... Read More »
Waiting for Consolidation: Monitoring Colombiaʼs U.S.-aided Counterinsurgency and Development Program
by Abigail Poe, Adam Isacson, Yamile Salinas, Nancy Sánchez
Feb-01-2012 | Report
During 2011, researchers from CIP, WOLA, INDEPAZ and MINGA carried out a joint project to monitor the Colombian Government's National Territorial Consolidation Plan (PNCT). This new publication lays out our organizations' principal findings, concerns and recommendations following our research visits.... Read More »
Mexico: Illicit Financial Flows, Macroeconomic Imbalances, and the Underground Economy
by Dev Kar
Jan-30-2012 | Report
A report from GFI finds that Mexico lost a total of $872 billion in illicit financial flows (or illegal capital flight) over a 41-year period from 1970 to 2010. These illicit financial flows were generally the product of: corruption, bribery and kickbacks, criminal activities, and efforts to shelter wealth from a country's tax authorities... Read More »
Military Spending: A Poor Job Creator
Jan-17-2012 | Policy Brief, Fact Sheet
Plans for cutting the federal deficit have raised an important question: what impact would military spending reductions have on jobs? This fact sheet is an update with new numbers from 2011 for U.S. employment effects of military and domestic spending. ... Read More »
Questions of Racial Identity, Racism and anti-Racist Policies in Cuba: The View from Havana
Dec-19-2011 | Report
A report from Elizabeth Newhouse summarizing the events of a Oct. delegation to Cuba that focused on the issue of racism in Cuba... Read More »
More Lessons from Cuba's Hurricane Preparedness and Civil Defense
Dec-05-2011 | Report
Elizabeth Newhouse summarizes CIP's November 2011 delegation to cuba, which included the mayor of Galveston, Texas, and the Dean of the Texas State Senate... Read More »
A Cautionary Tale
by Adam Isacson, Lisa Haugaard, Jennifer Johnson
Nov-10-2011 | Report
The Latin America Working Group, the Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America release a new report on the Colombian experience of the past ten years. ... Read More »
Tools of Influence: The Arms Lobby and the Super Committee
Oct-31-2011 | Policy Brief
In this policy brief, William D. Hartung explores the mutually beneficial and close ties between the arms lobby and super committee members. ... Read More »
U.S. Drug War Turns to Transnational Combat
by Tom Barry
Sep-01-2011 | Report
The Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, released in late July by the White House, offers the strategic context for the increasing rhetorical focus of the Obama administration on “transnational crime,” “transnational threats,” and “transnational criminal organizations.”... Read More »
