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The National Interest articles from December 2000
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The National Interest archives from December 2000
Where Does Russia Belong?
December 22, 2000... OVER THE PAST half decade, our debate about Russia-- and, for that matter, Russia's debate about us--has been episodic but always excitable. The issue or problem dominating the news at any given moment has been seen again and again as the test...
China: Getting the Questions Right.
December 22, 2000... THE CHALLENGE presented by a rising China is the principal issue facing American foreign policy. This is not always obvious to most Americans or even to many of our leaders. Since the end of the Cold War, defense policy has been absorbed in...
American Sovereignty and the UN.
December 22, 2000... EARLIER THIS year, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered an address to the General Assembly in which he declared that "the last right of states cannot and must not be the right to enslave, persecute or torture their own citizens." The...
The Rocky Shoals of International Law.
December 22, 2000... ALTHOUGH international law has always been a consideration for American foreign policymakers, it has rarely commanded the focus of their attentions. Under the next president, this will have to change. Since the Cold War's end, a number of...
Colombia: Crossing a Dangerous Threshold.
December 22, 2000... ALTHOUGH THE United States has been involved deeply in Colombia's internal affairs for some time, we stand now on the threshold of a momentous change in the nature of that involvement. This has provoked intense, if not always edifying, debate....
Human Nature and Human Rights.
December 22, 2000... IN THE CLOSING months of his presidency, Bill Clinton and some of his entourage have taken to using the buzzphrase "human and political rights" to replace the simpler "human rights." A call to the White House press office produced no...
The Deconstruction of Death.
December 22, 2000... The Coming Politics of Biotechnology
SINCE THE eighteenth century, a succession of technological revolutions has transformed the human condition and the course of history. First, the steam engine took center stage. By the end of the...
German Fictions: An Exchange.
December 22, 2000... Jan-Werner Mueller, Center for European Studies, Harvard University:
FOUR years ago, Jacob Heilbrunn, writing in Foreign Affairs' November/December 1996 issue, advanced the notion that Germany was turning more nationalist with the rise of...
The Real Synthesis.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Michael Burleigh, The third Reich: A New History (New York: Hill and Wang, 2000), 938 pp., $40.
THIS IS a very large book, nearly one thousand pages, and not without some merits. But it is not really about the Third Reich, and it is not a...
Holding the Bridge.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Robert G. Kaufman, Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000), 548 pp., $30.
IT WAS Reagan National Security Adviser Richard Allen who characterized Scoop Jackson by evoking the legend of Horatius,...
Hyphenating Foreign Policy.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Tony Smith, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 190 pp., $35.
FROM the days of the Founding Fathers, who were forced to contend with a...
The Vanity of Reason.(Review)
December 22, 2000... J.W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 271 pp., $29.95.
John Dunn, The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 401 PP., $30.
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Letters.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Living With Russia:
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is broadly correct in his bleak picture of Russia today ("Living With Russia", Fall 2000), but there is one aspect of his essay that is truly puzzling: where he advocates the Turkey of Kemal...
Jumping to Confusions.
December 22, 2000... IT IS A RARE moment for those who contemplate international politics when a dramatic event suddenly clarifies seemingly insoluble arguments over basic principles and policies. Such moments are of two basic types: those that repudiate a course...