The National Interest articles from June 2003

The National Interest archives from June 2003

America as European hegemon.
June 22, 2003... AS THE WISEST of all American philosophers, Yogi Berra, ha insightfully observed, making predictions is hard, especially about the future. And he might have added--pointing to the predictions of an impending Euro-American rupture that have been...

Croesus and Caesar: the essential transatlantic symbiosis.
June 22, 2003... A VENGEFUL United States is snubbing its German allies for opposing the war against Iraq. Prickly France has become a porcupine sitting on America's lap; Moscow and Beijing have followed Paris' lead since the United States and Britain subdued...

Occupational hazards: myths of 1945 and U.S. Iraq policy.
June 22, 2003... NOW THAT Iraq is Saddamfrei, that shattered country is to benefit from a Bush Administration reconstruction program that the New York Times called in mid-April "the most ambitious American effort to administer a country since the occupations of...

Of electrol sport to come.
June 22, 2003... Owing to the general indifference and ignorance of the dominant country and the supreme government respecting the condition of a dependency, they do not think about its concerns in ordinary times and under ordinary circumstances. But if, on any...

How to stop the Iranian bomb.
June 22, 2003... WITH THE fall of Ba'athi Iraq, there are only two targets left on the famous, or infamous, "axis of evil." And the tactfulness of the original locution aside, Iran is one of them. The Iranian regime sponsors terrorists who murder Americans and...

On alliances.
June 22, 2003... An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed, peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An affiance should be...

The old-new anti-semitism.
June 22, 2003... THE 20th century may well be seen by future historians as the age par excellence of ideological politics. Millions were slaughtered on the altar of false messianisms and their salvationist logic, and in some places the killing still continues...

Scoring the war on terrorism.
June 22, 2003... JUDGING FROM recent headlines, things are going pretty well in the war on terrorism. In his State of the Union address, President Bush declared, "We have the terrorists on the run. We're keeping them on the run. One by one, the terrorists are...

Agrivation: the Farm Bill from hell.
June 22, 2003... UNITED States agricultural and trade policies have huge impacts on world markets. Indeed, as a leading agricultural exporter, American actions set the tone for much of international food policy. The United States has done much good in this...

Food...And Drink.
June 22, 2003... Food...and drink. What are these that from the outer murk Of dense mephitic vapours creeping lurk To breathe foul airs from that corrupted well Which oozes slime along the floor of Hell? These are the stricken palsied brood of sin...

Dragon in paradise: China's rising star in Oceania.
June 22, 2003... STILL PREOCCUPIED with the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government risks overlooking important developments in peripheral regions. One such development is the growing role of China in Oceania--a vast Pacific...

In the fullness of time.
June 22, 2003... International decisions are valid and effective only if taken in time. Wars are made from ten to twenty years before they begin. They cannot be prevented the moment before they begin. There is a Law of momentum in international relations;...

The boldness of Charles Evans Hughes.
June 22, 2003... WITH THE current high drama in our national life, commenced on September 11, 2001, it may seem odd to suggest an interest in the life and diplomacy of Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State from 1921 to 1925 under Presidents Harding and...

A low, dishonest decadence. (Letter from Moscow).
June 22, 2003... AFTER 15 YEARS of tumultuous change in Russia, Moscow is booming and parts of the city give the impression that they are part of the West. Tverskaya Street, the capital's principal artery, is filled with strollers, late model cars and outdoor...

Religion, reason and conflict in the 21St century. (Books).(The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity )(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Phillip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 270 pp., $28. WHAT IS THE exact nature of the famous "clash" between Islam and the West? Is it merely sibling rivalry, with...

A man of faith. (Books).(Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life )(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Eric Hobsbawn, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (London: Penguin Books, 2002) 448 pp., $30. ERIC Hobsbawm's Interesting Times is a highly readable and interesting autobiography, providing a wealth of information about the...

Zakaria's complaint. (Books).(The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad )(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), 256 pp., $24.95. FOLLOWING the paths of Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kaplan and other authors of highly successful...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2003... Continental Divides: There is a strange divergence between the body of Josef Joffe's argument in "Continental Divides" (Spring 2003) and its conclusion. Most of the piece describes the fall of the Atlantic Alliance before the necessities...

Twilight of the idols. (Quarterly).
June 22, 2003... (or how to make foreign policy with a hammer) ROUGHLY A year ago, James Ceaser interpreted George XV. Bush's post-September 11 foreign policy rhetoric as a direct attack on Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophic legacy--a legacy that ironically...

Virtue and profit.
June 22, 2003... What enterprise that an enlightened community may attempt is more noble and more profitable than the reclamation from barbarism of a fertile region and large populations? To give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was...

From a distance.
June 22, 2003... The human being is in the spiritual sense a long-sighted creature. We see most clearly at a distance; details confuse us; we must get away from what we desire to judge; summer is best described on a winter day. --A.S. Byatt, The...