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.
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Redressing Evil: Advice from South Korea
U.S. President George W. Bush’s upcoming trip to South Korea in mid-February is an opportunity for the Bush administration to demonstrate its new vision by explicitly support the “sunshine policy” of South Korea’s President Kim Dae-Jung–a policy that has
A Despot in Washington
The western media, too, is awash with stories of a reformist general living dangerously in a volatile country.
An Enron War on Terrorism
President Bush, undeterred by Congress and emboldened by his high ratings in the polls, is making new military investments in countries all over the world, while downplaying or keeping secret from the American people the problems that these investments wi
Bush’s Hot Air Plan
In a tricky maneuver, President Bush managed to sound like he was advocating reducing emissions when he stated that his voluntary goal is to reduce greenhouse gas “intensity” by 18 percent.
Korea: U.S. Policy Casting a Long Shadow over the Sunshine Policy
Immediately after the September 11 attacks in New York, South Korean and U.S. forces went into a state of heightened security alert that the North claimed was “threatening,” leading Pyongyang to break off ongoing negotiations on family reunions that remai
The U.S. “War on Terror” and East Asia
President Bush’s State of the Union speech served clear notice that the U.S. “war on terror” is coming to Northeast Asia.
Diplomacy by Dereliction: U.S. Policy Toward Korea is in Disarray
The alternatives to negotiating with the North are all worse than agreements that have been gotten.
Africa Policy Outlook 2002: Africa’s Priorities Ignored Due To Washington’s War on Terrorism
By almost any measure, the war on AIDS is more important than the war on terrorism. Yet Washingtons fixation with the latterstill loosely definedcampaign threatens to crowd out attention to Africas priorities.
Second Day in Porto Alegre
On Friday, the WSF got down to serious discussions with seven simultaneous morning sessions examining “the production of wealth and social reproduction.”
Jonas Savimbi: Washington’s Freedom Fighter,” Africa’s “Terrorist””
With the death of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and the state visit to Washington by Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, there is again a glimmer of hope that the countrys 27-year-long civil war may finally be coming to a real end