Strategies of containment
Subtitle: a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War
By: John Lewis Gaddis.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: 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-
Description: When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. 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 "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-471) and index.
Table of contents: title: Containment before Kennan; title: George F. Kennan and the strategy of containment; title: Implementing containment; title: NSC-68 and the Korean War; title: Eisenhower, Dulles and the new look; title: Implementing the new look; title: Kennedy, Johnson, and flexible response; title: Implementing flexible response: Vietnam as a test case; title: Nixon, Kissinger, and détente; title: Implementing  détente; title: Reagan, Gorbachev, and the completion of containment.