- “What a nation feels to be necessary to its security and well-being… National interest reflects the general and continuing ends for which a nation acts.”
- Owen Harries is the editor emeritus of The National Interest and he was editor in chief from its founding in 1985 until 2001.
- Its bimonthly magazine and daily web presence are published by the Center for the National Interest (formerly the Nixon Center).
- See an archive of all the national interest stories published on the New York Media network, which includes NYMag, The Cut, Vulture, and Grub Street.
- For every country, national interest starts with safety of the national territory; for Americans, the arguing started just past that irreducible minimum.
- —Charles Lerche and Abdul • (2) National Interest is: “What a nation feels to be necessary to its security and well being …
- National interest often becomes synonymous with national egoism, with its disposition of transferring self love onto the national group.
- From the May/June 2009 issue of The National Interest. THE GREAT Credit Crisis has cast into doubt much of what we thought we knew about economics.
- (4) “The meaning of national interest is survival—the protection of physical, political and cultural identity against encroachments by other nation-states”.
