Recently added articles from The National Interest:
Fatah resurrected.(Cover story)
Nov 01, 2009; ... For the last nine years, the Israelis have argued that the peace process could not move forward because the Palestinian leadership was weak, governance was dysfunctional, and the capacity and willingness to deliver security were absent. Moreover, there was no clear honest broker willing to ...
Curse of the Khyber Pass.(United States military occupation in Afghanistan)
Mar 01, 2009; ... As the United States settles into its eighth year of military operations in Afghanistan, and as plans for ramping up U.S. troop strength are under way, we might reflect on an observation made by the Chinese military sage, Sun Tzu, about twenty-five hundred years ago: <Pre> In ...
Looming stagnation.(The Color of China)(economy)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Forecasters of the fortunes of nations are no different from Wall Street analysts: hey all rely on the past to predict the future. So it is no surprise that Chinas rapid economic growth in the last thirty years has led many to believe that the country will be able to continue to grow at ...
Beijing's exceptionalism.(The Color of China)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Is China's rise inevitable? Well, as we've learned to our great chagrin over the past twelve months, there's nothing inevitable about continued rapid economic expansion or the near-term success of any economic model, and past performance is most emphatically not a guarantee of future ...
The three faces of NATO.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization )
Mar 01, 2009; ... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is one of the most successful alliances of all time, but after the cold war and the successful completion of its mission, NATO suffered an identity crisis. It now has three main functions and self-images that compete with each other. The first persona ...