The current managing editor is Gideon Rose, an expert on international conflict and the Middle East.
In addition to Kagan, past Editors-in-Chief include Fareed Zakaria and Gideon Rose.
Gideon Rose is responsible for coining the term in a book review he wrote.
This idea is echoed by Gideon Rose, who writes:
Gideon Rose: Bully-boy foreign policy.
Gideon Rose, newly installed as the editor of Foreign Affairs, reminds us in his wonderfully delineated "How Wars End" that Iraq was extraordinary only for the scale of the miscalculation.
Gideon Rose is the editor of the journal Foreign Affairs, and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration.
Gideon Rose (1998)
Milton Bearden, "Graveyard of Empires: Afghanistan's Treacherous Peaks," in Gideon Rose, ed.,How Did This Happen?
My Correspondence with Bill Hicks Main Q. & A. with Gideon Rose: How Does Our Libyan War End?