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Diplomacy Defused Cold War Crises. It Can Help Again Today.

The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.

by Frank Costigliola via Made By History on February 10, 2023
Kennan’s Warning on Ukraine

Ambition, insecurity, and the perils of independence.

by Frank Costigliola via Foreign Affairs on January 28, 2023

Kennan: A Life Between Worlds

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George Kennan sitting at his desk.

George Kennan, Loser

The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.

by Ivan Krastev, Leonard Benardo via New Statesman on August 10, 2023

George Kennan.

George Kennan’s False Moves

The great grand strategist of the Cold War believed he failed in his most important task.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on January 12, 2023

Collage of George Kennan and the Pentagon.

The Ghosts of Kennan

Lessons from the start of the Cold War.

by Fredrik Logevall via Foreign Affairs on December 20, 2022

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