Christine Ahn is a policy and research analyst with the Global Fund for Women and a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist.
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Gender: B
The administration earns high marks for its global focus on women’s issues. But its overall approach to war and development still adversely affects women’s lives.
Send Bosworth to North Korea
President Obama can break the impasse with North Korea by sending special envoy Stephen Bosworth for face-to-face talks in Pyongyang.
Empire Roundtable
We asked FPIF’s senior analysts to weigh in on the future course of American foreign policy: maintenance of empire or its rejection?
Fashioning Resistance to Militarism
Runaway military spending meets runway anti-military clothing: a new way of looking at the fashioning of war.
Afghanistan: Build Infrastructure, Not Bases
In this interview, Sakena Yacoobi of the Afghan Institute for Learning recommends that President Obama consider a surge in development assistance to her country.
South Korea’s Beef with America
South Korean concerns over American beef imports are legitimate.
Food Safety on the Butcher’s Block
Washington is using new free trade agreements to push U.S. food–and food safety standards–down the throats of other countries.
Villagers Challenge U.S. Military in South Korea
Plans to hand land over to the U.S. military meet with resistance.
Postcard from Pyongtaek
Just three hours south of the De-Militarized Zone, the South Korean government is waging alarming levels of violence and repression against villagers in the city of Pyongtaek near the U.S. base Camp Humphrey. For over four years, residents have refused to hand over their homes and farmland to the U.S. military.