The National Interest articles from June 1993

The National Interest archives from June 1993

Peacekeeping as a growth industry.
June 22, 1993... GEORGE BUSH'S proclamation of an impending New World Order in the midst of the Persian Gulf crisis was more than a celebration of rebirth for the United Nations' system, now released from its Cold War freeze by the emerging consensus on the...

Why Maastricht will fail. (Maastricht Treaty)
June 22, 1993... ONLY A YEAR AGO there was widespread agreement that the European nations were marching inexorably toward monetary union and, through monetary union, to a political union that would gradually replace the twelve nation states of the European...

Clinton and trade. (Bill Clinton's trade policy)
June 22, 1993... WHEN THE CLINTON administration arrived in office, it provoked concern in some quarters about the approach it would take toward trade, which in one sense is easy to understand. Rarely has a president assumed office with as little in the public...

The Vatican's foreign policy.
June 22, 1993... THE MOST ANCIENT and enduring of European institutions is the Roman Catholic Church. For much of the past two millennia, it was a central presence that shaped and defined European life. For the past half-millennium or what we know as the modern...

The loser: India in the nineties.
June 22, 1993... NO NON-COMMUNIST country has been more traumatized by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War than India. Until the endgame began to unfold in the late 1980s, India had played the Cold War deftly. It enjoyed all the...

Women in combat.
June 22, 1993... THE INTEGRATION of women into the American military has been a gradual process punctuated by historic milestones: the 1967 decision to lift the restrictions which prevented women from rising above the rank of lieutenant colonel; the entrance of...

Fit for duty. (homosexuals in military services)
June 22, 1993... IN 1950, a project undertaken for the Office of Scientific Research and Development of the U.S. Government and entitled "The Adjustment and Achievement of Former University Psychiatric Patients in Military Service" was completed. It had been...

A culture of humiliation. (partition of Yugoslavia)
June 22, 1993... WHY COULD the parting in Yugoslavia--if it had to happen--not be achieved peacefully, through Western-style negotiation (like that, for example between Sweden and Norway in 1905) rather than through bloody conflict costing thousands of lives?...

Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics.
June 22, 1993... EVERY SPOT ON this earth--well, nearly every one--is inhabited nowadays by two, three, or more peoples that differ in race, religion, or ethnic background. For each of these disparate groups, the same spot is their inalienable land, their...

Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara.
June 22, 1993... SINCE LEAVING THE presidency of the World Bank in 1981, Robert McNamara has pursued a frenetically active "retirement" worthy of an elder statesman. With his reputation scarcely tarnished by his consistent failures in private industry, in the...

On Soviet communism. (Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 1993... IN THE COURSE of an otherwise informative article William Odom has the following to say about the impact of European and Russian Social Democrats of the Menshevik persuasion and their impact on American Sovietology: They were convinced that...

The vertical invasion. (analysis of Robert Hughes)('Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America')
June 22, 1993... CULTURE OF COMPLAINT, by the art critic, Robert Hughes, is one of a number of contemporary jeremiads lamenting the fragmentation of American society and the sterility of outmoded partisan debates.(1) It is also a hoot. Unlike most of his...