U.S. agricultural policymakers have long relied on the world marketplace to serve a diverse agendaincluding management of the domestic farm economy, promotion of geopolitical interests, and most prominently, bolstering exports.
Read moreU.S. agricultural policymakers have long relied on the world marketplace to serve a diverse agendaincluding management of the domestic farm economy, promotion of geopolitical interests, and most prominently, bolstering exports.
Read moreU.S. drug policy is based on a punitive logic of deterrence that assumes that targeting the drug supply through aggressive law enforcement will deter drug use by making drugs scarcer, more expensive, and riskier to buy.
Read moreThe conventional arms trade continues to bedevil the international system. Although the world arms trade continues to decline in dollar value, the major arms supplying states have redoubled their efforts to export their weapons overseas.
Read moreWashington’s goals in the Middle East involve support for Israel, assuring oil flow, and ensuring political stability for economic growth.
Read moreMultilateral debt, the result of lending by the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), is contributing to the economic and social crisis that is overtaking many Low Income Countries (LICs).
Read moreWith the end of the cold war and the demise of the Soviet threat, NATO must find new rationales for its existence.
Read moreA history of mutual dependence underlies U.S.-Panama foreign policy and accounts for the patterns of dominance and dependence in bilateral relations.
Read moreThe end of the cold war left U.S.-Russian relations in a state of volatile ambiguity.
Read moreImmediately following World War II, the major capitalist powers, dominated by the U.S. and Britain, met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to establish multilateral institutions to manage the postwar restructuring and expansion of the global capitalist economy. Two international financial institutions (IFIs) emerged from the July 1944 meeting: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Read moreCreated to collect information, the CIA quickly became embroiled in covertly upending governments and movements around the world in support of U.S. corporate and political goals.
Read moreWhen Saddam Hussein ordered his tanks and more than 40,000 troops into the Kurdish city of Irbil on August 31, 1996, he offered President Clinton an apparent “win-win,” election-season opportunity.
Read moreThe third annual executive compensation survey examines a new and disturbing trend: Wall Street’s rewarding of corporate layoffs.
Read moreThe second annual report on CEO pay: The widening wage gap between U.S. executives and their U.S. and Mexican workers.
Read moreThe first annual CEO pay survey: An analysis of executive salaries at top job-cutting firms
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