The Clash of Ideas eBook Now Available
This special eBook collection, drawn from the archives of Foreign Affairs, traces the great intellectual debates that defined the twentieth century -- and are molding the twenty-first.
The Clash of Ideas tells the story of the great ideological debates of the past century and the emergence of the modern order.
Combining several new essays with highlights from 90 years of Foreign Affairs, the collection features authors such as Isaiah Berlin, Benedetto Croce, Francis Fukuyama, Charles P. Kindleberger, John Ikenberry, Harold J. Laski, Leon Trotsky, and many more. An introduction by Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose sets the stage and puts both old and new material in context.
Released to coincide with the special 90th anniversary issue of Foreign Affairs, this book offers an indispensable look at where we have come from and where we are going.
The book is available for purchase in digital format for the Kindle, NOOK, and iPad. An enhanced PDF is for sale for $8.95 at www.ForeignAffairs.com/ClashOfIdeas, and print copies will soon be available for purchase on Amazon.com.
Professors who would like to review this book for course adoption can send a request for examination copy to Christine Leonard at cleonard@cfr.org. Please include your university and course name.
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U.S. and international development agencies, believing that poor countries should develop economically before they become democratic, have not taken politics into account when disbursing aid. This is a mistake: poor democracies are almost always stronger, calmer, and more caring than poor autocracies, because they allow power to be shared and encourage openness and accountability. They deserve all the help they can get.
Washington faces two enormous tasks in forming economic policy: it must preserve U.S. economic supremacy while defusing the bitter resentment that America's clout provokes abroad. A grand bargain with developing countries is badly needed. For starters, America should slash its trade barriers in agriculture and textiles in return for a global accord on intellectual-property rights.
