Redefining the National Interest. .doc

Redefining the National Interest. /ehost1.asp?Global=1key=41_8000_387383339site=ehostreturn=n Subject(s): UNITED States -- Foreign relations; INTERNATIONAL relations -- Risk assessment; KOSOVO (Serbia) -- Relations -- United States; COLD War -- Political aspects -- United States Source: Foreign Affairs, Jul/Aug99, Vol. 78 Issue 4, p22, 14p, 2bw Author(s): Nye Jr., Joseph S. Abstract: Focuses on the need to define national interest in the United States, in light of the conflict in Kosovo as of May, 1999. How the Cold War guided US national interest and foreign policy; Struggles in defining what Americans want in foreign policy; The US as a preponderant, but not dominant, world power in terms of military and economic might; US cultural appeal; Effects of the Information Age on the US and the world; Concerns about the ascendence of low-priority issues such as Kosovo or Somalia. AN: 1952567 ISSN: 0015-7120 Note: 国内馆藏：北大,北师大,北外,复旦,南开大学,上外,中国人大 国内馆藏：北大,北师大,北外,复旦,南开大学,上外,中国人大 Database: Academic Search Elite Print: Click here to mark for print. Text Available: Full Page Image [Go To Citation] Best Part REDEFINING THE NATIONAL INTEREST CONFUSION AFTER KOSOVO NATOS MILITARY intervention in Kosovo dramatically raises a larger problem: how should the United States define its interests in todays world? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, what are the limits of Americas concerns abroad? Can one define interests conventionally in the information age? The national interest is a slippery concept, used to describe as well as prescribe foreign policy. Hence the considerable debate about it. Some scholars have even regretted the waning of the very idea of a national interest today. Writing in these pages, Samuel P. Huntington argued recently that without a sure sense of national identity, Americans have become unable to define their national interests, and as a result subnational commercial interests and transnational and nonnational ethnic interests hav