The National Interest articles from December 1998

The National Interest archives from December 1998

The ties that fray: why Europe and America are drifting apart.
December 22, 1998... Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are fond of describing NATO as the most successful military alliance in modern history. Who can blame them? The transatlantic partnership between Europe and America brought peace to a war-torn...

Russia's crisis, America's complicity.
December 22, 1998... The appointment of the Primakov government in September represents more than a change in personalities or a shift in Russian economic policy. It reflects profound changes in Russian politics, some of which have serious implications for the...

Foreign policy and domestic scandal.
December 22, 1998... On October 20, 1973, an Arab-Israeli war was still raging in the Middle East when the "Saturday night massacre" occurred in Washington. President Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox precipitated the resignation of...

Can Japan come back?(emerge from recession)
December 22, 1998... By the time the bombing stopped and the smoke cleared, Japan's total economic losses from World War II amounted to the equivalent of about one year's national output. That tally included everything that could have a price put upon it - the...

The rise of English nationalism and the Balkanization of Britain.
December 22, 1998... The continued existence of Britain as a medium-sized power with a more than medium-sized role has long been one of the given assumptions of international affairs. It is also a strategically crucial American assumption. Enthusiasts for the...

Courting danger: what's wrong with the international criminal court.
December 22, 1998... Advocates of a permanent international court to try perpetrators of war crimes and other "crimes against humanity" achieved a major success in July 1997, with the adoption of a multilateral agreement called "the Statute of Rome." This treaty...

"Orientalism," the evolution of a concept.
December 22, 1998... In his much visited web site devoted to the Asian financial panic, economist Paul Krugman has said, "Anyone who claims to fully understand the economic disaster that has overtaken Asia proves, by that very certainty, that he does not know what...

Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Rosemary Wakeman, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 323 pp., $45. Toulouse, metropole of the Languedoc or Midi-Pyrenees area in southwestern France, went through an exhilarating experience after World War II. The city grew. Not...

Secrecy: The American Experience.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Daniel Patrick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), 262 pp., $22.50. The most recent public service that Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has performed for his country was his able stewardship of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting...

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, vol. 10, Cuba: 1961-1962.(Review)
December 22, 1998... U.S. Department of State, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), 1120 pages, $57. Within weeks of coming to power in January 1961, the administration of John F. Kennedy had "changed the face of American foreign policy."...

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World.(Review)
December 22, 1998... James Chace, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 512 pp., $30. He was colorful and brainy, stylish and witty, hot-tempered and domineering, visionary and pragmatic - and a near genius with the written and spoken word. He was a partisan...

Radio Free Europe and the Pursuit of Democracy: My War Within the Cold War.(Review)
December 22, 1998... George R. Urban, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 322 pp, $35. When the Venezuelan terrorist "Carlos" (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez) was run to earth in Khartoum four years ago and flown to Paris for trial, the charges against him...

Wye gamble?(US role in Wye Memorandum, peace agreement between Israel and Palestine)
December 22, 1998... As with the famous September 13, 1993 handshake on the White House lawn, and as with every other symbolic passage in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations since, the quick-firing impresarios of the electronic media have referred to the Wye...