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Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War / John Lewis Gaddis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaddis, John Lewis, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- National security--United States--History--21st century.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (503 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. and expanded ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A classic synthesis of US security policy, now updated to include analysis of how Reagan, Bush Snr., Clinton, & Bush Jnr. have defended the nation.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-471) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771651-2
- 0-19-988399-8
- 0-19-803890-9
- 1-280-84483-3
- 1-4294-3821-5
- OCLC:
- 437109437
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