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.
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Archive: Reports
Hamid 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 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 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 moreExecutive Excess 2001: Layoffs, Tax Rebates, and the Gender Gap
The eighth annual CEO compensation survey.
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.
Read moreBonn and Genoa: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Movements
Genoa and Bonn, taken together, portray the Janus face of globalization.
Read moreThe Failure of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq and Proposed Alternatives
Current U.S.-UN Iraq policy has failed. A change to a more humane and practical policy by the U.S. would quickly be accepted by the UN Security Council as a whole.
Read moreCIA: The Need for Reform
Reprimands in the Ames case prompted a mass exodus of bitter senior managers, who had refused to accept the need for punishing those who ignored the fact that a Soviet spy had contaminated the agency at the highest levels
Read moreThe Gulf War: 8 Myths
Washington’s misguided policies toward Iraq but have warped the overall thrust of U.S. foreign and military policy for the past decade.
Read moreRumsfeld Reconsidered: An Ideologue in Moderate’s Clothing
The Rumsfeld Commission report is, at its core, a landmark in political spin control, not a landmark in objective analysis of the threats facing our nation.
Read moreTop 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power
As citizen movements the world over launch activities to counter aspects of economic globalization, the growing power of private corporations is becoming a central issue.
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