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All the President's Dreams

Richard Burt | Feb 24, 2010
President Obama came to office promising a new era in international affairs. So far, he’s been big on rhetoric and has accomplished little. Obama’s inability to prioritize foreign policy risks destroying his presidency.

A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

A Realist Rally

Leslie H. Gelb | Sep 03, 2008
As featured in the IHT: Realism can lead the way out of our foreign-policy shambles. But first the camp’s heavyweights need to bridge the partisan

An Announcement

The National Interest | Jun 01, 2001
This issue of The National Interest marks the beginning ofa new era in the life of the magazine.

Foreign Policy and Domestic Scandal

Peter W. Rodman | Dec 01, 1998
Nixon's extreme case illustrates the variety of potential problems that can arise in a scandal-weakened presidency. President Clinton seems to have dodged the bullet on the face of it; the November 3 election results demonstrated his remarkable po

NATO Enlargement: What's the Rush?

Adam Garfinkle | Dec 01, 1996
Temporizing is not always a good idea, but neither is impetuousness, and it is nothing other than impetuous to end the NATO enlargement debate prematurely, to decide such an important issue before its time.
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Commentary

Papal Bull

Jacob Heilbrunn | Apr 13, 2010
First Mother Teresa. Then Henry Kissinger. Now the pope. What is Christopher Hitchens’ problem?

To Russia with Love

Boris Ryvkin | Jun 21, 2007
The current problems between Russia and the West are rooted in the latter’s wholesale misinterpretation of the former’s domestic and international priorities.

Remembering Yeltsin

Dimitri K. Simes | Apr 23, 2007
When it comes to the legacy of Boris Yeltsin, the official encomia do not echo most Russians’ attitudes towards the late president.
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Books & Reviews

Democracy & Its Discontents

John Dunn | Feb 23, 2010
The inevitability of republicanism as the answer to infinite governmental woes seemed clear. Yet the belief that the world abhors an ideological vacuum was mistaken.

An American Monarch

Gordon S. Wood | Jan 29, 2010
Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court is just the latest in a long history of presidential power grabs. Gordon Wood dissects John Yoo.

In the Shadow of War

Richard Overy | Dec 29, 2009
Western society tends to see disaster all around, from climate change to terrorism. But we live in a time of unbridled prosperity. Our age has nowhere near as great a measure of crisis as the age of total war.
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