Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security - Hardcover

Gaddis, John Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195029445 ISBN 13: 9780195029444

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1982

Synopsis

A discussion of United States foreign policy from World War II to the Carter administration is based on recently declassified government documents

About this title

About the Author

John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale university, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, and a preeminent expert on the Cold War.

Review

"Excellently organized, a good focused survey of American foreign policy strategies during the cold war."--Tanya Charwick, Ohio State University

"A welcome contribution to the literature of the subject and should become a point of departure for scholars of modern American foreign policy."--Review of Politics

"Deserves the attention of every student of foreign affairs."--Foreign Service Journal

"A superb and timely overview of the evolution of U.S. national security policy since the close of World War II."--Orbis

"A work of truly distinguished scholarship that makes an invaluable contribution of American policy towards the Soviet Union since World War II."--Alexander L. George, Stanford University

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195029445
• ISBN 13: 9780195029444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448