CSIS’ Predictable Colombia Project COHA will shortly release an overview of what it sees as possible conceptual shortcomings in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) November 2007 report entitled “Back from the Brink: Evaluating Progress in Colombia, 1999-2007.” In its assessment of the CSIS research project, which was contracted with the White House Trade Office, COHA researchers argue that the organization’s traditional account of Colombian realities had nicely satisfied the Bush administration’s...


