The National Interest articles from September 1995

The National Interest archives from September 1995

The American way; or how the chaos, unpredictability, contradictions, complexity and example of our system undid communism and apartheid.
September 22, 1995... "[T]oday, for the first time in our history, we face the stark reality that the [communist] challenge is unending.... We must learn to conduct foreign policy as other nations have had to conduct it for so many centuries...

Is there life after victory? What NATO can and cannot do.
September 22, 1995... History counsels that defeat and victory are the two deadliest moments in the life of alliances. Defeat is nature's way of telling an alliance that it does not work, that its reason for being has vanished. Surrender is the end, dissolving both...

Lost time: the forgetting of the Cold War.
September 22, 1995... The end of the Cold War was the beginning of its long journey into history. Countless records in many media insure that its total disappearance from human consciousness -- the fate of the wars of what we can pre-history, and of some of the...

The CIA vindicated: the Soviet collapse was predicted.
September 22, 1995... "The CIA failed in its single, overriding defining mission, which was to chart the course of Soviet affairs." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quoted by Bill Gertz, Washington Times, May 21, 1992. "The CIA [has] come under legitimate attack...

There are no moderates: dealing with fundamentalist Iran.
September 22, 1995... In early February 1995, newspapers around the world featured a photograph taken in Cairo, which showed, for the first time ever, the prime minister of Israel standing side-by-side with the king of Jordan, the chairman of the Palestine...

Foreign policy by posse.
September 22, 1995... There is increasing consideration of (and, in some quarters, consternation about) what might be dubbed "the new unilateralism," the practice of the United States going it alone in the world. It merits attention. The 1989 U.S. invasion of...

Who won the trade war?
September 22, 1995... NOW THAT THERE is an armistice in die latest phase of the trade war with Japan, it is instructive to evaluate President Clinton's settlement, the costs of achieving it, and the implications for U.S. foreign policy in Asia. I believe the United...

The price of information.
September 22, 1995... Many Econimist, business analysts and especially people in the communications industries are in a state of euphoria about globalization. While this is obviously a feature of the times, parts of the business press give the impression that a...

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.
September 22, 1995... ONE OF THE standard put-downs of economists maintains that "about half of what economists say is right -- the trouble is they don't know which half." In the same vein, Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, with a mixture of derision and contrition,...

The Next American Nation.
September 22, 1995... MICHAEL LIND IS not lacking in ambition. His first book is the "first manifesto" of a "real, not merely metaphorical revolution in politics and society" leading to a new America to be known as Trans-America. Lind compares his revolution to the...