The National Interest articles from March 1996

The National Interest archives from March 1996

America's grand strategy. (American foreign policy)
March 22, 1996... In recent years, there have been many proposals about what should be the future direction, even the grand strategy, of American foreign policy. Among them have been the enlargement of democracy or the market, the containment of Islamic...

The future of a contradiction. (conflicts in American foreign policies)
March 22, 1996... The great issue of American foreign policy today may be simply stated. It is the contradiction between the persisting desire to remain the premier global power and an ever deepening aversion to bear the costs of this position. Evidence of the...

The world shakes China. (China's influence in world affairs)
March 22, 1996... "One might trace die history of the limits of those obscure actions, necessarily forgotten as soon as they are performed, whereby a civilization casts aside something it regards as alien. Throughout its history, this moat which it digs around...

Distant compassion: CNN and borioboola gha. (effects of television news coverage of sufferings)
March 22, 1996... As human beings have always suffered, so have they responded to the suffering of others. Compassion is as old as the human race. What is new is our window on the distress of fellow human beings no matter how remote from us. Thanks to the...

Making sense of Japan. (revisionist policies of Japan's Ministry of Finance)
March 22, 1996... In his book Dead Right, David Frum tells a story about two Viennese Jews reading newspapers in a coffee shop at the end of the nineteenth century. When the man with the respectable daily sees the other holding a scurrilous anti-semitic rag, he...

Less is more. (realistic foreign policies for East Asia)
March 22, 1996... Historically, in both practical and theoretical debates about American foreign policy, the great divide has been between proponents of liberal internationalism -- sometimes called Wilsonianism -- and realism. But today, although more or less...

Balkan Odyssey.
March 22, 1996... Lord Owen is one of those many unfortunates who, in the period of terminal decline of the British Empire, was sent off to sup with devils, equipped only with an undersized spoon. His job was, as representative negotiator for "Europe", to bring...

Call the Briefing! Reagan and Bush, Sam and Helen - A Decade with Presidents and the Press.
March 22, 1996... If I had to choose the most perilous job in Washington, White House press secretary would be it. You have to serve two masters, the president and the press, who measure your performance by converse standards. A president wants you to reveal...

Pat's World. (Republican presidential aspirant Pat Buchanan's views on foreign policy)
March 22, 1996... Until now, and the question of trade apart, foreign policy has not figured much in the Republican presidential primaries. But with Pat Buchanan setting the pace and tone, it is certain that it will do so before long. For he has strong and...