Biden’s foreign policy team matters less than the world they inherit, policies they pursue, and the pressure they get from progressives.
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Peace & Foreign Policy
To build peace, we must dislodge the economic and political foundations of war. IPS believes that a just foreign policy is based on human rights, international law, and diplomacy over military intervention.
Latest Work
Who Needs Zombies When We Have Republicans?
How else would you describe Americans who deny a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 people and the election that repudiated Trump?
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The Return of the Goldilocks Apocalypse
There’s no returning to normal after Donald Trump.
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America Rejoins the World?
It simply doesn’t make a lot of sense to entrust leadership to a country with a severe personality disorder.
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With the Election Over, Congress Needs to Focus on Burning Issues
Even before the next Congress and administration take office, the 2020 election will have enormous consequences.
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U.S. Democracy: The Four-Year Rule?
American democracy is in rough shape. It’s going to take more than this election to set it right.
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This Election Is About Trump’s Pandemic Failures. But What Happens Next?
It’s going to take more than a change of personnel in Washington to address our decaying climate, public health, and democracy. But it’s not too late.
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People to Autocrats: Not So Fast
Authoritarianism has been on the march for years, but people powered revolutions are pushing regimes toward democracy on nearly every continent.
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Looming Failure of Stimulus Exposes GOP’s Double Standards on the Deficit
Millions of people are still unemployed, facing eviction or foreclosure, and scrambling to get enough to eat.
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A Pandemic Pivot
COVID-19 is an early alert for more serious global crises. So far, the international community has failed — but it’s not too late.
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Reports
The Pandemic Pivot
Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19.
Report: No Warming, No War
In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.
Report: The Battle For Another World
The Progressive Response to the New Right
Report: Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget
Everybody Has the Right to Live
