Editing Foreign Affairs (section)

==Book reviews==
Since its inception, ''Foreign Affairs'' has included a long book review section, typically reviewing 50 or more books per issue. The magazine's first editor, Archibald Cary Coolidge, asked his Harvard colleague, [[William L. Langer]], a historian and [[World War I]] veteran, to run the section. Langer initially had full control over the magazine's book reviews and wrote all the reviews himself. A month before the reviews were due, the ''Foreign Affairs'' office in New York would ship approximately one hundred books to Langer for review and within two weeks he would return his completed reviews for the next issue.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

Beginning with the first issue in 1922, [[Harry Elmer Barnes]] authored a reoccurring section titled “Some Recent Books on International Relations”. By 1924, the Foreign Affairs website lists Barnes as Bibliographical Editor.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Barnes|first=Harry Elmer|date=June 1924|title=The World Struggle for Oil|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1924-06-15/world-struggle-oil|journal=Foreign Affairs|series=Capsule Reviews|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations|volume=2|issue=4|quote=Reviewed By Harry Elmer Barnes Bibliographical Editor}}</ref>

In the late 1930s, the review section was broken down into several categories. Currently, the ''Foreign Affairs'' reviews are broken down into long review essays, which are placed at the front of the books section, and the "Recent Books" section, where shorter reviews are featured. The "Recent Books" section is further broken down into the following subject categories.

* Political and Legal, reviewed by [[G. John Ikenberry]]
* Economic, Social, and Environmental, reviewed by [[Barry Eichengreen]]
* Military, Scientific, and Technological, reviewed by [[Lawrence D. Freedman]]
* The United States, reviewed by [[Jessica Mathews|Jessica T. Mathews]]
* Western Europe, reviewed by [[Andrew Moravcsik]]
* Western Hemisphere, reviewed by Richard Feinberg
* Eastern Europe and [[Russia–United States relations|Former Soviet Republics]], reviewed by [[Maria Lipman]]
* Middle East, reviewed by [[Lisa Anderson]]
* Asia and Pacific, reviewed by [[Andrew J. Nathan]]
* Africa, reviewed by [[Nicolas van de Walle]]

The majority of the book reviews featured in the "Recent Books" section are reviewed by the same person; however, other reviewers contribute to the "Recent Books" section on occasion.