James Fallows

Fallows shares the human stories, charts China's bumpy transition to democracy, and makes sense of both its economic explosion and its environment impactwhile showing us what its growth means for us. Foreign Policy: an American Perspective Fallows has covered the major foreign policy stories of our timefrom Iraq to North Korea to Iran to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and beyond. In this talk, he delivers an unsparing look at the challenges to American foreign policy: our actions in various regions, how other countries perceive us, and how upheavals overseas will impact us. In particular, he dissects the planning and execution of the War in Iraq, pinpoints where it all went wrong, shows us what lies ahead, and draws valuable lessons for future military actions.