Section outline

    • Required Reading

      Chapter II, “George F. Kennan and the Strategy of Containment”, John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment : A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, New York : Oxford University Press ,2005.

      J. Philipp Rosenberg, “Presidential Beliefs and Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Continuity During the Cold War Era”, Political Psychology, 1 December 1986, Vol.7(4), pp.733-751.

      Ken Young, “Revisiting NSC 68”, Journal of Cold War Studies, 2013, Vol.15(1), pp.3-33.

      Chapter I, “Prologue: Containment before Kennan”, John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment : A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War, New York : Oxford University Press ,2005.

          Arnold Offner, “Presidential Address ‘Another Such Victory’: President Truman, American Foreign Policy and the Cold War”, Diplomatic History, Spring 1999, Vol.23(2), pp.126-155.

      N. Stephen Kane, “Reassessing the Bureaucratic Dimension of Foreign Policy Making: A Case Study of the Cuban Sugar Quota Decision, 1954-56”, Social Science Quarterly, 1983, Vol.64(1), pp.46-65.