Globalization: What Is To Be Done?
The race for the presidency has crystallized the debate about what to do about “globalization,” a short-hand way of describing the increasing tendency of firms to locate production abroad, often for the purpose of exporting goods back to the United States rather than producing for the local market.
Faith and Conflict
Religious faith and institutions can be positive factors in peacebuilding. But there are also many potential pitfalls.
The Soil That Saves
The European Union is considering a way to use trees — and soil — to save us from global warming.
The GWOT Effect of Arms for Dictators
Winning the War on Terror by spreading democracy? Our arms sales policy is working in the opposite direction.
How Not to Win Friends and Influence People
Zia Mian explains how U.S. arms policy in South Asia sells death and destruction and buys little influence.
We Get Religion
I pray for the day when the scales fall from our leaders’ eyes, they expiate their political sins, and Washington is wholly transfigured.
60-Second Expert: Religion and Empire
American foreign policy is built on a deep foundation of Christian theology.
My Meeting with Ahmadinejad
The Iranian president’s religiously charged rhetoric is often incoherent and inflammatory, but is he really a threat to the United States?
The Theology of American Empire
Ira Chernus writes that Americans crave a foreign policy based on moral conviction. Neoconservatives have offered one version. The left must provide a different one.
Neo-Zionism, Religion, and Citizenship
Israel needs a new Zionism or it will lose all legitimacy, Gershon Baskin argues.
Monks Versus the Military
Kyi May Kaung looks at the religious roots of the protest movement in Burma today.
Divestment: Solution or Diversion?
The divestment movement from Sudan makes clear “indication of the failures in our intellectual culture”
Divestment: Ending the Genocide in Darfur
From rallying and letter writing, the Save Darfur movement is now taking a page from history and looking to divestment to end the atrocities in Darfur.
An Opium Alternative for Afghanistan
Poppies are the go-to crop for many Afghan farmers. Here’s a way to change that.
Art as Jujitsu
War grabs the headlines, and anti-war art grabs our attention. They do so with some of the same tools: guns, bombs, and body counts.
How to be a Good Friend (When You are 4,000 Miles Away)
Patrick Quirk explains the “friendship” of people who are seemingly worlds away: The Landless Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil and their friends here in United States – the Friends of the MST.
The Post-Washington Dissensus
The Washington Consensus is dead. Here’s what needs to take its place.
The Art of Anti-War
At the Istanbul Biennale, antiwar artists shock and awe, but why is their work so alluring?
The Taiwan of Europe
According to the compromise proposal of UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the international community was to grant “supervised independence” to Kosovo, the largely Albanian enclave in southern Serbia.
Iran – Rationality in the Eye of the Beholder?
By confusing fiction with fact, rhetoric with reality, the United States is proceeding down a dangerous path.
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