The Dancing Cure
David Alan Harris tells the riveting story of how young men in Sierra Leone, who show no outward emotion about their past atrocities, slowly come to terms with their experiences — through dance.
The Cost of Empire: Military Spending, Military Bases, and Empire-Building
A forum and discussion on the costs of empire. IPS Research Fellows Miriam Pemberton and Erik Leaver will lead a discussion on military spending, military bases, and empire-building in Iraq and Afghanistan and will offer a set of policy alternatives for the new administration.
Interview with R. Victoria Arana
E. Ethelbert Miller talks with R. Victoria Arana about new black literature in Britain and its take on empire.
60-Second Expert: Religion and Empire
American foreign policy is built on a deep foundation of Christian theology.
The Theology of American Empire
Ira Chernus writes that Americans crave a foreign policy based on moral conviction. Neoconservatives have offered one version. The left must provide a different one.
Art as Jujitsu
War grabs the headlines, and anti-war art grabs our attention. They do so with some of the same tools: guns, bombs, and body counts.
The Taiwan of Europe
According to the compromise proposal of UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the international community was to grant “supervised independence” to Kosovo, the largely Albanian enclave in southern Serbia.
Left-Right Alliance Against War?
The War Party dominates Washington. But antiwar movements on the left and the right have a historic opportunity to change the political map.
Surging Right Into Bin Laden’s Hands
President Bush wants to up the ante in Iraq and possibly in Iran as well. Guess who the secret admirers of this plan are…
The Vishnu Strategy
The world’s strongest militaries have been raining destruction down on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon. Why has this strategy not been working?
Beware Empires in Decline
Common sense says that Washington wont attack Tehran. But columnist Michael Klare questions whether common sense is guiding Bush administration policy.