From social media to the Internet of Things, digital fabrication to robotics, virtual reality to synthetic biology, new technologies are racing forward across the board. Together they are ripping up the rule book for people, firms, and governments alike. Mastering this so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is the theme of the World Economic Forum's 2016 Annual Meeting, for which this special collection serves as background reading.
Klaus Schwab kicks things off with an overview of the topic, followed by sections on the technological trends driving the revolution; those trends' economic,...

PRAISE FOR BREXIT AND BEYOND "Yes, Brexit was a revolt against recent globalization and liberal cosmopolitanism. But it was also a product of the United Kingdom's long and ambivalent relationship to Europe. To understand why it happened, you have to read the Foreign Affairs collection Brexit and Beyond. It offers both first-rate, up-to-the-minute analysis by leading experts and a historical context and perspective that all the media frenzy on this summer's events can't provide." -Mark Blyth, Eastman Professor of Political Economy, Brown University "The essential guide to a...

Trade policy is one of the hottest issues of the 2016 election, but throughout the campaign, the level of discussion about it has been abysmally low. This collection is designed to correct that, offering readers everything they need to understand the relevant facts and arguments and make informed decisions for themselves about what should be done in this crucial arena.

In the 1940s, living through yet another cycle of violent global turmoil, policymakers in Washington and other major Western capitals finally decided that enough was enough. They recognized that the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century had emerged because their countries had hunkered down in the face of economic and geopolitical crisis, passing the buck rather than fighting together against their common enemies. So they swore not to repeat their mistakes and designed a postwar order based on mutually beneficial cooperation rather than self-interested competition. They linked...

Foreign Affairs and its parent organization, the Council on Foreign Relations, were founded in the early 1920s by veterans of the Woodrow Wilson administration's diplomatic and military efforts. Shocked by the country's turn to isolationism in the wake of the Great War, they followed with increasing dread the world's march toward yet another conflict during the 1930s. The pages of the magazine tracked the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, the growing conquests of imperial Japan, the stirrings of military preparedness in Washington, and ultimately the most devastating conflagration...

Foreign Affairs brings you its best coverage of the year. We have Fareed Zakaria on where populism will take the West, John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt making the case for offshore balancing, Mark Blyth on why President-elect Donald Trump was 30 years in the making, and much, much more.

We've been tracking the debate surrounding climate change at Foreign Affairs from the very beginning and decided to gather the highlights of that coverage into one handy collection. As always, we present a full range of expert opinion and argumentation, giving readers the information and resources they need to come to their own informed opinions on the seriousness of the problem and the relative merits of alternative solutions.