The National Interest

: This article is about a journal. See national interest for the generic term.

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The National Interest is a prominent quarterly international affairs journal, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and currently published by the Nixon Center. The National Interest is not restricted in content to ?foreign policy? in the narrow, technical sense, but attempts to pay attention to broad ideas, and the way in which cultural and social differences, technological innovations, history, and religion impact the behavior of states. It is often critical of positions taken by its rival journal, Foreign Affairs, which many see as reflecting the dominant position within the U.S. State Department.

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International affairs - 1985 - Irving Kristol - Nixon Center - Foreign policy - Foreign Affairs - U.S. State Department

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In 1989, The National Interest published Francis Fukuyama?s famous and controversial article, The End of History? In covering the fall of Soviet Communism, The National Interest featured contributors included not only specialists like Richard Pipes and Robert Conquest, but also Nobel Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow.

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1989 - Francis Fukuyama - The End of History? - Soviet - Communism - Richard Pipes - Robert Conquest - Nobel Prize - Saul Bellow

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The magazine has an international readership, and its articles are excerpted in newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Korea?s Shin Dong-A, the London Spectator, and Austria?s Europaische Rundschau.

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New York Times - Korea - Shin Dong-A - London - Spectator - Austria - Europaische Rundschau

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In 2005, a number of members of The National Interest's editorial board led by Fukuyama, upset by the Nixon Center's changes to editorial policy, decided to leave the journal and create a rival publication, The American Interest.

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