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The National Interest
Summer 1999, No. 56
Military force has become the hallmark of U.S. foreign policy, ironically in the name of enforcing a global utopia.
Can History be ending if Science is not? An essay on the tenth anniversary of the publication of “The End of History?”
Germany, led by its generation of ’68, has finally found itself comfortable with its allies, its power and even itself.
How formidable is China’s military, and how much should the United States care? The answers may disappoint Washington’s alarmists.
Will the market democratize China? The logic of economic determinism may not be so inexorable after all.
Bring Russia into NATO; leave the rest to the Europeans.
As the easternmost members of “the West”, the Baltic states consider their options for the future.
A proposal to reinvent a troubled but vital institution.
A review of the Mexican War in which Manifest Destiny is reclaimed from the revisionists.
The Balkan problem the West forgot: Ceausescu’s shadow and the dilemma of modern Romania.
An exchange on how the sensitive and contentious issue of human rights should be integrated into our foreign policy.
Book Reviews:
Walter A. McDougall review’s Henry Kissinger’s Years of Renewal (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Daniel J. Mahoney reviews Tony Judt’s The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron and the French Twentieth Century (Chicago University Press, 1998)
Arch Puddington reviews Ted Morgan’s A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster (Random House, 1999)
Kiron K. Skinner reviews Dinesh D’Souza’s Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (Free Press, 1997), Beth Fischer’s The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War (University of Missouri Press, 1997), and William Pemberton’s Exit With Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
Quarterly:
The man who made a country, and how he did it.