The National Interest articles from December 1993

The National Interest archives from December 1993

Beyond left and right. (US foreign policy)
December 22, 1993... "...if when the chips are down the world's most powerful nation, the United States, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and institutions throughout the world." President...

America, know thyself. (US foreign policy evaluation)
December 22, 1993... AFTER NEARLY A year of the Clinton administration there is still no consensus, either among the foreign policy elite or in the country at large, about America's role in the world. What are America's foreign purposes? Is America the world's...

Missed opportunities: Washington politics and nuclear proliferation.
December 22, 1993... IN HIS FIRST press conference after winning the election, Bill Clinton listed his top five foreign policy priorities. Third on his list, after cutting the defense budget and reducing nuclear arsenals, was "working hard to stop the proliferation...

Salinastroika: less than meets the eye. (President Carlos Salinas de Gortari)
December 22, 1993... PRESIDENT CARLOS Salinas de Gortari took office in 1988 after an election most Mexicans believe he lost. Despite systematic fraud and enormous expenditures of state resources, the electoral alchemists of the Institutional Revolutionary Party...

Yeltsin: shadow of a doubt. (Boris Yeltsin)
December 22, 1993... THE RIPPLED WATERS of the Moscow River flowed under the Borodino Bridge as crowds of spectators lined up along its banks to take pictures of the blackened facade of the former Russian Parliament building. In the distance, crows circled the...

The visible hand. (laissez-faire)
December 22, 1993... A HUNDRED YEARS ago, Great Britain, then the world's premier power, went into a long-term decline. Annual economic growth 1871-1913 averaged only 1.6 percent and historians have labeled this era "the Great Depression." During this period, the...

Turkish journey. (Turkey's political scene)
December 22, 1993... FOR THE WESTERNER in Trabzon the problem is orientation. This ancient Black Sea port, where Xenophon rested after the Anabasis, has nothing classical about it now. Except for the Turkish and Russian signs, you might be in a flyblown French...

Fields of dreams. (protectionism in the French audiovisual industry)
December 22, 1993... A MOBILIZATION OF intellectual, business, and political figures, with socialists, communists, fascists, Gaullists, and democrats marching side by side, is taking place these days in France. Their demand is that cultural products, especially...

The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe.
December 22, 1993... SOME TIME IN early 1988, Zbigniew Brzezinski came to London and lectured on "the spring-time of peoples." On the evidence of pamphlets and "feel," he said that communism would soon be over. There would be rebellion everywhere, and the nations...

The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Fury of Nationalism.
December 22, 1993... WILLIAM PFAFF is an American who has lived for years in France, regularly writing for the New Yorker and the International Herald Tribune and periodically publishing books that provide perceptive and sophisticated interpretations of the large...

The Endangered American Dream.
December 22, 1993... WITH THE USSR acronym already fading out of memory, governments are turning to the dangerous, dirty, and unglamorous task of pulling apart their nukes and reprocessing the components. But that is not the only adjustment that marks the passage of...