"The FARC still has the capacity to kill; but its capacity to achieve anything of its supposed political agenda has ended," write AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini and Ryan Berger in an op-ed for CNN Global Public Square.

"The nature of the relationship between the Iranian and Venezuelan autocrats undoubtedly warrants further inspection and close observation," write AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini and Ryan Berger in an op-ed for CNN Global Public Square.

"Recent developments in South America have upended the United States' historical—and often misguided—tendency to lump the region into a one-size-fits-all policy," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for World Politics Review.

Violence has spiked and people are dying gruesome, preventable deaths in Central America, Mexico, and elsewhere as a result of U.S. consumer tastes. Blood diamonds? No, conflict drugs, writes COA's Eric Farnsworth for The Huffington Post.

"Simply put, Colombia has enjoyed an energy renaissance over the past decade," COA's Eric Farnsworth tells World Politics Review's Global Insider.

"In both Ecuador and Bolivia, the rhetoric of political inclusion is crashing into the politics of identity and collective rights," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for The Huffington Post.

Cuba observers of the Arab Spring wonder if Havana's autocratic regime is next to fall. "It isn't," writes AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini for CNN's Global Public Square,"and we have U.S. policy partly to blame."