Pragmatic foreign-policy voices are always being upstaged by grandiloquent pronouncements from those promising to stand up to dictators and spread democracy. Too bad that what realists have to say is usually more sensible.
All eyes are on China and its growing involvement in Africa, but India’s expanding relations with African countries have gone largely unnoticed. China’s intentions create anxiety; India’s do not.
On Tuesday the United States’ agreed to join in talks with Iran and Syria on Iraq’s future. The following are excerpts from The Grammercy Round, titled “Revisiting Iran?”, in the forthcoming March/April issue of The National Interest
The authors’ political hedging will allow the president to seize on just those elements of the report that would seemingly endorse his most ruinous policy innovation: a troop surge in Iraq.
In their new edited volume, Swords and Sustenance, Robert Legvold and Celeste Wallander (1) conclude with an important reminder: "foreign policy is not an act of charity.
A morality of results trumps a morality of intentions every time.
The recent turn of events surrounding North Korea exemplifies how northeast Asia lacks an institutionalized security environment.
The idea of formally integrating the world's two largest economies-Japan and the United States-has been floated every two years or so, since the 1980s.
When The National Interest was founded in 1985, its editors, Owen Harries and Robert W.
One of the admirable things about raspberries is that different sorts seem to get along pretty well with each other.