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The National Interest articles from June 1999
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The National Interest archives from June 1999
Policing utopia: the military imperatives of globalization.
June 22, 1999... Coming in rapid succession, three recent events - last August's cruise missile attacks against targets in Afghanistan and Sudan, the resumption in December 1998 of hostilities with Iraq, and the launching, after fits and starts, of this...
Where Germany has never been before.(Germans benefitting from improved foreign relations)
June 22, 1999... In the fall of 1998, the career of Helmut Kohl, Germany's apparent chancellor-in-perpetuity, was terminated after sixteen years in power. Only Prince Bismarck, with nineteen years at the helm of the Second Reich, had ruled Germany longer. The...
China's hollow military.(evaluating the military capacity of the People's Republic of China)
June 22, 1999... How good is China's military, and how much should the United States care? There are ample grounds for addressing these questions. In 1995, and then again in 1996, the People's Republic of China (PRC) splashed missiles off the Taiwanese coast....
Undemocratic capitalism: China and the limits of economism.
June 22, 1999... The Clinton administration's China policy has come under attack from many quarters for being too conciliatory, too optimistic and too compromised by a nexus of money and insider politics. But the President and his aides deflect each jab by...
Rethinking Europe.(restoring order in the Atlantic region)
June 22, 1999... The Atlantic security order is on shaky ground. Bringing peace to the Balkans has proved costly and elusive, and the failure of NATO's air campaign to protect Kosovo from the regime in Belgrade has seriously tarnished the alliance. Even more...
To sing a different song: the choices for the Baltic states.(distinctions and similarities shared among Balkan states)
June 22, 1999... In the northeastern corner of Europe, there can be found the three small Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Although there have been long periods of time when they have been forgotten by the rest of Europe, the Baltics have...
Fixing the IMF.(reforming the International Monetary Fund)
June 22, 1999... The future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is today in doubt. Former Treasury Secretaries George Shultz and William Simon have urged that it be closed. President Clinton wants the IMF to devote more attention to preventing crises...
Ceausescu's legacy.(threats to Romania's internal security)
June 22, 1999... ROMANIA, the largest country in a region of Europe that extends from the Aegean Sea and the mouth of the river Danube to the Carpathian Mountains, has been tarnished in many Western eyes by its proximity to the carnage in neighboring Yugoslavia...
What price human rights? An exchange.(views on international human rights issues)
June 22, 1999... Dear John:
I have noted with interest your recent appointment to the Commission on International Religious Freedom, recently created to report on violations of religious rights around the world. You would not have accepted this assignment,...
Years of Renewal.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Henry Kissinger, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 1119 pp., $35.
According to Walter Isaacson's Kissinger: A Biography, the consulting firm of Kissinger Associates became active in 1982, when the firm's chief "realized he did not feel...
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Tony Judt, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 196 pp., $17.50.
The intellectual is a distinctive product of the modern Enlightenment and his virtue is assuredly not "responsibility." As traced by the principal commentators on...
A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-communist, and Spymaster.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Ted Morgan, (New York: Random House, 1999), 403 pp., $29.95.
Throughout the Cold War, no institution of American life was as wholeheartedly committed to the anticommunist cause as was organized labor. Under the leadership of men like George...
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Dinesh D'Souza, (New York: Free Press, 1997), 292 pp., $13.
The orthodox line that Ronald Reagan knew little and did less, and that his foreign policy success was the result of unusual good fortune - particularly in the form of Mikhail...
The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Beth A. Fischer, (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997), 176 pp., $27.50.
The orthodox line that Ronald Reagan knew little and did less, and that his foreign policy success was the result of unusual good fortune - particularly...
Exit With Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan.(Review)
June 22, 1999... William Pemberton, (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), 295 pp., $29.95.
The orthodox line that Ronald Reagan knew little and did less, and that his foreign policy success was the result of unusual good fortune - particularly in the form of...