Massive injections of U.S. and Soviet arms have kept the war raging between northern and southern Sudan for nearly a half-century.

U.S. foreign economic assistance has shifted its purposes, its organizational structure is in question, and the way it operates is being challenged.

Ten years after the Gulf War, U.S. policy toward Iraq continues to suffer from an overreliance on military solutions, an abuse of the United Nations and international law, and a disregard for the human suffering resulting from sanctions.

Although the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial failed to produce a new round of trade expansion, prior commitments made by countries in the Uruguay Round (which launched the WTO in 1994) meant that negotiations would continue in 2000 to liberalize both agricultural trade and trade in services.

Compulsory licensing and parallel importing policies could help developing country governments make essential medicines more affordable to their citizens.

Both a new U.S. administration and China’s bid to host the 2008 Olympics offer opportunities to influence human rights in China.

Drug crop eradication has produced little effect on the price or availability of cocaine in the United States.

The U.S. is pushing a negotiating agenda for the FTAA that would dramatically limit each country’s ability to undertake compulsory licensing, an important tool to promote generic competition.

Given the atmosphere of suspicion and distrust that so often characterizes U.S.-China relations, it is vitally important that Chinese foreign policy and military capabilities be calmly and carefully assessed.

The Bush administration’s defense review affords an opportunity to overhaul the nation’s military strategy, forces, and equipment plans in light of the challenges and opportunities of the new century.