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Strategies of Containment:A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

Strategies of Containment:A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

by John Lewis Gaddis
Electronic book text
Publication Date: 13/05/2005
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This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, the Eisenhower-Dulles "e;New Look,"e; the Kennedy-Johnson "e;flexible response"e; strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan--and Gorbechev--completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end.
ISBN:
9780198038900
9780198038900
Category:
International relations
Format:
Electronic book text
Publication Date:
13-05-2005
Pages:
512
John Lewis Gaddis

John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times.

He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary Cold War.

He is also the author of numerous books, is the 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.

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