The National Interest articles from September 2002

The National Interest archives from September 2002

The new containment: an alliance against nuclear terrorism.
September 22, 2002... DURING THE Cold War, American and Russian policy-makers and citizens thought long and hard about the possibility of nuclear attacks on their respective homelands. But with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of the Soviet Union,...

Harbinger or aberration? A 9/11 provocation.
September 22, 2002... THE TERROR attack of September 11, 2001 was quite literally off the charts: ne other single act of terrorism has ever done remotely as much damage. Over the course of the entire 2Oth century, fewer than twenty terrorist attacks managed re kill...

Surveying the global economy.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... A few weeks ago in New York City, Carla Hills and Martin Feldstein sat with TNI editor Adam Garfinkle to discuss various aspects of the world economy. Here follows a transcription of that conversation. THE NATIONAL INTEREST: May I begin,...

Judging Nazism and Communism.
September 22, 2002... NOW THAT the 20th century is at last "history", what does this enhanced perspective tell us about the relationship between that century's two great threats to liberal democracy, Nazism and Communism? During the high Cold War decade following...

Fate and freedom in history: the two worlds of Eric Foner.
September 22, 2002... Ideals, conventions, even truth itself, are continually changing things so that the milk of one generation may be the poison of the next.... When a generation succeeds...in handing down all of its discoveries and none of its delusions, its...

Reforging the Atlantic alliance.
September 22, 2002... LESS THAN 24 hours after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, America's allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) came together to invoke the Alliance's Article 5 defense guarantee -- this "attack on one" was...

Getting realism: U.S. Asia (and China) policy reconceived.
September 22, 2002... SEEN historically, American grand strategy has tended to be both Eurocentric and oriented toward meeting military threats. Both characteristics are easily understood. It was only for fear of war coming to North America from the Old World, or...

The Rock gets rolled. (Letter from Gibraltar).
September 22, 2002... ONE FOOT separates Gibraltar from Spain, that being the distance between the Spanish and the British frontier gates. You show your passport to the Spanish border guard and then, before you pass through, to the British guard as well. You are now...

Fighting Men. (Books).(Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime)
September 22, 2002... Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002), 288 pp., $25. "THE DIFFICULTIES writers have in putting themselves in the place of a wartime political leader who bears...

Capital Ideas. (Books).(3 books on globalization)
September 22, 2002... Douglas Irwin, The Case for Free Trade (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 288 pp., $27.95. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 192 pp., $24.95. George Soros, On Globalization...

Waltzing to Armageddon? (Books).(The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed)
September 22, 2002... Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company, Second Edition 2002), 120 pp., $16.70. THE DISTINGUISHED international relations theorist Kenneth Waltz...

The impossible imperative? Conjuring Arab democracy. (Quarterly).
September 22, 2002... SAY WHAT you will about Lyndon Johnson's imperfections, the man had a keen sense of the American character. "Our American people", he said during a November 1967 press conference, "when we get into a contest of any kind--whether it is a war, an...