The National Interest articles from March 2000

The National Interest archives from March 2000

Tainted Transactions.
March 22, 2000... Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin ONLY A FEW years ago, American policymakers were confidently predicting that a regimen of privatization and market reform would in due course transform Russia into a stable and prosperous...

Globalization and American Power.
March 22, 2000... ASSOCIATING interdependence with democracy, peace and prosperity is nothing new. Before World War I, the close interdependence of states was thought of as heralding an era of peace among nations, and democracy and prosperity within them. In his...

Asia in the 21St Century.
March 22, 2000... Power Politics Alive and Well AFTER DECADES of Cold War-induced predictability, Asia today is rapidly transforming into something new and unrecognizable. The very term "Asia" has lost its clarity. As a consequence of a revolution in...

Islam and Islamism.
March 22, 2000... Faith and Ideology ONE CANNOT emphasize too much the distinction between Islam--plain Islam--and its fundamentalist version. Islam is the religion of about one billion people and is a rapidly growing faith, particularly in Africa but also...

Pragmatic Theocracy.
March 22, 2000... A Contradiction in Terms? FOR TWO DECADES now, the Islamic Re public of Iran has confounded the American foreign policy community, whose members have oscillated wildly between urgent appeals to normalize relations with Tehran and equally...

What Mahathir Has Wrought.
March 22, 2000... A PRE-PATD electronic "Touch and Go" card offers the best way to negotiate the toll booths along the north-south superhighway that traverses the Malay Peninsula from Johore to the Thai border. By an unintended irony, the tide of the card...

Turning Point.(Review)
March 22, 2000... John Lukacs, Five Days in London: May 1940 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 236 pp., $19.95. "HISTORY IS NOW, and England", wrote the American expatriate poet T.S. Eliot during the Second World War. This certainly was the case in...

The Pope's Divisions.(Review)
March 22, 2000... George Weigel, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (New York: Cliff Street Books, 1999), 992 pp., $35. AMIDST ALL the ink spilled over the coming of a new Christian millennium, remarkably little has been written in the...

But the Patient Died.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh, Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789-1923 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 397 pp., $29.95. IN ITS HEYDAY, for two full centuries after the capture of...

Unreal Realism.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Jonathan Haslam, The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 (New York: Verso, 1999), 240 pp., $35. "BEFORE you study the history, study the historian.... Before you study the historian, study his historical and social environment." This...

Letters.
March 22, 2000... The Jacksonian Tradition I always look forward to reading Walter Russell Mead because he is a master of the jeu d'esprit. I recall especially a delightful article he wrote after the collapse of the Soviet Union suggesting that the United...

Meanwhile on the Left.
March 22, 2000... AT THE END of the Cold War, there was a widely held belief that an era of rancorous foreign policy debates had been put behind us. But within a year or two foreign policy intellectuals were again going at each other full bore--over Bosnia,...