Obama is right to encourage the use of nuclear energy. Let’s hope he’s actually serious about it—and not just trying to score political points with union workers.
America and Russia shouldn’t try to be friends. Cooperating in areas of common interest is the way to go.
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.
A sit-down with Shalva Natelashvili, the founder and chairman of the Georgian Labor Party, and a veteran leader of the Georgian opposition.
Britain’s “anti-surge” demonstrates its well-founded skepticism of President Bush’s “new” plan for Iraq. The plan contains some tried, and failed, economic and political strategies that are unlikely to achieve better results this time.
As tempting as the comparison may be, America’s involvement in Iraq has followed a starkly different trajectory than its previous misadventure in Vietnam.
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.
For better or worse, in democracies, politicians respond to the domestic pressure, which is seldom altruistic.
A morality of results trumps a morality of intentions every time.