Editing Foreign Affairs (section)

===1945–1991===
[[Image:Kennan.jpeg|right|thumb|[[George F. Kennan]] published his doctrine of [[containment]] in the July 1947 issue of ''Foreign Affairs''.]]

The journal rose to its greatest prominence after [[World War II]] when [[Foreign policy|foreign relations]] became central to [[United States politics]], and the United States became a powerful actor on the global scene. Several extremely important articles were published in ''Foreign Affairs'', including the reworking of [[George F. Kennan]]'s "[[Long Telegram]]", which first publicized the doctrine of [[containment]] that would form the basis of American [[Cold War]] policy.

[[Louis J. Halle, Jr.|Louis Halle]], a member of the U.S. Policy Planning Staff, also wrote an influential article in ''Foreign Affairs'' in 1950.  His article, "On a Certain Impatience with Latin America", created the anticommunist intellectual framework that justified U.S. policy towards Latin America in the Cold War era.  Halle's article described that the encouragement of democracy in postwar Latin America had ended.  He demonstrated disgust over Latin America's inability to assume autonomy and to become democratic.  His rationalization towards Latin America was later used to justify U.S. efforts to overthrow the left-leaning Guatemalan government.<ref>{{cite book |last=Schoultz |first=Lars |year=1998 |title=Beneath the United States: A History of U.S. Policy toward Latin America |url=https://archive.org/details/beneathunitedsta00scho |url-access=registration |location=London |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |pages=[https://archive.org/details/beneathunitedsta00scho/page/341 341–342] |isbn=0-674-92275-1 }}</ref>

Eleven U.S. [[U.S. Secretary of State|secretaries of state]] have written essays in ''Foreign Affairs''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}