George Kennan and the dilemmas of US foreign policy / David Mayers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayers, David Allan, 1951- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kennan, George F. (George Frost), 1904-2005.

Kennan, George F.

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government 's chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War. Drawing upon a wealth of original research, David Mayers' fascinating life of George Kennan examines his high-level participation in foreign policy-making and interprets his political and philosophical development within a historical framework. Mayers presents an engaging and lucid account of Kennan 's training; his rise to prominence during the late 1940s and his policy failures; and his later roles as critic of America 's external policy, advocate of d'etente with the Soviet Union, and proponent of nuclear arms limitation.

Contents:

Contents; Chronology; Introduction; I: EARLY CAREER; 1. Early Influences and Development; 2. First Tour in the Soviet Union; 3. Criticisms and Recommendations; 4. Nazi Germany and the Future of Europe; 5. Soviet War Aims and the Grand Alliance; II: MAKING FOREIGN POLICY; 6. Containment and the Primacy of Diplomacy; 7. Cold War in Europe; 8. Far Eastern Dilemmas; 9. Two Ambassadorships; III: ON THE SIDELINES; 10. Cold War Critic; 11. America and the Third World; 12. War and Protest; 13. Detente and the Nuclear Arms Race; 14. Diplomacy and the Politics of Amelioration; Notes; Bibliography

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 21, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-773346-8

0-19-987911-7

1-280-52471-5

1-4237-3463-7

0-19-534511-8

1-60256-606-2

OCLC:

62311367