The American encounter

de James F. Hoge, Fareed Zakaria

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs 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. As America has played a pivotal role in determining the shape of the world in the twentieth century, Foreign Affairs and its contributors have been at the center of each debate. In The American Encounter, readers will find landmark essays in a unique intellectual history of this century and of the extraordinary role that America has played in it.