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Mar 18, 2005 · George Frost Kennan was born in Milwaukee on Feb. 16, 1904, the son of Kossuth Kent Kennan, a lawyer who was a descendant of Scotch-Irish settlers of 18th-century America and who was named for the ...
George Kennan and Containment. At the end of the war, the Soviet Union was a closed society under the iron grip of Joseph Stalin. George Kennan. Few in the West had experience with the communist state and even fewer understood what motivated the Soviets. One man who had first hand knowledge was a Foreign Service officer, George F. Kennan.
Mar 1, 2007 · The Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, which he co-founded in 1974 and named for an ancestor, the elder George Kennan, who also was a Russia scholar, hosted a conference on February 8 to commemorate the many contributions of this influential diplomat and scholar. George F. Kennan authored the concept of containment, according to which the United ...
George Frost Kennan was, and still remains, a very controversial and legendary figure in American diplomatic history. As a historian, political scientist, and diplomat, Kennan focused most of his career on Russian culture and history. Widely regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats of his day, he was collegial with his staff and, despite ...
Aug 14, 2021 · George Kennan stands second only to Henry Kissinger as one of the most influential and respected American geopolitical thinkers of the mid-20th century. His greatest achievement was providing the ...
The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan, past Faculty in the Institute's School of Historical Studies (1956–74), is the subject of a new biography written by past Member (2009–10) and Director's Visitor (2011), Frank Costigliola. Described as "informative, clear-eyed, and compelling," the volume "offers a new picture of a man of ...
Mar 18, 2005 · George Kennan, a member of Princeton’s class of 1925 and an architect of American foreign policy during the Cold War, died Thursday, March 17, at his Princeton home. He was 101. Papers chronicling the career of Kennan -- who was best known for crafting the “containment” strategy that became the foundation of American policy toward the ...
