The National Interest articles from September 1994

The National Interest archives from September 1994

The real clash.
September 22, 1994... WHAT WILL BE the central conflicts of world politics in our future? That is the question that dominates the current debates about international affairs. The most comprehensive, and most controversial, answer has been given by Samuel Huntington,...

The Op-Ed history of America.
September 22, 1994... AS THE TWENTY-FIRST century approaches, many American policymakers and scholars believe they have learned the lessons of nineteenth and twentieth-century history for U.S. foreign policy. Three such "lessons" dominate discussion: the Lesson of...

Cavalry to computer; the pattern of military revolutions.
September 22, 1994... OVER THE NEXT several decades, the world is destined to experience a revolution in the character of warfare. Indeed, the way in which the United States and its allies won a quick and overwhelming victory in the Gulf War suggests to many that we...

Preserving the well-bred horse.
September 22, 1994... THE TECHNIQUE HAS long formed an integral part of dialogue within the public square: institutions under siege embrace grandiose visions of change in order to deflect external pressures and preserve the essence of the status quo. Nowhere is the...

Mirror image; how the PLO mimics Zionism. (Palestine Liberation Organization)
September 22, 1994... WHATEVER ITS GOAL--be it to destroy Israel or only reduce its size--the Palestine Liberation Organization is Israel's most intimate and permanent enemy. This makes it especially paradoxical to realize just how deeply the PLO has been shaped by...

Monster from the deep; return of UNCLOS. (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)
September 22, 1994... IN DECEMBER OF 1982, after about nine years of negotiation, a comprehensive United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was concluded at Montego Bay, Jamaica. The UNCLOS reflects a consensus that ocean resources should be used for...

Wyatt usurped.
September 22, 1994... ONE OF THE odd features of travel through Russia is that people who dress like Chicago gangsters are perpetually telling you they are actually like Wyoming cowboys. In Smolensk, an oblast official who sported a Homburg, a black shirt and gold...

A bad rehearsal. (Normandy Invasion, 1944)
September 22, 1994... FROM THE PERSPECTIVE of half a century and through the nostalgic tints of commemorative ceremonies, the success of the Normandy Overlord invasion has assumed an air of inevitability. This summer's anniversary procession made inspirational stops...

Bosnia: A Short History.
September 22, 1994... AS IS WELL KNOWN, Bosnia is a largely artificial creation, the product of a long history of Turkish oppression and ancient ethnic hatreds. Yugoslav communism, whatever its other contributions, did manage to exert a valuable discipline over these...

Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War.
September 22, 1994... JUST WHY IS Latin America the way it is? Indeed why is it not like anywhere else? These have been the perennial questions of those external to the continent who take an interest in its affairs. Now they are being regularly addressed by a new...

John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937.
September 22, 1994... IN HIS OBITUARY of Maynard Keynes in the American Economic Review in 1946, Joseph Schumpeter said presciently, "Whatever happens to the doctrine, the memory of the man will live--outlive both Keynesianism and the reaction to it." Actually the...

Forever Enemies? American Policy and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
September 22, 1994... IRAN IS PROBABLY the most emotional foreign policy relationship to confront America since the Vietnam War. Given the high drama that has characterized dealings between the two countries in the last two decades, it could hardly be otherwise....

Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman.
September 22, 1994... "POWER IS the greatest aphrodisiac," claimed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger--who ought to know, having fascinated, among not a few others, so potent a femme fatale as Zsa Zsa Gabor. (Their budding affair was cut short, according to Zsa Zsa,...

No end of a lesson.
September 22, 1994... THE ARTICLES IN this issue by Andrew Krepinevich and Andrew Bacevich indicate the sharp horns of the dilemma now before American military leaders: should they devote themselves to controlling the chaos let loose by the collapse of the Soviet...