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| Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
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Rating:  22 reviews
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Subscription Issues: 6
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 6
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 an unvarnished classic August 28, 2006
David A. Baer (Indianapolis, IN USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
FOREIGN AFFAIRS makes no apology for its antiquated typescript, large print, and generally stodgy appearance. It hardly needs to.
It is simply one of the consistently finest sources of foreign policy discussion available from an American (thus *foreign* policy means USA vis-a-vis the world) point of view. The design folks have correctly discerned that toying with appearances could only interfere with a train that rolls just fine as it is.
FA is often the vehicle of choice for American foreign policy officers who have moved on to think tanks and other private sector roles. For example, see the Richard Holbrooke (he of the Dayton Accords) piece entitled 'Liberalism and Foreign Policy' in the most recent (July/August 2006) issue available to this reviewer.
The voice most often heard in FA is decidely that of the Washington establishment, broadly defined. Yet the editors occasionally toss in a dissenting viewpoint like that of Hugo Chavez' Ambassador to the US ('A Benign Revolution: In Defense of Hugo Chavez', July/August 2006) for color.
The writing is well informed and superbly edited. Roundtable discussions on issues of concern are common, as are themed issues. Again from the recent issue, the topic 'The Rise of India' provides space for four essays entitled 'Unshackling the Economy', 'India's Global Strategy', 'America's New Partner?', and 'The Kashmir Conundrum'. FA's genius lies in that the globe's foreign policy experts will have digested these contributions with great care, yet the business traveler on her first trip to India can easily do the same on the first flight of her journey. Such is the quality of FA's editorial work.
Long-time readers often discern an editorial drift to the right or the left, a perception that may owe as much to the changing currents of international affairs and the constantly moving matrix in which any statement must be written and read as to any real shift in the journal's political leanings.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS is a must read for career internationalists, a worthwhile educational tool for those who want to know what America's brightest (thought not always most in touch with facts on the ground) policy makers are thinking, and a diversion for hobbyists whose curiosity regularly yanks them tornado-like out of Kansas.
consistently good October 15, 2005
Justin (California, USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've been reading FA since 2001 and have found it to be consistently good. There are only six issues each year, so I have time to read it front to back each time. The articles are more in-depth than something you might read in the Economist or other weekly news magazine. This is not something you read for headlines, but something you read for issues.
FA seems to me to be non-partisan. Condi Rice, Chuck Hagel, and Donald Rumsfeld get space to write, but so does Madeline Albright and Samuel Berger.
Recent articles I liked: "How to Counter WMD" by Ashton B. Carter, "How to Stop Nuclear Terror" by Graham Allison, and "The Outsourcing Bogeyman" by Daniel W. Drezner.
 Establishment Foreign Policy journal March 10, 2006
Shalom Freedman (Jerusalem,Israel)
12 out of 23 found this review helpful
This magazine is written by many of the most influential people in the realm of foreign policy. If one wishes to know what the Establishment thinks on foreign policy issues this is the magazine to read.
But I have often found it to err in its judgment and evaluation of situations. A most recent example is a recent long analysis of U.S. - Iranian relations in which the experts led by Zbigniew Brezhinski posited that Iran would be open to conciliatory economic gestures to the U.S. in relation to its nuclear program.
This analysis was so far of the mark , so naive, so uninformed as to what the Iraniians were saying to their own people publicly and in the mullah to mullah conferences that I was astonished it had been printed and taken seriously.
Since that time of course the uncompromising determination of Iran to attain nuclear weapons, its fanatic Anti- American policy has become clear for all to see.
So my advice is that whoever reads 'Foreign Policy' on any major world program would do well to read many other sources as well.
i.e. the reader approach that by reading 'Foreign Policy' one now knows about the world is simplistic, and most often, wrong.
Long Time Subscriber August 28, 2003
Kevin M Rogers (Grafton, OH)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have been reading Foreign Affairs for more than 30 years. It is an integral part of a broad-based understanding of international issues, both current and historical. It can also be very prescient at times. (See Clash of Civilizations, 1993)The articles are not to be rushed through. Read them slowly and savor them, whether you agree with them or not. Give it a try!
You can know what's going to happen before it happens March 16, 2003
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Foreign Affairs is an excellent journal published by the Council on Foreign Relations which is a foreign policy think tank that has included pretty much every Secretary of State since it was founded. There are people around the world who think that this think tank is part of a conspiracy that controls the world and despite the fact that the statement is absurd, the Council does pretty much dictate what the US government is going to do, and since the US is by far the most influental nation in the world I guess there are some grains of truth to this, although I wouldn't call it a conspiracy since they are telling you exactly what they want to do in this journal. Nevertheless, I guess that makes it a more interesting read.After you start reading this for a while you'll start to understand what's going on around the world with respect to our actions abroad and you'll understand what the people making the decisions were thinking when they made them.
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