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FALL 1980 | 10 YEARSIntellectual Insecurity

Although successive editors have reiterated Foreign Policys commitmentstated in its first issueto publish writers at all points on the political spectrum, it is symptomatic of a larger national insecurity that the magazine has at times been under attack for allowing certain views into print. This insecurity, both cultural and intellectual, reflects significant shifts in the global distribution of power, shifts that did not benefit the United States.

Charles William Maynes and Richard H. Ullman

In 1970, national divisions over the Vietnam War were at their peak, and the main goal of any sensible U.S. foreign policy was to end that war before the damage to Americas image and stability became irreversible. Today, the task of U.S. foreign policy is not extricating the country from a disastrous war but institutionalizing the unexpected peace that has broken out between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Charles William Maynes

There is no inexorable evolutionary march that replaces our bad, old ideas with smart, new ones. If anything, the story of the last few decades of international relations can just as easily be read as the maddening persistence of dubious thinking.

Stephen M. Walt

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Archival Passages From Writers Such as Hillary Clinton, Kofi Annan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and More Show Where We've BeenAnd Where We're Heading -...