The National Interest articles from June 1998

The National Interest archives from June 1998

The demons of Kosovo. (conflict between Serbia and Albania over the control of Kosovo)
June 22, 1998... A gray falcon spread its wings and flew away from Jerusalem to the field of Kosovo. It carried a book from the Mother of God to Tsar Lazar, who was preparing his army to defend Serbia against attack by the Turks. The falcon dropped the book on...

In Asia's mirror: from Commodore Perry to the IMF.
June 22, 1998... From Commodore Perry to the IMF ASIA has been laid low before. It has, in its moments of crisis, been forced to open up to the West before. These openings have been attended by an interesting kaleidoscope of moods, their usual pattern neatly...

Can Asians think? (struggle of Asian societies to thrive in the modern world while maintaining their cultural heritage)
June 22, 1998... This is obviously a sensitive question. In this age of political correctness that we live in, just imagine the uproar that could be caused if I went to Europe or Africa and asked, "Can Europeans think?" or "Can Africans think?" You have to be...

Religion and American foreign policy: the story of a complex relationship.
June 22, 1998... Congressional consideration of the Freedom from Religious Persecution bill introduced by Representative Frank Wolf and Senator Arlen Specter has precipitated a small-scale debate about a little-studied subject: the connection between American...

Mao in history. (Chinese's perception of Mao Zedong)
June 22, 1998... Early one morning in the summer of 1972, John King Fairbank, my senior colleague among Harvard's East Asia faculty at the time, phoned to ask if I would look over a draft article for Foreign Affairs summing up his first trip to China since the...

Bad judgement at Bordeaux. (French court's sentencing of Maurice Papon)
June 22, 1998... The conviction in April of the former French treasury minister, Maurice Papon, for complicity in crimes against humanity has been welcomed across the world. That the former secretary-general of the Prefecture of Gironde (the department of which...

The people next door: Australia and the Asian crisis.
June 22, 1998... Australia is the nearest Western country to that great bonfire of the vanities, the Asian crisis. The fear is that it may also be the most combustible. The extent of Australian dismay at this state of affairs can be understood only by...

Elegy for a contrarian. (Enoch Powell)
June 22, 1998... After Enoch Powell's death in February, at the age of eighty-five, he received the kind of broad-based acclaim from the British establishment never offered during the key battles of his lifetime, and denied him most particularly during the...

War Scare.
June 22, 1998... Peter Pry (Atlanta: Turner Publishing). See editor's note below. Graham T. Allison, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Richard A. Falkenrath, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 295 pp., $16. Andrew and Leslie Cockburn (New York: Anchor...

Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material.
June 22, 1998... Peter Pry (Atlanta: Turner Publishing). See editor's note below. Graham T. Allison, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Richard A. Falkenrath, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 295 pp., $16. Andrew and Leslie Cockburn (New York: Anchor...

One Point Safe.
June 22, 1998... Peter Pry (Atlanta: Turner Publishing). See editor's note below. Graham T. Allison, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Richard A. Falkenrath, and Steven E. Miller (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), 295 pp., $16. Andrew and Leslie Cockburn (New York: Anchor...

The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey.
June 22, 1998... Fouad Ajami (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998), 334 pp., $26. In 1936, Columbia University offered George Antonius a visiting appointment. Antonius, then putting the finishing touches on his soon-to-be-famous book, The Arab Awakening, had crossed...

The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy.
June 22, 1998... Patrick J. Buchanan (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998), 384 pp, $22.95. Pat Buchanan will not go away. Even if his planned third run for the presidency should reduce him to Harold Stassen status, he is confident that the economic nationalism...

Summer Welles: FDR's Global Strategist.
June 22, 1998... Benjamin Welles (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), 437 pp., $35. Irvin F. Gellman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 499 pp., $39.95. In late 1933 - and for a decade thereafter - pedestrians passing by the State...

Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Summer Welles.
June 22, 1998... Benjamin Welles (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997), 437 pp., $35. Irvin F. Gellman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 499 pp., $39.95. In late 1933 - and for a decade thereafter - pedestrians passing by the State...

T.R.: The Last Romantic.
June 22, 1998... H.W. Brands (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 897 pp., $35. It is difficult to write a bad book about Theodore Roosevelt, but even more difficult to write a really good one. H.W. Brands, a professor of history at Texas A&M, deserves congratulation...

Anatomy of a farce. (US' policy on the Iraq crisis)
June 22, 1998... America sees farther because America stands taller. . . . We are the indispensable nation. - Madeleine Albright, Feb. 18, 1998 How is it that the indispensable nation had to rely twice in the space of four months on the likes of Yevgeny...