Columbia International Affairs Online

CIAO DATE: 09/07

The National Interest

 

Number 86, Nov/Dec 2006

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The Realist

• Democrats, Irrelevant*
  Nikolas K. Gvosdev

  In this election cycle, politicians eschew debate in favor of an all-things-to-all-people foreign policy posture with Democrats mostly offering a kinder, gentler version of the Bush strategy rather than any real alternatives.

Articles

• Symposium: Is This Victory?*
  Tommy Franks, Stephen Biddle, Peter Charles Choharis, John M. Owen IV, Daniel Pipes, Gary Rosen and Dov S. Zakheim

  Defining what constitutes victory in Iraq is the number one question in American politics. Washington needs to go beyond offering bumper-sticker cliches to provide workable yardsticks for measuring success. Some thoughts on the matter.

• Escape From New York
  Maurice R. Greenberg

  Over-regulation chases capital overseas-with negative repercussions for the U.S. economy.

• In Defense of Primacy
  Bradley A. Thayer

  Contrary to what Christopher Layne said in the last issue, the world is a long way away from seeing the end of U.S. primacy.

• The Politics of Quagmire
  Colin Dueck

  The Republicans' loss is not necessarily the Democrats' gain.

• Grasping the Nettle
  John C. Hulsman

  As strange as it may seem, now is the best time to push for peace in the Middle East.

• Israel in NATO?
  Richard Rupp

  Such a proposal brings as many complications as it does benefits.

• The No-Win Zone
  Daniel Byman and Steven Simon

  War in Lebanon highlights the lack of options, and victors, in the Middle East.

• Transatlantic Troubles
  Andrew A. Michta

  America need not restore the bygone, comprehensive relationship with Europe to achieve its purposes.

• The Regime Change We Need
  Lawrence Groo and Parag Khanna

  Democracy fatigue threatens choose-your-color revolutions. Transparency of the executive can revitalize enthusiasm.

• "Special" Forces
  Jonathan Stevenson

  With terrorism incubating in cities, Washington's approach is over-militarized.

Reviews and Essays

• Ambivalent in Amsterdam*
  Paul Hollander

  In Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma equivocates when clarity would have enlightened readers.

• On Might, Ethics and Realism: An Exchange*
  Anatol Lieven and Will Marshall

  Two of the authors of Ethical Realism and With All Our Might debate America's future foreign-policy trajectory, weighing the relevance of realism, internationalism and militarism.

Reporter-at-Large

• East Meets East*
  Greg Sheridan

  The Sino-Indian contest will reshape almost all geopolitical equations.