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

The Other Axis of Evil

The American empire wants to make neo-liberal globalization a reality. All those opposed to that should be aware that the U.S. will fight them.

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When History Repeats Itself, Again And Again

Today, Ariel Sharon and his government are creating a third wave of Palestinian refugees by attacking those very same refugees who, decades ago, fled for their lives and have been living under illegal Israeli occupation ever since.

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Shades of Gray

The events of 9-11 have permitted the Bush administration to paint U.S. foreign policy as a matter of black and white choices.

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Is India Going the Way of 1930s Germany?

As Indian opposition leaders have charged, it was part of a broader tendency toward eliminating civil liberties and scapegoating cultural minorities in an aggressive effort to impose a unified sense of nationhood on one of the world’s most culturally dive

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Reports

REPORT: Sending Arms or Twisting Arms: The U.S. Role in the Ukraine War

This backgrounder explores the causes of the war in Ukraine and the actions of different actors in the conflict to date.
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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.
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The Pandemic Pivot

Experts from the frontlines of global policy tackle the implications of COVID-19.
Report: The Battle for Another World

Report: The Battle For Another World

The Progressive Response to the New Right

Report: Shrinking Space and the BDS Movement

A Case Study: The BDS Movement

Sanctuary Cities Toolkit

Organizing for Sanctuary and Immigrant & Refugee Rights Through an Anti-War Lens

Report: Combat Vs. Climate

The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

Experts

Bella DeVaan

Associate Director of Charity Reform Initiative, Co-editor of Inequality.org

Global Economy, Inequality.org

Khury Petersen-Smith

Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow

New Internationalism

Basav Sen

Project Director

Climate Policy

Sanho Tree

Project Director

Drug Policy

Marc Bayard

Project Director and Associate Fellow

Black Worker Initiative, Global Economy

John Feffer

Project Director and Associate Fellow

Epicenter, Foreign Policy in Focus

Jen Moore

Associate Fellow

Global Economy

Manuel Perez-Rocha

Project Director and Associate Fellow

Global Economy