Foreign Affairs 183519 225631815 2008-07-14T17:23:35Z Briaboru 284038 /* Book reviews */ {{Infobox Newspaper | name = Foreign Affairs | image = <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image: FA_(magazine).jpg|200px]] --> | type = [[Bi-monthly]] [[Academic publishing|Journal]] | format = [[Academic publishing|Scholarly Journal]] | foundation = 1922 | owners = [[Council on Foreign Relations]]| political = | circulation = 200,000| headquarters = [[New York City|New York]]| editor = [[James F. Hoge, Jr.]]| website = [http://www.foreignaffairs.org http://www.foreignaffairs.org] | }} {{about|the journal||foreign affairs (disambiguation)}} '''''Foreign Affairs''''' is an influential [[United States|American]] [[journal]] on [[international relations]] published by the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] (CFR) six times annually. The CFR is a private-sector group established in [[New York City]] in 1921, with the mission of promoting understanding of foreign policy and America’s role in the world. ==History== The Council on Foreign Relations was originally composed of 75 members of mainly academic and professional backgrounds. In its first year, the Council sought discourse mainly in meetings at their headquarters in New York City. However the members of the Council wished to seek a wider audience and in 1922 began publishing ''Foreign Affairs''. The Council named Professor [[Archibald Cary Coolidge]] of [[Harvard University]] as the journal's first [[editing|editor]]. As Coolidge was unwilling to move from [[Boston]] to New York, [[Hamilton Fish Armstrong]] a [[Princeton University|Princeton]] alumnus and a European correspondent of the ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' (now known as the ''New York Post'') was appointed as a co-editor and was sent to work in New York to handle the mechanical work of publishing the journal. Armstrong chose the light blue color to be the cover of the journal and had his two sisters, Margeret and Helen, design the logo (the man on the horse on the upper left hand side of each cover - now in the middle) and the lettering respectively. The journal ''Foreign Affairs'' continued the ''[[Journal of International Relations]]'' (which ran from 1910 to 1922), which in turn continued the '' [[Journal of Race Development]]'' (which ran from 1911 to 1919) (Weber). ===Pre-World War II=== The lead article in the first issue of ''Foreign Affairs'' was written by former [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] under [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s Administration [[Elihu Root]]. In the initial article Root wrote that the United States had become a [[World power]] and as such that the general population needed to be better informed about international matters. [[John Foster Dulles]], then a lawyer from New York who would later become [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] under [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], also wrote an article in the initial issue of ''Foreign Affairs'' regarding the difficulties surrounding war reparations placed on Germany after the [[First World War]]. <ref>[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/about/history2 History of Foreign Affairs]</ref> ''Foreign Affairs'' published a series of articles in 1925 by prominent [[African American]] intellectual [[W.E.B. DuBois]]. DuBois, a personal friend of Armstrong, wrote mainly about race issues and imperialism. Although in the early days of publication the journal did not have many female authors, in the late 1930s American journalist for ''[[Time Magazine]]'' [[Dorothy Thompson]] would contribute articles. <ref>[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/about/history3 History of Foreign Affairs]</ref> ===Cold War Era=== [[Image:Kennan.jpeg|right|thumb|[[George F. Kennan]] published his doctrine of [[containment]] in the July 1947 issue of ''Foreign Affairs''.]] The journal rose to its greatest prominence after [[World War II]] when [[foreign relations]] became central to [[United States politics]], and the United States became a powerful actor on the global scene. Several extremely important articles were published in ''Foreign Affairs'', including the reworking of [[George F. Kennan]]'s "[[Long Telegram]]", which first publicized the doctrine of [[containment]] that would form the basis of American [[Cold War]] policy. Eleven different [[U.S. Secretary of State|Secretaries of State]] of the [[United States|U.S.A.]] have written essays in ''Foreign Affairs.'' ===Post-Cold War Era=== Since the end of the Cold War, and especially after the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], the journal's readership has grown significantly. It was in ''Foreign Affairs'' that [[Samuel P. Huntington]] published his influential "[[Clash of Civilizations]]" article. In the November/December 2003 issue of ''Foreign Affairs'', [[Kenneth Maxwell]] wrote a review of [[Peter Kornbluh]]'s book ''The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability'', which gave rise to a controversy about [[Henry Kissinger]]'s relationship to the regime of Chilean dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] and to [[Operation Condor]]. Maxwell claims that key [[Council on Foreign Relations]] members, acting at Kissinger's behest, put pressure on ''Foreign Affairs'' editor, [[James Hoge]], to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to [[William D. Rogers]], a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established ''Foreign Affairs'' policy. <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56719-2005Feb26.html A Plot Thickens] from the [[Washington Post]]</ref> Then-opposition leader and former [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Prime Minister]] [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] caused a stir by publishing an article entitled "Containing Russia" in the May-June 2007 issue of ''Foreign Affairs'' accusing [[Russia]] under [[Vladimir Putin]] of expansionism and urging the rest of Europe to stand against him; [[Russia]]n [[List of Russian foreign ministers|foreign minister]] [[Sergei Lavrov]] wrote an article in response, but he withdrew it, citing "censorship" from the ''Foreign Affairs'' editorial board. Tymoshenko's party went on to win the 2007 elections and became Prime Minister once again. The immediate past managing editor of ''Foreign Affairs'' was [[Fareed Zakaria]], now the editor of ''Newsweek International''. The current managing editor is [[Gideon Rose]], an expert on international conflict and the Middle East. ==Book reviews== Since its inception, ''Foreign Affairs'' has had a fairly long book review section. The section originated after Coolidge asked his colleague at Harvard, [[William L. Langer]], a historian and [[World War I]] veteran, to run the section. Langer initially had full control over the section and did the reviews entirely by himself. A month before the reviews were due the office in New York would ship approximately one hundred books to Langer to be reviewed and within approximately two weeks he would return the reviews for the section. By the late 1930s, the review section had been broken down into several subsections. In the magazine's current incarnation (as of April 2006), a few longer reviews, usually written by well-known figures in the field of foreign policy, begin the section, followed by a subsection titled "Recent Books on International Relations" with shorter half-page-long reviews written by eminent academics. The section's final page shows the top fifteen best selling books on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs according to [[Barnes and Noble]]'s online book sales. <ref>[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/about/history3 History of Foreign Affairs]</ref> == Bibliography == *Weber, Eugen. "Half-Brother to the World" [Review of ''A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History'' by Thomas Bender, Hill and Wang, 2006], ''The American Scholar'', Vol. 75, No. 3, (Sum. 2006), pp. 123-126. ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == *[http://www.foreignaffairs.org ''Foreign Affairs''] Official Site *[http://www.cfr.org/ ''Council on Foreign Relations''] Official Site [[Category:Council on Foreign Relations]] [[Category:American political magazines]] [[Category:International relations journals]] [[Category:Publications established in 1922]] [[de:Foreign Affairs]] [[fr:Foreign Affairs]] [[it:Foreign Affairs (rivista)]] [[nl:Foreign Affairs]] [[ja:フォーリン・アフェアーズ]] [[pl:Foreign Affairs]] [[pt:Foreign Affairs]] [[fi:Foreign Affairs]] [[sv:Foreign Affairs]] [[zh:外交 (杂志)]]