Foreign Policy In Focus

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Policy Briefs

Title: The Israeli Exception
Authors: John Feffer
Date: May 2010

Title: The Breakup
Authors: John Feffer
Date: May 2010

Title: Terrorism in a Teacup?
Authors: John Feffer
Date: May 2010

Title: Velvet Imperialists
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: The Really Really Long War
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: Nuclear Follies
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: Earthquake Olympics
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: Blood Sport
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: Allied Regime Change
Authors: John Feffer
Date: April 2010

Title: U.S. Blocks Israel-Syria Talks
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: May 2007

Title: Bad Behavior Brings Good Results
Authors: Marwan Kabalan, Michael Shank
Date: April 2007

Title: A Cluster Bomb Treaty: Again, It's the U.S. v. the World
Authors: Scott Stedjan, Laura Weis
Date: March 2007

Title: Reconstructing Iraq
Authors: Jason Yossef Ben-Meir
Date: January 2007

Title: Nothing to Laugh At
Authors: Davvid Warszawski
Date: January 2007

Title: Bush's SOTU: Annotated
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: January 2007

Title: Wrangling Over Arms Sales to China
Authors: Rachel Stohl
Date: December 2006

Title: U.S. Congress Should Make New Year's Resolution for Haiti
Authors: Brian Concannon
Date: December 2006

Title: The United States and Lebanon's Civil Strife
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: December 2006

Title: Strategic Partnership or Strategic Competition
Authors: Bonnie Glaser, James Nolt
Date: December 2006

Title: Madness and War
Authors: Conn Hallinan
Date: December 2006

Title: China: What's the Big Mystery?
Authors: John Feffer
Date: December 2006

Title: Central Asia Between Competition and Cooperation
Authors: Yu Bin
Date: December 2006

Title: Can't Stay the Course, Can't End the War, But We'll Call it Bipartisan
Authors: Phyllis Bennis, Erik Leaver
Date: December 2006

Title: Anti-Americanism and the Rise of Civic Diplomacy
Authors: Nancy Snow
Date: December 2006

Title: Gaza Plunges Deeper into Misery
Authors: Anthony Newkirk
Date: November 2006

Title: Falling In Line on Israel
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: November 2006

Title: Bush's Dysfunctional Cuba Policy
Authors: Wayne S. Smith
Date: November 2006

Title: South Africa's Political Turmoil
Authors: Martin Plaut
Date: October 2006

Title: Pyongyang 1, Bush 0
Authors: John Feffer
Date: October 2006

Title: Oil Trip
Authors: Emira Woods
Date: October 2006

Title: North Korea Returns to the Negotiating Table
Authors: John Feffer
Date: October 2006

Title: Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America
Authors: Juan Antonio Montecino
Date: October 2006

Title: Beware Empires in Decline
Authors: Michael T. Klare
Date: October 2006

Title: A Siamese Tragedy
Authors: Walden Bello
Date: October 2006

Title: Why Do They Hate US?
Authors: Clay Ramsay
Date: September 2006

Title: North Korea and the Politics of Famine
Authors: Jeff Feffer
Date: September 2006

Title: Bush at the UN: Annotated
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: September 2006

Title: Living on a Life Support Machine: The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan
Authors: Peter J. Middlebrook, Sharon M. Miller
Date: January 2006

Title: Timely Demise for Free Trade Area of the Americas
Authors: Laura Carlsen
Date: November 2005

Title: Regional Integration After the Collapse of the FTAA
Authors: Raúl Zibechi
Date: November 2005

Title: President Attempts to Show that Asia Matters to the United States
Authors: John Gershman
Date: November 2005

Title: Dark Armies, Secret Bases, and Rummy, Oh My!
Authors: Conn Hallinan
Date: November 2005

Title: Beyond Bonn: Revisioning the International Compact for Afghanistan
Authors: Peter Middlebrook, Mark Sedra
Date: November 2005

Title: Waiting to Exhale: The Six-Party Talks Agreement
Authors: Wade Huntley
Date: October 2005

Title: Uses of Ambiguity in North Korea Agreement
Authors: John Feffer
Date: October 2005

Title: Sleight of Hand: India, Iran, & the United States
Authors: Conn Hallinan
Date: October 2005

Title: Karen Hughes' Indonesia Visit Underscores Bush Administration's PR Problems
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: October 2005

