Peace and 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
Is U.S. Foreign Policy a Threat to U.S. Security?
The world is turning against the United States.
Bringing the War Home: Right Wing Think Tank Turns Wrath on NGOs
Having led the charge to war in Iraq, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential think tank close to the Bush administration, has added a new target: international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Winning Round Two of American Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim Worlds
According to a poll released early last week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press ( http://people-press.org/ ), America’s image has become “dangerously” negative throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
Pentagon Moving Swiftly to Become “Globocop”
Much like its successful military campaign in Iraq, the Pentagon is moving at breakneck speed to redeploy U.S. forces and equipment around the world in ways that will permit Washington to play “Globocop,” according to a number of statements by top officia
U.S. Weapons Aid Repression in Aceh
Given the central role of U.S. weapons in this new round of government sanctioned killing, weapons that Indonesia has paid for already, how can the Bush administration wield its influence to demand more from our ally than “transparent” indiscriminate kill
The U.S. and Latin America After 9-11 and Iraq
Most disturbingly, it is unilaterally waging war against its own Latin American “axis of evil”–the Colombian “narcoterrorists,” Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez–with little if no effort to take into account the concerns of Latin American
Departure of Key Aide Marks New Powell Setback
The announcement on June 5 that the State Department’s director for policy planning, Richard Haass, is leaving to become the next president of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, marks the latest sign of the eclipse of Secretary of State Coli
Recycling Wars
Congress is set to give the Pentagon more than $400 billion to spend on war preparations and now, it seems, on the “non-wars.”
The Need for UN Police
The aftermath of the Iraq War has shown us that good soldiers are not always good cops.
Credibility Gap over Iraq WMD Looms Larger
Arguments over what the administration knew about weapons of mass destruction and when it knew it–to paraphrase the famous Watergate questions–are now claiming the limelight, to the administration’s clear discomfort.