PHYLLIS BENNIS

Director of The New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies pbennis [at] ips-dc.org

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of both TNI and the Insitute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. Phyllis is a journalist specialising in and issues. Formerly based at the United Nations, she has worked on US domination of the UN leading up to the Gulf War, economic sanctions on , international interventions and US foreign policy in the Middle East. The author and editor of books on Palestine, Iraq, the UN and the New World Order, her most recent publications are Ending the Iraq War: A Primer (Olive Branch Press, 2008), Understanding the US- crisis: A Primer (Olive Branch Press, 2008), Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer (Interlink, 2007), Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN Defy US Power (Interlink, 2005), La Ideologia neoimperial: La crisis de EEUU con Irak (Icaria/TNI/CIP 2003), co-authored with Mariano Aguirre, and Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis (Interlink, 2002).

Areas of interest Middle East Politics; Iraq Occupation; American Foreign Policy; United Nations Reform

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Understanding the US-Iran crisis Phyllis Bennis, Olive Branch Press, September 2008 Ending the Iraq War: A Primer Phyllis Bennis, Olive Branch Press, June 2008 Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer Interlink Publishing, 2007 Challenging Empire: People, Governments and the UN Defy U.S. Power Interlink Publishing, November 2005 Before And After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis Foreword by , Interlink Publishing Group, New York, 2002 Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conclict: A Primer, Trans-Arab Research Institute, 2003 Calling the Shots. How Washington Dominates Today's UN Foreword by Erskine Childers, Interlink Publishing Group, New York, 2000 Altered States. A Reader in the New World Order (Co-edited with Michel Moushabeck) Introduction by Noam Chomsky, Olive Branch Press, New York, 1993 Beyond the Storm. A Gulf Crisis Reader (Co-editor with Michel Moushabeck) Foreword by Edward W. Said and Introduction by Eqbal Ahmad, Olive Branch Press, New York, 1991 From Stones to Statehood. The Palestinian Uprising Photographs by Neal Cassidy, Olive Branch Press, New York, 1990 Contributions to books

"And the name for our prophet is democracy ", in Achin Vanaik (ed) Selling US Wars, TNI / Interlink publishing, 2007 With Mariano Aguirre La ideologiía neoimperial La crisis de EEUU con Irak TNI/CIP with Icaria, Barcelona, April 2003 "Democratising the Unborn State: Palestine, the PLO and the Struggle for Democracy" in Democracy and International Relations. Critical Theories/Problematic Practices, Edited by Hazel Smith, Macmillan, London, UK and St. Martin's Press, New York, USA, June 2000 "Iraq: The Impact of Sanctions and US Policy" (with Denis J. Halliday), Interviewed by David Barsamian, in Anthony Arnove (ed). Iraq Under Siege. The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, South End Press/Pluto Press, 2000 "The UN and Palestine: Partition and its Aftermath" in The June 1967 War: After Three DecadesEdited by William Haddad, Ghada Talhami and Janice Terry, Association of Arab-American University Graduates, 1998 "Blue Helmets: For What? For Whom?" in Erskine Childers (ed) Challenges to the United Nations. Building a Safer World, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994 "Command and Control: Politics and Power in the Post-Cold War" in Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck (eds) Altered States. A Reader in the New World Order, New York, 1991 "False Consensus: George Bush's United Nations" in Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck (eds) Beyond the Storm. A Gulf Crisis Reader, New York, 1989

Booklets Iran in the crosshairs: How to prevent Washington's next war Phyllis Bennis and the Iran team at the Institute for Policy Studies, 4 March 2008 Understanding the US-Iraq Crisis. The World's Response, the UN and International Law Institute for Policy Studies, January 2003 "Introduction: The South Asian Nuclear Tests. New Nuclear States and Reviving Nuclear Abolition" TNI/IPS, Testing the Limits, Amsterdam/Washington, August 1998 "Nukes in the Neighborhood. The Middle East after the South Asian Nuclear Tests" TNI/IPS, Testing the Limits, Amsterdam/Washington, August 1998

Reports IPS Statement on 2000 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq (with Erik Leaver and the IPS Iraq Task Force) Institue for Policy Studies, 25 October 2005 The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops (with Erik Leaver and the IPS Iraq Task Force) Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus, 31 August 2005 (with Erik Leaver) Ending the US War in Iraq: How to Bring the Troops Home and Internationalize the Peace Institute for Policy Studies, 12 January 2005 - versión español Paying the Price. The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War (with the IPS Iraq Task Force) IPS/Foreign Policy in Focus, 24 June 2004 [PDF document] - Key Findings Coalition of the Willing or Coalition of the Coerced? How the Bush Administration Influences Allies in its War on Iraq (with Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh) Institute for Policy Studies, 24 March 2003 [PDF document]

Papers and speeches Corpocracy vs the global commons Speech at a public meeting "Corpocracy vs the global commons", Melbourne, Australia, 29 July 2005 The Significance of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict to Contemporary Global Politics Summary of a speech delivered at a conference Peace in Palestine, Putrajaya, 28 March 2005 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Solemn Commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations, New York, 1 December 2003 Going Global. Building a Movements against Empire TNI/IPS, April 2003 prepared for the TNI Fellows' Meeting, 16-17 May 2003, Amsterdam Talk Annual Solemn Meeting of the UN General Assembly Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 29 November 2002 US Policy after Desert Fox Contribution to the ADC (Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee) Foreign Policy Symposium What Next: Towards a Responsible Iraq Policy, 29 December 1998 Palestine after Oslo. A Report for NGOs on the Question of Palestine Peace Conference Information Project, May 1997 Online in two parts: After Oslo 1 After Oslo 2 After Madrid: The PLO- Agreement A Report for the ICCP/NACC NGOs on Question of Palestine, Peace Conference Information Project, 30 September 1993

Journal Articles Veto The Link, Vol. 36, No. 1, January-March 2003 Before and After: US Foreign Policy in 2001 Anuario CIP 2002 The Newest New World Order published in Spanish translation as El novísimo nuevo orden mundial, Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales, No. 75, Autumn 2001 US-Iraq Conflict In Focus, November 1997 US-UN Relations In Focus, December 1996 US-Israel Policy In Focus, November 1996 US Strategic Reach in the Middle East In Focus, November 1996 US-Iraq Policy: Recent Military Attacks In Focus, October 1996