Follow the Money: Formulating American Policy on Terrorist Financing
Kathleen M. Tong

Tong explores the significance of tracking terrorist financing networks in order to effectively undermine terrorism.

Rethinking Development: How Domestic Institutions and Accessible Property Rights Can Spur Development
Richard T. Halvorson

Halvorson argues that underdevelopment stems for the failure of foreign aid and emphasizes the need for institutionalized property rights to promote growth in lesser-developed countries.

Foreign Policy Implications of the U.S. Intervention in Somalia, 1992-1994
Melody Hildebrandt

In analyzing the intervention in Somalia of the early 1990s, Hildebrandt argues that the U.S. is willing to intervene for solely humanitarian reasons, but is unwilling to engage in nation building.

Power Maximization and United States National Missile Defense Policy: An Explanation of Motivating Intent in the Present Bush Administrration
Courtney L. Keefe

By discussing the renewed quest for a national missile defense system, Keefe argues that due to security concerns, the United States will continue to take advantage of opportunites to maximize it relative power.

Understanding Kennedy's Alliance for Progress
Matthew F. MacGregor

MacGregor uses the Alliance for Progress in Latin America of the 1960s as a case study to argue that the United States needs to combine realist and liberal theory to form a comprehensive foreign policy.

An interview with Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Former Ambasssador to the Republic of Korea
Perspectives on the Korean Peninsula

Conducted by Aditi Chawla and Melody Hildebrandt

An interview with Stanley Karnow, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
Perspectives on the Philippines

Conducted by Aditi Chawla and Ming Hua Li