Money Talks: The Implications of U.S. Budget Priorities
The military captures almost one-half of the entire federal discretionary budget–money for everything the government does from the FBI to Head Start, excluding only mandatory spending, primarily interest on the national debt and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
Multilateral Debt
For most of the worlds poorest countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the IFIs status as “preferred creditors,” as providers of core development and balance-of-payment loans.
AIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century.
International Investment Rules and the Environment
Environmentalists are increasingly demanding that international rules and corporate norms governing investment explicitly embrace environmental and social performance goals.
Overseas Private Investment Organization
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a wholly owned government corporation established in 1971, provides taxpayer-backed loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to U.S. businesses for investments in “politically risky” countries.
U.S. Democratization Assistance
The Clinton administration went further than Reagan and Bush, announcing in 1993 that all U.S. foreign policy would be guided by the doctrine of “enlargement,” aimed at expanding the community of democratic states.
Export-Import Bank
The Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) is an independent U.S. government agency established in 1934 to create jobs through exports.
U.S. Leadership in the Global Economy
The twenty-first century requires new paths that encourage exchanges of goods, capital, and people that enhance the social and environmental common good and that discourage or stop those exchanges that undermine healthy communities, a clean environment, and dignified work.
Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Policy
As neoliberal policies foster greater privatization of the international financial system, countries must rely almost entirely on private financial flows to finance trade, to settle international accounts, even to meet domestic credit needs.
Corporate Welfare and Foreign Policy
FPIF Corporate Welfare Package
United States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework
In practice, however, Washingtons legacies of neglect and of inappropriate policies toward Africa have remained largely in place with the same overall guidelines
Global Environmental Protection in the 21st Century
In the past three decades, protecting the global environment has emerged as one of the major challenges in international relations.
Repairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations
An alternative package of architectural reforms: Bretton Woods Light
Containment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
Instead of consulting with Russia over key foreign policy issues such as the Iraq bombings and allied policy toward former Yugoslavia, Washington has attempted to steer Moscow into a diplomatic backwater where it can exert little global influence.
Population and Environment
Sound population policies can brighten environmental prospects while improving life for women and children, enhancing economic development, and contributing to a more secure world.
U.S.-North Korea Relations
The Pentagon has inflated the North Korean threat in order to rationalize its desire for a missile defense system, to justify a capacity to fight two wars simultaneously, and to explain the need to maintain 37,000 troops in South Korea.
Turkey: Arms and Human Rights
Considered a strategic NATO ally, Turkey has benefited from a U.S. policy that is long on military assistance and short on constructive criticism.
OPIC, Ex-Im & Climate Change: Business as Usual?
An Analysis of U.S. Government Support for Fossil Fueled Development Abroad, 1992-98
The Global Sustainable Development Resolution
For the past decade, through both Republican and Democratic administrations, the U.S. government has promoted a model of free-market global capitalism that it claimed would benefit the great majority of people both at home and abroad. This model has failed.
Continuing Storm: The U.S. Role in the Middle East
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph in the Gulf War, the United States standsat least for a timeas the region’s dominant outside power.
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