The American Encounter
The United States and the Making of the Modern World: Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs
- 672 pages
- 24 hours of reading
Since its founding in 1922, <i>Foreign Affairs</i> has been the world's leading journal of international relations, a distinction earned by providing the most insightful and far-reaching commentary on global politics and economic policy available anywhere. America has increasingly played a pivotal role in world events, whether military, political, economic, or ideological, and <i>Foreign Affairs</i> and its contributors have been at the center of each debate.It was in <i>Foreign Affairs</i> that George Kennan first proposed the policy of containment that became the touchstone of U.S. 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. In <i>The American Encounter,</i> readers will find these landmark essays and many more in a unique intellectual history of this century and of the extraordinary role that America has played in it.There is no other book like this, because there is no other publication like <i>Foreign Affairs.</i><i>The American Encounter</i> is a powerful link to the giants of history—those visionaries whose warnings and advice still speak to us today, offering wisdom, insight, and a greater understanding of America's place in the world.