5/21/2023 0 Comments George f kennan american diplomacy![]() ![]() geopolitical interests in terms of classical geopolitics. interests in the Far East with the same perceptiveness and objectivity that characterized most of his writings on Russia and Europe.Īmerican Diplomacy consists of six lectures delivered at the University of Chicago and two articles in Foreign Affairs. Kennan the historian and observer of international affairs, however, addressed the subject of U.S. Indeed, Kennan admitted in his book American Diplomacy that he had no “personal familiarity” with the Far East and was “not an expert on Far Eastern Affairs.” He had very little experience in the Far East, with the exception of writing some confidential policy papers on China, Japan and Korea when he headed the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff and making a trip to Japan in March 1948 to meet with General Douglas MacArthur to discuss postwar occupation policies. Kennan as a diplomat represented the United States in European nations and Russia. postwar policy of containment toward Soviet communism. Kennan is mostly known for writing the “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946 that warned of the growing Soviet threat to the West, and “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” in 1947 in Foreign Affairs, which explained the U.S. ![]() The American diplomat and historian George F. ![]()
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