The National Interest articles from June 2000

The National Interest archives from June 2000

The American Way of Victory.
June 22, 2000... A Twentieth-Century Trilogy THE TWENTIETH century, the first American century, was also the century of three world wars. The United States was not only victorious in the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War, but it was...

The World's Resentment.(anti-Americanism)
June 22, 2000... Anti-Americanism as a Global Phenomenon CHARLES Krauthammer was one of the first to speak of the "unipolar moment"-the extraordinary global predominance that the United States suddenly acquired when Soviet power collapsed. He wrote in...

The Forgotten Player.(Japan)
June 22, 2000... UNTIL HIS STROKE this past April, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's ruling coalition had repeatedly challenged the pacifist consensus that has prevailed in Japan since 1945, knocking over half century-old taboos and replacing them with the symbols...

Putin's Precursors.
June 22, 2000... HISTORIANS explain that for several centuries Russia's elites have been divided between "Westernizers" and "Slavophiles." The former advocate the adoption of Western ways, the latter seek to keep Russia isolated from Europe's decadent and...

Culture Matters.
June 22, 2000... THE DECADES-OLD war on poverty and authoritarianism in the poor countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America has produced more disappointment and frustration than it has victories. The deprivation and despair that prevailed in the mid-twentieth...

Lessons Unlearned.(American military operations in Panama, the Persian Gulf, and southeastern Europe)
June 22, 2000... A Comparison of Three American Wars OPERATION Just Cause, code name for the invasion of Panama in December 1989, was the first serious exercise of military power by the United States during the post-Cold War era. It would prove to be...

Keeping the Coast Guard Afloat.
June 22, 2000... EVERYONE loves the U.S. Coast Guard. Its cutters, with their white-painted hulls and orange stripes, offer the world a kinder and gentler image of American military power. It rescues seafarers in distress, protects marine life, oversees safety...

Germany's Illiberal Fictions.
June 22, 2000... WHEN THE Nobel committee awarded G[ddot{u}]nter Grass its literature prize earlier this year, it recognized his stature not only as a novelist but as Germany's leading polemicist. Whether it was hitting the campaign trail for socialist...

The Challenge to Certainty.
June 22, 2000... IN THE Winter 1999/2000 issue of The National Interest, Alan Charles Kors asked, "Did Western civilization survive the twentieth century?" He concludes, rather optimistically, that despite its many critics Western civilization has emerged...

Tainted Transactions: An Exchange.(response to Janine Wedel, The National Interest, Spring 2000; includes reply)
June 22, 2000... Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development, Harvard University: JANINE Wedel, for the umpteenth time, repeats her phony diatribes against me ("Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin",...

The View From the Margins.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Norman Davies, The Isles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 1200 pp., $45. FUTURE historians of Europe will marvel at the speed of Britain's disintegration in the sixty years that followed its finest hour in 1940. They may well...

An Ambiguous Legacy.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Leon Aron, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), 934 pp., $35. HAS ANY peacetime political leader ever brought his country as low as Boris Yeltsin brought Russia, a former superpower turned into a mendicant?...

Two Sides of the Same Coin.(Review)
June 22, 2000... A. James Gregor, The Faces of fanus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 240 pp., $30. WHEN, in her famous article "Dictatorships and Double Standards", Jeane Kirkpatrick emphasized the...

Nature's Pitchfork.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 270 pp., $27.05. YOU MAY thrust nature out with a pitchfork, so the tag from Horace goes, but she will quickly return. No doubt this...

Letters.
June 22, 2000... The Present Danger: I agree with Robert Kagan and William Kristol ("The Present Danger", Spring 2000) that the United States should stop frittering away the opportunity to establish a new foreign policy, one designed to strengthen the...