Title: The United States, China, and India: A Story of Leaders, Partners, and Clients
Authors: Zia Mian
Date: September 2005

Title: Giving Democracy a Bad Name: Afghanistan's Parliamentary Elections
Authors: Jim Ingalls, Sonali Kolhatkar
Date: September 2005

Title: Feeding the Nuclear Fire
Authors: Zia Mian, M.V. Ramana
Date: September 2005

Title: U.S.-China Relations — Opportunities, Risks, and the Taiwan Issue
Authors: Thomas J. Bickford
Date: August 2005

Title: Security Council Reform Debate Highlights Challenges Facing UN
Authors: Ian Williams
Date: August 2005

Title: Bolton Appointment Provides New Opportunities
Authors: John Gershman
Date: August 2005

Title: August Around the World
Authors: Daniel Smith
Date: August 2005

Title: The U.S. and Iran: Democracy, Terrorism, and Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: July 2005

Title: The NPT at a Crossroads
Authors: Wade Huntley
Date: July 2005

Title: South America's New Militarism
Authors: Raúl Zibechi
Date: July 2005

Title: A Strategy for Ending the Iraq War
Authors: Tom Hayden
Date: July 2005

Title: Undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—It Didn't Start With the Bush Administration
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: June 2005

Title: The Me Too Club
Authors: Tad Daley
Date: June 2005

Title: The Iglesias Legacy and the IDB's Future
Authors: Nadia Martinez
Date: June 2005

Title: The G-8 Debt Deal: First Step On A Long Journey
Authors: Debayani Kar, Neil Watkins
Date: June 2005

Title: Reflections on Vietnam and the Iraq War
Authors: Daniel Ellsberg
Date: June 2005

Title: Lingering Shadows of World War II
Authors: Zia Mian
Date: June 2005

Title: Fuelling Mistrust Between Iran and the United States
Authors: Roger Howard
Date: June 2005

Title: Breaking the NPT (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) Stalemate: Japan Could Help
Authors: Anthony DiFilippo
Date: June 2005

Title: The Dragon & the Chrysanthemum
Authors: Conn Hallinan
Date: May 2005

Title: A Unified Security Budget for the United States, 2006
Authors: Marcus Corbin, Miriam Pemberton
Date: May 2005

Title: A New American Century
Authors: Zia Mian
Date: May 2005

Title: Washington Doesn't Get Its Way in the OAS: Latin America's Coming of Age
Authors: Laura Carlsen
Date: April 2005

Title: The Network Paradigm of Strategic Public Diplomacy
Authors: R. S. Zaharna
Date: April 2005

Title: How to End the Occupation of Iraq: Outmaneuver the War Proponents
Authors: Gareth Porter
Date: April 2005

Title: Missile Defense All Over Again
Authors: Michelle Ciarrocca
Date: October 2004

Title: U.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: John Lindsay-Poland
Date: August 2004

Title: Outsourcing: A Policy Agenda
Authors: Sarah Anderson, John Cavanagh
Date: April 2004

Title: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy
Authors: Mel Goodman
Date: February 2004

Title: FTAA Fails to Gain Support from Citizens and Governments Across the Region
Authors: Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Date: November 2003

Title: The Unintended Consequences of Crisis Public Diplomacy: American Public Diplomacy in the Arab World
Authors: Zaharna. R.S.
Date: June 2003

Title: Missile Defense
Authors: Michelle Ciarrocca
Date: May 2003

Title: Trade Is a Women's Issue
Authors: Bama Athreya
Date: December 2002

Title: Responding to North Korea's Surprises
Authors: John Feffer
Date: December 2002

Title: The Space Industry: Supporting U.S. Supremacy
Authors: Loring Wirbel
Date: November 2002

Title: U.S.-Iraq: On the War Path
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: October 2002

Title: Post-9/11 Economic Windfalls for Arms Manufacturers
Authors: Michelle Ciarrocca
Date: September 2002

Title: Global Toxics Treaties: U.S. Leadership Opportunity Slips Away
Authors: Kristin S. Schafer
Date: September 2002

Title: US-Russian Lessons for South Asia
Authors: Zia Mia, R. Rajaraman, Frank von Hippel
Date: August 2002

