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With Columns by Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, and Others, Plus Shadow Government,by a Group of Outgoing Senior U.S. OfficialsWASHINGTON(Business Wire)The award-winning magazine Foreign Policy today launches a new web site devotedto global politics, economics and ideas. Whether its about fighting in the Gaza Strip, the global financial crash or theinauguration of an historic new U.S. president, the new site will offer smart,timely insights - from around the world, as well as from inside Washington. Thesite also offers readers the National Magazine Award-winning content of thebimonthly Foreign Policy print magazine; the new issue that goes online todayfeatures an exclusive interview with Gen. David Petraeus, predictions from fiveprominent economists who accurately foresaw the great financial collapse of2008, Bill McKibben on global warming, and more.

"Foreign Policys great strength has always been its ability to recognize thatthe world is not a boring place," said Susan Glasser, Foreign Policys executiveeditor. "With the new ForeignPolicy were aiming to create a daily webmagazine that is a must-read for anyone who cares about international affairs.It will be indispensable, insightful and as diverse as the subjects it covers.Just as importantly it will remain true to the goal of FPs founders: a magazinethat is serious but never stuffy." Among the new attractions on ForeignPolicy : The Best Defense: Tom Ricks's daily take on national security. Ricks, thebestselling author of "Fiasco" and Pulitzer-winning journalist, will write aunique daily blog exploring every aspect of "hard power," from the fallout ofthe wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to cutting-edge thinking about the conflicts ofthe future, based on a career's worth of experience covering the military Shadow Government: Notes from the loyal opposition. A high-profile team ofconservatives will critique the new Obama administration's foreign policy basedon their own considerable expertise; the group blog, founded and moderated by FPsenior editor Christian Brose Condi Rice's longtime chief speechwriter will feature 9/11 commission director Philip Zelikow, ex-senior White House aidePeter Feaver, top Pentagon official Dov Zakheim, John McCains foreign policyadviser Steve Biegun, and other top aides from the National Security Council,Treasury Department and State Department soon to exit government Daniel W. Drezner, one of the charter members of the blogosphere, will movehis well-known blog on global politics and economics to ForeignPolicy .Drezner, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at TuftsUniversity, has been widely praised for what the New Republic called his "sharpbut informal commentary on politics and foreign policy" since launching the blogback in 2002 David J. Rothkopf, a prominent former Clinton administration official, authorand consultant, will interpret the mysteries of Washington powerbrokers for therest of us.

Rothkopf, whose recent books have demystified the inner workings ofthe National Security Council ("The Running of the World") and the new global"superclass," was deputy undersecretary of the Commerce Department and formermanaging director of Kissinger and Associates. Stephen Walt will blog on international affairs, with a realist's take onglobal events. The co-author of the bestseller "The Israel Lobby and U.S.Foreign Policy," Walt is the Belfer professor of international affairs atHarvard's Kennedy School of Government and its former dean. The daily column will be written by Laura Rozen, a Washingtonjournalist specializing in investigative reports on national security andforeign affairs. Madam Secretary will be a daily blog dedicated to obsessive coverage of allthings Hillary Clinton.

The blog will include a regular panel of well-knownClinton watchers taking stock of the former first lady's new star turn asSecretary of State. Lynch, an Arab specialist and professor atGeorge Washington University, began writing the blog with the quirky pseudonym -named for a 1970s comic book figure - in 2002. Abu Aardvark has since gained awide following among Middle East watchers. Well also feature partnerships with the Small Wars Journal and a new column,The Call, with political forecasting by Ian Bremmer and the political riskconsulting firm Eurasia Group. The new ForeignPolicy will also offer a daily lineup of additionalmagazine articles and regular features such as Think Again, debunkingconventional wisdoms. Passport, the award-winning daily blog by the editors ofFP, will continue to be a flagship of the site, offering a smart and at timesquirky daily take on international news. "The new ForeignPolicy will give political and business leaders - and thosewho want to reach them - an indispensable daily report on the internationaltrends and issues that will impact them," said Amer Yaqub, Foreign Policyspublisher.