Few today recall that America’s winning Cold War strategy against the Soviet Union was centered on a strategic framework much bigger than just military might and yet underpinned all statecraft and ...

PRINCETON, N.J. – Diplomat and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian George Kennan, who gave the name “containment” to postwar foreign policy in a famous but anonymous article, died last night at his ...

George Frost Kennan, who died last week in Princeton, N.J., at 101, was an insecure outsider from Milwaukee, Wis., who was embraced, in ways that sometimes made him squirm, by the clubby coterie of ...

George Kennan and Henry Kissinger had much in common. They served their country as diplomats and policy formulators — Kennan as a foreign service officer and director of the State Department’s policy ...

When the American diplomat George Kennan developed his policy of containment in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union had just been an ally of the United States in the biggest war ever fought. It had yet ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Frank Costigliola, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, to discuss his new book, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.

Once in a great while, a diplomatic memorandum—the outline of a proposed change in policy sent from a foreign service officer to his political masters back in Washington—has momentous impact. The most ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Grace Kennan Warnecke is a Daughter of George Kennan with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2018 Speech. Most common tag: Cold War. Grace ...

George Kennan, 59, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, is a scholarly yet friendly fellow who likes to receive visitors, ordinarily answers his telephone. But not last week. Newsmen calling Kennan got only ...