Fall 2000
American Purpose
Issue 1, Volume 14
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2003

This issue includes 'The Mideast "Peace Process" and U.S. Interests'; 'An Era of Good Feeling'; 'Netanyahu, Arafat, and the Peace Process '; 'Civil Society on the West Bank'; 'Back to Partition?'; 'What Are the U.S. Interests?'; 'Giving Lebanon and Turkey Their Due'; 'The Main Threat: Iraq and Iran'; and 'Needed: Enhanced Resolve'. [More]

Winter 2000
American Purpose
Issue 2, Volume 14
Publication Date: December 1, 2000
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2003

This issue offers reflections on humanitarian intervention by two commentators.  Elliott Abrams is the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the current chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.  His essay is adapted from one published in a new book by Freedom House, Freedom in the World 1999-2000, and also in The National Interest (Spring 2000).  Andrew Natsios, whose career has included service as an official of the Christian relief organization World Vision and, before that, of USA1D, is currently in charge of the "Big Dig" project in Boston.  His essay is adapted from a chapter in the Ethics and Public Policy Center's 1998 book Close Calls. [More]