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• The Bahamas: the clear choice for international financial services firms Renowned for its world-class expertise and deep experience and excellent efficiency in a range of fiduciary services, the Bahamas has firmly positioned itself as the best base in the region for banking and financial services players of all sizes and segments. In late 2022, the country notched up another success when it attained technical compliance … Continued

• Leading law firm Higgs & Johnson celebrates 75 years of success Cultivating a close working relationship that understands the importance of listening, sensitivity and responsiveness to clients has served Higgs & Johnson exceptionally well over three quarters of a century, as Oscar N. Johnson, Jr., K.C., Co-Managing Partner, explains. PR: What is the history of your firm and its strengths and competitive advantages? ONJ: Higgs & … Continued

• Jet Nassau offers first-class aviation services With the Bahamas an incredibly popular destination for the well-heeled stars of the corporate, entertainment and sports worlds, demand for private aviation services is at its strongest level for years. Boasting three decades of experience, the country’s leading provider of such important services is Jet Nassau, whose General Manager, Charles Bowe, tells us about its … Continued

• Unlocking firms’ rich potential Standing tall as the U.K.’s largest regional small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) investment entity, the Development Bank of Wales is dedicated to promoting Welsh industry and commerce, meaning it plays an integral role in shaping the future of thousands of businesses. Despite being formed only five years ago, the bank has already provided valuable support … Continued

• Stepping up to the sustainability plate via green project portfolio Given its extensive natural resources including a lengthy coastline and frequent gusts of wind, Wales is at the forefront of the U.K.’s sustainability drive and the transition to net-zero. The Development Bank of Wales is among the leading organizations helping to generate a lean and green Welsh economy and ensure the country plays a key … Continued

• Stunning scenery attracts tourists from far and wide From the soaring peaks of Snowdonia in the north, to rugged coastlines in the west and the cosmopolitan, bustling city of Cardiff in the south, Wales’ tourism attractions cover a broad spectrum of places and interests that appeal to visitors of all ages. With an extremely rich history, heritage and traditions, the welcoming country offers … Continued

• Educational Excellence via Real Business Experience Born 55 years ago in a primary school in the center of Madrid, ESIC now boasts a physical presence on several continents and mutually beneficial alliances with scores of foreign universities. In total, ESIC has 10 campuses in Spain, two international campuses — in Curitiba, Brazil and Medellin, Colombia — and more than 120 agreements … Continued

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One hundred years ago, former Secretary of State Elihu Root opened the first essay in the first issue of Foreign Affairs with what may have seemed, in September 1922, a striking claim: that the development of foreign policy could no longer be confined to foreign ministries. “Democracies determined to control their own destinies object to being led, without their knowledge, into situations where they have no choice,” Root wrote. But such determination had to be matched by an effort to spread “knowledge of the fundamental and essential facts and principles upon which the relations of nations depend.”

Since then, thousands of articles have appeared in these pages. Many have, for good and for ill, helped set the course of U.S. foreign policy and international relations—perhaps most famously, George Kennan’s “X” article, which laid out Washington’s Cold War strategy of containment. Others have challenged the thrust of policy or questioned assumptions about the world. All have taken up Root’s basic charge, seeking to drive a debate that, by design, spans practitioners, experts, and a much broader engaged readership (hundreds of times larger than it was in Root’s day), in the United States and around the world.

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With this issue, you’ll notice a redesigned look for the print magazine, meant to reflect our tradition and to convey the substance and shelf life of what each copy contains. It comes at a moment when international relations are as fraught and uncertain, and U.S. foreign policy as vexed and challenged, as at any point in recent memory, when the forces of the past intersect with new ones in uniquely perilous ways.

Many of the essays in this issue trace the enduring influence of history—through American power, through democracy and technology, through China and Russia, through race and its impact on the foreign policy establishment (including this magazine). Our book reviewers, similarly, look both backward and forward, each naming a few titles essential to understanding the past century and a few essential to anticipating the century ahead. These contributions do “not represent any consensus of beliefs,” in the words of founding editor Archibald Cary Coolidge; instead, they reflect his pledge to “tolerate wide differences of opinion . . . seriously held and convincingly expressed.” Foreign Affairs , Coolidge stressed, “does not accept responsibility for the views expressed in any article, signed or unsigned, which appear in its pages. What it does accept is the responsibility for giving them the chance to appear there.”

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