The Editors: The Global Election America's 2008 presidential campaign has generated more interest worldwide than any before it. With that in mind, The American Interest invited observers from around the world to report on how the campaign has been perceived in their countries. In the coming weeks we'll be posting these responses right here on AI Cont'd, beginning this week with Josef Joffe on the expectation deflation an Obama... [read more]
Francis Fukuyama: HUNGARY 1956, GEORGIA 2008 Watching Vice President Cheney in Tbilisi today pledging US support for Georgia’s territorial integrity, it is impossible not to fear that the United States is, with total recklessness, repeating the same tragic mistake that it made with regard to Hungary in 1956. As Charles Gati pointed out in his recent book Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, the Eisenhower administration gave... [read more]
Adam Garfinkle: Peter Rodman (1943-2008) I have known Peter Rodman for so many years that I cannot remember when I met him. Peter and I were in email contact just last week (I asked him to write something for the next issue of The American Interest.), and he was reluctant to do it because he wanted to first finish the book he was writing since leaving government, a book on... [read more]
Francis Fukuyama: Fukuyama and Kagan on bloggingheads.tv Francis Fukuyama and Robert Kagan discuss mostly China upon Bob's return from Belgium.... [read more]
in the current issue: Senator Barack Obama's all-encompassing message of change has resonated with many, but has left undecided voters scratching their heads. Gary Hart, Lee H. Hamilton, Philip H. Gordon and Will Marshall offer their takes on what an Obama administration might be like.
John Lewis Gaddis Ending Tyranny Thomas Jefferson’s eternal hostility to tyranny should be our guiding light today. Indeed, it's one of the few things George W. Bush has gotten right in his second term.
Ernest R. May & Philip D. Zelikow An Open, Civilized World Since 1990, the United States has brought to a bewildered, confused, globalizing world a bewildering, confusing mélange of policy ideas. No more! A world of diverse cultures on common human ground should be our credo. AI
Bruce Berkowitz Hot Air and Cold Facts Understanding what really drives national climate change policies and why these factors are so hard to alter will help us recognize our real range of options for dealing with global warming.
Bernard-Henri Lévy The Task of the Jews What to do about the new anti-Semitism.
Francis Fukuyama A Conversation with David Landes What are the sources of economic success? AI
Steven A. Cook Disentangling Alliances If the United States is going to successfully manage the manifold issues that cut across the Middle East, it must modify its underlying assumptions about how to achieve its goals. AI
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