China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.
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.
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.