The National Interest articles from March 2001

The National Interest archives from March 2001

Getting Hegemony Right.(analysis of the United States as a "hyperpower" nation)
March 22, 2001... IN MAY 1999 the Oxford Union debated the proposition, "Resolved, the United States is a rogue state." The resolution was ultimately defeated, but around the world there is growing unease about a global order dominated by American power--power...

Blair's "Ethical" Policy.(Tony Blair)
March 22, 2001... BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and his foreign secretary, Robin Cook, were all the quicker to congratulate George W. Bush on confirmation of his election because they knew that they had a good deal of ground to make up. For months Labour...

Their Gilded Age--and Ours.
March 22, 2001... OUR ATTENTION was bound to come around to the first age of capital, those years that stretched from Britain's repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 to the outbreak of the First World War. For once we had entered into a great controversy about the...

Contending Schools.(two thoughts of foreign policy)
March 22, 2001... IN HIS BOOK Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger maintains that at the turn of the last century the United States faced a choice between two fundamentally different approaches to international relations, one represented by Theodore Roosevelt and the...

From Miracle to Malaise Southeast Asia Goes South.
March 22, 2001... WHILE most of the world celebrated the true arrival of the millennium with an explosion of carefully choreographed fireworks, the occasion was marked in two of the major nations of Southeast Asia with meticulously planned sequences of terrorist...

China and the Historians.
March 22, 2001... THROUGHOUT the second half of the twentieth century, the study of modern China was informed by a "master narrative" whose climax was the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. All roads seemed to lead to Beijing's famous...

Islamism: R.I.P.
March 22, 2001... NOT LONG after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a chorus of influential opinion-makers in Washington began to sound an alarm about a new ideological threat posed to the West: the spread of "Islamism", a virulent brand of political Islam whose...

The Guns of 17th Street.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Robert Kagan and William Kristol, eds., Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000), 200 pp., $22.95. IT IS COMMON currency that the Clinton administration's foreign...

A Slithy Tove.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 464 pp., $27.95. HUMANITY? A moral history? These are ambitious terms. Can this really be an account of the ethical forces that...

Traveling Light.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Robert D. Kaplan, Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East; and the Caucasus (New York: Random House, 2000), 364 pp., $26.95. LIKE HIS previous works, Robert Kaplan's most recent opus, Eastward to Tartary: Travels in...

Letters.
March 22, 2001... Russia: Stephen Sestanovich portrays the U.S. government as engaged in a vigorous diplomatic effort to press Russia to rein in its abusive troops in Chechnya ("Where Does Russia Belong?", Winter 2000/01). In response, he claims, Russia...

The Anglosphere Illusion.(idea of creating a union of English speaking nations)
March 22, 2001... DURING RECENT months, many have engaged in the pastime of looking back to the beginning of the twentieth century to find parallels with our present circumstances. Thus the position of Britain then--both with respect to its dominance and the...