The Foreign Affairs, published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations, is a leading and most influential publication on international affairs and foreign policy in the United States. In 2005, the Foreign Affairs was placed atop of all other magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the Economist as well as all broadcast media.

In fact, the Foreign Affairs is more than a simple magazine. It is an international forum that collects and presents to discussion the most important new ideas and analysis of the urgent issues in the world. The articles, published in the Foreign affairs, create opportunities for continuous political discussions and debates.

Last year, the Foreign Affairs developed new sections and added numerous pages, dedicated to the countries and problems in the Middle East. Special attention is now paid to Iraq and the topic is discussed on the Foreign Affairs pages by many authors. Many articles investigate the pros and cons of globalization, the complexities of further integration and the vexed questions of nuclear weapons proliferation and global security.


The Foreign Affairs has three international editions, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. Ronza, launched in 1990, is a Japanese version of the Foreign Affairs. Each month half a dozen articles from the current issue of the Foreign Affairs appear as a featured section within Asahi Shimbun's Ronza, a respected general interest magazine that is available to the audience of twenty thousand.

The Foreign Affairs en Espanol was launched in December 2000 to coincide with the inauguration of Mexico's President Vicente Fox. The Spanish Language edition has the articles translated from the Foreign Affairs as well as articles contributed by local authors. The circulation is currently six thousand.

Russia in Global Affairs, founded by the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, the Union of Russian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and the Izvestia Publishing House, is published bimonthly (a Russian-language edition) and quarterly (an English-language edition) with the participation of the Foreign Affairs. The circulation is currently ten thousand. The contributions are made by outstanding Russian authors, policymakers and experts in fields of government, business and education. These include Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland and Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan, a former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, a European Convention member Jacques Santer, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, a former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and a former Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov.

This year the Foreign Affairs publishes a new book, designed for a classroom use. The book, called Understanding the War of Terror, is considered as the most comprehensive collection of writings dedicated to this subject. The book is available for sale on Amazon.com. The Foreign Affairs also provides and regularly updates the list of foreign affairs bestseller books, the best books recommended by the book reviewers, and a glance at outstanding new books, concerning international matters.