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.
Women and the U.S. Military in East Asia
Joint Vision 2020, a Pentagon planning document, concluded that Asia will replace Europe as the key focus of U.S. military strategy in the early 21st century and pointed to China as a potential adversary.
Human Rights and U.S. Policy
Human rights are those claims and protections to which all people are entitled as human beings.
World Bank’s Environmental Reform Agenda
Environmental concerns have been at the leading edge of a movement to reform the World Bank over the past 15 years.
NATO at 50
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invalidated NATOs original mandate and prompted a search for a new approach to European security.
Reconfiguring Mexico Policy
Despite the obvious importance of Mexico, current U.S. policy is fragmented, often contradictory, and lacks a clear strategy or focus.