Understanding Foreign Policy Commentary

Drawing on original research, this book introduces the concept of the Foreign Policy Commentariat and explains the significance of the foreign policy commentary articulated in the pages of?Foreign Policy?and?Foreign Affairs?magazines. This commentary, presented as distinct from academic analyses, is conceptualized as a discourse that reproduces certain unproblematized understandings of how foreign policy and international relations function.

Using intersectional gender and postcolonial appro...