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: This article is about a journal. See foreign affairs for the generic term.Foreign Affairs is the foremost American journal of international relations.
The journal is published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a private sector group established in New York City in 1920 with the goal of keeping the United States involved in world affairs even as the government turned to isolationism. The group, mostly comprised of academics, published a quarterly publication, and this became Foreign Affairs.
Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University was the journal's first editor. As he was unwilling to move to New York, Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the Evening Post was appointed as a co-editor. He established many of patterns that continue to this day. This includes choosing the light blue color for the cover.
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 containmentThis article is about foreign policy. For containment in mathematics, see Set. Containment refers to the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War. The policy was first laid out in George F. Kennan's famous long teleg that would form the basis of American Cold WarThe Cold War (c. 1945- 1991) was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of nations practicing different ideologies and political systems. On one side was the Soviet Union and its allies, often referred to as the E policy.
Eleven different Secretaries of State have written essays in Foreign Affairs, and today its articles are still considered to be an important indicator of the line of thinking in the United States Department of StateThe United States Department of State often referred to as the State Department is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secre.
Since the end of the Cold War the journal has continued to remain prominent. It was in Foreign Affairs that Samuel P. HuntingtonSamuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup d'etats and his thesis that the central political actors of the 2 published his influential " Clash of Civilizations" article.
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