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Harmony or Discord?: Evaluating the Foreign Policy Orientations of American Elites, 1992 to 2004
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Foreign Affairs has been among the most influential of the foreign policy journals. As a vehicle of delivering elite
opinions to the foreign policymaking establishment, it reached its zenith of power during the early years of the cold war when the communist/capitalist dichotomy created a world in which it was easier for one popular national view of foreign policy to dominate. Government officials, intellectuals, and business persons have used it as a megaphone to disseminate ideas to one another. Given its history, publishing in Foreign Affairs is still the best way to be baptized as a foreign policy player, but its power to set the international affairs agenda is now less certain. Now, other outlets supply a more diverse set of voices. The National Interest, World Policy Journal, and Foreign Policy have emerged to challenge Foreign Affairs as significant publications for elites to convey their foreign policy beliefs. A recent study by the Congressional Research Service, commissioned by Congress, found that of the forty-three most influential foreign policy articles published since the end of the cold war, nine were published in World Policy Journal, followed by Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy with seven each. The weakening of Foreign Affair’s monopoly on international affairs commentary can be traced back to the volatile Vietnam years when the foreign policy elite began to split over containment. The journal was seen as missing the opportunity to capture and appreciate the shattering of the anti-Communist consensus.
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Although this study has selected 1992 to 2004 for its sample time period, the Weekly Standard, founded by William
Kristol and Fred Barnes, issued its first publication in September 1995. The Weekly Standard magazine is considered the one of the most important outlets for conservative thought on international issues having received initial financial support from The News Corp. which is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch. Dwarfed by it's primary competitor, the conservative National Review, The Weekly Standard influences conservatives. Eric Alterman, writing in The Nation magazine, described this presence as “Reader for reader, it may be the most influential publication in America. Their circulation may be small but they are not interested in speaking to the great unwashed. The magazine speaks directly to and for power. Anybody who wants to know what this administration is thinking and what they plan to do has to read this magazine.”
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Foreign Affairs has been among the most influential of the foreign policy journals. As a vehicle of delivering elite
opinions to the foreign policymaking establishment, it reached its zenith of power during the early years of the cold war
when the communist/capitalist dichotomy created a world in which it was easier for one popular national view of foreign
policy to dominate. Government officials, intellectuals, and business persons have used it as a megaphone to disseminate
ideas to one another. Given its history, publishing in Foreign Affairs is still the best way to be baptized as a foreign policy
player, but its power to set the international affairs agenda is now less certain. Now, other outlets supply a more diverse set
of voices. The National Interest, World Policy Journal, and Foreign Policy have emerged to challenge Foreign Affairs as
significant publications for elites to convey their foreign policy beliefs. A recent study by the Congressional Research
Service, commissioned by Congress, found that of the forty-three most influential foreign policy articles published since the
end of the cold war, nine were published in World Policy Journal, followed by Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy with
seven each. The weakening of Foreign Affair’s monopoly on international affairs commentary can be traced back to the
volatile Vietnam years when the foreign policy elite began to split over containment. The journal was seen as missing the
opportunity to capture and appreciate the shattering of the anti-Communist consensus.
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Although this study has selected 1992 to 2004 for its sample time period, the Weekly Standard, founded by William
Kristol and Fred Barnes, issued its first publication in September 1995. The Weekly Standard magazine is considered the
one of the most important outlets for conservative thought on international issues having received initial financial support
from The News Corp. which is owned and operated by Rupert Murdoch. Dwarfed by it's primary competitor, the
conservative National Review, The Weekly Standard influences conservatives. Eric Alterman, writing in The Nation
magazine, described this presence as “Reader for reader, it may be the most influential publication in America. Their
circulation may be small but they are not interested in speaking to the great unwashed. The magazine speaks directly to and
for power. Anybody who wants to know what this administration is thinking and what they plan to do has to read this
magazine.”
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