With Columns by Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, and Others, Plus ‘Shadow Government,’ by a Group of Outgoing Senior U.S. Officials
The award-winning magazine Foreign Policy today launches a new web site devoted to global politics, economics and ideas. The new ForeignPolicy.com is a vibrant daily online magazine for the people who care about the world - and want to know more about the events, and the people, shaping it. It features new blogs by well-known authors and thinkers, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning military reporter Tom Ricks, international bestseller Stephen Walt and 9/11 Commission director Philip Zelikow, as well as original reporting and analysis that takes readers inside the running of the world.
Whether it’s about fighting in the Gaza Strip, the global financial crash or the inauguration of an historic new U.S. president, the new site will offer smart, timely insights - from around the world, as well as from inside Washington. The site also offers readers the National Magazine Award-winning content of the bimonthly Foreign Policy print magazine; the new issue that goes online today features an exclusive interview with Gen. David Petraeus, predictions from five prominent economists who accurately foresaw the great financial collapse of 2008, Bill McKibben on global warming, and more.
“Foreign Policy’s great strength has always been its ability to recognize that the world is not a boring place,” said Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy’s executive editor. “With the new ForeignPolicy.com we’re aiming to create a daily web magazine that is a must-read for anyone who cares about international affairs. It will be indispensable, insightful and as diverse as the subjects it covers. Just as importantly it will remain true to the goal of FP’s founders: a magazine that is serious but never stuffy.”
Among the new attractions on ForeignPolicy.com:
* The Best Defense: Tom Ricks's daily take on national security. Ricks, the bestselling author of "Fiasco" and Pulitzer-winning journalist, will write a unique daily blog exploring every aspect of "hard power," from the fallout of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to cutting-edge thinking about the conflicts of the future, based on a career's worth of experience covering the military.
* Shadow Government: Notes from the loyal opposition. A high-profile team of conservatives will critique the new Obama administration's foreign policy based on their own considerable expertise; the group blog, founded and moderated by FP senior editor Christian Brose -- Condi Rice's longtime chief speechwriter -- will feature 9/11 commission director Philip Zelikow, ex-senior White House aide Peter Feaver, top Pentagon official Dov Zakheim, John McCain’s foreign policy adviser Steve Biegun, and other top aides from the National Security Council, Treasury Department and State Department soon to exit government.
* Daniel W. Drezner, one of the charter members of the blogosphere, will move his well-known blog on global politics and economics to ForeignPolicy.com. Drezner, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, has been widely praised for what the New Republic called his "sharp but informal commentary on politics and foreign policy" since launching the blog back in 2002.
* David J. Rothkopf, a prominent former Clinton administration official, author and consultant, will interpret the mysteries of Washington powerbrokers for the rest of us. Rothkopf, whose recent books have demystified the inner workings of the National Security Council ("The Running of the World") and the new global "superclass," was deputy undersecretary of the Commerce Department and former managing director of Kissinger and Associates.
* Stephen Walt will blog on international affairs, with a realist's take on global events. The co-author of the bestseller "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," Walt is the Belfer professor of international affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and its former dean.
* A new reported blog, The Cable, will feature original coverage, scoops and behind-the-scenes enterprise about the making of Washington’s foreign policy in the new Obama era. The daily column will be written by Laura Rozen, a Washington journalist specializing in investigative reports on national security and foreign affairs.
* Madam Secretary will be a daily blog dedicated to obsessive coverage of all things Hillary Clinton. The blog will include a regular panel of well-known Clinton watchers taking stock of the former first lady's new star turn as Secretary of State.
* Marc Lynch, the influential Middle East blogger known as Abu Aardvark, will move his column to ForeignPolicy.com. Lynch, an Arab specialist and professor at George Washington University, began writing the blog with the quirky pseudonym - named for a 1970s comic book figure - in 2002. Abu Aardvark has since gained a wide following among Middle East watchers.
* We’ll also feature partnerships with the Small Wars Journal and a new column, The Call, with political forecasting by Ian Bremmer and the political risk consulting firm Eurasia Group.
* The new ForeignPolicy.com will also offer a daily lineup of additional magazine articles and regular features such as Think Again, debunking conventional wisdoms. Passport, the award-winning daily blog by the editors of FP, will continue to be a flagship of the site, offering a smart and at times quirky daily take on international news.
“The new ForeignPolicy.com will give political and business leaders - and those who want to reach them - an indispensable daily report on the international trends and issues that will impact them,” said Amer Yaqub, Foreign Policy’s publisher.
For more information, visit www.ForeignPolicy.com. The web relaunch will continue with additional new features throughout 2009.
About Foreign Policy:
Founded in 1970, Foreign Policy is the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. Since the fall of 2008, FP has been a part of The Slate Group, owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO). FP is a 2007 and 2003 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The magazine’s readers include some of the most influential leaders in business, government, and other professional arenas throughout the United States and more than 160 other countries. In addition to our flagship English-language edition and award-winning Web site, ForeignPolicy.com, FP is also published in Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, and Russian editions.
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