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The National Interest articles from September 2000
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The National Interest archives from September 2000
Two Plus Four.(German reunification)
September 22, 2000... The Lessons of German Unification
TEN YEARS ago, on October 3, 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany absorbed the German Democratic Republic, creating a single, united Germany. Less than a year before, the people of East Berlin had breached...
The Gap.(between military and civilian worlds)
September 22, 2000... Soldiers, Civilians and their Mutual Misunderstanding
IN A 1997 speech at Yale University, Secretary of Defense William Cohen claimed to see "a chasm developing between the military and civilian worlds, where the civilian world doesn't...
Mentor for a Hegemon.(Alexander Hamilton)
September 22, 2000... The Rising Fortune of Alexander Hamilton
THE twentieth century belonged to Thomas Jefferson. No historically conscious person can fail to note that, while one of Washington's most prominent memorials is dedicated to the Sage of Monticello,...
The French Position.
September 22, 2000... IN AN UNGUARDED moment during last year's primary season, Senator John McCain referred to a minor diplomatic incident as "one of the many reasons I hate the French." McCain probably does not hate the French, but his comment does give some...
Different Sides of the Gate.(United States Military Academy at West Point)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Just south of the United States Military Academy at West Point is the village of Highland Falls. Main Street of Highland Falls is familiar to everyone: the First National Bank with venetian blinds, real estate and insurance offices, yellow...
Talking Turkey.(economic and political progress)
September 22, 2000... THE earthquake of August 1999 struck Turkey very hard, and did so at a time that could not have been worse--at three o'clock in the morning during a summer holiday, when homes were crowded with visiting relatives. But it also struck at a...
The Culture Persists.(military culture)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... What the President most seems to desire is the removal of images of atrocity (at the top of that list, scenes of lifeless American GIs dragged through the streets of some Third World dump like Mogadishu) and their substitution with images of...
Defending the Faiths.(religious persecution)
September 22, 2000... MANY OF today's foreign policy challenges--from Russian weakness and Iraqi aggression to Balkan instability and the rise of China--were anticipated during the waning days of the Cold War. One issue, however, has taken the foreign affairs...
A Skeptical Conservative.(Michael Oakeshott, former chair of political science at London School of Economics)
September 22, 2000... IT IS NOW ten years since Michael Oakeshott died, in his ninetieth year and long after retiring from the chair of political science at the London School of Economics (LSE). So it is not surprising that some people should think that the time has...
The Shadow Line.(line between youth and adulthood)
September 22, 2000... Politics is an activity unsuited to the young, not on account of their vices but on account of what I at least consider to be their virtues....Everybody's young days are a dream, a delightful insanity, a sweet solipsism. Nothing in them has...
Banal and Dubious.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ivo H. Daalder and Michael E. O'Hanlon, Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2000), 343 pp., $26.95.
Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000),...
The Stiletto Idealist.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 400 pp., $28.
YORAM Hazony, a not yet forty year-old head of a Likud-leaning Israeli think tank, is a believer in the power of ideas. He believes...
The Many Faces of Mitterrand.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ronald Tiersky, Francois Mitterrand: The Last French President (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000), 431 pp., $29.95.
IN 1964, six years after the establishment of the Fifth Republic of France, Francois Mitterrand published The Permanent...
Good Intentions.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John C. Culver and John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), 608 pp., $35.
IT WAS ON the day of July 11, 1944 that FDR finally decided to accept the urging of his advisers and dump...
Letters.
September 22, 2000... Tainted Transactions, continued:
The debate over who bears what blame for what took place in Russia generates very deep passions. This is not surprising given the distortions that have resulted and the unfortunate way Russian reforms have...
A Letter from Wales.
September 22, 2000... AT THE beginning of June my wife and I left the capital of the indispensable nation to visit the capital of a country that is, for all but its inhabitants, quite inconsequential in the affairs of the world. So here we are in Cardiff, once a...
The Dry and Gritty Residue.(rationalism in politics)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Moral ideals are a sediment; they have significance only so long as they are suspended in a religious or social tradition, so long as they belong to a religious or a social life. The predicament of our time is that the Rationalists have been at...