Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of American national security policy during the Cold War

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaddis, John Lewis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press , c2005
Edition:Revised and expanded ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Containment before Kennan
  • 2. George F. Kennan and the strategy of containment
  • 3. Implementing containment
  • 4. NSC-68 and the Korean War
  • 5. Eisenhower, Dulles and the new look
  • 6. Implementing the new look
  • 7. Kennedy, Johnson, and flexible response
  • 8. Implementing flexible response: Vietnam as a test case
  • 9. Nixon, Kissinger, and detente
  • 10. Implementing detente
  • 11. Reagan, Gorbachev, and the completion of containment