FP This Week: Go back to the future with FP’s Summer Issue

Plus, get an insider’s look at NATO’s future [Foreign Policy This Week]( July 05, 2022 | [View in browser]( To access all the benefits of an FP subscription, [sign in]( or [subscribe](. Thanks for reading. --------------------------------------------------------------- Special offer for FP This Week readers: Get one year of unlimited access, plus a FREE limited-edition FP tote to carry around your copy of the “Back to the Future” Issue. Select an [Annual or Insider plan]( and apply promo code FPTOTE to redeem this offer. Act now! This offer is only available while supplies last. Instructions for setting up tote delivery will be sent to the email address provided. First-time subscribers only. Shipping is limited to the U.S. at this time. Our new print issue: History repeats itself, we’re often told. And it seems as if it’s happening more than usual these days. Our [Summer 2022 issue]( tries to find ways to make sense of current affairs by delving into the past. David A. Bell [asks]( How do we know when a historical period ends or begins? M.E. Sarotte [builds]( on that theme in her essay about a new Iron Curtain. Shivshankar Menon [suggests]( we’re seeing the return of Cold War-era nonalignment. Nina Tannenwald [warns]( us of a “whiff of nuclear forgetting in the air.” But as much as our current moment feels marked by echoes from the past, there is plenty about our world today that is better described as unprecedented. Inflation is rife, but trying to draw too many parallels with the 1970s won’t help us, FP columnist Adam Tooze [writes](. Hal Brands [explains]( why the world has a new arms race on its hands and why that might not be a bad thing. And Priya Satia [rounds out]( our print essays by reminding us the past is in fact always present, drawing on the example of Mohandas Gandhi and his nonviolent struggle to suggest we should seek to remake ourselves rather than the world.—Ravi Agrawal Cover story: If the cover of the Summer 2022 issue looks familiar, it’s meant to. It is, of course, inspired by the summer blockbuster Back to the Future, released exactly 37 years ago this past weekend. Creative director Lori Kelley confesses to some initial skepticism about how to give the Back to the Future idea a geopolitical twist without getting too gimmicky, especially given the serious topics covered in the issue. She was adamant there would be “no Biden in a puffy orange vest climbing into a time machine, no Putin with wild Doc Brown hair, no mushroom clouds on the horizon.” Kelley turned to illustrator [Orlando Arocena](, who has been commissioned for movie promotional posters by Marvel, Disney Plus, and Warner Brothers. FP worked with Arocena to keep the twists to the classic Back to the Future poster fairly simple: “Foreign Policy” rendered as a movie title in place of the usual red FP logo, a touch of Moscow’s Red Square in place of the clock tower. The DeLorean’s license plate in the movie reads OUTATIME; for Foreign Policy, it’s CLD WR2. --------------------------------------------------------------- New and Noteworthy - The Future of NATO: For an insider’s look at NATO’s future and U.S. priorities within it, [register]( for an FP Live conversation between FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith. July 6 at 11 a.m. EDT - Adam Tooze on How to Manage Record Inflation: Join FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal for an in-depth interview with FP columnist and Columbia University professor Adam Tooze. This interview will be available for subscribers on demand on July 8 at 12 p.m. EDT. To ask Tooze your own question, leave it in the comments section [here](. - A Conversation With Fiona Hill: As the war in Ukraine continues to rage on, join FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal for an in-depth [conversation]( with Fiona Hill, a former top advisor on Russia at the National Security Council during the Trump administration. July 13 at 12 p.m. EDT --------------------------------------------------------------- Explore FP Podcasts - What NATO Expansion Means for Europe and the World: NATO is enlarging its rapid response force from 40,000 to 300,000 in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—a huge expansion. But who will foot the bill, and how will the force operate in practice? Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi discuss these and other questions. Then, to mark the July Fourth holiday, they dive into the history and economics of…[hot dogs](. Listen to this episode of [Ones and Tooze]( on [Apple Podcasts](, [Spotify](, [Google Podcasts](, or wherever you get your podcasts. - The Catch: On last week’s episode of [The Catch]( host Ruxandra Guidi examined the international efforts to curb illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing. She heard from Peter Hammarstedt, a captain with the conservation organization Sea Shepherd, as well as Dyhia Belhabib, a principal investigator at Ecotrust Canada and an executive director at Nautical Crime Investigation Services. A new episode will be released tomorrow. - Global Reboot: A new season of [Global Reboot]( is coming to you on July 12. 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