What is called drug trafficking in the U.S. is in fact a major, multifaceted, and global industry.
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Archive: Reports
NAFTA and Environment
The North American Free Trade Agreement’s impact on the trinational environment remains controversial.
Read moreExecutive Excess 1999: A Decade of Executive Excess
The sixth annual CEO pay report reviews the 1990s.
Read moreU.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy at the End of the Century:
Sadly, though the overall number of nuclear weapons is down (from approximately 60,000 in 1990 to 35,000 today) and the antagonism of the cold war has faded, the risk of nuclear war is still real, and the threat of nuclear proliferation is greater than ever.
Read moreStar Wars Revisited: Still Dangerous and Costly
More than $60 billion spent on missile defense projects since 1983 has produced precious little beyond cost overruns and technical failures.
Read moreMoney Talks: The Implications of U.S. Budget Priorities
The military captures almost one-half of the entire federal discretionary budget–money for everything the government does from the FBI to Head Start, excluding only mandatory spending, primarily interest on the national debt and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
Read moreMultilateral Debt
For most of the worlds poorest countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the IFIs status as “preferred creditors,” as providers of core development and balance-of-payment loans.
Read moreAIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century.
Read moreInternational Investment Rules and the Environment
Environmentalists are increasingly demanding that international rules and corporate norms governing investment explicitly embrace environmental and social performance goals.
Read moreOverseas Private Investment Organization
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a wholly owned government corporation established in 1971, provides taxpayer-backed loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to U.S. businesses for investments in “politically risky” countries.
Read moreU.S. Democratization Assistance
The Clinton administration went further than Reagan and Bush, announcing in 1993 that all U.S. foreign policy would be guided by the doctrine of “enlargement,” aimed at expanding the community of democratic states.
Read moreExport-Import Bank
The Export-Import Bank (Eximbank) is an independent U.S. government agency established in 1934 to create jobs through exports.
Read moreU.S. Leadership in the Global Economy
The twenty-first century requires new paths that encourage exchanges of goods, capital, and people that enhance the social and environmental common good and that discourage or stop those exchanges that undermine healthy communities, a clean environment, and dignified work.
Read moreUnited States and Africa: Starting Points for a New Policy Framework
In practice, however, Washingtons legacies of neglect and of inappropriate policies toward Africa have remained largely in place with the same overall guidelines
Read moreGlobal Environmental Protection in the 21st Century
In the past three decades, protecting the global environment has emerged as one of the major challenges in international relations.
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