THE CLASH OF IDEAS

This collection is indispensable reading for understanding the emergence of political liberalism and the making of the modern world order.

Commemorating Foreign Affairs' 90th anniversary this book is a collection of key Foreign Affairs articles on international political, economic, and social thought published over the last ninety years. It traces, in real time, the great intellectual debates that defined the twentieth centuryand are molding the twenty-first. Drawn from the archives of Foreign Affairs, the essays present the views of major players and commentators during the rise of the great "isms' of the twentieth century including Leon Trotsky’s 1934 piece on fascism. Also featuring new essays, including works by Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, and Francis Fukuyama, author of the End of History, this intellectual narrative explains how and why modern politics look the way they do, and where we go from here.