Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War

Publication Data

• Title Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War
• Author John Lewis Gaddis
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Containment before Kennan
George F. Kennan and the strategy of containment
Implementing containment
NSC-68 and the Korean War
Eisenhower, Dulles and the new look
Implementing the new look
Kennedy, Johnson, and flexible response
Implementing flexible response: Vietnam as a test case
Nixon, Kissinger, and détente
Implementing détente
Reagan, Gorbachev, and the completion of containment.

Topics

• National security :: United States :: History :: 20th century
• National security :: United States :: History :: 21st century
• United States :: Foreign relations :: 1945-1989
• United States :: Foreign relations :: 1989-
• United States

Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis. ISBN 9780195174472. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.