Foreign Affairs - 11.2019 - 12.2019

November/December 2019

“Foreign A
airs... will tolerate wide diŠerences of opinion. Its articles will not represent any consensus
of beliefs. What is demanded of them is that they shall be competent and well informed, representing honest
opinions seriously held and convincingly expressed.... It does not accept responsibility for the views in any
articles, signed or unsigned, which appear in its pages. What it does accept is the responsibility for giving
them a chance to appear.”
Archibald Cary Coolidge, Founding Editor
Volume 1, Number 1 • September 1922

REVIEWS & RESPONSES

Obama’s Idealists 162

American Power in Theory and Practice

Peter Beinart

How a Caliphate Ends 170

On the Frontline o
 the Fight Against ISIS

Anne Barnard

What Is White America? 177

The Identity Politics o
 the Majority

Nell Irvin Painter

The Virtue of Monopoly 184

Why the Stock Market Stopped Working

Felix Salmon

The New Masters of the Universe 191

Big Tech and the Business o
 Surveillance

Paul Starr

Recent Books 198