Leveraging "3D" Security: From Rhetoric to Reality
November 14, 2006 | Knitting defense, development, and diplomacy together--the ups and the downsides of a real work in progress.
Articles by Miriam Pemberton
Poll: Fewer Guns, More Talk
October 27, 2006 | FPIF's new department War and Peace looks at the big picture of how to build a more secure world. In the debut article, Poll: Fewer Guns, More Talk, department editor Miriam Pemberton reports that the votes are already in and the winner is a new foreign policy.
Militarizing the Border While the World Burns
October 17, 2006 | It's fair to ask what the makers of exotic fighter aircraft know about wall building that a garden-variety American construction company doesn't.
We Need Action on Real Threats At Home
September 13, 2006 | The people of this country need and deserve not partisan spinning, but action on the real threats close to home.
If It Looks Like a Landmine, Smells Like a Landmine…
August 25, 2006 | The Pentagon claims to have built a better landmine that targets soldiers and spares civilians. These two leaders of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines say: Back to the drawing board.
Is This Any Way to Secure a Country?
July 10, 2006 | Congress should consider the range of security tools we have--tools of offense , defense and prevention--as a whole.
A Unified Security Budget for the United States, 2007
May 2, 2006 | A Unified Security Budget for the United States asks many of the questions about the security budget that members of Congress and the administration are unwilling to address while making bold recommendations for reform.
Fudging The Numbers
January 23, 2006 | Before the Bush administration kicks things off with its 2007 budget request in early February, it seems bent on proving that, in the fantasy department, it can go head-to-head with Hollywood.
Addressing the Nuclear Proliferation Challenge: Cooperation is Not Capitulation
January 12, 2006 | The director of the Arms Control Association debates a Fellow of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy on the way out of the current crisis in nuclear arms control.
Getting Real(istic) About Nonproliferation
January 12, 2006 | Does the current crisis over the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran mean that the nuclear nonproliferation regime should be strengthened and reformed, or scrapped? Here is an argument for scrapping it.