The National Interest articles from June 1995

The National Interest archives from June 1995

"If men were angels...": reflections on the world of Eric Hobsbawm.
June 22, 1995... As the twentieth century draws to its end, we can expect a parade of books that win purport to tell us its meaning. The last fin de siecle was rich in artistic innovation; this one is more likely to be rich in historical reflection. But...

Walter Wriston. (proposal to privatize the World Bank)(response to article by Nicholas Eberstadt and Clifford M. Lewis in this issue, p. 14)
June 22, 1995... When an organization's mission has been completed and its presence no longer required, there are almost no instances of simply liquidating it, turning out fights and going home. Instead a new mission is invented, since the real objective of...

Benjamin King. (proposal to privatize the World Bank)(response to article by Nicholas Eberstadt and Clifford M. Lewis in this issue, p. 14)
June 22, 1995... Although they are not in the phone book, there is a thriving public relations firm in Washington, known as Nostrum, Gimmick & Fad. Their specialty is to take a promising idea and ram it into the ground. They have had plenty of clients....

Free trade with an unfree society: a commitment and its consequences.
June 22, 1995... In late January of this year I went to the Senate floor to speak of U.S. relations with Mexico, in the context of the new North American Free Trade Agreement. My theme was one I had touched upon repeatedly since NAFTA was first proposed during...

The Smithsonian and the Enola Gay.
June 22, 1995... Not since 1855 has the Smithsonian been riven by a controversy to equal that precipitated by the proposed Enola Gay exhibit. The issue then was whether the Smithsonian should be the national library, as the librarian Charles Coffin Jewett...

The illusions of collective security. (post-Cold War international security)
June 22, 1995... In the wake of such general conflicts as the Napoleonic wars or World Wars I and II, two conditions prevail that are virtually essential to the fact, or the illusion, of collective security: (1) The victorious powers are momentarily in...

Messengers from Moscow.
June 22, 1995... The end of Soviet communism has given Westerners unprecedented access to Moscow's historical resources. Various archives have been opened and living witnesses to history are suddenly prepared to tell their stories, even in front of foreign...

Love in a Cold War climate. (life of Aino Kuusinen)
June 22, 1995... The name Aino Kuusinen is all but unknown in the United States this is unfortunate, for the life story of this undercover agent -- a highly attractive, intelligent, and courageous woman, who spoke her English with an American accent -- is a...

Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence.
June 22, 1995... No one can seriously doubt the existence of a crisis in the affairs of the European Union. As the implications of the treaties on which it is based, including the Maastricht timetable for economic and monetary union, become ever more widely...

Delors: Inside the House that Jacques Built.
June 22, 1995... No one can seriously doubt the existence of a crisis in the affairs of the European Union. As the implications of the treaties on which it is based, including the Maastricht timetable for economic and monetary union, become ever more widely...

A Death in Jerusalem.
June 22, 1995... In one of those coincidences that would have delighted Arthur Koestler, the only time I met Kati Marton, author of A Death in Jerusalem, was at a dinner about ten minutes before I was asked to review her book. "My book," she said immediately...

Cuba: A Short History.
June 22, 1995... When the soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers -- East and West -- assumed that the disappearance of the Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. After all, no member of the socialist family of nations had received...

Cuba in Transition: Options for U.S. Policy.
June 22, 1995... When the soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers -- East and West -- assumed that the disappearance of the Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. After all, no member of the socialist family of nations had received...

The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions: Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context.
June 22, 1995... When the soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers -- East and West -- assumed that the disappearance of the Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. After all, no member of the socialist family of nations had received...

The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy.
June 22, 1995... When the soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers -- East and West -- assumed that the disappearance of the Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. After all, no member of the socialist family of nations had received...

Cuba and the New Caribbean Economic Order.
June 22, 1995... When the soviet empire imploded some six years ago, most observers -- East and West -- assumed that the disappearance of the Castro regime in Cuba was but a matter of time. After all, no member of the socialist family of nations had received...

The Trap.
June 22, 1995... Sir James Goldsmith wastes no words to get to the heart of the matter. "I do not accept," he declares on the first page of The Trap, "that economic growth is the principle measure of the success of nations." At first blush, this may sound...

The Icarus Syndrome: The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force.
June 22, 1995... Carl builder of the rand Corporation has written a controversial study of the decreasing influence of air power theory on the culture of the United States Air Force. In effect he argues that the air force has lost its bearings since its...

Stephen Sestanovich. (response to William Odom, The National Interest, Spring 1995)(Expanding NATO: An Exchange Between Odom and His Critics)
June 22, 1995... William Odom [Spring 1995] insists that expanding NATO win actually be good for Russian democracy and believes he can prove his point by sitting us "Russia firsters" down for a little history lesson. He reminds us that, under both autocracy...

Ted Galen Carpenter. (response to William Odom, The National Interest, Spring 1995)(Expanding NATO: An Exchange Between Odom and His Critics)
June 22, 1995... Although William Odom's brief for the prompt expansion of NATO responds (with sporadic effectiveness) to some of the objections raised by opponents, it glosses over or ignores many of the most telling criticisms. His analysis especially fails...

Owen Harries. (response to William Odom, The National Interest, Spring 1995)(Expanding NATO: An Exchange Between Odom and His Critics)
June 22, 1995... The good thing about arguing with General Odom is that one is never left uncertain as to where he stands on an issue. He spells out his positions clearly, without any hedging or obfuscation. He is for expanding NATO. But he stresses that...

William Odom responds. (response to articles by Stephen Sestanovich, Ted Galen Carpenter and Owen Harries in this issue, p. 102 and 103)(Expanding NATO: An Exchange Between Odom and His Critics)
June 22, 1995... My critics reactions confirm that I got their views mostly right but that they got my views somewhat wrong. If Sestanovich is as concerned with "cost" as I am, why has he not considered the cost of not expanding NATO? A Western-anchored...