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Rating: - Not Received Merchandise
It has now been over one month and I have not received any notice from the company from which I purchased the product nor have I received the product. Is there anyone there?

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Rating: - an unvarnished classic
FOREIGN AFFAIRS makes no apology for its antiquated typescript, large print, and generally stodgy appearance. It hardly needs to.

It is simply one of the consistently finest sources of foreign policy discussion available from an American (thus *foreign* policy means USA vis-à-vis the world) point of view. The design folks have correctly discerned that toying with appearances could only interfere with a train that rolls just fine as it is.

FA is often the vehicle of choice for American foreign policy officers who have moved on to think tanks and other private sector roles. For example, see the Richard Holbrooke (he of the Dayton Accords) piece entitled 'Liberalism and Foreign Policy' in the most recent (July/August 2006) issue available to this reviewer.

The voice most often heard in FA is decidely that of the Washington establishment, broadly defined. Yet the editors occasionally toss in a dissenting viewpoint like that of Hugo Chávez' Ambassador to the US ('A Benign Revolution: In Defense of Hugo Chávez', July/August 2006) for color.

The writing is well informed and superbly edited. Roundtable discussions on issues of concern are common, as are themed issues. Again from the recent issue, the topic 'The Rise of India' provides space for four essays entitled 'Unshackling the Economy', 'India's Global Strategy', 'America's New Partner?', and 'The Kashmir Conundrum'. FA's genius lies in that the globe's foreign policy experts will have digested these contributions with great care, yet the business traveler on her first trip to India can easily do the same on the first flight of her journey. Such is the quality of FA's editorial work.

Long-time readers often discern an editorial drift to the right or the left, a perception that may owe as much to the changing currents of international affairs and the constantly moving matrix in which any statement must be written and read as to any real shift in the journal's political leanings.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS is a must read for career internationalists, a worthwhile educational tool for those who want to know what America's brightest (thought not always most in touch with facts on the ground) policy makers are thinking, and a diversion for hobbyists whose curiosity regularly yanks them tornado-like out of Kansas.

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Rating: - Best Journalism in Print Neutrally Covering All Aspects of Foreign Relations
I've been reading Foreign Affairs since 1980 and have always admired the well rounded scope covering everything from Social & Cultural issues, Media/Public Opinion, International law, Human rights, Economics, Trade & Finance, Science & Technology, Intelligence, Energy, resources & environment, International organizations, and the list goes on.

What I love most about this journal is that there is no agenda - the journalism is highly ethical and thorough. You'll also find out about great new books. I've loved and studied International Relations since 1980, and this is the one magazine that has never let me down. Its coverage is the pinnacle in print journalism.

Deserves 10 stars!

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Rating: - Establishment Foreign Policy journal
This magazine is written by many of the most influential people in the realm of foreign policy. If one wishes to know what the Establishment thinks on foreign policy issues this is the magazine to read.
But I have often found it to err in its judgment and evaluation of situations. A most recent example is a recent long analysis of U.S. - Iranian relations in which the experts led by Zbigniew Brezhinski posited that Iran would be open to conciliatory economic gestures to the U.S. in relation to its nuclear program.
This analysis was so far of the mark , so naive, so uninformed as to what the Iraniians were saying to their own people publicly and in the mullah to mullah conferences that I was astonished it had been printed and taken seriously.
Since that time of course the uncompromising determination of Iran to attain nuclear weapons, its fanatic Anti- American policy has become clear for all to see.
So my advice is that whoever reads 'Foreign Policy' on any major world program would do well to read many other sources as well.
i.e. the reader approach that by reading 'Foreign Policy' one now knows about the world is simplistic, and most often, wrong.