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March 21, 2005

George Kennan, 1904 - 2005

In Memoriam

George Frost Kennan
Photo: CFR archive (undated)

George Frost Kennan

Feb. 16, 1904 — Mar. 17, 2005

Diplomat, Scholar, Friend

To commemorate the passing on Thursday of George Kennan, one of the most important foreign-policy thinkers of the twentieth century, Foreign Affairs has made available a comprehensive selection of his writings from this magazine. Covering a span of 50 years, the selections begin with the seminal "X" article of 1947, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct."

Containment

July 1947
The Sources of Soviet Conduct
by "X"

July 1977
Containment: A Reassessment
by John Lewis Gaddis

Spring 1987
Containment 40 Years Later: Containment Then and Now
by George F. Kennan

Other Selected Writings in Foreign Affairs

April 1951 [reprinted in the Spring 1990 issue of Foreign Affairs]
America and the Russian Future
by George F. Kennan

January 1964
Polycentrism and Western Policy
by George F. Kennan

October 1964
Japanese Security and American Policy
by George F. Kennan

October 1967
The Russian Revolution — Fifty Years After: Its Nature and Consequences
by George F. Kennan

April 1970
To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal
by George F. Kennan

October 1970
Hazardous Courses in Southern Africa
by George F. Kennan

October 1972
After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in the 1970s
by George F. Kennan

July 1976
Two Hundred Years of American Policy: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1976
by George F. Kennan

Spring 1982
Nuclear Weapons and the Atlantic Alliance
by McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Winter 1984/85
Arms Control: The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control
by McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara and Gerard C. Smith

Winter 1985/86
Morality and Foreign Policy
by George F. Kennan

Winter 1990/91
Communism in Russian History
by George F. Kennan

March/April 1995
On American Principles
by George F. Kennan

September/October 1997
Diplomacy Without Diplomats?
by George F. Kennan

 


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Bestsellers
For February 2005

The topselling books on international affairs based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and barnesandnoble.com during January 2005.

  1. Collapse
    Jared Diamond
  2. The Case for Democracy
    Natan Sharansky
  3. The United States of Europe
    T. R. Reid

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Each month a member of our panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. For March 2005, Richard N. Cooper gives his picks for the best books on economic, social, and environmental issues. Read

Most Popular Article Reprints

Purchased online at foreignaffairs.org during February 2005

1. The Next Prize by Daniel Yergin and Michael Stoppard (November/December 2003)

2. The North Atlantic Drift by William Drozdiak (January/February 2005)

3. Globalization's Missing Middle by Geoffrey Garrett (November/December 2004)

4. A Nuclear Posture for Today by John Deutch (January/February 2005)

5. Campaign 2000: A Republican Foreign Policy by Robert B. Zoellick (January/February 2000)

6. Preventing a War Over Taiwan by Kenneth Lieberthal (March/April 2005)

7. America's Imperial Ambition by G. John Ikenberry (September/October 2002)

8. Darfur and the Genocide Debate by Scott Straus (January/February 2005)

9. The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited by James G. Blight, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and David A. Welch (Fall 1987)

10. The Global Economic Challenge by Jeffrey E. Garten (January/February 2005)

 

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