The National Interest articles from June 2006

The National Interest archives from June 2006

Unrealists.(foreign policy, lobbying)
June 22, 2006... HAVING AN honest and serious foreign policy debate is not an easy thing in contemporary American political culture. Television sound bites, bumper-sticker cliches passing for ideas, single-issue interest groups and highly partisan politics all...

Universal values, specific policies: a conversation with Henry Kissinger.(Interview)
June 22, 2006... THE NATIONAL INTEREST: There are those who assert that the world "changed" after 9/11; that the international system of the 21st century is defined less by nation-states and increasingly by new elements--substate actors, transnational movements...

Principles and interests: a conversation with Chuck Hagel.(Interview)
June 22, 2006... The National Interest: You were quoted describing the U.S.-Indian civil nuclear deal as "one of the most thoughtful approaches to foreign policy in the last 25 years." Chuck Hagel: South Asia is potentially the most dangerous region in the...

The Bush foreign policy, take two: a symposium.(George W. Bush)
June 22, 2006... What direction will U.S. foreign policy take in the last two years of the Bush Administration? The 2006 National Security Strategy may provide some guidance. Does it provide a useful framework for the formation of policy and in addressing the...

The new energy realists.
June 22, 2006... IN AUGUST 2005, President Bush asked me to undertake a diplomatic mission to Algeria and Morocco to facilitate the release of the longest-held prisoners of war in the world: 404 Moroccan soldiers, some of whom had been held since the 1970s by...

The global oil rush.
June 22, 2006... AMERICA CANNOT depend upon a finite supply of hydrocarbons located in unstable regions of the world for its energy needs. And without energy, economies collapse. Consider the fate of Georgia. At the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union,...

Slogan or strategy? Shock and awe reassessed.(Iraq War, military strategy)
June 22, 2006... WHILE THE phrase and concept for "shock and awe" were invented over a decade ago, it was not until the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 19, 2003, that the term gained its veritable 15 minutes of fame. As the inventor of the phrase and...

In praise of warlords.
June 22, 2006... LEGITIMACY COMES in many faces. Westerners like to see it in the glow of freedom fighters ascending to high office in a sweeping democratic process, preferably after mass rallies in the squares of capital cities with the attendant flags and...

A civil provocation.(Iraq War)
June 22, 2006... A GOOGLE search that combines "Iraq" and "civil war" provides tens of millions of Internet options. Confine this search to the latest news and you're still confronted with more than 21,000 choices. "Civil war" is being invoked as a kind of...

The new axis of oil.
June 22, 2006... WHILE WASHINGTON is preoccupied with curbing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, avoiding policy failure in Iraq and cheering the "forward march of freedom", the political consequences of recent structural shifts in global energy...

The East moves West.(United States-Indian-Chinese Relations)
June 22, 2006... IN THE coming years, India and China again will become increasingly important players in the Middle East. The United States will have to accept that its "unipolar moment" in the Middle East is transitory. Today the United States has...

Warming to climate change.
June 22, 2006... A VITAL challenge for all G-8 members in varying ways, energy is an essential agenda item at the group's July 15-17 summit in St. Petersburg. This year's focus on energy security--coinciding with Russia's 2006 G-8 presidency--is not accidental....

Swedish models: the welfare state and its competitors.
June 22, 2006... TO BE A Swede is once again to be admired. Sweden is "the most successful society the world has ever known", declares the left-wing British newspaper the Guardian; "Swedes lead Europe in reform", claims the free-market-oriented Financial Times;...

Pander-nomics.(trade relations between United States and China)
June 22, 2006... THE U.S. Congress is on course for a dangerous slide down the slippery slope of protectionism, and a politically weakened White House is in no position to stop it. China is the lightning rod in this debate. As a senior Washington insider...

Future war: Taiwan.
June 22, 2006... Washington, June 10, 2013 IN LAST week's U.S.-Chinese war over Taiwan, the president was propelled towards conflict by strategic miscalculation, rather than a bold defense of a popular but geopolitically dispensable ally, according to a...

China's Yugoslav nightmare.
June 22, 2006... MEETING WITH journalists on April 7, Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried noted that the Bush Administration supports efforts "to negotiate arrangements for Kosovo's final status this year." While Fried went on to stress that the United...

The return of the state.(democracy)
June 22, 2006... EVEN IN the best of times, Americans, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson's aphorism that "the government that governs best governs least", have always been uncomfortable with the idea of "the state." After 9/11, these suspicions about the role...

Brussels unbound.(united Europe)
June 22, 2006... PRESIDENT BUSH'S recent visit to the European Commission (the first by a U.S. president) and his endorsement of a "strong Europe" were largely seen as signaling a new paradigm of American foreign policy towards Europe. Not only did the...

The burden of planning.(The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (New York: Penguin Press, 2006), 448 pp., $27.95. PROFESSOR JEFFREY Sachs, author of The End of Poverty (2005),...

T for terrorist.(V for Vendetta)(In the Belly of the Green Bird)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta (New York: Vertigo, 1995), 286 pp., $19.99. V for Vendetta, 130 min., Warner Brothers, 2006. Nir Rosen, In the Belly oft be Green Bird (New York: Free Press, 2006), 288 pp., $26. LIKE...

From awakening to war.(islamic fundamentalism)
June 22, 2006... A RESURGENT and increasingly fundamentalist Islam is embroiled in a fateful clash with America's historic, faith-based claim to a dominant role in the world. The Islamists are sustained by passion and rage; Americans draw inspiration from our...

Entrepreneurs sans frontieres.
June 22, 2006... BILLIONAIRE CALVIN Ayre has a $3.5 million, 10,000-square-foot compound in Costa Rica, does business with 16 million customers--mostly in the United States--and is a native Canadian holding the country's passport. He has no allegiance but to...