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The National Interest articles from January 2007
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The National Interest archives from January 2007
End the crusade.(The Realist)(Iraq War, 2003-)
January 1, 2007... HERE THEY go again. After spending more than three years, the lives of nearly 3,000 American soldiers, and well over $300 billion in Iraq, the coalition of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists who brought America into the quagmire now...
Middle East Peace?(Arab-Israeli conflicts)
January 1, 2007... Perhaps the most courageous and imaginative article to appear on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in any American public policy journal in recent years is the eloquent articulation of an ethical realist approach by John C. Hulsman, "Grasping...
A war, or un-war?(Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism)
January 1, 2007... In the spirit of constructive debate to advance American foreign policy to navigate "through the shoals of the coming years" and "safely steer the ship of state", I'd like to address some of the comments made in J. Peter Pham's review of my...
Ensuring a legacy: solidifying the Bush Doctrine.
January 1, 2007... AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, President George W. Bush set forth on a revolutionary approach to U.S. foreign policy. There was a tremendous sense of urgency and an assumption that the old way of doing things had not worked. The strategy of pursuing...
Lines in the sand.(American foreign policy)
January 1, 2007... WE OWE to Rousseau the insight that if there were no nation-states there would be no wars, and to Hobbes the insight that without nation-states there would be no domestic order. Foreign policy choices often involve judgments about the lesser of...
In the right direction.(presidential legacy, George W. Bush)
January 1, 2007... GEORGE W. BUSH has staked his presidential legacy (and a whole lot more) on a bid to create democracy in Iraq, the centerpiece of his "freedom agenda." But he has made two crucial mistakes. He has raised unreasonably high expectations among...
The president's man.(McGeorge Bundy)
January 1, 2007... MCGEORGE BUNDY invented the position of presidential national security advisor. In the service of John E Kennedy, he converted a job established by Dwight D. Eisenhower to coordinate formal interagency planning into one providing day-to-day...
Reshaping our Iran policy.(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2007... IN RECENT issues of The National Interest, there has been an ongoing discussion as to whether Iran can be deterred as the Soviet Union was during the Cold War. I have serious doubts. The ideology that governs Iran is as noxious as the...
Mind the gap.(american foreign policy)
January 1, 2007... WHEN IT comes to American foreign policy, U.S. policymakers and citizens from the rest of the world would not be expected to see eye to eye. They do, however, agree on one thing--they both mistrust how ordinary Americans think about...
Beyond the NRA doctrine.
January 1, 2007... THE LACK of a transatlantic policy to prevent the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction is perplexing. The United States has declared that the "proliferation of nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat to our national security", and...
Jigsaw jihadism.(controlling religious terrorism)(Viewpoint essay)
January 1, 2007... LATELY, ALL terrorism seems to be about Islam, and it all seems to be the same. A snapshot: turn on CNN to watch a gruesome play-by-play of our War on Terror, scan the best-seller list for the newest book on Osama bin Laden, leaf through the...
New innovation challengers the rise of China and India.
January 1, 2007... ASK LEADING senior executives in the United States, Western Europe or Japan how they intend to cope with the challenges of China and India, and you'll get a familiar response: "We shall move higher in the value-added chain." China might be the...
Botching Iran.(Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic (New York: Times Books, 2006), 259 pp., $25.00.
WILL THE United States attack Iran to set back its nuclear program? With Iraq in an ever-steeper downward spiral of violence,...
Beyond petroleum.(Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Rachel Bronson, Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 384 pp., $28.00.
RACHEL BRONSON'S new book, Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia, is a...
Revivalism, Shi'a style.(The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 288 pp., $25.95.
"CAN YOU tell a Sunni from a Shi'a?" Many people cannot describe the differences between these two major Muslim...
The Fightin' Dems.(Reporter-at-large)
January 1, 2007... "WE'RE GOING to take that Hill", vowed Richard Klass, executive director of the Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy (VETPAC) on a late September morning at Washington's Phoenix Park Hotel. Klass was speaking before as many as one...