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

by Gaddis, John Lewis

• ISBN13: 9780195174472
• ISBN10: 019517447X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was still President of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. Now this new edition of Gaddis's classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War and beyond. Revised and updated throughout, it includes a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan and Gorbachev completed the process of containment and brought the Cold War to an end. And in a new epilogue, Gaddis evaluates the relevance of containment for the future of American grand strategy. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, and a preeminent expert on the Cold War

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xvii
Prologue: Containment Before Kennan	3	(21)
George F. Kennan and the Strategy of Containment	24	(29)
Implementing Containment	53	(34)
NSC-68 and the Korean War	87	(38)
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the New Look	125	(37)
Implementing the New Look	162	(35)
Kennedy, Johnson, and Flexible Response	197	(38)
Implementing Flexible Response: Vietnam as a Test Case	235	(37)
Nixon, Kissinger, and Detente	272	(35)
Implementing Detente	307	(35)
Reagan, Gorbachev, and the Completion of Containment	342	(38)
Epilogue: Containment After the Cold War	380	(13)
Appendix	393	(2)
Notes	395	(60)
Bibliography	455	(18)
Index	473