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The National Interest articles from September 1996
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The National Interest archives from September 1996
Geotherapy: Russia's neuroses, and ours. (curing Russia's ills)
September 22, 1996... An ambition, inordinate and immense, one of those ambitions which could only possibly spring in the bosoms of the oppressed, and could only find nourishment in the miseries of a whole nation, ferments in the heart of the Russian people. That...
Warnings of a parting friend. (US foreign policy envisioned by George Washington in his Farewell Address)
September 22, 1996... Exactly two hundred years ago, on September 19, 1796, readers of the American Daily Advertiser in Philadelphia discovered that one of their number had formed the resolution to "decline being considered" as a candidate for the upcoming election...
Morality and high technology. (US military power)
September 22, 1996... Ours is an age in which any untoward development becomes a crisis, the slightest departure from the ordinary is immediately tagged as historic, and the mere glimmer of novelty is heralded as revolutionary. Such semantic extravagance is not...
Let Iraq collapse. (benefits of an Iraqi break-up)
September 22, 1996... February 28, 1996 marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led coalition's defeat of Iraq, a military triumph that resulted in the liberation of Kuwait and the extension of U.S. power and influence in the Persian Gulf. The following month,...
Trade blocked. (Free Trade Area of the Americas versus East Asia Economic Caucus)
September 22, 1996... In December 1994, just before Mexico's financial collapse, Bill Clinton convened the "Summit of the Americas" in Miami. It was attended by the leaders of all thirty-four Western hemisphere nations - except Castro, who was not invited - and it...
The downside of the cutting edge. (disadvantages of revolution in military affairs)
September 22, 1996... The American military loves organizational tradition at the same time that it hungers for technological progress. Notwithstanding the stereotype of hidebound Colonel Blimps refusing to recognize revolutionary changes - army officers clinging to...
The cowboy patriot. (movie actor John Wayne)
September 22, 1996... "The Green Berets is a film so unspeakable, so stupid, so rotten and false . . . that it passes through being fun, through being funny, through being camp, through everything and becomes an invitation to grieve, not for our soldiers in Vietnam or...
The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century.
September 22, 1996... Intrepid traveler as he is, Robert D. Kaplan wrote his latest book, The Ends of the Earth, to report on an "unsentimental journey" through parts of West Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. His plan...
Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science.
September 22, 1996... There is a hole the size of Japan in this book. Japan ghosts in only as the home of uniquely brilliant economic management that gives it "an almost golden patina", exposing by its glow the ineffectiveness of Western, especially American, policy....
Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era.
September 22, 1996... From the 1960s through the 1980s, the strongest taboo in American political discourse was the subject of Soviet influence within the United States. The only way an American could be labeled a communist in the prestige press, it seemed, was to be...
The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism.
September 22, 1996... From the 1960s through the 1980s, the strongest taboo in American political discourse was the subject of Soviet influence within the United States. The only way an American could be labeled a communist in the prestige press, it seemed, was to be...
Not Without Honor: The History of American Anti-Communism.
September 22, 1996... From the 1960s through the 1980s, the strongest taboo in American political discourse was the subject of Soviet influence within the United States. The only way an American could be labeled a communist in the prestige press, it seemed, was to be...
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History.
September 22, 1996... Most European countries have a single, unequivocal capital city, the seat of political, economic, and cultural power. It is only when one moves to larger realms outside Europe - to India, China, or the United States - that one starts to see a...
Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis.
September 22, 1996... Most European countries have a single, unequivocal capital city, the seat of political, economic, and cultural power. It is only when one moves to larger realms outside Europe - to India, China, or the United States - that one starts to see a...
A thin line. (Israeli-Palestinian peace process under Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu)
September 22, 1996... Benyamin Netanyahu's election as Israel's prime minister on May 29 was greeted by a great international gnashing of teeth. Dismayed hordes of experts and pundits charged that, efforts at rhetorical placation notwithstanding, the Netanyahu...