November 5, 2008
The President
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On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will take office with the responsibility for guiding the country through economic crisis at home and military conflict abroad. Nearly half a century ago, in the April 1960 issue of Foreign Affairs, Dean Rusk, then president of the Rockefeller Foundation, wrote an essay laying out the challenges and policy choices that would face the winner of the 1960 presidential election. Six months later, John F. Kennedy Jr. asked Rusk to serve as his Secretary of State, and he accepted and served in that post until 1969.
Many of the policy dilemmas Rusk outlined then are still relevant today: the changing nature of warfare, the importance of diplomacy, the need for foreign policy decisions to "take into account the needs and hopes of those whose fates are linked with ours." Much of his language would not have sounded out of place in this year's campaign, which is why we are resurfacing it now.
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Previously in Background on the News
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Pirates of the Arabian
October 8, 2008
On September 25, a band of pirates hijacked a Ukrainian vessel laden with arms off the coast of Somalia. As the U.S. Navy surrounded the ship and Russian warships steamed south, the pirates demanded a ransom of $20 million to release the treasure on board: dozens of Soviet T-72 tanks, grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft guns. Attacks on commercial vessels have become commonplace along Somalia's lawless coast, but the seizure of the MV Faina upped the ante . . . Read more
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Fixing Finance
September 24, 2008
As ongoing financial chaos upends Wall Street, pundits and politicians are debating the causes of the economic crisis and proposing solutions to it. . . . Read more
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A New Cold War?
September 10, 2008
The Russian invasion of Georgia on August 8 has raised questions about the future of Washington's relations with Moscow, the strategic ambitions of the Medvedev-Putin regime, and the future of NATO enlargement in the Black Sea region. . . . Read more
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