To bring development, reconciliation, and stability to conflict areas, it’s better to think local.
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Archive: Reports
Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
The United States is not behind the democratic revolutions against dictators. Popular movements are.
Read moreState of the Dream 2008
IPS and United for a Fair Economy find the subprime lending crisis is causing the greatest loss of wealth to people of color in modern U.S. history.
Read moreWooing the Islands
For the Pacific Island Nations, will it be Taiwan or China tonight?
Read morePushback to Unilateralism: the China-India-Russia Alliance
New China-India-Russia security cooperation: a threat to U.S. security or a door to true multilateralism?
Read moreThe Paradox of East Asian Peace
A peace structure in East Asia is both impossible and inevitable.
Read moreRevisiting Intelligence Reform
Congress and the next president must take U.S. intelligence agencies away from the Pentagon and put them under civilian control.
Read moreNew Intelligence Estimate Calls for Credible Diplomatic Option to Extend Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Halt
The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran challenges the Bush administration’s rhetoric on a possible WWIII in Iran.
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U.S. Tells Iran: Become a Nuclear Power
The history of Iran and nuclear power is more complicated than the Administration suggests.
Read morePakistan’s Dictatorships and the United States
Whether in the name of containing Communism or fighting terrorism, the well-being of the Pakistani people has been of little concern to Washington for decades.
Read moreDancing in the Earthquake
Rabbi Arthur Waskow looks at the ferment within the major U.S. religious communities as they struggle over Middle East policy.
Read moreHow and Why to Support Religion Overseas
It’s a mistake for the U.S. government to ignore religion or promote it zealously. Scott Thomas offers an alternative.
Read moreA Foreign Policy for Foreign Religions
The Commission on International Religious Freedom has provided tacit support for a dangerous turn in American foreign policy.
Read moreGlobalization: What Is To Be Done?
The race for the presidency has crystallized the debate about what to do about “globalization,” a short-hand way of describing the increasing tendency of firms to locate production abroad, often for the purpose of exporting goods back to the United States rather than producing for the local market.
Read moreThe Theology of American Empire
Ira Chernus writes that Americans crave a foreign policy based on moral conviction. Neoconservatives have offered one version. The left must provide a different one.
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