Encounters with Kennan : the great debate

Author(s)

• Kennan, George Frost

Bibliographic Information

Encounters with Kennan : the great debate

George Kennan ... [et al.] ; with an introd. by Daniel P. Moynihan

F. Cass , Biblio Distribution Centre, 1979

Uniform Title

Encounter (London)

Note

Originally published in Encounter

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First published in 1979. We associate Professor Kennan, with what came to be known as a doctrine of containment, the first serious theoretical attempt within the American foreign policy establishment to understand the consequences for world affairs of a suddenly substantial and quite visible Soviet power. This collection of debates includes an opening conversation between Kennan and George Urban.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 A Conversation, George F. Kennan, George Urban
• Chapter 2 George Kennan's Illusions, Hugh Seton-Watson
• Chapter 3 Mr. X Reconsiders, George F. Kennan
• Chapter 4 Mr X's Revisions, Richard Pipes
• Chapter 5 The Two Minds of George Kennan, Leopold Labedz
• Chapter 6 Dealing with Soviet-Global Power, Richard Lowenthal
• Chapter 7 A Last Warning, George F. Kennan
• Chapter 8 A Rejoinder, Richard Pipes
• Chapter 9 A Last Critique, Leopold Labedz

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Details

• NCID: BA03455000
• ISBN:
  • 0714631329
• LCCN: 80459701
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London,Totowa, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 218 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E183.8.R9
  • DC : 327.73047
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- Russia -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Russia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Russia -- Foreign relations -- 1975- -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977- -- Addresses, essays, lectures