The American Encounter The United States and the Making of the Modern World

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs (FA) has been the world's leading journal of international relations. It provides the most insightful & far-reaching commentary on global politics & economic policy available anywhere. This compilation of essays from FA contains many essays that provide a unique intellectual history of this century. Includes: the XÓ article, in which George Kennan coined the term containmentÓ; Henry Stimson & Elihu Root on the necessity of Amer. global leadership; W.E.B. Du Bois & Margaret Mead on the developing nations of the 3rd World; Henry Kissinger & Clark Clifford on Vietnam; & Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Western misconceptions about Russia.