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 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.
First Day in Porto Alegre
Every incoming plane into Porto Alegre is overbooked, all hotels, hostels, and empty apartments are full, makeshift campsites are sprouting in city parks, and the crowds in cafes converse in a mix of languages.
Deconstructing George W. Bush: A Critical Analysis of the 2002 State of the Union Address
One of the first State of the Union speeches in a long time to pay attention to foreign policy.
Somalia At Crossroads of American Foreign Policy
Somalia and the U.S. are apparently doomed by fate to collide at critical moments in global politics.
History of the Movement
The very conditions that persuade millions of farmers and workers and environmentalists and students and others to join movements around the world and come together, are there and in some ways are stronger than ever.
Globalization and Food Policy
Water resources are becoming ever more scarce, and a lot more hot politics regarding water will be coming up in the near future.
Global Justice Movement Is Not Dead
Global Justice Movement (GJM) is now dead, or as some call it the Antiglobalization Movement.
Roadmap to Unilateralist Nuclear Policy
Bush repeatedly discussed reducing the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. arsenal to “the lowest possible number consistent with our national security” and taking these weapons off hair-trigger alert.
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REPORT: Sending Arms or Twisting Arms: The U.S. Role in the Ukraine War
Multilateralism and the Biden Administration
The Pandemic Pivot
