''World Affairs'' is an American quarterly journal covering
international relations. At one time, it was an official publication of the
American Peace Society
The American Peace Society is a pacifist group founded upon the initiative of William Ladd, in New York City, May 8, 1828. It was formed by the merging of many state and local societies, from New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, of ...
. The magazine has been published since 1837 and was re-launched in January 2008 as a new publication. It was published by the World Affairs Institute from 2010 to 2016, when it was sold to the
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History
In 1972, ...
.
Each issue contains articles offering diverse perspectives on global issues and
United States foreign policy. ''World Affairs'' is headquartered in
Washington, D.C. Prior to 1932, the magazine was published monthly and under a variety of names, including ''The Advocate of Peace''.
Those articles have since been digitized by
JSTOR and are freely viewable up to 1923.
Notable contributors
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Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer, who has served in foreign policy positions for presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Abrams is considered to be a neoconservative. He is curren ...
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Fouad Ajami
Fouad A. Ajami ( ar, فؤاد عجمي; September 18, 1945 – June 22, 2014) was a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He was a senior fellow at Stanford University's H ...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (; ; Somali: ''Ayaan Xirsi Cali'':'' Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī;'' born Ayaan Hirsi Magan, ar, أيان حرسي علي / ALA-LC: ''Ayān Ḥirsī 'Alī'' 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American activist and former politi ...
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Andrew Bacevich
Andrew J. Bacevich Jr. (, ; born July 5, 1947) is an American historian specializing in international relations, security studies, American foreign policy, and American diplomatic and military history. He is a Professor Emeritus of International ...
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Ian Bremmer
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Helene Cooper
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Jackson Diehl
Jackson Diehl (born 1956) was the deputy editorial page editor of ''The Washington Post'' from February, 2001 to August, 2021. He was part of the ''Washington Post'' team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. He wrote many of the pa ...
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Eric Edelman
Eric Steven Edelman (born October 27, 1951) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2005–2009), U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (2003–2005), U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland (1998–2001), and Princip ...
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Tom Gjelten
Tom Gjelten is the Religion and Belief Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) news. Gjelten has worked for NPR since 1982, when he joined the organization as a labor and education reporter. More recently he has covered diplomatic and natio ...
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Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann is an American writer, researcher, author, and a senior research fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation whose work has investigated surveillance and organ harvesting in China.
Education
Gutmann earne ...
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Roya Hakakian
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Michael V. Hayden
Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligenc ...
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Born and educated in England, ...
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Robert Kagan
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Mary Kissel
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Charles Lane
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Lewis Libby
Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby (born August 22, 1950) is an American lawyer and former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney known for his high-profile indictment.
From 2001 to 2005, Libby held the offices of Assistant to the Vice President ...
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H.R. McMaster
Herbert Raymond McMaster (born July 24, 1962) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the 25th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018. He is also known for his roles in the Gulf War, Operation Enduri ...
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P. J. O’Rourke
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George Packer
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Richard Perle
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David Rieff
David Rieff (; born September 28, 1952) is an American non-fiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.
Biography
Rieff is the only child of Susan Sontag, who ...
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Marc Thiessen
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Michael J. Totten
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James Traub
James Traub (born 1954) is an American journalist. He is a contributing writer for ''The New York Times Magazine'', where he has worked since 1998. From 1994 to 1997, he was a staff writer for ''The New Yorker''. He has also written for ''The New Y ...
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Michael Zantovsky
History of name changes
The journal has undergone a series of name changes since initially published in 1837:
[
*1837-1845: ''The Advocate of Peace''
*1847-1884: ''Advocate of Peace''
*1889-1892: ''The American Advocate of Peace and Arbitration''
*1892-1893: ''American Advocate of Peace''
*1894-1920: ''The Advocate of Peace''
*1920-1932: ''Advocate of Peace through Justice''
*1932-present: ''World Affairs''
]
See also
* Benjamin Franklin Trueblood
References
External links
''The Advocate of Peace'' 1837–1845
JSTOR.
''Advocate of Peace'' (1847-1884)
JSTOR.
''The American Advocate of Peace and Arbitration'' (1889-1892)
JSTOR.
''American Advocate of Peace'' (1892-1893)
JSTOR.
''The Advocate of Peace'' (1894–1920)
JSTOR.
''Advocate of Peace through Justice'' (1920-1932)
JSTOR.
''World Affairs'' (1932-present)
JSTOR.
1837 establishments in the United States
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