The National Interest Commentary

Are the U.S. and Russia on a Collision Course?

Brooke Leonard | Nov 14, 2007
Last Thursday, Nixon Center President Dimitri K. Simes discussed his article in the recent issue of The National Interest. He offered both an explanation for the strained interaction, and some answers about where it is headed.

Report and Retort: Defending The Big Picture

John C. Hulsman | Aug 09, 2007
The Bush Administration’s ineptitude has led to the uncommented-on demise of an elegant, and largely successful, British strategy for dealing with the United States. John Hulsman responds to

Report and Retort: The Special Relationship is Not Flat

Barak M. Seener | Aug 08, 2007
In "Designated Driver Diplomacy", John C. Hulsman applies an ill-advised one-dimensional world-view to U.S.-British relations, writes Barak M. Seener.

A Debate Deferred

James W. Riley | Jun 26, 2007
The U.S. foreign policy debate fails to address underlying issues facing the United States, and this in and of itself may constitute a threat to national security.

World Order, Kosovo and Palestine

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Jun 04, 2007
Many Europeans have adopted the same logic for Kosovo and Palestine—America has not, and this appears to be a widening point of divergence across the Atlantic.

Promoting Democracy or Hypocrisy?

Sean R. Singer | May 03, 2007
The Bush Administration's checkered legacy of democracy promotion has called into question its future role in U.S. foreign policy.

Viva Putin?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Apr 20, 2007
Only a vocal minority wants Putin out of Russia.

Bush Transformed-in Tone

Ian Bremmer
Willis Sparks
| Jan 24, 2007
This is Bush’s one last chance to show tangible success in Iraq before his hand is folded for him.

A Republican Fratricide?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Nov 08, 2006
The election results provide as many questions as answers. Will civil war break out in the Republican Party over foreign policy? Can the Democrats maintain their tenuous unity?

Response to Nikolas Gvosdev: A Western-style Two Party System, Not 'Managed Democracy' is Georgia's Only Hope

Irakly Areshidze | Apr 07, 2004
Writing in last week's In the National Interest, Nikolas Gvosdev goes further than most analysts in telling the truth about developments in Georgia since last November's Rose Revolution.

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