Educator - September 2006

I am pleased to introduce the first edition of the Foreign Affairs Academic Update. This bimonthly e-newsletter includes a preview of each issue of Foreign Affairs, as well as news about the latest resources for teaching international relations. In this edition:

• Sneak Preview — In the New Issue
• Faculty Spotlight — Professor Dan Caldwell
• Classics in the Classroom
• Going to APSA?
• Search Foreign Affairs by Region and Issue

I hope to hear your feedback. If you participate in our short survey, you will receive a free PDF download of Michael Scott Doran's seminal article "Somebody Else's Civil War."

Best,
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Editor-in-Chief

Get a sneak preview of the new issue

Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?

By John Mueller, professor of political science at Ohio State University.
The myth of the omnipresent enemy.

God's Country?

By Walter Russell Mead, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relation.
How the evangelical boom is remaking America's politics at home and abroad.

Click here to see the entire contents of the September/October 2006 issue.

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Faculty Spotlight

Dan Caldwell is distinguished professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. His expertise is in International Relations, Russian-American Relations, and National Security and Arms Control. This fall Professor Caldwell is teaching Introduction to International Relations and a seminar in Arms Control and International Security.

Click here to view Professor Caldwell's course syllabus for Introduction to International Relations.
Click here to view the course syllabus for Arms Control and International Security.

Going to APSA?

Visit Foreign Affairs at booth #418 at the 2006 American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference.

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Thu 8/31 thru Sat 9/2: 9:30am — 5:30pm
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The Top Ten

Foreign Affairs Classics in the Classroom

The following rank indicates the most assigned article in the classroom. Rankings are based on usage reports from the Copyright Clearance Center.

1. The Clash of Civilizations?
   by Samuel P. Huntington
   (Summer 1993)
2. The Sources of Soviet Conduct
   by X [George F. Kennan]
   (July 1947)
3. Culture is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew
   by Fareed Zakaria
   (March/April 1994)

Complete list

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