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
Colombia’s Role in International Drug Industry
What is called drug trafficking in the U.S. is in fact a major, multifaceted, and global industry.
NAFTA and Environment
The North American Free Trade Agreement’s impact on the trinational environment remains controversial.
Executive Excess 1999: A Decade of Executive Excess
The sixth annual CEO pay report reviews the 1990s.
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy at the End of the Century:
Sadly, though the overall number of nuclear weapons is down (from approximately 60,000 in 1990 to 35,000 today) and the antagonism of the cold war has faded, the risk of nuclear war is still real, and the threat of nuclear proliferation is greater than ever.
Star Wars Revisited: Still Dangerous and Costly
More than $60 billion spent on missile defense projects since 1983 has produced precious little beyond cost overruns and technical failures.
Money Talks: The Implications of U.S. Budget Priorities
The military captures almost one-half of the entire federal discretionary budget–money for everything the government does from the FBI to Head Start, excluding only mandatory spending, primarily interest on the national debt and entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.
Multilateral Debt
For most of the worlds poorest countries, multilateral debt looms larger than other debts because of the IFIs status as “preferred creditors,” as providers of core development and balance-of-payment loans.
AIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access
U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century.
International Investment Rules and the Environment
Environmentalists are increasingly demanding that international rules and corporate norms governing investment explicitly embrace environmental and social performance goals.
U.S. Leadership in the Global Economy
The twenty-first century requires new paths that encourage exchanges of goods, capital, and people that enhance the social and environmental common good and that discourage or stop those exchanges that undermine healthy communities, a clean environment, and dignified work.