The National Interest articles from March 1995

The National Interest archives from March 1995

A different dance: from tango to minuet. (Russia and the US)
March 22, 1995... In the glorious autumn of 1991 the Soviet kingdom of ideological imperatives fell, and the foreign and security policies of Russia began to be shaped by what might be called the "normal" factors: domestic politics and the economy, history and...

NATO's expansion: why the critics are wrong.
March 22, 1995... Until the twentieth century, modern international systems were constructed in Europe and largely confined to Europe. In this century, they have been started in Europe but made global, involving North America and East Asia centrally and other...

Quantum leap. (parallelism between quantum mechanics and politics)
March 22, 1995... It is no coincidence that the sweeping changes in international politics today have occurred side by side with an equally radical "paradigm shift" in the physical sciences. On the contrary, there is a causal link between the two developments. The...

The philosophy of "Europe."
March 22, 1995... "The rational organization, at the global level, of human existence...is clearly an absolute necessity." - Eduard Shevardnadze, 1992 There are moments when the swirling mists in which modern European political speech seems deliberately to...

Repeating British mistakes.
March 22, 1995... Now that we have passed the second anniversary of foreign policy under the Clinton administration, critics have sated themselves on easy pickings. But more recently a new direction has crept into view, as commentators turn away from...

Russian aid (II).
March 22, 1995... Amid the post-election scramble to see who can cut the most from the federal budget, foreign aid has become a prime target. "We ought not to be funding anything abroad that we would feel uncomfortable funding [in the United States]," said Senator...

Asia: skepticism about optimism.
March 22, 1995... Would it not be marvelous if the inhabitants of Pacific-Asia had not only invented Won Ton and the Walkman, but also invented a formula for peace? James Richardson, in his thoughtful critique of those such as ourselves who suggest that Pacific...

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
March 22, 1995... In 1947, Harper & Brothers published the second edition with a chapter added by Schumpeter. In 1950, a third edition was published by Harper & Brothers. It includes "The March Into Socialism," published previously as a paper for the American...

Une jeunesse francaise, Francois Mitterrand: 1934-1947.
March 22, 1995... Pierre Pean, (Paris: Fayard, 1994), 564 pp., 160 fr. As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of the scandals disfiguring his second...

La main droite de Dieu.
March 22, 1995... Emmanuel Faux, Thomas LeGrand, and Gille (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1994), 262 pp., 110 fr. As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of...

Un temps de chien.
March 22, 1995... Edwy Plenel, (Paris: Stock, (1994), 187pp., 95 fr. As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of the scandals disfiguring his second term...

Lettre ouverte d'un "chien" a Francois Mitterrand au nom de la liberte d'aboyer.
March 22, 1995... Jean Montaldo, (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994), 170 pp., 78 fr. As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of the scandals disfiguring his...

Mitterand et les quarante voleurs.
March 22, 1995... Jean Montaldo, (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994), 276 pp., 120 fr. As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of the scandals disfiguring his...

The Death of Politics: France Under Mitterrand.
March 22, 1995... As Francois Mitterrand's long tenancy of the French presidency moves toward its close, negative verdicts on his career multiply. Intense coverage of the scandals disfiguring his second term was connected with the suicide in May 1993 of his last...

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance.
March 22, 1995... That the period of the Renaissance - the turning point between the medieval and the modern - is of great significance in the history of Europe is beyond dispute. But its exact character and the true nature of its significance are the subject of...