America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.
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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
It’s Time to Reassess Our Relationship With Israel
Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House.
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How U.S. Wars Abroad Are Intimately Tied to Police Brutality at Home
There are obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality. Is time for activists to join forces?
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America’s Merchants of Death Then — and Now
More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.
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We’ve Spent Billions on War. Now, Let’s Spend to Bring Afghans to Safety.
The U.S. needs to focus on bringing as many Afghans as possible to safety as refugees.
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Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistan
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.
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Does the Future Belong to the Taliban?
Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists.
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The U.S. Exit from Afghanistan Was Doomed to be Ugly
Phyllis Bennis joins MSNBC’s The Last Word to discuss the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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The Climate Crisis and Korea
The two Koreas cannot by themselves stop the climate crisis, but they can establish a model that the rest of the world can follow.
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Afghanistan: Who’s to Blame and What Next?
Phyllis Bennis joins a panel discussion hosted by CODEPINK to discuss the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
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Reports
State of Insecurity
The Cost of Militarization Since 9/11
Multilateralism and the Biden Administration
The Biden Administration should help create stronger, more equitable, and more democratic multilateral structures at the international and regional level.
Fact Sheet: Congressional Progressive Caucus Priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has released a bold agenda for 2021. This fact sheet analyzes the implications of these priorities for the American people.
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.