Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia Heer Paul J.
Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia Heer Paul J. George F. During his influential Cold War career he was the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union. In…
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Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia Heer Paul J.
George F. During his influential Cold War career he was the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union. In Mr. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine.
Heer explores Kennan's equally important impact on East Asia.Heer chronicles and assesses Kennan's work in affecting U.S. X and the Pacific, Paul J. policy toward East Asia.
By tracing the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan's strategic perspective on the Far East during and after his time as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 1950, Heer shows how Kennan moved from being an ardent and hawkish Cold Warrior to, by the 1960s, a prominent critic of American participation in the Vietnam War.Mr. X and the Pacific provides close examinations of Kennan's engagement