Top World News Sites 2011

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The National Interest

For the second consecutive year, The National Interest has been selected as one of our Top Five World News Sites. The bimonthly policy journal, published by the Center for the National Interest (formerly The Nixon Center), "fosters discourse and debate on American foreign relations while adhering to a 'realist' outlook that eschews equally the Wilsonian impulse to remake the world in America’s image and the neoconservative drive to spread U.S. influence forcibly around the globe," said editor Robert W. Merry. The magazine’s Internet presence brings to the web the same crisp writing and penetrating thought seen for years in the print publication. The website, updated daily with commentary and analysis, serves as a supplement to the magazine’s probing, big-picture surveys of major developments and trends in international relations. Merry told RCW the web presence gives his readers a greater sense of immediacy than is possible with the magazine. While the website still presents a measure of long-form content found in the print publication, the central aim is to give readers perspective on unfolding events. The site brings together an impressive collection of regular contributors, including CIA veteran Paul Pillar, Israeli historian Benny Morris, former presidential adviser Bruce Riedel and Merry, a former Wall Street Journal Washington reporter and author of books on American history and foreign policy. It also presents blogs from thinkers at the libertarian Cato Institute and from author and pundit Jacob Heilbrunn. (Readers can follow The National Interest on Twitter at @TheNatlInterest and on Facebook)    

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