Foreign Policy | 253,287 followers on LinkedIn. The magazine for global politics, economics, and ideas. | Fifty years ago, against the backdrop of an America torn apart by Vietnam—Foreign Policy magazine was founded by Harvard professor Samuel Huntington, a one-time hawk, and his close friend, Warren Demian Manshel, a dove. The purpose and mission was to question commonplace views and groupthink and to give a voice to alternative views about American foreign policy. Huntington hoped it would be “serious but not scholarly, lively but not glib.”