The National Interest articles from June 2001

The National Interest archives from June 2001

Over and Out.(editor retires)
June 22, 2001... WITH THIS issue of The National Interest--the sixty-fourth--I am retiring as its editor. I arrived in Washington, DC in 1983, a displaced Welsh-Australian knowing hardly a soul in the country let alone the city, and having just finished a...

Who's Afraid of Mr. Big?(global relations with the United States)
June 22, 2001... THE PUZZLE persists: Why is the world not "ganging up" against the "last remaining superpower"? Why has history not claimed its due a dozen years after the end of the Cold War, the twentieth century's last and longest dominant conflict? For...

The Lesser Evil.(peace negotiations in the Balkans)
June 22, 2001... The Best Way Out of the Balkans PEACE IN Bosnia and Kosovo, such as it is, has rested these past several years on an uneasy conspiracy to prop up, but never openly discuss, a set of irreconcilable contradictions. Inhabitants and...

Different Drummers, Same Drum.(foreign policy under President George W. Bush)
June 22, 2001... WHEN, on February 16, George W. Bush ordered combat aircraft to attack targets in Iraq, White House staffers let it be known that the new President was putting Baghdad on notice: In Washington, the "adults" had once again grasped the reins of...

The Great War.(World War I)
June 22, 2001... Mystery or Error? IT IS ALMOST a century since the countdown to the First World War began, ominously enough, with a series of linked crises in the Balkans. Ten years hence publishers will start planning their first centennial histories....

Britain and the Intellectuals.
June 22, 2001... In Thrall to the Bad Old Days SOMETHING IS happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or even a transformation, nobody is quite sure which. Opinions in fact...

Potemkin Democracy.(post-Soviet Georgia)
June 22, 2001... Four Myths about Post-Soviet Georgia IT IS AN old culture squeezed into a tiny new state. That is the way visitors to post-Soviet Georgia often describe the place. Resting on the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, hemmed in by the...

The Long Goodbye.(end of communism)
June 22, 2001... And Eric's Consoling Lies THE FUNERAL of communism will last for thirty years, prophesied Francois Furet in 1995. "The funeral procession will be accompanied by an immense crowd", he added, "and there will be much weeping. Even young...

Power Houses.(post-Cold War military powers)
June 22, 2001... IN THE YEARS following the end of the Cold War, security issues and defense establishments were supposed to retreat into the background of world affairs, but in some respects military organizations have taken on great prominence, or at least...

Communist Crowd Control.(Review)
June 22, 2001... Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, eds., The Tiananmen Papers (New York: Public Affairs, 2001), 510 pp., $30. IN THE MIDST of the Cultural Revolution I once drafted a telegram from the British Mission in Peking, or what remained after the Red...

Pushing Restraint.(Review)
June 22, 2001... G. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 203 pp., $55. TO JUDGE from the accolades of his peers quoted on the cover of...

Letters.
June 22, 2001... Mugabe: R.W. Johnson's piece in the Spring 2001 issue is timely indeed ("Mugabe, Mbeki, and Mandela's Shadow"). All those who hope to see a new South Africa survive should heed his message. What is it that drives African presidents to...