The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs

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.