During the months of November and December 2005, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution brought together a group of experts on Iraq to engage in a critical discussion about US policy. Upon the completion of their work, the Center’s Director, Kenneth M. Pollack, created this intelligent and thoughtful paper that details an alternative approach to the current US...

The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs was created in 2006 as part of the office of Georgetown University's President. The mission of the Center is to build knowledge, promote dialogue, and to support action "in the service of peace." On the site's homepage, visitors will be presented with five primary sections, including "Programs", "Events", "People", "Media", and "Databases"....

The Brookings Institution, America's oldest policy think tank, has recently made a new series of its publications, Policy Briefs, available at its web site. These are short papers that focus on various aspects of US and international politics, economics, and foreign policy. At present, some of the papers available are, including "China and the WTO," "Inside Outsourcing: More Bad News from Business...

Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a nonpartisan membership organization who is dedicated to "increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy." CFR's Web site is an online foreign affairs resource that contains updated information on terrorism; videos and transcripts of past meetings on America's response to terrorism; foreign...

This fine collection from the Georgetown University Library brings together over two hundred episodes from three television series moderated by Dean Peter Krogh between 1981 and 2005. The goal of this collection is "to illuminate… foreign policy issues that figured prominently toward the end of the 20th century and to preserve the content for future generations." These engaging conversations...

Courtesy of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), Debate-Central.org offers resources related to this year's National Forensic League high school debate topic: "Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction." The site, which is updated daily, features a wealth of links sorted into ten...

Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), a cooperative project of two independent foreign policy research and analysis institutions--the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies, aims to provide the public and policy-makers with "recommendations for a more responsible and visionary US foreign policy." The FPIF project publishes a series of In Focus policy briefs as well as an...

Foreign Policy has distinguished itself for decades by offering up thoughtful and critical analyses of a broad range of pressing policy issues, including international affairs, intergovernmental relations, and public policy on a global scale. This website presents a 50th anniversary review of the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962. On the site, visitors can experience the events of the crisis...

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is "the official documentary historical record of major US foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity." The series initially began in 1861 and now comprises over 350 volumes. Many volumes published since 1945 are available online from the State Department (see the January 21, 2000 Scout Report), and users can now read the full...

With the very official title of "Foreign Relations of the United States" (FRUS), this important United States government series serves as the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions. Produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, many of these printed volumes have been digitized and placed online here as part of the University of Wisconsin Digital...