The American Interest v. The National Interest
Be on the lookout for a new journal on American foreign policy - The American Interest. What's interesting about this journal is that not only does it almost have the same name as The National Interest, the 20 year old quarterly founded by Irving Kristol, but it also seems to have swiped two-thirds of its editorial board. Despite being founded by the a neo-con luminary TNI has always had a realist bent and has became more realist upon being taken over by the Nixon Center.
While the new TAI has a couple of neo-cons on it's board it also includes Samuel Huntington and Zbingniw Brzezinski. My only guess is that the board may have found the influence of the Nixon Center to be a bit too stifling. The Center proclaims itself as "America's Realist Voice" and a banner at the in the National Interest site, the weekly e-letter of TNI, approvingly quotes the Boston Globe "if realists have a house organ it is The National Interest." I suppose that those that chose to join TAI did not want to work at anyone's house organ.
While the new TAI has a couple of neo-cons on it's board it also includes Samuel Huntington and Zbingniw Brzezinski. My only guess is that the board may have found the influence of the Nixon Center to be a bit too stifling. The Center proclaims itself as "America's Realist Voice" and a banner at the in the National Interest site, the weekly e-letter of TNI, approvingly quotes the Boston Globe "if realists have a house organ it is The National Interest." I suppose that those that chose to join TAI did not want to work at anyone's house organ.
posted by theCardinal @ 10:27 PM
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Is Irving related to William Kristol of PNAC?
I too wrote a post on this
http://ivorypower.com/blog/?p=55
He is Bill Kristol's father.
Why is anyone still "guessing" about what's going on at the National Interest? They had an open letter in their summer issue on the inside front cover about their plans, they have a reconstituted advisory board and new contributing editors, and I've seen the fall issue with a major article by Bob Tucker who was one of the founding editors. Plus Dana Milbank's piece in the Washington Post a few months back seemed to put everything in perspective. I think both magazines will contribute to debate and don't know why their had to be a feud in the first place.
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