by Carl Conetta, Charles Knight | Jan 1, 1999 | War & Peace
Key Points The new military strategy retains a focus on major regional wars. It complements this with increased attention to possible new major competitors arising after 2010-2015. The Pentagon sees an increased role for the armed forces in “shaping” the...
by Terry Collingsworth | Oct 1, 1998 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance
Key Points The failure of sustainable economic growth to take hold in the developing world demonstrates that “free trade” is not delivering on its promise to bring prosperity to the world’s poor. The new global economy forces developing countries to...
by Laura Payne | Sep 1, 1998 | War & Peace
Key Points U.S.-Russian security relations have slowly deteriorated since 1993. Russian economic and military erosion has negatively impacted its foreign and security relations. Tensions are growing over increased U.S. involvement in the politics of the former Soviet...
by Hilary French | Aug 1, 1998 | Environment, Labor, Trade, & Finance
Key Points The environmental implications of this decade’s massive movements of money into the developing world, while enormous, are also complex and somewhat contradictory. Investors are often drawn to places endowed with bountiful natural resources but...
by Robert Weissman | Jun 1, 1998 | Democracy & Governance, Food & Farm, Health, Labor, Trade, & Finance
Key Points Tobacco use is a growing global epidemic, hitting the third world, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union the hardest. Ten million people will die each year from tobacco-related diseases by 2030. The U.S. government has long assisted the international...
