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Archive: Reports
The Dangerous Implications of the Hariri Assassination and the U.S. Response
As long as the vast majority of Democrats are afraid to appear soft toward the Syrian dictatorship and as long as so few progressive voices are willing to challenge the Democrats, President Bush appears to have few obstacles in his way should he once ag
Read moreExplosion of Youth Activism Around the Iraq War
As goes Greensboro, so goes the nation.
Read moreIraq: Two Years Later
In the two years since the U.S. invaded Iraq, many of the author’s predictions have come to pass.
Read moreDemocracy’s Eclipse in Russia
As editorialists from across the United States and Western Europe have reiterated lately, Russian democracy is under assault.
Read moreAbsolute Monarchy to Absolute Democracy
King Gyanendra has taken the people of Nepal on a disastrous course, using the excuse of fighting an insurgency to compromise democracy.
Read moreOutmaneuver the War Proponents
For an anti-war activist of the Vietnam era, the current search for a political strategy for ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq brings to mind the very similar problems facing the movement to end the Vietnam War in 1968-69.
Read moreNorth Korea & the NPT
The problems for international security posed by North Koreas nuclear ambitions receive abundant attention and analysis.
Read moreHistoric Victories, New Challenges
How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries–now being debated by wealthy nations–was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement.
Read moreThe Toxic Border
In early September 2002, the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM) put out a call to border activists, urging them to act quickly to salvage one of the few remaining complaints filed under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)the case of mistreated workers at Customtrim/Autotrim.
Read moreTrade Is a Women’s Issue
Women workers are good for trade, but is trade good for women workers?
Read moreMissile Defense
With public attention focused on Iraq, the Bush administration’s prized missile defense system has been far from the limelight. But make no mistake, it’s still chugging along.
Read moreThe Unintended Consequences of Crisis Public Diplomacy: American Public Diplomacy in the Arab World
With the end of major military action in Iraq, U.S. public diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world has entered a new, more challenging phase.
Read moreFTAA Fails to Gain Support from Citizens and Governments Across the Region
Trade ministers from the Americas are meeting in Miami November 20-21 to discuss plans to completeor drastically scale back the scope ofthe negotiations of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Read moreThe Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
The fall of the Soviet Union handed the U.S. a unique opportunity, as the surviving superpower, to lead the world toward a period of greater cooperation and conflict resolution through the use of diplomacy, global organization, and international law. This great opportunity is being squandered, as the world becomes a more dangerous place.
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