War in the Congo
The bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the largest nation in Central Africa, is in one sense a civil war and in another sense an invasion.
Military Strategy Under Review
The QDR is the template for the annual National Military Strategy (NMS) document and sets out guidance for regional military policy.
Environment and Security Policy
U.S. foreign policy and national security policies have significant domestic and international environmental impacts, and the increasingly precarious state of the global environment presents important new challenges to U.S. national interests.
Intellectual Property Rights and the Privatization of Life
The U.S. government has made the rigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) a top priority of its foreign policy, using international trade negotiations as the means of continually ratcheting up the terms.
Morocco and Western Sahara
On Africas Atlantic coast, at the western extremity of the Arab world, lies Western Sahara, site of Africas longest post-colonial conflict.
Global Environment Facility
One of the major challenges faced by the international community is how to address environmental problems that, although created locally, have global consequences.
World Bank’s Private Sector Agenda
Consistent with U.S. political interests to promote a private sector agenda, the World Bank has accentuated the private sector in its operations and highlighted financial support for the private sector in its own agenda in the last few years.
International Financial Flows
After a decade of rapid growth, the international financial system is now plagued with extreme volatility and crisis.
Asian Financial Crisis
The Clinton administration continues to promote the deeply flawed “Washington consensus” of neoliberal globalization in the APEC countries.
International Terrorism
The massive terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have placed the threat of terrorism on the front burner and have exposed the failure of the U.S. government to protect its citizens.
Indonesia After Suharto
Indonesia’s recent economic and political collapse is a stark example of the outright failure of a development paradigm promoting large-scale economic growth without political, social, legal, and environmental safeguards.
WTO and Developing Countries
The agenda of the WTO, the implementation of its agreements, and the much-praised dispute settlement system all serve to advance the interests of developed countries, sidelining those of the developing countries.
Arms & Environmental Technologies
Although the world market for environmental technologies is twice the size of the world arms market, the U.S. supports its arms exports over its environmental technologies market by a staggeringly large margin.
The IMF and Good Governance
The IMF was created as the “guardian” of the global economy, promoting unimpeded trade and ensuring that national exchange rates would stay within set values.
An Enforceable Social Clause
The failure of sustainable economic growth to take hold in the developing world demonstrates that “free trade” is not delivering on its promise to bring prosperity to the world’s poor.