Title: G8: Failing Model of Global Governance
Authors: Tom Barry
Date: July 2002

Title: WTO Agreement on Agriculture: Suitable Model for a Global Food System?
Authors: Sophia Murphy
Date: June 2002

Title: Nuclear War in South Asia
Authors: Matthew McKinzie, Zia Mian, A.H. Nayyar, M.V. Ramana
Date: June 2002

Title: Global Public Health: Access to Essential Medicines
Authors: Robert Weissman
Date: June 2002

Title: U.S. Security Assistance to Israel
Authors: Zunes Stephen, Joseph Yackley
Date: May 2002

Title: The Peace Process Between Israel and Syria
Authors: Zunes Stephen
Date: May 2002

Title: Security Assistance After September 11
Authors: Tamar Gabelnick
Date: May 2002

Title: Privatizing Military Training
Authors: Deborah Avant
Date: May 2002

Title: Bush Policy Undermines Progress on Korean Peninsula
Authors: John Feffer
Date: March 2002

Title: Globalization & Militarization
Authors: John Feffer
Date: February 2002

Title: U.S.-Russia Nuclear Reductions
Authors: Jon Brook Wolfsthal
Date: November 2001

Title: U.S. Should Act to Open the Board Meetings of the IFIs
Authors: Robert Naiman
Date: November 2001

Title: Multilateral Debt: The Unbearable Burden
Authors: Soren Ambrose
Date: November 2001

Title: Walk Softly and Look Ahead in Nuclear South Asia
Authors: Zia Mian
Date: October 2001

Title: Use of Children as Soldiers
Authors: Shannon McManimon, Rachel Stohl
Date: October 2001

Title: U.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean
Authors: John Lindsay-Poland
Date: October 2001

Title: No Room for Mistakes: Rethinking Nuclear Technology
Authors: Lloyd J. Dumas
Date: October 2001

Title: Women & Development Aid
Authors: Ritu R. Sharma
Date: September 2001

Title: Ratifying Global Toxics Treaties: The U.S. Must Provide Leadership
Authors: Kristin S. Schafer
Date: September 2001

Title: Israel's Policy of Targeting Terrorists: Implications for the U.S.
Authors: R.S. Zaharna
Date: September 2001

Title: Andean Regional Initiative: A Policy Fated to Fail
Authors: Gina Amatangelo
Date: August 2001

Title: Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: U.S. Policy Challenges
Authors: Samina Ahmed
Date: July 2001

Title: Libya: More Balance Needed
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: July 2001

Title: G8 and Global Governance
Authors: Tom Barry
Date: July 2001

Title: Establishing Normal Trade Relations with Vietnam & Laos
Authors: Andrew Wells-Dang
Date: July 2001

Title: U.S. Security Assistance to Israel
Authors: Joseph Yackley
Date: June 2001

Title: U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam
Authors: Stephen Zunes
Date: June 2001

Title: U.S. Drug Policy & Intelligence Operations in the Andes
Authors: Michael L. Evans
Date: June 2001

Title: Star Wars Revisited
Authors: Michelle Ciarrocca, William Hartung
Date: June 2001

Title: Militarizing Latin America Policy
Authors: Adam Isacson
Date: May 2001

Title: Militarization of the U.S. Drug Control Program
Authors: , Gina Amatangelo
Date: May 2001

Title: Drug Trafficking & Money Laundering
Authors: Scott Ehlers, Bruce Zagaris
Date: May 2001

Title: Drug Policy: Failure at Home
Authors: , Eric Sterling
Date: May 2001

Title: Colombia in Crisis
Authors: Andrew Millar
Date: May 2001

Title: U.S.-Supported Iraqi Opposition
Authors: , Nicholas Arons
Date: April 2001

Title: Redefining Security: A Budget for a New Generation
Authors: , Greg Speeter
Date: April 2001

Title: New Balkan Policy Needed
Authors: , Robert D. Greenberg
Date: April 2001

Title: Myths and Realities of China's Military Power
Authors: , Thomas Bickford
Date: April 2001

Title: HIV/AIDS in Africa: Time to Stop the Killing Fields
Authors: Chinua Akukwe, Melvin Foote
Date: April 2001

Title: Free Trade Area of the Americas
Authors: , Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Date: April 2001

Title: "Free Trade" and Medicines in the Americas
Authors: , Robert Weissman
Date: April 2001

Title: U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward China
Authors: , Margaret Huang
Date: March 2001

