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Foreign Affairs was founded on the 15th of September 1922. It was created by the Council on Foreign Relations, which had itself been established in the summer of 1921, initially operating through meetings and discussion groups before deciding to seek a wider audience through publication.
George F. Kennan published the X Article in Foreign Affairs in 1947. The article reworked his earlier Long Telegram and introduced the doctrine of containment, which became the foundation of American Cold War policy toward the Soviet Union.
Samuel P. Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations?" appeared in the Summer 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs. Huntington argued that future global conflict would be driven primarily by cultural rather than ideological or economic divisions.
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University served as the first editor of Foreign Affairs from 1922 to 1928. Because Coolidge refused to relocate from Boston to New York, Hamilton Fish Armstrong was appointed managing editor to handle daily operations; Armstrong later became editor and held the post from 1928 to 1972.
Foreign Affairs is considered one of the most influential foreign-policy publications in the United States. In 1996, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said "Virtually everyone I know in the foreign policy-national security area of the Government is attentive to Foreign Affairs." The journal ranks second out of 166 publications in the International Relations category of the Journal Citation Reports, with a 2023 impact factor of 6.3.
Kenneth Maxwell's review of Peter Kornbluh's The Pinochet File in the November/December 2003 issue sparked a dispute over editorial independence. Maxwell claimed that Council on Foreign Relations members, acting at Henry Kissinger's request, pressured editor James Hoge to give the final word in a subsequent exchange to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger, rather than to Maxwell, which broke with established Foreign Affairs editorial policy.