With a global climate crisis fueled by rising greenhouse gas emissions on one hand and 1.6 billion people lacking access to electricity on the other the global community faces a serious quandary: How do we increase energy access while ensuring that our growing energy supply is clean and renewable? How can we structure a financing regime that meets both our environmental and social goals?
On July 27, 2011 scholars from the Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea, and the Washington Peace Center will hold a special discussion on the status of the Korean War Armistice and why a peace treaty to end the Korean War matters today in the context of the current military issues facing East Asia and the overall need for peacebuilding in this region.
The film by Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Saul Landau, “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up,” featuring Landau, Danny Glover and Fidel Castro (at age 84), shows how the U.S.-backed violence against Cuba has continued for decades and our government’s unusual obsession with Fidel Castro has led to the unjust conviction of the Cuban 5.
Beijing is rapidly expanding its influence in the Middle East. Will Washington do anything more than watch?
Burma and North Korea are the pariahs of Asia. Are these birds of a feather flocking together?
In their upcoming presidential elections, Iranians will make a choice that will have profound implications on their country’s relationship with the United States and the world.
China’s stimulus package is not likely to bail out either the Chinese peasants or the global economy.
The Six Party Talks are currently stalled. What is the likelihood that they will resume? Can they be the vehicle not only for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but a larger peaceful transformation of Northeast Asia? And what is the role of civil society in this process?
Join Wookshik Cheong, Akira Kawasaki, and John Feffer for a panel discussion of the next steps for peace in Northeast Asia.
Wooksik Cheong and Akira Kawasaki are two prominent young activists who work on peace and security issues. Wooksik Cheong is the representative of Peace Network and the author of many articles on Korean unification and regional security. Akira Kawasaki is an executive committee member of Peace Boat and the NGO Advisor for the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and the author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis.
Fouad Pervez and Sharad Joshi argue over the best way to move forward with U.S.-Pakistan relations.
The global economic crisis is just now hitting the developing world with devastating effects.
Pakistan has been a key U.S. ally on counter-terrorism. But it looks like Musharaff may no longer be our man in Pakistan.
The recent South Asian tsunami??s devastation has already claimed at least 144,000 lives, caused countless injuries and wiped out entire villages. Concern now turns to the escalating death count caused by the spread of disease.
Look for the Bush administration to push its “Proliferation Security Initiative” (PSI) during the president’s October trip to Asia.
UN Security Council Resolution 1511 is highly unlikely to secure any goals it was advertised to solve.
The new Security Council resolution does nothing to change the fundamental problems of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.