The basket
of unsolicited manuscripts in the offices of the World Policy
Journal has overflowed since last September 11, just one expression
of the overnight leap in interest in foreign affairs. Another index
of this interest is the generous gift by a member of the World Policy
Institute's Advisory Board of a year's subscription to WPJ to
a thousand opinion leaders in the United States. A third is the
publication in 2002 by Yale University Press of a "World Policy
Institute Book", Jihad, by Ahmed Rashid, which grew out of
the respected journalist's two-part series on Central Asia in WPJ.
Finally, there is the strong response to a direct mail campaign
for new subscribers, made possible by a Ford Foundation grant.
Founded in
1983, World Policy Journal is more than ever a highly respected
and widely cited forum on international relations. Articles pertinent
to America's post-September 11 role have dealt with the perils of
going it alone, NATO's new role, the tentative partnership with
Putin's Russia, Iran and its discontents, the threats posed by weapons
of mass destruction, terrorism's money trail, and imperial America
and the common interest. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
resulted in first-hand reportage from Sri Lanka and Iran, and on
the Roma of Eastern Europe. Editor Karl E. Meyer, who is completing
a book on Washington's rendezvous with inner Asia, has offered incisive
commentary on the transformed global scene.
WPJ has
streamlined its operations over the past year, moving its subscription
fulfillment department to a subsidiary of its printing company.
Its new in-house production software now meets industry standards.
Circulation numbers are up, with a doubling of paid subscriptions
and with more than twice as many copies on newsstands and in bookstores
as last year. The magazine's website (www.worldpolicy.org/journal)
continues to attract record levels of visits, yet another measure
of the keener interest in the new dangers and new opportunities
America faces in the post-September 11 world.
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