Evil empire Commentary

Slow Train to Brussels

Kathleen R. McNamara | Jun 25, 2009
The EU’s response to the economic crisis is limited because it has to be. The union has always balanced national interests with supranational ones.

Staying on the Job?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Sep 23, 2008
America’s problems will not go away after the election. The winner in November should consider keeping Robert Gates on to help with the transition.

Reagan Plagiarized

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Apr 16, 2008
The road to the White House is paved with Reagan intentions. But very little Reagan action. Why the pundits and the presidential candidates are getting it wrong.

Whose Reagan?

Sean R. Singer | Jul 19, 2007
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr.

The Next Iranian Elections

Hossein Askari | Mar 21, 2007
With parliamentary and presidential elections slated for the next two years, political posturing in the Islamic Republic provides insight into potential power shifts in Tehran.

Iran's Tectonic Elections

Hossein Askari | Dec 21, 2006
Ahmadinejad and his defeat may have been the headliner in the elections, but there is a more preponderant, slower-moving back-story to the vote, reflecting a potential shift in a real center of power.

The Transatlantic Dialogue in The National Interest

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 05, 2004
The transatlantic dialogue remains one of the premier issues for discussion in the pages of The National Interest and its weekly online supplement, In the National Interest.

Lessons To and From the Road to Hell: Ten Years after the Rwandan Genocide

J. Peter Pham | Apr 14, 2004
For better or worse, in democracies, politicians respond to the domestic pressure, which is seldom altruistic.

Changing of a Single Letter

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 07, 2003
One of Winston Smith's tasks as an employee of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's 1984 was making the appropriate changes to the news reports when " Oceania " changed its current foe.

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