CIAO DATE: 08/2009

The National Interest

A publication of:

The Nixon Center

Volume: 102, Issue: 0

JULY/AUGUST 2009

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• The Realist

  • Republican Reckoning

    Jacob Heilbrunn

• Articles

  • Armageddon in Islamabad

    Bruce Riedel

  • Tithing at the Crude Altar

    Michael T. Klare

  • Two Indias

    Ramachandra Guha

    I LIKE to think of India as a "fifty-fifty" democracy. I owe this formulation to a Bollywood film I once saw which featured a great comic actor named Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi, whose screen name was Johnny Walker (after an alleged fondness for that brand of whiskey). In this particular film he played the sidekick of a mafia don, who used him as a sounding board. Will I be able to successfully raid the bank? asked the boss of the sidekick. Will this moll of the other gangster come over to me? To every such question Johnny Walker would rub his hands and answer, "Phiphty-phiphty, boss, phiphty-phiphty." Every project or endeavor, felt the sidekick, would have a 50 percent chance of success, 50 percent of failure.

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  • Battlefield: El Paso

    Douglas S. Massey

  • Canaries in the Cooling Tower

    Charles A. Duelfer

  • Tyranny for the Commons Man

    Barry Schwartz

• Books & Reviews

  • Heirs of Sargon

    Robert D. Kaplan

  • A Revisionist's Burden

    H. W. Brands

  • The Mountebanks & The Apostates

    Fawaz A. Gerges