Detention Nation
Essay TypesEssayKaren J. GreenbergFrom the May/June 2009 issue of The National Interest. IN FEBRUARY, four weeks into office, the Obama administration released its first prisoner in the war on...
View ArticleObama's Speech
The president’s Cairo address confirmed his skill as an orator and encouraged Arabs and Israelis to work toward peace. But the realities of the AfPak conflict will probably ring truer in Muslim ears...
View ArticleThe North Atlantic Phoenix
The seemingly universal consensus that existed mere months ago that Afghanistan was a "necessary war" the West could not afford to lose has suddenly evaporated. Prominent liberals, centrists and...
View ArticleWhy We Can't Leave
A top terrorism expert argues against the rising calls for a rapid U.S. departure from Afghanistan. Otherwise we risk another major al-Qaeda attack.Bruce HoffmanThe arrest of Najibullah Zazi shatters...
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Shades of Abu Ghraib
Essay TypesEssayAlistair HorneTHE GRISLY subject of torture is back with us again, with fresh allegations of CIA misconduct. It is a subject which first came to occupy my thoughts when I was writing a...
View ArticleThe Kremlin Begs To Differ
Essay TypesEssayDimitri K. SimesPaul J. SaundersFrom the November/December issue of The National Interest. TWENTY YEARS after the fall of the Berlin wall, Russia remains as Sir Winston Churchill...
View ArticleThe Willing Misinterpreter
From the November/December issue of The National Interest.Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009), 672 pp.,...
View ArticleUnjust War
The situation of women in Afghanistan, though horrid, does not warrant more years of costly conflict.Doug BandowAfghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want...
View ArticleTokyo Rising
China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.Ted Galen CarpenterOne very clear fact emerged from my recent meetings with officials and...
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American Jihad
Essay TypesEssayBruce Hoffman LAST CHRISTMAS Day, the United States was just three minutes away from another tragedy of unmitigated horror. Once again, terrorists breached our security and nearly...
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On War and Choice
Essay TypesEssayLawrence Freedman WARS ARE now commonly divided into types: those of necessity and those of choice. The former are unavoidable, fought because of a threat to our basic way of life. The...
View ArticleThe Threat at Home
The attempted Times Square attack is just the latest in a line of plots that shows Washington doesn’t have a strategy to prevent homegrown terror.Rebecca N. WhiteWould-be terrorist Faisal Shahzad’s...
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Unintelligent Design
Essay TypesEssayPaul R. PillarTHE POST of director of national intelligence (DNI) has had an unhappy five-year history. Until now it has been easier to blame the successive occupants of the position...
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Staving Off Israeli Folly
The danger of Israel striking Iran isn't rooted in strategy and logic.Paul R. PillarBruce Riedel's hard-hitting article about a possible Israeli military attack on Iran has appropriately attracted...
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Osama at the Top of His Game
Bin Laden is in vintage form with his new message threatening France.Michael ScheuerOn October 27, 2010, Al Jazeera television network broadcasted a new audiotape by Osama bin Laden meant to exploit...
View ArticleA New Era in U.S.-Vietnam Relations?
On Tuesday, the UN General Assembly voted to give Vietnam a seat on the Security Council. Washington would do well to use this opportunity to develop stronger relations with Hanoi.J. Peter PhamOn...
View ArticleRuling Pakistan
If ruling Pakistan is like riding a tiger, President Pervez Musharraf may be drawing in his reins too tightly, according to some analysts.Ximena OrtizIf ruling Pakistan is like riding a tiger,...
View ArticleTorture is Not a Republican Value
Contrary to what many have said, supporting torture is not part of being a conservative. If continued, White House policies that tolerate it will undermine U.S. credibility, produce bad intelligence...
View ArticlePutin's Heir?: NI Online's Continuing Russia Coverage
After Vladimir Putin’s announcement today that he would support Dimitri Medvedev to be the next Russian president, Nikolas K. Gvosdev gives some perspective.Nikolas K. GvosdevAndreas UmlandRapid...
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Debating Disaster: The World Is Not Enough
Essay TypesEssayThomas Homer-DixonMichael T. KlareSherri W. GoodmanPaul J. KernDavid G. VictorIn the last issue of The National Interest, David Victor argued that the threat of resource wars is...
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