03020nam 2200625 a 450 991045165100332120191030193359.00-19-803890-91-280-84483-31-4294-3821-5(CKB)1000000000469655(EBL)422884(OCoLC)437109437(SSID)ssj0000252217(PQKBManifestationID)11204178(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000252217(PQKBWorkID)10176277(PQKB)10332177(MiAaPQ)EBC422884(Au-PeEL)EBL422884(CaPaEBR)ebr10271478(CaONFJC)MIL84483(EXLCZ)99100000000046965520041216d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrStrategies of containment[electronic resource] a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War /John Lewis GaddisRev. and expanded ed.New York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (503 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-517448-8 0-19-517447-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-471) and index.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.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 comprehNational securityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNational securityUnited StatesHistory21st centuryUnited StatesForeign relations1945-1989United StatesForeign relations1989-Electronic books.National securityHistoryNational securityHistory327.73/009/045Gaddis John Lewis191880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451651003321Strategies of containment560835UNINA