''The National Interest'' (''TNI'') is an American bimonthly

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magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the

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, a

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based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former

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in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom. The magazine is associated with the realist school of

international studies International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

History

Founded in 1985 by American columnist and

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advocate

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, the magazine was until 2001 edited by Australian academic Owen Harries. In 2001, The National Interest was acquired by The

, a

based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former

on January 20, 1994, as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom. In 2005, ten editors of ''The National Interest'' resigned due to different viewpoints regarding the magazine's acquisition and with the larger editorial board. Those who left founded a separate journal, ''

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''.

Influence and reception

''The National Interest'' is credited with introducing ideas like "the West and the rest" and

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into public discourse. Political scientist

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar and writer. Fukuyama is known for his book ''The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992), which argue ...

formulated his early political and philosophical thoughts on the

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in the journal in 1989, where he argued that the worldwide spread of

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and free-market

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of the

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and its lifestyle may signal the end point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and become the final form of human government. In 2005, Fukuyama left to found ''The American Interest'', citing what he saw as excessive international relations realism supported by the Nixon Center. In 2015,

Maria Butina Maria Valeryevna Butina (russian: Мари́я Вале́рьевна Бу́тина, sometimes transliterated as Mariya Butina; born November 10, 1988) is a Russian politician, political activist and former entrepreneur who was convicted in 20 ...

, who was later in 2018 convicted as a Russian spy, wrote an editorial in the magazine titled "The Bear and the Elephant" stating that only by electing a president from the Republican Party could the United States and Russia improve relations. Writing in ''

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'', journalist

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argued in 2016 while commenting on

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's Russian relationships that ''The National Interest'' and its parent company "are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so than the

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