Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Foreign Affairs, the worlds most widely circulated and respected journal of foreign policy, this remarkable collection gathers the most important essays from the past and present issues, essays that not only laid the foundation for Americas involvement on the world stage but also defined the vital issues of the 20th century.

* Americas Past, Americas Future: An Introduction James F. Hoge, Jr., and Fareed Zakaria * Elihu Root, A Requisite for the Success of Popular Diplomacy, September 22 After Versailes, the 1920s * Karl Kautsky, Germany Since the War, December 1922 * Alfred E. Zimmern, Nationalism and Internationalism, June 1923 * Victor Chernov, Lenin, March 1924 * Walter Lippman, Concerning Senator Borah, January 1926 The Gathering Storm, the 1930s * Edwin F. Gay, The Great Depression, July 1932 * Nikolai Bukharin, Imperialism and Communism, July 1936 * Benedetto Croce, Of Liberty, October 1932 * Heinrich Mann, Dictatorship of the Mind, April 1934 * H.G. Wells, Civilization on Trial, July 1935 War and Victory, the 1940s * Arnold J. Toynbee, A Turning Point in History, January 1939 * Julien Benda, Pacifism and Democracy, July 1941 * James B. Reston, The Critic Turns Actor, October 1945 * Henry L. Stimson, The Challenge to Americans, October 1947 A Cold War, the 1950s * X[George F. Kennan], The Sources of Soviet Conduct, July 1947 * Henry A. Kissinger, Reflections of American Diplomacy, October 1956 * Albert Wohlstetter, The Delicate Balance of Terror, January 1959 * Isaiah Berlin, The Silence in Russian Culture, October 1957 * W.E.B. Du Bois, The Realities in Africa: European Profit or Negro Development? July 1943 * Margaret Mead, The Underdeveloped and the Overdeveloped, October 1962 * A. Whitney Griswold, Wormwoood and Gall: An Introspective Note on American Diplomacy, October 1960 The Quagmire of Vietnam, The 1960s * Hans J. Morgenthau, to Intervene or Not To Intervene, April 1967 * Henry A. Kissinger, The Viet Nam Negotiations, January 1969 * Irving Kristol, American Intellectuals and Foreign Policy, July 1967 * Clark M. Clifford, A Viet Nam Reappraisal: the Personal History of One Mans View and How It Evolved, July 1969 An Age of Limits, the 1970s * Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Isolated America, October 1972 * David Fromkin, The Strategy of Terrorism, July 1975 * Fouad Ajami, The End of Pan-Arabism, Winter 197879 * Richard N. Cooper, A Monetary System for the Future, Winter 1984 * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Human Rights and the American Tradition, America and the World 1978 * William F. Buckley, Jr., Human Rights and Foreign Policy: A Proposal, Winter 19801981 The Collapse of Communism, the 1980s * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Misconceptions About Russia Are a Threat to America, Spring 1980 * Richard Pipes, Can the Soviet Union Reform?, Fall 1984 * George F. Kennan, Communism in Russian History, Winter 199091 * Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Cold War and Its Aftermath, Fall 1992 An Uncertain New Order, the 1990s * Walter B. Wriston, Technology and Sovereignty, Winter 198889 * Jessica T. Mathews, Power Shift, January/February 1997 * Isaiah Berlin, The Bent Twig: A Note on Nationalism, October 1972 * Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations? Summer 1993 * Warren Zimmermann, The Last Ambassador: A Memoir of the Collapse of Yugoslavia, March/April 1995 * Paul Krugman, Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession, March/April 1994 * Fareed Zakaria, Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, March/April 1994