The National Interest

 

Spring 2000 (No. 59)

 

Articles

• Living With China , by Zbigniew Brzezinski
  When applied to China, terms such as "adversary" and "partner" obscure more than they clarify. A blueprint for American policy that rejects both. Living With China is the first in a series of three articles by former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to appear in The National Interest's Spring, Summer and Fall 2000 issues. In the Spring issue, Dr. Brzezinski maps out a sound U.S. strategy toward the People's Republic of China, to be followed by pieces on Europe and Russia.

• Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia’s Ruin
  by Janine Wedel
  How a team of Cambridge operators, working together with a Russian "clan", confused all categories and wreaked havoc on Russia’s economy.

• Remembering the Future
  by Paul Wolfowitz
  Taking seriously the admonition that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

• Globalization and American Power
  by Kenneth Waltz
  Its players may change, and so may the equipment they use and the fields they play on, but the game of international politics stays essentially the same.

• The Present Danger
  by Robert Kagan and William Kristol
  A policy of boldness, twenty-first century version.

• To Fight the Good Fight
  by Elliott Abrams
  Humanitarian intervention: a practice in search of a theory.

• Asia in the 21st Century
  by Rajan Menon and S. Enders Wimbush
  Great changes are under way and when the dust settles, the Asia we knew will have ceased to exist.

• Islam and Islamism: Faith and Ideology
  by Daniel Pipes
  As well as, and apart from, the religious faith, there is a creed that has more in common with Western ideologies than it has with the Koran.

• Pragmatic Theocracy
  by Ray Takeyh
  Iran may no longer be a revolutionary power. But that does not make it a friend of the established international order.

• What Mahathir Has Wrought
  by David Martin Jones
  How yet another leader may undermine his own achievements by not knowing when to go.

• The Law of Increasing Returns by Ronald Bailey
  Malthus had things exactly backward. So do his heirs. In both cases the mistake is to ignore the role of ideas.

Book Reviews

• Turning Point, by Michael Howard
  Springtime for Churchill

• The Pope’s Divisions, by James Billington
  The Pope who proved Stalin wrong.

• But the Patient Died, by David Pryce-Jones
  The death of the Ottoman Empire was a case of suicide, not homicide.

• Unreal Realism, by Terence Emmons
  A realist with a penchant for being spectacularly mistaken.

Quarterly

• Meanwhile on the Left . . ., by Lawrence F. Kaplan
  How the different strands of the Left reacted to the end of the Cold War—and how they help explain developments on the Right.