The National Interest back issues from September 2006:
Churchill, not quite.(The Realist)
Sep 01, 2006; ... PRESIDENT BUSH has identified the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons as "the single largest threat to American national security." Indeed, he has said that the United States is currently engaged in World War III and put a bust of Winston Churchill in his office. The question he should ...
Security vortex: warlords and nation building.(Afghanistan)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Given the extensive discussion in recent issues of The National Interest both about nation-building and about Afghanistan (including contributions by Brent Scowcroft, Sandy Berger, Zalmay Khalilzad and, more recently, John Hulsman and Alexis Debat), we wanted to offer our own observations ....
Courting catastrophe: America five years after 9/11.(9/11/06: Five Years On: A Symposium)
Sep 01, 2006; ... AMERICA WILL be attacked by Al-Qaeda again, and more destructively than on 9/11. Why? Simple. Our bipartisan governing elites willfully refuse to recognize the severity of the Islamist threat. They are waging a feckless war that misrepresents the enemies' motivation, keeps borders open, ...
Could it happen again?(9/11/06: Five Years On: A Symposium)
Sep 01, 2006; ... GIVEN THE scale of the damage caused to the United States, the 9/11 attacks neither required much money to execute, nor did they take a large number of plotters. Terrorism is a cheap form of warfare--the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, for instance, only cost a few thousand ...
America the vulnerable.(9/11/06: Five Years On: A Symposium)
Sep 01, 2006; ... WE ARE what we dream. In this respect, few fragments of America's DNA are more fundamental than the myth that it needs--and can achieve--absolute security. While European and Asian nations have long learned to live with relative security from threats abroad and have configured their ...
How well should you be sleeping?(9/11/06: Five Years On: A Symposium)
Sep 01, 2006; ... FIVE YEARS after 9/11, the United States is not winning the inaptly named "war" on terrorism. Individual victories have been won, and some enemy capabilities have been significantly degraded. But the larger struggle rages on, and seems likely to continue to do so for a very long time. ...
Breathing room: stepping back to move forward in Iraq.
Sep 01, 2006; ... IN JULY, I made my seventh trip to Iraq. From military bases in Basra, Fallujah and Anbar province to Baghdad's Green Zone, I spent time with our diplomats and our generals, with Iraqi political leaders and with our troops. Even forty-eight hours on the ground, in a protective bubble, ...
Impotent power? Re-examining the nature of America's hegemonic power.
Sep 01, 2006; ... DURING THE last several years it seems as if every major book or article on American grand strategy contains the observation that the United States is more powerful than any international actor since the Roman Empire was at its zenith. At the same time, however, the U.S. failures to ...
China goes global implications for the United States.
Sep 01, 2006; ... Chaired by Ian Bremmer and Fareed Zakaria, the Gramercy Round convenes over dinner in New York's historic Gramercy Tavern to consider issues which have received insufficient attention from the established foreign policy community but which have a direct impact on the peace and prosperity ...
Angel or dragon? China and the United Nations.
Sep 01, 2006; ... CHINA'S RISING confidence, diplomatic dexterity and military capability would, if plotted on a chart, produce a growth curve every bit as impressive as the country's recent economic performance. Analysts rightfully focus on China's expanding clout in Southeast Asia and its thickening ties ...
A plea for normalcy: U.S.-Japan relations after Koizumi.(Junichiro Koizumi )
Sep 01, 2006; ... THE UNITED States and Japan have cooperated to address East Asian security issues for many years, and the relationship continues to evolve. Policymakers in Tokyo have grown more confident and assertive. By refining the concept of "self-defense", they have redefined the uses of military ...
The fourth age: the next era in transatlantic relations.
Sep 01, 2006; ... THE ATLANTIC order is in the midst of a fundamental transition. The transatlantic discord that has emerged since the late 1990s marks a historical breakpoint, not a temporary aberration. The foundational principles of the Atlantic security order that emerged after World War II have been ...
Oil price warfare.
Sep 01, 2006; ... WAGING WAR in this tight-oil age will be an especially hazardous undertaking, not only tactically and economically, but also geopolitically. Preventing any sudden oil-price spike has become a strategic priority, circumscribing the maneuvering of defense architects and, for all of warfare's ...
Beijing's Bolivarian venture.(China's oil strategy)
Sep 01, 2006; ... WITH THE United States preoccupied with the Middle East, another great power of the 21st century is paying close attention to Latin America. China is devoting considerable diplomatic and economic resources to strengthen its strategic energy alliance with Venezuela--a country that at ...
The revolt of the Maccabees.(Judas Maccabeus)
Sep 01, 2006; ... AS THE insurgency in Iraq continues and questions about its outcome surface, one might look for possible historical parallels--and one of the most successful insurgencies against a colonial power in the Middle East was the Jewish revolt, under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus, against ...
Vive le neoconservatisme?(French politics)
Sep 01, 2006; ... THE FRENCH Fifth Republic may be at its end. Already strained by Francois Mitterrand's two terms in office from 1981 and 1995, French political institutions are increasingly at odds with French society. Were President Jacques Chirac to depart overnight, the French would barely notice. A ...
New old world order.(The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present )(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Christopher Layne, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), 290 pp., $29.95. Harold James, The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire (Princeton: Princeton ...
Some unconventional wisdom.(The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall)(Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism )(Book review)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 320 pp., $26.00. Charles Pena, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006), 272 pp., $27.95. GIVEN ...
Image wars: China versus the United States.(China's growing regional dominance)
Sep 01, 2006; ... WITH THE United States preoccupied by war and nuclear threats in the Middle East and an array of problems elsewhere, a quiet revolution is underway in East Asia as the region adjusts to the reemergence of a great power: China. The changes underway signal nothing less than the ...