Foreign Affairs Cocktail

• Each Cocktail takes a single, current foreign affairs issue and gives you just enough information to hold your own at, say, a cocktail party conversation.  You will understand the background of the issue, as well various viewpoints, in about five minutes

The Columnists

• James Fallows - National correspondent for The Atlantic
• Fareed Zakaria - Columnist for Newsweek, Newsweek International, Washington Post, and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS
  
  

The Institutes

• The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - nonpartisan institution supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs.
• Brookings Institution - D.C. public policy think tank
• Strategic Studies Institute -  think tank run by the U.S. Army War College focusing on strategic and national security research and analysis 
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The Journals