The National Interest articles from September 2001

The National Interest archives from September 2001

The Next NATO.
September 22, 2001... Building an American Commonwealth of Nations EXACTLY FIFTY years ago, Washington was the scene of what was then called the Great Debate. The issue in 1951 was the conversion of the rather spare North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 into a genuine...

E Pluribus Confusio.
September 22, 2001... Living with the EU's Structural Incoherence. PRESIDENT BUSH's recent journeys to Europe were bittersweet reminders, if any were needed, of the continued centrality of transatlantic relations for U.S. interests. Even as the new...

The Asymmetry of Pity.
September 22, 2001... MY MOST instructive conversion on the Middle East conflict was not with a politician or a journalist but with a soft-spoken Palestinian Anglican minister named Naim Ateek, whose group, Sabeel, promotes a Palestinian version of liberation...

Bonn Voyage.
September 22, 2001... Kyoto's Uncertain Revival REPORTS OF Kyoto's death seem to have been exaggerated. Just when most observers were writing Kyoto's obituary; the international community reached a breakthrough in Bonn, resolving many of the key political...

Realism about Russia.
September 22, 2001... REACTING TO THE Bush Administration's promise of "realism" in dealing with Russia, a former Clinton Administration official observed that "the issue is what is reality."' Indeed it is. Clinton Administration officials had their reality:...

The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.
September 22, 2001... THE CASE can and has been made that the foreign policy of the Bush Administration differs little from that of its predecessor. Only the rhetoric has changed, it has been claimed, and even some of that is falling back into old patterns--with...

Il Caso Silone.
September 22, 2001... NEMO PROPHETA acceptus est in patria sua. The novels of Ignazio Silone are full of biblical symbols and citations, the latter often appearing in the lapidary cadences of the Vulgare. Reading through the Pleiade-like, two-volume set of Silone's...

Altitude Sickness.
September 22, 2001... Poverty and Violence in the Mountains AT THE checkout counter of my grocer is an attractive magazine for New Age shoppers entitled Shambhala Sun. This evocative name refers to the mythical mountain realm of the Tibetan Buddhists, a hidden...

Another Year of Living Dangerously?
September 22, 2001... INDONESIA IS staggering like a heavyweight boxer who has absorbed too many blows in too many places. A faltering economy, a fractious and feeble central government, communal war and secessionism could culminate in the state's collapse and the...

Sky High: Illusions of Air Power.
September 22, 2001... THE 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review season is hard upon us, but this year's energies are being expended in a new context. Previous exercises were mainly about preserving Service resource shares in a mostly stagnant intellectual and budgetary...

Kissinger's Wisdom... and Advice.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Henry A. Kissinger, Does America Need A Foreign Policy?: Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 318 pp., $30. WHEN HENRY Kissinger asks Does America Need A Foreign Policy?, the question is obviously...

Scathing on Thin Ice.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York: Verso, 2001), 160 pp., $22. ON MAY 29, 2001, French officials appeared at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with a summons for former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was...

Ukraine, Unexpected.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 366 pp., $29.95. OF ALL the weak, corrupt, semi-independent semi-states that emerged, willingly or not, from the collapse of the Soviet Union,...

1945 and All that.(Review)
September 22, 2001... P.M.H. Bell, The World Since 1945: An International History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 593 pp., $80 (cloth), $29.95 (paper). IN THE HISTORY of the world (and, of course, of the United States) 1945 was more of a turning...

Letters.
September 22, 2001... Natural Rights and Human History: Francis Fukuyama has written his usual interesting piece ("Natural Rights and Human History", Summer 2001), and he is right that we must clean up our moral assumptions before we translate them into policy....

The Present Opportunity.(Column)(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... THE IMPRESSIVE depth of insight that has abounded on the pages of The National Interest since its inception is due to its many talented authors and to Owen Harries, the master editor who alternately welcomed and summoned those authors to his...