Strategies of containment [[electronic resource] ] : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War / / John Lewis Gaddis
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Gaddis John Lewis
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| Titolo: |
Strategies of containment [[electronic resource] ] : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War / / John Lewis Gaddis
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (503 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.73/009/045 |
| Soggetto topico: | National security - United States - History - 20th century |
| National security - United States - History - 21st century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 |
| United States Foreign relations 1989- | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-471) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 compreh |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Strategies of containment |
| ISBN: | 0-19-771651-2 |
| 0-19-988399-8 | |
| 0-19-803890-9 | |
| 1-280-84483-3 | |
| 1-4294-3821-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777891003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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