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'War is a dispute about the measurement of power,' the historian Geoffrey Blainey wrote half a century ago. Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin took the measure of Russia's [...]

One hundred years ago, former Secretary of State Elihu Root opened the first essay in the first issue of Foreign Affairs with what may have seemed, in September 1922, a [...]

'The East is rising,' Chinese leaders took to declaring around the time U.S. President Joe Biden entered office, 'and the West is declining.' The second part of that declaration may [...]

THE SPYMASTERSHow the CIA Directors Shape History and the FutureBy Chris Whipple In the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, there is an inscription on a wall near the entrance: [...]

As this issue goes to press, the war in Ukraine is far from over. It seems likely to go on for weeks or months or even years, whether as a [...]

THE EMPIRE AND THE FIVE KINGS America's Abdication and the Fate of the World By Bernard-Henri Lévy GULLIBLE SUPERPOWER U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements By Ted Galen Carpenter [...]

In the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, President George W. Bush announced a 'forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East,' driven by American [...]

Adecade ago, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta issued a stark warning about the dangers of a 'cyber-Pearl Harbor'--a digital attack that would cause realworld death and destruction. The subsequent [...]

In September, in his first address to the UN General Assembly as president, Joe Biden pledged that the United States was not 'seeking a new cold war or a world [...]

WAR ON PEACE The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence By Ronan Farrow Illustrated. 392 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $27.95. In 2010, just before Thanksgiving, American [...]

The China Mission Daniel Kurtz-Phelan W.W. Norton www.wwnorton.com 9780393240955 $28.95 The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 comes from a former State Department official who now edits Foreign Affairs [...]

This battle will take time and resolve,' President George W. Bush declared on September 12, 2001. 'But make no mistake about it: we will win.' For much of the next [...]

Aglobalized economy was supposed to bring people together--or so went the dominant strain of thinking in the foreign policy world for most of the last few decades. In a few [...]

The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China--and How America Can Win by Geoff Dyer Knopf, 304 pp. Competition with China really isn't a zero-sum game. [...]

THE STRATEGIST Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security By Bartholomew Sparrow Illustrated. 716 pp. PublicAffairs. $37.50. In foreign policy, every success is just the start of the next [...]

Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power by Howard W. French Knopf, 352 pp. Countries, like people, tell themselves stories in order to [...]

REAGAN AT REYKJAVIK Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War By Ken Adelman Illustrated. 375 pp. Broadside Books/HarperCollins Publishers. $29.99. Failure is in fashion these days. We read about failing [...]

BANANAS How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World. By Peter Chapman. 224 pp. Canongate. $24. When the Banana Company arrives in Macondo, the jungle town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's [...]

Byline: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Medellin goes from murder capital to model city. Five years ago the hillside slum of Comuna 13 was the most brutal urban battleground in Latin America, a [...]

HUGO CHAVEZ By Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera Tyszka. Translated by Kristina Cordero. Illustrated. 327 pp. Random House. $27.95. HUGO! The Hugo Chavez Story From Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution. [...]

The packing guidelines in the Official Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Volunteer Training Manual fall into three categories. First, there's the essential 'Minuteman Duffle,' which should include sturdy shoes, clean socks, [...]

Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela by Rory Carroll Penguin Press HC, 320 pp. For months, the enemies of Hugo Chavez have hardly even tried to conceal their delight at his apparent [...]

This article discusses the current political situation in Colombia, focusing on cease-fires between the government and paramilitary groups. Comandante Memín is a thick-chested 39-year-old with a crucifix hanging from a silver chain around his neck. He talks about" social work" and his commitment to" cultural projects." After Escobar was killed in 1993, Medellen was taken over by left-wing guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), both flush with cocaine money and armed to the teeth. What's more, the lack of real demobilization has empowered the most unsavory paramilitary leaders, leaving them free to use the cease-fire to wipe out opponents like Castañ o and rebuild their forces. With the fall of Carlos Castaño and the rise of Adolfo Paz, the implications of this strategy become clear: The AUC's leaders, now indistinguishable from drug traffickers, have no interest in ending the war and could launch an intensified round of attacks against the left-wing guerrillas and other perceived enemies.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including a new wave of globalization despite the current crisis, the broken promises of past trade agreements, and an assessment of China's economic development strategy including the Belt and Road Initiative.

The article features the colonial city of Oaxaca in Mexico. The city features 17th-century churches, government buildings and plazas. The cuisine serves in the city's restaurants include rich moles, spiced hot chocolate and freshly grilled empanadas. The city owes 80 percent of its economy to tourism which was affected by six months of mass demonstrations and violent clashes.

The article presents an interview with Ali Fayyad, the top policy strategist of the organization Hizbullah. Fayyad discusses the political situation in Lebanon. He also discusses the U.S. efforts to spread democracy in the Middle East. Fayyad discusses the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and the relationship between the United States and Hizbullah.