CIAO DATE: 08/07

The National Interest

 

Summer 2006 — Number 84

 

The Realists

• Unrealists
  Dimitri K. Simes

  The Israel lobby controversy shows how some substitute character assasination for serious debate. American national interests suffer.

Comments & Responses

• Conrad Black responds to Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson

Articles

• Universal Values, Specific Policies
  Henry Kissinger

  The more things seem to change, the more relevant are the lessons of the past.

• Principles and Interests
  Chuck Hagel

  In a volatile region of the world like South Asia, principled realism, not sloganeering, should guide U.S. policy.

• Symposium: The Bush Foreign Policy Strategy, Take Two

  Can President Bush salvage U.S. foreign policy for the remainder of his term? Robert D. Blackwill, Rich Lowry and Dov S. Zakheim offer their advice.

• The New Energy Realists
  Richard G. Lugar

  With petro-powers controlling oil, only the naive advocate reliance on the market.

• The Global Oil Rush
  Robert C. McFarlane

  Given rising demand and dwindling supplies, consuming nations should look south and east.

• Strategic Fatigue
  Graham E. Fuller

  As U.S. ambitions rise, the world guns for multipolarity.

• Slogan or Strategy?
  Harlan Ullman

  Operation Iraqi Freedom did not showcase the theory of shock and awe. Potential applications could surprise.

• In Praise of Warlords
  John C. Hulsman, Alexis Y. Debat

  Nation-building requires working with effective local leaders--some of whom aren't ready for primetime.

• A Civil Provocation
  Ian Bremmer

  Is civil war looming in Iraq? So what?

• Ahead of the Curve: The New Axis of Oil
  Flynt Leverett, Pierre Noël

  On his landmark visit to Saudi Arabia, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the two countries partners, not rivals. Last year, Flynt Leverett and Pierre Noel discussed Russian energy strategy, and in light of Putin’s Middle East tour, TNI is offering these excerpts from their essay

• The New Axis of Oil
  Flynt Leverett, Pierre Noël

  A structural shift in energy markets creates new geopolitics.

• The East Moves West
  Geoffrey Kemp

  India and China's Great Game in the Gulf.

• Warming to Climate Change
  Paul J. Saunders, Vaughan C. Turekian

  Kyoto is upside down; America needs a sensible energy policy to fight global warming.

• Swedish Models
  Johan Norberg

  Everyone always wants to be like Sweden. What happens when the socialist paradise fails.

• Pander-nomics
  Stephen S. Roach

  Protectionist measures endanger America's financial well-being.

• Future War: Taiwan
  Ted Galen Carpenter

  A plausible scenario for a Sino-American clash in the Taiwan Strait.

• China's Yugoslav Nightmare
  Christopher Marsh, Nikolas K. Gvosdev

  Kosovo may be far far away from China-but its fate is on Beijing's mind.

• The Return of the State
  Shibley Telhami

  Five years ago, the Arab state was the problem. Now it is seen as the solution.

• Brussels Unbound
  Jeffrey L. Cimbalo

  The EU has "unilateralist" ambitions.

Reviews & Essays

• The Two Fukuyamas
  Anatol Lieven

  How a thoughtful intellectual misses the mark on policy.

• The Burden of Planning
  John Courteas

  Want to combat poverty? Throw out grandiose schemes.

• T for Terrorist
  Nicholas J. Xenakis

  Hollywood romanticizes terror - Nir Rosen exposes it.

• From Awakening to War
  Robert F. Ellsworth

  Without quick mediation, the politicization of religion could lead to conflict.

Reporter-at-Large

• Entrepreneurs Sans Frontieres
  Tatiana Serafin

  In the 21st century, it is the businessman who has no nationality.