If only Muslims reach out to help the Rohingya, the international community will suffer another blow to its reputation.
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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
Time to Deal With North Korea
The United States faces a new nuclear power ruled by a communist dictator.
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The President Is a Ponzi Scheme
Here and abroad, Trump’s wealthy backers understand that his populist rhetoric is a masquerade.
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The War on Terror Has Targeted Muslims Almost Exclusively
The war on terror was supposed to be about making our country safer. As a Muslim American, I don’t feel safer at all.
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Hurricane Donald Hits the Republican Party
If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state — and no one but China to keep us afloat.
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Climate Change is a Bigger Threat Than Any Military — Our Budget Should Reflect That
Facing financial ruin and the ruins of South Texas, some hawks want to throw more money at the military. That’s ludicrous.
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The Racism Heard Round the World
When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem.
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The View From the U.S.’s ‘Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier’
Ratcheting tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are now nothing new for its Pacific colony Guam.
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Trump’s Afghanistan Speech Offers No End in Sight for the War
Trump’s speech was essentially a strategy for justifying a continuous, permanent war in Afghanistan, IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told The Real News Network.
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If You Think North Korea Is Too Crazy for Negotiations, Think Again
Some in the Trump administration are eyeing regime change in North Korea. They’re missing what’s really going on over there.
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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.
