Peter Certo is the Communications Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. He edits its Foreign Policy In Focus and OtherWords services, contributes regularly to both outlets, and works with IPS experts to develop writing for mainstream and progressive publications.
He’s a former associate editor of Right Web, a project that monitors efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy, and helped coordinate the first annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
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John Kerry may have just accidentally earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize.
FPIF has always been at the forefront of foreign policy analysis in the 21st century — now it finally has a website that looks the part.
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