6/20/2023 0 Comments George kennan american diplomacy![]() ![]() Mearsheimer, is to become aware of how Kennan’s original concept of containment was later to be both misunderstood and abused.Ī popular image persists of Kennan as a hawkish academic prepared to justify the buildup of military arsenals and even to risk brinksmanship in the service of containing Soviet power. However, to reread the entirety of American Diplomacy in 2012, with the aid of a superb new introduction by John J. ![]() Thousands of undergraduate Political Science majors and would-be governmental officials have read American Diplomacy (1950), or at least “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” the Foreign Affairs article that in 1947 first set forth the argument for containment. George Kennan’s formulation of the policy of “containment” of Soviet Russia has by common consent been the most influential force in American foreign relations during the second half of the twentieth century. ![]()
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