Title: Coca Eradication
Authors: Jeremy Bigwood, Phillip Coffin
Date: March 2001

Title: Palestine and Israel
Authors: , Stephen Zunes
Date: February 2001

Title: Drug Certification
Authors: Gina Amatangelo, Bill Spencer
Date: February 2001

Title: Missile Defense & China
Authors: Robert Brown, Wade L. Huntley
Date: January 2001

Title: Iraq: 10 Years After Gulf War
Authors: , Stephen Zunes
Date: January 2001

Title: GATS and Women
Authors: , Marceline White
Date: January 2001

Title: Progress on the Korean Peninsula?
Authors: , John Feffer
Date: December 2000

Title: Foreign Economic Aid
Authors: , Carol Lancaster
Date: December 2000

Title: East Timor
Authors: , Lynn Fredriksson
Date: December 2000

Title: Sudan: Recasting U.S. Policy
Authors: , Dan Connell
Date: November 2000

Title: In Focus: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Authors: John Gershman
Date: November 2000

Title: In Focus: Sri Lanka's Long War
Authors: , Miriam Young
Date: October 2000

Title: In Focus: Peru: Democracy &Dictatorship
Authors: Coletta A. Youngers
Date: October 2000

Title: In Focus: Papua: Another East Timor?
Authors: , Abigail Abrash
Date: October 2000

Title: In Focus: Masculinity As Foreign Policy Issue
Authors: , Cynthia Enloe
Date: October 2000

Title: In Focus: Bolivia: Eradicating Democracy
Authors: George Ann Potter, Linda Farthing
Date: October 2000

Title: In Focus: Women in the Middle East
Authors: , As ad AbuKhalil
Date: September 2000

Title: In Focus: U.S. Policy Regarding Burma
Authors: , Philip S. Robertson
Date: September 2000

Title: In Focus: IMF: Reform, Downsize, or Abolish
Authors: Sarah Anderson
Date: September 2000

Title: In Focus: Greening the Bretton Woods Institutions
Authors: Andrea Durbin, Carol Welch
Date: September 2000

Title: In Focus: U.S.-China-Taiwan Military Relations
Authors: James A. Nolt
Date: April 2000

Title: In Focus: Structural Adjustment Programs & Poverty Reduction Strategy
Authors: Carol Welch
Date: April 2000

Title: In Focus: Reassessing Tibet Policy
Authors: A. Tom Grunfeld
Date: April 2000

Title: In Focus: Ozone Depletion & Global Warming
Authors: Jessica Vallette Revere
Date: April 2000

Title: In Focus: IMF: Case of a Dead Theory Walking
Authors: David Felix
Date: April 2000

Title: Nationalist Ideologies and Misperceptions in Indo-US Relations
Authors: Arun Swamy
Date: March 2000

Title: In Focus: U.S. Security Challenges & Issues in South Asia
Authors: Sumit Ganguly, David Stuligross
Date: March 2000

Title: In Focus: Central Asia: Aral Sea Problem
Authors: Erika Weinthal
Date: March 2000

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Multilateral Debt Burden
Authors: Soren Ambose
Date: March 2000

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Colombia in Crisis
Authors: Carlos Salinas
Date: March 2000

Title: Lebanon: Key Battleground for Middle East Policy
Authors: As`ad AbuKhalil, Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Stephen Zunes
Date: February 2000

Title: Humanitarian Military Intervention
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, As`ad Jules Lobel, Stephen Zunes
Date: January 2000

Title: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy at the End of the Century: Lost Opportunities and New Dangers
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Daryl G. Kimball
Date: September 1999

Title: Star Wars Revisited: Still Dangerous, Costly, and Unworkable
Authors: Tom Barry, William D. Hartung, Martha Honey
Date: September 1999

Title: Multilateral Debt
Authors: Soren Ambrose, Tom Barry, Martha Honey
Date: August 1999

Title: International Investment Rules and the Environment: Stuck in the Mud?
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Lyuba Zarsky
Date: August 1999

Title: AIDS and Developing Countries: Democratizing Access to Essential Medicines
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Robert Weissman
Date: August 1999

Title: U.S. Democratization Assistance
Authors: Tom Barry, Elizabeth Cohn, Martha Honey
Date: July 1999

Title: Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Janice C. Shields
Date: July 1999

