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Foreign Affairs |  | Publisher: Foreign Affairs
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Rating:  8 reviews
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Media: Kindle Edition
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Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of international affairs. Experts from across the political spectrum offer timely and incisive analysis on the most crucial issues affecting foreign policy and the global economy. The Kindle Edition of Foreign Affairs includes all essays and book reviews found in the print edition. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand every two months.
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 Excellent for the Kindle, reasonably priced March 14, 2010
abulaafia
Foreign Affairs is about the only magazine which works for the Kindle. Price is right, formatting is good and at least error-free. The content, like that of the print version, is often biased and hilariously America-centric. But as a Kindle product, it strikes the right balance.
 No Author Biography - Corrected February 26, 2010
Harry M. Stoner, Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been a subscriber to Foreign Affairs (printed edition) since 1984. This is a very informative magazine with content submitted by very knowledgeable contributors. I highly recommend the magazine.
But, as Gregory Gilderman noted in his review, the articles in the Kindle version did not contain a biography of the authors of the articles. I agreed with Gregory, the Kindle version was lacking in comparison to the print version without the author bio information. So, I contacted Amazon Customer Support informing them of this problem and requested that they correct the omission.
They have informed me that they contacted Foreign Affairs and the Author Biography information will be included with the next issue (May-June, 2010) of Foreign Affairs.
Three cheers for the Amazon customer support section. The addition of this important information will now make the Kindle version every bit as informative as the print version.
So, to all of you who also missed this important author biography information, enjoy the next issue.
Great job by the Amazon customer support section. Thank you.
Very good, but still needs some work August 29, 2009
Bojan Tunguz (Greencastle, IN USA)
50 out of 51 found this review helpful
Foreign Affairs is an excellent journal on all aspects of foreign policy, written primarily from the perspective of those who are intimately involved in creating and promoting that policy. The list of authors for any given issue often reads like a who-is-who of the top echelons of US diplomacy - Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Condoleezza Rice are just some of the names that have offered their views and opinions on the pages of this journal over the years. As can be seen from these names, Foreign Affairs is a truly non-partisan journal and a wide variety of points of view are regularly presented. The main criterion of publication is that the topics are contemporaneous and relevant. Recently, however, there has been a tendency to include topics that are traditionally not considered to be a part of mainstream diplomatic and foreign policy concerns, but these topics usually account for just a fraction of the whole journal. The quality of writing and analysis is generally very high, but the articles are not technical and are geared towards informed non-experts. Sometimes these articles are indeed just a distillation of the views and opinions that could have been gathered from the pages of the press in general, but even in those cases it is useful to get a unique point of view of an actual bona fide protagonist of the great game of diplomacy. In those instances, just like in diplomatic writing in general, it is important to read between the lines.
A few notes on Kindle edition. Since Foreign Affairs has a print format that closely resembles a paperback novel, it was to be expected that it would translate well into Kindle format. Indeed, from my experience thus far this has been the case. However, there are a few important caveats. The Kindle edition does not offer an easily browsable table of content. Instead, one jumps from one article to another with the help of Kindle's "joystick." Unlike Kindle books, this journal does not have the locations so it is not easy to see how far into any given article have you read. It also lacks bookmarking, although you can still write notes and make highlights. Also, if you have an iPhone or an iPod touch Kindle software, you will not be able to download it to those devices.
The price for the Kindle Edition is reasonable. One should be aware that the $1.99 is the price of monthly subscription, and not a price per issue. This is important because Foreign Affairs is a bimonthly journal so the total price per issue is $4, which translates to about $24 per year. If you shop around you can save a few dollars on the annual subscription price, but you may decide that having Foreign Affairs delivered to you wirelessly wherever you are is a nice feature and worth a few extra bucks. Unfortunately, the Kindle subscription does not include the access to the Foreign Affairs online archives, so if you are interested in doing some long-term research you will probably be better off with the print subscription for now.
Kindle Edition As Good As Print Edition August 17, 2009
Jonathan D. Decarlo (Thomaston, Connecticut USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been reading Foreign Affairs for a while now. I got a Kindle not that long ago, and decided to try the Kindle version. It contained every article, essay, letter to the editor, etc. that the print edition had. The organization and layout is well done. And, as a nice added bonus, it's about half the price of subscribing to the print edition, and it has no ads! I'm very happy with the Kindle edition of Foreign Affairs.
 Very plain analysis. June 30, 2009
A. S. Busch
7 out of 41 found this review helpful
I have recieved two magazines now from Foreign Affairs and find them wanting. The articles are run of the mill analyses on global economics, pentagon affairs, arms trading etc. etc. They tend to be short sighted and poorly cited. You can get the exact same populist drivel from CNBC any time. Im sure some will enjoy the rudimentary analysis found here. I find very little here that is not both general public concenus and, predictably, incorrect. The only correct things I find are the most painfully obvious of observations. I will be keeping my subscription to Reason, but not Foreign Affairs.
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