Check back regularly for updates on CONTRA’s public scholarship, media coverage, speaking engagements, and milestones that advance evidence-based understanding of organized crime, illicit networks, and security dynamics across the Americas.
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Media Coverage and Commentary
- Small Wars Journal, Zero Tolerance Under Prohibition: Argentina and the Adaptation of Criminal Networks by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
- BORGEN Magazine, Poverty Fuels Kidney Trafficking in Bangladesh featuring Naoru Koizumi
- INFORMS, podcast episode, featuring Naoru Koizumi discussing analytical methods and research applications related to illicit networks and security dynamics
- The Korea Daily, Organ Harvesting Fears Surge in Cambodia as 80 Koreans Remain Missing featuring Naoru Koizumi
- Politics Weekly America (The Guardian), podcast episode featuring Janine Wedel discussing allegations of corruption against the White House
- Project Syndicate, The Corruption Is the Point by Janine Wedel
- Texas Observer, An Unwinnable Drug War by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
- Texas Observer, Cartels Are Not ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations,’ but Terror in Mexico Is Real by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Academic and Policy Publications
- National Security Law Journal (NSLJ), The War on Narcoterrorism: Is the War on Drugs Becoming the War on Terror? by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
- Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, The Dangerous Narrative of the “War on Cartels” by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Events and Speaking Engagements
- Expo Seguridad México, Expo Seguridad México Keynote Speaker Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera Examines the Latest Security Risks in Mexico, “U.S.-México Border Security Risks Today: A ‘New Generation’ of Criminal Networks” featuring Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
- Schar School National Security Summit, Counterterrorism at Crossroads: Schar School Summit Explores Evolving Threats featuring Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera