The National Interest articles from June 1994

The National Interest archives from June 1994

Giving Russia its due. (Russian relations with former Soviet states and implications for U.S. foreign policy)
June 22, 1994... "All that you have said so far is interesting and encouraging," I concluded, "but it does not answer the question I asked at the very beginning and which I said was uppermost in the minds of all the American people: 'How far is Russia going to...

An exchange on civil-military relations. (comment on Richard H. Kohn, The National Interest, Spr. 1994)(includes response by author Richard H. Kohn)
June 22, 1994... Four reactions to Richard H. Kohn's article in our Spring 1994 issue, together with a response from the author. Colin Powell: OF ALL THE problems facing the nation, a crisis in civil-military relations is not one of them and things are not...

Tomorrow's Germany. (Germany aims to become dominant force in Europe)
June 22, 1994... FOUR YEARS AFTER the fall of the Berlin Wall, German unification continues to send political shock waves through Europe. The exposed location of Germany in the center of Central Europe has always ensured that what it does, or what it chooses not...

The Hungarians: history makes a comeback. (historical patterns repeat themselves in Hungarian politics)
June 22, 1994... THE HISTORY OF Central Europe is a notoriously difficult subject. It lacks definition, it is endlessly complicated, much is unknown, and it generates battles. Part at least of the motivation of communists in 1945 was to get away from all that...

Ukraine: a question of survival. (political and economic crisis; U.S. policy towards Ukraine)
June 22, 1994... TWO YEARS AFTER its rebirth as an independent state, Ukraine is struggling to survive. The economy is in shambles; Crimea is a political tinderbox; given the results of the parliamentary elections in the Spring of 1994, the prospects for...

(N)O3 problem. (foundations of ozone depletion theories questionable)
June 22, 1994... THE INTERNATIONAL agreement to ban production of chlorofluorocarbons (in wide use as refrigerants under the trade name Freon) by the year 2000, and the 1992 decision to advance this phaseout date by five years, were based mainly on panicky...

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime.
June 22, 1994... EVERY FIELD HAS its lexicon of praise, and for academic history in recent decades it has included words like cool, dispassionate, nuanced, and non-judgmental. No matter how provocative the thesis, the compleat historian has been expected to offer...

Looking at the Sun.
June 22, 1994... FIFTY YEARS AGO, possibly to the day, the Yankee trucks came roaring through my home town, scattering hard candy in all directions. I could show you the place on the street where I was hit. The G.I.s colonized southern England, seeming to spend...

A Breakfast for Bonaparte: US National Security Interests from the Heights of Abraham to the Nuclear Age.
June 22, 1994... AT FIRST SIGHT, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations are a delight to behold. Their covers are nicely designed in red-white-and-blue, as befits a history of the American republic, and none of the slender tomes...

Things to come. (movies provide glimpse of direction of world politics)
June 22, 1994... EVERY TIME THAT a politician or commentator calls for a "surgical air strike" by "the international community" as a way of ending "chaos" or punishing an "outlaw state," I think of Alexander Korda's 1936 Things to Come. That classic movie, based...