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The National Interest articles from June 1996
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The National Interest archives from June 1996
Post-communism: an infantile disorder.
June 22, 1996... It is easy to describe developments in the countries of the old Eastern Bloc. You don't even need to be very well-informed about what's going on: an acquaintanceship with the past will serve you much better than a knowledge of recent events....
Gone to the lake: Republicans and foreign policy.
June 22, 1996... IN A JULY 1995 speech before an enraptured audience assembled at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed the broad issues of post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy. His address was typically...
Decision time: Britain and Europe.
June 22, 1996... Earlier this year, events provided a fitting commentary on the mixture of tragedy and farce that has been the history of the ill-starred attempt to create a European super-state. When the "Intergovernmental Conference" (IGC) convened at Turin on...
Strategy creep in the Balkans: up to our knees and advancing. (Clinton Administration's Balkan policy)
June 22, 1996... President Clinton contends that the Bosnian conflict lies at the heart of Europe and threatens to destabilize the entire continent. He has said that "the conflict in Bosnia is the most dangerous threat to European security since the end of the...
The man who changed the game plan. (Ronald Reagan's Soviet policy)
June 22, 1996... I am going to talk about how Ronald Reagan and his team - a team widely characterized at the time, both here and abroad, as a group of inexperienced and impractical right-wing ideologues and fanatics - prevailed in the Cold War.(1) In doing so, I...
Reagan's critics. (former US Pres. Ronald Reagan)
June 22, 1996... The measure of "greatness" in American presidents is often the retrospective appreciation of their willingness to "stay the course" in the face of determined opposition from powerful opponents. So it was with Jefferson and Jackson, Polk and...
Ortega and the myth of the mass. (philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset)
June 22, 1996... When H.G. Wells published The Shape of Things to Come in 1933 he dedicated it to "Jose Ortega y Gasset, Explorador." Wells had been an explorer of that other country, the future, since The Time Machine in 1895, and more seriously since...
The Russian boys and their last poet. (Joseph Brodsky)
June 22, 1996... The recently deceased Joseph Brodsky was a man who overcame formidable obstacles on his way to becoming a great Russian poet and Nobel Laureate: lack of a formal education, harassment by the Soviet secret police, and, perhaps most formidable,...
Thomas Mann: A Life.
June 22, 1996... Was there ever a great writer whose relationship to his own country was as anguished as that of Thomas Mann with Germany? Dante, perhaps, who can be said to have made Italy, and who certainly made the Italian language. But Dante did not suffer...
The Imperative of American Leadership.
June 22, 1996... If you don't know where you're going," said the Cheshire Cat to Mice, "almost any road will take you there." Undoubtedly, U.S. foreign policy is "on the road" after the Cold War, but there is, at best, imperfect agreement on which road it is or...
Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century.
June 22, 1996... If you don't know where you're going," said the Cheshire Cat to Mice, "almost any road will take you there." Undoubtedly, U.S. foreign policy is "on the road" after the Cold War, but there is, at best, imperfect agreement on which road it is or...
America Adrift: A Strategic Assessment.
June 22, 1996... If you don't know where you're going," said the Cheshire Cat to Mice, "almost any road will take you there." Undoubtedly, U.S. foreign policy is "on the road" after the Cold War, but there is, at best, imperfect agreement on which road it is or...
Autopsy of an Empire.
June 22, 1996... Two very surprising things happened to the Soviet Union under Gorbachev's stewardship. First, the regime crumbled at quite remarkable speed. In the second place, and even more surprisingly, it did so with relatively little bloodshed. In 1985 it...
Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union.
June 22, 1996... Two very surprising things happened to the Soviet Union under Gorbachev's stewardship. First, the regime crumbled at quite remarkable speed. In the second place, and even more surprisingly, it did so with relatively little bloodshed. In 1985 it...
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War.
June 22, 1996... Chatting together, former Central Intelligence Agency officers, now old men but once pioneers who built CIA and ran it for the first twenty-five years, on occasion nod in agreement and say, "We had the best of it, my friends." The veteran CIA men...
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990.
June 22, 1996... Fidel Castro warned the Sandinistas not to hold real elections. "The people can make mistakes", he told them, acidly. But the "comandantes" thought they knew better. They convinced themselves that the mass organizations of the Sandinista party...
An offer Castro couldn't refuse - or survive.
June 22, 1996... One of the regular features in the lively new English magazine, Prospect, is called "Previous Convictions." In it, a contributor is invited each month to explain how and why he came to change his opinion on some issue. Introducing the series at...