January/February 2012 Issue Now Online
Article Summary and Author Biography
The January/February 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs is now online and will be on newsstands January 3rd.
In this issue:
Gideon Rose, Editor of Foreign Affairs, writes that the postwar liberal democratic order solved the central challenge of modernity.
Selections from the Foreign Affairs archives trace the ideological battles of the past century and the evolution of the modern order.
Francis Fukuyama, a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, warns that stagnating wages and growing inequality will soon threaten the stability of contemporary liberal democracies and dethrone democratic ideology.
Matthew Kroenig, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, shows that a carefully designed strike on Iran, Washington could spare the world from an unacceptable threat.
Stephen D. Krasner, a former director of policy planning, advises the Obama administration that only threats to sever ties and the determination to act on them will do the job in Pakistan.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security adviser, explains that the United States faces two central challenges in foreign policy: enlarging the zone of prosperity and democracy in the West while balancing the rise of China in the East.
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