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New from PPI | August 5, 2009
The Big Dog is Back
By Ed Kilgore
Former President Clinton's role in securing the release of journalists from North Korea shows his much-maligned value to a Democratic successor remains--as did his low profile up until now.
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New from PPI | May 4, 2009
Gates Gets It
By Mark Ribbing
U.S. policymakers would do well to take a very close look at an initiative that may offer lessons on how the U.S. and its allies can succeed in Afghanistan.
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Front & Center | April 16, 2009
Needed: A Special Envoy to Mexico and the Caribbean
By Mark Ribbing
The need for such an envoy derives from the severity and proximity of the challenges emerging from the region -- but also from the huge gains the United States stands to achieve if it can establish itself as a constructive partner to its southern neighbors.
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Opinion | January 13, 2009
America as an Honest Broker
By Will Marshall and Jim Arkedis
Whether or not the Gaza war is still raging when Barack Obama takes office, he should act promptly to restore America's credibility as an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Front & Center | September 24, 2008
A European Perspective on Georgia
By Ralf Fücks
The war involving Georgia has changed the
political landscape far beyond the Caucasus. This is not a conflict the European Union can shy away from.
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Opinion | April 6, 2008
Bush Fails to Help Struggle for Human Rights in China
By Jim Arkedis
By heedlessly agreeing to attend the Olympic ceremonies in Beijing without conditions, President Bush has sent an unmistakable signal that America turns a blind eye to China's abuses of its own people.
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Essay | September 10, 2007
Rejoin the Battle of Ideas
By Will Marshall
Come what may in Iraq, the next president's top priority will be regaining the moral and ideological initiative against Islamist
extremism.
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Blueprint Magazine | July 22, 2006
Confronting jihad
By Will Marshall
It's time for America to speak to the Muslim world less in the language of war and more in the common vocabulary of universal human aspirations for freedom and justice.
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Front & Center | July 18, 2006
Divest from Sudan to Help Darfur
By Daniel Millenson
If big institutional investors, like state and local pension funds and university endowments, join in a divestment campaign that targets the honey-pot companies that sustain Khartoum, they may be able to produce results for Darfur where mere indignation has so far failed.
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Blueprint Magazine | May 17, 2006
Warming to India
By Wesley Clark and Will Marshall
Instead of persisting in vain attempts to punish
India for its refusal to sign the
1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States should enlist New Delhi's help in designing a fairer and more effective global
nonproliferation system.
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Front & Center | April 24, 2006
Still Stymied In Darfur
By Kevin Croke
Three years into the conflict in Darfur, it's still not clear if the United States has a strategy to stop the ongoing genocide. The administration needs a new way to show Khartoum there will be consequences for continuing to defy the international community. And it needs it quickly.
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Front & Center | March 20, 2006
Letter From Israel: A Yearning For Normalcy
By Fred Siegel
The biggest issue in this year's yawn of an Israeli election campaign is not security but social inequality.
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Blueprint Magazine | February 9, 2006
Give Politics a Chance
By Will Marshall
Now is the time for Iraqis to answer existential questions about their nationhood, as Americans did after our own independence.
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Blueprint Magazine | February 9, 2006
Sharing the Oil Wealth
By Charles Moskos
Settling the oil issue in Iraq can be a vital step toward a true "mission accomplished" for the United States.
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Front & Center | February 9, 2006
Decision Time on Darfur
By Kevin Croke
Can the international community summon the will to intervene effectively in Darfur? The answer depends in large part on American policy.
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Front & Center | December 13, 2005
Oil Deal
By Charles Moskos
Iraq's Sunnis need tangible assurances that they will get a fair shake in a new, Shiite-dominated national order. That's why the new government that is elected this week should move quickly to revisit the issue of how oil revenues are divided.
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Blueprint Magazine | January 8, 2004
Stay and Win in Iraq
By Will Marshall
America has about six months to break the resistance and give the new Iraqi government
a fighting chance to survive. It would help if our leaders stopped casting anxious glances toward the exits.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 15, 2003
Is the West Finished?
By Will Marshall
America's determination to defang Saddam Hussein has provoked a bitter family feud within the Atlantic alliance. Does it spell the end of the West as we know it?
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Blueprint Magazine | December 2, 2002
The Middle East Democracy Deficit
By Steven J. Nider
Instead of supporting repressive regimes, the United States should tie aid to reforms. More stability isn't the alternative to Islamic extremism -- democracy is.
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Blueprint Magazine | September 25, 2002
Making the Case on Iraq
By Will Marshall
Democrats need to take their own distinctive stand on Iraq. As internationalists rather than unilateralists, Democrats are in a strong position to challenge the international community to live up to its responsibility to settle accounts with Saddam Hussein's outlaw regime.
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