In the United States and around the world, many are questioning why, despite some mild rebukes, Washington has maintained its large-scale military, financial, and diplomatic support for the Israeli occupation in the face of unprecedented violations of international law and human rights standards by Israeli occupation forces.
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Archive: Reports
Enron’s Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron’s Globalization Game
Enron’s collapse calls into question the policy of energy deregulation and so long as the World Bank, IMF, WTO, U.S. Government and corporations continue to advance this agenda of energy and power deregulation, all signs suggest that future
Read moreThabo Mbeki’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development: Breaking or Shining the Chains of Global Apartheid?
This essay considers Thabo Mbeki’s analysis of globalization, his strategy and demands for global-scale and continental socioeconomic progress, and his preferred alliances.
Read moreThe U.S. “War on Terror” and East Asia
President Bush’s State of the Union speech served clear notice that the U.S. “war on terror” is coming to Northeast Asia.
Read moreAfrica Policy Outlook 2002: Africa’s Priorities Ignored Due To Washington’s War on Terrorism
By almost any measure, the war on AIDS is more important than the war on terrorism. Yet Washingtons fixation with the latterstill loosely definedcampaign threatens to crowd out attention to Africas priorities.
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What About The Spent Fuel?
Until recently, concerns about attacks on nuclear power plants focused mainly on the vulnerability of reactors. Spent fuel ponds may be even more difficult to safeguard.
Read moreHamid Karzai Moves From Lightweight To Heavyweight In Afghan Politics
Without a trial, the memory of the Khmer Rouge horror will remain an open wound in the psyche of Khmer society.
Read moreAmerican Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World: A Strategic Communication Analysis
To reach its public diplomacy goals, the U.S. will need to master the tools of intercultural and public communication.
Read moreCredit Where It’s Due
The Role of Export Credit Agencies in Supporting Sustainable Energy
Read moreThe Bush Administration & the Israeli-Palestinian Stalemate
Whether or not the shaky cease-fire in effect since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States holds, the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace remain dim.
Read moreAddressing the Demand Dimensions of Small Arms Abuse: Problems and Opportunities
The violence associated with small arms abuse is linked to criminality and can be best addressed by controlling the trade in illicit arms
Read moreGlobal Economic Governance: Strategic Crossroads
The objective of this discussion paper is to examine in broad terms the emergence of a transnational citizen movement opposed to the current forms of global economic governance, while providing sketches of main analytical tendencies within this diverse movement.
Read moreExecutive Excess 2001: Layoffs, Tax Rebates, and the Gender Gap
The eighth annual CEO compensation survey.
Read moreBonn and Genoa: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Movements
Genoa and Bonn, taken together, portray the Janus face of globalization.
Read moreStrategy and Self-Activity In the Global Justice Movements
Let us take as a starting point that the broadly consensual strategy and basis for self-activity in what we can term Global Justice Movements is the following: to promote the globalization of people and halt (or at minimum radically modify) the globalization of capital.
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