Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of "Foreign Affairs", the journal of foreign policy, this collection gathers essays from past and present issues. Essays which not only laid the foundation for Americas involvement on the world stage but also defined the vital issues of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1922, "Foreign Affairs" has been one of the world's leading journals of international relations, by providing insightful and far-reaching commentary on global politics and economic policy. America has increasingly played a pivotal role in world events, whether military, political, economic or ideological, and "Foreign Affairs" and its contributors have been at the centre of each debate. It was in "Foreign Affairs" that George Kennan first proposed the policy of containment that became the touchstone of US strategy during the Cold War; that statesmen-scholars like Henry Kissinger and Arthur Schlesinger have debated the contentious issues of nuclear weapons and human rights; that journalists like Walter Lippmann and James Reston have offered prescient analyses of American foreign policy; and that thinkers like Isaiah Berlin and Samuel Huntington have explained the changing nature of the world.
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In honor of the 75th anniversary of Foreign Affairs magazine, this collection offers what the editors considered the most "seminal, elegantly written, and relevant" essays from the journal. Their purpose was to reflect on the evolving U.S. role in international relations, and the selections eloquently communicate the basic principles and issues on which that role has been constructed. The essays are generally presented chronologically. The eminence of the publication and its contributors is indicated by the landmark essay by statesman George Kennan, which introduced the guiding concept of Cold War foreign policy: containment of the Soviet Union and communism. Such high-level officials as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and James Schlesinger provide policy analyses. Essays by academics and intellectuals span the political spectrum from orthodox Marxist Nikolai Bukharin to neoconservative William F. Buckley Jr. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.?Tricia Gray, Miami Univ., Oxford, Ohio
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Hoge and Zakaria, respectively editor and managing editor of Foreign Affairs, have collected 43 articles to commemorate the journal's 75 years of publication. Perhaps the most interesting characteristic of this volume is not its overview of a changing world during a turbulent century, but rather the subtle indications of a changing perception of that world. Many of the names and topics are expected: Kennan on containment of the Soviets; Kissinger on diplomacy; Morgenthau on foreign intervention; Brzezinski on the Cold War. But there are also surprises, especially during the earlier decades: renegade Marxist Kautsky on Germany after WW I; Italian philosopher Croce on liberty in the 1930s; Soviet theorist Bukharin on imperialism; and anthropologist Mead on what later came to be known as North-South relations. Together the selections constitute a short intellectual history of foreign-policy concerns. Despite the often gloomy realities, the early contributions are characterized by a belief that ideas matter and that a wide range of them are worth considering. The postWW II period is dominated by a narrower discourse of national interest within shared assumptions about a bipolar world. After the demise of the Soviet Union, the articles share a sense of discovery that the world is a much more complex place than could ever have been imagined during the Cold War. This evolution in the mindset dominating the pages of Foreign Affairs reflects both the journal's failure and its success. Its goal, announced in the lead article of the first issue, was to educate the broad public about foreign events and issues. It has remained, however, largely a forum for the intelligentsia. The evidence that the experts have learned a lot over the years, however, suggests that the journal nevertheless deserves its reputation as the place for serious discussions of foreign policy. Well worth reading. (16 pages photos) (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This is an amazing book! Imagine been taken on a ride through the twentieth century by the people who made it and wrote about it at the time -- Nikolai Bukharin, Henry Stimson, Kissinger, Margaret Mead, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. All the articles are interesting, many are just dazzling. You go from inter-war isolation to World War II to the Cold War to Vietnam to the collapse of communism to today. The last section -- of essays from the 1990s -- puts you right in place to understand the global trends of the next century. And the book has great photographs. It will prove a continuing pleasure to own this book
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