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
U.S. Drug Control Policy
U.S. drug policy is based on a punitive logic of deterrence that assumes that targeting the drug supply through aggressive law enforcement will deter drug use by making drugs scarcer, more expensive, and riskier to buy.
Controlling U.S. Arms Sales
The conventional arms trade continues to bedevil the international system. Although the world arms trade continues to decline in dollar value, the major arms supplying states have redoubled their efforts to export their weapons overseas.
U.S. Strategic Reach in the Middle East
Washington’s goals in the Middle East involve support for Israel, assuring oil flow, and ensuring political stability for economic growth.
Confronting the Multilateral Debt Burden
Multilateral debt, the result of lending by the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), is contributing to the economic and social crisis that is overtaking many Low Income Countries (LICs).
U.S.-Iraq Policy: Recent Military Attacks
When Saddam Hussein ordered his tanks and more than 40,000 troops into the Kurdish city of Irbil on August 31, 1996, he offered President Clinton an apparent “win-win,” election-season opportunity.
Executive Excess 1996: How Wall Street Rewards Job Destroyers
The third annual executive compensation survey examines a new and disturbing trend: Wall Street’s rewarding of corporate layoffs.
Executive Excess 1995: Workers Lose, CEOs Win (II)
The second annual report on CEO pay: The widening wage gap between U.S. executives and their U.S. and Mexican workers.
Executive Excess 1994: Workers Lose, CEOs Win
The first annual CEO pay survey: An analysis of executive salaries at top job-cutting firms