The National Interest articles from March 1999

The National Interest archives from March 1999

Seeing Russia plain: the Russian crisis and American intelligence.(includes related article on Harvard University's Institute for International Development)
March 22, 1999... Whenever the CIA is accused of spinning its intelligence analysis to fit policy preferences, it replies tartly that it "tells it like it is." For the most part, it really does. But in the case of Russia, telling it like it is, and seeing it...

Mayday for Oslo.(Norway)
March 22, 1999... On one level the 1993 Oslo Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians involved a general commitment by both parties to resolve their dispute through negotiation and compromise rather than violence. On another level the Oslo Agreement - now,...

International law 'vs.' the American Constitution.(includes related article on international law)
March 22, 1999... When major programs of President Roosevelt's New Deal were blocked by the Supreme Court during the 1930s, Roosevelt insisted that the Court must learn to apply a more "modern" view of the Constitution. Soon enough, a reshaped Court did adopt a...

Macedonia: the next domino?
March 22, 1999... To the western eye, Macedonia can seem to be a mass of contrasts and contradictions. It is sparsely populated and has little strategic or geopolitical importance, yet forces in neighboring countries hold that its statehood and national identity...

China and the quest for dignity.
March 22, 1999... That the people is without shame means that the state is without shame. - Kang Youwei, c. 1900 Marxism has completed its historical tour of duty. Thus although the relationship between Marxism and nationalism has hardly been exhausted...

Tocqueville and the odd couple: a review of Franco-German relations.(author and former French foreign minister Alexis de Tocqueville)
March 22, 1999... Alexis de Tocqueville, known throughout Europe as the author of Democracy in America and for a brief period foreign minister of France, was childless - a matter of deep concern to someone so proud of his ancestry. In his later years he partly...

Greece: like any other European country?
March 22, 1999... In the early 1990s, it became fashionable to portray Greece as an awkward partner or indeed a black sheep in the European Union: an economic laggard, falling behind in the European income league, with large budget deficits and double-digit...

The poverty of anti-communism.(includes response articles of William F. Buckley Jr., Robert Conquest and Nathan Glazer)
March 22, 1999... The basic statement of American anti-Communism, as well as the basic conception of the Cold War, is the one expressed by William Buckley, Jr., who got it from James Burnham. I quote: "In 1917 history changed gears." Apart from the weirdness of...

Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought.(Review)
March 22, 1999... James W. Ceaser, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 292 pp., $30. Canadian couch potatoes naturally enjoy curling up with a book attacking the United States; the more fit among us even enjoy writing them. It is unclear how large a...

The Brink of Peace: The Syrian-Israeli Negotiations.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Itamar Rabinovich, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 283 pp., $24.95. We can only marvel today at the extravagant hopes that attended Syrian-Israeli diplomacy in the interlude between 1993 and 1996, and at the American...

Franz Josef Clinton.(includes related article on World War I)
March 22, 1999... U.S. policy toward Europe under the current administration has suffered from really only one flaw - but it's a doozy. The problem is that the Clinton administration has yet to have a single serious synoptic thought about the Continent's future...