With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph in the Gulf War, the United States standsat least for a timeas the region’s dominant outside power.
Read moreWith the collapse of the Soviet Union and the triumph in the Gulf War, the United States standsat least for a timeas the region’s dominant outside power.
Read moreEnvironmental concerns have been at the leading edge of a movement to reform the World Bank over the past 15 years.
Read moreThe collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invalidated NATOs original mandate and prompted a search for a new approach to European security.
Read moreJoint Vision 2020, a Pentagon planning document, concluded that Asia will replace Europe as the key focus of U.S. military strategy in the early 21st century and pointed to China as a potential adversary.
Read moreHuman rights are those claims and protections to which all people are entitled as human beings.
Read moreDespite the obvious importance of Mexico, current U.S. policy is fragmented, often contradictory, and lacks a clear strategy or focus.
Read moreThe bloody war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the largest nation in Central Africa, is in one sense a civil war and in another sense an invasion.
Read moreThe QDR is the template for the annual National Military Strategy (NMS) document and sets out guidance for regional military policy.
Read moreU.S. foreign policy and national security policies have significant domestic and international environmental impacts, and the increasingly precarious state of the global environment presents important new challenges to U.S. national interests.
Read moreThe U.S. government has made the rigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) a top priority of its foreign policy, using international trade negotiations as the means of continually ratcheting up the terms.
Read moreOn Africas Atlantic coast, at the western extremity of the Arab world, lies Western Sahara, site of Africas longest post-colonial conflict.
Read moreOne of the major challenges faced by the international community is how to address environmental problems that, although created locally, have global consequences.
Read moreConsistent with U.S. political interests to promote a private sector agenda, the World Bank has accentuated the private sector in its operations and highlighted financial support for the private sector in its own agenda in the last few years.
Read moreAfter a decade of rapid growth, the international financial system is now plagued with extreme volatility and crisis.
Read moreThe Clinton administration continues to promote the deeply flawed “Washington consensus” of neoliberal globalization in the APEC countries.
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