Title: Export-Import Bank
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Janice C. Shields
Date: July 1999

Title: Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Policy
Authors: Tom Barry, Ellen Frank, Martha Honey
Date: June 1999

Title: U.S.- North Korea Relations
Authors: Tom Barry, John Feffer, Martha Honey
Date: May 1999

Title: Turkey: Arms and Human Rights
Authors: Tom Barry, Tamar Gabelnick, Martha Honey
Date: May 1999

Title: Population and Environment
Authors: Tom Barry, Robert Engelman, Martha Honey
Date: May 1999

Title: Bombs Away: A Call for the Unconditional Ending of the Bombing Campaign
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey
Date: May 1999

Title: The Global Sustainable Development Resolution
Authors: Tom Barry, Jeremy Brecher, Martha Honey, Brendan Smith
Date: April 1999

Title: World Bank's Environmental Reform Agenda
Authors: Tom Barry, Navroz K. Dubash, Martha Honey, Frances Seymour
Date: March 1999

Title: Women and the U.S. Military in East Asia
Authors: Tom Barry, Rachel Cornwell, Martha Honey, Gwyn Kirk, Margo Okazawa-Rey
Date: March 1999

Title: NATO at 50
Authors: Tomas Valasek
Date: March 1999

Title: Human Rights and U.S. Policy
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Joe Stork
Date: March 1999

Title: War in the Congo
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Thomas Turner
Date: February 1999

Title: The Pinochet Precedent
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Michael Ratner
Date: February 1999

Title: Reconfiguring Mexico Policy
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Eric L. Olson
Date: February 1999

Title: Military Strategy Under Review
Authors: Tom Barry, Carl Conetta, Martha Honey, Charles Knight
Date: January 1999

Title: Intellectual Property Rights and the Privatization of Life
Authors: Tom Barry, Kristen Dawkins, Martha Honey
Date: January 1999

Title: Hazardous Waste Disposal
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Kate O'Neill
Date: January 1999

Title: Environment and Security Policy
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Stacy D. VanDeveer
Date: January 1999

Title: Indonesia After Suharto
Authors: Abigail Abrash
Date: December 1998

Title: In Focus: The IMF and Good Governance
Authors: Carol Welch
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Trafficking in Women
Authors: Jyothi Kanics
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: The World Bank
Authors: Catherine Caufield
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Coca Eradication
Authors: Phillip Coffin
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Arms & Environmental Technologies
Authors: Miriam Pemberton
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: An Enforceable Social Clause
Authors: Terry Collingsworth
Date: October 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: US-Russia Security Relations
Authors: Laura Payne
Date: September 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Militarization of the U.S. Drug Control Program
Authors: Peter Zirnite
Date: September 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Drug Certification
Authors: Bill Spencer
Date: September 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Democratizing the Trade Debate
Authors: Lance Compa
Date: August 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Capital Flows and Environment
Authors: Hilary French
Date: August 1998

Title: Investment Liberalization Agenda
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, David C. Ranney
Date: July 1998

Title: Human Rights and Intelligence Reform
Authors: Carlos M. Alinas, Tom Barry, Martha Honey
Date: July 1998

Title: Foreign Policy In Focus: Investment Liberalization Agenda
Authors: David C. Ranney
Date: July 1998

Title: Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering
Authors: Tom Barry, Scott Ehlers, Martha Honey
Date: June 1998

Title: U.S.-Africa Economic Initiatives
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Douglas Tilton
Date: May 1998

Title: Investment Funds
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Lora Lumpe
Date: May 1998

Title: Global Banking
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Christian Weller
Date: May 1998

Title: Foreign Direct Investment
Authors: Tom Barry, George DeMartino, Martha Honey
Date: May 1998

Title: International Criminal Court
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Joe Stork
Date: April 1998

Title: IMF Bailouts and Global Financial Flows
Authors: Tom Barry, David Felix, Martha Honey
Date: April 1998

Title: Free Trade Area of the Americas
Authors: Tom Barry, Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Martha Honey
Date: April 1998

Title: Asian Financial Crisis
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Tim Shorrock
Date: April 1998

Title: Taxing Overseas Investments
Authors: Tom Barry, Martha Honey, Janice C. Shields
Date: January 1998

Title: Hunting Hugo
Authors: Conn Hallinan
Date: (Date Not Available)