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John Lewis Gaddis

Terrorism & Counterterrorism January/February 2005 Essay

Grand Strategy in the Second Term

In his first four years, George W. Bush presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. strategy since the days of F.D.R. Over the next four, his basic direction...

John Lewis Gaddis

Terrorism - Foreign Affairs

Human Rights January/February 1994 Essay

The Tragedy of Cold War History

Historians of the Cold War were powerfully influenced by fears that America was betraying its ideals in the course of that long struggle. The real tragedy of the Cold...

John Lewis Gaddis

Russian Federation - Foreign Affairs

Globalization Spring 1991 Essay

Toward the Post-Cold War World

The aftermath of the events of 1989 may have invalidated the simple division of the world, into democratic and totalitarian camps, which formed the basis of the Truman...

John Lewis Gaddis

War & Military Strategy Winter 1983/84 Essay

The Rise, Fall and Future of Détente

One of the occupational hazards of being a historian is that one tends to take on, with age, a certain air of resigned pessimism. This comes, I think, from our...

John Lewis Gaddis

Theory January 1978 Essay

Reconsiderations: The Question of Containment

In the July 1977 issue of Foreign Affairs, which marked the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance in its pages of George F. Kennan's famous "X" article, "The Sources...

Eduard Mark and John Lewis Gaddis

Theory - Foreign Affairs

Theory July 1977 Essay

Reconsiderations: Containment: A Reassessment

"I felt like one who has inadvertently loosened a large boulder from the top of a cliff and now helplessly witnesses its path of destruction in the valley below,...

John Lewis Gaddis

Theory - Foreign Affairs

Truman Administration January 1974 Essay

Reconsiderations: The Cold War Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point?

More than a quarter of a century has now passed since Harry S. Truman proclaimed on March 12, 1947 that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free...

John Lewis Gaddis

Truman Administration - Foreign Affairs

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