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CIP Experts provide unique and informed analysis of key events and issues around the world at a time when progressive foreign policy alternatives are urgently needed. 
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June 22, 2019

Trump Policy and Trends in U.S. Arms Sales

by William Hartung

Increasing U.S. arms sales – and bragging about their economic benefits in the United States – has been a central focus of the Trump administration’s foreign policy...

June 21, 2019

Pentagon could cut $1.2T over 10 years, report finds

William Hartung quoted

A report from the Sustainable Defense Task Force finds that the Pentagon could cut $1.2T over 10 years...

June 20, 2019

POLITICO: Morning Defense, 6/19/2019

by David Brown

The Center for International Policy and the Sustainable Defense Task Force hold a discussion at 10:30 on a report titled "A Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending," which details how the U.S. can cut over $1.2 trillion in projected Pentagon spending over the next decade while improving national security...

June 20, 2019

Pentagon could cut $1.2T over 10 years, report finds

William Hartung quoted

A report from the Sustainable Defense Task Force finds that the Pentagon could cut $1.2T over 10 years...

June 20, 2019

The Damning UN Report on the Murder and Dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi

Ben Freeman interviewed

The report draws a clear line all the way up the chain to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman...

June 19, 2019

Mighty Earth becomes a member of ResponsibleSteel

Glenn Hurowitz quoted

Environmental organisation Mighty Earth has officially become a member of ResponsibleSteel, a global, multi-stakeholder, not-for-profit standard and certification initiative for the responsible sourcing and production of steel. Mighty Earth has joined ResponsibleSteel to help address the outsized climate impact of steel and the entire heavy industrial sector. It is the first US-based organisation to join the initiative...

June 21, 2019

Laura Carlsen discusses the tensions at the US-Mexico border

Laura Carlsen interviewed

For more on the tensions and the unraveling situation on the U.S. – Mexico border, CGTN’s Roee Ruttenberg spoke with Laura Carlsen from the Center of International Policy...

June 21, 2019

Daily On Defense: 6/20/19

William Hartung quoted

The report, “Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending,” argues that contrary to conventional Pentagon wisdom, the U.S. military has been adequately funded during the period since 2011 in which the Budget Control Act imposed spending caps...

June 20, 2019

How the Pentagon can save over $1.2 trillion

William Hartung quoted

The report, “Sustainable Defense: More Security, Less Spending,” offers new strategies that challenge the National Defense Strategy by encouraging more diplomacy (specifically in regard to the Iran nuclear deal) and less military confrontation to cut costs. It also says the NDS “exaggerate[s] the challenges posed by major powers” like China and Russia...

June 20, 2019

Will Raytheon Derail Pentagon Reform?

by William Hartung

It’s been 58 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his speech about “unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” That complex is if anything growing in influence in recent years, thanks in no small part to President Trump...

June 19, 2019

Reining in the Pentagon: More security, less spending

by William Hartung and Ben Freeman

This rush to throw more money at the Pentagon ignores the fact that more spending does not necessarily provide more security...

June 16, 2019

Moon Jae-in: stuck between a rock and a hard place on North Korea

by Henri Féron

On June 15, 2000, the leaders of South and North Korea met for the first time and discussed what then seemed like imminent reunification. Nineteen years on, the dream of a united Korea slips further and further away...

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