The National Interest articles from June 2002

The National Interest archives from June 2002

After Guantanamo: The war over the Geneva Convention.
June 22, 2002... BRITISH TABLOIDS blasted the story around the world: The Americans had removed A1-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to a secret torture camp in Cuba! Photographs showed prisoners gagged and shackled, and crammed into cells exposed to the elements....

The political roots of poverty: The economic logic of autocracy.
June 22, 2002... The EVENTS of September 111,2001 have led, among many other things, to the revival of an old debate about the relationship between poverty and political extremism. To get at the root of apocalyptic terrorism, many new initiatives to reduce...

Steppes to empire. (Bases of Debate: America in Central Asia).
June 22, 2002... SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, Americans have handed George W. Bush the equivalent of a blank check on matters pertaining to foreign policy. Prosecuting the war trumps all other considerations. Yet as operations move beyond the so-called first phase, it...

Poor Kyrgyzstan.
June 22, 2002... DURING THE 19th century it became increasingly clear to Western economists (and at least some statesmen) that genuine wealth did not come from the exploitation of colonial resources and markets, but from increased production made possible by...

Advisors, Czars and councils: organizing for Homeland Security.
June 22, 2002... NINE DAYS after September 11, President George W. Bush announced that the Federal government's effort to secure the American homeland against future terrorist attacks would be led by a new, White House-based Office of Homeland Security (OHS)....

All that NATO can be: to Prague and beyond.
June 22, 2002... SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, senior American policymakers have been understandably focused on the war against terrorism--an effort that fixes their gaze on the Middle East and Central Asia, terror cells in western Europe and Southeast Asia, and the...

The long spoons of Ulster.(Ireland)
June 22, 2002... THE EPOCHAL September 11 attacks have increased the sensitivity and hostility of most governments worldwide to terrorism. Nevertheless, there remains a practical distinction between "new" terrorist outfits like Al-Qaeda, which have no...

The resilience of the adversary culture.
June 22, 2002... THE TERRORIST attacks of September 11, whatever else they mean and have wrought, provide a new vantage point for examining the recent evolution and current condition of the American adversary culture. This term, coined by Lionel Trilling in his...

Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline. (Books).
June 22, 2002... Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 552 pp., $18. Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,...

Islamist Bubbles. (Books).
June 22, 2002... Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam, translated by Anthony F. Roberts (Cambridge: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 2002), 416 pp., $29.95. Roland Jacquard, In the Name of Osama bin Laden: Global Terrorism and the Bin...

Wasserstein's Jerusalem. (Books).
June 22, 2002... Bernard Wasserstein, Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 432 pp., $29.95. BERNARD Wasserstein is driven by an obsessive commitment to symmetry. His title, Divided Jerusalem, refers not...

TNI summer reading guide. (Books).(The National Interest journal's suggested reading)(Column)
June 22, 2002... The editorial board of The National Interest and selected associates of it hereby proffer some summer reading recommendations. For the most part; the suggestions constitute not light but enlightening fare. The editors will be pleased to learn...

Letters.
June 22, 2002... Law in Order: William Wechsler and I have worked on many of the issues he writes about in the Spring 2002 issue of The National Interest ["Law in Order: Reconstructing U.S. National Security Policy"], he from the last administration, I...

Moscow nights, Eurasian dreams.
June 22, 2002... IN 1918, sitting amid the ruins of the Russian Empire, the poet Alexander Blok symbolically expelled Russia from the Western community of nations, renouncing Russia's claim to be the heir and successor to Rome: We shall abandon Europe and...