In the Nov/Dec Issue: What's Next for Obama, After the Crash, and More

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No world leader in living memory has inherited a set of circumstances like President-elect Barack Obama. Things seemed complicated even a year ago, when Obama first described how he would cope with the foreign policy challenges he would inherit if elected president in "Renewing American Leadership." Now, the deck is stacked with the worst financial crisis to emerge since the Great Depression.

The November/December 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs addresses some of the key trouble regions for the United States and proposes practical foreign policy strategies for the President-elect and his team of advisers. To read this issue � and get a full year of Foreign Affairs delivered to your home or office � subscribe today for the special low rate of only $24.95.
In "After the Crash," financial expert James Grant looks beyond the causes of the current economic meltdown and suggests solutions that will help bring relief to the economy and the millions suffering from its collapse. Subscribe now, and you�ll get an online sneak preview when we release our next issue�s special package on the far-reaching implications of the financial crisis.

The reaction to Obama�s election by Russian leaders President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been a reminder of the tenuous relations between the two nations. Only a few months ago, deep-rooted tensions between Russia and Georgia erupted into full-scale war. In "The Five Day War," Charles King argues that the war has rekindled a superpower rivalry as it becomes clearer that Russia has again lost faith in multilateral institutions. Redefining the right balance between cooperating and pushing back is the key to U.S. Russia policy, argues Stephen Sestanovich, in "What Has Moscow Done?"

How should President-elect Obama approach the perennial hot spots of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan? In "The Latter-Day Sultan," Iranian journalist and dissident Akbar Ganji cautions that there is too much attention on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and not enough on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei whose influence is likely to outlast Ahmadinejad's. And in "From Great Game to Grand Bargain," Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid warn that broad U.S. diplomacy is doing little to temper the growing chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan; instead, addressing regional rivalries and insecurities should be the focus.

For many, the phrase "genetically modified" is practically blasphemous, but to billions of the world's poorest, it could mean salvation. In "The Politics of Hunger," Paul Collier argues that genetically-modified food doesn't deserve the bad rap given to it by the romantics wooed by idealized notions of organics and peasant farming. Rather, he says, GM crops, which have been banned in Europe and parts of Africa, are the best � and most ethically responsible � way to stop food riots and feed the citizens of developing nations who are suffering from exponentially increasing food prices.

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