Our Work

At IPS, our work is centered in our vision: we believe everyone has a right to thrive on a planet where all communities are equitable, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable. Our intersecting programs and initiatives, led by a diverse group of expert staff and associate fellows, are helping to shape progressive movements toward this vision.

Latest Work

Trafficking in Women

Increased economic globalization has resulted in an increased feminization of poverty, forcing greater numbers of women worldwide to migrate in search of work.

Arms & Environmental Technologies

Although the world market for environmental technologies is twice the size of the world arms market, the U.S. supports its arms exports over its environmental technologies market by a staggeringly large margin.

The IMF and Good Governance

The IMF was created as the “guardian” of the global economy, promoting unimpeded trade and ensuring that national exchange rates would stay within set values.

Drug Certification

The certification process is resented in Latin America and elsewhere as a unilateral, sometimes arbitrary and hypocritical exercise by the world’s largest consumer of illegal drugs.

Aid to Russia

When the Soviet Union abruptly ceased to exist on December 25, 1991, it seemed that the West, particularly the U.S., finally had what it had always wanted–the opportunity to introduce quick, all-encompassing economic reform that would remake Russia in the West’s own image.

U.S. Russia Security Relations

U.S.-Russian security relations have slowly deteriorated since 1993.

Capital Flows and the Environment

The environmental implications of this decade’s massive movements of money into the developing world, while enormous, are also complex and somewhat contradictory.

Democratizing the Trade Debate

Shaping new international rules for labor rights, environmental protection, gender equity, minority rights, sustainable development, and other social goals is a formidable political challenge in view of the forces promoting profit-above-all trade and investment policies.

Human Rights and Intelligence Reform

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has long been associated with the overthrow of governments and the installation of bloody military regimes.

Investment Liberalization Agenda

The Clinton administration has put investment liberalization at the center of much of its foreign policy regarding investment flows.