The National Interest articles from December 1994

The National Interest archives from December 1994

Has democracy failed Russia?
December 22, 1994... THE SUDDEN COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union was immediately taken as vindication of Western values and proof of the superiority of both market economics and a democratic system of government. America had won the Cold War, and "market democracy" (to...

The Russian aid mess.
December 22, 1994... THE WELL-INTENTIONED effort to use United States tax dollars to influence significantly the course of events in Russia and Ukraine died a quiet death over the past few months. Born in 1991 as a $400 million bipartisan congressional initiative to...

Japan's Asia card.
December 22, 1994... IS JAPAN, HAVING drawn its last drop of cultural strength from the West, about to turn its back and abscond with Asia, adding a new intellectual and ideological dimension to the economic co-prosperity sphere it has so dramatically resurrected?...

Asia Pacific: the case for geopolitical optimism.
December 22, 1994... UNCERTAINTIES concerning the nature of the emerging international order are nowhere greater than in the vast region of the Asia-Pacific. Prognoses concerning the political future range from expectations that economic growth will bring...

Asia's rising middle class: not a force for change.
December 22, 1994... IN A RECENT issue of The National Interest, Eric Jones cast a skeptical eye over the Singapore school of authoritarian rule. Concluding his timely critique, Jones reassures those of a liberal disposition that the creation of a new middle class...

Policing the Golan? Yes: Peter W. Rodman.
December 22, 1994... IN MARCH 1975, the second Sinai negotiation between Israel and Egypt broke down. After several months of further labor, it was reconstructed successfully when a new element was added: Some Israeli warning stations in the heart of the Sinai were...

Policing the Golan? No: Douglas J. Feith.
December 22, 1994... AMERICAN AND ISRAELI officials say they expect U.S. troops to serve as peacekeepers or monitors on the Golan Heights in the event Israel and Syria conclude a peace agreement. Whether the United States should consent to such a deployment is a...

Cultures of spying.
December 22, 1994... IN THE UNITED States, spying has often been regarded as necessary, at times even as vital. But it has never been regarded as a normal peacetime pursuit. During the Second World War, the CIA'S precursor, the oss, mounted a vast cryptographic...

The future of intelligence.
December 22, 1994... WITHIN HOURS OF the arrest of CIA officer Aldrich Ames for espionage, unnamed agency officials were telling reporters that Ames was a drunk and a mediocre case officer. In the weeks that followed, former superiors and fellow officers described...

Jesus James Angleton: an all-purpose excuse. (former CIA counterintelligence chief)
December 22, 1994... On December 5, 1990, the CIA's Counterintelligence Center, where Aldrich Ames was assigned at the time, sent a memo to the Office of Security requesting a reinvestigation of him. The memo listed several suspicious facts: Ames' purchase of a house...

On reading my Stasi files.
December 22, 1994... AFTER THE FALL of the Berlin Wall and the political reunification of Germany, the new all-German government made the extraordinary decision to open most of the files of the East German secret police, nicknamed the Stasi. Some of the files had...

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals.
December 22, 1994... THERE SEEMS TO be no theory of why communism collapsed that does not send us scurrying back to take our own temperatures. Contemplating the post-communist world, we find ourselves falling into medical metaphors. After so long a political illness,...