CIAO DATE: 09/05

The National Interest

 

Fall 2003 (No. 73)

 

Articles

• Counsel to Britain
  By Conrad Black. How to stay independent and close to the United States at the same time.

• Going Critical
  By Niall Ferguson and Laurence J. Kotlikoff. Long before the American Empire becomes overstretched abroad, it will implode economically at home.

• How Arabs Fight Islamism: A Letter from Tunis
  By Marshall J. Breger. It should come as no surprise that the best plan for eradicating Islamic fundamentalism is an Arab one.

• Leashing the Dogs of War
  By David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey. With regard to the laws of war, the United States and Europe now operate under completely different legal codes.

• Left Behind
  By Anders Aslund. If freedom, democracy and prosperity are to take root in Ukraine, the West must play a more active role--for the effects of failure will extend beyond its borders.

• More Latin, Less America?
  By Luisa Angrisani. There will be a Free Trade Area of the Americas--with or without the United States.

• Taking Stock
  By Dennis Ross. To succeed, the roadmap to peace will need many things, not least of which is Israeli and Palestinian participation in it.

• The Art of the Bluff
  By Ian Bremmer. A note to U.S. policymakers: Saddam Hussein was a reckless risk-taker; Kim Jong-il is not.

• The Theological Iron Curtain
  By Senator Joseph Lieberman. If the United States does not dramatically reorient its diplomacy to promote development and human rights in the Muslim world, it will forsake its own national security interests.

• The Shareholder Model
  By Nikolas K. Gvosdev. The United States must revisit "the art of the deal" to preserve its global leadership.

 

Reviews

• A People of Extraordinary Contradictions
  By John Lukacs. A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

• Building on Sand?
  By Amatzia Baram. Books on "the new Iraq" are already flying off the printer, but are they any good?

• Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus
  By Gordon N. Bardos. Two scholarly reflections on nation-building in the Balkans offer good advice--and cause for concern--about Iraq today.