Encounter with Kennan

Encounter with Kennan
Author: George F. Kennan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317792173

First published in 1979. We associate Professor Kennan, with what came to be known as a doctrine of containment, the first serious theoretical attempt within the American foreign policy establishment to understand the consequences for world affairs of a suddenly substantial and quite visible Soviet power. This collection of debates includes an opening conversation between Kennan and George Urban.

Mr. X and the Pacific

Mr. X and the Pacific
Author: Paul J. Heer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501711164

This text chronicles and assesses the little-known involvement of US diplomat George F. Kennan - renowned as an expert on the Soviet Union-in US policy toward East Asia, primarily in the early Cold War years.

Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy

Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy
Author: Anders Stephanson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1989
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674502659

From an array of intellectual reference points, Stephanson (history, Rutgers U.) has written a serious assessment of this complicated, often controversial, highly respected American policymaker. A work of general significance for a wide range of contemporary issues in foreign and domestic politics a