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Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of postwar American national security policy
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Strategies of containment : a critical appraisal of postwar American national security policy

Author: John Lewis Gaddis
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
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A discussion of United States foreign policy from World War II to the Carter administration is based on recently declassified government documents.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gaddis, John Lewis.
Strategies of containment.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1982
(OCoLC)765812236
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN: 0195029445 9780195029444 0195030974 9780195030976
OCLC Number: 7282088
Description: xi, 432 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prologue: 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 --
Epilogue: Containment after Kissinger --
Appendix: National security expenditures as a percentage of total government expenditures and gross national product: 1945-1980.
Responsibility: John Lewis Gaddis.
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A discussion of United States foreign policy from World War II to the Carter administration is based on recently declassified government documents.

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