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John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War (1982). Gaddis is America’s foremost Cold War historian, and when I was in graduate school, Strategies of Containment was required reading for its crisp assessment of how successive presidents shaped their approach to the Soviet Union. We have learned a lot more about U.S.-Soviet relations since the Cold War ended and the Soviet archives opened up. Gaddis has revised and extended some of his analysis as a result, in books such as We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997) and The Cold War: A New History (2006). Nonetheless, the original Strategies of Containment is worth reading to understand what we knew—or thought we knew—before the wall fell.
When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan's original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles ""New Look,"" the Kennedy-Johnson ""flexible response"" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a compreh No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Unlike other writers about the cold war, Gaddis goes through great lengths to remain balanced in his appraisal of policies. Rather than simply stating whether an idea was good or bad, he states the outcomes without qualification--something I value highly in historical works. In the end, this is an extremely valuable book for anyone interested in what happen during the Cold War--as far as we know with many documents classified to this day--or desiring insights into the fundamentals of high-level foreign policy making. ( )