The National Interest articles from June 1997

The National Interest archives from June 1997

The adolescent empire. (American foreign policy)
June 22, 1997... America and the Imperial Idea The principal foreign policy initiative of the second Clinton administration is the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to include the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. These old and...

Tradition abandoned. (US military forces)
June 22, 1997... America's Military in a New Era Overlooked by the general public, resolutely ignored by policy elites, misconstrued by those few scholars who attend to its study, the relationship between the United States military and American society clamors...

Time to kill. (employment in Europe)
June 22, 1997... Europe and the Politics of Leisure Europe, now liberated from the Cold War, is seeking to reconstitute itself, and in doing so fulfill the lofty integrationist expectations of the early post-World War II era on a fully continental basis....

Catch-907 in the Caucasus. (Article 907 rider to the 1992 Freedom Support Act) (foreign investment in Azerbaijan)
June 22, 1997... Baku, they say, is booming. Everywhere you look there are new stores, new filling stations, new bars, new restaurants, new cars, new buildings. My old Russian teacher, Elfrieda, who a mere three years ago used to complain bitterly about her $10...

De Gaulle and the death of Europe. (Charles De Gaulle)
June 22, 1997... The concept of "the national interest" is omnipresent in contemporary discussions of foreign affairs - in the speeches of presidents and senators, in the scribblings of editorialists, as well as in the speculations of academic specialists. The...

Clausewitz out, computer in. (US military culture)
June 22, 1997... Military Culture and Technological Hubris One of the great under-studied aspects of military history concerns the institutional cultures through which officer corps come to grips with the dynamic and ambiguous problems of war and peace. That...

The great doomsayer. (Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West')
June 22, 1997... Oswald Spengler Reconsidered Books have their destinies, says the Latin tag, and they can vary as widely as those of human beings - from those that, in David Hume's heartfelt phrase, fall stillborn from the press but later stir to life as...

Blacks in the military.
June 22, 1997... The Equal Opportunity Imperative The United States armed services - army, navy, marines, air force - are together the most racially integrated mass organization in the world. No organization nearly as large, anywhere, has more harmonious...

The wild east. (organized crime in Vladivostok, Russia)
June 22, 1997... The Bluish gray waters of the Golden Horn Bay separate Vladivostok like a moat from the more distant hills, and as the stiff winds blow in from the Sea of Japan, people and cars slip on the ice that coats the city's sidewalks and streets. The...

The Idea of Decline in Western History.
June 22, 1997... Is the west doomed to go the way of all other civilizations - into history's bin? This question has preoccupied intellectuals, often in the form of a meditation on the fall of Rome, ever since the eighteenth century. More recently, it has become...

Fascism: Past, Present, Future.
June 22, 1997... Three secular political creeds have claimed the souls and loyalties of men in the twentieth century: liberalism, communism, and fascism. Liberalism has been identified with capitalism, which communism rejected, while fascism could be and has been...

Fascism: A History.
June 22, 1997... Three secular political creeds have claimed the souls and loyalties of men in the twentieth century: liberalism, communism, and fascism. Liberalism has been identified with capitalism, which communism rejected, while fascism could be and has been...

The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea.
June 22, 1997... As a by-product of recent moves toward some sort of international government, the direct control of the elector over national policy is becoming weaker. The spokesmen of the nation, meeting in council with those of other nations, may be outvoted...

Deadened reckoning. (history of the Cold War)
June 22, 1997... The last several months have brought forth the first major histories of the Cold War based on new archival sources.(1) While this may be good news for historians, the appearance of such books also marks the end of a disappointing period of what...