The National Interest articles from December 2005

The National Interest archives from December 2005

Jihad, unintended.(The Realist)
December 22, 2005... HOW PRESIDENT Bush and his team handle the three remaining years of his tenure in office--especially their efforts to deal with the interrelated problems of terrorism, proliferation and the war in Iraq--will have a major impact not only on his...

The freedom crusade, revisited: a symposium.
December 22, 2005... The Fall 2005 issue of The National Interest included a provocative contribution from Robert W. Tucker, a founding editor of this magazine, and David C. Hendrickson. Entitled "The Freedom Crusade", this essay questioned whether making the...

Thinking seriously: about energy and oil's future.
December 22, 2005... THE RUN-UP in gasoline and other energy prices--with its impact on consumers' purchasing power--has captured the public's attention after two decades of relative quiescence. Though energy mavens argue energy issues endlessly, it is only a sharp...

On leadership.
December 22, 2005... AMERICAN BUSINESS leaders and policymakers cannot afford to indulge in unrealistic expectations but need to face geopolitical and geo-economic realities. The United States may be the world's sole superpower at this moment in time, but if we do...

War, trade and utopia.
December 22, 2005... IN THE spring of 2001 Andrew Grove, the chairman of Intel, made a remarkable statement. Any conflict in or around the Taiwan Strait that resulted in a break in trade, he said, would result in the "computing equivalent of Mutually Assured...

Prone to violence: the paradox of the democratic peace.
December 22, 2005... THE BUSH Administration has argued that promoting democracy in the Islamic world, rogue states and China will enhance America's security, because tyranny breeds violence and democracies co-exist peacefully. But recent experience in Iraq and...

Her Majesty's secret service.(Islamic extremism and the secret services in the UK)
December 22, 2005... SHORTLY AFTER the Madrid bombings in March 2004, British security services seized a 1,000-pound cache of fertilizer used to make explosives in a raid on a self-storage facility in West London. This discovery prompted the United Kingdom's...

Terror and the Fifth Republic.
December 22, 2005... FOUR HUNDRED years of coping with revolution, subversion, occupation and decolonization have turned France into one of the most policed states in the world, with approximately 394 public personnel per 100,000 inhabitants, and one of America's...

Arming Europe.
December 22, 2005... SINCE THE end of the Cold War, Europe's defense industry has undergone important changes. There has been a marked consolidation of the defense industry and a visible increase in intra-European collaboration. In 1993 only two European defense...

Getting to no: the limits of multilateralism.
December 22, 2005... LAST DECEMBER the United States was presented with two breakthroughs, each poised to advance a key U.S. foreign policy priority: the promotion of democracy and nuclear non-proliferation. In Ukraine the "Orange Revolution" thwarted a corrupt...

A run for the money: spin-offs, rivals and UN reform.
December 22, 2005... IN THE fading light of Kofi Annan's tenure as a "reform" secretary general, super sleuth Paul Volcker has made plain that Saddam Hussein and his Ba'athi regime plundered the Oil for Food program. Oil for Food was touted as a humanitarian...

UN-divided.
December 22, 2005... FAILED REFORMS. A fight over a controversial nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A congressional threat to stop payments to the UN. We have seen this movie before. It played to large audiences during the Clinton years and has...

Mexico's wasted chance.
December 22, 2005... DID PRESIDENT Vicente Fox, who ended a 71-year one-party regime with his victory in July 2000, waste his chance to reform Mexico? If so, what are the consequences--both for Mexico and the United States? Mexico is certainly a bit freer today...

Canada's three solitudes.
December 22, 2005... EVERY COUNTRY has its problematic national story: race in the United States, class in Britain, empire in Russia. Canada's problem is its perpetual identity crisis, a collective neurosis bred of being a confederation of English and French...

Taking root: the practicalities of Latin American democracy.
December 22, 2005... THESE DAYS, news reports from Latin America suggest that citizens throughout the hemisphere are fuming with anti-capitalist and anti-American rage. The recent elections of leftist presidents in Chile, Brazil and Uruguay, as well as the...

A new forum for peace.
December 22, 2005... NORTHEAST ASIA now faces a series of critical security challenges. China's remarkable 25-year economic-reform effort has profoundly increased Beijing's economic, political and military influence in the region. Some fear that in response Japan...

Limiting the damage: the U.S.-Indian nuclear deal.
December 22, 2005... THE UNITED States has an important national interest in strengthening relations with India and making it a strategic partner in the 21st century. But efforts to cement ties with India should not be pursued in a way that undermines a U.S....

Poverty and globalization.
December 22, 2005... MOST OF the world's people live in countries where markets do not work properly and resources are not efficiently allocated. The notion that liberal economics has "failed" misses the point that in many areas of the world it has not really been...

Europe's new narrative.(Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945)(Book review)
December 22, 2005... Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (Penguin Press: New York, 2005), 964 pp., $39.95. THE THEME of Tony Judt's magisterial history of Europe since 1945 hinges on the symbolic moment that he suggests took place in Paris on...

Another national party no more?(Singing the Blues: The Once and Future Conservatives )(Book review)
December 22, 2005... John Redwood, Singing the Blues: The Once and Future Conservatives (London: Politicos, 2004), 320 pp., $39.95. Anthony Selden and Peter Snowdon, The Conservative Party: An Illustrated History (Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2004), 256 pp., 25 [pounds...

The ambiguous way forward: the puzzle of Sharon's intentions.(Reporter-at-Large)
December 22, 2005... SUMMER 2005 marked a double victory for Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon. His disengagement plan to remove the Jewish settlements from Gaza and the northern West Bank was carried out swiftly and smoothly, disproving scary predictions of...