The National Interest articles from December 1995

The National Interest archives from December 1995

The World Trade Center bomb: who is Ramzi Yousef? And why it matters.
December 22, 1995... ACCORDING TO THE presiding judge in last year's trial, the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto its twin, amid a cloud of cyanide gas. Had the attack gone as planned,...

Chirac: beyond Gaullism? (French President Jacques Chirac)
December 22, 1995... The annual G-7 economic summits have been justly described as photo opportunities in which anything except economics may be discussed. The Halifax Summit of June 1995 was no exception, the sherpas having gotten their masters to agree on the...

Deja vu all over again: Algeria, France, and us.
December 22, 1995... Knowing history can indeed help us avoid being "condemned to repeat it" though as often as not only by making new, more interesting mistakes. But how can we explain a case of two peoples who seem compelled both to remember and relive an...

Churchill's realism: reflections on the Fulton speech. (speech at Westminster College on March 5, 1946)
December 22, 1995... WINSTON CHURCHILL'S "Iron Curtain" speech, delivered in the gymnasium of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, is one of the two or three most significant speeches of the twentieth century. It was made at a pregnant moment...

Kenya: a tarnished jewel.
December 22, 1995... From the beginning, Kenya was the jewel in Britain's African crown, an idyllic, wife-swapping, polo-playing, lion-shooting place in the sun for the restless, titled, but often impecunious younger sons of empire. The viscounts and the baronets...

"Asianism" and Asian security.
December 22, 1995... When, in January 1995, China seized territory from the Philippines in the South China Sea, the states of East and Southeast Asia conspicuously balked at meeting the challenge that this peremptory action posed. Despite the fact that it happened...

Another way to skin a cat: the spirit of capitalism and the Confucian ethic.
December 22, 1995... ONE MORNING WHEN I was last in Hong Kong I asked my friend Miss Lim, who always cleans my room at the University's guest house, what she did with the money she earned as a Hong Kong chambermaid. "Have you ever been to Petra?" she replied....

Australia and Asia: espresso democracy in a Satay region.
December 22, 1995... The struggle between Australia's history and geography -- the history dominated by British influence, the geography by proximity to Asia -- has been an enduring theme in the country's contemplation of itself. But while the contest is not new,...

Paradise denied: the State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe.
December 22, 1995... "Keep silence before me, O islands, And let the people renew their strength; Let them come near, then let them speak; Let us come near together for judgment." -- Isaiah 41:1 Of all the remarks philosophers have made about history, few...

Banking on Union? (European Monetary Union)
December 22, 1995... THERE HAS recently been sharp debate about that centerpiece of European Union (EU) planning, the European Monetary Union (EMU). In the run-up to the 1996 conference to review the EU's Maastricht Treaty -- and leaving aside those who dislike...

A modest proposal: southern Africa and the World Bank.
December 22, 1995... Serendipity refers to unexpected benign coincidence, and the Summer 1995 issue of The National Interest exhibited it well. Taken together, remarks made by Nicholas Eberstadt and Clifford M. Lewis on one hand, and by Francis Fukuyama on the...

In Confidence.
December 22, 1995... Washington has lived by leaks and rumors for a very long time, but until the collapse of communism there was one person in town with whom it was always safe to let your hair down. During his quarter-century tenure as Soviet ambassador, you...

Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War.
December 22, 1995... During June 1994, television newsreels showed former President Jimmy Carter preparing to enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see...

"Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War: New Evidence from Russian Archives," Cold War International History Project Working Paper No. 8.
December 22, 1995... During June 1994, television newsreels showed former President Jimmy Carter preparing to enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see...

The 1951 Korean Armistice Conference: A Personal Memoir.
December 22, 1995... During June 1994, television newsreels showed former President Jimmy Carter preparing to enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see...

The Korean War: An International History.
December 22, 1995... During June 1994, television newsreels showed former President Jimmy Carter preparing to enter North Korea on a nuclear peace mission. For a brief moment, as Mr. Carter stood talking to North Korean officials at Panmunjom, one could see...

Into the shooting gallery.
December 22, 1995... WHEN I contemplate Clinton administration policies toward the Balkans and NATO, what comes to mind is M.C. Escher's maddening line sketch of flights of connected castle staircases, drawn to produce perfect ambiguity as to whether a pedestrian...